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Human Rights Watch reports that China has changed the names of hundreds of villages inhabited by Uyghurs in order to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology.
2024-06-19

China rejects the next stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into COVID-19. Chinese Deputy Minister of Health Zeng Yixin rebuffed the proposal to investigate the origins in Wuhan as "disrespect for common sense and arrogance towards Science". WHO experts said it was very unlikely that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab, but the theory has endured.
2021-07-22

China becomes the first major country to authorize the emergency use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children as young as three years old.
2021-06-5

Two people die of bubonic plague in the region of Inner Mongolia, China. Authorities have sealed off a village.
2020-08-7

CBB International, a financial analytics concern, releases a survey of executives indicating that China's retail sector is growing, leading a broader upswing in that nation's economy.
2012-12-26

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is opened in Beijing, during which current Paramount Leader Hu Jintao is expected to step down to make way for presumptive leader Xi Jinping.
2012-11-8

Reuters calls Xi Jinping China's "next leader". Hu Chunhua reportedly misses a promotion to the Politburo Standing Committee in an expected power transition at or around the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China.
2012-09-4

Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chongqing Politburo leader Bo Xilai, is given a suspended death sentence for the murder of Neil Heywood in China.
2012-08-20

The Chinese Communist Party suspends the Politburo membership of former senior official Bo Xilai, while his wife Gu Kailai is named as a suspect in the murder of a British businessman.
2012-04-10

A Chinese survey shows that 91 percent of the population oppose raising retirement age. The retirement age in China is generally set at 60 for men and 50-55 for women. [http:--english.peopledaily.com.cn-90001-90776-90882-7140300.html (People Daily)] [http:--www.chinadaily.com.cn-xinhua-2010-09-15-content_869766.html (China Daily)]date=August 2019
2010-09-15