1996 in China
{{short description|none}}
{{Incomplete list|date=June 2014}}
{{Year in China|1996}}
The following lists events from 1996 in China.
Incumbents
= 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.misshongkongpageant.com/chinese1996.htm |title=Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996 |access-date=2014-07-01 |archive-date=2014-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145656/http://www.misshongkongpageant.com/chinese1996.htm |url-status=dead }}
=February=
- February 14 –
- Intelsat 708 was destroyed (day in China at the time).[http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/disaster-at-xichang-2873673/ Disaster at Xichang | History | Air & Space Magazine]
- Long March 3B launched its first flight.{{Cite web |url=http://www.house.gov/coxreport/body/ch6bod.html |title=ch6bod.html |access-date=2014-07-01 |archive-date=2005-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051110020454/http://www.house.gov/coxreport/body/ch6bod.html |url-status=dead }}
- February 3 – 1996 Lijiang earthquake hit Lijiang City and left at least 322 killed, 3,925 serious injuries, and 13,000 injuries.[https://web.archive.org/web/20181211215630/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5430&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display Significant Earthquake]
=March=
- March 23 –
- The Republic of China presidential election took place. Lee Teng-hui was elected president and Lien Chan as vice president.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.
- The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis ended.[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/taiwan_strait.htm Taiwan Strait]
=April=
- April 14 to October 27 – Chinese Jia-A League 1996 was held with Dalian Wanda winning the championship.[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/china96.html China League 1996] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929192052/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/china96.html |date=2012-09-29 }}
=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|date=September 2021}}
=July=
- July 19 to August 4 – China competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics with total of 294 athletes.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043609/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/CHN/summer/1996/ China at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com]
=September=
- September 27 to 29 – The first round of the 1996 FIVB World Grand Prix took place in Shanghai.[http://todor66.com/volleyball/World_Grand_Prix/1996.html Results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823083723/http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/World_Grand_Prix/1996.html |date=2010-08-23 }}
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 - Jun (entertainer) (born Wen Junhui), singer, actor, member of Seventeen
- 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
Deaths
- January 4 — Zhou Mingzhen, paleomammalogist and vertebrate paleontologist (b. 1918)
- January 17 — Zhu Xuefan, politician (b. 1905)
- January 20 — Lo Wei, Hong Kong film director and film actor (b. 1918)
- January 27 — Chen Chu, diplomat (b. 1917)
- February 2 — Li Peiyao, politician (b. 1933)
- February 8 — Li Guoping, mathematician (b. 1910)
- March 1 — Ng Wui, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor (b. 1913)
- March 14 — Wang Luobin, songwriter (b. 1913)
- March 19 — Chen Jingrun, mathematician (b. 1933)
- May 5 — Ai Qing, poet (b. 1910)
- May 9 — Lu Dingyi, politician (b. 1906)
- May 12 — Chiang Chao-shen, calligrapher,painter and seal engraver (b. 1925)
- June 24 — Zhao Lei, actor (b. 1928)
- June 28 — Kwan Tak-hing, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (b. 1905)
- August 25 — Dai Houying, novelist (b. 1938)
- September 13 — Wang Shoudao, politician (b. 1906)
- September 18 — Bai Yang, film and drama actress (b. 1920)
- September 26 — David Chan Yuk-cheung, prominent leader of the Baodiao movement in Hong Kong (b. 1950)
- September 27 — Lee Tit, director (b. 1913)
- September 29 — Li Qiang, revolutionary, military engineer, secret agent, radio scientist, diplomat and politician (b. 1905)
- October 1 — Deng Yuzhi, social activist (b. 1900)
- October 5 — Duanmu Hongliang, writer (b. 1912)
- October 21 — Wang Li, propagandist (b. 1922)
- November 2 — Yan Jici, physicist and politician (b. 1901)
- November 10 — Zhou Gucheng, politician (b. 1898)
- November 17 — Huo Shilian, politician (b. 1909)
- November 18 — Zhu Zuxiang, soil scientist and politician (b. 1916)
- December 13 — Cao Yu, playwright (b. 1910)
- December 17
- Li Han-hsiang, film director (b. 1926)
- Sun Yaoting, last imperial court eunuch of Chinese history (b. 1902)
See also
References
{{reflist}}
External sources
- [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/111811/China-in-1996/91937/The-Economy China in 1996 :: The Economy -- Encyclopædia Britannica]
{{Years in China}}
{{Asia topic|1996 in}}