Events in the year 2011 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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Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...

* Vice Premier –

Li Keqiang Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...

* 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 ...

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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 Sanyun Wang Sanyun (; born December 1952) is a former Chinese politician. He began his political career in Guizhou province, before serving in Sichuan, Fujian, and Anhui provinces. He served as Anhui governor between 2007 and 2011, and was transferred t ...

(until December), Li Bin (starting December) * Governor of Fujian Province – Huang Xiaojing (until April), Su Shulin (starting April) * Governor of Gansu Province –

Liu Weiping Liu Weiping (; born May 1953) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as Governor of Gansu from 2010 to 2016, and prior to that, Vice-Governor of Qinghai Province and mayor of Na ...

* Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Xiaodan (until 5 November), Huang Huahua (starting 5 November) * Governor of Guizhou Province – Zhao Kezhi (until December),

Chen Min'er Chen Min'er (; born 29 September 1960) is a Chinese politician and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party who is serving as the Communist Party Secretary of Tianjin. From 2017 to 2022, he served as the Communist Party Secretary ...

(starting December) * Governor of Hainan Province –

Luo Baoming Luo Baoming (; born October 1952) is a Chinese politician who spent his career in Tianjin and Hainan province. Since 2011, Luo has served as the Communist Party Secretary of Hainan province; prior to that he served as governor of Hainan betwe ...

(until August),

Jiang Dingzhi Jiang Dingzhi (; born September 1954) is a Chinese politician and current Chairman of the Jiangsu People's Political Consultative Conference (''zhengxie''). He holds a master's degree in Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Techno ...

(starting August) * Governor of Hebei Province – Chen Quanguo (until 27 August) * Governor of Heilongjiang Province –

Wang Xiankui Wang Xiankui (; born July 1952) is a Chinese politician best known for his terms as governor, then Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang, a province in the northeast part of the country. Wang worked in various capacities in the railway syste ...

* Governor of Henan Province –

Guo Gengmao Guo Gengmao (; born December 1950) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Communist Party Secretary and Governor of Henan Province, as well as Governor of his native Hebei Province. Biography Guo Gengmao was born in Ji ...

* Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Guosheng * Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Shousheng * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Li Xueyong * Governor of Jiangxi Province –

Wu Xinxiong Wu Xinxiong (; born 1949) is a Chinese politician. From 2013 to 2014, Wu was the Director of the National Energy Administration, China's national energy regulatory agency. He served as the Governor of Jiangxi from January 2007 to June 2011. Bi ...

(until June),

Lu Xinshe Lu Xinshe (; born November 1956) is a Chinese politician who served as Communist Party Secretary of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region from 2018 to 2021. Prior to becoming Guangxi party chief, he was Governor of Jiangxi from 2011 to 2016, and Comm ...

(starting June) * Governor of Jilin Province –

Wang Rulin Wang Rulin (; born April 1953) is a Chinese politician and senior regional official. He is serving as Vice-Chairperson of the National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. From 2014 to 2016, Wang was the Communist Party S ...

(until December),

Bayanqolu Bayanqolu (; born 5 October 1955) is a Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity. He served as the Communist Party Secretary of Jilin Province from 2014 to 2020 and the Governor of Jilin from 2012 to 2014; Bayanqolu was, at the time of his appointme ...

(starting December) * Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Zhenggao * Governor of Qinghai Province – Luo Huining * Governor of Shaanxi Province –

Zhao Zhengyong Zhao Zhengyong (; born March 1951) is a former politician of the People's Republic of China who served as Communist Party Secretary, Governor, and Congress Chairman of Shaanxi Province. After his retirement, he was placed under investigation for c ...

* Governor of Shandong Province –

Jiang Daming Jiang Daming (; born 1953) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as the Minister of Land and Resources, and formerly served as Governor of Shandong province. Career Jiang was born in Rongcheng, Shandong province. He joi ...

* Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Jun (until December), Li Xiaopeng (starting December) * Governor of Sichuan Province –

Jiang Jufeng Jiang Jufeng (; born 1948) is a Chinese politician. He served as the Governor of Sichuan from 2007 to 2013. Jiang was born in 1948 in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Fudan University in 1982 and the same year joined the Chinese Com ...

