Events in the year 2010 in

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Incumbents

* Party General Secretary -

Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Comm ...

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Wen Jiabao Wen Jiabao ( zh, s=温家宝, p=Wēn Jiābǎo; born 15 September 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the 6th premier of China from 2003 to 2013. In his capacity as head of government, Wen was regarded as the leading figure behin ...

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Xi Jinping Xi Jinping, pronounced (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China), chairman of the Central Military Commission ...

* Vice Premier:

Li Keqiang Li Keqiang ( zh, s=李克强, p=Lǐ Kèqiáng; 3 July 1955 – 27 October 2023) was a Chinese economist and politician who served as the seventh premier of China from 2013 to 2023. He was also the second-ranked member of the Politburo Standing ...

* Congress Chairman -

Wu Bangguo Wu Bangguo (22 July 1941 – 8 October 2024) was a Chinese politician who served as the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012, and as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the ...

* Conference Chairman - Jia Qinglin

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province –

Wang Sanyun Wang Sanyun (; born December 1952) is a former Chinese politician. He began his political career in Guizhou province, before serving in Sichuan, Fujian, and Anhui provinces. He served as the governor of Anhui between 2007 and 2011, and was trans ...

* Governor of Fujian Province –

Huang Xiaojing Huang Xiaojing (; February 1946 - ) is a politician of the People's Republic of China and a former governor of Fujian. A native of Fuzhou, Fujian, Huang started working in September 1969, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1973. ...

* Governor of Gansu Province: Xu Shousheng (until July), Xu Shousheng (starting July) * Governor of Guangdong Province –

Huang Huahua Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese politician, and the Governor of Guangdong between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of Meizhou. Biography Huang was born in Xingning County, ...

* Governor of Guizhou Province –

Lin Shusen Lin Shusen (born December 1946) is a politician and government official in the People's Republic of China. He was elected Governor of Guizhou Province in 2007 and 2008. He was also Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Guizhou Pro ...

(until August), Zhao Kezhi (starting August) * Governor of Hainan Province –

Luo Baoming Luo Baoming (; born October 1952) is a Chinese politician who spent his career in Tianjin and Hainan province. Until 2021, Luo served as the Communist Party Secretary of Hainan province; prior to that he served as governor of Hainan between 2 ...

* Governor of Hebei Province –

Chen Quanguo Chen Quanguo ( zh, c=, p=Chén Quánguó; born November 1955) is a Chinese retired politician who was the Party Secretary of Tibet from 2011 to 2016 and the Party Secretary of Xinjiang from 2016 to 2021, making him the only person to serve as t ...

* Governor of Heilongjiang Province –

Li Zhanshu Li Zhanshu (born 30 August 1951) is a Chinese retired politician, who was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2018 to 2023. He was the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Ch ...

(until 27 August), Wang Xiankui (starting 27 August) * Governor of Henan Province –

Guo Gengmao Guo Gengmao ( zh, c=郭庚茂, p=Guō Gēngmào; born December 1950) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Party Secretary and Governor of Henan Province, as well as Governor of his native Hebei Province. Biography Guo ...

* Governor of Hubei Province –

Luo Qingquan Luo Qingquan (; 9 November 1945 – 23 April 2021) was a politician of the People's Republic of China and the former Governor and Communist Party Chief of Hubei province. Born in Jiangling, Hubei, Luo started working in 1968, and joined the CPC ...

* Governor of Hunan Province –

Zhou Qiang Zhou Qiang (; born 25 April 1960) is a Chinese politician who is a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Previously, he served as the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's Hunan committee, the effective ...

(until December), Xu Shousheng (starting December) * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Luo Zhijun (until December), Li Xueyong (starting December) * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Xinxiong * Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Rulin * Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Zhenggao * Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Xiuyan (until unknown),

Luo Huining Luo Huining (; born 5 October 1954) is a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party who was the director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong between 2020 and 2023. A native of Yiwu, Zhejiang, he was previous ...

(starting unknown) * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Yuan Chunqing (until June), Zhao Zhengyong (starting June) * Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Daming * Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Jun * Governor of Sichuan Province –

Jiang Jufeng Jiang Jufeng (; born 1948) is a Chinese politician. He served as the Governor of Sichuan from 2007 to 2013. Jiang was born in 1948 in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Fudan University in 1982 and the same year joined the Chinese Com ...

