Events in the year 2011 in

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 ...

Incumbents

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 (until December), Li Bin (starting December) * 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. ...

(until April), Su Shulin (starting April) * Governor of Gansu Province –

Liu Weiping Liu Weiping (; born May 1953) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as Governor of Gansu from 2010 to 2016, and prior to that, Vice-Governor of Qinghai Province and mayor of N ...

* Governor of Guangdong Province –

Zhu Xiaodan Zhu Xiaodan (; born January 1953) is a Chinese politician who served as Governor of Guangdong from 2011 to 2016. A lifelong Communist functionary, Zhu was appointed Vice Governor of Guangdong in February 2010 and became acting Governor in Novembe ...

(until 5 November),

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, ...

(starting 5 November) * Governor of Guizhou Province – Zhao Kezhi (until December),

Chen Min'er Chen Min'er (; born 29 September 1960) is a Chinese politician and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party who is serving as the Party Secretary of Tianjin. Chen spent most of his career in his native Zhejiang province, servin ...

(starting December) * 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 ...

(until August),

Jiang Dingzhi Jiang Dingzhi (; born September 1954) is a Chinese politician and current Chairman of the Jiangsu People's Political Consultative Conference (''zhengxie''). He holds a master's degree in Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Techno ...

(starting August) * 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 ...

(until 27 August) * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Wang Xiankui * 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 – Wang Guosheng * Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Shousheng * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Li Xueyong * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Wu Xinxiong (until June), Lu Xinshe (starting June) * Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Rulin (until December), Bayanqolu (starting December) * Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Zhenggao * Governor of Qinghai Province –

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 ...

* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Zhao Zhengyong * Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Daming * Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Jun (until December), Li Xiaopeng (starting December) * Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Jufeng * Governor of Yunnan Province – Qin Guangrong (until August), Li Jiheng (starting August) * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Lü Zushan (until August),

Xia Baolong Xia Baolong (; born 2 December 1952) is a Chinese politician. Originally from Tianjin, Xia began his political career in the Communist Youth League. He served as the vice mayor of Tianjin, governor and Party Secretary of Zhejiang province. Betw ...

(starting August)

Events

January

* January 6 –

Jiaxing Jiaxing (), alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China. Lying on the Grand Canal of China, Jiaxing borders Hangzhou to the southwest, Huzhou to the west, Shanghai to the northeast, and the p ...

Xiuzhou District case of

fish kill The term fish kill, known also as fish die-off, refers to a localized mass mortality event, mass die-off of fish populations which may also be associated with more generalized mortality of aquatic life.University of Florida. Gainesville, FL (200 ...

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successfully tests the Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle, one of its fifth generation stealth,

twin-engine A twinjet or twin-engine jet is a jet aircraft powered by two engines. A twinjet is able to fly well enough to land with a single working engine, making it safer than a single-engine aircraft in the event of failure of an engine. Fuel efficien ...

fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft (early on also ''pursuit aircraft'') are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air supremacy, air superiority of the battlespace. Domina ...

programs. * January 23 – CCTV Chengdu J-10 footage controversy

February

* February 1 – The

Chinese government The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a Unitary state, unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's ...

begins efforts to combat an ongoing drought. * February 20 –

2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also known as the Greater Chinese Democratic Jasmine Revolution, refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after the Jasmine Revolut ...

* February 28 – 2011 crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China (est.)

March

* March 2 – 2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident * March 10 –

2011 Yunnan earthquake The 2011 Yunnan earthquake was a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that occurred on 10 March 2011 at 12:58 China Standard Time, CST, with its epicenter in Yingjiang County, Yunnan, People's Republic of China, near the Burma, Burmese border. A total of 26 p ...

: At least 24 people are killed and 207 injured following a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in

Yingjiang County Yingjiang County ( zh, t=盈江縣, s=盈江县, p=Yíngjiāng Xiàn; ; Jingpho: ; ) is a county in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Tengchong to the east, Lianghe County to the southeast, Longchuan County to the south and ...

of the

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 ...

near the

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

border. * March 16 – Phuntsog self-immolation incident * March 29 – 2011 Yunnan protest

April

* April 5 – The Ministry of Health dismissed media coverages about Yinzibing (HIV-negative AIDS). * April 13 – 2011 Shanghai riot * April 14 – 2011 BRICS summit * April 20 – 2011 Shanghai Truckers Strike * April 22 – Wang Jia-zheng (汪家正) self-immolation incident * April 28 – Xi'an China International Horticultural Exposition 2011

May

* May 10 – 2011 Xilinhot incident * May 13 – Yang Xianwen (杨显文) Tianzhu bank bombing case * May 20 – 2011 Chengdu Foxconn explosion incident * May 26 – 2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi bombings * May – '' My Heart Sings Loud'' television variety show is launched by Dragon TV.

