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 ...

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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 ...

– Li Yuanchao *

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 ...

–

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 –

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 ...

* Consultative Conference chairman –

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 ...

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Li Jinbin (until September), Li Guoying (starting September) * Governor of Fujian Province – Yu Weiguo * 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 ...

(until April),

Lin Duo Lin Duo (; born March 1956) is a Chinese politician currently serving as the Party Secretary of Gansu. He formerly served as CCP Committee Secretary and Mayor of Harbin, and Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Liaoning Prov ...

(starting April) * 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 April),

Ma Xingrui Ma Xingrui (; born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer who is the Party Secretary of Xinjiang and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Ma is recognized as one of China's top scientists. Ma served ...

(starting April) * Governor of Guizhou Province –

Sun Zhigang Sun Zhigang (; born 30 May 1954) is a former Chinese politician who was Party Secretary of Guizhou. He was formerly mayor of Yichang, the secretary-general of the Hubei party committee under Yu Zhengsheng, the Vice Governor of Anhui province, a ...

(until September),

Shen Yiqin Shen Yiqin (; born 15 December 1959) is a Chinese politician of Bai ethnic heritage who is currently a state councilor and President of the All-China Women's Federation since 2023. She previously served as the Party Secretary of Guizhou, a pro ...

(starting September) * Governor of Hainan Province – Liu Cigui (until 7 April),

Shen Xiaoming Shen Xiaoming (; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician who is currently the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Hunan. A pediatrician by training, Shen rose through the ranks in the health and education bureaucracy of Shanghai. He ...

(starting 7 April) * 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 – Lu Hao * Governor of Henan Province –

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 ...

(until April), Chen Run'er (starting April) * Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Guosheng (until June), Wang Xiaodong (starting September) * Governor of Hunan Province – Du Jiahao (until September),

Xu Dazhe Xu Dazhe (; born September 1956) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer. He was CPC Secretary of Hunan province. Previously, he was the Governor of Hunan. Biography Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi province in 1956, he is a native of Liuyang, ...

(starting September) * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Shi Taifeng * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Lu Xinshe (until July), Liu Qi (starting July) * Governor of Jilin Province – Jiang Chaoliang (until 29 October), Liu Guozhong (starting 29 October) * Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Qiufa * Governor of Qinghai Province – Hao Peng (until December), Wang Jianjun (starting December) * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Lou Qinjian (until April), Hu Heping (starting April) * Governor of Shandong Province – Guo Shuqing * Governor of Shanxi Province – Li Xiaopeng (until August), Lou Yangsheng (starting August) * Governor of Sichuan Province – Wei Hong (until January), Yin Li (starting January) * Governor of Yunnan Province – Chen Hao (until December) * 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 ...

(until June), Che Jun (starting June)

Events

January

*January 1 **People's Bank of China Shandong Branch announced will using coin replacing bill in 1 yuan value as testing field in 5 cities including Qingdao, Zaozhuang, Jining, Linyi and Rizhao. **China officially transitions from its

one-child policy The one-child policy ( zh, c=一孩政策, p=yī hái zhèngcè) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. The progr ...

to a

two-child policy A two-child policy is a government-imposed limit of two children allowed per family or the payment of government subsidies only to the first two children. A two-child policy has previously been used in several countries including Iran, Singapore ...

. *January 2–9 2016 Shenzhen Open *January 4 Chinese regulators introduce a

circuit breaker A circuit breaker is an electrical safety device designed to protect an Electrical network, electrical circuit from damage caused by current in excess of that which the equipment can safely carry (overcurrent). Its basic function is to interr ...

in an attempt to prevent stock market crashes, halting trade. *January 5 members of Causeway bay books of Hong Kong, including the manager go missing. China's television states that he used to have a name Gui Minhai in committing a hit-and-run crime in 2003. He and his staff went missing mysteriously starts on December 30, 2015, and it's later confirmed that they are all in mainland China. *January 16 The Council of

