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China
Events 2000 to 2007
China
History01 600AD to
1949
China
History02 -
1950-1976
China
History03 -
1977-1989
China
History04 - 1990 to
1999
China
History05 - 2000 to
Date
02.
TIMELINE
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2000 -
Crackdown on official corruption
intensifies, with the execution for bribe
taking of a former deputy chairman of the
National People's Congress.
2000 -
TROY
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WEBCAST.
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STORY.
2000 -
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2001 -
April - Diplomatic stand-off over the
detention of an American spy plane and
crew after a mid-air collision with a
Chinese fighter jet.
2001 -
June - China carries out military
exercises simulating an invasion of
Taiwan, at the same time as the island's
armed forces test their capability to
defend Taiwan against a missile attack
from China.
2001 -
November - China joins the World Trade
Organisation.
2001 -
October 2: Microsoft ships Windows XP;
the company says it will start selling its
next operating systems, code-named
Longhorn, in 2003.
2001 -
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CORY SHOW - CHINA EXPO 2001. SHANGHAI
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MORE.
2001 -
June - Leaders of China, Russia and
four Central Asian states launch the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
and sign an agreement to fight ethnic and
religious militancy while promoting trade
and investment. The group emerges when the
Shanghai Five - China, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan - are joined by
Uzbekistan.
2002 -
April : The company pushes back the
Longhorn launch to "beyond 2003.".
2002 -
February - US President George W Bush
visits, on the 30th anniversary of
President Nixon's visit to China - the
first by a US president.
2002 -
In a November 2002 interview,
classmate Liu Bingxia recalled the young
Hu Jintao as carefully controlled,
studious and someone who always held his
temper. 1949 - 1 October - Mao
Tsetung, having led the Communists to
victory against the Nationalists after
more than 20 years of civil war, proclaims
the founding of the People's Republic of
China. The Nationalists retreat to the
island of Taiwan and set up a government
there.
2002 -
November - Vice-President Hu Jintao is
named head of the ruling Communist Party,
replacing Jiang Zemin, the outgoing
president. Jiang is re-elected head of the
influential Central Military Commission,
which oversees the armed forces.
2002 -
TROY
CORY SHOW - CHINA EXPO 2002. SHANGHAI
WEBCAST. -- MORE PHOTO STORIES. -- CLICK
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MORE.
2002 -
uly - The US says China is modernising
its military to make possible a forcible
reunification with Taiwan. Beijing says
its policy remains defensive.
2003 -
China in space.
2003 -
Hu Jintao became general secretary of
the Chinese Communist party in 2002,
replacing Jiang Zemin.
2003 -
Hu Jintao general secretary of Chinese
Communist Party / Born - 1942 Birthplace -
Jixi, Anhui Province.
2003 -
In pictures - Three Gorges waters
rise.
2003 -
July/August - Some 500,000 people
march in Hong Kong against Article 23, a
controversial anti-subversion bill. Two
key Hong Kong government officials resign.
The government shelves the bill.
2003 -
June - China, India reach de facto
agreement over status of Tibet and Sikkim
in landmark cross-border trade
agreement.
2003 -
Life in civil war Shanghai / Shanghai
- The financial powerhouse drives China's
economy.
2003 -
March - National People's Congress
elects Hu Jintao as president. He replaces
Jiang Zemin, who steps down after 10 years
in the post.
2003 -
March-April - China and Hong Kong are
hit by the pneumonia-like Sars virus,
thought to have originated in Guangdong
province in November 2002. Strict
quarantine measures are enforced to stop
the disease spreading.
2003 -
October - Launch of China's first
manned spacecraft - Astronaut Yang Liwei
is sent into space by a Long March 2F
rocket.
2003 -
Sars virus outbreak.
2003 -
THREE GORGES PROJECT / Massive
hydro-power scheme is set for completion
in 2009.
2003 -
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CORY SHOW - CHINA EXPO 2003. SHANGHAI
WEBCAST. -- MORE PHOTO STORIES. -- CLICK
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MORE.
