1999 in China

Events in the year 1999 in China.

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

January

 * January 4 – A pedestrian bridge in Qijiang, Chongqing collapsed and caused 40 people to die and 14 to be injured.

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.

October

 * October 1 – 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic Parade and Speech by paramount leader Jiang Zemin.

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.

Births

 * February 10 – Tiffany Espensen, actress
 * June 2 – Wei Yi, chess prodigy
 * September 9 – Uudam, singer

Deaths

 * February 3 – Yu Qiuli, army officer and politician (b. 1914)
 * March 2 – Wang Heshou, Second Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (b. 1909)
 * April 18 – Ye Fei, Philippine-born Chinese military general and politician (b. 1914)
 * May 8 – The three reporters who died during the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
 * Shao Yunhuan (b. 1951)
 * Xu Xinghu (b. 1968)
 * Zhu Ying (b. 1971)
 * June 10 – Chen Xilian, military officer and politician (b. 1915)
 * August 15 – Liu Liankun, major general (b. 1933)
 * October 27 – Xie Fei, Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong (1991-1998) (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)