Deaths
- January 5: Chih Ree Sun, 83, physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer.
- January 15: Bo Yibo, 98, politician known for urging crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- February 8: Ismail Semed, Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad.
- March 18: Jim Fung, 62, martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
- March 23: Mao Anqing, 83, author and son of Mao Zedong.
- March 28: Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International.
- April 20: Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer.
- May 13: Chen Xiaoxu, 41, actress (Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Mansion), later becoming a Buddhist nun, breast cancer.
- May 25: Sun Yuanliang, 103, General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan.
- June 2: Huang Ju, 68, Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai.
- June 9: Elias Wen, 110, Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- June 18: Tung Hua Lin, 96, engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure.
- June 23: Hou Yaowen, 59, xiangsheng (cross-talk) actor, heart attack.
- July 10: Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed.
- July 17: Cheng Shifa, 86, painter, cartoonist and calligrapher.
- August 11: Zhang Shuhong, 50, company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging.
- September 5: Duan Yihe, 61, congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution.
- September 9: Han Dingxiang, 71, Roman Catholic archbishop detained for loyalty to the Vatican.
- October 4: Chen Chi-li, 64, gangster, killer of dissident journalist Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer.
- October 7: Sisi Chen, 68, actress, pancreatic cancer.
- October 23: Lim Goh Tong, 90, billionaire, founder of the Genting Group.
- October 28: Bao Zunxin, 70, intellectual and jailed Tiananmen Square democracy activist, brain hemorrhage.
- November 12: Ying Hope, 84, politician.
- December 11: Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest.
- December 21: Ken Lee, 75, owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer.
- December 28: Sun Daolin, 86, actor.
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