2003 -
June - Hong Kong is declared free of
Sars. Days later the World Health
Organization lifts its Sars-related travel
warning for Beijing.
2003 -
June - Sluice gates on Three Gorges
Dam, the world's largest hydropower
scheme, are closed to allow the reservoir
to fill up.
2003 -
Kathryn Riddell - Critics are many,
vocal.
2004 -
China celebrates Deng centenary.
2004 -
China protects its greatest asset
Newsround Gallery.
2004 -
TROY
CORY SHOW - CHINA EXPO 2004. FUZHOU
WEBCAST. -- MORE PHOTO STORIES. -- CLICK
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MORE.
2004 -
In pictures - Altered landscapes and
displaced lives Taming the Yangtze
river.
2004 -
Many rural Chinese have not shared in
the economic boom.
2004 -
November - China signs a landmark
trade agreement with 10 south-east Asian
countries; the accord could eventually
unite 25% of the world's population in a
free-trade zone.
2004 -
September - Former president Jiang
Zemin stands down as army chief, three
years ahead of schedule.
2004 -
The second industrial revolution.
2004 -
Witnessing Tiananmen - Night of
Bloodshed.
2005 -
Aircraft chartered for the Lunar New
Year holiday make the first direct flights
between China and Taiwan since 1949.
2005 -
January - Former reformist leader Zhao
Ziyang dies. He opposed violent measures
to end 1989's student protests and spent
his last years under virtual house
arrest.
2005 -
March - Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung
Chee-hwa resigns. He is succeeded in June
by Donald Tsang.
2005 -
April - Relations with Japan
deteriorate amid sometimes-violent
anti-Japanese protests in Chinese cities,
sparked by a Japanese textbook which China
says glosses over Japan's World War II
record.
2005
- April: Bill Gates of Microsoft,
shows off Longhorn at a conference,
focusing on the look and usability of the
interface.
2005
- Global
Forum in Beijing - Time Warner in
talks for China TV
tie-ups
- Media
conglomerate Time Warner Inc. is talking
with China's top two broadcasters about
partnerships in the country's newly opened
TV program-making sector, according to its
chief executive. CLICK
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TIMELINE
2005
- Richard
Parsons, CEO of Time Warner Inc, speaks at
the FORTUNE Global Forum in Beijing May
17, 2005. Parsons said Time Warner is
talking with China's top two broadcasters
about partnerships in the country's newly
opened TV program-making sector
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STORY.
2005
- Officials
from Time Warner, owner of the CNN and HBO
television networks and the Warner Bros.
movie studio, have met recently with
counterparts from China Central Television
(CCTV) and Shanghai Media Group (SMG)
about ways they can work together, said
Chief Executive Officer Richard
Parsons.
2005
- "We
have an awful lot of both content and
expertise we think can be helpful to
developing the TV industry here in China,"
Parsons told reporters at a media briefing
at a business conference in
Beijing.
2005
- "In
terms of target dates, we're really at the
beginning of trying to create these
relationships and I would hope that by
next year we would have some
success."
2005
- July: "Windows Vista" name unveiled;
Microsoft ships a beta version to
500,000.
customers.
2005 -
China faces growing land disputes.
2005 -
China's rural poor left behind.
2005 -
TROY
CORY SHOW - CHINA EXPO 2004 - 2005. FUZHOU
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2005 -
August - China, Russia conduct their
first joint military exercises.
2005 -
New law on Taiwan calls for use of
force should Taipei declare independence
from mainland China.
2005 -
October - China conducts its second
manned space flight, with two astronauts
circling Earth in the Shenzhou VI space
capsule.
2005 -
November - Explosion at a chemical
plant poisons the Songhua river, cutting
off water supplies to millions of
people.
2005 -
Taiwan's National Party leader Lien
Chan visits China for the first meeting
between Nationalist and Communist Party
leaders since 1949.
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