Events in the year 2010 in China.

Incumbents

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 ...

– Hu Jintao * Premier –

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 polic ...

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 ...

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, ...

* Vice Premier: Li Keqiang * 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 t ...

* 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 Sanyun * Governor of Fujian Province –

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 Gansu Province:

Xu Shousheng Xu Shousheng (; 23 January 1953 – 5 December 2020) was a Chinese politician. He was the Communist Party Secretary of Hunan from 2013 to 2016. He served as the Governor of Hunan and Gansu provinces. Biography Xu was born in Rudong County, Jian ...

(until July),

(starting July) * Governor of Guangdong 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, ...

* Governor of Guizhou Province –

Lin Shusen Lin Shusen (born December 1946) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He was Governor and Deputy Communist Party Chief of Guizhou Province from 2006 to 2010. Prior to that he was Communist Party Chief and Mayor of Guangzhou, capi ...

(until August),

Zhao Kezhi Zhao Kezhi (; born 28 December 1953) is a Chinese politician who currently serves as a State Councilor of the People’s Republic of China and the former Minister and Party Committee Secretary of the Ministry of Public Security, with the top p ...

(starting August) * Governor of Hainan Province – Luo Baoming * Governor of Hebei Province –

Chen Quanguo Chen Quanguo (; born November 1955) is a retiring Chinese politician and the current deputy head of the CCP Central Rural Work Leading Group. Between 2017 and 2022, he was a member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and was pre ...

* Governor of Heilongjiang Province –

Li Zhanshu Li Zhanshu (; born August 30, 1950) is a Chinese politician, and the current outgoing chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Chinese Speaker. He was the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committe ...

(until 27 August), Wang Xiankui (starting 27 August) * Governor of Henan Province – Guo Gengmao * Governor of Hubei Province – Luo Qingquan * Governor of Hunan Province –

Zhou Qiang Zhou Qiang (; born 25 April 1960) is a Chinese politician who is the current Chief Justice and President of the Supreme People's Court of China. Previously, he served as the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's Hunan committee, the effec ...

(until December),

(starting December) * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Luo Zhijun (until December),

Li Xueyong Li Xueyong (; born September 1950) is a Chinese politician. He served as Governor of Jiangsu Province from 2010 to 2015. An academic-turned-politician, Li served for many years in the Ministry of Science and Technology. Career Li was born in Sh ...

(starting December) * 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 ...

* Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Rulin * Governor of Liaoning Province –

Chen Zhenggao Chen Zhenggao (; born March 1952) is a Chinese politician. He is best known for his terms as Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and governor of Liaoning province. Biography Chen was born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province, China. He wa ...

* Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Xiuyan (until unknown),

Luo Huining Luo Huining (; born 5 October 1954) is a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party who is Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong. A native of Yiwu, Zhejiang, he was previously the Governor, then Party S ...

(starting unknown) * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Yuan Chunqing (until June), Zhao Zhengyong (starting June) * Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Daming * Governor of Shanxi Province – Wang Jun * 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 * 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

January

* January 1 – ** ASEAN–China Free Trade Area: China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch the world's largest

Free Trade Area A free-trade area is the region encompassing a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free trade agreement (FTA). Such agreements involve cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers, import quotas and tariffs, and ...

in terms of

population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

. ** CCTV expand to online channe
CNTV
(中国网络电视台) with C-box software. * January 4 –

Yellow River oil spill The Yellow River oil spill was an oil spill in the Yellow River in Shaanxi, China which took place due to the rupturing of a segment of Lanzhou-Zhengzhou oil pipeline on December 30, 2009. Approximately of diesel oil flowed down the Wei River ...

: A diesel fuel leak in

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), N ...

, China reaches the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...

, a water source for millions of people. * January 6 – China becomes the largest exporting country, pushing

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

from first place. * January 8 – China becomes the number one

automobile A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarde ...

market in the world. * January 11 –

2010 Chinese anti-ballistic missile test The People's Republic of China carried out a land-based high-altitude anti-ballistic missile test on 11 January 2010. This reportedly made China the second country in the world after the United States of America to successfully destroy an incoming m ...

