The following lists events in the year 1986 in China.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
Deaths
- January 16 — Hu Yuzhi, former Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (b. 1896)
- March 4 — Ding Ling, writer (b. 1904)
- March 6 — Zhu Guangqian, scholar and theoretician of aesthetics (b. 1897)
- March 26 — Chen Yonggui, Vice Premier of China (b. 1915)
- March 28 — Gan Zuchang, general (b. 1905)
- May 3 — Wang Li, linguist, educator, translator and poet (b. 1900)
- June 26 — Gong Zhutong, optical physicist (b. 1904)
- June 30 — Guan Zilan, avant-garde painter (b. 1903)
- July 19 — Wang Shaofang, Huangmei Opera actor (b. 1920)
- July 21 — Zhang Yuzhe, astronomer and director of the Purple Mountain Observatory (b. 1902)
- July 22 — Ren-Chang Ching, botanist (b. 1898)
- July 29 — Deng Jiaxian, nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (b. 1924)
- August 23 — Ren Baige, politician (b. 1906)
- August 29 — Lu Shijia, physicist and aerospace engineer (b. 1911)
- October 3 — Han Xianchu, general (b. 1913)
- October 7 — Liu Bocheng, military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1892)
- October 22 — Ye Jianying, 3rd Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China (b. 1897)
- November 7 — Yang Shangkui, 2nd Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1905)
- November 20 — Tang Liang, general (b. 1910)
- November 22 — Chen Manyuan, 2nd Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1911)
- December 6 — Qian Ning, water conservancy expert (b. 1922)
- December 28 — Huang Kecheng, senior general of the People's Liberation Army (b. 1902)
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