2021 in China
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Events in the year 2021 in China.
Incumbents[edit]
Paramount leader[edit]
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General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party | Xi Jinping |
Head of state[edit]
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President of the People's Republic of China | Xi Jinping |
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Vice President of the People's Republic of China | Wang Qishan |
Head of government[edit]
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Premier of the People's Republic of China | Li Keqiang |
National legislature[edit]
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Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | Li Zhanshu |
Political advisory[edit]
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Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | Wang Yang |
Supervision commission[edit]
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Director of the Supervision Commission of the People's Republic of China | Yang Xiaodu |
Governors[edit]
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- 5 January – The team sent by the World Health Organization to study the origins of the coronavirus pandemic virus is blocked from entering China. The team claims their visas had not been approved yet. Tedros Adhanom expressed his dismay, saying he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials, and how important the expedition was.[1]
- 11 January – 13 members of the 15 member World Health Organization team sent to study the origins of COVID-19 arrive in Wuhan, China. The last two members are awaiting in Singapore for their COVID-19 test results.[2]
March[edit]
- 22 March – 2021 Guangzhou bombing.
April[edit]
- 13 April – Regarding to the Japanese cabinet's decision to dump radioactive water of the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, China's foreign ministry expressed strong opposition.[3][4]
May[edit]
- 22 May – Gansu ultramarathon disaster. 21 runners died from hypothermia in a government-run 100k race.
June[edit]
- 5 June – 2021 Anqing stabbing attack.
- 13 June – 2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion.
- 25 June – Zhecheng school fire.
July[edit]
- 1 July – 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party
- 17 July – 2021 Henan floods begin.
August[edit]
- 4 August – A syphilis man buying a paralytic bride to have nine children (zh:梅毒男与智障女子9孩案) was exposed by local media in Shandong, which raised legal controversy over whether this constitutes legal rape in China.
- 8 August – The tech company Alibaba Group fired senior executives who silenced an internal complaint of rape and who ordered a media blackout of the complaint (zh:阿里巴巴员工被领导强奸案). This rape case in China exposed the Chinese business culture of forcing female employees to act as KTV hostesses to entertain business clients. This case is also a boost to the #MeToo movement in China.
Deaths[edit]
- 22 May – Yuan Longping
See also[edit]
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Country overviews[edit]
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Related timelines for current period[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Boseley, Sarah (2021-01-05). "China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid's origins". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ "Health experts arrive in Wuhan to investigate COVID-19 origins". UN News. 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "Fukushima: Japan approves releasing wastewater into ocean". BBC. 2021-04-13.
- ^ Clark, Aaron (2021-04-12). "U.S. Friends Join China in Ripping Japan Plan on Fukushima Water". Bloomberg News.
Links[edit]
Media related to 2021 in China at Wikimedia Commons
