The following lists events in the year 1991 in China.

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

• 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
• August 16 – G.E.M., singer
• October 7 – Lay Zhang, entertainer (Exo)

• January 4 — Sanmao, Taiwanese writer and translator (b. 1943)
• January 27 — Zheng Dongguo, Nationalist general (b. 1903)
• February 18 — Zhang Wenjin, diplomat (b. 1914)
• March 30 — Cheng Zihua, politician and military general (b. 1905)
• April 2 — Cheng Shewo, journalist, publisher and educator (b. 1898)
• April 10 — Wu Yin, film and drama actress (b. 1909)
• April 16 — Qin Benli, journalist, newspaper editor and commentator (b. 1918)
• May 4 — Sun Xiaocun, politician (b. 1906)
• May 14 — Jiang Qing, fourth wife of Mao Zedong and one of the members of the Gang of Four (b. 1914)
• May 18 — Hoàng Văn Hoan, Pro-Chinese Vietnamese Politician (b. 1905)
• July 27 — Xu Shijie, politician (b. 1920)
• July 28 — Wang Ming-Dao, Protestant pastor (b. 1900)
• August 7 — Bai Xiangguo, military officer and general (b. 1918)
• August 12 — Lin Fengmian, painter (b. 1900)
• September 14 — Liu Dagang, chemist (b. 1904)
• September 17 — Song Shilun, general (b. 1907)
• September 23 — Yue-Kong Pao, Hong Kong businessman (b. 1918)
• October 10 — Chen Xuezhao, writer and journalist (b. 1906)
• October 15 — Han Ying-chieh, Hong Kong actor (b. 1927)
• October 16 — Barry Wong, Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and actor (b. 1946)
• November 19
  • Xian Henghan, lieutenant general (b. 1911)
  • Hu Zi'ang, politician (b. 1897)
• November 28 — Lu Gwei-djen, biochemist and historian (b. 1904)

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