* Governor of Yunnan Province – Qin Guangrong * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Lü Zushan

Events

January

* 1 January – **

ASEAN–China Free Trade Area The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) is a free-trade area among the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China. History China first proposed the idea of a free trade area ...

and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch the world's largest

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in terms of

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. **

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expand to online channe
CNTV
(中国网络电视台) with C-box software. * 4 January –

Yellow River oil spill The Yellow River oil spill was an oil spill in the Yellow River in Shaanxi, China which took place due to the rupturing of a segment of Lanzhou-Zhengzhou oil pipeline on December 30, 2009. Approximately of diesel oil flowed down the Wei River ...

: A diesel fuel leak in

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

reaches the

Yellow River The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...

, a water source for millions of people. * 6 January –

becomes the largest exporting country, pushing

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

from first place. * 8 January –

becomes the number one

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market in the world. * 11 January – 2010 Chinese anti-ballistic missile test * 12 January – **

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

in an unusual move revealed that its servers have been hacked in an attempt to access information about

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, and that Google is no longer willing to censor searches in China and may pull out of the country. **

's top search engine

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is allegedly attacked by

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

ian hackers, sparking a retaliatory attack by Chinese hackers on Iranian sites. * 15 January – 2010 Suzhou workers riot * 19 January – Chinese senior judge Huang Songyou is sentenced to

life in prison Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment under which the convicted individual is to remain incarcerated for the rest of their natural life (or until pardoned or commuted to a fixed term). Crimes that result in life imprisonment are co ...

over

corruption Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain. Corruption may involve activities ...

charges. * 24 January – The

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denies state involvement in the cyber attacks on

. * 25 January – 2008 Melamine milk re-enter supply * 26 January – Andatee China Marine Fuel begins an initial public offering on NASDAQ * 31 January – A M_w 5.2

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Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

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, kills one person and injures 11 others, destroying at least 100 homes.

February

* 1 February – Nine people are killed in a bus rampage in

Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

, northern

. * 9 – 11 February – Yunnan wildfire * 18 February – ** Low profile meeting between

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (born 6 July 1935; full spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, shortened as Tenzin Gyatso; ) is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served a ...

and president

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in White House Map Room amid opposition from

. **

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

Zhengding Zhengding (), originally Zhending (), is a county in southwestern Hebei Province, North China, located approximately south of Beijing, capital of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shijiazhuang, the capital of t ...

old city gate burns down ** Asia's biggest railway station, the

Guangzhou South Railway Station Guangzhounan (Guangzhou South) railway station () is located in Shibi, Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. It is a large modern railway station, rail terminal south of central Guangzhou. For a brief time it was Asia's largest ...

, came into use on the first day of Chinese spring festival transport rush of 2010. * 23 February – ** Oxfam Hong Kong boycott ** Chinese authorities increases controls on the internet, requiring anyone who wishes to set up a website to produce identification and meet regulators. ** Chinese Communist Party 52 code of ethics * 26 February – ** National Defense Mobilization Law is legislated in the National People's Congress (NPC). ** Wang Meng wins her third gold medal in the 1,000 meters short track at

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2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancouver 2010 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with ...

to become China's first winter Olympian to win three gold medals at one Games and give China all the women's titles.

March

* 1 March –

2010 Luotuoshan coal mine flood The Luotuoshan coal mine flood was an incident that began on Monday, March 1, 2010, when a large amount of water :en:Flooded mines, flooded the Luotuoshan coal mine near the city of Wuhai in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Re ...

* 3 March – 2010 Guangxi wildfire * 5 March – 2010 National People's Congress * 11 March – Hong Kong 's

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GM Stephen Chan and four others are

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on charges of corruption.The Standard HK.
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." ''Show graft.'' Retrieved on 2010-03-12. TVB suspends Chan and two TVB staff were suspended from their duties. * 13 March – Shenyang zoo scandal * 14 March – 314 Taipei protest * 15 March – 2010 Dongxing Coal Mining Co fire * 19 March – Northern China sandstorm * 20 March – 2010 China drought * 23 March – ** At 3 am

Hong Kong Time Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT; ) is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+08:00 all year round. The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time. It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database ...

(UTC+8), Google started to redirect all search queries from Google.cn to Google.com.hk. (Google Hong Kong), thereby bypassing Chinese regulators and allowing uncensored

Simplified Chinese Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one that is simpler (usually shorter), according to a well-founded ordering. Examples include: ...

search results. ** Nanping school massacre: A man in

Nanping Nanping; historically known as Yanping ( zh, s=延平, poj=Iân-pêng is a third-tier prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian province of China, Province, China, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde to the east, Sanming to the sou ...

