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Revision as of 18:10, 22 August 2010
| Years in China: | 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 |
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s |
| Years: | 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 |
Events
January
- January 1: Tongyong pinyin will no longer be official in the Republic of China, due to the ROC's Ministry of Education's approval of Hanyu pinyin in 2008.[1][2]
- January 2: The border demarcation with markers was officially completed between China and Vietnam, signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Dung on the Vietnamese side and his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, on the Chinese side.[3]
- January 5: Strict enforcements of internet keyword filters in China introduced, leading to mass protests online against internet censorship by Chinese netizens.[4][5]
- January 7: Ministry of IT China issues the first 3G network TD-SCDMA for China Mobile.
- January 9: Nationwide alert throughout China regarding a large number of mass-produced, counterfeit renminbi 100 yuan notes [6]; The fake notes in question are said to be of so-called "high quality", and cannot be detected using the naked eye, however most of these fake notes bear serial numbers beginning with "HD90..." [7]
- January 13: People's Liberation Army Navy escorted a Taiwanese merchant ship and three other vessels in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.[8]
- January 15: China surpasses Germany to become the third largest economy [9], based on revised 2007 GDP figures. Chinese officials published the revised figures for 2007 financial year in which growth happened at 13 percent instead of 11.9 percent (provisional figures). China's gross domestic product stood at US$3.4 trillion while Germany's GDP was USD $3.3 trillion for 2007. Based on these figures, in 2007 China recorded its fastest growth since 1994 when the GDP grew by 13.1 percent.[10]
- January 15: A Taiwanese government official and a legislator's aide have been arrested in Taipei for allegedly leaking state secrets to Mainland China. The information allegedly leaked included details on the process taken during the transition of power between Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-Jeou.[11][12]
- January 25: 2009 Xinjiang earthquake
- 31st Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup
February
- February 2: Wen Jiabao shoe-throwing incident
- February 8: Yunnan hide-and-seek incident
- February 9: The Television Cultural Center in Beijing, China, adjacent to the CCTV Headquarters, burned in a spectacular fire started by fireworks on Lantern Festival day.[13]
- February 10-February 17: Chinese President Hu Jintao visits a series of African and Asian countries [14], including Saudi Arabia [15], Mali [16], Senegal [17], Tanzania, and Mauritius.
- February 14: Blogger Xu Lai stabbed
- February 15: New Star ship incident
- February 17: The personal details of a large number of Chinese celebrities, which included ID card photos, personal identification numbers and phone numbers, were leaked onto the Internet. This is not the first time such an incident has occurred, with prior minor events occurring throughout 2003 to 2008.[18]
- February 18: 2009 Winter Universiade
- February 20-February 22: United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Beijing, China.[19]
- February 21: 2009 Shanxi mine blast
- February 23: Haiyantang rat and rabbit piece up for sale (see 2009 Auction of Old Summer Palace bronze heads)
- February 25: Three people attempt self-immolation at Tiananmen square[20]
- Early February - Chinese netizens create what is now known as the Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures over a period throughout the first weeks of February, as a sign of protest against increased censorship on Chinese websites.
- February 28: PRC naming laws
March
- March 1: Chang'e 1 retires, following its planned crash landing on the moon.[21]
- March 5: 2009 National People's Congress
- March 8: US Impeccable south china sea incident
- March 11: Minor incident near the Diaoyu Islands as a JSDF patrol boat moved close to the islands. Some sources indicate that both sides scrambled aircraft, involving PLAAF Su-30MKK and Japanese F-15 aircraft, however the situation did not escalate.[22]
- March 11: Kuo Kuan-ying (郭冠英) pro-mainlander, anti-Taiwan comments
- March 17: China's largest fishery patrol China Yuzheng 311 (中国渔政311船) arrives in Yongxing Island, Xisha Islands[23], asserting control over the disputed islands in the South China Sea. The territory is disputed with Vietnam.
- March 19: Japan 2012 visa permit consider listing Taiwanese people living in Japan as coming from Taiwan (independent state), not China.[24]
- March 20: Chongqing soldier shot.[25]
- March 28: Serf liberation day
- March 29: Researchers from the University of Toronto discover GhostNet, a China-based electronic spying operation which has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries.[26]
April
- April 3: Sun Dongdong comment of "petitioners are mentally ill"
- April 8: 2009 Xishui sex trial
- April 9: Launch of Beidou-2B satellite on a Long March 3A rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
- April 13: National Human Rights Action Plan 2009-2010
- April 16: The government of the People's Republic of China releases economic data for Q1 2009, showing a rise in GDP by 6.1%, fall in CPI by 1.2% during March, PPI down 4.6%, industrial output by 5.1%, retail sales up 15%, and fixed asset investment up 28.8%.[27]
- April 22: Chinese researchers conclude that the Great Wall of China is 2,851.8 km longer than previously estimated, after analysing data obtained from satellite imagery.[28]
- April 22: Chinese hackers accused of stealing data from the United States Department of Defense regarding the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.[29]
- April 23, 60th Anniversary of Navy, international fleet review off Qingdao.[30]
- April 24, CBHD goes on sale[31]
May
- May 1: The Republic of China allows financial investment from the People's Republic of China for the first time since 1949.[32]
- May 6: Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Chiang Pin-kung declare retirement then withdrew from retirement.[33]
- May 10: May 17: 2009 Sudirman Cup held in the Tianhe Sports Center of Guangzhou, China.
