Main article: China
2023: Xi Jinping re-elected president of China for the third time in the country's history
In March 2023, Xi Jinping was re-elected chairman of the PRC. He became the first head of state in the history of the country to take office for the third time.
2022: Strongest protests since 1989 over COVID-19-related restrictions
In November 2022 China , protests in broke out with unprecedented force, spreading through major cities. On November 27, protests from large cities covered, Beijing Shanghai Wuhan, Nanjing, Urumqi (the capital of Xinjiang with a population of over 4 million people).
Geography is rapidly expanding and this is the strongest popular unrest in China since 1989. The last time there were anti-Japanese protests was in 2012 on a fairly minor issue about the dispute between China and Japan over the disputed islands. Then it was turned to an external threat, and in 2022 - entirely to domestic state policy.
The reason is COVID terror, which has no analogues in the world in terms of duration and scale. So harshly, as in China, no one in the world was harassed due to the coronavirus. For more details, see COVID-19 coronavirus in China.
2020:28 skyscrapers built in China in a year
In China, 28 skyscrapers 200 m high or higher were built in 2020. Of these, 9 are in Shenzhen, 8 are in Shenyang, 4 are in Guiyang and Changsha, 3 are in Guangzhou.
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1940: Japan uses bacteriological weapons in China
Main article: Detachment 731 (Bacteriological Weapons of Japan)
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1935: Birth of the future Dalai Lama XIV
The future Dalai Lama XIV was born on July 6, 1935 in Taktsera - a Tibetan village in the Chinese province of Qinghai (or the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo).
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1898: The beginning of the rebellion of the Ihetuans or boxers
From the beginning of the 19th century, Western European states began to penetrate into China, primarily Britain, seeking to establish control over Chinese markets. The Qing Empire could not resist its technologically superior powers, as a result of which it suffered a number of diplomatic and military defeats and by the end of the 19th century was actually in the position of a half colony.
In such conditions, in 1898, many spontaneously formed detachments with various names began to operate in northern China, the most common of which was the Ihetuani ("Justice and Peace Detachments"). Many members of the organizations regularly engaged in physical exercises (chuan), reminiscent of fist fighting, for which they were later nicknamed boxers by Europeans.
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110 BC: Han joins Minyue
Minyue was partially conquered by the Han dynasty at the end of the II century BC. e., however, the location of the mountains made it almost impossible to consolidate the Han on the land of the country. Later, Minyue conquered Namviet under the command of Cheu Da (from 183 to 135 BC), and in 110 BC Han annexed Minyue.
206 BC: Beginning of the Han Empire
206 BC e. - 220 AD e. - the Chinese empire in which the Liu dynasty ruled. A testament to the success of Han domestic politics was that it lasted longer than any other empire in Chinese history. Her rule and institutions served as a model for all subsequent ones. Moreover, the main ethnic group of Chinese by the name of the state became known as Han.
210 BC: Terracotta Army
Terracotta statues were buried with the first emperor of the Qin dynasty - Shi Huang-di (united China and connected all the links of the Great Wall) in 210-209 BC. e.
334 BC: The formation of the state of Minyue in the south
The state of Minyue existed from about 334 to 110 BC. e.
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