2020 in China

Incumbents

Paramount leader

• General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping

  Head of state

• President – Xi Jinping
• * Vice President – Wang Qishan

  Head of government

• Premier – Li Keqiang
• * Vice Premiers – Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua, Liu He

  National legislature

• Congress chairman – Li Zhanshu

  Political advisory

• Conference chairman – Wang Yang

  Supervision commission

• Director: Yang Xiaodu

  Events

January

• January 20 - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to prevent and control Coronavirus disease 2019.
• January 26 - Leading group on the prevention and control of Coronavirus disease 2019 was established, led by Li Keqiang. The leading group has decided to extend Spring Festival holiday to contain coronavirus outbreak.
• January 27 - Li Keqiang visited Wuhan, center of what became the COVID-19 pandemic, to direct the epidemic prevention work.
• January 28 - The opening of Dabie Mountain Regional Medical Centre in Huangzhou District, Huanggang, Hubei.
• January 30 - At the World Health Organization's second meeting of the Emergency Committee declared the Wuhan outbreak of novel coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

  February

• February 3 - Huoshenshan Hospital accepted patients after a speedy construction build period.
• February 6 - Leishenshan Hospital passed evaluations and will begin accepting patients soon.
• February 10 - An advance World Health Organization team of medical experts has arrived in China, led by Dr. Bruce Aylward, who coordinated the WHO's Ebola Response in 2016.
• February 28 - Three time Chinese Olympic swimming champion, Sun Yang, has been given an 8-year ban for missing a doping test in September 2018 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

  March

• March 7 - Collapse of Xinjia Express Hotel
• March 10 - Communist Party of China general secretary Xi Jinping visits Wuhan, the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, after an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people.
• March 24 - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reported that spread of domestically transmitted epidemic has been basically blocked and the COVID-19 pandemic has been controlled in China.

  April

• April 4 - Coinciding with the Qingming Festival, a national day of mourning was declared followed by a three minute silence to honor 3,300+ people who died of Covid-19.

  May

• May 9 - Several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing. Around one hundred and fifty troops clashed in a "standoff" that included fistfights and stone-throwing.

  June

• June 26 - Nearly 50 independent United Nations Human Rights experts highlighted their concern on the situation in China. They voiced concern for many actions including but not limited to allegations of forced labor; arbitrary interferences with the right to privacy; restrictive cybersecurity, anti-terrorism, and sedition laws; the retaliation against journalists, medical workers and others speaking out about COVID-19; the repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet; and the repression of protests and democracy advocacy in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. They urged China to "withdraw the draft national security law for Hong Kong”.

  July

• July 7 - Anshun bus crash

  Popular culture

Film

• List of Chinese films of 2020

  Deaths

• 7 February – Li Wenliang

  Country overviews

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• Outline of China
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