- May 10: Deng Yujiao incident
- May 16: A large ship transporting sand capsizes off the Liaoning coast.[34][35][36]
- May 17: 517 Protest
- May 18: Head of Guangdong, Man Hing-leong (萬慶良), meets Jasper Tsang and 25 HK Legco member.[37]
- May 19: Taiwan permitted to send representatives to a World Health Organisation conference in Geneva under observer status for the first time under the name Chinese Taipei, with authorization from the People's Republic of China.[38][39][40]
- May 20: Hunan TV expands to Hong Kong.
- Launch of the Huan Jing 1C satellite on a Long March 2C rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.
- May 30: 2009 Chonqing mine blast
- May 31: 2009 Shaanxi dog-free zone
June
- June 2: As a part of the General Motors bankruptcy crisis, GM Motors announces the sale of the Hummer brand of off-road vehicles to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., a machinery company in western China, in which the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009.[41][42][43]
- June 3: 170th anniversary commemoration of Opium war's Lin Zexu[44]
- June 5: Australian mining company Rio Tinto breaks a deal for Chinese state-owned Chinalco to purchase a larger stake the company, with support by rival Australian mining company BHP Billiton. Rio Tinto is expected to pay a US$195 million breaking fee according to the contract signed earlier by the two parties. Rio Tinto controls large Iron ore reserves in Australia.[45] Since early 2008, Chinalco holds 9% of ownership of Rio Tinto.
- June 5: Fang Jing spy accusation incident
- June 5: 2009 Chengdu bus fire
- June 7-June 13: Shanghai Pride, the first gay pride festival ever held in the People's Republic of China, takes place in Shanghai.
- June 18: US, Japan, South Korea assist ADB funding to Arunachal Pradesh, old India and China territorial dispute[46][47]
- June 19: 2009 Shishou riot
- June 19: 2009 Music king award (勁歌王頒獎禮) with large C-pop star gathering at Chengdu[48][49]
- June 23: Liu Xiaobo arrested for Charter 08 democratic reform
- June 25: ROC President Ma Ying-jeou expresses his bid for KMT leadership, as he registered as the sole candidate for the election of the KMT chairmanship. The election is scheduled for July 26, where the new chairman would take office on September 12. If his bid succeeds, he would become the leader of the KMT, as well as the head-of-state of the Republic of China; in effect, this would officially allow Ma to be able to meet with People's Republic of China President Hu Jintao (who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China) and other PRC delegates, as he would be able to represent the KMT as leader of a Chinese political party, rather than as head-of-state of a political entity unrecognized by the PRC.[50]
- June 25: Shaoguan incident
- June 26 - 14th Dalai Lama's niece Deying Drolma joined the Communist Party of China.[51]
- June 29: Hunan train collision
July
- July 1: Green Dam Youth Escort software controversy
- July 5: 2009 Urumqi riots
- July 5: South China flood[52]
- July 9: 2009 Yunnan earthquake
- July 10: Four Rio Tinto employees, including one Australian citizen, arrested in Shanghai for corruption and espionage.[53][54] One of the arrested, Australian citizen Stern Hu is suspected of stealing Chinese state secrets.[55]
- July 12: Urumqi oil tank explosion[56]
- July 16: Sun Danyong, a Chinese factory worker employed by Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn, committed suicide after reporting to have lost a prototype model for a fourth generation iPhone.[57]
- July 21: 2009 Nuctech corruption case, company formerly run by Hu Jintao's son Hu Haifeng
- July 24: First publication of a breakthrough in Stem cell research, where Chinese researchers from the Shanghai Stem Cell Institute successfully reprogrammed adult stem cells to be able to differentiate into any body cell.[58]
- July 24: Tonghua Iron and Steel Group riot
- July 25: China Central Television launches CCTV International Arabic channel[59]
- July 26: Republic of China President Ma Ying-jeou won 93.87% of the vote for KMT leadership, becoming the new chairman of the Kuomintang.[60]
- July 26: US senator John Cornyn said India is a threat, but actually meant China[61]
- July 27: The birth of the world's first Giant Panda conceived using frozen sperm is announced in Sichuan.[62]
- July 27-July 28: U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue
- July 27: Lam and Tse case settled in court
- July 28: Chinese border police seize 70 kilograms of Vanadium metal bound for North Korea, a material used to manufacture missile components. 200,000RMB of the metal was seized at the Dandong border between China and North Korea.[63]
August
- August 1: People's Liberation Army Army Day military parades and presentations
- August 2-August 11: Typhoon Morakot strikes the island of Taiwan and southern China.
