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Events in the year 2004 in China.

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – Hu Jintao
• President – Hu Jintao
• Premier – Wen Jiabao
• Vice President – Zeng Qinghong
• Vice Premier – Huang Ju
• National People's Congress Chairman – Wu Bangguo
• Conference Chairman – Jia Qinglin

Governors

• Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Jinshan
• Governor of Fujian Province – Lu Zhangong then Huang Xiaojing
• Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Hao
• Governor of Guizhou Province – Huang Huahua
• Governor of Hainan Province – Shi Xiushi
• Governor of Hebei Province – Wei Liucheng
• Governor of Henan Province – Ji Yunshi
• Governor of Hunan Province – Zhou Bohua
• Governor of Jiangsu Province – Li Chengyu
• Governor of Jiangxi Province – Huang Zhiquan
• Governor of Jilin Province – Hong Hu then Wang Min
• Governor of Liaoning Province – Bo Xilai (until February), Zhang Wenyue (starting February)
• Governor of Qinghai Province – Zhao Leji then Yang Chuantang
• Governor of Shaanxi Province – Jia Zhibang (until October), Chen Deming (starting October)
• Governor of Shandong Province – Han Yuqun
• Governor of Shanxi Province – Liu Zhenhua (until January), Zhang Baoshun (starting January)
• Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Zhongwei
• Governor of Yunnan Province: Xu Rongkai
• Governor of Zhejiang Province – Lü Zushan

Events

February

• February 15 – Two fires sweep through China, one in a shopping center and the other in a temple, killing at least 90 and injuring 71.^[1]

April

• April 13 – Shanghai modifies its interpretation of the People's Republic of China's One Child Policy, allowing all divorced residents who remarry to have a second child without penalty.^[2]

September

• September 19 - Hu Jintao becomes Chairman of the Central Military Commission.

October

• October 21 – In Xinmi, China, a gas explosion in a coal mine kills 62 people; 86 are still missing.^[3][4]

November

• November 1 – Martial law is imposed in parts of China's Henan province after fighting between Hui Chinese and Han Chinese ethnic groups kills between 7 and 148 people.^[5][6]
• November 26 – A man kills eight and injures four people with a knife at a Chinese high school in Ruzhou, Henan.^[7][8]
• November 28 – A coal mine explosion in China kills over 150.

December

• December 3 – The People's Republic of China launches a new long-range nuclear submarine and an accompanying class of ballistic missiles, with a range in excess of 7,400 km (4,600 mi), developed by the People's Liberation Army.

Deaths

• February 14 – Yang Chengwu, Chinese military strategist
• March 23 – Chen Zhongwei, Chinese physician. One of the pioneers of the process of reattaching severed limbs.