The following lists events that happened during 2020 in China.

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 –

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– Wang Qishan *

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– Li Keqiang * Congress chairman – Li Zhanshu * Consultative Conference chairman – Wang Yang * Supervision Commission director – Yang Xiaodu

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying * Governor of Fujian Province – Tang Dengjie (until 2 July), Wang Ning (starting 2 July) * Governor of Gansu Province – Tang Renjian * Governor of Guangdong Province –

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 ...

* Governor of Guizhou Province –

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 ...

(until 24 November),

(starting November) * Governor of Hainan Province –

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 ...

(until 2 December), Feng Fei (starting December 2) * Governor of Hebei Province –

Xu Qin Xu Qin (; born October 1961) is a Chinese politician, and the current Party Secretary of Heilongjiang. Previously he had served as governor of Hebei, and before that, mayor, then Party Secretary of Shenzhen, China's most prominent special ec ...

* Governor of Heilongjiang Province: – Wang Wentao (until December), vacant thereafter (starting December) * Governor of Henan Province – Yin Hong * Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Xiaodong * Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Dazhe (until November), Mao Weiming (starting November) * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Wu Zhenglong * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Yi Lianhong * Governor of Jilin Province – Jing Junhai (until 25 November), Han Jun (starting November) * Governor of Liaoning Province – Tang Yijun (until April), Liu Ning (starting April) * Governor of Qinghai Province – Liu Ning * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Liu Guozhong (until August), Zhao Yide (from August) * Governor of Shandong Province –

Gong Zheng Gong Zheng (; born 4 March 1960) is a Chinese politician currently serving as deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai Committee and mayor of Shanghai. Previously, Gong was governor of Shandong, the CCP Secretary of Hangzho ...

(until April 17), vacant thereafter (starting April 17) * Governor of Shanxi Province – Lin Wu * Governor of Sichuan Province – Yin Li (until 2 December), Huang Qiang (politician) (starting 2 December) * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Yuan Jiajun (until 4 September),

Zheng Shanjie Zheng Shanjie (; born November 1961) is a Chinese politician who has served as the Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) since March 2023, and as Governor as well as deputy party secretary of Zhejiang and party secret ...

(starting September)

Events

January

*January 20 – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to prevent and control

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. *January 26 – Leading group on the prevention and control of

was established, led by Li Keqiang. The leading group has decided to extend Spring Festival holiday to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. *January 27 – Li Keqiang visited

Wuhan Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...

, center of what became the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, to direct the epidemic prevention work. *January 28 – The opening of Dabie Mountain Regional Medical Centre in Huangzhou District,

Huanggang Huanggang is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei, Hubei Province, China. It is situated to the north of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and is bounded in the north by the Dabie Mountains and is named after Mount Huanggang, Huang ...

, Hubei. *January 30 – At the

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's second meeting of the Emergency Committee declared the Wuhan outbreak of novel coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

February

*February 3 – Huoshenshan Hospital accepted patients after a speedy construction build period. *February 6 – Leishenshan Hospital passed evaluations and will begin accepting patients soon. *February 10 – An advance

team of medical experts has arrived in China, led by Dr. Bruce Aylward, who coordinated the WHO's

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Response in 2016. *February 28 – Three time Chinese Olympic swimming champion, Sun Yang, has been given an 8-year ban for missing a doping test in September 2018 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

March

Water salute for Air China 042 from Wuhan with medical team

*March 7 – Collapse of Xinjia Express Hotel *March 10 –

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 ...

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 ...

visits

, the origin of the

, after an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people. *March 24 – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reported that spread of the domestically transmitted epidemic has been basically blocked and the

has been controlled in China. *March 28 – A tailings dam fails at the Yichun Luming mine.

April

* April 4 – Coinciding with the Qingming Festival, a national day of mourning was declared followed by a three-minute silence to honor 3,300+ people who died of

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May

* May 9 – Several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing. Around one hundred and fifty troops clashed in a "standoff" that included fistfights and stone-throwing.

June

* June 26 – Nearly 50 independent United Nations Human Rights experts highlighted their concern on the situation in China. They voiced concern for many actions including but not limited to allegations of forced labor; arbitrary interferences with the right to privacy; restrictive cybersecurity, anti-terrorism, and sedition laws; the retaliation against journalists, medical workers and others speaking out about COVID-19; the repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet; and the repression of protests and democracy advocacy in the

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a Special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the List of ...

(SAR). They urged China to "withdraw the draft national security law for Hong Kong".

July

* July 7 – Anshun bus crash

September

* September 22 – During the 2020

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, President Xi Jinping announces that China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060.

Popular culture

Film

List of Chinese films of 2020 The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2020 in film, 2020. A number of films scheduled for release early in the year were delayed or released online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highest-grossing films The highes ...

Deaths

* February 7 – Li Wenliang * March 17 – Meng Sufen * September 7 – Gao Wenbin

References

Links

* {{Year in Asia, 2020 2020s in China Years of the 21st century in China

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