* Governor of Yunnan Province –

Qin Guangrong Qin Guangrong (; born 25 December 1950) is a former Chinese politician. He previous served as deputy chair of the committee on internal legal affairs of the National People's Congress, from 2014 to 2018, the Communist Party Secretary of Yunnan p ...

(until August), Li Jiheng (starting August) * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Lü Zushan (until August), Xia Baolong (starting August)

Events

January

* January 6 – Jiaxing Xiuzhou District case of

fish kill The term fish kill, known also as fish die-off, refers to a localized die-off of fish populations which may also be associated with more generalized mortality of aquatic life.University of Florida. Gainesville, FL (2005) ''Plant Management in Fl ...

. * January 11 –

successfully tests the Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle, one of its fifth generation

stealth Stealth may refer to: Military *Stealth technology, technology used to conceal ships, aircraft, and missiles **Stealth aircraft, aircraft which use stealth technology **Stealth ground vehicle, ground vehicles which use stealth technology ** Stea ...

twin-engine A twinjet or twin-engine jet is a jet aircraft powered by two engines. A twinjet is able to fly well enough to land with a single working engine, making it safer than a single-engine aircraft in the event of failure of an engine. Fuel efficien ...

fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...

programs. * January 23 – CCTV Chengdu J-10 footage controversy

February

* February 1 – The Chinese government begins efforts to combat an ongoing drought. * February 20 –

2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also known as the Greater Chinese Democratic Colour revolution, Jasmine Revolution, refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after th ...

* February 28 –

2011 crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China The 2011 crackdown on dissidents in China refers to the arrest of dozens of mainland Chinese rights lawyers, activists and grassroots agitators in a response to the 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests. Since the protests, at least 54 Chinese activi ...

(est.)

March

* March 2 – 2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident * March 10 –

2011 Yunnan earthquake The 2011 Yunnan earthquake was a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that occurred on 10 March 2011 at 12:58 CST, with its epicenter in Yingjiang County, Yunnan, People's Republic of China, near the Burmese border. A total of 26 people died and 313 were inj ...

: At least 24 people are killed and 207 injured following a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in

Yingjiang County Yingjiang County (; th, เมืองหล้า) is a county in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Burma's Kachin State to the west. Geography Yingjiang county has a border of with Kachin State, Myanmar in the west. Th ...

of the

Yunnan province Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

near the

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

border. * March 16 –

Phuntsog self-immolation incident The Phuntsog self-immolation incident occurred when a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the name of Rigzin Phuntsog self-immolated on March 16, 2011 in Ngawa County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, People's Republic of Chin ...

* March 29 – 2011 Yunnan protest

April

* April 5 – The Ministry of Health dismissed media coverages about Yinzibing (HIV-negative AIDS). * April 13 – 2011 Shanghai riot * April 14 –

2011 BRICS summit The 2011 BRICS summit () took place in Sanya on the island of Hainan, China, on 14 April 2011. This was the third BRICS summit since 2009. The meeting took place between the five heads of state/heads of government from the BRICS states following ...

* April 20 – 2011 Shanghai Truckers Strike * April 22 – Wang Jia-zheng (汪家正) self-immolation incident * April 28 –

Xi'an China International Horticultural Exposition 2011 Xi'an China International Horticultural Exposition 2011 () is a horticultural exhibition recognised by the AIPH, International Association of Horticultural Producers in Xi'an, People's Republic of China, China to be held between 28 April and 22 Octo ...

May

* May 10 – 2011 Xilinhot incident * May 13 – Yang Xianwen (杨显文) Tianzhu bank bombing case * May 20 – 2011 Chengdu Foxconn explosion incident * May 26 – 2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi bombings * May – '' My Heart Sings Loud'' television variety show is launched by Dragon TV.

