1998 in China

The following lists events in the year 1998 in China.

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