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The following lists events that happened during 2018 in China.

Incumbents

General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping
President – Xi Jinping
Vice President
- Li Yuanchao (until 17 March 2018)
- Wang Qishan (from 17 March 2018)
Premier – Li Keqiang
Congress chairman
- Zhang Dejiang (until 17 March 2018)
- Li Zhanshu (from 17 March 2018)
Consultative Conference chairman
- Yu Zhengsheng (until 14 March 2018)
- Wang Yang (from 14 March 2018)

Governors

Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying
Governor of Fujian Province – Tang Dengjie
Governor of Gansu Province – Tang Renjian
Governor of Guangdong Province – Ma Xingrui
Governor of Guizhou Province – Shen Yiqin
Governor of Hainan Province – Shen Xiaoming
Governor of Hebei Province – Xu Qin
Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Lu Hao (until March), Wang Wentao (starting May)
Governor of Henan Province – Chen Run'er
Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Xiaodong
Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Dazhe
Governor of Jiangsu Province – Wu Zhenglong
Governor of Jiangxi Province – Liu Qi (politician, born 1957) (until August), Yi Lianhong (starting August)
Governor of Jilin Province – Liu Guozhong (until 4 January), Jing Junhai (starting 4 January)
Governor of Liaoning Province – Tang Yijun
Governor of Qinghai Province – Wang Jianjun (until August), Liu Ning (starting August)
Governor of Shaanxi Province – Hu Heping (until 4 January), Liu Guozhong (starting 4 January)
Governor of Shandong Province – Gong Zheng
Governor of Shanxi Province – Lou Yangsheng
Governor of Sichuan Province – Yin Li
Governor of Yunnan Province – vacant
Governor of Zhejiang Province – Yuan Jiajun

Events

January

January 2 – Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places have been affected by heavy snow or blizzard, which has damaged housing, agriculture and power infrastructure in some areas, and traffic has been blocked.
January 5 – As of 11:00, Blizzard snow caused 10 deaths in 5 provinces in Central China and East China, more than 567,000 people were affected.

February

February 15 – The CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which airs to millions around the country, sparks widespread criticism and faces accusations of racism after featuring a comedy sketch that featured an Asian actress in blackface and with exaggerated buttocks.^[1]

March

March 5 – 13th National People's Congress was opened.
March 11 – National People's Congress approves a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, granting General Secretary Xi Jinping the status of "President for life".^[2]
March 28 – North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un met with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Kim's first reported trip outside the country since taking power.^[3]
March – scheduled date for the first plenary session to be held by the 13th National People's Congress

May

May 2 – Censorship in China: Chinese authorities have blocked the popular British children's cartoon, Peppa Pig on its Douyin (TikTok) social media service for "subversive" content. The service had over 30,000 viral videos of Peppa Pig on its platform.^[4]
May 8 – former Chinese Communist Party official Sun Zhengcai sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption.^[5]

June

June – planned launch of the lunar exploration mission Chang'e 4.^{[citation needed]}

August

August 18 to 19 - Tropical Storm Rumbia caused heavy rain in several province, causing 53 fatalities, including 2 policeman who were washed away by the flood.

September

September 15 — the annual routine Air Defense Alert originally scheduled for Guangzhou was cancelled.^[6]
September 16 — Typhoon Mangkhut gradually approached Guangdong. Urban public transportation in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is also affected, in which part of the Guangzhou Metro is out of service; in Shenzhen, buses, subways, and taxis are all out of service, and pure electric taxi charging stations are also closed.^[7]^[8]

October

October 3 – The PRC authorities ordered Fan Bingbing and the companies she controls to pay around 883 million yuan (around US$129 million) in taxes, fines, and penalties. She also broke silence on her Weibo account by apologizing for what she had done.

November

November 13 — “Great Change – A Large-Scale Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up” was grandly opened at the National Museum of the People’s Republic of China. On the afternoon of the same day, Xi Jinping came here to visit the exhibition, reviewing the glorious course of the 40 years of reform and opening up, and proclaiming the firm determination to carry out reform and opening up.