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank and international financial institution that aims to collectively improve economic and social outcomes in Asia. It is the world's second largest multi-lateral d ...

established. President

and Premier

master the founding ceremony. *January 17 The

Beijing Military Region The Beijing Military Region was one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. From the mid-1980s to 2017, it had administration of all military affairs within Beijing city, Tianjin city, Hebei province, Shanxi province, ...

reform as Central Battle Region. *January 20–25 A century cold wave hits nearly all parts of China, it is first happened in Siberia, and then goes down to hit China. By January 24, it hits the Southern part of China,

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 ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

has its first snow in the new century and the ninth of its recorded history. It is described as the Emperor Level Blizzard. *January 29 After being trapped for 36 days, four miners are rescued from a collapsed mine in Baotai,

Shandong Province Shandong is a coastal 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 and religious center ...

February

*February 1President Xi Jinping announced that the seven military regions transformed into five battle regions. The five battle regions are Central Battle Region, East Battle Region, West Battle Region, South Battle Region and North Battle Region. *February 6A 6.4 Magnitude earthquake occurs in

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsiung City has a population of approximately 2.73 million p ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. *February 23–25China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is invited to visit

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

. Wang Yi and American

General Secretary Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, Power (social and political), power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the org ...

John Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the Presidency of Barack Obama#Administration, administration of Barac ...

claim that neither China nor US accepts

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 ...

's nuclear missile proposal. They do not recognize North Korea's Nuclear Status for the cause of

Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperatio ...

March

*MarchNational People's Representative Conference and National Political Association Conference (The two-conferences for short) open. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang holds the two-conferences. *March 27The National Party of Hong Kong is established. It advocates the independence of Hong Kong and does not recognize the

Basic Law of Hong Kong The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is a national law of China that serves as the organic law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). With nine chapters, 160 article ...

. *March 28–April 3 2016 China Open (snooker) *March 30China deploys anti-ship missiles on Paracel Islands. Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Hong Lei responded that it's a right thing to do for deploying national defenses equipments on its own territory.

April

*April ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 *April 13 **A building in an industrial zone of Machong County, Dongguan collapse. 18 deaths are reported. **8 Taiwanese criminals out of 10 are sent back to mainland China by Kenya. Taiwanese government protests China's working method. However, the media in Taiwan agree and said the criminals should be seriously punished since the legals in Taiwan are too good for these criminals. *April 17 Chinese Central Television broadcasts a report on Changzhou Foreign Languages School stating hundreds of students have fallen ill from pollution. *April 27 – May 1

2016 Extreme Sailing Series The 2016 Extreme Sailing Series was the tenth edition of the sailing series and the sixth year of it being a fully global event. 2016 saw the series move away from the Extreme 40 catamaran, and into the GC32 Sailing hydrofoil, foiling catamaran. ...

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 ...

May

*May 2The

Cyberspace Administration of China The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC; ) is the national internet regulator and censor of the People's Republic of China. The agency was initially established in 2011 by the State Council as the State Internet Information Office (SIIO) ...

announces an investigation into the death of Wei Zexi, a student who died following experimental treatment for synovial sarcoma he discovered on the search engine

Baidu Baidu, Inc. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of o ...

. *May 3

meets with Laotian president Bounnhang Vorachith. *May 7 Lei Yang, a Chinese environmentalist, dies after an altercation with police in

Changping District Changping District (), formerly Changping County (), is a district situated in the suburbs of north and northwest Beijing. Changping has a population of 2,269,487 as of November 2020, making it the most populous suburban district of Beijing. Hist ...

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 ...

. *May 15–22 2016 Thomas & Uber Cup in

Kunshan Kunshan is a county-level city in southeastern Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu province with Shanghai bordering its eastern border and Suzhou on its western boundary. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Suzhou. Name Th ...

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 ...

