2015 in China

Updated on Dec 19, 2024

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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in China.

Paramount leader

General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping

Head of state

President – Xi Jinping

Head of government

Premier – Li Keqiang

National legislature

Congress chairman – Zhang Dejiang

Political advisory

Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng

Events

Expected launch of Chang'e 4

Earliest date for the first flight of Long March 5

January

January 3 – The six-century old Gongchen Tower in Weishan, Yunnan is destroyed by a fire.

January 12 – In Xinjiang, Chinese police kill six militants.

February

February 17

Chinese prosecutors say that former top Communist Party official Su Rong is under investigation for alleged corruption.

Chinese authorities also announce the indictment of former Guangdong official Zhu Mingguo, former Jinan CPC party chief Wang Min, and former Taiyuan party chief Chen Chuanping, all on charges of corruption.

February 28

The municipal intermediate people's court for the eastern city of Dongying convicts Ni Fake, former Vice-Governor of Anhui in China, on charges of bribery and "amassing wealth of unclear origin", and sentences him to seventeen years in prison.

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference removes disgraced senior official Ling Jihua from the office of vice-chairman and also strips him of his ordinary delegate status.

March

March 6 – At least two knife-wielding attackers injure nine people at a train station in Guangzhou. The police fatally shoot one of the suspects.

May

May 4 – Meeting between General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping and Kuomintang Chairman Eric Chu in Beijing.

June

June 1 – The Dong Fang Zhi Xing capsizes on the Yangtze River in Jianli County, Hubei during severe weather.

August

August 12 – More than two explosions occurred within 30 seconds of each other at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin. Over 100 were killed and hundreds are injured. There were at least 700 tonnes of highly toxic sodium cyanide stored at the site. By August 15, local authorities ordered an evacuation.

August 31 – A chemical explosion occurred in Dongying, Shandong, killing 5 people.

September

September 3 – China's Victory over Japan Day 70th Anniversary Parade held in Beijing, the first military parade to commemorate Victory over Japan Day in the history of the People's Republic of China. Around 12,000 troops from the People's Liberation Army and more than 1,000 troops from 17 nations participated in the parade.

September 7 – Explosion at Nanming Chemical Co Ltd's plant in Lishui, Zhejiang – the fourth since Tianjin, this time caused by ignited methanol. No reported casualties.

September 30 – 17 Explosions at Liucheng County, Guangxi. Police reported 7 deaths, 51 injuries and 2 missing. Terrorism was ruled out, while speculation centered on fast delivery packages. One suspect was detained.

October

October 26 to 29 - The Fifth Plenum of the 18th CPC National Congress held in Beijing. The pleum discusses about the thirteenth Five-year plans of China.

November

November 7 – Ma Ying-jeou and Xi Jinping met in Singapore, the first such meeting between the leaders of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait since the end of the Chinese Civil War.

December

December 13 – The National Memorial Day about the Nanking Massacre. China holds a commmemories ceremony for Nanking Massacre victims. It is first ceremony after the anti-fascism military parade of China.

December 20 – a landslide happened in Guangming New Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China. It has caused 7 deaths and about 75 to be missing, 16 are hospitalized. It is reported as man-made accident.

December 28 – China approves its anti-terrorism law. US Government criticizes that China would use it as an excuse to corrupt its religious, company, speech and various freedom.

December 31 – China PLA's Leader Department of Land Army, Rocket Army and Strategic Supportive Force established. China's Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping masters the establishment ceremony.