Taken from http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20000302133538/http://www.cctv.com/viewguide/schedule/mon.html (originally in Chinese and translated with Google) Despite the webpage address, the schedule is for the day given in the topic's title. This is no way pretends to be an exact translation, it's just meant for us to check how the TV schedule of China's public network was.
CCTV-1
5:55 Sign-on
6:00 News
6:15 Music special
6:20 "Press the chicken dance" (??)
6:53 Aerobics
6:58 TV guide
7:00 News
7:20 Oriental horizon
8:00 News
8:20 TV guide
8:22 Focus
8:35 Red sunset
9:05 Onion Township stories
10:00 News
10:05 TV guide
10:10 99 prose poems
10:40 Contemporary workers
11:10 Techno exposition
11:20 Reading time
11:55 Music special
12:00 News
12:30 TV guide
12:37 Today claims
12:55 Storytelling "Tianjin Legend"
13:15 Miniseries "Challenging poverty"
13:35 Cooking school
13:45 A century of China
13:50 Techno exposition
14:00 News
14:05 TV guide
14:10 TV Talk "Field"
14:40 TV Talk "Friends of the re-employment"
15:10 Sports world
15:40 Today claims
15:55 Weather
16:00 News
16:05 TV guide
16:10 Forum
17:00 Documentary window
17:15 Techno exposition
17:20 Open, Sesame!
17:30 Cartoon city
18:00 News
18:09 Windmill
18:56 TV guide
19:00 Network news
19:31 Weather
19:38 Focus
19:56 Techno exposition
20:01 TV guide
20:06 How the steel was tempered
21:00 Now
21:24 TV guide
21:25 Man and nature
22:00 World report
22:48 TV Guide
22:52 A century of China
22:57 Military world
23:17 Unknown program
23:47 Miniseries "Soul of Harbin, Military Engineering Institute" (includes news at 0:00)
1:33 TV guide and sign-off
CCTV-2
5:55 Sign-on
6:00 Oh, mom!
6:50 Man and nature
7:20 Teleshopping
8:00 Business TV
8:30 China business report
8:55 Teleshopping
9:10 Trade hotline
9:30 Youth center
10:00 The eight set of gymnastics
10:10 TV guide
10:17 New survery
10:47 Teleshopping
11:02 Monday songs
11:10 Half the sky
11:40 Trade hotline
12:00 Life
12:30 China business report
12:50 Agricultural education and technology
13:20 World economic report
13:50 Economics half hour
14:20 TV guide
14:25 News
14:55 Techno exposition
15:00 Red sunset
15:35 Teleshopping
16:30 Teleshopping
17:00 Approaching science
17:30 Cooking school
17:40 Trade hotline
18:00 Business TV
18:30 Golden land
19:00 TV Talk "Facing the challenges of aging"
19:33 TV guide
19:35 China business report
19:55 Business bridge
20:00 Life
20:30 Economics half hour
21.07 World sport report
22:00 China news
22:33 Oriental horizon
23:13 China news
23:45 English news
0:15 China business report
0:45 Teleshopping
1:20 Trade hotline
1:40 TV guide and sign-off
CCTV-3
8:24 Sign-on
8:25 Arts package
8:30 Music special
8:35 Wonderful knowledge
8:45 Filler
8:50 Introduction to art "The great composer"
9:20 Opera
11:41 Appreciation of art
11:45 Wonderful knowledge
11:55 Filler
12:00 Book market
13:10 Filler
13:15 Shenzhou big stage
14:25 Screen poetry
14:55 Filler
15:00 Movie theater
10:05 Beijing opera
16:56 Appreciation of art
17:00 Cartoon city
17:30 Music special
17:35 Book market
17:55 Filler
18:00 Chinese music TV
18:30 Introduction to art "The great composer"
19:00 Opera folk songs
19:30 Filler
19:35 Opera live
21:55 Very exciting
22:05 Filler
22:10 Arts guide
22:40 Network news
23:10 Opera
1:39 Filler
1:42 Sign-off
CCTV-4
4:30 Into Taiwan
5:00 China news
5:30 China report
6:00 Cartoon city
6:30 Red sunset
7:00 Advertising
7:03 TV guide
7:05 Economics half hour
7:35 Daily diet
7:45 China first... "People's Navy"
7:50 Advertising
7:53 Propaganda
7:55 Light of Chinese civilization
8:00 China news
9:00 Advertising
9:03 Propaganda
9:05 Downwards
9:55 Yu Lin and her stories
10:00 China news
10:10 Techno exposition
10:15 Advertising
10:18 TV guide
10:20 Across the Taiwan Strait