June

*June 4 A tour boat in

Guangyuan Guangyuan ( zh, s= , t=廣元 , p=Guǎngyuán , w=Kuang-yüan) is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province, China, bordering the provinces of Shaanxi to the northeast and Gansu to the northwest. Guangyuan City is located on the northern edge ...

capsizes, killing a child and leaving 14 missing out of 18 passengers. *June 12 A man commits a suicide bombing at the international departure of Shanghai Pudong Airport causes 4 injuries, 1 deadly hurt. *June 16 The

Shanghai Disney Resort Shanghai Disney Resort ( zh, 上海迪士尼度假区) is a themed resort in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The resort opened to the public on June 16, 2016. It is the first Disneyland in mainland China. It is also the sixth Disney resort worldwide, aft ...

opens.

July

*July 1 A Taiwan military ship fires a missile mistakenly. The day is the CPC founding celebration day while CPC founded on July 23, 1921, but for easy remembering, the founding day is set to be July 1. *July 6

Hubei province Hubei is a province in Central China. It has the seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland provinces. Its provincial capital at Wuhan serves as a major politi ...

floods. *July 23 A woman is killed after attempting to defend her daughter from a tiger at Badaling Wildlife World Park in

. The daughter sustains serious injuries. *July 24 The first case of

rift valley fever Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease of humans and livestock that can cause mild to severe symptoms. The mild symptoms may include: fever, muscle pains, and headaches which often last for up to a week. The severe symptoms may include: loss ...

in China is identified. *July 31 Cangwu County,

Wuzhou Wuzhou ( zh, s= , p=Wúzhōu, j=Ng⁴zau¹, postal: Wuchow; ), formerly Ngchow, is a prefecture-level city in the east of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Geography and climate Wuzhou is located in eastern Guangxi ...

Guangxi Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...

earthquakes by 5:18 pm at level 5.4. The center is near Guangzhou 204 kilometers. People in Guangzhou and Shenzhen can sense the quake.

August

*AugustChina is going to launch the world's first

quantum In physics, a quantum (: quanta) is the minimum amount of any physical entity (physical property) involved in an interaction. The fundamental notion that a property can be "quantized" is referred to as "the hypothesis of quantization". This me ...

satellite. * August 16 - China successfully launched the world's first quantum satellite QUESS" from the

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC; also known as Shuangchengzi Missile Test Center; Launch Complex B2; formally Northwest Comprehensive Missile Testing Facility (); Base 20; 63600 Unit) is a Chinese space vehicle launch facility ( spacep ...

in northwestern

Gobi Desert The Gobi Desert (, , ; ) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in North China and southern Mongolia. It is the sixth-largest desert in the world. The name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word ''gobi'', used to refer to all of th ...

at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday (Aug. 16 ).

September

*September 4–5 2016 G-20 Hangzhou summit *September 27An explosion at a coal mine in Shizuishan kills 18 workers, leaving two missing. *September 28 Typhoon Megi makes landfall in mainland China. Major landslides caused by Megi occur in Sucun Village (in

Lishui Lishui (; Lishuinese: ''li⁶ syu³'' ) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to ...

), and

Wencheng County Wencheng () is one of the five counties in the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou, in southern Zhejiang province, with a population of 250,000 . The county is located in the southwest of Wenzhou city proper, and borders Ruian city, Taishun Coun ...

October

*October 17 China launches Shenzhou 11 from

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

. *October 25 Illegally stored explosives cause an

explosion An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Explosions may also be generated ...

in a house in northwestern China that kills at least 14 people and injures 147 others in the town of Xinmin 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 ...

. *October 27–30 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions in

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 ...

November

*November 2–3 Cross-Strait Peaceful Development Forum in Beijing. *November 3 China launches

Long March 5 Long March 5 (LM-5; zh, s=长征五号 , p=Chángzhēng wǔ hào) or Changzheng 5 (CZ-5), also known by its nickname "''Pang-Wu''" (胖五, "''Fat-Five''"), is a Chinese heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicl ...

from China Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site,

Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...

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