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Events in the year 2009 in China.

Incumbents

Events

January
  • January 1 – Tongyong pinyin will no longer be official in the Republic of China, due to the ROC's Ministry of Education's approval of Hanyu pinyin in 2008.[1][2]
  • January 2 – The border demarcation with markers was officially completed between China and Vietnam, signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Dung on the Vietnamese side and his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, on the Chinese side.[3]
  • January 5 – Strict enforcements of internet keyword filters in China introduced, leading to mass protests online against internet censorship by Chinese netizens.[4][5]
  • January 7 – Ministry of IT China issues the first 3G network TD-SCDMA for China Mobile.
  • January 9 – Nationwide alert throughout China regarding a large number of mass-produced, counterfeit renminbi 100 yuan notes;[6]
  • January 13 – People's Liberation Army Navy escorted a Taiwanese merchant ship and three other vessels in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.[7]
  • January 15 – China surpasses Germany to become the third largest economy,[8] based on revised 2007 GDP figures. Chinese officials published the revised figures for 2007 financial year in which growth happened at 13 percent instead of 11.9 percent (provisional figures). China's gross domestic product stood at US$3.4 trillion while Germany's GDP was US$3.3 trillion for 2007. Based on these figures, in 2007 China recorded its fastest growth since 1994 when the GDP grew by 13.1 percent.[9]
  • January 15 – A Taiwanese government official and a legislator's aide have been arrested in Taipei for allegedly leaking state secrets to Mainland China. The information allegedly leaked included details on the process taken during the transition of power between Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-Jeou.[10]
  • January 25 – 2009 Xinjiang earthquake

February

March
  • March 1 – Chang'e 1 retires, following its planned crash landing on the moon.[19]
  • March 5 – 2009 National People's Congress
  • March 8 – US Impeccable south china sea incident
  • March 11 – Minor incident near the Diaoyu Islands as a JSDF patrol boat moved close to the islands. Some sources indicate that both sides scrambled aircraft, involving PLAAF Su-30MKK and Japanese F-15 aircraft, however the situation did not escalate.[20]
  • March 17 – China's largest fishery patrol China Yuzheng 311 (中国渔政311船) arrives in Yongxing Island, Xisha Islands,[21] asserting control over the disputed islands in the South China Sea. The territory is disputed with Vietnam.
  • March 19 – Japan 2012 visa permit consider listing Taiwanese people living in Japan as coming from Taiwan (independent state), not China.[22]
  • March 20 – Chongqing soldier shot.[23]
  • March 28 – Serf liberation day
  • March 29 – Researchers from the University of Toronto discover GhostNet, a China-based electronic spying operation which has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries.[24]

April
  • April 8 – 2009 Xishui sex trial: The close-door trial started at the People's Court of Xishui County.
  • April 9 – Launch of Beidou-2B satellite on a Long March 3A rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
  • April 13 – National Human Rights Action Plan 2009-2010
  • April 16 – The government of the People's Republic of China releases economic data for Q1 2009, showing a rise in GDP by 6.1%, fall in CPI by 1.2% during March, PPI down 4.6%, industrial output by 5.1%, retail sales up 15%, and fixed asset investment up 28.8%.[25]
  • April 22 – Chinese researchers conclude that the Great Wall of China is 2,851.8 km longer than previously estimated, after analysing data obtained from satellite imagery.[26]
  • April 22 – Chinese hackers accused of stealing data from the United States Department of Defense regarding the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.[27]
  • April 23, 60th Anniversary of Navy, international fleet review off Qingdao.[28]
  • April 24, CBHD goes on sale[29]

May

June
  • June 2 – As a part of the General Motors bankruptcy crisis, GM Motors announces the sale of the Hummer brand of off-road vehicles to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., a machinery company in western China, in which the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009.[39][40][41]
  • June 3 – 170th anniversary commemoration of the First Opium War's Lin Zexu[42]
  • June 5 – Australian mining company Rio Tinto breaks a deal for Chinese state-owned Chinalco to purchase a larger stake the company, with support by rival Australian mining company BHP Billiton. Rio Tinto is expected to pay a US$195 million breaking fee according to the contract signed earlier by the two parties. Rio Tinto controls large Iron ore reserves in Australia.[43] Since early 2008, Chinalco holds 9% of ownership of Rio Tinto.
  • June 5 – Fang Jing spy accusation incident
  • June 5 – 2009 Chengdu bus fire
  • June 7-June 13 – Shanghai Pride, the first gay pride festival ever held in the People's Republic of China, takes place in Shanghai.
  • June 18 – US, Japan, South Korea assist ADB funding to Arunachal Pradesh, old India and China territorial dispute[44][45]
  • June 19 – 2009 Shishou riot
  • June 19 – 2009 Music king award (勁歌王頒獎禮) with large C-pop star gathering at Chengdu[46][47]
  • June 23 – Liu Xiaobo arrested for Charter 08 democratic reform
  • June 25 – ROC President Ma Ying-jeou expresses his bid for KMT leadership, as he registered as the sole candidate for the election of the KMT chairmanship. The election is scheduled for July 26, where the new chairman would take office on September 12. If his bid succeeds, he would become the leader of the KMT, as well as the head-of-state of the Republic of China; in effect, this would officially allow Ma to be able to meet with People's Republic of China President Hu Jintao (who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China) and other PRC delegates, as he would be able to represent the KMT as leader of a Chinese political party, rather than as head-of-state of a political entity unrecognized by the PRC.[48]
  • June 25 – Shaoguan incident
  • June 27 - The lotus Riverside Complex,shanghai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Lotus_Riverside_Block_7
  • June 29 – Hunan train collision