10:35 A glimpse of China
10:50 Chinese literature
11:20 Chinese medicine
11:50 Light of Chinese civilization
11:55 Advertising
11:58 Propaganda
12:00 China news
12:30 China report
13:00 English news
13:30 Kung Fu
13:45 Learning Chinese
14:00 Advertising
14:03 Propaganda
14:05 Human right
14:55 Advertising
14:58 Propaganda
15:00 China news
15:10 China business report
15:30 Oriental horizon
16:10 Advertising
16:13 Propaganda
16:15 Cartoon city
16:45 Red sunset
17:15 Techno exposition
17:20 Economics half hour
17:50 Light of Chinese civilization
17:55 Advertising
17:58 Propaganda
18:00 China news
18:15 It's really exciting
18:25 China first... "People's Navy"
18:30 All over China
19:00 Global lookout
19:30 Chinese literature
20:00 Chinese medicine
20:30 Across the Taiwan Strait
20:45 A glimpse of China
21:00 China news
21:30 China report
22:00 Advertising
22:03 TV guide
22:05 Yu Lin and her stories
22:10 Downwards
23:00 English news
23:30 All over China
0:00 Kung Fu
0:15 Learning Chinese
0.30 All over China
1:00 English news
1:30 China today
2:00 Network news
2:30 Advertising
2:33 Propaganda
2:35 Chinese literature
3:05 Chinese medicine
3:35 Advertising
3:38 TV guide
3:40 Human right
CCTV-5
8:35 Leisure time
9:30 Nocturne sounds
10:35 Chess music
11:00 China sports
12:00 Sport news
12:10 Five minutes of aerobics
12:15 Sports gallery
13:50 Sports news
14:00 Leisure time
15:00 Bundesliga season '99/'00
17:00 Fun with chess
17:30 Sports mall
17:55 TV guide
18:00 Sports news
18:30 Sports world
19:00 Sport film
19:30 Basketball park
21:00 Sports news
21:30 Basketball park
23:00 Diving World Cup
0:45 TV guide
CCTV-6
8:27 Sing-on
8:29 Program preview
8:41 Movie "Chuang beach"
10:30 Movie "Golden years
10:40 Movie "Memories of old Beijing"
12:14 Documentary
12:28 Little mouse on the prairie
12:59 Movie "I want you to live"
14:30 Movie "Three women for one husband"
16:12 Movie "The 16th ward"
18:04 Little mouse on the prairie
18:42 Movie "The story of her country"
19:06 Popular science "Biological treatment of malignant tumors" / "High speed trains" / "PVC technology and application" / "Life guardian"
19:39 Movie "Golden years"
19:49 Movie "Eight thousand miles and clouds"
22:00 Movie "Night raid"
23:39 Movie "Flag on my mind"
0:40 Sign-off
CCTV-7
8:30 Cartoon city
9:00 East children
10:00 Military report
10:30 Contemporary military
11:35 Kejizhiguang
12:30 Program preview
12:35 Rural economy
13:02 Agricultural education
13:34 Rural art
14:00 Agricultural education
14:30 Agricultural education
15:00 Children's drama
15:10 Open, Sesame!
16:20 Windmill
17:00 Military encyclopedia
18:00 Program preview
18:07 Rural parts (??)
18:32 Technology court
19:00 Agricultural education
19:30 Military report
20:00 East children
21:00 Agricultural news
21:14 Dossier
21:45 Kejizhiguang
22:44 Rural parts
23:07 Rural economy
23:30 Agricultural news
23:47 Agricultural news
0:17 Sign-off
CCTV-8
8:25 Filler
8:33 People's theater
9:00 Movie songs
9:10 Filler
9:15 Jiayi theater
10:42 Filler
10:47 Into the TV
11:17 Animal world
11:37 Filler
11:47 World film expo
12:32 Flower
12:35 Filler
12:43 People's theater
13:10 Filler
13:15 Movie "Shadow heroes"
14:56 Movie songs
15:06 Filler
15:11 Into the TV
15:41 Animal world
16:01 Chinese women
17:40 A glimpse of world cities
18:00 Filler
18:07 Children's theater "Star creek"
18:54 Flower
18:55 Movie songs
19:05 World cultural square
19:25 Filler
19:30 Jiayi world
20:20 Filler
20:27 Golden farm
21:18 Jiangdang
22:04 Filler
22:09 Tong Qisheng
22:29 Movie songs
22:39 Filler
22:47 Overseas theater "Lassie"
23:36 Filler
23:44 Midnight drama "Urban patrol"
0:34 Midnight drama "Urban patrol"
1:24 Filler
1:29 Sign-off
CCTV-1
5:55 Sign-on
6:00 News
6:15 Music special
6:20 "Press the chicken dance" (??)
