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The following lists events in the year 1998 in China.

## Incumbents

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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.[page needed]
* November 19 — 1998 Ninglang earthquake

## Births

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* January 10 — Xu Shilin, tennis player
* March 1 — Chen Yufeng, badminton player[citation needed]
* December 16 — Zhou Jieqiong, singer and actress, member of I.O.I and Pristin
* December 27 — He Jie, athlete

## Deaths

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* 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

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* List of Chinese films of 1998

## Sport

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* 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[1]

## References

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1. ^ "1998 Nagano Winter Games". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2014.

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