June

* June 1 – Painting

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains ''Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains'' () is one of the few surviving works by Chinese painter Huang Gongwang (1269–1354) and is considered to be among his greatest works. Painted between 1348 and 1350, the painting was burnt into two pieces in 1 ...

reunify the two halves of the painting held by Republic of China and the People's Republic of China * June 6 –

2011 Chaozhou riot The 2011 Chaozhou riot () began on the night of Duanwu Festival June 6, 2011 in Guxiang () Chao'an County, Chaozhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Background On June 1 a wage dispute took place at the Huayi Ceramics Factory () in Chao ...

* June 7 – Wang Meng assault incident * June 10 – **

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

bombing **

2011 Zengcheng riot The 2011 Zengcheng riot (6•11事件) began on June 10, 2011, in Xintang town (新塘镇), Zengcheng, Guangdong, China and is ongoing. The demonstrators are mainly migrant workers in Xintang. Background On June 10, 2011, a 20-year-old pregnant w ...

* June 11 –

2011 China floods The 2011 China floods are a series of floods from June to September 2011 that occurred in central and southern parts of the People's Republic of China. They were caused by heavy rain that inundated portions of 12 provinces, leaving other provi ...

(est.) * June 11 – 17 – 3rd Straits Forum * June 16 – Mutiny on ''Lurongyu 2682'', a fishing trawler in the South Pacific. After a month-long killings from this day, 11 of the 33 crew returned to China. * June 26 – National Red Games, celebration of 90th anniversary of founding of Communist party

July

* July 1 – Jiang Zemin disappearance and death rumor * July 5 – Disclosure of

China National Offshore Oil Corporation China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC Group (Chinese: 中国海洋石油总公司 Pinyin: ''Zhōngguó Háiyáng Shíyóu Zǒnggōngsī''), is one of the largest national oil companies in China, and the third-largest national oil c ...

2011 Bohai bay oil spill * July 11 – 2011 Huizhou refinery explosion incident * July 18 –

2011 Hotan attack The 2011 Hotan attack was a bomb-and-knife attack that occurred in Hotan, Xinjiang, China on July 18, 2011. According to witnesses, the assailants were a group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local government's campaign against the burqa, ...

* July 23 –

2011 Wenzhou train collision The Wenzhou train collision occurred on 23 July 2011 when two high-speed trains travelling on the Yong-Tai-Wen railway line collided on a viaduct in Lucheng District, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. The two trains de ...

* July 24 – Canada extradites

Lai Changxing Lai Changxing (born September 15, 1958) is a former Chinese businessman and entrepreneur. He was the founder and Chairman of Yuanhua Group, based in the Special Economic Zone of Xiamen. He imported foreign products like cars, cigarettes and ...

to China * July 30–31 –

2011 Kashgar attacks The 2011 Kashgar attacks were a series of knife and bomb attacks in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China on July 30 and 31, 2011. On July 30, two Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver, and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They got out of the tr ...

August

* August 1 –

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

rejects China-UN backed Lumbini project * August 4 – 2011 Nanchang mass suicide protest * August 11 – 2011 Qianxi riot * August 14 –

Dalian PX protest The Dalian PX protest (locally called the 8–14 event; ) was a peaceful public protest in People's Square, Dalian, to protest against a paraxylene (PX) chemical factory—Dalian Fujia Dahua Petrochemical (大連福佳大化石油化工)—built in ...

* August 12 –

2011 Summer Universiade The 2011 Summer Universiade ( zh, c=2011年夏季世界大学生运动会, p=Èr líng yī yī Nián xiàjì shìjiè dàxuéshēng yùndònghuì), the XXVI Summer Universiade ( zh, c=第二十六届夏季世界大学生运动会, p=Dì Èrshíl ...

* August 26 – 2011 Jiangmen dog ban * August 30 - Yunnan Nanpan River

chromium Chromium is a chemical element with the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in group 6. It is a steely-grey, lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium metal is valued for its high corrosion resistance and hardne ...

toxic spill (est.)

September

* September 1 – First

China-Eurasia Expo The China-Eurasia Expo (中国-亚欧博览会) is an exposition for commercial, cultural and ministerial activities among Asian and European countries. History Prior to the expo, a lower profile annual trade fair was held in Urumqi every year sin ...

