2022 In China

Decades:	2000s; 2010s; 2020s; ; ;
See also:	Other events of 2022; History of China • Timeline • Years

Incumbents

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – Xi Jinping
President – Xi Jinping
Vice President – Wang Qishan
Premier – Li Keqiang
Congress chairman – Li Zhanshu
Consultative Conference chairman – Wang Yang
Supervision Commission director – Yang Xiaodu

Communist Party secretaries

Post	Name
Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Communist Party Committee	Cai Qi
Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Communist Party Committee	Li Hongzhong
Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Communist Party Committee	Li Qiang Chen Jining
Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Communist Party Committee	Chen Min'er
Secretary of the Anhui Province Communist Party Committee	Li Jinbin Zheng Shanjie
Secretary of the Fujian Province Communist Party Committee	Yin Li
Secretary of the Gansu Province Communist Party Committee	Lin Duo Yin Hong
Secretary of the Guangdong Province Communist Party Committee	Li Xi
Secretary of the Guizhou Province Communist Party Committee	Shen Yiqin
Secretary of the Hainan Province Communist Party Committee	Shen Xiaoming
Secretary of the Hebei Province Communist Party Committee	Wang Dongfeng
Secretary of the Heilongjiang Province Communist Party Committee	Xu Qin
Secretary of the Henan Province Communist Party Committee	Lou Yangsheng
Secretary of the Hubei Province Communist Party Committee	Ying Yong
Secretary of the Hunan Province Communist Party Committee	Zhang Qingwei
Secretary of the Jiangsu Province Communist Party Committee	Wu Zhenglong
Secretary of the Jiangxi Province Communist Party Committee	Yi Lianhong
Secretary of the Jilin Province Communist Party Committee	Jing Junhai
Secretary of the Liaoning Province Communist Party Committee	Zhang Guoqing
Secretary of the Qinghai Province Communist Party Committee	Wang Jianjun
Secretary of the Shaanxi Province Communist Party Committee	Liu Guozhong
Secretary of the Shandong Province Communist Party Committee	Li Ganjie
Secretary of the Shanxi Province Communist Party Committee	Lin Wu
Secretary of the Sichuan Province Communist Party Committee	Peng Qinghua
Secretary of the Yunnan Province Communist Party Committee	Ruan Chengfa Wang Ning
Secretary of the Zhejiang Province Communist Party Committee	Yuan Jiajun
Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee	Shi Taifeng
Secretary of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee	Lu Xinshe Liu Ning
Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee	Wu Yingjie Wang Junzheng
Secretary of the Ningxia Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee	Chen Run'er
Secretary of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee	Ma Xingrui

Governors

Post	Name
Governor of Anhui Province	Wang Qingxian
Governor of Fujian Province	Wang Ning
Governor of Gansu Province	Ren Zhenhe
Governor of Guangdong Province	Wang Weizhong
Governor of Guizhou Province	Li Bingjun
Governor of Hainan Province	Feng Fei
Governor of Hebei Province	Xu Qin
Governor of Heilongjiang Province	Hu Changsheng
Governor of Henan Province	Wang Kai
Governor of Hubei Province	Wang Zhonglin
Governor of Hunan Province	Mao Weiming
Governor of Jiangsu Province	Wu Zhenglong
Governor of Jiangxi Province	Wu Zhenglong
Governor of Jilin Province	Han Jun
Governor of Liaoning Province	Liu Ning
Governor of Qinghai Province	Xin Changxing
Governor of Shaanxi Province	Zhao Yide
Governor of Shandong Province	Zhou Naixiang
Governor of Shanxi Province	Lan Fo'an
Governor of Sichuan Province	Huang Qiang
Governor of Yunnan Province	Chen Hao
Governor of Zhejiang Province	Wang Hao

Events

January–March

9 January – Tianjin begins city-wide COVID-19 testing for 14 million people after 20 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, two of whom were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
4–20 February – 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
1 March:
- 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak
- A new online religion management law enforced: People and organization no longer allowed to spread religious ideas in the internet unless they are authorized by the government. The law was passed in December 2021 and went into force on 1 March 2022.
- 90th anniversary of establishment of Manchukuo
4–13 March – 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing
21 March – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 descended steeply mid–flight and struck the ground at high speed in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, killing all 123 passengers and 9 crew members.

April–June

11 April – 2,500th anniversary of the death of Confucius
29 April – Changsha building collapse
12 May – Tibet Airlines Flight 9833
1 June – 2022 Ya'an earthquake

July–September

24 August – Hainan announces it will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2030.
5 September – 2022 Luding earthquake
18 September – 2022 Guizhou bus crash

October–December

13 October – A man protests at Sitong Bridge in Haidan District, Beijing
16 October – 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
23 October – Xi Jinping is re-elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
21 November – 2022 Anyang factory fire
24 November – 2022 Ürümqi fire
24 November – 2022 COVID-19 protests in China

Deaths

1 January – Xu Xingchu, 87, engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2 January – Zhou Xiaofeng, 57, entrepreneur and politician, member of the National People's Congress (2008–2012)
3 January – Zheng Min, 101, poet
6 January – Zhang Jiqing, 83, Kunqu artist
7 January – Liu Siqi, 91, public figure
10 January – Liu Xianping, 83, writer
12 January – Sun Bigan, 80, diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1990–1994), Iraq (1994–1998) and Iran (1999–2002)
30 November – Jiang Zemin, 96, politician, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002) and 4th paramount leader

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