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Popular culture

Film

List of Chinese films of 2018

Deaths

January

2 January – Ye Zhemin, 93, art historian.^[10]
9 January
- Guan De, 85, aircraft designer.^[11]
- Yuan Chengye, 93, chemist.^[11]
16 January – Liu Zhonghua, 101, major general.
17 January – He Yousheng, 86, hydrodynamicist.^[11]
18 January – Ding Guangquan, 73, comedian.

February

1 February – Su Bai, 95, archaeologist.^[12]
11 February – Sun Shu, 84, geologist.^[11]
12 February – Luo Haocai, 83, politician and legal scholar.
19 February – Zhang Junsheng, 81, optical engineer, politician, and academic administrator.
24 February – Yang Rudai, 91, politician.
25 February – Dai Fudong, 89, architect.^[11]
26 February – Li Boguang, 49, legal scholar and human rights activist.
28 February – Chen Xiaolu, 71, businessman and princeling.

March

3 March
- Lin Hu, 90, air force general.
- Yao Xian, 90, air force general.
7 March – Hao Bailin, 83, physicist.^[11]
15 March
- Huang Wenpan, 22, swimmer.
- Ling Yun, 100, politician.
18 March – Li Ao, 82, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and politician ^[13]

April

4 April – Li Zhengyou, 82, agronomist and politician, Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province.^[14]
7 April
- Ai Xing, 93, mechanical engineer.^[11]
- Li Zhen, 93, politician, Chairman of the Shandong People's Congress.^[15]
- Wang Wusheng, 73, photographer.^[16]
10 April
- Li Dawei, 47, director.
- Li Yaowen, 99, politician, general and diplomat.
- Wu Nansheng, 95, politician.
- Yang Gui, 89, politician, chief designer of the Red Flag Canal.
11 April – Li Tian, 79, aerodynamicist and aircraft designer.^[11]
12 April – Hu Chengzhi, 100, palaeontologist and palaeoanthropologist.^[17]
16 April – Lü Chuanzan, 85, politician, Chairman of Hebei Provincial People's Congress (1993–1998).^[18]
20 April – Nie Bichu, 90, politician.

May

2 May – Wang Danfeng, 93, actress
10 May – Wu Dechang, 90, toxicologist.^[11]
18 May – Sun Fuling, 96, business executive and politician
19 May – Zhengzhang Shangfang, 84, linguist
22 May – Lu Chunling, 96, flautist
28 May – Lin Zunqi, 75, physicist and specialist in solid-state laser^[11]
30 May – Li Zaiping, 92, molecular biologist^[11]

June

8 June – Liu Jianfu, 100, politician
9 June – Zhang Junzhao, 65, film director and screenwriter (One and Eight, The Shining Arc).^[19]
17 June – Zhao Nanqi, 91, general and politician
20 June – Hu Wei, 97, general
21 June – Yan Jizhou, 100, film director
22 June – Ai Weiren, 86, Chinese soldier

July

2 July – Liu Boli, 87, nuclear chemist.^[11]
3 July – Wang Jian, 56, businessman
8 July – Liu Tonghua, 88, pathologist.^[11]
11 July
- Wu Bing'an, 89, ethnologist
- Ji Chunhua, actor (b. 1961)
- Liu Zhenhua, general (b. 1921)
18 July – Ling Li, writer and historian (b. 1942).^[20]
26 July – Sha Yexin, 79, playwright
27 July – Song Yuquan, 85, materials scientist.^[11]
29 July – Lin Xiangdi, 84, optoelectronic engineer, President of the Southwest University of Science and Technology.^[11]
30 July – Zhou Yaohe, 91, materials scientist.^[11]
31 July – Su Hongxi, 103, surgeon.

