2018 in China
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The following lists events that happened during 2018 in China.
Incumbents[]
Paramount leader[]
- General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping
Head of state[]
- President – Xi Jinping
- Vice President – Li Yuanchao →
Head of government[]
- Premier – Li Keqiang
- Vice Premiers – Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang, Ma Kai →
National legislature[]
- Congress chairman – Zhang Dejiang →
Political advisory[]
- Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng →
Supervision commission[]
Events[]
January[]
- January 2 – Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places have been affected by heavy snow or blizzard, which has damaged housing, agriculture and power infrastructure in some areas, and traffic has been blocked.
- January 5 – As of 11:00, Blizzard snow caused 10 deaths in 5 provinces in Central China and East China, more than 567,000 people were affected.
February[]
- February 15 – The CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which airs to millions around the country, sparks widespread criticism and faces accusations of racism after featuring a comedy sketch that featured an Asian actress in blackface and with exaggerated buttocks.[1]
March[]
- March 5 – 13th National People's Congress was opened.
- March 11 – National People's Congress approves a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, granting General Secretary Xi Jinping the status of "President for life".[2]
- March 28 – North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un met with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Kim's first reported trip outside the country since taking power.[3]
- March – scheduled date for the first plenary session to be held by the 13th National People's Congress
May[]
- May 2 – Censorship in China: Chinese authorities have blocked the popular British children's cartoon, Peppa Pig on its Douyin (Tik Tok) social media service for "subversive" content. The service had over 30,000 viral videos of Peppa Pig on its platform.[4]
- May 8 – former Chinese Communist Party official Sun Zhengcai sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption.[5]
June[]
- June – planned launch of the lunar exploration mission Chang'e 4.[citation needed]
August[]
- August 18 to 19 - Tropical Storm Rumbia caused heavy rain in several province, causing 53 fatalities, including 2 policeman who were washed away by the flood.
September[]
- September 15 — the annual routine originally scheduled for Guangzhou was cancelled.[6]
- September 16 — Typhoon Mangkhut gradually approached Guangdong. Urban public transportation in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is also affected, in which part of the Guangzhou Metro is out of service; in Shenzhen, buses, subways, and taxis are all out of service, and pure electric taxi charging stations are also closed.[7][8]
- September 30 — Lanzhou (170) destroyer successfully expelled a US Navy warship "Decatur" destroyer that broke into China's sovereign waters in the South China Sea. The US Navy's "Decatur" destroyer passed through the waters adjacent to the Nanxun Reef, and the Lanzhou (170) destroyer intercepted it. US Pacific Fleet spokesman Charles Brown said in a statement that the Sino-US warships were less than 45 yards away.[citation needed]
October[]
- October 3 – The PRC authorities ordered Fan Bingbing and the companies she controls to pay around 883 million yuan (around USD 129 million) in taxes, fines, and penalties. She also broke silence on her Weibo account by apologizing for what she had done.
November[]
- November 13 — “Great Change – A Large-Scale Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up” was grandly opened at the National Museum of the People’s Republic of China. On the afternoon of the same day, Xi Jinping came here to visit the exhibition, reviewing the glorious course of the 40 years of reform and opening up, and proclaiming the firm determination to carry out reform and opening up.
Popular culture[]
Film[]
Deaths[]
Su Bai
Li Boguang
Li Yaowen
Wang Danfeng
January[]
- 2 January – Ye Zhemin, 93, art historian.[9]
- 9 January
- 16 January – Liu Zhonghua, 101, major general.
- 17 January – He Yousheng, 86, hydrodynamicist.[10]
- 18 January – Ding Guangquan, 73, comedian.
February[]
- 1 February – Su Bai, 95, archaeologist.[11]
- 11 February – Sun Shu, 84, geologist.[10]
- 12 February – Luo Haocai, 83, politician and legal scholar.
- 19 February – Zhang Junsheng, 81, optical engineer, politician, and academic administrator.
- 24 February – Yang Rudai, 91, politician.
- 25 February – Dai Fudong, 89, architect.[10]
- 26 February – Li Boguang, 49, legal scholar and human rights activist.
- 28 February – Chen Xiaolu, 71, businessman and princeling.
March[]
- 3 March
- 7 March – Hao Bailin, 83, physicist.[10]
- 15 March
- Huang Wenpan, 22, swimmer.
- Ling Yun, 100, politician.
- 18 March – Li Ao, 82, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and politician [12]
April[]
- 4 April – Li Zhengyou, 82, agronomist and politician, Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province.[13]
- 7 April
- 10 April
- 11 April – Li Tian, 79, aerodynamicist and aircraft designer.[10]
- 12 April – Hu Chengzhi, 100, palaeontologist and palaeoanthropologist.[16]
- 16 April – Lü Chuanzan, 85, politician, Chairman of Hebei Provincial People's Congress (1993–1998).[17]
- 20 April – Nie Bichu, 90, politician.
