2022 in China

Events in the year 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 Director of the National Supervisory Commission – Yang Xiaodu

Communist Party secretaries

PostNameSecretary of the Beijing Municipal Communist Party CommitteeCai QiSecretary of the Tianjin Municipal Communist Party CommitteeLi HongzhongSecretary of the Shanghai Municipal Communist Party CommitteeLi QiangChen JiningSecretary of the Chongqing Municipal Communist Party CommitteeChen Min'erSecretary of the Anhui Province Communist Party CommitteeLi JinbinZheng ShanjieSecretary of the Fujian Province Communist Party CommitteeYin LiSecretary of the Gansu Province Communist Party CommitteeLin DuoYin HongSecretary of the Guangdong Province Communist Party CommitteeLi XiSecretary of the Guizhou Province Communist Party CommitteeShen YiqinSecretary of the Hainan Province Communist Party CommitteeShen XiaomingSecretary of the Hebei Province Communist Party CommitteeWang DongfengSecretary of the Heilongjiang Province Communist Party CommitteeXu QinSecretary of the Henan Province Communist Party CommitteeLou YangshengSecretary of the Hubei Province Communist Party CommitteeYing YongSecretary of the Hunan Province Communist Party CommitteeZhang QingweiSecretary of the Jiangsu Province Communist Party CommitteeWu ZhenglongSecretary of the Jiangxi Province Communist Party CommitteeYi LianhongSecretary of the Jilin Province Communist Party CommitteeJing JunhaiSecretary of the Liaoning Province Communist Party CommitteeZhang GuoqingSecretary of the Qinghai Province Communist Party CommitteeWang JianjunSecretary of the Shaanxi Province Communist Party CommitteeLiu GuozhongSecretary of the Shandong Province Communist Party CommitteeLi GanjieSecretary of the Shanxi Province Communist Party CommitteeLin WuSecretary of the Sichuan Province Communist Party CommitteePeng QinghuaSecretary of the Yunnan Province Communist Party CommitteeRuan ChengfaWang NingSecretary of the Zhejiang Province Communist Party CommitteeYuan JiajunSecretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Communist Party CommitteeShi TaifengSecretary of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Communist Party CommitteeLu XinsheLiu NingSecretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Communist Party CommitteeWu YingjieWang JunzhengSecretary of the Ningxia Autonomous Region Communist Party CommitteeChen Run'erSecretary of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Communist Party CommitteeMa Xingrui

Governors PostNameGovernor of Anhui ProvinceWang QingxianGovernor of Fujian ProvinceWang NingGovernor of Gansu ProvinceRen ZhenheGovernor of Guangdong ProvinceWang WeizhongGovernor of Guizhou ProvinceLi BingjunGovernor of Hainan ProvinceFeng FeiGovernor of Hebei ProvinceXu QinGovernor of Heilongjiang ProvinceHu ChangshengGovernor of Henan ProvinceWang KaiGovernor of Hubei ProvinceWang ZhonglinGovernor of Hunan ProvinceMao WeimingGovernor of Jiangsu ProvinceWu ZhenglongGovernor of Jiangxi ProvinceWu ZhenglongGovernor of Jilin ProvinceHan JunGovernor of Liaoning ProvinceLiu NingGovernor of Qinghai ProvinceXin ChangxingGovernor of Shaanxi ProvinceZhao YideGovernor of Shandong ProvinceZhou NaixiangGovernor of Shanxi ProvinceLan Fo'anGovernor of Sichuan ProvinceHuang QiangGovernor of Yunnan ProvinceChen HaoGovernor of Zhejiang ProvinceWang Hao

Events In 2022, China passed both the US and the European Union in the number of high-impact research papers published.

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 (2008–2012) 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 (1990–1994), Iraq (1994–1998) and Iran (1999–2002) 30 November – Jiang Zemin, 96, politician, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002) and 4th paramount leader

2022 in China

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