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Events in the year1999 inChina.

• 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

• Governor of Anhui Province –Wang Taihua
• Governor of Fujian Province –He Guoqiang thenXi 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 thenZhao Leji
• Governor of Shaanxi Province –Cheng Andong
• Governor of Shandong Province –Li Chunting
• Governor of Shanxi Province –Sun Wensheng thenLiu Zhenhua
• Governor of Sichuan Province –Song Baorui thenZhang Zhongwei
• Governor of Yunnan Province –Li Jiating
• Governor of Zhejiang Province –Chai Songyue

• January 4 – A pedestrian bridge inQijiang,Chongqing collapsed and caused 40 people to die and 14 to be injured.^[1]

• February 24 –China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 crashed on approach toWenzhou Airport, killing 61 people.

• April 4 –Alibaba Group founded inHangzhou
  • Key people:Jack Ma,Joseph Tsai
• April 15 –Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 crashed inXinzhuang, Shanghai after takeoff fromHongqiao Airport due to pilot's confusion between twounits of measurement (feet and metres).

• May 8 –U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade led to a series ofanti-American protests in China.
  • Hu Jintao delivered a national televised speech

• July 22 –The Ministry of Civil Affairs declaredFalun Gong as an illegal organization.^[2]

• October 1 – 50th anniversary of the founding of thePeople's Republic Parade and Speech byparamount leaderJiang Zemin.^[3]

• November 19 –Shenzhou 1 spacecraft launched.

• December 5 –Shenyang Haishi wonChongqing Longxin by 2-1 in theChinese Jia-A League, which later led to amatch-fixing controversy.
• December 19 and 20 – China assumed formalsovereignty overMacau fromPortugal.

• GRG Banking is founded in Guangzhou.^[4]

• February 10 –Tiffany Espensen, actress
• June 2 –Wei Yi, chess prodigy
• September 9 –Uudam, singer
• September 29 –Gu Haiyan, wheelchair fencer^[5]

• January 18 —Yuyan, calligrapher (b.1918)
• February 3 —Yu Qiuli, army officer and politician (b.1914)
• February 11 —Xiao Qian, essayist, editor, journalist and translator (b.1910)
• February 28 —Bing Xin, writer (b.1900)
• March 2 —Wang Heshou, Second Secretary of theCentral Commission for Discipline Inspection (b.1909)
• March 3 —Ling Zifeng, film director (b.1917)
• March 21 —Willy Kan, Hong Kong apprentice jockey (b.1978)
• April 15 —Roy Chiao, Hong Kong actor (b.1927)
• April 18 —Ye Fei, Philippine-born Chinese military general and politician (b.1914)
• April 21 —Su Xuelin, writer and scholar (b.1897)
• April 27 —He Luting, composer (b.1903)
• April 29 —Yao Xueyin, novelist (b.1910)
• May 7 —Chen Yanyan, actress and film producer (b.1916)
• May 8
  • The three reporters who died during theUnited States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
  • Zhu Ying (b.1971)
• June 10 —Chen Xilian, military officer and politician (b.1915)
• August 15 —Liu Liankun, major general (b.1933)
• August 16 —Regina Kent, Hong Kong actress (b.1967)
• August 27 —Bai Guang, actress and singer (b.1921)
• September 25 —Ding Sheng, general and politician (b.1913)
• October 1 —Kuei Chih-Hung, filmmaker (b.1937)
• October 19 —Zeng Liansong, designer of thenational flag of the People's Republic of China (b.1917)
• October 27 —Xie Fei, 12thSecretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b.1932)
• November 9 —Huang Huoqing, politician (b.1901)
• December 24 —Jiang Hua, 5th President of theSupreme People's Court of China (b.1907)

• List of Chinese films of 1999

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