The following lists events from 1993 in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Incumbents

General Secretary of the Communist Party The title of General Secretary or First Secretary is commonly used for the leaders of most communist parties. When a communist party is the ruling party of a socialist state—often labeled as communist states by external observers—the general s ...

Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as Chairman of the Central Mil ...

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Yang Shangkun Yang Shangkun (3 August 1907 – 14 September 1998) was a Chinese Chinese Communist Party, Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the par ...

(until 27 March),

(starting 27 March) *

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of govern ...

Li Peng Li Peng (; 20 October 1928 – 22 July 2019) was a Chinese politician who served as the 4th premier of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from ...

Vice President A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vi ...

: Wang Zhen (until 5 March), Rong Yiren (starting 12 March) * Vice Premier:

Yao Yilin Yao Yilin ( zh, c=姚依林, p=Yáo Yīlín; September 6, 1917 – December 11, 1994) was a Chinese politician and soldier who was Vice Premier of China from 1979 to 1988 and First Vice Premier from 1988 to 1993. Early life and career He was ...

(until 5 March),

Zhu Rongji Zhu Rongji ( zh, s=朱镕基; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the 5th premier of China from 1998 to 2003. He also served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ...

(starting 25 March)

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Fu Xishou * Governor of Fujian Province –

Jia Qinglin Jia Qinglin (; born 13 March 1940) is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between ...

* Governor of Gansu Province – ** until January: Jia Zhijie ** January–September: Yan Haiwang ** starting September:

Zhang Wule Zhang Wule (born 1937) is a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Anxin County, Hebei. He was governor of Gansu from 1986 to 1993. He was a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress The 8th National People's Congress (NPC) ...

* Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Senlin * Governor of Guizhou Province –

Wang Zhaowen Wang Chaowen (; born October 1930) is a Chinese politician of Miao ethnicity who served as governor of Guizhou from 1983 to 1993 and chairman of Guizhou Provincial People's Congress from 1994 to 1998. He was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14t ...

then

Chen Shineng Chen or Ch'en may refer to: People *Chen (surname) (陳 / 陈), a common Chinese surname * Chen (singer) (born 1992), member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO * Chen Chen (poet) (born 1989), Chinese-American poet * (), a Hebrew first n ...

* Governor of Hainan Province – Liu Jianfeng then

Ruan Chongwu Ruan Chongwu ( zh, c=阮崇武, p=Ruǎn Chóngwǔ; born May 1933 in Huai'an County, Hebei) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He is the son of . Biography He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Moscow Automoti ...

* Governor of Hebei Province –

Cheng Weigao Cheng Weigao ( zh, c=程维高; September 1933 – December 28, 2010) was a Chinese politician, best known for his term as the Party Secretary of Hebei province between 1993 and 1998. In his late career, Cheng was expelled from the Chinese C ...

then

Ye Liansong Ye Liansong ( zh, s=叶连松; born March 1935) is a Chinese politician who served as Communist Party Secretary (1998–2000) and Governor (1993–1998) of Hebei Province. Prior to his political career he worked for two decades as an engineerin ...

* Governor of Heilongjiang Province –

Shao Qihui Shao Qihui (; born June 1934) is a Chinese engineer and politician who served as governor of Heilongjiang from 1989 to 1994. He was a representative of the 13th and 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the ...

* Governor of Henan Province –

Li Changchun Li Changchun (born February 1, 1944) is a retired Chinese politician and a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He served on the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top leadership council, and as the top official in charge ...

then

Ma Zhongchen Ma Zhongchen ( Chinese: 马忠臣; September 1936 – January 12, 2021) was a politician from the People's Republic of China. Biography Ma was born in Tai'an, Shandong Province, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1956. I ...

* Governor of Hubei Province –

Guo Shuyan Guo Shuyan (; October 1935 – 23 January 2022) was a Chinese engineer and politician. He served as Governor of Hubei from 1990 to 1993. He also served as the deputy director of the State Science and Technology Commission from 1985 to 1990 and ...

then Jia Zhijie * Governor of Hunan Province –

Chen Bangzhu Chen Bangzhu (; born September 1934) is a Chinese politician who served as from 1995 to 1998 and governor of Hunan from 1989 to 1994. Biography Chen was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, in September 1934, during the Republic of China. In 1954, he gra ...

