2026-11-12
Due to the APEC summit from November 12 to 20, all bus services to and from Shenzhen have been suspended. Passengers who already purchased tickets have received cancellation notices, and only business class tickets remain available for high-speed trains to Shenzhen.
2026-11-10
On November 10, Xinhua News Agency reported that Xi Jinping's thematic collection 'On Poverty Reduction and Alleviation' was recently published and distributed nationwide. State media described its arguments as the 'theoretical crystallization' of China's poverty alleviation efforts and the latest achievement in the Sinicization of Marxist anti-poverty theory.
2026-11-08
On November 8, Chinese media reported that primary and secondary schools in many parts of the country have adjusted their schedules, delaying school start times and canceling morning reading sessions. Netizens commented that canceling extended school services is the only real measure to reduce time spent at school, and netizens from many provinces stated that local school schedules have not been adjusted, with student pressure remaining excessively high.
2026-10-26
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee was held. The communique shows that the number of Central Committee members and alternate members has decreased by 97 compared to the 20th National Congress. The meeting passed a decision on strict party governance and scheduled the 21st National Congress for the second half of 2027.
2026-11-06
On November 6, the NPC Standing Committee voted to pass the Anti-Transnational Corruption Law, consisting of 6 chapters and 47 articles, which comes into effect today. Targeting corrupt individuals who transfer assets overseas, this law provides a legal basis for recovering fugitive assets and holding individuals accountable, while requiring cross-border operating enterprises to establish integrity and compliance management departments.
2026-11-06
On November 6, the draft amendment to the Law on the Administration of Tax Collection was opened for public comment: if an enterprise has a large amount of unpaid taxes and has not settled tax surcharges or provided guarantees, its principal person in charge and actual controller may be restricted from leaving the country; when investigating major tax violation cases, exit restrictions may be imposed on important involved personnel during the investigation stage with the approval of provincial tax authorities.
2026-11-06
On November 6, at the Baron Investment Conference, Musk recalled Tesla's efforts to build a wholly-owned factory in China, stating that Chinese officials shouted at him to his face, demanding that Tesla must form a joint venture with a Chinese company. Eventually, China amended its foreign equity ratio policy to allow for wholly-owned factories.
2026-11-06
On November 6, the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences established the School of Obscure Studies in Beijing to research over a dozen ancient ethnic scripts, including Old Turkic, Tangut, Khitan, and Jurchen, as well as oracle bone inscriptions and bamboo/silk manuscripts. The university stated that this would provide academic support for the long-term stability of border regions, and Vice Dean Zhao Rui described it as a concrete measure to implement the discourse of Xi Jinping.
2026-11-05
On November 5, Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, reported on financial work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: As of the end of September this year, the number of remaining local government financing vehicles nationwide has decreased by 92% compared to the end of March 2023; as of the end of June, the stock of operational financial debt has decreased by 79%. The report also disclosed that the cumulative approval for real estate 'white list' loans has exceeded 8.4 trillion yuan, and that officials have established a liquidity support tool for clearing arrears and held talks with leading enterprises that have defaulted on payments.
2026-11-05
On November 5, Zhang Chenguang, an official from the National Healthcare Security Administration, explained at a media briefing that the decline in enrollment was due to the removal of approximately 25 million duplicate registrations, the transition of over 60 million people to employee medical insurance, and population decline. He stated that this is a reasonable and normal decline and explicitly prohibited the assignment of mandatory enrollment quotas.
2026-11-05
On November 5, Jiangyin, Jiangsu announced the arrival times for local schools: 8:00 for primary school, 7:40 for middle school, and 7:20 for high school. Since the beginning of November, many schools in Jiangsu have successively adjusted their schedules, and many Jiangsu netizens have posted notifications of these schedule adjustments on Douyin.
2026-11-04
Data from the Ministry of Civil Affairs on November 4 shows that in the first three quarters of this year, 4.648 million couples registered for marriage nationwide, a year-on-year decrease of 504,000 couples, or 9.78%. The decline in the third quarter widened to 14.9%; divorce registrations increased slightly by 5,000 to 2.082 million.
