# 1992 in China

The following lists events from 1992 in China.

## Incumbents

* General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party: Jiang Zemin
* President: Yang Shangkun
* Premier: Li Peng
* Vice President: Wang Zhen
* Vice Premier: Yao Yilin

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Fu Xishou
* Governor of Fujian Province – Jia Qinglin
* Governor of Gansu Province – Jia Zhijie
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Senlin
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
* Governor of Hainan Province – Liu Jianfeng
* Governor of Hebei Province – Cheng Weigao
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Shao Qihui
* Governor of Henan Province – Li Changchun
* Governor of Hubei Province – Guo Shuyan
* Governor of Hunan Province – Chen Bangzhu
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Chen Huanyou
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Guanzheng
* Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Zhongyu then Gao Yan
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Yue Qifeng
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Jin Jipeng then Tian Chengping
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Bai Qingcai
* Governor of Shandong Province – Zhao Zhihao
* Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Senhao then Hu Fuguo
* Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Haoruo
* Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
* Governor of Zhejiang Province – Wan Xueyuan

## Events
### January

* The Miss Chinese International Pageant 1992 was held on January 26 in Hong Kong.
* Deng Xiaoping's southern tour

### February

* The Ürümqi bombings took place on February 5.
* China participated in the 1992 Winter Olympics. China had three teams win Olympics medals, all of them silver, in various speed skating events.

### March

* March 9 – The People's Republic of China ratifies the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

### July

* A major plane crash took place in China.

### August

* At the 1992 Summer Olympics, China won 54 Olympic medals (16 Gold, 22 Silver, and 16 Bronze).
* see also:China at the 1992 Summer Olympics
* Typhoon Omar begins

### September

* China competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.

### October

* Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 was in effect starting October 9. This strengthened the role of Executive Order 12711, which was signed by George H. W. Bush in 1990.

### November

* China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crash

## Births

* June 3 – Dilraba Dilmurat, actress, singer and model
* June 17 – Sun Yiwen, fencer
* June 25 —- Chu Chen

## Deaths

* January 15 — Zhang Dazhi, military officer and politician (b. 1911)
* February 18 — Wang Huayun, politician (b. 1908)
* March 11 — Liu Geping, Hui politician and communist revolutionary (b. 1904)
* March 16 — Wang Renzhong, politician (b. 1917)
* April 3 — Nie Fengzhi, general (b. 1913)
* April 16 — Gao Bo, actor (b. 1918)
* April 22 — Kang Keqing, politician and 4th wife of Zhu De (b. 1911)
* May 14 — Nie Rongzhen, military leader (b. 1899)
* May 28 — Bai Hong, actress and singer (b. 1920)
* June 13 — Qu Wu, military officer and politician (b. 1898)
* June 21 — Li Xiannian, 3rd President of China (b. 1909)
* June 28 — Qian Sanqiang, nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
* July 11 — Deng Yingchao, 4th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and wife of Zhou En Lai (b. 1904)
* August 3 — Wang Hongwen, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1935)
* August 20 — Liu Zhen, general (b. 1915)
* August 28 — Tan Qixiang, geographer and historian (b. 1911)
* September 5 — Zhou Wennan, communist revolutionary and judge (b. 1910)
* September 27 — Zhang Leping, comic artist (b. 1910)
* September 28 — Hu Qiaomu, sociologist, marxist philosopher and politician (b. 1912)
* October 10 — Sha Menghai, great master of calligraphy (b. 1900)
* October 14 — Qin Mu, educator and writer (b. 1919)
* November 8 — He Cheng, lieutenant general (b. 1901)
* November 17 — Lu Yao, novelist (b. 1949)
* Dates unknown
** Zhao Xiu, politician (b. 1921)