Events from the year 2017 in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

Incumbents

Paramount leader

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party The general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party () is the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since 1989, the CCP general secretary has been the paramount lead ...

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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, ...

Head of state

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 ...

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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 ...

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Li Yuanchao Li Yuanchao (born 20 November 1950) is a retired Chinese politician. He was the Vice President of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2018 and the Honorary President of the Red Cross Society of China. He was a member of the Secretaria ...

Head of government

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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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 Affa ...

** Vice Premiers –

Zhang Gaoli Zhang Gaoli or Chang Kao-li ( zh, 张高丽; ; born 1 November 1946) is a retired Chinese politician. He served as the senior Vice Premier of the State Council between 2013 and 2018 and as a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo ...

, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang,

Ma Kai Ma Kai (; pinyin: ''Mǎ Kǎi''; born June 1946 in Shanghai) was one of the four Vice Premiers of China (Fourth-ranked). He was formerly a State Councilor and Secretary General of the State Council of China. Biography Ma Kai was born in Jinsha ...

National legislature

* Congress chairman –

Zhang Dejiang Zhang Dejiang (; born 4 November 1946) is a Chinese retired politician. He served as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, roughly the equivalent of a speaker of parliament in other countries between ...

Political advisory

* Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province –

Li Guoying Li Guoying (; born December 1963) is a Chinese hydraulic engineer-turned-politician, currently serving as governor of Anhui province. Li worked in his early career as a technician and administrator in the national ministry of water works, the Yel ...

* Governor of Fujian Province –

Yu Weiguo Yu Weiguo (; born October 1955) is a Chinese politician who served as Communist Party Secretary of Fujian. Prior to that he served as Deputy Communist Party Secretary and Governor of Fujian, and Communist Party Secretary of Xiamen. Biography Yu ...

(until 2 January),

Tang Dengjie Tang Dengjie (; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician and business executive, serving since February 2022 as Minister of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Previously he served as deputy minister in charge of the National Develop ...

(starting 2 January) * Governor of Gansu Province –

Lin Duo Lin Duo (; born March 1956) is a Chinese politician currently serving as Communist Party secretary of Gansu province. He formerly served as Communist Party Secretary and Mayor of Harbin, and Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspectio ...

(until 11 April),

Tang Renjian Tang Renjian (; born August 1962) is a Chinese politician formerly serving as Governor of Gansu province. He formerly served as deputy director of the Office of the Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, the Vice Chairman of the Guangx ...

(starting 11 April) * Governor of Guangdong Province –

* Governor of Guizhou Province –

Shen Yiqin Shen Yiqin (; born 15 December 1959) is a Chinese politician of Bai ethnic heritage. She served as the Communist Party Secretary of Guizhou, a province in southwestern China, between November 2020 and December 2022. Shen is the third female p ...

* Governor of Hainan Province –

Shen Xiaoming Shen Xiaoming (; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving from 2017 to 2020 as the Governor of Hainan. A pediatrician by training, Shen rose through the ranks in the health and education bureaucracy of Shanghai. He successively served as p ...

* Governor of Hebei Province –

Zhang Qingwei Zhang Qingwei (; born 7 November 1961) is a Chinese politician, business executive, and aerospace engineer who is the current Communist Party Secretary of Hunan, in office since 18 October 2021. He was Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang, ...

(until March), Xu Qin (starting March) * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Lu Hao * Governor of Henan Province –

Chen Run'er Chen Run'er (; born October 1957) is a Chinese politician who served as the Communist Party Secretary of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from October 2019 to March 2022. He formerly served as Governor of Henan Province, the Deputy Communist Part ...

* Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Xiaodong * Governor of Hunan Province –

Xu Dazhe Xu Dazhe (; born September 1956) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer. He was CPC Secretary of Hunan province. Previously, he was the Governor of Hunan. Biography Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi province in 1956, he is a native of Liuyang, H ...

* Governor of Jiangsu Province –

Shi Taifeng Shi Taifeng (; born September 1956) is a Chinese politician currently serving as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party, a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, and a secretary of the Secret ...

(until April),

Wu Zhenglong Wu Zhenglong (; born November 1964) is a Chinese politician and current Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu. Previously, he was Governor of Jiangsu and Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing. Born in Jiangsu, Wu served in Chongqing, then Shanxi, ...

