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The National People's Congress names CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping as the new President of the People's Republic of China, Politburo member Li Yuanchao as the new Vice President, Li Keqiang as the new Premier, and Politburo standing member Zhang Dejiang as the Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
2013-03-14

The United Nations Security Council votes on an Arab League proposal to resolve problems in Syria with reports of hundreds of people dead in the past couple of days as a result of shelling in Homs - the People's Republic of China and Russia veto the resolution.
2012-02-4

Tibetan advocacy groups claim that as many as seven ethnic Tibetans have been killed and 60 wounded in the past week in protests in China's Sichuan province bordering Tibet.
2012-01-30

A Chinese court sentences dissident Chen Wei to nine years imprisonment for "inciting subversion of state power", after he published essays online calling for multiparty democracy.
2011-12-23

Floods and landslides caused by a week of heavy rain in the People's Republic of China have killed at least 57 people and made as many as a million people homeless.
2011-09-20

7 people are killed during heavy floods in Sichuan Province in the People's Republic of China.
2011-07-6

More than 20 quarry workers are buried by a landslide in Luojiang near the Chinese resort city of Guilin.
2011-05-9

Seven people are killed and one missing after a blast at a coal mine in Sichuan, China.
2010-10-29

Landslides in the village of Wama near Baoshan in China kill at least 12 people with 36 missing.
2010-09-3

A landslide in China's Sichuan Province caused by heavy rains results in 21 people being missing.
2010-07-27