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History of China

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.

Cities of the world in which the largest number of skyscrapers were built in 2020 (200 meters high or higher)

1972

US President Richard Nixon is trying to dine with Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. China, 1972

1952

"Everyone should be vaccinated against epidemics to thwart American imperialists" plans to wage bacteriological warfare. " PRC, 1952.

1949

Communist Chinese leader Mao Jedong at Joseph Stalin's 70th birthday. Moscow. 1949

Maoists destroy Buddhist shrines, 1949.

Eunuch of the Imperial Court, China, 1949.

1946

The Americans arrived at the factory previously liberated by Soviet troops from the Japanese in Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria, 1946.

1940: Japan uses bacteriological weapons in China

Main article: Detachment 731 (Bacteriological Weapons of Japan)

Unit 731 personnel infect the Chinese civilian population with bubonic plague in Harbin, Manchuria, 1940.

1938

A Chinese suicide bomber wears a vest made from hand grenades in 1938.

Japanese soldiers bury the Chinese alive in Nanjing, 1937/38.

Chain Bridge. China, 1930s.

1937

A Japanese soldier carries a guard on a section of the Great Wall, China, in 1937.

Chinese soldiers march on the Great Wall of China, 1937.

Imperial Japanese soldiers climb the Great Wall of China, 1937.

Dalai Lama XIV at the age of 2 years. China, 1937

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).

1915

The legs of a Chinese woman compared to the usual tea cup and shoes of the average American woman from the First World War.

1912

The young bride goes to a wedding, China, 1912.

1905

The Japanese in captured Port Arthur inspect the Russian fortress artillery. Russo-Japanese War. 1905.

Russian soldiers enter Mukden, Manchuria. China, 1905.

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.

French political caricature of the late 1890s. The pie represents China, which is shared by Queen Victoria of England, William II, Emperor of Germany (arguing with Victoria about a piece of pie, while plunging a dagger into the pie as a sign of his aggressive intentions), Nicholas II, Emperor of the Russian Empire, looking after a special piece, French Marianne (presented not taking part in the division of the pie, and close to Nicholas II as a sign of the Franco-Russian Union) and the Japanese emperor Meiji, who thought deeply about what pieces to take him. Behind them is a representative of the Qing court, who raised his hands to stop them, but to no avail.

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.

Ihetuani ("Justice and Peace Squads")

1890

Chinese giant Chang, whose height exceeded 2 m 40 cm (1840e -1893).

1878

Canton (Guangzhou), 1870s.

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.

Han Empire, Hunnu and Donghu in 200 BC.

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.

The burial was discovered in March 1974 near the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang.

334 BC: The formation of the state of Minyue in the south

The state of Minyue existed from about 334 to 110 BC. e.