June

* June 1 – Painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains reunify the two halves of the painting held by Republic of China and the People's Republic of China * June 6 – 2011 Chaozhou riot * June 7 – Wang Meng assault incident * June 10 – **

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 ...

bombing ** 2011 Zengcheng riot * June 11 – 2011 China floods (est.) * June 11 – 17 – 3rd Straits Forum * June 16 – Mutiny on ''Lurongyu 2682'', a fishing trawler in the South Pacific. After a month-long killings from this day, 11 of the 33 crew returned to China. * June 26 – National Red Games, celebration of 90th anniversary of founding of Communist party

July

* July 1 – Jiang Zemin disappearance and death rumor * July 5 – Disclosure of

China National Offshore Oil Corporation China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC Group (), is the third-largest national oil companies, national oil company in China, after CNPC (parent of PetroChina) and China Petrochemical Corporation (parent of Sinopec). The CNOOC Group ...

2011 Bohai bay oil spill * July 11 – 2011 Huizhou refinery explosion incident * July 18 –

2011 Hotan attack Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number) * One of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'' ...

* July 23 – 2011 Wenzhou train collision * July 24 – Canada extradites Lai Changxing to China * July 30–31 – 2011 Kashgar attacks

August

* August 1 –

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

rejects China-UN backed Lumbini project * August 4 – 2011 Nanchang mass suicide protest * August 11 – 2011 Qianxi riot * August 14 – Dalian PX protest * August 12 –

2011 Summer Universiade The 2011 Summer Universiade ( zh, c=2011年夏季世界大学生运动会, labels=no), also known as the XXVI Summer Universiade ( zh, c=, s=第二十六届夏季世界大学生运动会, labels=no) and Shenzhen 2011, was hosted in Shenzhen, Gua ...

* August 26 – 2011 Jiangmen dog ban * August 30 - Yunnan

Nanpan River The Nanpan River () has its source in the Yungui Plateau of eastern Yunnan Province. It then flows east, forming part of the border between Guizhou and Guangxi Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous ...

chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

toxic spill (est.)

September

* September 1 – First China-Eurasia Expo * September 16 – Line 2, The first line of the Xian Subway was completed. * September 23 – 2011 Lufeng city riot * September 26 – Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok self-immolation incident * September 27 – Shandong Foxconn fire incident * September 29 – Launch of Tiangong 1

October

* October 5 – 13 Chinese crew members of two ships are murdered in the Mekong River massacre * October 10 – 100th Anniversary of Xinhai Revolution * October 13 –

Death of Wang Yue Wang Yue (), also known as "Little Yue Yue" (), was a two-year-old Chinese girl who was run over by a van driver on the afternoon of 13 October 2011, in a narrow road in Foshan, Guangdong. As she lay bleeding and unconscious on the road for mo ...

and public outcry in the aftermath * October 19 – Seventh Chen-Chiang summit * October 21 – 2011 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident * October 26 – 2011 Zhili riot * October 31 – Announcement of

Sunway BlueLight The Sunway BlueLight () is a Chinese massively parallel supercomputer. It is the first publicly announced PFLOPS supercomputer using Sunway processors solely developed by the People's Republic of China.JOHN MARKOFF, The New York Times.China Has H ...

, first supercomputer to use domestic processors

November

* November 1 – Launch of Shenzhou 8 * November 12 – 2011 Zhongshan riot * November 14 –

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

gas explosion * November 16 – 2011 Gansu school bus crash * November 20 –

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

n guards cross to Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County after death of

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong Il (born Yuri Kim; 16 February 1941 or 1942 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his death in 2011, when he was ...

* November 27 – Billionaire real estate tycoon Huang Nubo is rejected to purchase parts of

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

December

* December 12 – 2011 Incheon fishing incident * December 21 -

Protests of Wukan A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate ...

end * December 28 - 2011 Pishan hostage crisis

Deaths

* January 14 – Liu Huaqing, 94, Chinese naval commander (1982–1988). * February 13 – Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist. * February 17 – Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of

Guiyang Guiyang; Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively as Kweiyang is the capital of Guizhou, Guizhou province in China. It is centrally located within the province, on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, eastern part of the Yun ...

. * February 19 – Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese

Yue opera Yue opera (), also known as Shaoxing opera, is a popular Chinese opera genre, with only Peking opera considered to be more popular nationwide. Originating in Shengzhou, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1906, Yue opera features actresses in male r ...

actress. * August 7 – Li Xing (黎星), 54, Chinese-English journalist

Full date unknown

* Liang Tianzhu, Chinese painter (born 1916)Liang Tianzhu Album of Painting, Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press, 1989

References

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