Events in the year 2013 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

General Secretary of the Communist Party The title of General Secretary or First Secretary is commonly used for the leaders of most communist parties. When a communist party is the ruling party of a socialist state—often labeled as communist states by external observers—the general s ...

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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 ...

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

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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Vice President A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vi ...

(until March 14) ** Li Yuanchao (from March 14) *

Premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of govern ...

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 ...

(until March 15) **

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 ...

(from March 15) * 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 ...

(until March 14) **

Zhang Dejiang Zhang Dejiang (; born 4 November 1946) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress between 2013 and 2018. He was also the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standin ...

(from March 14) * Consultative Conference chairman ** Jia Qinglin (until March 11) **

Yu Zhengsheng Yu Zhengsheng (; ; born 5 April 1945) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from March 2013 to 2018. Between 2012 and 2017, Yu was the fourth-ranking member ...

(from March 11)

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Li Bin (until March), Wang Xuejun (starting March) * Governor of Fujian Province – Su Shulin * 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 * Governor of Guizhou Province – Chen Min'er * Governor of Hainan Province – Jiang Dingzhi * Governor of Hebei Province –

Zhang Qingwei Zhang Qingwei (; born 7 November 1961) is a Chinese politician, business executive, and aerospace engineer, who is a vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He was formerly the Party Secretary of Hunan, the ...

* Governor of Heilongjiang Province: – Wang Xiankui (until March), Lu Hao (starting March) * 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 ...

(until March),

Xie Fuzhan Xie Fuzhan (; born 9 August 1954) is a Chinese economist and politician who served as the President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Communist Party Secretary and governor of Henan. Before that, he was the Director of China's ...

(starting March) * Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Guosheng * Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Shousheng (until 5 April), Du Jiahao (starting 5 April) * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Li Xueyong * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Lu Xinshe * Governor of Jilin Province – Bayanqolu * 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 ...

(until March), Hao Peng (starting March) * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Lou Qinjian * Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Daming (until March), Guo Shuqing (starting March) * Governor of Shanxi Province – Li Xiaopeng * Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Jufeng (until January), Wei Hong (starting January) * Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiheng * Governor of Zhejiang Province –

Li Qiang Li Qiang (; born July 1959) is a Chinese politician who has been serving as the eighth and current premier of China since March 2023. He has been elevated to the second-ranking member on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist ...

Events

January

*January 3 -

2013 Southern Weekly incident The 2013 ''Southern Weekly'' incident was a conflict which arose over government censorship of a "New Year's Greeting" published in the Chinese newspaper ''Southern Weekly''. Guangdong, Guangdong Province's Publicity Department of the Chinese C ...

April

*April 15 - 2013 Daulat Beg Oldi Incident *April 20 - 2013 Lushan earthquake *April 24 - April 2013 Bachu unrest

May

*May 24 - Ding Jinhao engraving scandal

June

*June 7 - Xiamen bus fire *June 16–21 - 5th Straits Forum *June 22 - 2013 Shanghai shooting *June 26 - June 2013 Shanshan riots

July

*Early July - 2013 Southwest China floods *July 19 – The court case for the Mutiny on ''Lurongyu 2682'' was decided. The 11 sailors returned were convicted with murder, leading to the deaths of 22 in the South Pacific. *July 20 - 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing

October

*October 21 - 2013 Harbin smog starts to spread.

Deaths

*January 28 - Xu Liangying, physicist, translator, historian and philosopher (b.

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...

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Chen Xitong Chen Xitong (; June 10, 1930 – June 2, 2013) was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995. Early life Chen was born on June 10, 1930 ...

, politician, former member of the Political Bureau (b.

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on J ...

) *June 4 - Luo Meizhen, supercentenarian (b. 1885)

References

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