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Xi Jinping takes over as president, completing the once-in-a-decade transfer of power to a new generation of leaders. He launches an efficiency and anti-corruption drive.
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Two Uyghur men are sentenced to death over clashes in Xinjiang in April that left 21 people dead.The case took place days after claims of fatal violence in another city in the restive region.Officials in Aksu played down that incident as "small scale" or denied there had been any problems at all
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Former senior leader Bo Xilai is sentenced to life in prison for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power in the most politically charged trial in China in decades. Big "tigers" such as Bo have been arrested in each wave:
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The Communist Party announces it has decided to end the decades-old one-child policy.Policy makers hoped to restrict the country's surging population and therefore control rates of poverty.An additional 53 per cent was allowed to have a second child if the first child was a girl. The new two-child policy will reverse China's very low fertility rate.
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China's first robotic rover lands on ( YUTU ) the surface of the moon, the first soft landing after 37 years. The robotic rover is also known as " Jade Rabbit"
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China allows foreign companies majority ownership of some telecom and internet services in the Shanghai free trade zone. Firms providing online data and analysis services will have a cap of 55% foreign ownership.
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China's trade surplus jumps to $31.9bn (£19.4bn) to 14 per cent from a year earlier . Imports rose by 10% from a year earlier to $175.27bn – led by record shipments of crude oil, iron ore and copper. Exports increased by 10.6% from a year earlier, far faster than analysts’ forecasts, to $207.13bn. The positive trade figures also add to expectations China will overtake the US as the world’s largest tradin
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Protests against Beijing's plans to vet candidates for elections in 2017 grip Hong Kong.
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Ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, the most senior Chinese official to be investigated for corruption, is arrested and expelled from the Communist Party on December 2014.
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China's economic growth falls to its lowest level for more than 20 years - 7.4% percent in 2014. Government revises growth targets down.
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President Xi pays official visit to the United States to seek investment in China; agrees to abjure from economic cyber-espionage.
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China expresses anger at US naval ship sailing by artificial reefs Beijing is building among disputed Spratly Islands in South China Sea.
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China's President Xi Jinping and Taiwan's President hold historic talks in Singapore, the first such meeting since the Chinese Civil War finished and the nations split in 1949.
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Economic growth in 2015 falls to lowest rate in 25 years (6.9%, down from 7.3% in 2014), and International Monetary Fund predicts further deceleration over next two years.