August

1 August – Cui Xiuwen, artist.
3 August – Zhang Baosheng, 57–58, qigong master.
7 August – Liu Guangding, 88, geologist.^[11]
11 August – Li Chaoyi, 84, neurobiologist.^[11]
12 August – Ma Jin, 83, geologist.^[11]
19 August – Hong Chaosheng, 97, physicist.^[11]

September

1 September – Chen Xian, 98, politician.
7 September
- Chang Baohua, xiangsheng actor (b. 1930).
- Yang Side, general (b. 1921)
- Sheng Zhongguo, 77, violinist
8 September – Yang Zhenya, 90, diplomat
11 September – Shan Tianfang, pingshu actor (b. 1934).
13 September – Lin Hujia, politician (b. 1916).
15 September – Zhu Xu, 88, actor
16 September
- Min Naiben, 83, physicist and materials scientist.^[11]
- Wang Guofa, 72, politician
19 September – Buren Bayaer, 58, singer and journalist.
20 September – Wang Mengshu, 79, tunnel and railway engineer^[11]
21 September – Xu Delong, 66, materials scientist, President of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.^[11]
23 September – Liu Jie, 103, politician
28 September
- Zang Tianshuo, 54, musician
- Shi Shengjie, 65, xiangsheng comedian

October

3 October – Fang Nanjiang, 75, novelist and general
5 October – Lin Xiao, politician (b. 1920).
9 October – Lü Junchang, 53, palaeontologist
16 October – Ismail Amat, 83, politician
18 October – Li Lianda, 84, pharmacologist^[11]
20 October – Zheng Xiaosong, 59, politician and diplomat
25 October
- Chen Tiemei, 83, archaeologist^[21]
- Li Yong, 50, television host
27 October – Yang Ziyuan, 90, politician
29 October
- Wang Guangying, 99, entrepreneur and politician
- Li Xifan, 90, literary scholar and redologist.
30 October – Jin Yong, 94, a Chinese wuxia novelist and newspaper founder.
31 October
- Chen Chuangtian, 81, materials scientist^[11]
- Hou Fusheng, 94, petroleum engineer^[11]

November

4 November – Wang Huanyu, 63, astrophysicist.
6 November – Deng Qidong, 80, geologist.^[11]
7 November – Xie Shileng, 83, port and coastal engineer.^[11]
10 November – Liu Xuyi, 105, historian.^[22]
12 November – Wang Junmin, 63, politician
15 November
- Ba Zhongtan, 88, lieutenant general
- Zhang Ting, 96, politician
17 November – Cheng Kaijia, 100, nuclear physicist and engineer.^[11]
19 November – Wu Jianchang, 79, engineer and politician
24 November – Shi Jiaonai, 97, plant physiologist^[11]
30 November – Chang Guitian, 76, xiangsheng actor

December

1 December – Zhang Ouying, 43, football player and coach
8 December – Wang Ruilin, 88, general and politician
9 December – Peng Sixun, 99, medicinal chemist^[11]
13 December
- Gao Jindian, 79, army officer
- Yuan Mu, 90, politician
15 December – Eryue He, 73, writer
19 December – Tömür Dawamat, 91, politician

References

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^ "China's Xi allowed to remain 'president for life' as term limits removed". BBC News. 11 March 2018.
^ "North Korea's Kim Jong Un visited China for secret summit". NBC News. NBC News. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
^ Peppa Pig got big in China. Then she got censored Archived 2018-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, CNBC
^ "Former party boss in China's Chongqing city jailed for life for graft". Reuters. 8 May 2018 – via www.reuters.com.
^ "关于取消2018年9月15日防空警报试鸣的紧急通知". 广州市民防办公室. 2018-09-15. Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
^ "台风"山竹"将临：广深多处地铁、公交停运". 新京报新媒体. 2018-09-16.
^ "深圳全市出租车已全部停运". 人民网-深圳频道. 2018-09-16.
^ “Xi Jinping Attends Commemoration on the 40th Anniversary of China-US Ping-Pong Diplomacy.” Cz.china-Embassy.gov.cn, cz.china-embassy.gov.cn/cze/zgxw/201112/t20111212_2621193.htm. Accessed 5 June 2023.
^ "汝窑窑址发现认定第一人叶喆民逝世享年94岁--书画--人民网". art.people.com.cn. Archived from the original on September 3, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Jiang Ziwen 蒋子文 (2018-12-28). "年终纪念｜2018年，这些两院院士逝世". The Paper. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
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^ "Taiwanese author Li Ao dies after battling with brain tumour". The Straits Times. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
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^ "山东省人大常委会原主任、党组原书记李振逝世，享年94岁_逝者_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn.
^ "摄影师汪芜生辞世，一生执着于"黑白黄山"_艺术评论_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020.
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^ "中国电影第五代奠基人、导演张军钊去世，张艺谋微博悼念_逝者_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018.
^ "历史小说家凌力逝世曾以《少年天子》获茅盾奖|少年天子|凌力|逝世_新浪娱乐_新浪网". ent.sina.com.cn. July 18, 2018. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018.
^ "北京大学考古文博学院教授、著名科技考古学家陈铁梅逝世_中国政库_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019.
^ "刘绪贻逝世". Archived from the original on August 7, 2020.