July
President Barack Obama addresses the opening session of the first U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2009. Listening at left are Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, center, and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, left.
  • July 5 – 2009 Urumqi riots
  • July 5 – South China flood[49]
  • July 9 – 2009 Yunnan earthquake
  • July 10 – Four Rio Tinto employees, including one Australian citizen, arrested in Shanghai for corruption and espionage.[50][51] One of the arrested, Australian citizen Stern Hu is suspected of stealing Chinese state secrets.[52]
  • July 12 – Urumqi oil tank explosion[53]
  • July 16 – Sun Danyong, a Chinese factory worker employed by Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn, committed suicide after reporting to have lost a prototype model for a fourth generation iPhone.[54]
  • July 21 – 2009 Nuctech corruption case, company formerly run by Hu Jintao's son Hu Haifeng
  • July 24 – First publication of a breakthrough in stem cell research, where Chinese researchers from the Shanghai Stem Cell Institute successfully reprogrammed adult stem cells to be able to differentiate into any body cell.[55]
  • July 24 – Tonghua Iron and Steel Group riot
  • July 26 – Republic of China President Ma Ying-jeou won 93.87% of the vote for KMT leadership, becoming the new chairman of the Kuomintang.[56]
  • July 27 – The birth of the world's first giant panda conceived using frozen sperm is announced in Sichuan.[57]
  • July 27–28: China and the United States hold the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.[58]
  • July 28 – Chinese border police seize 70 kilograms of Vanadium metal bound for North Korea, a material used to manufacture missile components. 200,000RMB of the metal was seized at the Dandong border between China and North Korea.[59]

August
  • August 1 – People's Liberation Army Army Day military parades and presentations
  • August 2-August 11 – Typhoon Morakot strikes the island of Taiwan and southern China.
  • August 4 – Shijiazhuang lightning incident
  • August 8-August 12 – 10,000 refugees from Burma's Kokang Special Region flee to Yunnan following the Kokang incident.
  • August 11 – Launch of the Chinese communications satellite Asiasat 5 into orbit.[60]
  • August 12 – Tan Zuoren court case
  • August 15 – Planned swimming event to take place from Xiamen, People's Republic of China to Kinmen, Republic of China.[61]
  • August 19 – Chinese petroleum company PetroChina signs an A$50 billion deal with ExxonMobil to purchase liquefied natural gas from the Gorgon field in Western Australia,[62][63] considered the largest contract ever signed between China and Australia, which ensures China a steady supply of LPG fuel for 20 years, and also forms as China's largest supply of relatively "clean energy".[64][65] This deal has been formally secured, despite relations between Australia and China being at their lowest point in years, following the Rio Tinto espionage case and the granting of visas to Rebiya Kadeer to visit Australia.[66]
  • August 30 – The 14th Dalai Lama accepts invitation from Pan-Green Kaohsiung mayor Chen Chu to visit Taiwan.[67]

September

October

November
Presidents Obama and Hu meeting on November 17.

December
December 26: The world's fastest commercial train service, the Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, is opened
  • December 14 – Central Asia – China gas pipeline inauguration
  • December 14 – Xi Xinzhu self-immolation incident
  • December 21 – Fourth Chen-Chiang summit
  • December 26 – The Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, the world's fastest commercial train service, is opened.
  • December 27 – A tomb, believed to be that of Cao Cao, one of the Chinese leaders during the Three Kingdoms period, is discovered in Henan.[79][80]
  • December 28 – Xinhua News Agency reports that the People's Liberation Army Navy has rescued 25 sailors and the De Xin Hai, a hijacked Chinese cargo ship, two months after they were seized off Somalia.[81][82]
  • December 29 – China displaces the U.S. as the largest overall buyer of Japanese goods in 2009.[83][84]
  • December 29 – Despite requests from the British government for clemency, Akmal Shaikh, a British national, is executed in the People's Republic of China for trafficking heroin.

Sports

Births
  • May 27 – Lin Bing, female giant panda
  • August 5 – Yun Zi, male giant panda

Deaths

See also

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