2007 in China
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Events in the year 2007 in China.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party - Hu Jintao
- President – Hu Jintao
- Premier – Wen Jiabao
- Vice President – Zeng Qinghong
- Vice Premier – Huang Ju to June 2, Wu Yi
- Congress Chairman - Wu Bangguo
- Conference Chairman - Jia Qinglin
Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Jinshan then Wang Sanyun
- Governor of Fujian Province – Huang Xiaojing
- Governor of Gansu Province – Xu Shousheng
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Huang Huahua
- Governor of Guizhou Province – Lin Shusen
- Governor of Hainan Province – Wei Liucheng then Luo Baoming
- Governor of Hebei Province – Guo Gengmao (until April), Hu Chunhua (starting April)
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Zhang Zuoji (until December), Li Zhanshu (starting December)
- Governor of Henan Province – Li Chengyu
- Governor of Hubei Province – Luo Qingquan then Li Hongzhong
- Governor of Hunan Province – Zhou Qiang
- Governor of Jiangsu Province – Liang Baohua
- Governor of Jiangxi Province – Huang Zhiquan (until January), Wu Xinxiong (starting January)
- Governor of Jilin Province – Han Changfu
- Governor of Liaoning Province – Zhang Wenyue (until December), Chen Zhenggao (starting December)
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Xiuyan
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Yuan Chunqing
- Governor of Shandong Province – Han Yuqun then Jiang Daming
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Yu Youjun (until September), Meng Xuenong (starting September)
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Zhongwei (until September), Jiang Jufeng (starting January)
- Governor of Yunnan Province – Qin Guangrong (starting January)
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Lü Zushan
Events
January
- January 1 – USD $1.91 billion. The deal is highly controversial because of the amount of control China now has over Kazakhstan's natural resources. Kazakh Oil Minister Baktykozha Izmukhambetovhas criticized the deal since it was first considered in October 2006.
- January 11 – satellites 535 miles above Earth.[1]
- January 12 – Resolution that would have urged the government of Myanmar to stop human rights abuses and the repression of political opposition.[2]
- January 18 – The Dong Fang Hong program.[3]
- January 23 – Qiu Xiaohua, former head of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, is expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for corruption charges.[4]
February
- February 16 – The Carbon emissions trading system to replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2009.[5]
- February 27 – China is threatening the drinking watersupply of 1.5 million people.
- February 28 – Strong wind blows a passenger train off the tracks near Turpan, Xinjiang, China, killing four and injuring 30 more.[6]
March
- March 1 – A human case of bird flu is confirmed in China.[7]
- March 7 – The Chang'e 1, will be launched later in 2007, with the eventual goal of landing a man on the moon by 2022. The probe is supposed to orbit the Moon at least three times.[8]
- March 10 – Twenty people die and 9 are missing after a .
- March 16 – The Property Law of the People's Republic of China is adopted at the 2007 National People's Congress.[9]
- March 18 – A gas explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi province in northern China traps 21 miners.
- March 18 – Two cargo ships collide in the East China Sea. 23 crew members are missing.
- March 30 – The chemical melamine in tainted wheat-gluten shipped from China and used by Menu Foods and an unnamed second company to manufacture pet food.
April
- April 12 – Diet of Japan.[10]
- April 16 – At least 33 coal miners are trapped in a mine in Baofeng County, Henan province, China.[11]
- April 16 – The
- April 18 – The People's Republic of China begins a new service of high-speed trains capable of reaching speeds of 200 km/h (124 mph).[13]
- April 18 – Thirty-two steel workers are killed and two more injured in China after a ladle full of liquid steel failed, engulfing an adjacent room full of workers.[14]
- April 20 –
May
- May 4 – International delegates reach agreement at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the summary report on mitigating climate change despite some concerns raised by China.
- May 13 – Two cargo ships collide in heavy fog near Dalian, China. 16 sailors are missing.[17]
- May 18 – Rioting breaks out in government imposing fines for breaches of its strict one-child policy.[18]
- May 26 – At least 21 people die in western China in landslides caused by heavy rain.[19]
- May 29 –
June
- June 3 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes southern China near the Myanmar and Laos borders causing casualties.[21]
- June 4 – carbon emissions by up to 1.5 million metric tons annually by 2010.[22]
- June 6 – Dozens of people are trapped in a collapsed hall in Leshan in the southwestern province of Sichuan in China.[23]
- June 8 – slaves at a brickworks in Linfen in Shanxi province run by the son of a local official of the Chinese Communist Party.[24]
- June 28 –
- June 30 – People's Republic of China.[27]
July
- July 4 – A
- July 5 – Twenty-five people died and 33 are injured in an explosion in a karaoke bar in Tianshifu in northeast China.[29] An investigation conducted the next day concludes that the explosion was caused by improperly stored explosives.[30]
- July 10 – China executes the former head of the State Food and Drug Association Zheng Xiaoyu for corruption.[31]
- July 16 –
- July 18 – the city of Chongqing is hit with the largest rainstorm in the city's meteorological records, killing 32. 12 people are reported missing.[33]
- July 20 – China shuts down a chemical plant associated with deaths in Panama from tainted medicine and two petfood plants associated with the deaths of pets in the United States.
