Events in the year 2010 in China.
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Governors
Events
January
February
March
April
- 1 April â First ever organ trafficking trial in the PRC (est.)
- 4 April â 114 miners trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week in Shanxi, China, are rescued.
- 6 April – One of leading smartphone brand, Xiaomi was founded.
- 10âÂÂ14 April â 2010 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia
- 13 April âÂÂ
- Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program.
- Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower fire
- 14 April â 2010 Yushu earthquake: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000.
- 16 April â Yan Xiaoling - Fan Yanqiong Case
- 22 April âÂÂ
- Emeishan City self-immolation incident
- Huang Guangyu, founder of GOME Electrical Appliances and formerly China's richest man, goes on trial for bribery in Beijing.
- 24 April â Ben ren Yu (éÂÂ伯ä»Â) PRC diplomat assaulted in Houston
- 25 April â 13 June â 2010 earthquake prediction case
- 29 April - Xu Yuyuan mass stabbing incident: Twenty-eight children and three adults are stabbed at a nursery school in China.
- 30 April - 2010 Shanghai Expo opening ceremony
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Date unknown
- Bashan 125R motorcycle begins production by the Bashan Motorcycle Manufacturing Co.Ltd in Chongqing.
- Handheld Culture online bookstore is founded.
Deaths
- 2 February âÂÂ
- Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
- Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.
- 3 February â Qian Chunqi, Chinese doctor and translator (born 1921)
- 4 February â Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure.
- 14 February â Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma.
- 10 March â Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness.
- 13 March â He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications.
- 26 April â D.C. Lau, 89, Chinese sinologist.
- 17 May â Walasse Ting, 80, Chinese-born American visual artist.
- 7 June â Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat.
- 25 June â Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese painter.
- 5 July â Jia Hongsheng, 43, Chinese actor, suicide by jumping.
- 15 July â Luo Pinchao, 98, Chinese opera singer.
- 29 July â Zheng Ji, 110, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist, world's oldest professor.
- 30 July â Chien Wei-zang, 96, Chinese physicist and applied mathematician.
- 18 October â Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
- 28 October â Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature), lung infection.
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