• General Secretary of the Communist Party: Jiang Zemin
• President: Yang Shangkun
• Premier: Li Peng
• Vice President: Wang Zhen
• Vice Premier: Yao Yilin

Governors edit

• Governor of Anhui Province – Fu Xishou
• Governor of Fujian Province – Jia Qinglin
• Governor of Gansu Province – Jia Zhijie
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Ye Xuanping then Zhu Senlin
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Wang Zhaowen
• Governor of Hainan Province – Liu Jianfeng
• Governor of Hebei Province – Cheng Weigao
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Shao Qihui
• Governor of Henan Province – Li Changchun
• Governor of Hubei Province – Guo Shuyan
• Governor of Hunan Province – Chen Bangzhu
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Chen Huanyou
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Guanzheng
• Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Zhongyu then Gao Yan
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Yue Qifeng
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Jin Jipeng then Tian Chengping
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Bai Qingcai
• Governor of Shandong Province – Zhao Zhihao
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Senhao then Hu Fuguo
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Haoruo
• Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Ge Hongsheng (until March), Wan Xueyuan (starting March)

• 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement
• Eastern China flood of 1991
• September 24 – According to Shanxi Province government official confirmed reported, a human stampede occur ongoing to Lantern festival, Yingze Park, Yingze District, Taiyuan, Shanxi, as resulting to 105 persons were crushing to death, 108 persons were hurt.^{[citation needed]}

• List of Chinese films of 1991

• July 20 – Merxat, actor
• October 7 – Lay Zhang, entertainer (Exo)

• May 14 – Jiang Qing, fourth wife of Mao Zedong and one of the members of the Gang of Four (b. 1914).

• Chinese Jia-A League 1991
• November 16–30 – 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup^[1]