* January 12 – **

Google Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, ar ...

in an unusual move revealed that its servers have been hacked in an attempt to access information about

Chinese dissidents This list consists of activists who are known as Chinese dissidents. The label is primarily applied to intellectuals who "push the boundaries" of society or criticize the policies of the government. Examples of the former include Wei Hui and Ji ...

, and that Google is no longer willing to censor searches in China and may pull out of the country. ** China's top search engine

Baidu Baidu, Inc. ( ; , meaning "hundred times") is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the l ...

is allegedly attacked by

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian hackers, sparking a retaliatory attack by Chinese hackers on Iranian sites. * January 15 – 2010 Suzhou workers riot * January 19 –

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

senior judge Huang Songyou is sentenced to

life in prison Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes for ...

over corruption charges. * January 24 – The

Chinese government The Government of the People's Republic of China () is an authoritarian political system in the People's Republic of China under the exclusive political leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It consists of legislative, executive, m ...

denies state involvement in the cyber attacks on

. * January 25 – 2008 Melamine milk re-enter supply * January 31 – A M_w 5.2

earthquake An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, fr ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

, China, kills one person and injures 11 others, destroying at least 100 homes.

February

* February 1 – Nine people are killed in a bus rampage in

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 popu ...

, northern China. * February 9 – 11 – Yunnan wildfire * February 18 – ** Low profile meeting between

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

and president

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...

in White House Map Room amid opposition from China. **

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...

Zhengding Zhengding (), originally Zhending (), is a county in southwestern Hebei Province, North China, located approximately south of Beijing. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shijiazhuang, the capital of the province, and h ...

old city gate burns down ** Asia's biggest railway station, the Guangzhou South Railway Station, came into use on the first day of

Chinese spring festival Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar and solar Chinese calendar. In Chinese and other East Asian cultures, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival () as ...

transport rush of 2010. * February 23 – ** Oxfam Hong Kong boycott ** Chinese authorities increases controls on the internet, requiring anyone who wishes to set up a website to produce identification and meet regulators. ** Communist Party of China 52 code of ethics * February 26 – Wang Meng wins her third gold medal in the 1,000 meters short track at

Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gret ...

to become China's first winter Olympian to win three gold medals at one Games and give China all the women's titles.

March

* March 1 – 2010 Luotuoshan coal mine flood * March 3 – 2010 Guangxi wildfire * March 5 – 2010 National People's Congress * March 11 – Hong Kong 's

TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...

GM Stephen Chan and four others are

arrested An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be questi ...

on charges of corruption.The Standard HK.
The Standard.com
." ''Show graft.'' Retrieved on 2010-03-12. TVB suspends Chan and two TVB staff were suspended from their duties. * March 13 – Shenyang zoo scandal * March 14 – 314 Taipei protest * March 15 – 2010 Dongxing Coal Mining Co fire * March 19 – Northern China sandstorm * March 20 – 2010 China drought * March 23 – ** At 3 am Hong Kong Time (UTC+8), Google started to redirect all search queries from Google.cn to Google.com.hk. (Google Hong Kong), thereby bypassing Chinese regulators and allowing uncensored

Simplified Chinese Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one, that is simpler (usually shorter), for example * Simplification of algebraic expressions, ...

search results. ** Nanping school massacre: A man in

Nanping Nanping (), historically known as Yanping (), is a third-tier prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde to the east, Sanming to the south, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to ...

, China, stabs and kills eight children, and wounds another five at an elementary school. * March 27 – Tao Hui-xi (陶惠西) self-immolation incident in

Lianyungang Lianyungang () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, China. It borders Yancheng to its southeast, Huai'an and Suqian to its south, Xuzhou to its southwest, and the province of Shandong to its north. Its name derives f ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its ca ...

* March 28 – 2010 Wangjialing coal mine flood: At least 152 coal miners are trapped after a pit floods in Shanxi, while 109 others escape.

April

* April 1 – First ever organ trafficking trial in the PRC (est.) * April 4 – 114 miners trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week in Shanxi, China, are rescued. * April 6 – One of leading smartphone brand,

Xiaomi Corporation (; ), commonly known as Xiaomi and registered as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, and household items. Behind Samsung, it is the second largest m ...

was founded. * April 10–14 –

2010 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia The 2010 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia was the inaugural tournament of the IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia (CCoA). It was hosted in Shanghai during 10 April to 14 April and was organized and managed by the International Ice Hockey Feder ...