2026-10-26
The CCP held the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing, deliberating and adopting documents related to comprehensively strengthening Party discipline.
2026-11-03
According to a Financial Times report on November 3, citing three people familiar with the matter, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) held meetings with investment banks over the past few days, issuing informal window guidance to suspend corporate IPOs and halt large-scale share sales by existing shareholders until the market recovers.
2026-11-03
On November 3, the Shanghai Bendibao WeChat official account posted that starting in 2030, the minimum contribution period for employees to receive a basic pension will be gradually increased from 15 to 20 years, rising by 6 months each year until it reaches 20 years in 2039. Netizens in the comment section responded with sarcasm and mockery.
2026-11-02
East China Normal University issued a notice stating that classes will be suspended across the entire campus on November 16 due to the district-level People's Congress election, sparking public questioning regarding the real power of candidates and students' right to know.
2026-11-02
On November 2, a draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law of the PRC was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for its first review. It proposes to explicitly write for the first time that 'no person shall be found guilty without a judgment by a people's court in accordance with the law, and presumption of guilt is prohibited,' and intends to restrict the application of residential surveillance in designated locations. Scholars warn that adding these six characters requires a systematic upgrade of provisions regarding evidence and the right to defense.
2026-11-02
On November 2, the Chinese central bank announced that it will launch the Securities, Funds and Insurance companies Swap Facility (SFISF) operation on November 3, with a one-year term that can be extended as appropriate. 31 securities and fund companies have already reported their demand, with application quotas exceeding 100 billion RMB. This marks the third operation following those in October 2024 and January 2025.
2026-11-01
On November 1, the official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorized the release of a decision on several major issues regarding the persistent promotion of strict Party governance, sparking outside attention regarding a potential turning point in the political situation.
2026-11-01
Xinhua News Agency has published the "Decision of the CCP Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistent Promotion of Comprehensive Strict Party Governance," explicitly requiring that top leaders must not engage in one-man rule or patriarchal practices.
2026-11-01
The CCP's state media, Xinhua News Agency, has released a major document of over 17,000 words, requiring party members to avoid one-man rule while upholding the core status of Xi Jinping.
2026-11
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee has adopted a 17,000-character decision. The content covers strengthening supreme political authority, restricting the power of top officials at all levels, establishing a vertical supervision system within the Party, managing cadres throughout their entire cycle, and breaking the immunity of 'iron-hat kings,' thereby comprehensively implementing white terror within the Party.
2026-11-01
On November 1, CCP state media published the "Decision" passed by the Fifth Plenary Session. Part 7 of the document explicitly states that there shall be no "iron-cap princes" or "iron-clad guarantees" (dan shu tie quan).
2026-11-01
In late October, universities such as the University of Science and Technology Beijing and Hangzhou Normal University issued notices stating that, starting November 1, they will withhold VAT and surcharges on labor remuneration for seven types of services, including consulting, design, and education, sparking questioning from netizens.
2026-11-01
According to the application page uploaded by a netizen on November 1, the living subsidy policy for educated talent in Zhengzhou expired on October 31. New applications are currently not being accepted, and will be processed according to new regulations once the updated talent policy is issued. Matters already accepted within the validity period will be handled under the old policy.
2026-10-31
According to Shanghai News Workshop, the Minhang District Representative Office of the Shanghai Charity Foundation received a property worth 6.5 million yuan bequeathed by an elderly person for educational aid. The person in charge stated that selling the property would require an estimated 4.5 to 4.6 million yuan in taxes, so they have decided not to sell it for now and will instead use rental income to support charity. On October 31, the topic topped the Weibo trending list.
2026-10-31
On October 31, a netizen shared a work reminder issued by the Donghai County Education Bureau in Jiangsu Province, requiring schools to strictly adjust their schedules, control evening self-study hours, and regulate holiday arrangements. Except for the third year of high school, schools must strictly implement two-day weekends. Practices such as 'dismissal on Saturday noon and returning on Sunday noon'—a fake two-day weekend—are prohibited, and no disguised supplementary classes are allowed. The news sparked discussions among students and parents, with some Jiangsu netizens claiming that similar measures are often abandoned as soon as the inspection teams leave.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the CCP Central Committee held a press conference for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. Zhang Fuhai, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, disclosed that since the 18th National Congress in 2012, discipline inspection and supervision agencies nationwide have disciplined a total of 7.922 million people, including 963 centrally-managed officials, and stated that the anti-corruption situation remains severe and complex.
