# 2022 in China

Events in the year 2022 in China.

## Incumbents

* General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – Xi Jinping
* President – Xi Jinping
* Vice President – Wang Qishan
* Premier – Li Keqiang
* Congress chairman – Li Zhanshu
* Consultative Conference chairman – Wang Yang
* Supervision Commission director – Yang Xiaodu

### Communist Party secretaries

| Post | Name |
| Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Communist Party Committee | Cai Qi |
| Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Communist Party Committee | Li Hongzhong |
| Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Communist Party Committee | Li Qiang Chen Jining |
| Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Communist Party Committee | Chen Min'er |
| Secretary of the Anhui Province Communist Party Committee | Li Jinbin Zheng Shanjie |
| Secretary of the Fujian Province Communist Party Committee | Yin Li |
| Secretary of the Gansu Province Communist Party Committee | Lin Duo Yin Hong |
| Secretary of the Guangdong Province Communist Party Committee | Li Xi |
| Secretary of the Guizhou Province Communist Party Committee | Shen Yiqin |
| Secretary of the Hainan Province Communist Party Committee | Shen Xiaoming |
| Secretary of the Hebei Province Communist Party Committee | Wang Dongfeng |
| Secretary of the Heilongjiang Province Communist Party Committee | Xu Qin |
| Secretary of the Henan Province Communist Party Committee | Lou Yangsheng |
| Secretary of the Hubei Province Communist Party Committee | Ying Yong |
| Secretary of the Hunan Province Communist Party Committee | Zhang Qingwei |
| Secretary of the Jiangsu Province Communist Party Committee | Wu Zhenglong |
| Secretary of the Jiangxi Province Communist Party Committee | Yi Lianhong |
| Secretary of the Jilin Province Communist Party Committee | Jing Junhai |
| Secretary of the Liaoning Province Communist Party Committee | Zhang Guoqing |
| Secretary of the Qinghai Province Communist Party Committee | Wang Jianjun |
| Secretary of the Shaanxi Province Communist Party Committee | Liu Guozhong |
| Secretary of the Shandong Province Communist Party Committee | Li Ganjie |
| Secretary of the Shanxi Province Communist Party Committee | Lin Wu |
| Secretary of the Sichuan Province Communist Party Committee | Peng Qinghua |
| Secretary of the Yunnan Province Communist Party Committee | Ruan Chengfa Wang Ning |
| Secretary of the Zhejiang Province Communist Party Committee | Yuan Jiajun |
| Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee | Shi Taifeng |
| Secretary of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee | Lu Xinshe Liu Ning |
| Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee | Wu Yingjie Wang Junzheng |
| Secretary of the Ningxia Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee | Chen Run'er |
| Secretary of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Communist Party Committee | Ma Xingrui |

### Governors

| Post | Name |
| Governor of Anhui Province | Wang Qingxian |
| Governor of Fujian Province | Wang Ning |
| Governor of Gansu Province | Ren Zhenhe |
| Governor of Guangdong Province | Wang Weizhong |
| Governor of Guizhou Province | Li Bingjun |
| Governor of Hainan Province | Feng Fei |
| Governor of Hebei Province | Xu Qin |
| Governor of Heilongjiang Province | Hu Changsheng |
| Governor of Henan Province | Wang Kai |
| Governor of Hubei Province | Wang Zhonglin |
| Governor of Hunan Province | Mao Weiming |
| Governor of Jiangsu Province | Wu Zhenglong |
| Governor of Jiangxi Province | Wu Zhenglong |
| Governor of Jilin Province | Han Jun |
| Governor of Liaoning Province | Liu Ning |
| Governor of Qinghai Province | Xin Changxing |
| Governor of Shaanxi Province | Zhao Yide |
| Governor of Shandong Province | Zhou Naixiang |
| Governor of Shanxi Province | Lan Fo'an |
| Governor of Sichuan Province | Huang Qiang |
| Governor of Yunnan Province | Chen Hao |
| Governor of Zhejiang Province | Wang Hao |

## Events
### January–March

* 9 January – Tianjin begins city-wide COVID-19 testing for 14 million people after 20 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, two of whom were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
* 4–20 February – 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
* 1 March:
** 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak
** A new online religion management law enforced: People and organization no longer allowed to spread religious ideas on the Internet unless they are authorized by the government. The law was passed in December 2021 and went into force on 1 March 2022.
** 90th anniversary of establishment of Manchukuo
* 4–13 March – 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing
* 21 March – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 descended steeply mid–flight and struck the ground at high speed in Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, killing all 123 passengers and 9 crew members.

### April–June

* 11 April – 2,500th anniversary of the death of Confucius
* 29 April – Changsha building collapse
* 12 May – Tibet Airlines Flight 9833
* 1 June – 2022 Ya'an earthquake

### July–September

* 24 August – Hainan announces it will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2030.
* 5 September – 2022 Luding earthquake
* 18 September – 2022 Guizhou bus crash

### October–December

* 13 October – A man protests at Sitong Bridge in Haidan District, Beijing
* 16 October – 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
* 23 October – Xi Jinping is re-elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
* 21 November – 2022 Anyang factory fire
* 24 November – 2022 Ürümqi fire
* 24 November – 2022 COVID-19 protests in China

## Deaths

* 1 January – Xu Xingchu, 87, engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
* 2 January – Zhou Xiaofeng, 57, entrepreneur and politician, member of the National People's Congress (2008–2012)
* 3 January – Zheng Min, 101, poet
* 6 January – Zhang Jiqing, 83, Kunqu artist
* 7 January – Liu Siqi, 91, public figure
* 10 January – Liu Xianping, 83, writer
* 12 January – Sun Bigan, 80, diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1990–1994), Iraq (1994–1998) and Iran (1999–2002)
* 30 November – Jiang Zemin, 96, politician, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002) and 4th paramount leader