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Events in the year2003 inChina.

• Party General Secretary -Hu Jintao
• President –Jiang Zemin to March 15,Hu Jintao
• Premier –Zhu Rongji to March 16,Wen Jiabao
• Vice President –Hu Jintao to March 15,Zeng Qinghong
• Vice Premier –Li Lanqing to March 6,Huang Ju
• Congress Chairman -Li Peng to March 15,Wu Bangguo
• Conference Chairman -Li Ruihuan to March 14,Jia Qinglin

• Governor of Anhui Province –Wang Jinshan
• Governor of Fujian Province –Lu Zhangong
• Governor of Gansu Province –Lu Hao
• Governor of Guangdong Province –Lu Ruihua thenHuang Huahua
• Governor of Guizhou Province –Shi Xiushi
• Governor of Hainan Province –Wang Xiaofeng thenWei Liucheng
• Governor of Hebei Province –Ji Yunshi
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province –Song Fatang thenZhang Zuoji
• Governor of Henan Province –Li Keqiang thenLi Chengyu
• Governor of Hubei Province –Luo Qingquan
• Governor of Hunan Province –Zhang Yunchuan thenZhou Bohua
• Governor of Jiangsu Province –Liang Baohua
• Governor of Jiangxi Province –Huang Zhiquan
• Governor of Jilin Province –Wang Min (until December),Han Changfu (starting December)
• Governor of Liaoning Province –Bo Xilai
• Governor of Qinghai Province –Song Xiuyan
• Governor of Shaanxi Province –Jia Zhibang
• Governor of Shandong Province –Zhang Gaoli thenHan Yuqun
• Governor of Shanxi Province –Liu Zhenhua
• Governor of Sichuan Province –Zhang Zhongwei
• Governor of Yunnan Province –Xu Rongkai
• Governor of Zhejiang Province –Xi Jinping (until January),Lü Zushan (starting January)

• January 7 to January 8 –Hefei student protests occur, which were described as the largest student protests since theTiananmen Square protests of 1989.^[1]

• February 24 –2003 Bachu earthquake: An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude occurred in theXinjiang Autonomous Region in northwest China, killing 191 people and 291 hospitalised. Almost 10,000 homes were leveled by the earthquake.^[2]

• March 14 – Asmartphone andportable audio player brand,Meizu was founded by Jack Wong inZhuhai,Guangdong Province.^[3]
• March 15 –Hu Jintao becomesPresident of the People's Republic of China, replacingJiang Zemin.^[4]

• June 1 – ThePeople's Republic of China begins filling thelake behind the massiveThree Gorges Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 meters.^[5]

• October 15 –China successfully launchesShenzhou 5, their firstcrewed space mission, becoming the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability after theSoviet Union and theUnited States.^[6]

• December 23 - APetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion inChongqing, 234 people lives.^[7][8]

• 6 March –Long Daoyi, Chinese diver

• January 12 —Wang Tieya, jurist (b.1913)
• January 22 —Tan Qilong, politician (b.1913)
• February 11
  • Ma Sanli, comedian (b.1914)
  • Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, physicist (b.1912)
• March 15 —Li Xuefeng, 2ndSecretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b.1907)
• March 17 —Su Buqing, mathematician, educator and poet (b.1902)
• April 1 —Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (b.1956)
• April 9 —Wu Zuguang, playwright, film director and social critic (b.1917)
• April 16 —Long Shujin, 3rdChairman of Xinjiang (b.1910)
• May 31 —Li Lin, physicist (b.1923)
• June 17 —Zheng Wenguang, science fiction author (b.1929)
• July 5 —Zhang Aiping, 6thMinister of National Defense of China (b.1910)
• October 23 —Soong Mei-ling, political figure and wife ofChiang Kai-shek (b.1898)
• October 25 —Yao Guang, diplomat, foreign ambassador (born1921)^[9]
• November 15 —T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (born 1912)
• November 16 —Richard Lam, Cantopop lyricist (b.1948)
• November 19 —Shi Zhecun, essayist, poet and short story writer (b.1905)
• November 24 —Saifuddin Azizi, 4thSecretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b.1915)
• November 25 —Zhang Honggen, international football player and coach (b.1935)
• December 9 —Blackie Ko, Taiwanese film director, producer, stuntman, singer and actor (b.1953)
• December 10 —Oswald Cheung, Hong Kong barrister (b.1922)
• December 13 —Xie Tian, actor and director (b.1914)
• December 27 —Ying Ruocheng, actor, director and playwright (b.1929)
• December 30 —Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b.1963)

• List of Chinese films of 2003
• Hong Kong League Cup 2003–04

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