* April 13 – ** Hu Jintao, President 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 ...

, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss

's nuclear program. **

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 flowin ...

Oriental Pearl Tower fire * April 14 –

2010 Yushu earthquake The 2010 Yushu earthquake struck on April 14 and registered a magnitude of 6.9 Mw (USGS, EMSC) or 7.1 MsChina, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000. * April 16 – Yan Xiaoling - Fan Yanqiong Case * April 22 – **

Emeishan City Emeishan () is a county-level city in Sichuan province, China. It is administered by the prefecture-level city Leshan. Its population in 1990 stood at 396,445. It is named after Mount Emei, a famous mountain located within its administration. Cli ...

self-immolation incident ** Huang Guangyu, founder of GOME Electrical Appliances and formerly China's richest man, goes on trial for bribery in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

. * April 24 – Ben ren Yu (郁伯仁) PRC diplomat assaulted in

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...

* April 25 – June 13 – 2010 earthquake prediction case * April 29 - Xu Yuyuan mass stabbing incident: Twenty-eight children and three adults are stabbed at a nursery school in China. * April 30 - 2010 Shanghai Expo opening ceremony

May

* May 1 –

Expo 2010 Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the t ...

officially opens. * May 5 – Landsides killed 15 Chinese workers in the

Tengchong County Tengchong () is a county-level city of Baoshan City, western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It is well known for its volcanic activity. The city is named after the town of Tengchong which serves as its political center, previously kn ...

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 ...

. * May 6 – A powerful

tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, altho ...

hits Chongqing municipality in south-western China, killing at least 25 and injuring more than 160 people in Dianjiang and

Liangping Liangping District (), formerly Liangping County () and Liangshan County (), is a district in the north of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China. Sports The Liangping District National Fitness Centre Stadium, which has a capacity of ...

counties. * May 7 –

Ren Zhiqiang Ren Zhiqiang (; born 8 March 1951) is an incarcerated Chinese real estate tycoon and a blogger on Sina Weibo with more than 37 million followers. Nicknamed "Big Cannon Ren", he is known for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese Communist Party ...

(任志强) real estate tycoon shoe throwing incident * May 9 – At least 115 dead as fierce rainstorms begin ravaging Southern China * May 11 – 9 trapped miners found dead in coal gas leak in northwest China's

Gansu Province Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibeta ...

Tuesday. * May 12 – ** Hanzhong mass stabbing incident: an attacker killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a

cleaver A cleaver is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed hatchet. It is largely used as a kitchen or butcher knife and is mostly intended for splitting up large pieces of soft bones and slashing through t ...

at a kindergarten in

Hanzhong Hanzhong (; abbreviation: Han) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shaanxi province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the south and Gansu to the west. The founder of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang, was once enfeoffed as th ...

. ** The Chengdu-Dujiangyan High-Speed Railway begins operation in Sichuan, China. * May 13 – 2010 Yuanyang colliery outburst * May 17 – Six people are attacked with a meat cleaver before the assailant commits suicide at a market in Foshan, China. * May 23 – 2010 Jiangxi train derailment: A train traveling from

Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...

derails in a mountainous area near Fuzhou,

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

, China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others. * May 24 – HK democrat and Beijing delegate meeting * May 25 – 2nd round U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue

June

* June 1 – ** 2010 Chinese labour unrest 2010 Foxconn suicides (est. date) ** Yongzhou courthouse shooting * June 4 – Dandong shooting incident * June 11 – 2010 Ma'anshan riot * June 12 – Chinese

Buddhist monks A ''bhikkhu'' (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, ''bhikṣu'') is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics ("nun", ''bhikkhunī'', Sanskrit ''bhikṣuṇī'') are members of the Sangha (Buddhist ...

and archaeologists revealed what they believe to be a part of the skull of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of

Buddhism Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religions, Indian religion or Indian philosophy#Buddhist philosophy, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha. ...

, in east China's Jiangsu Province. * June 12 – 20 –

2010 Shanghai International Film Festival The 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival is the 13th such festival devoted to international cinema to be held in Shanghai, China. It was held from June 12–20, 2010. 2327 movies from ''81 countries'' and regions have entered their names fo ...

