2018 in China

2018
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The following lists events that happened during 2018 in China.

Incumbents

Governors

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.

March

May

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.
  • 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.
  • September 30 — Lanzhou (170) destroyer successfully expelled a US Navy warship "Decatur" destroyer that broke into China's sovereign waters in the South China Sea. The US Navy's "Decatur" destroyer passed through the waters adjacent to the Nanxun Reef, and the Lanzhou (170) destroyer intercepted it. US Pacific Fleet spokesman Charles Brown said in a statement that the Sino-US warships were less than 45 yards away.[citation needed]

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.

Popular culture

Film

Deaths

Su Bai
Li Boguang
Li Yaowen
Wang Danfeng

January

February

  • 1 February – Su Bai, 95, archaeologist.
  • 11 February – Sun Shu, 84, geologist.
  • 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.
  • 26 February – Li Boguang, 49, legal scholar and human rights activist.
  • 28 February – Chen Xiaolu, 71, businessman and princeling.

March

April

  • 4 April – Li Zhengyou, 82, agronomist and politician, Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province.
  • 7 April
    • Ai Xing, 93, mechanical engineer.
    • Li Zhen, 93, politician, Chairman of the Shandong People's Congress.
    • Wang Wusheng, 73, photographer.
  • 10 April
  • 11 April – Li Tian, 79, aerodynamicist and aircraft designer.
  • 12 April – Hu Chengzhi, 100, palaeontologist and palaeoanthropologist.
  • 16 April – Lü Chuanzan, 85, politician, Chairman of Hebei Provincial People's Congress (1993–1998).
  • 20 April – Nie Bichu, 90, politician.

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December


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