2013 in China

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Events in the year 2013 in China.

Incumbents

Paramount leader

• General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping

Head of state

• President – Hu Jintao(until March 14), Xi Jinping(starting March 14)

Head of government

• Premier – Wen Jiabao(until March 15), Li Keqiang(starting March 15)

National legislature

• Congress chairman – Wu Bangguo(until March 14), Zhang Dejiang(starting March 14)

Political advisory

• Conference chairman – Jia Qinglin(until March 11), Yu Zhengsheng(starting March 11)

Events

January

• January 3 - 2013 Southern Weekly incident

April

• April 15 - 2013 Daulat Beg Oldi Incident
• April 20 - 2013 Lushan earthquake
• April 24 - April 2013 Bachu unrest

May

• May 24 - Ding Jinhao engraving scandal

June

• June 7 - Xiamen bus fire
• June 16-21 - 5th Straits Forum
• June 22 - 2013 Shanghai shooting
• June 26 - June 2013 Shanshan riots

July

• Early July - 2013 Southwest China floods
• July 20 - 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing

October

• October 21 - 2013 Harbin smog starts to spread.

Deaths

• January 28 - Xu Liangying, physicist, translator, historian and philosopher
• June 2 - Chen Xitong, politician, former member of the Political Bureau

References

Years in the People's Republic of China (1949–present)
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