2015 in China

The following lists events that happened during 2015 in China.

Incumbents

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 17
* Chinese prosecutors say that former top Chinese 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 6At least two knife-wielding attackers injure nine people at a train station in Guangzhou. The police fatally shoot one of the suspects.

July 10Wu Xieyu murders his mother Xie Tianqin in Fuzhou, Fujian. Wu Xieyu would go on to defraud relatives and friends of 1.44 million yuan under false pretenses surrounding his mother.
July 31International Olympic Committee selects Beijing as the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics beating Almaty.

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 3China'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 7Explosion at Nanming Chemical Co Ltd's plant in Lishui, Zhejiang – the fourth since Tianjin, this time caused by ignited methanol. No reported casualties.
September 3017 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 26 to 29 – The Fifth Plenum of the 18th CPC National Congress held in Beijing. The plenum discusses about the thirteenth Five-year plans of China.

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 13National Memorial Day commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre
December 20a landslide happened in Guangming New Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, Guangdong. It has caused 7 deaths and about 75 to be missing, 16 are hospitalized. It is reported as man-made accident.
December 28China approves an anti-terrorism law. US Government criticizes that China would use it as an excuse to corrupt its religious, company, speech and various freedom.
December 31The PLA's Leader Department of Land Army, Rocket Army and Strategic Supportive Force established. Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping masters the establishment ceremony.

January 14 – Zhang Wannian, general
February 10 – Deng Liqun, politician
March 15 – Xu Caihou, Former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party
April 8 – Rayson Huang, Chinese chemist, vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
April 9 – Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Chinese-born American sinologist, professor, and librarian
April 10 – Jin Youzhi, last surviving sibling of Puyi, the final ruler of the Qing Dynasty and last Emperor of China
May 27 – Zhang Jieqing, politician and writer
June 14 – Qiao Shi, 6th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
July 15 – Wan Li, 5th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
August 21 – Wang Dongxing, military commander and politician
September 3 – Zhang Zhen, general
September 6 – Gao Zheng, actor
October 9 – Du Runsheng, Chinese reformer and economist
December 4 – Xu Ming, Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire
December 6 – Liu Juying, Chinese politician and army general