, stabs and kills eight children, and wounds another five at an elementary school. * 27 March – Tao Hui-xi (陶惠西) self-immolation incident in

Lianyungang Lianyungang () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province of China, province, China. It borders Yancheng to its southeast, Huai'an and Suqian to its south, Xuzhou to its southwest, and the province of Shandong to its north. Its ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

* 28 March – 2010 Wangjialing coal mine flood: At least 152 coal miners are trapped after a pit floods in

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

, while 109 others escape.

April

* 1 April – First ever organ trafficking trial in the PRC (est.) * 4 April – 114 miners trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week in

, are rescued. * 6 April – One of leading smartphone brand,

Xiaomi Xiaomi (; ) is a Chinese multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is best known for consumer electronics software electric vehicles. It is the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the worl ...

was founded. * 10–14 April – 2010 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia * 13 April – **

, President of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss

's nuclear program. **

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

Oriental Pearl Tower fire * 14 April –

2010 Yushu earthquake The 2010 Yushu earthquake struck on April 14 and registered a magnitude of 6.9 Mw (USGS, EMSC) or 7.1 MsChina China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000. * 16 April – Yan Xiaoling - Fan Yanqiong Case * 22 April – **

Emeishan City Emeishan () is a county-level city in Sichuan province, China. It is administered by the prefecture-level city Leshan Leshan, formerly known as Jiading and Jiazhou, is a prefecture-level city located at the confluence of the Dadu River, Dadu an ...

self-immolation incident ** Huang Guangyu, founder of GOME Electrical Appliances and formerly China's richest man, goes on trial for

bribery Bribery is the corrupt solicitation, payment, or Offer and acceptance, acceptance of a private favor (a bribe) in exchange for official action. The purpose of a bribe is to influence the actions of the recipient, a person in charge of an official ...

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. * 24 April – Ben ren Yu (郁伯仁) PRC diplomat assaulted in

Houston Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of ...

* 25 April – 13 June – 2010 earthquake prediction case * 29 April - Xu Yuyuan mass stabbing incident: Twenty-eight children and three adults are stabbed at a nursery school in

. * 30 April - 2010 Shanghai Expo opening ceremony

May

* 1 May –

Expo 2010 Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the ...

officially opens. * 5 May ** Landslides killed 15 Chinese workers in the

Tengchong County Tengchong () is a county-level city of Baoshan City, western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It is well known for its volcanic activity. The city is named after the town of Tengchong which serves as its political center, previously k ...

Yunnan Province Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...

. ** Charm Communications domestic television advertising company begins trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market. * 6 May – A powerful

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hits

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

municipality in south-western China, killing at least 25 and injuring more than 160 people in Dianjiang and

Liangping Liangping District (), formerly Liangping County () and Liangshan County (), is a district in the north of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China. Sports The Liangping District National Fitness Centre Stadium, which has a capacity of ...

counties. * 7 May – Ren Zhiqiang (任志强) real estate tycoon shoe throwing incident * 9 May – At least 115 dead as fierce rainstorms begin ravaging Southern China * 11 – 9 May trapped miners found dead in coal gas leak in northwest

Gansu Province Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

Tuesday. * 12 May – ** Hanzhong mass stabbing incident: an attacker killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a

cleaver A cleaver is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed tomahawk. It is largely used as a kitchen knife, kitchen or butcher knife and is mostly intended for splitting up large pieces of soft bones and slas ...

at a kindergarten in

Hanzhong Hanzhong ( zh, s= , t= , l=middle of the Han River (Hubei), Han River; abbreviation: Han) is a prefecture-level city in Southern Shaanxi, the southwest of Shaanxi, Shaanxi province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the south and Gans ...

. ** The Chengdu-Dujiangyan High-Speed Railway begins operation in Sichuan, China. * 13 May – 2010 Yuanyang colliery outburst * 17 May – Six people are attacked with a meat cleaver before the assailant commits

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at a market in

Foshan Foshan (, ; Chinese: 佛山) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the Pearl River Delta m ...