2026-10-30
At the press conference of the CCP Central Committee on October 30, Hu Heping, Deputy Head of the Publicity Department, stated that the "Decision" adopted by the Fifth Plenary Session proposes that strengthening party spirit is the fundamental task of comprehensive strict party governance, requiring all party members to regard strengthening party spirit as a lifelong project.
2026-10-30
On October 30, state media reported that the Ministry of Civil Affairs recently released its first comprehensive "Social Organization Cancellation Guide," providing an exit pathway for zombie and voluntarily dissolved social organizations, which officials described as a waste of resources and a hidden risk.
2026-10-30
The Education and Sports Bureau of Changyuan City, Xinxiang, Henan Province, issued a document requiring all middle schools to achieve an HPV vaccination rate of over 80% by November 20. The bureau will rank schools based on their vaccination rates, and the principals of the bottom three schools will be summoned for talks by bureau leaders. Vaccination sites are operating 24 hours a day. Parents in many places have reported being pressured by homeroom teachers and principals.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the front pages of 12 newspapers, including the People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, China Youth Daily, Nanfang Daily, and Hubei Daily, were highly identical. All featured the holding of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee in Beijing as the headline, accompanied by the same set of photos of Xi Jinping speaking and a panoramic view of the meeting, along with extensive coverage of the plenary session communique.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the Hong Kong branch of China Merchants Bank issued a notice stating that, effective from 4:00 PM on November 30, it will suspend bank-securities transfer services with Soochow Securities International and China Merchants Securities International until further notice, without providing reasons or a resumption date.
2026-10-29
The communique of the Fifth Plenary Session has been released. At the end of the communique, the words commanding the entire Party and the entire military were removed, and several clauses regarding the term limit system and lifelong accountability system for leading cadres were written into the plenary session's decision.
2026-10-29
On the afternoon of October 29, at the Fifth Plenary Session, Xi Jinping responded to questions about whether comprehensive strict party governance hinders economic and social development, stating that the impact is positive rather than negative, and emphasized that there must be no hesitation or retreat in the future. Xinhua News Agency published a feature report on October 31.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee concluded in Beijing, reviewing and adopting the "Decision on Several Major Issues of Persistently Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party." Xi Jinping personally served as the head of the drafting group for the "Decision." On October 30, the authorities held a press conference to brief the public.
2026-10-28
Late at night on October 28, Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, making 13 revisions to the documents for the Fifth Plenary Session based on the discussion opinions of 14 groups.
2026-10-28
On October 28, Chinese media reported that the Ministry of Public Security has established a Drone Security and Control Bureau. Drone control and safety management agencies have also been successively established at the provincial, municipal, and county levels in many regions, forming a regulatory system from the central government down to local levels. Departments such as the NDRC, CAAC, and MIIT have also set up management agencies for the low-altitude economy.
2026-10-27
On October 27, the Election Committee Office of Gong County, Yibin, Sichuan, stated on the official website of the County People's Congress that all preliminary candidates for the new term of county and township people's congresses were selected from a reserve pool of approximately 2,200 people. This pool is coordinated by the Organization Department of the County Party Committee, and candidates are subject to joint review by discipline inspection, police (Public Security), and judicial departments.
2026-10-26
In accordance with the requirements of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance, Nantong University and Yangzhou University have notified staff on the payroll and personnel-agency personnel that their salaries will be disbursed through digital RMB wallets starting November 2026. Personnel must open or upgrade their wallets within the prescribed deadline, with Nantong University requiring completion before October 30.
2026-10-26
From October 26, the Shanghai Composite Index and others will adopt new compilation rules: the weight of a single stock is capped at 15%, and the removal of risk-warning stocks will be calculated based on the announcement date rather than the implementation date. Stocks whose announcement and implementation fall in different months may exit the index earlier. The market has recently been in a downtrend.
