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Events in the year 1979 in the People's Republic of China.
Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping with U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 31 January 1979
- January 13 – Yang Wei, Badminton player
- February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, film actress
- February 17 – Xu Yunlong, footballer
- March 5 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
- March 12 – Liu Xuan, Gymnast
- March 14 – Gao Ling, badminton player
- May 15 – Li Yanfeng, discus thrower
- April 19 – Zhao Junzhe, footballer
- June 14 – Ma Ning, association football referee
- June 20 – Li Yi, footballer
- July 19 – Mo Huilan, gymnast
- August 15 – Tong Jian, pair skater
- August 27 – Tian Liang, diver
- September 18 – Bobo Chan, Musical artist
- October 5 – Gao Yuanyuan, actress and model
- October 7 – Tang Wei, actress
- December 10 – Yang Jianping, archer[2]
- December 24 – Pang Qing, figure skater
- December 27 – Sa Dingding, folk singer and songwriter
- January 15 — Yang Zhongjian, vertebrate paleontologist (b. 1897)
- February 7
- March 7 — Lei Chen, Taiwanese politician and dissident (b. 1897)
- March 12 — Zheng Xiaocang, writer, translator, and educator (b. 1892)
- March 30 — Tong Dizhou, embryologist (b. 1902)
- May 27 — Yao Zhe, lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1906)
- June 30 — Zhou Shidi, general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1900)
- July 1 — Huang Minlon, organic chemist and pharmaceutical scientist (b. 1898)
- July 4 — Lee Wai Tong, Hong Kong and Chinese international association football player, head coach and former Vice President of FIFA (b. 1905)
- August 1 — Li Ji, influential archaeologist (b. 1896)
- August 14 — Wang Yun-wu, scholar of history and political science (b. 1888)
- August 27 — Shi Jianqiao, assassin of the Warlord Sun Chuanfang (b. 1905)
- September 25 — Zhou Libo, novelist and translator (b. 1908)
- October 13 — Chang Kia-ngau, banker, politician and scholar (b. 1889)
- December 3 — Zhang Guotao, revolutionary, founding member of the Chinese Communist Party and a rival to Mao Zedong (b. 1897)