* Governor of Jiangsu Province –

Chen Huanyou Chen Huanyou ( zh, s=陈焕友; born 1934) is a retired Chinese politician who served as Governor and Party Secretary of Jiangsu Province. Chen was born in Nantong, Jiangsu. In March 1950, he entered PLA's Northeast University of Military and P ...

* Governor of Jiangxi Province –

Wu Guanzheng Wu Guanzheng (born 11 August 1938), also spelled as Wu Kuan-cheng is a former Chinese politician and one of the major leaders of the Chinese Communist Party during the administration of Hu Jintao. He served on the Politburo Standing Committee, ...

* Governor of Jilin Province – Gao Yan * Governor of Liaoning Province –

Yue Qifeng Yue Qifeng () (December 1931 – March 24, 2008) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Daming County, Hebei Province. In January 1945, at the age of 13, he joined the Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China ...

* Governor of Qinghai Province –

Tian Chengping Tian Chengping (; born January 1945) is a politician in the People's Republic of China. Biography Born in Daming County, Hebei Province, Tian joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1964, and started working in February 1968. He s ...

* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Bai Qingcai * Governor of Shandong Province – Zhao Zhihao * Governor of Shanxi Province –

Hu Fuguo Hu Fuguo (; born October 1937) is a Chinese politician currently serving as president of China Association of Poverty Alleviation & Development. He was Communist Party Secretary, Governor and CPPCC chairman of his home province Shanxi. He was a ...

then

Sun Wensheng Sun Wensheng (born 1942) is a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Weihai, Shandong. He was vice governor and governor of Shanxi from 1994 to 1998. References

1942 births People's Republic of China politicians f ...

* Governor of Sichuan Province –

Zhang Haoruo Zhang Haoruo (; 1932 – 27 March 2004) was a politician and petroleum engineer of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Sichuan province and Minister of Internal Trade. Biography Zhang Haoruo was born in Jiaozuo, Henan provi ...

then Xiao Yang * Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Wan Xueyuan

Events

January

*January 10 — Miss Chinese International Pageant 1993 took place. *January 9 —

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, branded as Pufa Bank in Chinese and SPD Bank in English, is a city-owned joint-stock commercial bank. It was established in 1993 and owned by the Shanghai Municipal Government. Shanghai Pudong Development Ban ...

was founded. *January 31 — According to

Chinese government The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a Unitary state, unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's ...

official confirmed report, a passenger train smash into a passenger bus in

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line or the road etc. crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, o ...

Liaoning Province ) , image_skyline = , image_alt = , image_caption = Clockwise: Mukden Palace in Shenyang, Xinghai Square in Dalian, Dalian coast, Yalu River at Dandong , image_map = Liaoning in China (+all claims hatched).svg , ...

, kills 66 person, 29 person were hurt.

February

*February 14 — Linxi department store catches fire in

Guye District Guye District () is a district of the city of Tangshan, Hebei province, China. The district is located approximately to the east of Tangshan's urban center. Guye District spans an area of , and has a population of 358,461 per the 2010 Chinese Cens ...

Tangshan Tangshan ( zh, c=唐山 , p=Tángshān) is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the northeastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in t ...

, Hebei, killing 79 people.

April

*April 6 — China Eastern Airlines Flight 583. *April 22 — The

China National Space Administration The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is a government agency of the People's Republic of China headquartered in Haidian District, Haidian, Beijing, responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation. These ...

is established.

May

*China competed at the

East Asian Games The East Asian Games was a multi-sport event organized by the East Asian Games Association and held every four years from 1993 to 2013. Among those who competed included athletes from East Asian countries and territories of the Olympic Council ...

from May 9 to May 18.

