2013 in China

Events in the year 2013 in China.

Incumbents

 * General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping
 * President
 * Hu Jintao (until March 14)
 * Xi Jinping (from March 14)
 * Vice President
 * Xi Jinping (until March 14)
 * Li Yuanchao (from March 14)
 * Premier
 * Wen Jiabao (until March 15)
 * Li Keqiang (from March 15)
 * Congress chairman
 * Wu Bangguo (until March 14)
 * Zhang Dejiang (from March 14)
 * Consultative Conference chairman
 * Jia Qinglin (until March 11)
 * Yu Zhengsheng (from March 11)

Governors

 * Governor of Anhui Province – Li Bin (until March), Wang Xuejun (starting March)
 * Governor of Fujian Province – Su Shulin
 * Governor of Gansu Province – Liu Weiping
 * Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Xiaodan
 * Governor of Guizhou Province – Chen Min'er
 * Governor of Hainan Province – Jiang Dingzhi
 * Governor of Hebei Province – Zhang Qingwei
 * Governor of Heilongjiang Province: – Wang Xiankui (until March), Lu Hao (starting March)
 * Governor of Henan Province – Guo Gengmao (until March), Xie Fuzhan (starting March)
 * Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Guosheng
 * Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Shousheng (until 5 April), Du Jiahao (starting 5 April)
 * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Li Xueyong
 * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Lu Xinshe
 * Governor of Jilin Province – Bayanqolu
 * Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Zhenggao
 * Governor of Qinghai Province – Luo Huining (until March), Hao Peng (starting March)
 * Governor of Shaanxi Province – Lou Qinjian
 * Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Daming (until March), Guo Shuqing (starting March)
 * Governor of Shanxi Province – Li Xiaopeng
 * Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Jufeng (until January), Wei Hong (starting January)
 * Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiheng
 * Governor of Zhejiang Province – Li Qiang

January

 * January 3 - 2013 Southern Weekly incident

April

 * April 15 - 2013 Daulat Beg Oldi Incident
 * April 20 - 2013 Lushan earthquake
 * April 24 - April 2013 Bachu unrest

May

 * May 24 - Ding Jinhao engraving scandal

June

 * June 7 - Xiamen bus fire
 * June 16–21 - 5th Straits Forum
 * June 22 - 2013 Shanghai shooting
 * June 26 - June 2013 Shanshan riots

July

 * Early July - 2013 Southwest China floods
 * July 19 – The court case for the Mutiny on Lurongyu 2682 was decided. The 11 sailors returned were convicted with murder, leading to the deaths of 22 in the South Pacific.
 * July 20 - 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing

October

 * October 21 - 2013 Harbin smog starts to spread.

Deaths

 * January 28 - Xu Liangying, physicist, translator, historian and philosopher (b. 1920)
 * June 2 - Chen Xitong, politician, former member of the Political Bureau (b. 1930)
 * June 4 - Luo Meizhen, supercentenarian (b. 1885)