2015 in China

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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in China.

Incumbents

Paramount leader

Head of state

Head of government

National legislature

Political advisory

Governors

Events

January

  • January 3 – The six-century-old Gongchen Tower in Weishan, Yunnan is destroyed by a fire.
  • January 12 – In Xinjiang, Chinese police kill six militants.

February

  • February 17
  • February 28
    • The municipal intermediate people's court for the eastern city of Dongying convicts Ni Fake, former Vice-Governor of Anhui in China, on charges of bribery and "amassing wealth of unclear origin", and sentences him to seventeen years in prison.
    • The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference removes disgraced senior official Ling Jihua from the office of vice-chairman and also strips him of his ordinary delegate status.

March

  • March 6 – At least two knife-wielding attackers injure nine people at a train station in Guangzhou. The police fatally shoot one of the suspects.

May

June

July

August

  • August 12 – More than two explosions occurred within 30 seconds of each other at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin. Over 100 were killed and hundreds are injured. There were at least 700 tonnes of highly toxic sodium cyanide stored at the site. By August 15, local authorities ordered an evacuation.

September

  • September 7 – Explosion at Nanming Chemical Co Ltd's plant in Lishui, Zhejiang – the fourth since Tianjin, this time caused by ignited methanol. No reported casualties.
  • September 30 – 17 Explosions at Liucheng County, Guangxi. Police reported 7 deaths, 51 injuries and 2 missing. Terrorism was ruled out, while speculation centered on fast delivery packages. One suspect was detained.

October

  • October 26 to 29 – The Fifth Plenum of the 18th CPC National Congress held in Beijing. The plenum discusses about the thirteenth Five-year plans of China.

November

Ma Ying-jeou and Xi Jinping shaking hands at the Ma-Xi meeting

December

  • December 13 – National Memorial Day commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre
  • December 20 – a landslide happened in Guangming New Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, Guangdong. It has caused 7 deaths and about 75 to be missing, 16 are hospitalized. It is reported as man-made accident.
  • December 28 – China approves an anti-terrorism law. US Government criticizes that China would use it as an excuse to corrupt its religious, company, speech and various freedom.
  • December 31 – The PLA's Leader Department of Land Army, Rocket Army and Strategic Supportive Force established. Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping masters the establishment ceremony.

Culture

Sport

Association football

Deaths

  • April 8 Rayson Huang, 94, Chinese chemist, vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (1972–1986).
  • April 9 Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, 105, Chinese-born American sinologist, professor, and librarian.
  • April 10 Jin Youzhi, 96, last surviving sibling of Puyi, the final ruler of the Qing Dynasty and last Emperor of China.
  • May 27 Zhang Jieqing, 102, Chinese politician and writer.
  • October 9 Du Runsheng, 102, Chinese reformer and economist.
  • December 4 Xu Ming, 44, Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire.
  • December 6 Liu Juying, 98, Chinese politician and army general.

Other

See also


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