. * 23 May – 2010 Jiangxi train derailment: A train traveling from

Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the we ...

derails in a mountainous area near

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

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, China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others. * 24 May – HK democrat and Beijing delegate meeting * 25 May – 2nd round U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue

June

* 1 June – ** 2010 Chinese labour unrest 2010 Foxconn suicides (est. date) ** Yongzhou courthouse shooting * 4 June – Dandong shooting incident * 11 June – 2010 Ma'anshan riot * 12 June – Chinese

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and archaeologists revealed what they believe to be a part of the skull of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of

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, in east China's

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. * 12 – 20 June –

2010 Shanghai International Film Festival The 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival is the 13th such festival devoted to international cinema to be held in Shanghai, China. It was held from June 12–20, 2010. 2327 movies from ''81 countries'' and regions have entered their names for ...

* 13 June – 2010 South China floods * 15 June – Heavy rain triggers landslides that leave at least 24 people dead in

Sichuan province Sichuan is a Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capita ...

's Kangding county. In one incident, part of a mountain fell on a construction site in

, crushing workers who were sleeping in

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s. * 19 June – 2010 South China floods: Flooding in South China kills at least 88 people, and forces nearly 750,000 people to leave their homes. * 19 – 25 June - 2nd Straits Forum * 21 June – At least 46 people are killed and dozens more trapped after a mine blast in

Henan Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...

, central

. * 27 June – A coal mine explosion kills 5 in

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was later separated from Gansu in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous ...

. * 28 June – **

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Us ...

wildfire **

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landslide ** Fifth Chen-Chiang summit * 29 June – Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed * 30 June –

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debate

July

* 1 July – **

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launches a global 24-hour English TV news channel. ** The Shanghai–Nanjing High-Speed Railway goes into operation. * 3 July - Zijin acid waste mining disaster * 5 July - 2010 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship * 6 July – Giant painting (浩氣長流) revealed, featuring

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

and KMT figures together * 7 July – ** Taiwan to allow solo-mainland tourists with some flag controversy **

Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport is an international airport serving Hangzhou, a major city in the Yangtze River Delta region and the capital of East China’s Zhejiang province.

shutdown due to

** Wen Qiang, the former director of the

Municipal Bureau of Justice, is executed following the

Chongqing gang trials The Chongqing gang trials (or dahei campaign) were a series of triad-busting trials in the city of Chongqing that began in October 2009 and concluded in 2011. Carried out under the auspices of municipal Communist Party chief Bo Xilai and pol ...

* 11 July – 2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest * 13 – 17 July people die and a further 44 are missing in Chinese landslides. * 14 July – Typhoon Conson * 17 July – **

China National Petroleum Corporation The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) () is a major national oil and gas corporation of China and one of the largest integrated energy groups in the world. Its headquarters are in Dongcheng District, Beijing, Dongcheng District, Beij ...

Xingang Port oil spill The Xingang Port oil spill is a spill that occurred in July 2010 caused by a rupture and subsequent explosion of two crude oil pipelines that run to an oil storage depot of the China National Petroleum Corporation in Xingang Harbour, Dalian, Lia ...

** Twenty-eight

coal mine Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

rs die after a fire in their mine near Hancheng City in

Shaanxi Province Shaanxi is a province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi ...

. * 18 July – A bus falls off a

cliff In geography and geology, a cliff or rock face is an area of Rock (geology), rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. ...

in the

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north ...

in southwestern

resulting in the death of 23 people. * 25 July – 2010 Pro-Cantonese rally * 27 July – South China floods: A

bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

collapse in

Luanchuan County Luanchuan County () is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Luoyang, in the west of Henan province, China. It has an area of and a population of 318,000. The county contains significant deposits of molybdenum and tungs ...

Province of

results in at least 37 deaths. * 28 July – 2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion – An explosion at a

plastics Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers. Their defining characteristic, plasticity, allows them to be molded, extruded, or pressed into a diverse range of solid forms. This adaptab ...

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Th ...

Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...

, kills at least 12 people and injures hundreds. * 30 July – Changsha IRD Building Bombings * 31 July – An explosion in a

Shanxi Province Shanxi; formerly romanised as Shansi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. Its one-character abbreviation is ( ...

leaves 17 people dead while 24 miners are trapped by flooding in a nearby mine.

August

* 1 August – ** Floods in northeastern

kill more than 100 people and sweep 3,000 chemical-filled barrels into the

Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea border through China's northe ...

