# 1986 in China

The following lists events in the year 1986 in China.

## Incumbents

* General Secretary of the Communist Party: Hu Yaobang
* President: Li Xiannian
* Premier: Zhao Ziyang
* Vice President: Ulanhu
* Vice Premier: Wan Li

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Yuzhao
* Governor of Fujian Province – Hu Ping then Wang Zhaoguo
* Governor of Gansu Province – Chen Guangyi then Jia Zhijie
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
* Governor of Hebei Province – Zhang Shuguang then Xie Feng
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Hou Jie
* Governor of Henan Province – He Zhukang
* Governor of Hubei Province – Huang Zhizhen then Guo Zhenqian
* Governor of Hunan Province – Xiong Qingquan
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Gu Xiulian
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Ni Xiance then Wu Guanzheng
* Governor of Jilin Province – Gao Dezhan
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Quan Shuren then Li Changchun
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Ruixiang then Jin Jipeng
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Qingwei then Zhang Boxing
* Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chang'an then Jiang Chunyun
* Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Senhao
* Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Minkuan (until January), Zhang Haoruo (starting February)
* Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
* Governor of Zhejiang Province – Xue Ju (until January), Shen Zulun (starting February)

## Events

* Unknown date – Lianyuan Welding Material, as predecessor of Sany (Sanyi Heavy Industry), one of the leading heavy equipment brands in the world, was founded in Hunan Province.

## Births

* 12 October – Li Wenliang
* 22 January — Alvin Jiang

## Deaths

* January 16 — Hu Yuzhi, former Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (b. 1896)
* March 4 — Ding Ling, writer (b. 1904)
* March 6 — Zhu Guangqian, scholar and theoretician of aesthetics (b. 1897)
* March 26 — Chen Yonggui, Vice Premier of China (b. 1915)
* March 28 — Gan Zuchang, general (b. 1905)
* May 3 — Wang Li, linguist, educator, translator and poet (b. 1900)
* June 26 — Gong Zhutong, optical physicist (b. 1904)
* June 30 — Guan Zilan, avant-garde painter (b. 1903)
* July 19 — Wang Shaofang, Huangmei Opera actor (b. 1920)
* July 21 — Zhang Yuzhe, astronomer and director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (b. 1902)
* July 22 — Ren-Chang Ching, botanist (b. 1898)
* July 29 — Deng Jiaxian, nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (b. 1924)
* August 23 — Ren Baige, politician (b. 1906)
* August 29 — Lu Shijia, physicist and aerospace engineer (b. 1911)
* October 3 — Han Xianchu, general (b. 1913)
* October 7 — Liu Bocheng, military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1892)
* October 22 — Ye Jianying, 3rd Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China (b. 1897)
* November 7 — Yang Shangkui, 2nd Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1905)
* November 20 — Tang Liang, general (b. 1910)
* November 22 — Chen Manyuan, 2nd Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1911)
* December 6 — Qian Ning, water conservancy expert (b. 1922)
* December 28 — Huang Kecheng, senior general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1902)