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Events in the year 2011 in China.

Incumbents

• Party General Secretary - Hu Jintao
• President – Hu Jintao
• Premier – Wen Jiabao
• 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.^[1][2]
• January 23 – CCTV Chengdu J-10 footage controversy

February

• February 1 – The Chinese government begins efforts to combat an ongoing drought.^[3]
• February 20 – 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
• February 28 – 2011 crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China (est.)

March

2011 Yunnan earthquake

• 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.^[4][5][6]
• March 16 – Phuntsog self-immolation incident
• March 29 – 2011 Yunnan protest

April

• April 5 – The Ministry of Health dismissed media coverages about Yinzibing (HIV-negative AIDS).^[7]
• April 13 – 2011 Shanghai riot
• April 14 – 2011 BRICS summit
• April 20 – 2011 Shanghai Truckers Strike
• April 22 – Wang Jia-zheng (汪家正) self-immolation incident^[8]
• April 28 – Xi'an China International Horticultural Exposition 2011

May

• May 10 – 2011 Xilinhot incident
• May 13 – Yang Xianwen (杨显文) Tianzhu bank bombing case^[9]
• 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^[10]
• June 6 – 2011 Chaozhou riot
• June 7 – Wang Meng assault incident
• June 10 – Tianjin bombing^[11]
• June 10 – 2011 Zengcheng riot
• June 11 – 2011 China floods (est.)
• June 11–17 – 3rd Straits Forum
• 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 (est.)^[12]

September

• September 1 – First China-Eurasia Expo
• September 23 – 2011 Lufeng city riot
• September 26 – Lobsang Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok self-immolation incident^[13]
• 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 19 – Seventh Chen-Chiang summit
• October 21 – 2011 Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident^[14][15][16]
• October 26 – 2011 Zhili riot
• October 31 – Announcement of Sunway BlueLight, first supercomputer to use domestic processors^[17][18]

November

• November 1 – Launch of Shenzhou 8
• November 12 – 2011 Zhongshan riot
• November 14 – Xi'an gas explosion^[19]
• November 16 – 2011 Gansu school bus crash
• November 20 – North Korean guards cross to Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County after death of Kim Jong-il^[20]
• 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 (1982–1988).^[21]
• February 13 – Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist.^[22]
• February 17 – Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.^[23]
• February 19 – Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Shaoxing opera actress.^[24]
• August 7 – Li Xing (黎星), 54, Chinese-English journalist^[25][26]

See also

• List of political self-immolations

References

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