1 The Information Office of the State Council issues the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003 issued by the U.S. Department of State on February 25 that distorted and censured the human rights situation in other countries and regions across the world, including China. It was the fifth consecutive year that the Information Office of the State Council had issued the human rights record of the United States.

6 Chinese women's team beat their Hong Kong counterparts 3-0 at the World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Qatar, taking their sixth straight and 15th overall team title. The following day, Chinese men's team handed out a 3-0 triumph over Germany in defense of its championship. It is the 14th team title collected by the Chinese players since 1961.

16 Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Lhasa in Tibet Autonomous Region announce to be removed from the list of outbreaks of deadly high pathogenic avian influenza (HAPI). As a result, China lifted quarantine of all 49 HAPI-infected areas across the country.

20 The Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council issue a statement on the referendum held by the Taiwan authorities. The statement said, "On March 20, the Taiwan authorities willfully held the so-called ‘peace referendum' in a provocative attempt to undermine cross-strait relations and split the motherland. The referendum turned out to be invalid. Facts have proven that this illegal act goes against the will of the people."

25 Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo summons Chikahito Harada, Charge d'Affaires of the Japanese Embassy to China, to lodge a solemn representation once again over Japan's illegal detention of Chinese citizens who landed on the Diaoyudao in the East China Sea. On the afternoon of the same day, the Chinese citizens involved in the Diaoyudao landing returned to Leqing City in east China's Zhejiang Province after a 61-hour voyage aboard a Chinese fishing vessel. Those people, 16 in total, departed from Leqing for Diaoyudao on February 23. Seven of them landed on the disputed islands at 6:26 a.m. of February 24, who were later detained by the Japanese Coast Guard.