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The following lists events from 1996 in China.
Incumbents
- Party General Secretary: Jiang Zemin
- President: Jiang Zemin
- Premier: Li Peng
- Vice President: Rong Yiren
- Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji
Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province – Hui Liangyu
- Governor of Fujian Province – Chen Mingyi then He Guoqiang
- Governor of Gansu Province – Zhang Wule then Sun Ying
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Senlin then Lu Ruihua
- Governor of Guizhou Province – Chen Shineng then Wu Yixia
- Governor of Hainan Province – Ruan Chongwu
- Governor of Hebei Province – Ye Liansong
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan
- Governor of Henan Province – Ma Zhongchen
- Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping
- Governor of Hunan Province – Yang Zhengwu
- Governor of Jiangsu Province – Zheng Silin
- Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou
- Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Yunkun
- Governor of Liaoning Province – Wen Shizhen
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Tian Chengping
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Cheng Andong
- Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chunting
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Sun Wensheng
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Xiao Yang then Song Baorui
- Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Wan Xueyuan
Events
January
- January 27 – Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996 was held.[1]
February
- February 14 –
- Intelsat 708 was destroyed (day in China at the time).[2]
- Long March 3B launched its first flight.[3]
- February 3 – 1996 Lijiang earthquake hit Lijiang City and left at least 322 killed, 3,925 serious injuries, and 13,000 injuries.[4]
March
- March 23 –
- The Republic of China presidential election took place. Lee Teng-hui was elected president and Lien Chan as vice president.[5][6]
- The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis ended.[7]
April
- April 14 to October 27 – Chinese Jia-A League 1996 was held with Dalian Wanda winning the championship.[8]
June
- June 24 – Hengda Enterprise Company founded by Xu Jiayi, as predecessor of conglomerate, mainly real estate business, Evergrande was founded in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.[citation needed]
July
- July 19 to August 4 – China competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics with total of 294 athletes.[9]
September
- September 27 to 29 – The first round of the 1996 FIVB World Grand Prix took place in Shanghai.[10]
Births
- January 2 – Xiaoyu Yu, figure skater
- January 3 – Liu Yao Yuan, actor
- January 7 – Fu Yuanhui, swimmer
- February 17 – Yan Xi, actor
- February 25 – Wang Ziqi, actor
- March 5 – Zhou Yan Chen, actor
- March 23 – Zhao Wenhao, actor
- March 31 – Chen Xingxu, actor
- May 4 – Richard Lin, actor
- June 10 –
- Wen Junhui, singer, actor, member of Seventeen
- Jun, actor
- June 22 – Zhang Xiaoang, actor
- June 25 – Cai Yi Jia, actor
- July 8 – Zhang He Hao Zhen, actor
- July 24 – Zhang Mo Huai, actor
- August 27 – Wang Jian, long jumper
- September 20 – Leo Dong, actor
- October 4 – Lin Yiming, actor
- October 19 – Caesar Wu, actor
- October 29 – Chen Zheyuan, actor
- December 29 – Marcus Li, actor
See also
- List of Chinese films of 1996
- List of Hong Kong films of 1996
- Category:1996 Establishments in China
- China at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- China at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- China at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
References
- ^ "Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ Disaster at Xichang | History | Air & Space Magazine
- ^ "ch6bod.html". Archived from the original on 2005-11-10. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ Significant Earthquake
- ^ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p558 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- ^ Wu Yu-Shan, “Taiwan’s Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations,” The China Journal, No. 53 (January 2005), 60.
- ^ Taiwan Strait
- ^ China League 1996 Archived 2012-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ China at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- ^ Results Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
