2022 in China

Events in the year 2022 in China.

Incumbents

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.

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

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

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