6:53 Aerobics
6:58 TV guide
7:00 News
7:20 Oriental horizon
8:00 News
8:20 TV guide
8:22 Focus
8:35 Red sunset
9:05 Onion Township stories
10:00 News
10:05 TV guide
10:10 99 prose poems
10:40 Contemporary workers
11:10 Techno exposition
11:20 Reading time
11:55 Music special
12:00 News
12:30 TV guide
12:37 Today claims
12:55 Storytelling "Tianjin Legend"
13:15 Miniseries "Challenging poverty"
13:35 Cooking school
13:45 A century of China
13:50 Techno exposition
14:00 News
14:05 TV guide
14:10 TV Talk "Field"
14:40 TV Talk "Friends of the re-employment"
15:10 Sports world
15:40 Today claims
15:55 Weather
16:00 News
16:05 TV guide
16:10 Forum
17:00 Documentary window
17:15 Techno exposition
17:20 Open, Sesame!
17:30 Cartoon city
18:00 News
18:09 Windmill
18:56 TV guide
19:00 Network news
19:31 Weather
19:38 Focus
19:56 Techno exposition
20:01 TV guide
20:06 How the steel was tempered
21:00 Now
21:24 TV guide
21:25 Man and nature
22:00 World report
22:48 TV Guide
22:52 A century of China
22:57 Military world
23:17 Unknown program
23:47 Miniseries "Soul of Harbin, Military Engineering Institute" (includes news at 0:00)
1:33 TV guide and sign-off
CCTV-2
5:55 Sign-on
6:00 Oh, mom!
6:50 Man and nature
7:20 Teleshopping
8:00 Business TV
8:30 China business report
8:55 Teleshopping
9:10 Trade hotline
9:30 Youth center
10:00 The eight set of gymnastics
10:10 TV guide
10:17 New survery
10:47 Teleshopping
11:02 Monday songs
11:10 Half the sky
11:40 Trade hotline
12:00 Life
12:30 China business report
12:50 Agricultural education and technology
13:20 World economic report
13:50 Economics half hour
14:20 TV guide
14:25 News
14:55 Techno exposition
15:00 Red sunset
15:35 Teleshopping
16:30 Teleshopping
17:00 Approaching science
17:30 Cooking school
17:40 Trade hotline
18:00 Business TV
18:30 Golden land
19:00 TV Talk "Facing the challenges of aging"
19:33 TV guide
19:35 China business report
19:55 Business bridge
20:00 Life
20:30 Economics half hour
21.07 World sport report
22:00 China news
22:33 Oriental horizon
23:13 China news
23:45 English news
0:15 China business report
0:45 Teleshopping
1:20 Trade hotline
1:40 TV guide and sign-off
CCTV-3
8:24 Sign-on
8:25 Arts package
8:30 Music special
8:35 Wonderful knowledge
8:45 Filler
8:50 Introduction to art "The great composer"
9:20 Opera
11:41 Appreciation of art
11:45 Wonderful knowledge
11:55 Filler
12:00 Book market
13:10 Filler
13:15 Shenzhou big stage
14:25 Screen poetry
14:55 Filler
15:00 Movie theater
10:05 Beijing opera
16:56 Appreciation of art
17:00 Cartoon city
17:30 Music special
17:35 Book market
17:55 Filler
18:00 Chinese music TV
18:30 Introduction to art "The great composer"
19:00 Opera folk songs
19:30 Filler
19:35 Opera live
21:55 Very exciting
22:05 Filler
22:10 Arts guide
22:40 Network news
23:10 Opera
1:39 Filler
1:42 Sign-off
CCTV-4
4:30 Into Taiwan
5:00 China news
5:30 China report
6:00 Cartoon city
6:30 Red sunset
7:00 Advertising
7:03 TV guide
7:05 Economics half hour
7:35 Daily diet
7:45 China first... "People's Navy"
7:50 Advertising
7:53 Propaganda
7:55 Light of Chinese civilization
8:00 China news
9:00 Advertising
9:03 Propaganda
9:05 Downwards
9:55 Yu Lin and her stories
10:00 China news
10:10 Techno exposition
10:15 Advertising
10:18 TV guide
10:20 Across the Taiwan Strait
10:35 A glimpse of China
10:50 Chinese literature
11:20 Chinese medicine
11:50 Light of Chinese civilization
11:55 Advertising
11:58 Propaganda
12:00 China news
12:30 China report
13:00 English news
