2016 in China

Incumbents

Paramount leader

• General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping

  Head of state

• President – Xi Jinping
• *Vice President – Li Yuanchao

  Head of government

• Premier – Li Keqiang
• *Vice Premiers – Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang, Ma Kai

  National legislature

• Congress chairman – Zhang Dejiang

  Political advisory

• Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng

  Events

January

• January 1
• *People's Bank of China Shandong Branch announced will using coin replacing bill in 1 yuan value as testing field in 5 cities including Qingdao, Zaozhuang, Jining, Linyi and Rizhao.
• *China officially transitions from its one-child policy to a two-child policy.
• January 2–9 2016 Shenzhen Open
• January 4 Chinese regulators introduce a circuit breaker in an attempt to prevent stock market crashes, halting trade.
• January 5 members of Causeway bay books of Hong Kong, including the manager go missing. China's television states that he used to have a name Gui Minhai in committing a hit-and-run crime in 2003. He and his staff went missing mysteriously starts on December 30, 2015 and it's later confirmed that they are all in mainland China.
• January 16 The Council of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank established. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang master the founding ceremony.
• January 17 The Beijing Military Region reform as Central Battle Region.
• January 20–25 A century cold wave hits nearly all parts of China, it is first happened in Siberia, and then goes down to hit China. By January 24, it hits the Southern part of China, Guangzhou, Hong Kong has its first snow in the new century and the ninth of its recorded history. It is described as the Emperor Level Blizzard.
• January 29 After being trapped for 36 days, four miners are rescued from a collapsed mine in Baotai, Shandong Province.

  February

• February 1President Xi Jinping announced that the seven military regions transformed into five battle regions. The five battle regions are Central Battle Region, East Battle Region, West Battle Region, South Battle Region and North Battle Region.
• February 6A 6.4 Magnitude earthquake occurs in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• February 23–25China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is invited to visit United States. Wang Yi and American General Secretary John Kerry claim that neither China nor US accepts North Korea's nuclear missile proposal. They do not recognize North Korea's Nuclear Status for the cause of Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

  March

• MarchNational People's Representative Conference and National Political Association Conference open. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang holds the two-conferences.
• March 27The National Party of Hong Kong is established. It advocates the independence of Hong Kong and does not recognize the Basic Law of Hong Kong.
• March 28–April 32016 China Open
• March 30China deploys anti-ship missiles on Paracel Islands. Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Hong Lei responded that it's a right thing to do for deploying national defenses equipments on its own territory.

  April

• AprilABU Radio Song Festival 2016
• April 13A building in an industrial zone of Machong County, Dongguan collapse. 18 deaths are reported.
• April 138 Taiwanese criminals out of 10 are sent back to Mainland China by Kenya. Taiwanese government protests China's working method. However, the media in Taiwan agree and said the criminals should be seriously punished since the legals in Taiwan are too good for these criminals.
• April 17Chinese Central Television broadcasts a report on Changzhou Foreign Languages School stating hundreds of students have fallen ill from pollution.
• April 27–May 12016 Extreme Sailing Series in Qingdao

  May

• May 2The Cyberspace Administration of China announces an investigation into the death of Wei Zexi, a student who died following experimental treatment for synovial sarcoma he discovered on the search engine Baidu.
• May 3Xi Jinping meets with Laotian president Bounnhang Vorachith.
• May 7Lei Yang, a Chinese environmentalist, dies after an altercation with police in Changping District, Beijing.
• May 15–222016 Thomas & Uber Cup in Kunshan, Jiangsu

  June

• June 4 A tour boat in Guangyuan capsizes, killing a child and leaving 14 missing out of 18 passengers.
• June 12 A man commits a suicide bombing at the international departure of Shanghai Pudong Airport causes 4 injuries, 1 deadly hurt.
• June 16 The Shanghai Disney Resort opens.

  July

• July 1 A Taiwan military ship fires a missile mistakenly. The day is the CPC founding celebration day while CPC founded on July 23, 1921, but for easy remembering, the founding day is set to be July 1.
• July 6Hubei province floods.
• July 23 A woman is killed after attempting to defend her daughter from a tiger at Badaling Wildlife World Park in Beijing. The daughter sustains serious injuries.
• July 24 The first case of rift valley fever in China is identified.
• July 31Cangwu County, Wuzhou, Guangxi earthquakes by 5:18 pm at level 5.4. The center is near Guangzhou 204 kilometers. People in Guangzhou and Shenzhen can sense the quake.

  August

• AugustChina is going to launch the world's first quantum satellite.
• August 16 - China successfully launched the world's first quantum satellite QUESS" from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gobi Desert at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday.

  September

• September 4–52016 G-20 Hangzhou summit
• September 27An explosion at a coal mine in Shizuishan kills 18 workers, leaving two missing.
• September 28 Typhoon Megi makes landfall in mainland China. Major landslides caused by Megi occur in Sucun Village, and Wencheng County.

  October

• October 17 China launches Shenzhou 11 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia.
• October 25 Illegally stored explosives cause an explosion in a house in northwestern China that kills at least 14 people and injures 147 others in the town of Xinmin in Shaanxi province.
• October 27–302016 WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai

  November

• November 2–3 Cross-Strait Peaceful Development Forum in Beijing.
• November 3 China launches Long March 5 from China Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, Hainan.