- July 22 – More than 100 people die in floods and landslides in China.[34]
- July 30 – Sixty-nine
- Date unknown
- Storm Online – a free-to-play 2.5D fantasy role playing game is first released in China.[36]
August
- August 5 – Thirty-four rail workers building a tunnel in Hubei province China are trapped 200 metres underground following a landslide.[37]
- August 8 – China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region celebrates its 60th anniversary. Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong visits its capital, Hohhot, and participates in a series of large celebration events.[38]
- August 9 – China temporarily bans exports from two toy manufacturers whose products were banned or recalled in the United States and other countries.[39]
- August 13 –
- August 14 – A bridge under construction completely collapses in Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, China, killing at least 47 people. 21 workers are injured, 13 are still missing.[41]
- August 14 – Mattel recalls over 18 million toys made in China that may potentially be harmful to children.[42]
- August 14 – China establishes a minimum living standard system to cover all rural residents in 2007. The system is designed to pull poor villagers out of poverty.[43]
- August 17 – 172
- August 17 – typhoon Sepat.[46]
- August 19 – .
- August 20 – A China Airlines Boeing 737 airplane explodes less than a minute after all passengers and crew are evacuated shortly after landing at Naha, Japan.[47]
- August 22 – Typhoon Sepat has killed at least 36 people in southeast Chinain the past week.
September
- September 1 – New laws come into effect giving China more control over the selection of the Dalai Lama.[48]
- September 3 – Four Hanjiang River, the source of the water supply for Wuhan, China, with environmental authorities monitoring water quality.[49]
- September 12 – Thousands of ex-soldiers are rioting in the People's Republic of China in the cities of Baotou, Wuhan, and Baoji, breaking into cars, destroying classrooms, and setting fires. The riot is the largest protest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest.[50]
- September 18 – China confirms a bird flu outbreak in Guangzhou.
- September 18 – 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from Shanghai, China as Typhoon Wipha approaches.[51]
- September 19 – Typhoon Wipha (Goring) makes landfall in eastern China before weakening to a Category 2 typhoon as it heads inland.[52]
October
- October 2 – At least 27 people are killed when a China.[53]
- October 6 – Typhoon Krosa later heads for the
- October 21 – A fire in an illegal shoe factory kills at least 34 people in Putian in Fujian province, China.[55]
- October 21 – Three of the Scientific Development Concept is enshrined in the Party Constitution.[56]
- October 24 – China launches its first lunar orbiter, Chang'e 1, on an exploration mission to the moon.[57]
- October 29 – The Chinese government announces that it has arrested 774 people as part of a crackdown on the production of tainted drugs, food and agricultural products.[58]
November
- November 5 – Chang'e 1 entered lunar orbit.[59]
- November 8 – At least 29
- November 24 – An
December
- December 6 – The death toll rises to 104 in a northern China coal mine gas blast.[62]
- December 6 – European Pressurized Reactor following a week after a record breaking deal with China for new nuclear power.[63]
- December 8 – A second human case of China.[64]
Sports
- May 27 –
- September 30 - October 2 - 2007 Euroleague Challenge in Kunshan.[66]
- October 2 –
Deaths
- January 5: Chih Ree Sun, 83, physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer.
- January 15: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- February 8: Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad.
- March 18: martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
- March 23: Mao Anqing, 83, author and son of Mao Zedong.
- March 28: chairman of HKR International.
- April 20: .
- May 13: Dream of the Red Mansion), later becoming a Buddhist nun, breast cancer.
- May 25: .
- June 2: Mayor of Shanghai.
- June 9: Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- June 18: Tung Hua Lin, 96, engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure.
- June 23: heart attack.
- July 10: executed.
- July 17: Cheng Shifa, 86, painter, cartoonist and calligrapher.
- August 11: Zhang Shuhong, 50, company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging.
- September 5: execution.
- September 9: Roman Catholic archbishop detained for loyalty to the Vatican.
- October 4: Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer.
- October 7: Sisi Chen, 68, actress, pancreatic cancer.
- October 23: Lim Goh Tong, 90, billionaire, founder of the Genting Group.
- October 28: brain hemorrhage.
- November 12: Ying Hope, 84, politician.
- December 11: Catholic priest.
- December 21: superstores, cancer.
- December 28: Sun Daolin, 86, actor.
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See also
- List of Chinese films of 2007
- Chinese Super League 2007
- Hong Kong League Cup 2007–08