1986 in China

The following lists events in the year 1986 in China.

Incumbents

 * General Secretary of the Communist Party: Hu Yaobang
 * President: Li Xiannian
 * Premier: Zhao Ziyang
 * Vice President: Ulanhu
 * Vice Premier: Wan Li

Governors

 * Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Yuzhao
 * Governor of Fujian Province – Hu Ping then Wang Zhaoguo
 * Governor of Gansu Province – Chen Guangyi then Jia Zhijie
 * Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping
 * Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
 * Governor of Hebei Province – Zhang Shuguang then Xie Feng
 * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Hou Jie
 * Governor of Henan Province – He Zhukang
 * Governor of Hubei Province – Huang Zhizhen then Guo Zhenqian
 * Governor of Hunan Province – Xiong Qingquan
 * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Gu Xiulian
 * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Ni Xiance then Wu Guanzheng
 * Governor of Jilin Province – Gao Dezhan
 * Governor of Liaoning Province – Quan Shuren then Li Changchun
 * Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Ruixiang then Jin Jipeng
 * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Li Qingwei then Zhang Boxing
 * Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chang'an then Jiang Chunyun
 * Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Senhao
 * Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Minkuan (until January), Zhang Haoruo (starting February)
 * Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
 * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Xue Ju (until January), Shen Zulun (starting February)

Events

 * Unknown date – Lianyuan Welding Material, as predecessor of Sany (Sanyi Heavy Industry), one of the leading heavy equipment brands in the world, was founded in Hunan Province.

Births

 * 12 October – Li Wenliang
 * 22 January — Alvin Jiang

Deaths

 * January 16 — Hu Yuzhi, former Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (b. 1896)
 * March 4 — Ding Ling, writer (b. 1904)
 * March 6 — Zhu Guangqian, scholar and theoretician of aesthetics (b. 1897)
 * March 26 — Chen Yonggui, Vice Premier of China (b. 1915)
 * March 28 — Gan Zuchang, general (b. 1905)
 * May 3 — Wang Li, linguist, educator, translator and poet (b. 1900)
 * June 30 — Guan Zilan, avant-garde painter (b. 1903)
 * July 19 — Wang Shaofang, Huangmei Opera actor (b. 1920)
 * July 21 — Zhang Yuzhe, astronomer and director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (b. 1902)
 * July 22 — Ren-Chang Ching, botanist (b. 1898)
 * July 29 — Deng Jiaxian, nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (b. 1924)
 * August 23 — Ren Baige, politician (b. 1906)
 * October 3 — Han Xianchu, general (b. 1913)
 * October 7 — Liu Bocheng, military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1892)
 * October 22 — Ye Jianying, 3rd Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China (b. 1897)
 * November 20 — Tang Liang, general (b. 1910)
 * December 6 — Qian Ning, water conservancy expert (b. 1922)
 * December 28 — Huang Kecheng, senior general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1902)