* June 13 – 2010 South China floods * June 15 – Heavy rain triggers landslides that leave at least 24 people dead in

Sichuan province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

Kangding Kangding (), also called Tachienlu and Dartsedo (; ), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the histor ...

county. In one incident, part of a mountain fell on a construction site in

, crushing workers who were sleeping in tents. * June 19 – 2010 South China floods: Flooding in South China kills at least 88 people, and forces nearly 750,000 people to leave their homes. * June 19 – 25 - 2nd

Straits Forum The Straits Forum () is an annual forum between Mainland China and Taiwan which started in 2009. It is the largest non-political platform which promotes grassroots interaction, economic and trade exchanges and cultural integration. Forums 1st F ...

* June 21 – At least 46 people are killed and dozens more trapped after a mine blast in

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 ...

, central China. * June 27 – A coal mine explosion kills 5 in China's

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...

. * June 28 – **

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

wildfire **

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to the ...

landslide ** Fifth Chen-Chiang summit * June 29 – Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed * June 30 –

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

UFO An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are id ...

intercontinental ballistic missile debate

July

* July 1 – ** China's

Xinhua Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: )J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English, or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua ...

launches a global 24-hour English TV news channel. ** The Shanghai–Nanjing High-Speed Railway goes into operation. ** Six people are killed and ten others injured in an

Overseas Chinese Town Overseas Chinese Town (OCT, ) is the colloquial name for a cluster of scenic spots in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Nanshan District of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, around the Window of the World Station, Overseas Chinese Town Station, Qiaoch ...

amusement park accident after a

Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program ...

simulator ride plunged to the ground. * July 3 - Zijin acid waste mining disaster * July 5 - 2010 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship * July 6 – Giant painting (浩氣長流) revealed, featuring CPC and

KMT The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

figures together * July 7 – ** Taiwan to allow solo-mainland tourists with some flag controversy ** Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport shutdown due to

Wen Qiang Wen Qiang (, January 29, 1956 – July 7, 2010 in Zengjia town, Shapingba,Wen'birth place according tsina.com (2010-02-01) also se/ref> Chongqing) was a Chinese judicial official who was arrested and executed during the Chongqing gang trials. C ...

, the former director of the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Justice, is executed following the

Chongqing gang trials The Chongqing gang trials (or dahei campaign) were a series of triad-busting trials in the city of Chongqing that began in October 2009 and concluded in 2011. Carried out under the auspices of municipal Communist Party chief Bo Xilai and polic ...

* July 11 – 2010 Xinfa aluminum plant protest * July 13 – 17 people die and a further 44 are missing in Chinese landslides. * July 14 – Typhoon Conson * July 17 – ** China National Petroleum Corporation

Xingang Port oil spill The Xingang Port oil spill is a spill that occurred in July 2010 caused by a rupture and subsequent explosion of two crude oil pipelines that run to an oil storage depot of the China National Petroleum Corporation in Xingang Harbour, Dalian, Li ...

** Twenty-eight

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 ...

rs die after a fire in their mine near Hancheng City in China's

Shaanxi Province Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ni ...

. * July 18 – A bus falls off a

cliff In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are common on co ...

in the

Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China, bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north ...

in southwestern China resulting in the death of 23 people. * July 25 – 2010 Pro-Cantonese rally * July 27 – South China floods: A

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Luanchuan County Luanchuan County () is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Luoyang, in the west of Henan province, China. It has an area of and a population of 318,000. The county contains significant deposits of molybdenum and tungs ...

Province of China results in at least 37 deaths. * July 28 – 2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion – An explosion at a plastics

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Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

, China, kills at least 12 people and injures hundreds. * July 30 – Changsha IRD Building Bombings * July 31 – An explosion in a

Shanxi Province Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level ...

, China leaves 17 people dead while 24 miners are trapped by flooding in a nearby mine.

August

* August 1 – ** Floods in northeastern China kill more than 100 people and sweep 3,000 chemical-filled barrels into the

Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea bo ...

