1989 in China
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Events in the year 1989 in the People's Republic of China.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party - Zhao Ziyang until June 24, Jiang Zemin
- President – Yang Shangkun
- Premier – Li Peng
- Vice President – Wang Zhen
- Vice Premier – Yao Yilin
- Congress Chairman - Wan Li
- Conference Chairman - Li Xiannian
Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province – Li Rongling then Fu Xishou
- Governor of Fujian Province – Wang Zhaoguo
- Governor of Gansu Province – Jia Zhijie
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping
- Wang Zhaowen
- Governor of Hainan Province – Liu Jianfeng
- Governor of Hebei Province – Yue Qifeng
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Hou Jie then Shao Qihui
- Governor of Henan Province – Cheng Weigao
- Governor of Hubei Province – Guo Zhenqian
- Governor of Hunan Province – Xiong Qingquan then Chen Bangzhu
- Governor of Jiangsu Province – Gu Xiulian then Chen Huanyou
- Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Guanzheng
- Governor of Jilin Province – He Zhukang then Wang Zhongyu
- Governor of Liaoning Province – Li Changchun
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Ruixiang then Jin Jipeng
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Hou Zongbin
- Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Chunyun then Zhao Zhihao
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Senhao
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Haoruo
- Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Shen Zulun
Events
May
- May 13 – Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since the 1960s.
- May 19 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
- May 20 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing.
- May 30 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m (33 ft) high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
June
- June 4 – Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
- Hardliners: .
- Moderates: Zhao Ziyang (General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party), Wan Li (Eight Elders), Tian Jiyun, Wu Xueqian, Xi Zhongxun (Eight Elders), Wen Jiabao.
- Intellectuals: Liu Xiaobo (Nobel Peace Prize laureate), Dai Qing (adopted daughter of Ye Jianying).
- Student leaders: Wang Dan, Wu'erkaixi, Chai Ling, Shen Tong, Liu Gang, Feng Congde, Li Lu, Wang Youcai.
- June 24 - Jiang Zemin becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
Births
- January 18 - Li Huzhao, Paralympic athlete
- January 21 – Zhang Shuai, professional hockey player[citation needed]
- February 20 - Zhang Yangyang, mountain hopper
- March 18 - Lü Zhiwu, swimmer
- July 12 - Wang Xinnan, rower
- December 21 - Fang Yuting, archer[1]
Deaths
- 28 January – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama(born 1938)
- 20 March – Nationalistmilitary general (born 1904)
- 29 March – Xiao Jingguang, military leader (born 1903)
- 15 April – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1981-1987) (born 1915)
- 23 April – Hu Die, Chinese actress (born 1908)
- 24 April – Li Jingquan, Former Secretary of Sichuan (born 1909)
- 14 June – Wei Guoqing, military and government official (born 1913)
- 27 August – Chinese Tatarpolitician (born 1894)
- 20 September – Chen Boda, Chinese Communist political theorist (born 1904)
- 5 December – Li Keran, a renowned contemporary Chinese painter (born 1907)
See also
- 1989 in Chinese film
References
- ^ "Yuting FANG - Olympic Archery | People's Republic of China". International Olympic Committee. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2019.