- August 4: Shijiazhuang lightning incident
- August 8-August 12: 10,000 refugees from Burma's Kokang Special Region flee to Yunnan Province following the Kokang incident.
- August 12: Tan Zuoren court case
- August 15: Planned swimming event to take place from Xiamen, People's Republic of China to Kinmen, Republic of China.[64] Event is intended by both sides as an act of friendship, the first event of its kind to be held. Fujian Province, Republic of China is under the administration and control of the ROC, while being claimed as a part of the mainland-held Fujian Province by the PRC.
- August 19: Chinese petroleum company PetroChina signs an AU$50 billion deal with ExxonMobil to purchase liquefied natural gas from the Gorgon field in Western Australia,[65][66] considered the largest contract ever signed between China and Australia, which ensures China a steady supply of LPG fuel for 20 years, and also forms as China's largest supply of relatively "clean energy"[67][68]. This deal has been formally secured, despite relations between Australia and China being at their lowest point in years, following the Rio Tinto espionage case and the granting of visas to Rebiya Kadeer to visit Australia[69].
- August 30: The 14th Dalai Lama accepts invitation from Pan-Green Kaohsiung mayor Chen Chu to visit Taiwan.[70]
September
- Launch of AsiaSat 5 into orbit.
- September 2: September 2009 Xinjiang unrest
- September 8: 2009 Henan mine disaster
- September 11: Former President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian is sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption.[71]
- September 15: Hudong founder Pan Haidong meet Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.[72]
- September 17: 2009 Luoding flood
- September 18: China wins a “disclosure agreement" vote, which prevents the Asian Development Bank from formally acknowledging Arunachal Pradesh as part of India. All ADB activities in Arunachal Pradesh have effectively ceased.[73][74]
- September 25: Xinjiang Kashgar Delicacy City restaurant exploded in Beijing.[75]
October
- October 1: 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China
- October 2: Chen Shui-bian's cousin Chen Tian-fu (陳天福) starts Taiwan Communist Party (台灣民主共產黨)[76]
- October 9: Chinese special forces detect sarin poision gas in the air at North Korea PRC border[77]
- October 9: Lengshuijiang mine accident[78]
- October 10: Ma Ying-jeou said Republic of China have spent more time on Taiwan soil than Mainland soil.[79]
- October 11: 11th National Games of China held in Shandong
- Launch of Yinghuo-1, China's first Mars probe.
- October 12: Hong Kong Press conference held concerning the rendition of Zhou Yongjun
- October 12: Netizens try to figure out government dog extermination camps. Massive discussion.[80] (graphic content)[81]
- October 16: Champion cyclist Wong Kam-po assaulted at National Games
- October 21: 2009 Luquan protest
November
- November 4: Development approved for the creation of a Disneyland in Shanghai.[82][83]
- November 6: Chongqing gang trials
- November 8: 14th Dalai Lama visits Tawang Town Arunachal Pradesh.[84]
- November 8: Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
- November 13: Tang Fu-zhen self-immolation incident
- November 15: 2009 Obama visit to China
- November 18: Consultation Document on the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive and for Forming the LegCo in 2012 launched in Hong Kong
- November 21: 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion
- November 28: Miss International 2009 held in Chengdu
- November 28: 2009 World Women's Handball Championship (to December 13)
December
- December 5: 2009 East Asian Games held in Hong Kong
- December 14: Central Asia – China gas pipeline inauguration
- December 14: Xi Xinzhu self-immolation incident
- December 21: Fourth Chen-Chiang summit
- December 26: The Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, the world's fastest commercial train service, is opened.
- December 27: A tomb, believed to be that of Cao Cao, one of the Chinese leaders during the Three Kingdoms period, is discovered in Henan Province.[85][86]
- December 28: Xinhua News Agency reports that the People's Liberation Army Navy has rescued 25 sailors and the De Xin Hai, a hijacked Chinese cargo ship, two months after they were seized off Somalia.[87][88]
- December 29: China displaces the U.S. as the largest overall buyer of Japanese goods in 2009.[89][90]
- December 29: Despite requests from the British government for clemency, Akmal Shaikh, a British national, is executed in the People's Republic of China for trafficking heroin.
See also
References
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