[1] "China's biggest show in 'racist blackface'". BBC News. 2018-02-16. Retrieved 2018-02-17.

[2] "China's Xi allowed to remain 'president for life' as term limits removed". BBC News. 11 March 2018.

[3] "North Korea's Kim Jong Un visited China for secret summit". NBC News. NBC News. Retrieved 28 March 2018.

[4] Peppa Pig got big in China. Then she got censored Archived 2018-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, CNBC

[5] "Former party boss in China's Chongqing city jailed for life for graft". Reuters. 8 May 2018 – via www.reuters.com.

[6] "关于取消2018年9月15日防空警报试鸣的紧急通知". 广州市民防办公室. 2018-09-15. Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-09-15.

[7] "台风"山竹"将临：广深多处地铁、公交停运". 新京报新媒体. 2018-09-16.

[8] "深圳全市出租车已全部停运". 人民网-深圳频道. 2018-09-16.

[9] “Xi Jinping Attends Commemoration on the 40th Anniversary of China-US Ping-Pong Diplomacy.” Cz.china-Embassy.gov.cn, cz.china-embassy.gov.cn/cze/zgxw/201112/t20111212_2621193.htm. Accessed 5 June 2023.

[10] "汝窑窑址发现认定第一人叶喆民逝世享年94岁--书画--人民网". art.people.com.cn. Archived from the original on September 3, 2019.

[:0-11] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Jiang Ziwen 蒋子文 (2018-12-28). "年终纪念｜2018年，这些两院院士逝世". The Paper. Retrieved 2019-03-16.

[12] 考古学泰斗宿白病逝，一生献给考古却自认"只是个教书匠. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 February 2018.

[13] "Taiwanese author Li Ao dies after battling with brain tumour". The Straits Times. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

[14] "李铮友同志逝世--新闻报道-人民网". cpc.people.com.cn. Archived from the original on September 11, 2020.

[15] "山东省人大常委会原主任、党组原书记李振逝世，享年94岁_逝者_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn.

[16] "摄影师汪芜生辞世，一生执着于"黑白黄山"_艺术评论_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020.

[17] "Obituary". Archived from the original on April 18, 2018.

[18] "河北省政协原主席吕传赞逝世，享年86岁_中国政库_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on April 17, 2018.

[19] "中国电影第五代奠基人、导演张军钊去世，张艺谋微博悼念_逝者_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018.

[20] "历史小说家凌力逝世曾以《少年天子》获茅盾奖|少年天子|凌力|逝世_新浪娱乐_新浪网". ent.sina.com.cn. July 18, 2018. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018.

[21] "北京大学考古文博学院教授、著名科技考古学家陈铁梅逝世_中国政库_澎湃新闻-The Paper". www.thepaper.cn. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019.

[22] "刘绪贻逝世". Archived from the original on August 7, 2020.

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2018 in China

Incumbents

Governors

Events

January

February

March

May

June

August

September

October

November

Popular culture

Film

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

References

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