* September 16 – Line 2, The first line of the Xian Subway was completed. * September 23 –

2011 Lufeng city riot The Wukan protests (), also known as the Siege of Wukan, was an anti-corruption protest that began in September 2011, and escalated in December 2011 with the expulsion of officials by villagers, the siege of the town by police, and subsequent d� ...

* September 26 – Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok self-immolation incident * September 27 – Shandong Foxconn fire incident * September 29 – Launch of Tiangong 1

October

* October 5 – 13 Chinese crew members of two ships are murdered in the

Mekong River massacre The Mekong River massacre occurred on the morning of 5 October 2011, when two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle region on the borders of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. All 13 crew members on t ...

* October 10 – 100th Anniversary of Xinhai Revolution * October 13 – Death of Wang Yue and public outcry in the aftermath * October 19 – Seventh Chen-Chiang summit * October 21 – 2011 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident * October 26 – 2011 Zhili riot * October 31 – Announcement of

Sunway BlueLight The Sunway BlueLight () is a Chinese massively parallel supercomputer. It is the first publicly announced PFLOPS supercomputer using Sunway (processor), Sunway processors solely developed by the People's Republic of China.JOHN MARKOFF, The New Yor ...

, first supercomputer to use domestic processors

November

* November 1 – Launch of Shenzhou 8 * November 12 – 2011 Zhongshan riot * November 14 –

Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by #Name, other names, is the list of capitals in China, capital of Shaanxi, Shaanxi Province. A Sub-provincial division#Sub-provincial municipalities, sub-provincial city o ...

gas explosion * November 16 – 2011 Gansu school bus crash * November 20 –

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

n guards cross to

Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County (; Manchu: ; Mölendroff: kuwandiyan manju beye dasangga siyan), is a county of eastern Liaoning province, China, bordering North Korea to the southeast and Jilin in the northeast. It is under the administration o ...

after death of

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

* November 27 – Billionaire real estate tycoon Huang Nubo is rejected to purchase parts of

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

December

* December 12 –

2011 Incheon fishing incident The 2011 Incheon fishing incident occurred on December 12, 2011 in Socheong Island, Incheon, South Korea. The incident involved a Chinese fisherman who was said by the South Koreans to be fishing illegally. During the confrontation two Incheon coa ...

* December 21 - Protests of Wukan end * December 28 -

2011 Pishan hostage crisis The Pishan hostage crisis occurred on the night of December 28, 2011, in Koxtag (Kuoshi Tage), Pishan/Guma County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. A group of 15 Uyghur youths kidnapped two goat shepherds for directio ...

Deaths

* January 14 –

Liu Huaqing Liu Huaqing (; 1 October 1916 – 14 January 2011) was Chinese revolutionary and an admiral of the People's Liberation Army Navy, who served as the third Commander-in-Chief of the Navy from 1982 through 1988. He is considered to have greatly co ...

, 94, Chinese naval commander (1982–1988). * February 13 –

Shi Yafeng Shi Yafeng (; March 21, 1919 – February 13, 2011) was Chinese geographer and glaciologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology" ...

, 91, Chinese geologist. * February 17 –

Augustine Hu Daguo Augustine Hu Daguo (15 May 1921 – 17 February 2011) was the underground Roman Catholic bishop (as such, he was then considered a part of the Vatican-recognized hierarchy in China approved by and in communion with the Pope) of the Apostolic ...

, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of

Guiyang Guiyang (; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), historically rendered as Kweiyang, is the capital of Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China. It is located in the center of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, ...

. * February 19 –

Yuan Xuefen Yuan Xuefen (26 March 1922 – 19 February 2011) was a noted performer in the Yue opera genre of Chinese opera. She has been called "arguably the most important actress in the recent history of Yueju haoxingopera". The only other artist to ...

, 88, Chinese Yue opera actress. * August 7 – Li Xing (黎星), 54, Chinese-English journalist

Full date unknown

* Liang Tianzhu, Chinese painter (born 1916)Liang Tianzhu Album of Painting, Tianjin Yangliuqing Fine Arts Press, 1989

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