2026-10-26
Recently, an educational consulting institution published an article reviewing policies in China in recent years on income incentives and subsidies for teachers of ideological and political courses at universities. Universities in many regions have explicitly required that the actual income of such teachers be higher than the average income of all teachers on campus, with preferences also given in professional title evaluations.
2026-10-22
The Beijing Municipal Tax Service publicly disclosed on its official website that tax notices had been served on 21 natural persons, reflecting the continuing increase in pressure on local finances and tax recovery.
2026-10-25
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee opened at the Jingxi Hotel in Beijing. The meeting was jointly guarded by the Central Guard Bureau, the Beijing Garrison Command, and police forces, and has drawn close outside attention amid political maneuvering and high-pressure Party rectification.
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen in Gansu posted a video titled "Who Isn't a Good Taxpaying Citizen," listing one by one the various tax rates embedded in everyday consumption such as food, utilities, transportation, home purchases and car buying, sparking heated discussion in the comments over hidden tax burdens.
2026-10-24
The eighth round of inspections by the 20th CCP Central Committee has officially begun, with teams stationed at the Ministry of Education and 31 centrally administered universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
2026-10-24
On October 24, a netizen from Jiangsu posted to expose that when promoting flu vaccination locally, assessment targets were issued to grassroots villages, requiring each village to mobilize at least 30 people for vaccination. Those mobilizing fewer than 8 people with a vaccination rate below the average would be fined 800 yuan, and fewer than 15 people would result in a 500 yuan fine; the top three would receive cash rewards. Grassroots workers said they were disheartened.
2026-10-23
The Politburo meeting reviewed the comprehensive report on the seventh round of inspections of the 20th CCP Central Committee, decided to remove Shen Xiaoming from the post of Hunan Provincial Party Secretary and Wang Ning from the post of Yunnan Provincial Party Secretary, and parachuted in Mo Gaoyi as Yunnan Provincial Party Secretary and Wang Zhijin as Hunan Provincial Party Secretary.
2026-10-23
On October 23, Chinese Premier Li Qiang presided over the State Council executive meeting, calling for accelerating the building of a fertility-friendly society, improving policies on marriage, childbirth, child-rearing and education, optimizing family support measures such as fiscal and tax, social security and housing policies, and striving to stabilize the scale of the newborn population.
2026-10-23
On October 23, the Market Supervision Administration of Luoding City, Guangdong issued a notice soliciting clues in the market supervision field related to gang-related and evil forces, listing knowingly buying fake goods, deliberately nitpicking, and filing complaints and lawsuits in batches as malicious claims for compensation, with suspected gang and evil crimes to be transferred to the police.
2026-10-22
October 22 is the deadline set by the Chinese government for declaring historical back taxes on offshore trusts. On that day, Chinese stocks officially entered a technical bear market, with the wealthy selling assets to pay the taxes, triggering selling pressure.
2026-10-22
Many private entrepreneurs in Shanghai are facing pressure to pay massive back taxes, with some billionaires having to borrow hundreds of millions of yuan in cash just to barely meet their tax obligations.
2026-10-22
The website of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published an article on October 22, specifically discussing the issue of retired officials using their networks to seriously violate regulations and accumulate wealth.
2026-10-22
The Huairou District Tax Bureau in Beijing has issued public notices to 21 individuals, including Chao Mouzhe, requiring them to self-examine and declare personal income tax on offshore trusts in accordance with the law.
2026-10-22
On October 22, the Huairou District Tax Bureau of Beijing issued an announcement, serving 21 individuals with Notices of Tax Matters, requiring them to self-inspect the establishment of and participation in offshore trusts, submit materials within 15 days, and declare and pay individual income tax in accordance with the law.
2026-10-22
Anhui official media publicized a new policy on urban-rural resident pension insurance: after parents pay their own premiums for the current year, their children may make additional contributions on their behalf, with a maximum limit of 9,000 yuan per person per year, sparking complaints from netizens.
2026-10-21
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published an article discussing the characterization analysis of retired party members and cadres illegally accepting property, sending the signal that even retirement cannot escape accountability.