May[]
- 2 May – Wang Danfeng, 93, actress
- 10 May – Wu Dechang, 90, toxicologist.[10]
- 18 May – Sun Fuling, 96, business executive and politician
- 19 May – Zhengzhang Shangfang, 84, linguist
- 22 May – Lu Chunling, 96, flautist
- 28 May – Lin Zunqi, 75, physicist and specialist in solid-state laser[10]
- 30 May – Li Zaiping, 92, molecular biologist[10]
June[]
- 8 June – Liu Jianfu, 100, politician
- 9 June – Zhang Junzhao, 65, film director and screenwriter (One and Eight, The Shining Arc).[18]
- 17 June – Zhao Nanqi, 91, general and politician
- 20 June – Hu Wei, 97, general
- 21 June – Yan Jizhou, 100, film director
- 22 June – Ai Weiren, 86, Chinese soldier
July[]
- 2 July – Liu Boli, 87, nuclear chemist.[10]
- 3 July – Wang Jian, 56, businessman
- 8 July – Liu Tonghua, 88, pathologist.[10]
- 11 July
- Wu Bing'an, 89, ethnologist
- Ji Chunhua, actor (b. 1961)
- Liu Zhenhua, general (b. 1921)
- 18 July – Ling Li, writer and historian (b. 1942).[19]
- 26 July – Sha Yexin, 79, playwright
- 27 July – Song Yuquan, 85, materials scientist.[10]
- 29 July – Lin Xiangdi, 84, optoelectronic engineer, President of the Southwest University of Science and Technology.[10]
- 30 July – Zhou Yaohe, 91, materials scientist.[10]
- 31 July – Su Hongxi, 103, surgeon.
August[]
- 1 August – Cui Xiuwen, artist.
- 3 August – Zhang Baosheng, 57-58, qigong master.
- 7 August – Liu Guangding, 88, geologist.[10]
- 11 August – Li Chaoyi, 84, neurobiologist.[10]
- 12 August – Ma Jin, 83, geologist.[10]
- 19 August – Hong Chaosheng, 97, physicist.[10]
September[]
- 1 September – Chen Xian, 98, politician.
- 7 September
- Chang Baohua, xiangsheng actor (b. 1930).
- Yang Side, general (b. 1921)
- Sheng Zhongguo, 77, violinist
- 8 September – Yang Zhenya, 90, diplomat
- 11 September – Shan Tianfang, pingshu actor (b. 1934).
- 13 September – Lin Hujia, politician (b. 1916).
- 15 September – Zhu Xu, 88, actor
- 16 September
- Min Naiben, 83, physicist and materials scientist.[10]
- Wang Guofa, 72, politician
- 19 September – Buren Bayaer, 58, singer and journalist.
- 20 September – Wang Mengshu, 79, tunnel and railway engineer[10]
- 21 September – Xu Delong, 66, materials scientist, President of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.[10]
- 23 September – Liu Jie, 103, politician
- 28 September
- Zang Tianshuo, 54, musician
- Shi Shengjie, 65, xiangsheng comedian
October[]
- 3 October – Fang Nanjiang, 75, novelist and general
- 5 October – Lin Xiao, politician (b. 1920).
- 9 October – Lü Junchang, 53, palaeontologist
- 16 October – Ismail Amat, 83, politician
- 18 October – Li Lianda, 84, pharmacologist[10]
- 20 October – Zheng Xiaosong, 59, politician and diplomat
- 25 October
- Chen Tiemei, 83, archaeologist[20]
- Li Yong, 50, television host
- 27 October – Yang Ziyuan, 90, politician
- 29 October
- Wang Guangying, 99, entrepreneur and politician
- Li Xifan, 90, literary scholar and redologist.
- 30 October – Jin Yong, 94, a Chinese wuxia novelist and newspaper founder.
- 31 October
November[]
- 4 November – Wang Huanyu, 63, astrophysicist.
- 6 November – Deng Qidong, 80, geologist.[10]
- 7 November – Xie Shileng, 83, port and coastal engineer.[10]
- 10 November – Liu Xuyi, 105, historian.[21]
- 12 November – Wang Junmin, 63, politician
- 15 November
- Ba Zhongtan, 88, lieutenant general
- Zhang Ting, 96, politician
- 17 November – Cheng Kaijia, 100, nuclear physicist and engineer.[10]
- 19 November – Wu Jianchang, 79, engineer and politician
- 24 November – Shi Jiaonai, 97, plant physiologist[10]
- 30 November – Chang Guitian, 76, xiangsheng actor
December[]
- 1 December – Zhang Ouying, 43, football player and coach
- 8 December – Wang Ruilin, 88, general and politician
- 9 December – Peng Sixun, 99, medicinal chemist[10]
- 13 December
- Gao Jindian, 79, army officer
- Yuan Mu, 90, politician
- 15 December – Eryue He, 73, writer
- 19 December – Tömür Dawamat, 91, politician
References[]
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- ^ "China's Xi allowed to remain 'president for life' as term limits removed". BBC News. 11 March 2018.
- ^ "North Korea's Kim Jong Un visited China for secret summit". NBC News. NBC News. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ Peppa Pig got big in China. Then she got censored, CNBC
- ^ "Former party boss in China's Chongqing city jailed for life for graft". Reuters. 8 May 2018 – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ "关于取消2018年9月15日防空警报试鸣的紧急通知". 广州市民防办公室. 2018-09-15. Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
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- ^ "深圳全市出租车已全部停运". 人民网-深圳频道. 2018-09-16.
- ^ 汝窑窑址发现认定第一人叶喆民逝世 享年94岁 (in Chinese)
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- ^ "Taiwanese author Li Ao dies after battling with brain tumour". The Straits Times. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ 李铮友同志逝世 (in Chinese)
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- ^ Obituary Archived 2018-04-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
- ^ 河北省政协原主席吕传赞逝世，享年86岁 (in Chinese)
- ^ 中国电影第五代奠基人、导演张军钊去世，张艺谋微博悼念 (in Chinese)
- ^ 历史小说家凌力逝世 曾以《少年天子》获茅盾奖 (in Chinese)
- ^ 北京大学考古文博学院教授、著名科技考古学家陈铁梅逝世 (in Chinese)
- ^ 刘绪贻逝世 (in Chinese)
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