April 15 – Chinese first test-tube baby becomes mother.[1]
May
May 9 (Washington time) – US President Donald Trump announced that the punitive tariff rate on Mainland China goods of US$200 billion will be raised to 25% from May 10.
May 9 (Beijing time) – At a regular press conference, A spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce said that China is well prepared to deal with all possible preparations.
May 20 – Google suspends business relationship with Huawei.[2] This event comes following the arrest of Meng Wanzhou by Canadian authorities at the request of the United States due to sanctions against Iran.
June 9 – Hundreds of thousands of people march in Hong Kong against a law critics fear could let China target political opponents in the territory.[3]
June 16 – Between 388,000 and 2,000,000 protesters take to the streets of Hong Kong against an anti-extradition law they believe will break down the firewall between Hong Kong and the mainland.[4]
June 17 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 kills 13 and injures less than 200.[5]
July
July 1 - The "Regulations on the Management of Domestic Waste in Shanghai" came into effect, announcing that Shanghai entered the era of mandatory household waste classification.
July 12 - the People's Bank of China held a press conference on financial statistics in the first half of 2019. Overall, the current banking system is reasonably abundant, the monetary credit and social financing scale are growing moderately, and the market interest rate is running smoothly.
August
August 10 – 32 are killed and 1,000,000 are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.[6]
August 12 — Hong Kong flights are canceled due to protests.[7]
August 16 — Actress Liu Yifei posts a pro-Hong Kong police comment on Weibo, sparking a call for a boycott of the movie she stars in, Mulan.[8]
August 18 — As many as 1.7 million demonstrators march during a rainstorm in the 11th week of anti-government protests in Hong Kong.[9]
August 22
YouTube announces that it has disabled 210 channels linked to the Hong Kong protest campaign. This follows similar actions by Twitter and Facebook.[10]
Protests in Hong Kong enter their 12th week as police reintroduced water-cannons and tear gas.[11]
August 27 - Costco opens their first store in China in Shanghai's Minhang district. During the day, the store closed early due to massive crowds.[12][13]
September
September 21 – Videos on Twitter and YouTube that show hundreds of shackled, blindfolded prisoners with shaved heads, presumed to be Uighur Muslims in Korla, Xinjiang, appear to be authentic.[14]
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