13:30 Kung Fu
13:45 Learning Chinese
14:00 Advertising
14:03 Propaganda
14:05 Human right
14:55 Advertising
14:58 Propaganda
15:00 China news
15:10 China business report
15:30 Oriental horizon
16:10 Advertising
16:13 Propaganda
16:15 Cartoon city
16:45 Red sunset
17:15 Techno exposition
17:20 Economics half hour
17:50 Light of Chinese civilization
17:55 Advertising
17:58 Propaganda
18:00 China news
18:15 It's really exciting
18:25 China first... "People's Navy"
18:30 All over China
19:00 Global lookout
19:30 Chinese literature
20:00 Chinese medicine
20:30 Across the Taiwan Strait
20:45 A glimpse of China
21:00 China news
21:30 China report
22:00 Advertising
22:03 TV guide
22:05 Yu Lin and her stories
22:10 Downwards
23:00 English news
23:30 All over China
0:00 Kung Fu
0:15 Learning Chinese
0.30 All over China
1:00 English news
1:30 China today
2:00 Network news
2:30 Advertising
2:33 Propaganda
2:35 Chinese literature
3:05 Chinese medicine
3:35 Advertising
3:38 TV guide
3:40 Human right
CCTV-5
8:35 Leisure time
9:30 Nocturne sounds
10:35 Chess music
11:00 China sports
12:00 Sport news
12:10 Five minutes of aerobics
12:15 Sports gallery
13:50 Sports news
14:00 Leisure time
15:00 Bundesliga season '99/'00
17:00 Fun with chess
17:30 Sports mall
17:55 TV guide
18:00 Sports news
18:30 Sports world
19:00 Sport film
19:30 Basketball park
21:00 Sports news
21:30 Basketball park
23:00 Diving World Cup
0:45 TV guide
CCTV-6
8:27 Sing-on
8:29 Program preview
8:41 Movie "Chuang beach"
10:30 Movie "Golden years
10:40 Movie "Memories of old Beijing"
12:14 Documentary
12:28 Little mouse on the prairie
12:59 Movie "I want you to live"
14:30 Movie "Three women for one husband"
16:12 Movie "The 16th ward"
18:04 Little mouse on the prairie
18:42 Movie "The story of her country"
19:06 Popular science "Biological treatment of malignant tumors" / "High speed trains" / "PVC technology and application" / "Life guardian"
19:39 Movie "Golden years"
19:49 Movie "Eight thousand miles and clouds"
22:00 Movie "Night raid"
23:39 Movie "Flag on my mind"
0:40 Sign-off
CCTV-7
8:30 Cartoon city
9:00 East children
10:00 Military report
10:30 Contemporary military
11:35 Kejizhiguang
12:30 Program preview
12:35 Rural economy
13:02 Agricultural education
13:34 Rural art
14:00 Agricultural education
14:30 Agricultural education
15:00 Children's drama
15:10 Open, Sesame!
16:20 Windmill
17:00 Military encyclopedia
18:00 Program preview
18:07 Rural parts (??)
18:32 Technology court
19:00 Agricultural education
19:30 Military report
20:00 East children
21:00 Agricultural news
21:14 Dossier
21:45 Kejizhiguang
22:44 Rural parts
23:07 Rural economy
23:30 Agricultural news
23:47 Agricultural news
0:17 Sign-off
CCTV-8
8:25 Filler
8:33 People's theater
9:00 Movie songs
9:10 Filler
9:15 Jiayi theater
10:42 Filler
10:47 Into the TV
11:17 Animal world
11:37 Filler
11:47 World film expo
12:32 Flower
12:35 Filler
12:43 People's theater
13:10 Filler
13:15 Movie "Shadow heroes"
14:56 Movie songs
15:06 Filler
15:11 Into the TV
15:41 Animal world
16:01 Chinese women
17:40 A glimpse of world cities
18:00 Filler
18:07 Children's theater "Star creek"
18:54 Flower
18:55 Movie songs
19:05 World cultural square
19:25 Filler
19:30 Jiayi world
20:20 Filler
20:27 Golden farm
21:18 Jiangdang
22:04 Filler
22:09 Tong Qisheng
22:29 Movie songs
22:39 Filler
22:47 Overseas theater "Lassie"
23:36 Filler
23:44 Midnight drama "Urban patrol"
0:34 Midnight drama "Urban patrol"
1:24 Filler
1:29 Sign-off