# 1999 in China

Events in the year 1999 in China.

## Incumbents

* Party General Secretary – Jiang Zemin
* President – Jiang Zemin
* Premier – Zhu Rongji
* Vice President – Hu Jintao
* Vice Premier – Li Lanqing
* Congress Chairman – Li Peng
* Conference Chairman – Li Ruihuan

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Taihua
* Governor of Fujian Province – He Guoqiang then Xi Jinping
* Governor of Gansu Province – Song Zhaosu
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Ruihua
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Qian Yunlu
* Governor of Hainan Province – Wang Xiaofeng
* Governor of Hebei Province – Yue Qifeng
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan
* Governor of Henan Province – Li Keqiang
* Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping
* Governor of Hunan Province – Chu Bo
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Ji Yunshi
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou
* Governor of Jilin Province – Hong Hu
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Zhang Guoguang
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Bai Enpei then Zhao Leji
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Cheng Andong
* Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chunting
* Governor of Shanxi Province – Sun Wensheng then Liu Zhenhua
* Governor of Sichuan Province – Song Baorui then Zhang Zhongwei
* Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
* Governor of Zhejiang Province – Chai Songyue

## Events
### January

* January 4 – A pedestrian bridge in Qijiang, Chongqing collapsed and caused 40 people to die and 14 to be injured.

### February

* February 24 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 crashed on approach to Wenzhou Airport, killing 61 people.

### April

* April 4 – Alibaba Group founded in Hangzhou
** Key people: Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai
* April 15 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 crashed in Xinzhuang, Shanghai after takeoff from Hongqiao Airport due to pilot's confusion between two units of measurement (feet and metres).

### May

* May 8 – U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade led to a series of anti-American protests in China.
** Hu Jintao delivered a national televised speech

### July

* July 22 – The Ministry of Civil Affairs declared Falun Gong as an illegal organization.

### October

* October 1 – 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic Parade and Speech by paramount leader Jiang Zemin.

### November

* November 19 – Shenzhou 1 spacecraft launched.

### December

* December 5 – Shenyang Haishi won Chongqing Longxin by 2-1 in the Chinese Jia-A League, which later led to a match-fixing controversy.
* December 19 and 20 – China assumed formal sovereignty over Macau from Portugal.

### Full date unknown

* GRG Banking is founded in Guangzhou.

## Births

* February 10 – Tiffany Espensen, actress
* June 2 – Wei Yi, chess prodigy
* September 9 – Uudam, singer
* September 29 – Gu Haiyan, wheelchair fencer

## Deaths

* January 18 — Yuyan, calligrapher (b. 1918)
* February 3 — Yu Qiuli, army officer and politician (b. 1914)
* February 11 — Xiao Qian, essayist, editor, journalist and translator (b. 1910)
* February 28 — Bing Xin, writer (b. 1900)
* March 2 — Wang Heshou, Second Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (b. 1909)
* March 3 — Ling Zifeng, film director (b. 1917)
* March 21 — Willy Kan, Hong Kong apprentice jockey (b. 1978)
* April 15 — Roy Chiao, Hong Kong actor (b. 1927)
* April 18 — Ye Fei, Philippine-born Chinese military general and politician (b. 1914)
* April 21 — Su Xuelin, writer and scholar (b. 1897)
* April 27 — He Luting, composer (b. 1903)
* April 29 — Yao Xueyin, novelist (b. 1910)
* May 7 — Chen Yanyan, actress and film producer (b. 1916)
* May 8
** The three reporters who died during the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
** Zhu Ying (b. 1971)
* June 10 — Chen Xilian, military officer and politician (b. 1915)
* August 15 — Liu Liankun, major general (b. 1933)
* August 16 — Regina Kent, Hong Kong actress (b. 1967)
* August 27 — Bai Guang, actress and singer (b. 1921)
* September 25 — Ding Sheng, general and politician (b. 1913)
* October 1 — Kuei Chih-Hung, filmmaker (b. 1937)
* October 19 — Zeng Liansong, designer of the national flag of the People's Republic of China (b. 1917)
* October 27 — Xie Fei, 12th Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1932)
* November 9 — Huang Huoqing, politician (b. 1901)
* December 24 — Jiang Hua, 5th President of the Supreme People's Court of China (b. 1907)