Portal:China/Anniversaries/November/November 15

Events

• 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 9-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
• 2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 7-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

Deaths

• 1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835)