June

Typhoon Koryn (1993) Typhoon Koryn, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Goring, was the third named storm, first typhoon and super typhoon of the 1993 Pacific typhoon season. Koryn formed on June 13 and reached super typhoon status on June 26 with winds at an ...

was formed on June 13 and hit China.HKO Report on Koryn
URL Accessed: May 30, 2006

August

*August 27 — Gouhou Dam in

Qinghai Province Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the nort ...

collapses killing at least 257.

October

* 1993 Shanghai International Film Festival took place from October 7 to 14.

Undated

* Antelope Enterprise Holdings business is founded in Jinjiang city, Fujian province.

Deaths

*January 23 ** Kong Fei, politician (b.

1911 Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 m ...

) ** Li Ziming, martial arts expert (b.

1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's ...

) *February 3 — Tan Shaowen, politician (b.

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

) *February 4 — Hou Baolin,

Xiangsheng Xiangsheng (), also known as crosstalk or comic dialog, is a traditional performing art in Chinese comedy, and one of the most popular elements in Chinese culture. It is typically performed as a dialog between two performers, or rarely as a ...

performer (b.

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

) *February 5 — Huang Zhizhen, politician (b.

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...

) *February 13 —

Song Xilian Song Xilian (宋希濂; April 9, 1907 – February 13, 1993) styled as Yin Guo, was born in Xikou, Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. He graduated from the first class of the Huangpu (Whampoa) Military Academy and was known as the "light of Hu ...

, Nationalist general (b.

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 9 – The "Mud March (suffragists), Mud March", the ...

) *February 22 —

Feng Zhi Feng Zhi (; 17 September 1905 – 22 February 1993) was a Chinese writer and translator. He was also the director and then honorary director of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1964. Feng published se ...

, writer and translator (b.

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

) *February 27 — Zhao Zengyi, politician (b.

) *March 3 — Xie Xuegong, politician (b.

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that has been stored ...

) *March 12 — Wang Zhen, 4th

Vice President of China The vice president of China, officially titled the vice president of the People's Republic of China, is the deputy to the president of the People's Republic of China, the List of state representatives of the People's Republic of China, state r ...

(b.

1908 This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time. Events January * January ...

) *March 22 — Sun Meiying, international table tennis player (b.

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

) *April 6 — Chen Zaidao, general (b.

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Janu ...

) *May 4 — Wang Xianghao, mathematician (b.

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 * ...

) *May 7 — Zhao Boping, politician (b.

) *May 10 — Peng Mingzhi, general and diplomat (b.

) *May 11 — Zhao Cangbi, official (b.

) *June 2 — Mo Wuping, contemporary classical composer (b.

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

) *June 30 — Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter (b.

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

) *July 12 — Li Da, general (b.

) *July 25 — Gan Ku, politician (b.

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

) *July 31 — Fang Zhichun, politician (b.

) *August 17 — Feng Kang, mathematician (b.

) *October 8 —

Gu Cheng Gu Cheng (; September 24, 1956 – October 8, 1993) was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist and novelist. He was a prominent member of the " Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets. Biography Gu Cheng was born in Beijing on 24 Sep ...

, poet, essayist and novelist (b.

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

) *October 25 —

Danny Chan Danny Chan Pak-Keung (; 7 September 1958 – 25 October 1993) was a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor. One of the first Cantopop idols in Hong Kong, he gained fame alongside performers Alan Tam, Anita Mui, and Leslie Cheung, who wer ...

, singer, songwriter and actor (b.

) *November 24 —

Zhou Peiyuan Zhou Peiyuan (; August 28, 1902 – November 24, 1993) was a Chinese theoretical physicist and politician. He served as president of Peking University, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Born in Yixing, Jiangsu, Ch ...

, theoretical physicist and politician (b.

) *November 28 — Huang Oudong, politician (b.

) *December 24 —

Yen Chia-kan Yen Chia-kan (; 23 October 1905 – 24 December 1993), also known as C. K. Yen, was a chemist and the second president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 1975 to 1978. A Kuomintang politician, he succeeded Chiang Kai-shek as the second pr ...

, chemist and nationalist politician, 2nd

President of the Republic of China The president of the Republic of China, also known as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan), as well as the commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Armed Forces. Republic of China (1912– ...

(b.

)

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