1999 in China

Events in the year 1999 in China.

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See also:	Other events of 1999 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Party General Secretary – Jiang Zemin
• President – Jiang Zemin
• Premier – Zhu Rongji
• Vice President – Hu Jintao
• Vice Premier – Li Lanqing
• Congress Chairman – Li Peng
• Conference Chairman – Li Ruihuan

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Taihua
• Governor of Fujian Province – He Guoqiang then Xi Jinping
• Governor of Gansu Province – Song Zhaosu
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Ruihua
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Qian Yunlu
• Governor of Hainan Province – Wang Xiaofeng
• Governor of Hebei Province – Yue Qifeng
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan
• Governor of Henan Province – Li Keqiang
• Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping
• Governor of Hunan Province – Chu Bo
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Ji Yunshi
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou
• Governor of Jilin Province – Hong Hu
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Zhang Guoguang
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Bai Enpei then Zhao Leji
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Cheng Andong
• Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chunting
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Sun Wensheng then Liu Zhenhua
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Song Baorui then Zhang Zhongwei
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Chai Songyue

Events

January

• January 4 – A pedestrian bridge in Qijiang, Chongqing collapsed and caused 40 people to die and 14 to be injured.^[1]

February

• February 24 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 crashed on approach to Wenzhou Airport, killing 61 people.

April

• April 4 – Alibaba Group founded in Hangzhou
  • Key people: Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai
• April 15 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 crashed in Xinzhuang, Shanghai after takeoff from Hongqiao Airport due to pilot's confusion between two units of measurement (feet and metres).

May

• May 8 – U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade led to a series of anti-American protests in China.
  • Hu Jintao delivered a national televised speech

July

• July 22 – The Ministry of Civil Affairs declared Falun Gong as an illegal organization.^[2]

October

• October 1 – 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic Parade and Speech by paramount leader Jiang Zemin.^[3]

November

• November 19 – Shenzhou 1 spacecraft launched.

December

• December 5 – Shenyang Haishi won Chongqing Longxin by 2-1 in the Chinese Jia-A League, which later led to a match-fixing controversy.
• December 19 and 20 – China assumed formal sovereignty over Macau from Portugal.

Full date unknown

• GRG Banking is founded in Guangzhou.^[4]

Births

• February 10 – Tiffany Espensen, actress
• June 2 – Wei Yi, chess prodigy
• September 9 – Uudam, singer
• September 29 – Gu Haiyan, wheelchair fencer^[5]

Deaths

• January 18 — Yuyan, calligrapher (b. 1918)
• February 3 — Yu Qiuli, army officer and politician (b. 1914)
• February 11 — Xiao Qian, essayist, editor, journalist and translator (b. 1910)
• February 28 — Bing Xin, writer (b. 1900)
• March 2 — Wang Heshou, Second Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (b. 1909)
• March 3 — Ling Zifeng, film director (b. 1917)
• March 21 — Willy Kan, Hong Kong apprentice jockey (b. 1978)
• April 15 — Roy Chiao, Hong Kong actor (b. 1927)
• April 18 — Ye Fei, Philippine-born Chinese military general and politician (b. 1914)
• April 21 — Su Xuelin, writer and scholar (b. 1897)
• April 27 — He Luting, composer (b. 1903)
• April 29 — Yao Xueyin, novelist (b. 1910)
• May 7 — Chen Yanyan, actress and film producer (b. 1916)
• May 8
  • The three reporters who died during the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
  • Zhu Ying (b. 1971)
• June 10 — Chen Xilian, military officer and politician (b. 1915)
• August 15 — Liu Liankun, major general (b. 1933)
• August 16 — Regina Kent, Hong Kong actress (b. 1967)
• August 27 — Bai Guang, actress and singer (b. 1921)
• September 25 — Ding Sheng, general and politician (b. 1913)
• October 1 — Kuei Chih-Hung, filmmaker (b. 1937)
• October 19 — Zeng Liansong, designer of the national flag of the People's Republic of China (b. 1917)
• October 27 — Xie Fei, 12th Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1932)
• November 9 — Huang Huoqing, politician (b. 1901)
• December 24 — Jiang Hua, 5th President of the Supreme People's Court of China (b. 1907)

See also

• List of Chinese films of 1999