Events in the year 2004 in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Incumbents

* Party General Secretary –

Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, an ...

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: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

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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 governm ...

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Wen Jiabao Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the Premier of the State Council from 2003 to 2013. In his capacity as head of government, Wen was regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic policy ...

Vice President A 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 vice president is on t ...

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Zeng Qinghong Zeng Qinghong (born 30 July 1939) is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, China's highest leadership council, and top-ranked member of the Secretariat of the Central ...

* Vice Premier –

Huang Ju Huang Ju (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death i ...

* Congress Chairman –

Wu Bangguo Wu Bangguo (born 12 July 1941) is a retired high-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China. He was the Chairman and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to ...

* Conference Chairman –

Jia Qinglin Jia Qinglin (; born 13 March 1940) is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between ...

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province –

Wang Jinshan Wang Jinshan (; ) is a retired Chinese politician. He served as Governor of Anhui province from 2003 to 2007, and Communist Party Chief, the top political position in the province, from 2007 to 2010. He is a native of Gongzhuling, Jilin province. ...

* Governor of Fujian Province –

Lu Zhangong Lu Zhangong (; born May 1952) is a Chinese politician. He is, since 2013, a Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and previously served as the Communist Party Secretary of Fujian and Henan provinces, and Gover ...

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Huang Xiaojing Huang Xiaojing (; February 1946 - ) is a politician of the People's Republic of China and a former governor of Fujian Province. A native of Fuzhou, Fujian, Huang started working in September 1969, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in Decem ...

* Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Hao * Governor of Guizhou Province –

Huang Huahua Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese politician, and the Governor of Guangdong between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of Meizhou. Biography Huang was born in Xingning County, G ...

* Governor of Hainan Province –

Shi Xiushi Shi Xiushi (; born July 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as governor of Guizhou from 2001 to 2006. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 10th and 11th National People's Congress. He was a member of the 16th Central Committee ...

* Governor of Hebei Province –

Wei Liucheng Wei Liucheng ( born August 1946) is a Chinese businessman and politician. He is the former Governor and Communist Party Secretary of Hainan province. In August 2011, Wei became one of the deputy chairs of the Committee on the Economy and Finance i ...

* Governor of Henan Province –

Ji Yunshi Ji Yunshi (, born September 1945) is a Chinese politician. He served in a variety of offices, including Governor of Jiangsu (1998–2002), Governor of Hebei (2002—2006), Vice-Minister for Human Resources and Social Security (2006–2011 ...

* Governor of Hunan Province –

Zhou Bohua Zhou Bohua (; born July 1948) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Hunan Province and Minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC). Biography Zhou was born in Xiangtan, Hunan ...

* Governor of Jiangsu Province –

Li Chengyu Li Chengyu () (born August 1946) is a Chinese politician. He served as the Governor of Henan between 2003 and 2008, and president of All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives between 2008 and 2011. Biography Li Chengyu was born i ...

* Governor of Jiangxi Province –

Huang Zhiquan Huang Zhiquan may refer to: * Huang Zhiquan (politician, born 1908) (黃穉荃), Chinese politician and member of the Legislative Yuan *Huang Zhiquan (politician, born 1942) (黄智权), Chinese politician and Governor of Jiangxi See also *Huang Z ...

* Governor of Jilin Province – Hong Hu then Wang Min * Governor of Liaoning Province –

Bo Xilai Bo Xilai (; born 3 July 1949) is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then the governor of Liaoning. From 2004 to November 2007, ...

(until February),

Zhang Wenyue Zhang Wenyue (; born October 1944) was the Chinese Communist Party Politics of Liaoning, Liaoning provincial committee Secretary, succeeding Li Keqiang from October 2007. In 2009 he retired and was succeeded by Wang Min (born 1950), Wang Min. Bi ...

(starting February) * Governor of Qinghai Province –

Zhao Leji Zhao Leji (; born 8 March 1957) is a senior Chinese leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who is the third-ranking member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making body. In his earlier political career, he s ...

then

Yang Chuantang Yang Chuantang (; born May 1954) is a Chinese politician who served as the Minister of Transport of the People's Republic of China from 2012 to 2016. He has also served as the vice-chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, governor of Qin ...

