1998 in China

The following lists events in the year 1998 in China.

Incumbents

=== Governors ===

January 10 — Deng Guangming, historian (b. 1907)
January 28 — Lee Ya-Ching, film actress, pioneering aviator and philanthropist (b. 1912)
February 22 — Han Youwen, Salar Muslim general and politician (b. 1912)
March 13 — Ma Yueliang, Manchu teacher of Tai chi (b. 1901)
April 9 — Lü Shuxiang, linguist, lexicographer and educator (b. 1904)
April 12 — Xin Fengxia, pingju opera performer (b. 1927)
May 3 — Xue Yue, Nationalist general (b. 1896)
May 21 — Li Bo, phytoecologist (b. 1929)
May 27 — Shu Tong, politician (b. 1905)
May 28 — Chung-Yao Chao, theoretical physicist (b. 1902)
June 27 — Tso-hsin Cheng, ornithologist (b. 1906)
August 6 — Deng Zhaoxiang, naval officer (b. 1903)
August 17 — Shi Zhe, military officer, diplomat, translator and interpreter (b. 1905)
August 28 — Lu Dadong, communist revolutionary and politician (b. 1915)
September 14
Yang Shangkun, 4th President of China (b. 1907)
Zhang Zongxun, general (b. 1908)
October 7 — Ru Zhijuan, writer (b. 1925)
October 8 — Zhang Chongren, sculptor (b. 1907)
October 9 — Xiao Yang, politician (b. 1929)
November 26 — M. T. Cheng, mathematician (b. 1917)
December 5 — Cheung Tze-keung, notorious Hong Kong gangster (b. 1955)
December 10 — Wang Ganchang, nuclear physicist (b. 1907)
December 11 — Chen Puru, politician (b. 1918)
December 13 — Liang Xiang, politician (b. 1919)
December 19 — Qian Zhongshu, literary scholar and writer (b. 1910)
December 28 — Wang Dezhao, physicist (b. 1905)

January 18–24 – 1998 Four Nations Tournament (women's football), in Guangzhou
March 15–21 – 1998 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship, in Harbin
Chinese Jia-A League season: Chinese Jia-A League 1998
China at the 1998 Asian Games
China at the 1998 Winter Olympics won a total of 8 medals{{cite web|url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040452/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/|url-status= dead|archive-date= April 17, 2020|title= 1998 Nagano Winter Games|work= www.sports-reference.com|access-date= December 19, 2014}}