2013 in China
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Events in the year 2013 in China.
Incumbents
Paramount leader
Head of state
- President – Hu Jintao (until March 14), Xi Jinping (starting March 14)
- Vice President – Xi Jinping (until March 14), Li Yuanchao (starting March 14)
Head of government
- Premier – Wen Jiabao (until March 15), Li Keqiang (starting March 15)
- Vice Premier – Li Keqiang (until March 15), Zhang Gaoli (starting March 15)
National legislature
- Congress chairman – Wu Bangguo (until March 14), Zhang Dejiang
(starting March 14)
Political advisory
- Conference chairman – Jia Qinglin (until March 11), Yu Zhengsheng (starting March 11)
Events
January
- January 3 - 2013 Southern Weekly incident
April
- April 15 - 2013 Daulat Beg Oldi Incident
- April 20 - 2013 Lushan earthquake
- April 24 - April 2013 Bachu unrest
May
- May 24 - Ding Jinhao engraving scandal
June
- June 7 - Xiamen bus fire
- June 16–21 - 5th Straits Forum
- June 22 - 2013 Shanghai shooting
- June 26 - June 2013 Shanshan riots
July
- Early July - 2013 Southwest China floods
- July 19 – The court case for the Mutiny on Lurongyu 2682 was decided. The 11 sailors returned were convicted with murder, leading to the deaths of 22 in the South Pacific.
- July 20 - 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing
October
- October 21 - 2013 Harbin smog starts to spread.
Deaths
- January 28 - Xu Liangying, physicist, translator, historian and philosopher
- June 2 - Chen Xitong, politician, former member of the Political Bureau
