The following lists events that happened during 2020 in China.
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Governors
- Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying
- Governor of Fujian Province – Tang Dengjie (until 2 July), Wang Ning (starting 2 July)
- Governor of Gansu Province – Tang Renjian
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Ma Xingrui
- Governor of Guizhou Province – Shen Yiqin (until 24 November), Ma Xingrui (starting November)
- Governor of Hainan Province – Shen Xiaoming (until 2 December), Feng Fei (starting December 2)
- Governor of Hebei Province – Xu Qin
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province: – Wang Wentao (until December), vacant thereafter (starting December)
- Governor of Henan Province – Yin Hong
- Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Xiaodong
- Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Dazhe (until November), Mao Weiming (starting November)
- Governor of Jiangsu Province – Wu Zhenglong
- Governor of Jiangxi Province – Yi Lianhong
- Governor of Jilin Province – Jing Junhai (until 25 November), Han Jun (starting November)
- Governor of Liaoning Province – Tang Yijun (until April), Liu Ning (starting April)
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Liu Ning
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Liu Guozhong (until August), Zhao Yide (from August)
- Governor of Shandong Province – Gong Zheng (until April 17), vacant thereafter (starting April 17)
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Lin Wu
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Yin Li (until 2 December), Huang Qiang (politician) (starting 2 December)
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Yuan Jiajun (until 4 September), Zheng Shanjie (starting September)
April
- April 4 – Coinciding with the Qingming Festival, a national day of mourning was declared followed by a three-minute silence to honor 3,300+ people who died of COVID-19.[12]
May
- May 9 – Several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing. Around one hundred and fifty troops clashed in a "standoff" that included fistfights and stone-throwing.[13]
June
- June 26 – Nearly 50 independent United Nations Human Rights experts highlighted their concern on the situation in China. They voiced concern for many actions including but not limited to allegations of forced labor; arbitrary interferences with the right to privacy; restrictive cybersecurity, anti-terrorism, and sedition laws; the retaliation against journalists, medical workers and others speaking out about COVID-19; the repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet; and the repression of protests and democracy advocacy in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). They urged China to "withdraw the draft national security law for Hong Kong".[14][15]
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赵承 (March 11, 2020). 顾天成 (ed.). "习近平总书记武汉之行传递战"疫"新信号". Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved March 11, 2020.