2026-10-21
On October 21, the People's Bank of China announced an upgrade to the digital yuan infrastructure, launching a new system and intelligent integration service framework that supports preset consumption conditions and time limits.
2026-10-20
Bloomberg named eight Chinese billionaires including Ding Lei, Huang Zheng and Lei Jun, whose overseas trust assets exceed $140 billion, facing a new round of tax recovery and harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party.
2026-10-20
On October 20, at a press conference of the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said that some automakers follow the trend in launching new products and that testing and validation are insufficient, and that it will prevent unreasonable innovative designs and vehicle products that have not undergone sufficient research, development, testing and validation from entering the market.
2026-10-19
The State Taxation Administration released six implementation details, clarifying standards for lump-sum back taxes and the recovery period on historical trust income from offshore trusts, stepping up tax recovery from the wealthy’s overseas trusts.
2026-10-19
The 12th Party Congress of Anhui Province opened in Hefei, with Provincial Party Committee Secretary Li Lecheng delivering the report and Acting Governor Wang Dongwei presiding; Xinjiang also opened on the same day.
2026-10-19
The 12th Henan Provincial Party Congress held its preparatory meeting, presided over by Zhou Zuyi, with the formal opening of the congress scheduled for the following day.
2026-10-19
The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the National Health Commission, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly issued standards defining the scope of serious illnesses and criteria for identifying inability to care for oneself for temporary execution of sentences outside prison.
2026-10-19
On October 19, China's State Taxation Administration once again reminded relevant taxpayers to complete filing and tax payments within the transition period before October 22, in order to avoid late-payment surcharges. Bloomberg reported the same day that the offshore holdings of 8 billionaires, including Ding Lei and Huang Zheng, totaling about $140.2 billion, could be affected.
2026-10-19
On October 19, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs, and the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission issued an announcement placing brushless motors, electronic speed controllers and carbon fiber propellers for drones with specific performance indicators under export controls; they may not be exported without a permit, and the new rules take effect on November 18.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen posted a notice: during the APEC meeting from November 16 to 20, Shenzhen citywide will not have a unified holiday or adjusted rest day; enterprises may independently arrange working from home, staggered commuting hours, flexible working hours, and paid annual leave, and it was emphasized that flexible arrangements must not be used to unlawfully extend working hours, evade overtime pay, or lower wage standards.
2026-10-18
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced that it will work with multiple departments, including public security and tax authorities, to cross-check backend data, precisely identify people who should be covered but are not, or whose contributions have been interrupted, and have community workers proactively reach out and encourage them, with the goal of keeping the basic pension insurance participation rate stable at above 95%.
2026-10-18
Recently, netizens in many places across China have reported on social media that they received notices of increased social insurance premiums, requiring them to pay back the difference for January to September. A netizen in Shenzhen said the social insurance payment was nearly 2,000 yuan, lamenting the heavy pressure on life amid economic difficulties.
2026-10-16
On October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology released a draft revision of the technology export catalogue, proposing to add 14 categories of technologies banned from export and 26 categories of restricted export, involving AI malicious code generation, cell and gene therapy platforms, perovskite battery technology, and others. Public comments are accepted until November 15, and export registration takes effect immediately.
2026-10-16
The table of contents of the PEP edition high school Chinese selective compulsory textbook (Volume 2) has been adjusted: Rousseau's "Compassion Is Human Nature" has been dropped from its original unit, replaced by Xi Jinping's speech and article on the "two integrations."
2026-10-16
On October 16, Reuters cited family office lawyers as saying that some Chinese property developers are unable to pay the taxes they owe due to the sluggish property market; Hong Kong trust lawyers said that after the strengthening of tax collection on offshore trusts, some people have revoked trusts they set up before even funding them. China announced new personal income tax rules for offshore trusts in July; historical tax arrears must be declared and paid by October 22 to avoid late payment surcharges.
2026-10-16
On October 16, Zhuang Yan, director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, stated at a press conference that efforts should be made to foster the concept that “individuals are the primary responsibility-bearers for elderly care.” After the related video circulated on Weibo, it drew sarcasm from netizens, with some posting photos of old family planning slogans reading “the government helps with elderly care.”
