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Events in the year2012 inChina.

• General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party –Xi Jinping (from 15 Nov)
• President –Hu Jintao
• Premier –Wen Jiabao
• Vice President –Xi Jinping
• Vice Premier –Li Keqiang
• Congress Chairman –Wu Bangguo
• Conference Chairman –Jia Qinglin

• Governor of Anhui Province –Li Bin
• Governor of Fujian Province –Su Shulin
• Governor of Gansu Province –Liu Weiping
• Governor of Guangdong Province –Zhu Xiaodan
• Governor of Guizhou Province –Zhao Kezhi (until December),Chen Min'er (starting December)
• Governor of Hainan Province –Jiang Dingzhi
• Governor of Hebei Province –Zhang Qingwei
• Governor of Heilongjiang Province: –Wang Xiankui
• Governor of Henan Province –Guo Gengmao
• Governor of Hubei Province –Wang Guosheng
• Governor of Hunan Province –Xu Shousheng
• Governor of Jiangsu Province –Li Xueyong
• Governor of Jiangxi Province –Lu Xinshe
• Governor of Jilin Province –Wang Rulin (until December),Bayanqolu (starting December)
• Governor of Liaoning Province –Chen Zhenggao
• Governor of Qinghai Province –Luo Huining
• Governor of Shaanxi Province –Zhao Zhengyong (until December),Lou Qinjian (starting December)
• Governor of Shandong Province –Jiang Daming
• Governor of Shanxi Province –Wang Jun (until December),Li Xiaopeng (starting December)
• Governor of Sichuan Province –Jiang Jufeng
• Governor of Yunnan Province:Li Jiheng
• Governor of Zhejiang Province –Xia Baolong (until December),Li Qiang (starting December)

• January 15 -2012 Guangxi cadmium spill
• January 17 –Wanggang village rally
• January 22 –Kong Qingdong comment andEarly 2012 Hong Kong protests
• January 30 –GanzhouNingdu County riot with 5000 citizens^[1][2]

• February 1 -Guizhentang Pharmaceutical company IPO controversy
• February 8 -
  • Chongqingpublic security bureau headWang Lijun seek political asylum in US consulate.
  • Cross-strait language database introduced by both sides of strait.
• February 11 - Elections in Wukan following theProtests of Wukan
• February 22 - Chinese coast guard opens fire on Vietnamese ships atParacel Islands with no casualties reported.^[3]
• February 28 - Terroristskill 15 people inYecheng,Xinjiang.

• March 1 –
  • Guangdong National Language Regulations
  • Hong Kong mainland China driving scheme
• March 14 - Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law of the PRC was passed by theNational People's Congress.
• March 15 -Bo Xilai was removed from his post asChongqingParty Secretary.

• April 8 – 10 – ThePhilippine Navy spotted Chinese fishermen fishing on the disputedScarborough Shoal and attempted to detain the fishermen on April 10 but was blocked by the Chinese maritime surveillance ship which led to adiplomatic standoff over the shoal and the further severance ofChinese ties with the Philippines.
• April 10 - TheChinese Communist Party suspends thePolitburo membership of former senior officialBo Xilai, while his wifeGu Kailai is named as a suspect in the murder of a British businessman.^[4][5]
• April 19 - Ingolf, 13-year-old ChineseGuan Tian-lang becomes the youngest player to compete on thePGA European Tour when he bogeys at theVolvo China Open.^[6]
• April 28 - BlindChinese human rights activistChen Guangcheng – who fled fromhouse arrest – reportedly takes refuge in theU.S. embassy inBeijing.^[7]

• May 7 -South Korea seizes thousands of smuggledcapsules from NortheasternPeople's Republic of China filled with powderedhuman flesh.^[8][9][10]
• May 11 - Chinese scientists usequantum teleportation to transmitphotons over a distance of 97 kilometres (60 mi) – a world record for quantum teleportation.^[11]
• May 13 -
  • Torrential rainfall and flooding inChina'sHunan Province destroys a bridge and 3,500 homes, leading to the evacuation of 28,000 people inPingjiang County.^[12][13]
  • Chinese securitytsar andPolitburo Standing Committee memberZhou Yongkang reportedly transfers his security-related duties to Minister of Public SecurityMeng Jianzhu, following theBo Xilai scandal.^[14]
• May 16 -China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing is completed, a decade after its design byOMA.^[15][16]
• May 19 - At least 20 people are killed in an explosion in a road tunnel being constructed in central China.^[17]
• May 20 - Two women inJieyang,Guangdong,PRC, are executed for counterfeiting nearly 300 million yuan RMB.^[18][19]

• June 16 – 22 - 4thStraits Forum
• June 24 - China successfully carries out its first manual docking of a spacecraft between theShenzhou 9 capsule andTiangong-1 station.^[20]
• June 29 -Tianjin Airlines Flight GS7554 fromHotan Airport, Embraer E-190, toÜrümqi Diwopu International Airport, passengers and crew members thwart an attempt to hijack a plane in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, local authorities say.^[21]
• June 30 - Fire breaks out in a mall inJi County, Tianjin, killing 10 people, all of which are female. Many netizens accuse the authority of a cover-up and believe, based on unconfirmed reports, that hundreds may have perished during the fire.^[22]

• July 21 -Flash flooding inBeijing and northernHebei kills 79 people in the worst-ever storm to hit the Beijing area.

• August 19 - Massiveanti-Japanese protest takes place in many Chinese cities, following the landings of severalHong Kong and Japanese activists on thedisputedSenkaku Islands.

• September 7 -Twin earthquake on the border betweenYunnan andGuizhou kills at least 81 people, mostly inYiliang,Zhaotong.
• September 15 – 19 - Second wave ofanti-Japanese protests erupts in at least 19 cities in China.Xi Jinping re-appears after a two-week absence.

• October 4 - Landslide buries at least 19 people in the Southwestern province ofYunnan

• November 8 – 14 - The18th National Congress of Chinese Communist Party is held in theGreat Hall of the People in Beijing. On November 15,Xi Jinping is chosen as the newGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. He now also leads theCentral Military Commission afterHu Jintao hands over thechairmanship to Xi.

• December 14
  • 23 children and an elderly woman were injured during astabbing incident.
  • SM City Chongqing, the sixth SM Mall in mainland China was opened.

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