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2024 in China

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2024
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China
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Events in the year 2024 in China.

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Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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  • 13 April – Twelve people are killed after a tourist boat sinks near Qinhuangdao, Hebei.[15]
  • 22 April – Heavy rain triggers flooding in Guangdong Province, causing around 10 deaths and 110,000 evacuations.[16]
  • 27 April – Five people are killed and 140 buildings are damaged after a tornado strikes Guangzhou.[17]

May

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Xi Jinping welcomes Vladimir Putin in Beijing during Putin's visit to China in May 2024

June

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July

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August

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September

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  • 3 September –
    • A school bus rams into a crowd after its driver loses control over the vehicle outside a school in Tai'an, Shandong Province, killing 11 people and injuring at least 12 others.[74]
    • Artist Gao Zhen is detained for recurring works critical of former leader Mao Zedong.[75]
  • 5 September – The government bans the adoption of Chinese children to overseas recipients except for those biologically or legally related to adoptees.[76]
  • 6 September – The world's largest indoor skiing resort is opened in Pudong, Shanghai, with a 90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft) skiing area and a total campus area of 350,000 square metres (3,800,000 sq ft).[77]
  • 10 September – The Chinese Football Association issues lifetime bans on 43 players and officials following a two-year investigation into match-fixing, bribery and illegal gambling in domestic games.[78]
  • 13 September – The National People's Congress approves the raising of the statutory retirement age starting in 2025.[79]
  • 16 September – At least two people are killed after Typhoon Bebinca makes landfall in Shanghai.[80]
  • 18 September – A ten-year old student of a Japanese school dies in a knife attack in Shenzhen. The suspect is arrested.[81]
  • 25 September –
  • 26 September – A United States defence official claims that a Chinese nuclear attack submarine, the first of the new Zhou-class, sank during construction likely between May and June.[85]
  • 30 September – Three people are killed and 18 others are injured in knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai. The suspect is arrested.[86]

October

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November

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  • 7 November – Leon Wang, the president of AstraZeneca in China, is arrested following allegations of collection of patient data and the importation of medicines not approved by Chinese authorities.[91]
  • 8 November – The government passes a law on energy aimed to promote carbon neutrality.[92]
  • 10 November – The foreign ministry issues baselines around Scarborough Shoal that is also claimed by the Philippines.[93]
  • 11 November – At least 35 people are killed and 43 others are injured after a man rams an SUV into a crowd exercising at a sports stadium in Zhuhai.[94]
  • 16 November – Eight people are killed and 17 others are injured in a a mass stabbing carried out by a former student at the a vocational school in Wuxi.[95]
  • 19 November – An unspecified number of casualties are reported after a car rams into a crowd outside a school in Dingcheng District, Hunan.[96]

Holidays

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Source:[97][98]

Art and entertainment

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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