# 1988 in China

The following lists events in the year 1988 in China.

## Incumbents

* General Secretary of the Communist Party: Zhao Ziyang
* President: Li Xiannian, Yang Shangkun
* Premier: Zhao Ziyang, Li Peng
* Vice President: Ulanhu (until April 8), Wang Zhen (starting April 8)
* Vice Premier: Wan Li (until 25 March), Yao Yilin (starting 25 March)

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Lu Rongjing
* Governor of Fujian Province – Wang Zhaoguo
* Governor of Gansu Province – Jia Zhijie
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
* Governor of Hainan Province – Liang Xiang then Liu Jianfeng
* Governor of Hebei Province – Xie Feng then Yue Qifeng
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Hou Jie
* Governor of Henan Province – Cheng Weigao
* Governor of Hubei Province – Guo Zhenqian
* Governor of Hunan Province – Xiong Qingquan
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Gu Xiulian
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Guanzheng
* Governor of Jilin Province – He Zhukang
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Li Changchun
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Ruixiang
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Hou Zongbin
* Governor of Shandong Province – 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

* 7th National People's Congress
* 18 January – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146
* 24 January – According to Chinese government official confirmed report, a Kunming to Shanghai passenger train crush, and 13 cars derailment in Qujing, Yunnan Province, total kills 80 person and injures 65 person.
* 14 March – Johnson South Reef Skirmish
* 17 September – China National Petroleum Corporation was established, as changing from Petroleum and chemical industrial section of PRC. (People's Republic of China)
* December–January 1989 – Nanjing anti-African protests
* unknown date
** Ping An Insurance founded.
** Xigang Real Estate Development, as predecessor of Wanda Group founded in Dalian, Liaoning Province.
** Skyworth was founded in Shenzhen.

## Culture

* List of Chinese films of 1988

## Sport

* China at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
* China at the 1988 Summer Olympics won a total of 28 medals
* China at the 1988 Winter Olympics won no medals

## Births

* January 21 – Xiao Yiming
* February 3 – Qian Jialing
* February 21 – Fan Jiachen
* March 14 – Ma Sichun, Chinese actress
* June 23 – Fu Yanlong
* November 25 – Rong Jing

## Deaths

* January 7 — Liao Mengxing, political activist (b. 1904)
* January 13 — Chiang Ching-kuo, Nationalist politician and President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
* January 25 — Chen Shixiang, entomologist (b. 1905)
* February 16 — Ye Shengtao, writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician (b. 1894)
* February 22 — Pao Ming Pu, mathematician (b. 1910)
* February 25 — Louis Zhang Jiashu, Jesuit priest (b. 1893)
* May 1 — Yan Wenliang, painter and educator (b. 1893)
* May 10 — Shen Congwen, writer (b. 1902)
* May 14 — Zhuang Xiquan, politician (b. 1888)
* June 22 — Xiao Jun, author and intellectual (b. 1907)
* June 23 — Liang Shuming, philosopher (b. 1893)
* July 13 — Ji Dengkui, Former Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1923)
* July 26 — Lai Shiu Wing, footballer (b. 1917)
* July 31 — Li Fenglou, footballer and coach (b. 1912)
* August 8 — Liu Liangmo, musician and Chinese Christian leader (b. 1909)
* August 15 — Han Deqin, Nationalist general (b. 1892)
* August 30 — Yan Kelun, politician (b. 1913)
* September 3 — Miao Yuntai, politician (b. 1894)
* October 3 — Ma Haide, American doctor who practiced medicine in China (b. 1910)
* October 14 — Qian Changzhao, politician (b. 1899)
* November 6 — Tan Zheng, general (b. 1906)
* December 8 — Ulanhu, 3rd Vice President of China (b. 1906)
* December 22 — Wang Bingnan, diplomat (b. 1908)
* December 26 — Tao Zhiyue, military officer and politician (b. 1892)