2013 in China
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping
- President
- Hu Jintao (until March 14)
- Xi Jinping (from March 14)
- Vice President
- Xi Jinping (until March 14)
- Li Yuanchao (from March 14)
- Premier
- Wen Jiabao (until March 15)
- Li Keqiang (from March 15)
- Congress chairman
- Wu Bangguo (until March 14)
- Zhang Dejiang (from March 14)
- Consultative Conference chairman
- Jia Qinglin (until March 11)
- Yu Zhengsheng (from March 11)
===Governors===
- Governor of Anhui Province – Li Bin (until March), Wang Xuejun (starting March)
- Governor of Fujian Province – Su Shulin
- Governor of Gansu Province – Liu Weiping
- Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Xiaodan
- Governor of Guizhou Province – Chen Min'er
- Governor of Hainan Province – Jiang Dingzhi
- Governor of Hebei Province – Zhang Qingwei
- Governor of Heilongjiang Province: – Wang Xiankui (until March), Lu Hao (starting March)
- Governor of Henan Province – Guo Gengmao (until March), Xie Fuzhan (starting March)
- Governor of Hubei Province – Wang Guosheng
- Governor of Hunan Province – Xu Shousheng (until 5 April), Du Jiahao (starting 5 April)
- Governor of Jiangsu Province – Li Xueyong
- Governor of Jiangxi Province – Lu Xinshe
- Governor of Jilin Province – Bayanqolu
- Governor of Liaoning Province – Chen Zhenggao
- Governor of Qinghai Province – Luo Huining (until March), Hao Peng (starting March)
- Governor of Shaanxi Province – Lou Qinjian
- Governor of Shandong Province – Jiang Daming (until March), Guo Shuqing (starting March)
- Governor of Shanxi Province – Li Xiaopeng
- Governor of Sichuan Province – Jiang Jufeng (until January), Wei Hong (starting January)
- Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiheng
- Governor of Zhejiang Province – Li Qiang
Events
= January =
- January 3 - 2013 Southern Weekly incident
= April =
- April 15 - 2013 Daulat Beg Oldi Incident
- April 20 - 2013 Lushan earthquake
- April 24 - April 2013 Bachu unrest
= May =
- May 24 - Ding Jinhao engraving scandal
= June =
- June 7 - Xiamen bus fire
- June 16–21 - 5th Straits Forum
- June 22 - 2013 Shanghai shooting
- June 26 - June 2013 Shanshan riots
= July =
- Early July - 2013 Southwest China floods
- July 19 – The court case for the Mutiny on Lurongyu 2682 was decided. The 11 sailors returned were convicted with murder, leading to the deaths of 22 in the South Pacific.
- July 20 - 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing
= October =
- October 21 - 2013 Harbin smog starts to spread.
Deaths
- January 28 - Xu Liangying, physicist, translator, historian and philosopher (b. 1920)
- June 2 - Chen Xitong, politician, former member of the Political Bureau (b. 1930)
- June 4 - Luo Meizhen, supercentenarian (b. 1885)