2011 in China

Incumbents

• Party General Secretary - Hu Jintao
• President – Hu Jintao
• Premier – Wen Jiabao
• Vice President – Xi Jinping
• Vice Premier – Li Keqiang
• Congress Chairman - Wu Bangguo
• Conference Chairman - Jia Qinglin

  Events

January

• January 6 – Jiaxing Xiuzhou District case of fish kill.
• January 11 – China successfully tests the Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle, one of its fifth generation stealth, twin-engine fighter aircraft 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
• February 28 – 2011 crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China

  March

• March 2 – 2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident
• March 10 – 2011 Yunnan earthquake: At least 24 people are killed and 207 injured following a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in Yingjiang County of the Yunnan province near the Burma border.
• March 16 – Phuntsog self-immolation incident
• March 29 – 2011 Yunnan protest

  April

• April 5 – The Ministry of Health dismissed media coverages about Yinzibing.
• April 13 – 2011 Shanghai riot
• April 14 – 2011 BRICS summit
• April 20 – 2011 Shanghai Truckers Strike
• April 22 – Wang Jia-zheng self-immolation incident
• April 28 – Xi'an China International Horticultural Exposition 2011

  May

• May 10 – 2011 Xilinhot incident
• May 13 – Yang Xianwen Tianzhu bank bombing case
• May 20 – 2011 Chengdu Foxconn explosion incident
• May 26 – 2011 Fuzhou, Jiangxi bombings

  June

• June 1 – Painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains reunify the two halves of the painting held by Republic of China and the People's Republic of China
• June 6 – 2011 Chaozhou riot
• June 7 – Wang Meng assault incident
• June 10 – Tianjin bombing
• June 10 – 2011 Zengcheng riot
• June 11 – 2011 China floods
• 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 2011 Bohai bay oil spill
• July 11 – 2011 Huizhou refinery explosion incident
• July 18 – 2011 Hotan attack
• July 23 – 2011 Wenzhou train collision
• July 24 – Canada extradites Lai Changxing to China
• July 30–31 – 2011 Kashgar attacks

  August

• August 1 – Nepal rejects China-UN backed Lumbini project
• August 4 – 2011 Nanchang mass suicide protest
• August 11 – 2011 Qianxi riot
• August 14 – Dalian PX protest
• August 12 – 2011 Summer Universiade
• August 26 – 2011 Jiangmen dog ban
• August 30 - Yunnan Nanpan River chromium toxic spill

  September

• September 1 – First China-Eurasia Expo
• September 16 – Line 2, The first line of the Xian Subway was completed.
• September 23 – 2011 Lufeng city riot
• 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
• 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, first supercomputer to use domestic processors

  November

• November 1 – Launch of Shenzhou 8
• November 12 – 2011 Zhongshan riot
• November 14 – Xi'an gas explosion
• November 16 – 2011 Gansu school bus crash
• November 20 – North Korean guards cross to Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County after death of Kim Jong-il
• November 27 – Billionaire real estate tycoon Huang Nubo is rejected to purchase parts of Iceland

  December

• December 12 – 2011 Incheon fishing incident
• December 21 - Protests of Wukan end
• December 28 - 2011 Pishan hostage crisis

  Deaths

• January 14 – Liu Huaqing, 94, Chinese naval commander.
• February 13 – Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist.
• February 17 – Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.
• February 19 – Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Yue opera actress.
• August 7 – Li Xing, 54, Chinese-English journalist