* 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist ( b. 1910 )

Originating in Dalian in 2005, the Chinese Championships of Crokinole ( CCC ) has been heavily contested since.

In 2005, the CCC established that the winner of the Chinese event was to be given a seat at the World Championships.

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

* 1917 – Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator ( d. 2005 )

Replica constructed in 2005 at the Window of the World Cultural Park, in the Chinese cities of Changsha and Shenzhen

* 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese novelist ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

The twenty seven airlines in the Chinese mainland handled 138 million passengers, and 22. 17 million tons of cargo in 2005.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica estimates ( as of 2005 ), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for some 6. 3 % of world population, and adherents of tribal religions (" ethnoreligionists ") for another 4. 0 %.

In 2005, the Chinese division of Spam was one of the most profitable parts of the Hormel company.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

The Zimbabwean government bought six military aircraft from China in 2005 and another six aircraft from three Chinese firms on 23 August 2006.

* January 6 – Koo Chen-fu, Nationalist Chinese negotiator ( d. 2005 )

The first officially-organised Chinese festival was the Chinese New Year's Eve Festival of February 2005 which took place in Nichita Stănescu Park and was organised by the Bucharest City Hall.

and more than half of all Chinese households owning at least one VCD player by 2005.

It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011 ; this claim is disputed by two independent scholars, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at 100 million | author = Chen Wei | title = Sex Ratios at Birth in China | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2 March 2009

From 2001 to 2005, more remains were recovered from the Chosin Battle site, and around 220 were recovered near the Chinese border between 1996 to 2006.

It remains one of the most acclaimed Chinese language films ever made, appearing at number 11 in a 2005 centennial list by the Hong Kong Film Awards, immediately below Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

In 2005, a 14th century Chinese porcelain piece was sold by the Christie's for Pound sterling | £ 16 million, or US United States dollar | $ 28 million.

Dr. Nafis Sadik, former director of UNFPA said her agency had been pivotal in reversing China's coercive population control methods, but a 2005 report by Amnesty International and a separate report by the United States State Department found that coercive techniques were still regularly employed by the Chinese, casting doubt upon Sadik's statements.

For example, the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2005 estimated that in 2003, one Geary-Khamis dollar was equivalent to about 1. 8 Chinese yuan by purchasing power parity — considerably different from the nominal exchange rate.

On April 28, 2008, Honorary Chairman Lien Chan of the then opposition Kuomintang visited Beijing and met with Hu Jintao for the fourth time since their historic encounter on April 29, 2005 in their respective capacity as party leaders of both the Chinese Communist Party and the KMT.

A tree planted in 2005 in the tree library outside the USDA building is still very healthy seven years later ; it contains 98 % American chestnut DNA and 2 % Chinese chestnut DNA.

In June 2005, it was revealed that archaeologists from the University of Hamburg had been working along the coast of Libya when they uncovered a 30 ft length of five colourful mosaics created during the 1st or 2nd century.

Time Team's Big Roman Dig ( 2005 ) saw this format altered, in an attempt to avoid previous controversies, through the coverage of nine archaeological sites around the UK which were already under investigation by professional archaeologists.

In his book, written in latin, Copernicus used the Latin name of the town and region-Frueburgo Prussiae Shortly after its 1543 publication, Copernicus died there and was buried in the town's cathedral, where his grave was thought to have been found by archaeologists in 2005.

In 2005, Italian archaeologists from the University of Urbino discovered 76 intact Roman statues at Cyrene from the 2nd century AD.

In 2005, archaeologists uncovered what are believed to be the world's oldest perfumes in Pyrgos, Cyprus.

In October 2005, in cooperation with the Majdanek museum, four Majdanek survivors returned to the site and enabled archaeologists to find some 50 objects which had been buried by inmates, including watches, earrings, and wedding rings.

However, according to the authoritative New History of Ireland ( 2005 ), " archaeologists are agreed that the vast bulk of them are the farm enclosures of the well-to-do of early medieval Ireland ".

In 2005 archaeologists Michelle Rich and Jennifer Piehl found the remains of two, possibly royal, women.

On November 8, 2005, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting-WGBH Educational Foundation aired a program which documented the work of a team of underwater archaeologists exploring the sunken ferry, SF Hydro in Lake Tinnsjø.

In January 2005 it was announced that archaeologists used 3D laser scanning to catalogue the structure in detail for possible repairs.

In 2005 archaeologists with the Coastal Heritage Society and the LAMAR Institute discovered portions of the British fortifications at Spring Hill, the site of the brunt of the combined French and American attack on October 9.

In May 2005, archaeologists unearthed a complete human skeleton at one of the excavation sites, thought to date back to the Sassanid era ( 224-651 ).

It was discovered by archaeologists in April 2005 while conducting excavations at Borazjan in the southern Iranian province of Bushehr.

On 19 August 2005, some archaeologists announced they had found the first Thracian capital, which was situated near Karlovo in Bulgaria.

In 2005, a controversial amusement park scheme at the site was abandoned when builders unearthed many archaeological artifacts during the early stages of construction work.

Most recently, evidence of the town ’ s medieval tannery was unearthed in back gardens of one street, and evidence from the Saxon period was uncovered during the Hunt the Saxons project in 2005.

Ansible, Langford's science-fiction newsletter, reports in its February 2005 issue that " according to a letter in The New York Review of Science Fiction ( January 2005 ), a complete copy of the relevant 1970 fanzine has been unearthed in the Jack Williamson SF Library at Eastern New Mexico University.

It is quite common for newly unearthed live recordings to be seen as vital, revelatory additions to an artist's catalog, as with the release of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall in 2005.

In a 2005 retrospective, Chuck Hustmyre, who wrote a true crime book about the case, said, " As for those human bones unearthed beneath Frank ’ s house, so far, authorities have made no serious effort to identify them.

Before 2005 there were fewer than 25 known crystals found, though more material has been unearthed recently in Myanmar.

In 2005, Steve Arnold of Arkansas, USA, and Phil Mani of Texas, USA, unearthed a large mass of 650 kg and in 2006 several new large masses