2022 in China

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – Xi Jinping
• President – Xi Jinping
• Vice President – Wang Qishan
• Premier – Li Keqiang
• Congress chairman – Li Zhanshu
• Consultative Conference chairman – Wang Yang
• Supervision Commission director – Yang Xiaodu

  Communist Party secretaries

Governors

Events

January–March

• 9 January – Tianjin begins city-wide COVID-19 testing for 14 million people after 20 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, two of whom were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
• 4–20 February – 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
• 1 March:
• * 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak
• * A new online religion management law enforced: People and organization no longer allowed to spread religious ideas on the Internet unless they are authorized by the government. The law was passed in December 2021 and went into force on 1 March 2022.
• * 90th anniversary of establishment of Manchukuo
• 4–13 March – 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing
• 21 March – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 descended steeply mid–flight and struck the ground at high speed in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, killing all 123 passengers and 9 crew members.

  April–June

• 11 April – 2,500th anniversary of the death of Confucius
• 29 April – Changsha building collapse
• 12 May – Tibet Airlines Flight 9833
• 1 June – 2022 Ya'an earthquake

  July–September

• 24 August – Hainan announces it will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2030.
• 5 September – 2022 Luding earthquake
• 18 September – 2022 Guizhou bus crash

  October–December

• 13 October – A man protests at Sitong Bridge in Haidan District, Beijing
• 16 October – 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
• 23 October – Xi Jinping is re-elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
• 21 November – 2022 Anyang factory fire
• 24 November – 2022 Ürümqi fire
• 24 November – 2022 COVID-19 protests in China

  Deaths

• 1 January – Xu Xingchu, 87, engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2 January – Zhou Xiaofeng, 57, entrepreneur and politician, member of the National People's Congress
• 3 January – Zheng Min, 101, poet
• 6 January – Zhang Jiqing, 83, Kunqu artist
• 7 January – Liu Siqi, 91, public figure
• 10 January – Liu Xianping, 83, writer
• 12 January – Sun Bigan, 80, diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran
• 30 November – Jiang Zemin, 96, politician, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and 4th paramount leader

  Country overviews

• History of China
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• Outline of China
• Government of China
• Politics of China
• Timeline of Chinese history
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