2026-10-16
On October 16, according to China Film Report, the National Film Administration and the General Administration of Sport recently jointly issued a document to launch the “Go Sports with Films” initiative, supporting the establishment of sports lottery sales points in cinemas, encouraging cinemas to broadcast live sports events and carry out suitable sports activities.
2026-10-08
The Chinese Communist Party issued the Measures for Protecting the Rights and Interests of Workers in New Forms of Employment, proposing to ban platforms from inducing workers to register as individual businesses and to ban multi-layer subcontracting to evade employment responsibilities.
2026-10-15
Xi Jinping suddenly published an article in Qiushi magazine, stressing the need to unify thinking, uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Committee, and put power in the cage of institutions, sending signals of a comprehensive purge within the Party.
2026-10-15
Xinhua News Agency announced that the 20th issue of Qiushi magazine will publish an important article by Xi Jinping on exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance, with the content drawn from his speech at the plenary session of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in January this year.
2026-10-15
The Zhuhai Jinwan District Tax Bureau has notified immigration authorities to block Xie Pingzhong from leaving the country starting October 15, citing the failure of Zhuhai Sanying Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. to settle outstanding taxes and late fees, or to provide a guarantee.
2026-10-14
Shenzhen's social security pension base has risen again, and back payments and supplementary payments are required for the period from January to December. The difficulty of recovering the shortfall from departed employees is increasing the burden on businesses.
2026-10-14
Many places across the country have been intensively carrying out social security publicity campaigns under the theme “everyone fulfills their duty, everyone enjoys the benefits,” sparking widespread discussion among netizens about the flaws in the social security system and about forced mobilization.
2026-10-14
According to Radio France Internationale (RFI), the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission took enforcement action over suspicions that two Chinese-funded companies engaged in market manipulation during their initial public offerings (IPOs), freezing more than HK$4.6 billion in assets, a record high freeze amount in the history of the Hong Kong securities regulator.
2026-10-14
Recently, China's human resources and social security departments have proposed finding uninsured groups through various methods and pushing more people to enroll in social insurance.
2026-10-14
On October 14, multiple netizens posted that many places across the country are intensively promoting the 'Social Security Services to Every Household' campaign, with the theme in all regions being 'Everyone fulfills their responsibilities, everyone enjoys the benefits.'
2026-10-26
The Chinese Communist Party's 20th Central Committee Fifth Plenary Session is scheduled to be held from October 26 to 29 at the Jinji Hotel inside Beijing's Third Ring Road, with about 400 people attending the meeting.
2026-10-13
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced that it will use big data to find people and mobilize the uninsured to enroll in social insurance, drawing collective mocking private messages and questioning from netizens inside the Great Firewall.
2026-10-13
On October 13, 2026, according to social media reports, Chinese regulatory authorities have officially approved the U.S. financial giant Visa to establish a locally registered bank card clearing institution within China. This marks a new milestone in the expansion of overseas card organizations' RMB clearing businesses in China and further promotes the opening up of China's financial payment and clearing market.
2026-10-13
According to the Wall Street Journal, Vice Premier He Lifeng has warned businesses that large-scale layoffs are prohibited while adopting AI technology, though the situation is considered difficult to reverse.
2026-10-13
Fujian Province has raised the pension insurance contribution base and requires insured individuals who previously paid at the old base to make up the difference. A netizen from Zhangzhou posted a payment page showing a monthly shortfall of 29.2 yuan, with payments made at the old minimum tier from January to September requiring a cumulative back payment of 262.8 yuan; a netizen from Fuzhou said the company had already gone bankrupt, leaving the back payments for earlier months unresolved.
2026-10-13
The Ministry of Finance's 2026 budget shows that central government debt interest expenditure is 873.99 billion yuan, accounting for about 19.2% of central-level expenditure.
2026-10-12
The Chinese Communist Party's People's Bank of China issued the document "Policy Stance on the RMB Exchange Rate," reiterating that China has neither the need nor the intention to gain a trade advantage through exchange rate depreciation, and will never engage in competitive devaluation.