. ** Hebei tractor rampage: A drunk man on a tractor kills 17 people and injures many others in a rampage in northern China. * August 3 - 2010 Weiyuan riot * August 6 – China suspends traffic on the

Yalu River The Yalu River, known by Koreans as the Amrok River or Amnok River, is a river on the border between North Korea and China. Together with the Tumen River to its east, and a small portion of Paektu Mountain, the Yalu forms the border between ...

and evacuates more than 40,000 people from Dandong over fears of

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amid unprecedented levels of rainfall. * August 7 – At least 16 miners are killed during a fire at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, in China. 23 others are still trapped inside. * August 8 –

2010 Gansu mudslide The 2010 Gansu mudslide was a deadly mudslide in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China that occurred at midnight on 8 August 2010. The floods were triggered after decades of clear cut logging practices h ...

: At least 1,471 people have died and 294 missing following landslides caused by heavy rains in

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northwestern

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. * August 17 - North Korean

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fighter jet crashed in

Fushun County, Liaoning Fushun County (), is one of the three counties under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Fushun, in the east of Liaoning province, China. It has a population of about , covering an area of . Administrative Divisions There are four ...

* August 19 – 2010 Aksu bombing: Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's

province. * August 21 – PRC North Korea border flood * August 24 – Henan Airlines Flight 8387 overruns the runway on landing at Lindu Airport, China. 42 of the 96 people on board were killed.

September

* September 1 – **

2010 China floods The 2010 China floods began in early May 2010.. Three hundred and ninety-two people died, and a further 232 people were reported missing as of June 30, 2010, including 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou. Fifty-three of the deaths occurred from t ...

: Eight people are killed and 40 missing in landslides that hit Wama village in

Yunnan 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 ...

province, near Baoshan. ** Typhoon Kompasu * September 3 – Landslides in the village of Wama near Baoshan in China kill at least 12 people with 36 missing. * September 7 - 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident part of Diaoyu Islands dispute * September 10 - Yihuang self-immolation incident * September 19 - 6 dolphins from Japan arrive at Beijing ocean park * September 21 - Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China * September 26 - "Designed in Hong Kong, made by Cantonese" label discussion

October

* October 1 - The

Chang'e 2 Chang'e 2 (; ) is a Chinese unmanned lunar probe that was launched on 1 October 2010. It was a follow-up to the Chang'e 1 lunar probe, which was launched in 2007. Chang'e 2 was part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, ...

lunar probe launches from the

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. * October 6 – 150th anniversary of Burning of Old Summer Palace * October 7 - Hainan flood * October 8 - The imprisoned

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activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the

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"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" * October 9 - Chinese basketball team withdrew from 2010 Asian university basketball championship due to ROC flag used instead of Chinese Taipei flag. * October 16 - Li Gang incident * October 19 -

2010 Tibetan language protest The 2010 Tibetan language protest was a series of protests in Tongren County, Gonghe County and Maqên County, in Qinghai Province; Minzu University of China in Beijing; and Xiahe County in Gansu Province, People's Republic of China by ethnic Tib ...

* October 22 -

Terracotta Army The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor ...

archaeology team wins

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* October 28 - China's Tianhe-1 becomes the world's fastest supercomputer, replacing Jaguar in this position, performing at peak computing rate of 2.507

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November

* November 1 -

Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China The 2010 Chinese census, officially the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (中華人民共和國第六次全國人口普查), was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China wi ...

* November 6 - Jiangmen star park opening * November 12 –

2010 Asian Games opening ceremony The 2010 Asian Games opening ceremony officially began at 8:00pm China Standard Time (UTC+8) on November 12, 2010. The ceremony took place along the Pearl River on Haixinsha Island, mark it the first time in history that the ceremony was held ou ...

* November 12 – 27 – 2010 Asian Games held in

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

* November 15 -

2010 Shanghai fire The 2010 Shanghai fireThe PRC State Council officially named it "上海“11·15”特别重大火灾" (Shanghai "11·15" especially serious fire) or "上海市静安区胶州路公寓大楼“11·15”特别重大火灾事故" (Shanghai Jing'a ...

