2013 in China

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Events in the year 2013 in China.

Incumbents

Paramount leader

• General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping

Head of state

• President – Hu Jintao (until March 14), Xi Jinping (starting March 14)
• Vice President – Xi Jinping (until March 14), Li Yuanchao (starting March 14)

Head of government

• Premier – Wen Jiabao (until March 15), Li Keqiang (starting March 15)
• Vice Premier – Li Keqiang (until March 15), Zhang Gaoli (starting March 15)

National legislature

• Congress chairman – Wu Bangguo (until March 14), Zhang Dejiang

(starting March 14)

Political advisory

• Conference chairman – Jia Qinglin (until March 11), Yu Zhengsheng (starting March 11)

Events

January

• January 3 - 2013 Southern Weekly incident

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
• June 2 - Chen Xitong, politician, former member of the Political Bureau

See also

• List of Chinese films of 2013

References