2026-10-12
The National Health and Health Conference was convened again after ten years, with all seven members of the Standing Committee of the 20th Party Congress in attendance, drawing outside attention to the movements of the Politburo Standing Committee.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen in Dingzhou, Hebei posted a video showing a family-planning fine receipt kept at home from 20 years ago, covering multiple items such as fines for early marriage and early childbirth, the social maintenance fee for a second child, and the household registration fee, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-11
On the evening of October 11, the topic climbed onto Weibo's social hot search list. Netizens complained about having to pay back the earlier difference, with one netizen from Guangdong saying the company had already covered the entire back-payment difference for its employees, comparing it to a landlord announcing a rent increase in October and demanding the price difference for the previous 9 months.
2026-10-10
CCP official Li Zhong publicly stated on October 10 that those who still have not participated in social insurance and labor insurance will all be found through methods such as big data monitoring and forced to make contributions.
2026-10-10
Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said that as of the end of September, China's social security enrollment ranks first in the world, and next step is to use various data to find those who have not yet enrolled and mobilize them to enroll.
2026-10-10
At a State Council Information Office press conference on October 10, Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, announced that as of the end of September, the number of participants in basic pension, unemployment, and work injury insurance had reached 1.079 billion, 251 million, and 327 million respectively, and said that through policy optimization and other means such as “using data to find people,” those not yet enrolled would be found and mobilized to enroll, with a focus on supporting flexible workers and migrant workers in participating in employee pension insurance.
2026-10-10
On October 10, Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said that some people are still not covered by insurance and that they must be found through various means and urged to enroll, sparking heated discussion online.
2026-10-09
The China Association for Science and Technology stated that the Nobel Prize deserves respect but is not an all-purpose yardstick, and cannot comprehensively measure a country's scientific and technological strength.
2026-10-09
On October 9, the CCP Central Committee and the State Council released the Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces, warning localities not to turn away from the real economy toward the virtual economy and to avoid creating bubbles, demanding serious accountability for major losses caused by blind investment and herd behavior, and prohibiting the violation and abuse of policies in the name of new quality productive forces.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Xiangyuan Culture and Tourism announced that its actual controller, Yu Faxiang, had received a Case Filing Notice from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) over suspected violations of information disclosure laws and regulations. The company said its production and operations were normal and unaffected.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Jiaojian Shares announced that its actual controller Yu Faxiang has been placed under investigation by the CSRC for suspected violations of information disclosure laws and regulations, and that its daily production and operations are normal.
2026-10-09
On October 9, the Ministry of Finance announced the arrangement and use of 550 billion yuan in local government debt carryover quotas, of which 300 billion yuan will be fully allocated to counties and districts to enhance general public budget support capacity, and 250 billion yuan will be used to support investment projects.
2026-10-09
On October 9, the Shenzhen Tax Service issued an announcement stating that the social insurance payment function via channels such as the Alipay life account "Shenzhen Tax Service" has been restored.
2026-10-08
Facing massive breach-of-contract damages and a crisis of international credibility, the CCP on October 8 approved continuing to fulfill exports under refined oil contracts totaling 3.7 million tons and worth US$4.5 billion that had already been signed in October.
2026-10-08
The Ministry of Finance auctioned five-year special treasury bonds for capital injection, with a coupon rate of only 1.37 percent.
2026-10-08
Three departments in Guangdong issued a notice dated September 17 and published on the tax bureau's official website on October 8, retroactively unifying the lower limit of the pension contribution base for enterprise employees to 5,510 yuan as of January and 5,521 yuan from July onward. Shenzhen's original lower limit of 4,775 yuan was raised by about 15.6%, and employees and employers who had previously contributed at the lower base must pay the difference.
2026-10-07
A Financial Times report discloses that Beijing is conducting a large-scale investigation into the offshore investments, trusts, and undeclared income of wealthy Chinese, while financial institutions are re-examining the overseas investments of high-net-worth clients.