. ** Hebei tractor rampage: A drunk man on a tractor kills 17 people and injures many others in a rampage in northern China. * 3 August - 2010 Weiyuan riot * 6 August – China suspends traffic on the

Yalu River The Yalu River () or Amnok River () is a river on the border between China and North Korea. Together with the Tumen River to its east, and a small portion of Paektu Mountain, the Yalu forms the border between China and North Korea. Its valle ...

and evacuates more than 40,000 people from

Dandong Dandong ( zh, s=丹东 , t=丹東 , p=Dāndōng; lit. "Red East"), formerly known as Andong, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southeastern Liaoning province, in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest ...

over fears of

flooding A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant concern in agriculture, civi ...

amid unprecedented levels of rainfall. * 7 August – At least 16 miners are killed during a fire at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan,

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

, in

. 23 others are still trapped inside. * 8 August –

2010 Gansu mudslide The 2010 Gansu mudslide was a deadly mudslide in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China that occurred at midnight on 8 August 2010. The floods were triggered after decades of clearcutting, clear cut logging p ...

: At least 1,471 people have died and 294 missing following landslides caused by heavy rains in China's northwestern

Gansu province Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

. * 17 August - North Korean

MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft, fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nicknames in ...

fighter jet crashed in

Fushun County, Liaoning Fushun County (), is one of the three counties under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Fushun, in the east of Liaoning province, China. It has a population of about 83,000 in 2020, covering an area of . Administrative Divisions Th ...

* 19 August – 2010 Aksu bombing: Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's

province. * 21 August – PRC North Korea border flood * 24 August – Henan Airlines Flight 8387 overruns the runway on landing at Lindu Airport,

. 42 of the 96 people on board were killed.

September

* 1 September – **

2010 China floods 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

: Eight people are killed and 40 missing in landslides that hit Wama village in

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province, near Baoshan. ** Typhoon Kompasu * 3 September –

Landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

s in the village of Wama near Baoshan in

kill at least 12 people with 36 missing. * 7 September - 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident part of Diaoyu Islands dispute * 10 September - Yihuang self-immolation incident * 19 - 6 September dolphins from Japan arrive at Beijing ocean park * 21 September - Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China * 26 September - "Designed in Hong Kong, made by Cantonese" label discussion

October

* 1 October - The

Chang'e 2 Chang'e 2 (; ) is a Chinese uncrewed lunar probe that was launched on 1 October 2010. It was a follow-up to the Chang'e 1 lunar probe, which was launched in 2007. Chang'e 2 was part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, ...

lunar probe launches from the

Xichang Satellite Launch Center The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC), also known as the Xichang Space Center, is a spaceport in China. It is located in (), Mianning county, approximately northwest of Xichang, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan. It is op ...

. * 6 October – 150th anniversary of Burning of Old Summer Palace * 7 October - Hainan flood * 8 October - The imprisoned

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

activist

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary criticism, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Ch ...

was awarded the

2010 Nobel Peace Prize The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist (1955–2017) "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". The laureate, once an eminent scholar, was reportedly little-known i ...

"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" * 9 October - Chinese basketball team withdrew from 2010 Asian university basketball championship due to ROC flag used instead of Chinese Taipei flag. * 16 October - Li Gang incident * 19 October - 2010 Tibetan language protest * 22 October -

Terracotta Army The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting him in his aft ...

archaeology team wins

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

Prince of Asturias Awards The Princess of Asturias Awards (, ), formerly the Prince of Asturias Awards from 1981 to 2014 (), are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Princess of Asturias Foundation (previously the Prince of Asturias Foundation) to individuals ...

* 28 October -

's Tianhe-1 becomes the world's fastest

supercomputer A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instruc ...

, replacing

Jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large felidae, cat species and the only extant taxon, living member of the genus ''Panthera'' that is native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the biggest cat spe ...

in this position, performing at peak computing rate of 2.507

petaflops Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate measu ...

November

* 1 November -

Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China The 2010 Chinese census, officially the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国第六次全国人口普查), was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China wi ...

* 6 November - Jiangmen star park opening * 12 November – 2010 Asian Games opening ceremony * 12 – 27 November –

2010 Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), were a regional multi-sport event held from November 12 to 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (although several events commenced ear ...

held in

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

* 15 November -

2010 Shanghai fire The 2010 Shanghai fireThe PRC State Council officially named it "上海“11·15”特别重大火灾" (Shanghai "11·15" especially serious fire) or "上海市静安区胶州路公寓大楼“11·15”特别重大火灾事故" (Shanghai Jing'a ...

