Weightlifting was part of the 1979 National Games of China held in Beijing. Only men competed in ten bodyweight categories and for the first time in National Games history the classification matched the international standard at the time.
The competition program at the National Games mirrors that of the Olympic Games as only medals for the total achieved are awarded, but not for individual lifts in either the snatch or clean and jerk. Likewise an athlete failing to register a snatch result cannot advance to the clean and jerk.
Medal summary
Men 52 kgCai JunchengGuangdong 235 kgWu ShudeGuangxi 235 kgYang HaipingJiangsu 227.5 kg56 kgHe YichengHunan 250 kgZhang DizhouGuangdong 240 kgXiao MingyunGuangxi 232.5 kg60 kgTan HanyongGuangxi 270 kgChen JiancaiHubei 262.5 kgChen HuashengFujian 260 kg67.5 kgZhao XinminJiangsu 310 kgYao JingyuanLiaoning 287.5 kgXu KehuaJiangsu 285 kg75 kgLi ShunzhuJiangsu 310 kgRong JiahuaiHubei 297.5 kgKuang SuihuaPLA 292.5 kg82.5 kgCai FuqiangBeijing 307.5 kgZuo DecaiBeijing 302.5 kgWu YuwenHebei 292.5 kg90 kgMa WenguangShandong 335 kgZhang NaizhuJilin 305 kgWang GuoxinJiangsu 300 kg100 kgSong ZhenzhuShandong 310 kgXi HanxiangHubei 300 kgTian ShulinTianjin 300 kg110 kgLiu GuanglinPLA 300 kgWang XiaopingJilin 282.5 kgChen PingJiangsu 280 kg110+ kgYang HuaiqingShandong 332.5 kgGuo WeiruHeilongjiang 315 kgMeng NaidongBeijing 285 kg
Medal table
References Archived results of the 1979 Games