The 29th Summer Olympic Games, also known as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, was held in Beijing, the capital of China, at 8 pm on August 8, 2008. The deadline is August 24th. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games * * * set 43 new world records and 132 new Olympic records, * * 87 countries and regions won medals in this event, and China topped the gold medal list with 5 1, becoming the first Asian country to top the gold medal list in Olympic history.

2. Blizzard in China in 2008.

The snowstorm in South China in 2008 refers to the natural disasters such as low temperature rain, snow and freezing that have occurred in China since June 38, 2008. The direct economic loss due to the disaster is 1.5 1.65 billion yuan. The damaged forest covers an area of nearly 279 million mu, and 30,000 national key protected wild animals were frozen to death or frostbite in the snowstorm. The affected population has exceeded 1 100 million. Seven provinces, including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou, suffered the most.

3. Wenchuan earthquake

5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake, also known as "Wenchuan earthquake", occurred in May 2008 14: 28: 4 Beijing time. 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake is the most destructive, widespread, disastrous and difficult to rescue since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The traffic accident of Ji Jiao Railway was particularly serious.

On April 28th, 2008, at 4: 041minute, the T 195 passenger train from Beijing to Qingdao derailed between Zhoucun and Wangcun on Ji Jiao Railway, and collided with the No.5034 passenger train from Yantai to Xuzhou. The death toll from major traffic accidents in Ji Jiao railway rose to 70, and the number of injured people rose to 4 16.

The Shenzhou VII manned spacecraft was successfully launched.

Shenzhou VII was launched on September 25, 2008 and entered the scheduled orbit; On September 27th, 2008, he went out of the cabin to complete China's first spacewalk. On September 28, 2008, the return procedure was entered, and the return capsule landed safely in the scheduled area of Inner Mongolia, completing the manned space flight mission. Shenzhou VII manned space flight realized astronauts' extravehicular activities and small satellites' accompanying flight, successfully completed a number of technical tests, and opened a new chapter in China.

6. Dragon shooting tiger incident.

The big debate between "tiger faction" and "tiger faction" in the incident of killing tigers lasted for nearly 9 months. On June 2, 2007, Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Department announced the discovery of South China Tiger in Shaanxi, and announced the photo of South China Tiger taken by villager Zhou Zhenglong on June 3, 2007, offering a reward of 20,000 yuan. However, this sensational news immediately attracted the majority of netizens to question that it might be a paper tiger fraud.

In the following months, Shaanxi Forestry Department, Zhou Zhenglong and netizens met many times. Finally, the Ministry of Forestry apologized and Zhou Zhenglong was sentenced. "The dragon pats the tiger" has become a new idiom.

7. Global financial crisis

Since September, under the influence of the global financial turmoil, China's economy has been greatly impacted, especially the development of export-oriented economy. Since the third quarter, China's economic growth rate has accelerated. 65438+ 10, the growth rate of exports and imports slowed down. By June 165438+ 10 and February 65438+February, the total value of imports and exports began to show negative growth. A large number of factories in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta closed down, and about 20 million migrant workers returned home early. At that time, the famous "4 trillion plan" was implemented.