2003 in China
Events in the year 2003 in China .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
January
February
March
June
October
December
Births
Deaths
January 12 — Wang Tieya , jurist (b. 1913 )
January 22 — Tan Qilong , politician (b. 1913 )
February 11
March 15 — Li Xuefeng , 2nd Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1907 )
March 17 — Su Buqing , mathematician, educator and poet (b. 1902 )
April 1 — Leslie Cheung , Hong Kong singer and actor (b. 1956 )
April 9 — Wu Zuguang , playwright, film director and social critic (b. 1917 )
April 16 — Long Shujin , 3rd Chairman of Xinjiang (b. 1910 )
May 31 — Li Lin , physicist (b. 1923 )
June 17 — Zheng Wenguang , science fiction author (b. 1929 )
July 5 — Zhang Aiping , 6th Minister of National Defense of China (b. 1910 )
October 23 — Soong Mei-ling , politicial figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898 )
October 25 — Yao Guang , diplomat, foreign ambassador (born 1921 )[ 2]
November 15 — T. Y. Lin , Chinese-born civil engineer (born 1912)
November 16 — Richard Lam , Cantopop lyricist (b. 1948 )
November 19 — Shi Zhecun , essayist, poet and short story writer (b. 1905 )
November 24 — Saifuddin Azizi , 4th Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1915 )
November 25 — Zhang Honggen , international football player and coach (b. 1935 )
December 9 — Blackie Ko , Taiwanese film director, producer, stuntman, singer and actor (b. 1953 )
December 10 — Oswald Cheung , Hong Kong barrister (b. 1922 )
December 13 — Xie Tian , actor and director (b. 1914 )
December 27 — Ying Ruocheng , actor, director and playwright (b. 1929 )
December 30 — Anita Mui , Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963 )
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