1998 in China

The following lists events in the year 1998 in China.

← 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1998 in China → 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 1998 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Party General Secretary: Jiang Zemin
• President: Jiang Zemin
• Premier: Li Peng (until 17 March), Zhu Rongji (starting 17 March)
• Vice President: Rong Yiren (until March 12), Hu Jintao (starting March 15)
• Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji (until March 17) Li Lanqing (starting March 17)

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Hui Liangyu then Wang Taihua
• Governor of Fujian Province – He Guoqiang
• Governor of Gansu Province – Sun Ying then Song Zhaosu
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Ruihua
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Wu Yixia then Qian Yunlu
• Governor of Hainan Province – Ruan Chongwu then Wang Xiaofeng
• Governor of Hebei Province – Ye Liansong then Yue Qifeng
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan
• Governor of Henan Province – Ma Zhongchen then Li Keqiang
• Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping
• Governor of Hunan Province – Yang Zhengwu then Chu Bo
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Zheng Silin then Ji Yunshi
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou
• Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Yunkun then Hong Hu
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Wen Shizhen (until January), Zhang Guoguang (starting January)
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Bai Enpei
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Cheng Andong
• Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chunting
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Sun Wensheng
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Song Baorui
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Chai Songyue

Events

• 9th National People's Congress
• Launch of the Three Stresses campaign
• June–September — 1998 Yangtze River floods
• June 23 — Chenggu axe massacre
• November 11 — Tencent founded.
• November 19 — 1998 Ninglang earthquake

Births

• January 10 — Xu Shilin, tennis player
• March 1 — Chen Yufeng, badminton player
• December 16 — Zhou Jieqiong, singer and actress, member of I.O.I and Pristin
• December 27 — He Jie, athlete

Deaths

• 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)

Culture

• List of Chinese films of 1998

Sport

• 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