* 27 November -

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

Metropolis Convenience Daily newspaper assault on journalists

December

* 5 December - ** 2010 Dawu fire ** 2010 Zhangjiagang hospital incident * 10 December - ** HK journalists attacked at activist Zhao Lianhai's apartment **

absent at 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony * 18 December - 2010 Eocheong boat collision incident

Date unknown

* Bashan 125R motorcycle begins production by the Bashan Motorcycle Manufacturing Co.Ltd in Chongqing. * Handheld Culture online bookstore is founded.

Deaths

* 2 February – **

Ng Teng Fong Ng Teng Fong (; 28 July 1928 – 2 February 2010) was a Singaporean real estate tycoon with a major presence in Hong Kong. He is the father of Robert Ng. In 1997, ''Forbes'' listed the two as the 30th richest people in the world. History Ng T ...

, 82, Chinese-born

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

an businessman, complications from a

cerebral hemorrhage Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both. An ICH is a type of bleeding within the skull and one kind of stro ...

. ** Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

prelate,

Bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

of Zhaoxian,

. * 3 February – Qian Chunqi, Chinese

doctor Doctor, Doctors, The Doctor or The Doctors may refer to: Titles and occupations * Physician, a medical practitioner * Doctor (title), an academic title for the holder of a doctoral-level degree ** Doctorate ** List of doctoral degrees awarded b ...

and

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

(born

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

) * 4 February –

Te Wei Te Wei (; 22 August 1915 in Shanghai4 February 2010 in Shanghai) was a Chinese manhua artist and animator. He is probably best known for the 1956 short animated film ''The Proud General''. From about 1960, he worked in an ink-wash animation style ...

, 95, Chinese

animator An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animat ...

respiratory failure Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide, or both cannot be kept at normal levels. A drop in the oxygen carried in the blood is known as hypoxemia; a r ...

. * 14 February –

Zhang Yalin Zhang Yalin (; 19 April 1981 – 14 February 2010) was a Chinese football midfielder. Biography Zhang Yalin started his football career in the 2000 Chinese league season for Dalian Shide F.C. and would quickly establish himself within the tea ...

, 28, Chinese

football player A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

lymphoma Lymphoma is a group of blood and lymph tumors that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). The name typically refers to just the cancerous versions rather than all such tumours. Signs and symptoms may include enlarged lymph node ...

. * 10 March – Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American

restaurateur A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspe ...

, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness. * 13 March – He Pingping, 21, Chinese

dwarf Dwarf, dwarfs or dwarves may refer to: Common uses *Dwarf (folklore), a supernatural being from Germanic folklore * Dwarf, a human or animal with dwarfism Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Dwarf (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a sh ...

, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. * 26 April –

D.C. Lau D. C. Lau (; 8 March 192126 April 2010) was a Chinese sinologist and author of the widely read translations of ''Tao Te Ching'', Mencius and '' The Analects'' and contributed to the Proper Cantonese pronunciation movement. D. C. Lau studied C ...

, 89, Chinese

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

. * 17 May – Walasse Ting, 80, Chinese-born American

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

. * 7 June – Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese

diplomat A diplomat (from ; romanization, romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one ...

. * 25 June – Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. * 5 July – Jia Hongsheng, 43, Chinese

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

jumping Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and ...

. * 15 July – Luo Pinchao, 98, Chinese

opera singer Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a lib ...

. * 29 July – Zheng Ji, 110, Chinese

nutritionist A nutritionist is a person who advises others on matters of food and Human nutrition, nutrition and their impacts on health. Some people specialize in particular areas, such as sports nutrition, public health, or animal nutrition, among other disci ...

and

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

, world's oldest professor. * 30 July – Chien Wei-zang, 96, Chinese

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

. * 18 October –

Peng Chong Peng Chong (; March 1915 – October 18, 2010 ), born Xu Tieru (), was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee (1969–87) and its politburo (1977–82); and Secretary General of the National People’s Congress between ...

, 95, Chinese politician, former

Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress The vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress are deputies to the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, respon ...

. * 28 October – Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (

Friends of Nature Friends of Nature (international abbreviation: NFI, for German: Naturfreunde International) is a non-profit organisation with a background in the social democratic movement, which aims to make the enjoyment of nature accessible to the wider commu ...

), lung infection.