* Governor of Shaanxi Province –

Jia Zhibang Jia Zhibang (; born November 1946) is a Chinese politician, who served between 2005 and 2012 as the Director of State Forestry Administration. He also previously held the post of Governor of Shaanxi province. Career Born in Wuqi, Shaanxi Province ...

(until October),

Chen Deming Chen Deming (; born 1949) is a former the President of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits of the People's Republic of China. Early life Chen was born in Shanghai in 1949. He went on to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, a ...

(starting October) * Governor of Shandong Province –

Han Yuqun Han Yuqun (born 1943 in Suining, Jiangsu province) is a Chinese politician. He is vice-chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress. He was also governor of Shandong Province. Career Han Yuqun joined the C ...

* Governor of Shanxi Province –

Liu Zhenhua Liu Zhenhua (; July 1921 – 11 July 2018) was a general ('' shangjiang'') of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and a diplomat of the People's Republic of China. He served as ambassador to Albania and Deputy Foreign Minister. Biography He w ...

(until January),

Zhang Baoshun Zhang Baoshun (; born February 1950) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China, and the former Communist Party Secretary of east China's Anhui province. Early life Zhang was born in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, on February 27, 1950. Care ...

(starting January) * Governor of Sichuan Province –

Zhang Zhongwei Zhang Zhongwei (; born February 1942) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Sichuan province from 1999 to 2007. Biography Zhang Zhongwei was born in February 1942 in Guan County (now Dujiangyan City) ...

* Governor of Yunnan Province: Xu Rongkai * Governor of Zhejiang Province –

Lü Zushan Lü Zushan (born November 1946) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He succeeded Xi Jinping as Governor of Zhejiang province in 2003. After retiring from provincial leadership in 2011, he has served as Vice-Chairman of the Financia ...

Events

February

* February 15 – Two fires sweep through China, one in a shopping center and the other in a temple, killing at least 90 and injuring 71.

April

* April 13 –

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

modifies its interpretation of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

One Child Policy The term one-child policy () refers to a Human population planning, population planning initiative in China implemented between 1980 and 2015 to curb Demographics of China#Population, the country's population growth by restricting many familie ...

, allowing all divorced residents who remarry to have a second child without penalty.

October

* October 21 – In

Xinmi Xinmi (), formerly Mi County (), is a county-level city of Henan Province, South Central China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhengzhou. The archaeological Bronze Age site Xinzhai __NOTOC__ Xinzhai () is an ea ...

, China, a gas explosion in a

coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

kills 62 people; 86 are still missing.

November

* November 1 –

Martial law Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to an emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory. Use Marti ...

is imposed in parts of China's

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

province after fighting between

Hui Chinese The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

and

Han Chinese The Han Chinese () or Han people (), are an East Asian ethnic group native to China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctive va ...

ethnic groups kills between 7 and 148 people. * November 26 – A man kills eight and injures four people with a knife at a Chinese high school in

Ruzhou Ruzhou () is a county-level city in the west-central part of Henan province, China, and is under the administration of Pingdingshan. It was called Linru County () until 1988. It has more than 100,000 inhabitants. The Fengxue Temple of Ruzhou featur ...

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kills over 150.

December

* December 3 – The People's Republic of China launches a new long-range

nuclear submarine A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor, but not necessarily nuclear-armed. Nuclear submarines have considerable performance advantages over "conventional" (typically diesel-electric) submarines. Nuclear propulsion, ...

and an accompanying class of ballistic missiles, with a range in excess of , developed by the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

Deaths

* February 14 –

Yang Chengwu Yang Chengwu (; October 27, 1914 – February 14, 2004), alias Yang Nengjun () was a Communist Chinese revolutionary and general of the People's Liberation Army. He was the Deputy Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army from 1954 ...

, Chinese military strategist * March 23 – Chen Zhongwei, Chinese physician. One of the pioneers of the process of reattaching severed limbs.

References

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