1996 in China

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]

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Births

January 2 — Xiaoyu Yu, figure skater
January 3 — Liu Yao Yuan, actor
January 7 — Fu Yuanhui, swimmer
January 22 – Gao Shiyan, basketball player
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)

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January

February

March

April

June

July

September

Births

Deaths

See also

References

External sources

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