* November 27 - Qingdao Metropolis Convenience Daily newspaper assault on journalists

December

* December 5 - ** 2010 Dawu fire ** 2010 Zhangjiagang hospital incident * December 10 - ** HK journalists attacked at activist Zhao Lianhai's apartment ** Liu Xiaobo absent at 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony * December 18 -

2010 Eocheong boat collision incident The 2010 Eocheong boat collision incident occurred on December 18 2010 off Eocheong island in the Yellow Sea, involving the Republic of Korea Coast Guard (ROK) and fishermen from the People's Republic of China. About 503 Chinese trawlers were illega ...

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* Bashan 125R motorcycle begins production by the Bashan Motorcycle Manufacturing Co.Ltd in Chongqing. * Handheld Culture online bookstore is founded.

Deaths

* February 2 – **

Ng Teng Fong Ng Teng Fong (; 28 July 1928 – 2 February 2010) was a Singaporean real estate tycoon with a major presence in Hong Kong. He is the father of Robert Ng. In 1997, Forbes listed the two as the 30th richest people in the world. History Ng Teng ...

, 82,

-born

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an businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. ** Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88,

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

prelate,

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Zhaoxian Zhaoxian or Zhao Xian may refer to: * Zhao County (), Hebei, China * Zhaoxian (Taoism) (), "illuminated immortals", who achieve transcendence through constant periods of thought and recollection People with the name Zhaoxian or Zhao Xian include: * ...

, cerebral hemorrhage. * February 3 – Qian Chunqi, Chinese

doctor Doctor or The Doctor may refer to: Personal titles * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree * A medical practitioner, including: ** Physician ** Surgeon ** Dentist ** Veterinary physician ** Optometrist *Other roles ** ...

and

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(born 1921) * February 4 –

Te Wei Te Wei (; in Shanghai in Shanghai) was a Chinese manhua artist and animator. He is probably best known for the 1956 short animated film ''The Proud General''. From about 1960, he worked in an ink-wash animation style that was influenced by the pai ...

, 95,

animator,

respiratory failure Respiratory failure results from inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, meaning that the arterial oxygen, carbon dioxide, or both cannot be kept at normal levels. A drop in the oxygen carried in the blood is known as hypoxemia; a rise ...

. * February 14 – Zhang Yalin, 28,

football player,

lymphoma Lymphoma is a group of blood and lymph tumors that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). In current usage the name usually refers to just the cancerous versions rather than all such tumours. Signs and symptoms may include enla ...

. * March 10 –

Leeann Chin Leeann Chin is a Bloomington, Minnesota-based Asian quick service restaurant chain, with over 50 locations throughout the Midwest, mostly in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. The chain was founded by its namesake, Leeann Chin, and funded by Ca ...

, 77,

-born American restaurateur, founder of

restaurants, after long illness. * March 13 – He Pingping, 21,

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, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. * April 26 – D.C. Lau, 89, Chinese sinologist. * May 17 – Walasse Ting, 80,

-born American

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

. * June 7 – Chai Zemin, 93,

diplomat. * June 25 – Wu Guanzhong, 90,

painter. * July 5 –

Jia Hongsheng Jia Hongsheng (; 19 March 1967 – 5 July 2010) was a Chinese actor who became known in the late 1980s and early 1990s for roles in movies like ''The Case of the Silver Snake'' (1988), ''Good Morning, Beijing'' (1991), ''A Woman from North Shaan ...

, 43,

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

, suicide by

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. * July 15 – Luo Pinchao, 98,

opera singer Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libretti ...

. * July 29 – Zheng Ji, 110,

nutritionist A nutritionist is a person who advises others on matters of food and nutrition and their impacts on health. Some people specialize in particular areas, such as sports nutrition, public health, or animal nutrition, among other disciplines. In many ...

and biochemist, world's oldest professor. * July 30 –

Chien Wei-zang Qian Weichang or Chien Wei-zang (; 9 October 1912 – 30 July 2010) was a Chinese physicist and applied mathematician, as well as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as President of Shanghai University. Career Qian was b ...

, 96,

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. * October 18 –

Peng Chong Peng Chong (; March 1915 – October 18, 2010 ), born Xu Tieru (), was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee (1969–87) and its politburo (1977–82); and Secretary General of the National People’s Congress betw ...

, 95, Chinese politician, former

Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress The Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress () is a political office in China. According to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Vice Chairmen are responsible for assisting the Chairman in performing ...

. * October 28 – Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (

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), lung infection.