2025 in China

Events in the year 2025 in China.

Incumbents

4 January – Eight people are killed in a fire at a market in Zhangjiakou, Hebei.
7 January – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits Tibet, killing at least 126 people.
20 January –
- Fan Weiqiu is executed for committing the 2024 Zhuhai car attack.
- Xu Jiajin is executed for committing the 2024 Wuxi stabbing attack.
22 January – A truck rams into 12 vehicles in Bazhong, Sichuan, killing five people.

1 February – US President Donald Trump imposes a 10% tariff on imports from China.
3 February – China imposes export controls and increased tariffs on certain American imports in retaliation for President Trump's imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods.
4 February – The United States Postal Service indefinitely suspends its acceptance of parcels from China and Hong Kong.
7–14 February – The 2025 Asian Winter Games are held in Harbin, with China placing first in terms of medals with 32 golds, 26 silvers, and 24 bronzes and achieving its highest medal tally in the history of the competition.
8 February – At least one person is killed while 28 others are reported missing after a landslide hits the village of Jinping in Junlian County, Sichuan.
11–16 February – 2025 Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships in Qingdao.
19 February – Mixue surpasses Starbucks and McDonald's as the world's largest foodservice chain by store count.
25 February – An oil spill cleaning vessel collides with a ferry along the Yuanshui River in Hunan, killing at least 11 people.
28 February – convicted child trafficker Yu Huaying, who trafficked a total of 17 children between 1993 and 2003, was executed.

4 March –
- Chengdu-based architect Liu Jiakun is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
- U.S. President Donald Trump increases the tariffs imposed by the United States on Chinese imports in February to 20%.
15 March – A fighter jet of the People's Liberation Army Navy crashes into an open area in Hainan. The pilot is rescued after ejecting.
19 March – The Ministry of State Security announces that a engineer who previously worked at a research institution has been sentenced to death for selling classified material to foreign intelligence agencies.
20 March – Global Affairs Canada announces that four Canadian-Chinese nationals had been executed in China earlier in the year for drug offences.
21 – 23 March – 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships
31 March – The China National Offshore Oil Corporation announces the discovery of a major oil field in the South China Sea off the coast of Shenzhen.

3 April – Three Filipino nationals are arrested in Beijing on suspicion of spying for Philippine intelligence.
8 April – Twenty people are killed in a fire at a nursing home in Chengde.
9 April – President Trump increases tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States to 104%, prompting China to impose an 84% tariff on American imports.
22 April – At least five people are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack on pedestrians outside a school, in Jinhua, Zhejiang.
27 April – The China Coast Guard is reported to have seized Sand Cay, which is also claimed by the Philippines, in the South China Sea.
29 April – Twenty-two people are killed in a fire at a restaurant in Liaoyang, Liaoning.
30 April – China lifts sanctions placed in 2021 on five MEPs over their criticism of human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, following negotiations with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

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5 January: Wang Zhengguo, 89, field medical engineer.
8 January: Wu Lusheng, 94, architect.
11 January: Qiu Dahong, 94, coastal and offshore engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.