(starting April) * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Liu Qi (politician, born 1957) * Governor of Jilin Province – Liu Guozhong * Governor of Liaoning Province –

Chen Qiufa Chen Qiufa (; born December 1954) is a Chinese aerospace engineer and politician of Miao ethnic heritage. He is the Communist Party Secretary and the former Governor of Liaoning province. He formerly served as Director of the China Atomic Ener ...

(until October), Tang Yijun (starting October) * Governor of Qinghai Province – Wang Jianjun * Governor of Shaanxi Province –

Hu Heping Hu Heping (; born 24 October 1962) is a Chinese politician and the current Communist Party Secretary of Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Previously, he served as the governor and party chief of Shaanxi province, Communist Party Secretary of Tsi ...

* Governor of Shandong Province – Guo Shuqing (until February),

Gong Zheng Gong Zheng (; born 4 March 1960) is a Chinese politician who serves as Mayor and Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai Municipality. He was formerly Governor of Shandong Province, the Party Secretary of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang p ...

(starting April 11) * Governor of Shanxi Province –

Lou Yangsheng Lou Yangsheng (; born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and the current Communist Party Secretary of Henan province. Originally from Zhejiang province, Lou was the Communist Party Secretary of Lishui in his early career. He headed the party ...

* Governor of Sichuan Province – Yin Li * Governor of Yunnan Province – vacant * Governor of Zhejiang Province –

Che Jun Che Jun (; born July 1955) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2017 as the Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang. Between 2016 and 2017, he served as Governor of Zhejiang. Che began his career in Anhui province, and rose to prominence taking ...

(until April),

Yuan Jiajun Yuan Jiajun (; born 27 September 1962) is a Chinese aerospace engineer and politician who is serving as Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Before his political career, Yuan was bes ...

(starting April)

Events

January

* 2 January to 8 January – 2017 Shenzhen Open * 6 January -

Fuzhou Metro The Fuzhou Metro () is a rapid transit system in Fuzhou Metropolitan Area, Fujian Province, China. The first line was planned to open in 2014. Due to the construction difficulties and accidental archaeologic finding, the southern section () was de ...

Line 1 Phase 1 was opened * 9 January - The state science and technology awarding meeting of the People's Republic of China for 2016 was held

June

* 16 June – Chinese,

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

n, and

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

ese border tensions skyrocket over the construction of a road in

Doklam Doklam (), called Donglang () by China, is an area in Bhutan with a high plateau and a valley, lying between China's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha District to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. It has been depicted as p ...

, a disputed region between

and China. See

Doklam Standoff Doklam (), called Donglang () by China, is an area in Bhutan with a high plateau and a valley, lying between China's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha District to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. It has been depicted a ...

for more. * 28 June – The

2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup The 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup, which was hosted by China, was an international 3x3 basketball event that featured separate competitions for men's and women's under-18 national teams. The tournament was held in Chengdu in front of the New Centu ...

begins.

July

* 2 July – The 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup ends. * 17 July – Chinese internet

censors Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...

has banned

Winnie the Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first collection of stories about the character w ...

for its alleged resemblance to

. * 7 July to 6 August –

2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix The 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix was the 25th edition of the annual women's international volleyball tournament played by 32 teams between 7 July and 6 August. The Group 1 Final Round was held in Nanjing, China. Defending champions Brazi ...

August

* 28 August: End of the

and China move troops off the border to their original positions.

October

* October – start of elections for the

13th National People's Congress The 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China was elected from October 2017 to February 2018 and will be in session in the five-year period from 2018 to 2023. It is scheduled to hold five sessions in this period, occurri ...

* 18 October to 24 October –

19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (commonly referred to as ''Shíjiǔ Dà''; ) was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, between 18 and 24 October 2017. 2,280 delegates represented the party's estimated 89 milli ...

* 26 October to 29 October –

2017 WGC-HSBC Champions The 2017 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played from 26–29 October 2017 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the ninth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the ...

Deaths

January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written c ...

Zhou Youguang Zhou Youguang (; 13 January 1906 – 14 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperantist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system f ...

, developer of

Hanyu Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. *1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...

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Han Peixin Han Peixin (; October 1921—15 January 2017) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Xiangshui County, Jiangsu Province. In the 1980s he served as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and Governor of his home provin ...

, politician *

July 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. * 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots. *1260 – The Livon ...

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one- ...

, writer, literary critic, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

References

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