2026-10-07
On October 7, Jilin Provincial Party Secretary Huang Qiang chaired a symposium for internet celebrities at the Songyuan Café in Changchun, calling on influencers to study Xi Jinping's thought on building a cyber powerhouse, remain firm in the "four confidences," and promote the main theme, and asking publicity and cyberspace affairs departments to offer support, presenting attendees with books on the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army.
2026-10-06
The State Council of the CCP held an executive meeting, requiring the improvement of robust mechanisms for the capital market and the enhancement of intrinsic stock market stability. The swap facility tool has also been transformed from a temporary measure into a long-term institutional arrangement.
2026-10-06
On October 6, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Chui-cheng, speaking about the case of suspected surveillance of Lai Ching-te's family in the United States, said that existing laws are insufficient to counter acts such as being directed by the Chinese side to tail and film them and collect personal information, that the government is revising laws including the Anti-Infiltration Act, and that guidelines for nationwide assistance against transnational repression will be established as soon as possible.
2026-10-03
On October 3, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the launch of an anti-dumping investigation into p-nitrotoluene imported from the European Union, with the investigation period running until October 2027 and extendable by six months. The ministry said prices of the relevant EU products fell by nearly 60% cumulatively from 2022 to 2025, and noted that the EU has launched 28 trade remedy investigations against China since 2025.
2026-10-02
According to a report by The Washington Post on October 2, China's Ministry of Education recently stated that it expects all schools to offer AI education before 2030, establishing an AI literacy system covering all educational stages and society as a whole.
2026-10-01
China’s newly revised National Defense Mobilization Law officially took effect on October 1, writing civil-military integration into law; experts believe it is aimed at responding to a Taiwan Strait conflict and U.S.-China great-power competition.
2026-10-01
The Ministry of Finance, the central bank, and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly announced that starting October 1, eligible first-home mortgages will receive a fiscal interest subsidy of 1 percentage point per annum.
2026-10-01
Starting from National Day on October 1, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued stricter restrictions: apart from ensuring flights to Hong Kong and Macau and some marine fuel, all exports of refined oil products such as diesel and gasoline have been halted, and all signed contracts have been cancelled.
2026-10
Xi Jinping published an article in Qiushi magazine, sending a strong signal of a thorough purge within the Chinese Communist Party.
2026-10
The Chinese Communist Party has announced that starting in October it will crack down hard, using big data to recover social security contributions from entities and individuals who failed to pay them in accordance with the law, with violators facing fines.
2026-10
At the Financial Street Forum, Pan Gongsheng announced the adjustment of the policy rate tenor, the establishment of liquidity support tools for non-bank institutions, the push to link large corporations' loans to the overnight repo rate, and the exit from the deposit and lending benchmark rates, turning intraday firefighting facilities from temporary tools into standing tools.
2026-10-01
The October 1 issue of Qiushi magazine carried an article signed by Xi Jinping, mentioning strengthening inclusive livelihood development and common prosperity, which sparked outside discussion about harvesting the wealth of the middle class.
2026-10
A major incident recently occurred at a KTV in Zhejiang, prompting the Chinese Communist Party to conduct strict inspections of KTVs and other nightlife venues nationwide. Luxury KTVs in many places have shut down, and city governments have adopted one-size-fits-all policies in response.
2026-10
The Guangdong government raised the lower limit of the pension insurance contribution base from 4775 to 5521 and required back payments of the difference from January to September, sparking complaints from netizens.
2026-10
Various localities are using big data and door-to-door mobilization at the grassroots level to push for payment of pensions for urban and rural residents and flexible workers; the continuous rise in the social insurance base and amounts is increasing the burden on the public.
2026-10
CSRC Chairman Wu Qing announced that the registration of the first batch of 18 active ETFs has been approved. Officials describe them as a tool for bringing in incremental capital, but in reality they mainly serve to convert off-exchange redemptions into on-exchange turnover and pad trading volume.
2026-10
Some universities in Jiangsu have announced that they will start paying salaries to staff through digital yuan wallets starting next month, a move seen as a significant step in promoting the digital yuan within the system.
2026-10-01
In Ruili, Yunnan, multiple monks wearing kasaya lined up to face the national flag and held a flag-raising ceremony accompanied by the national anthem.
2026-10
IELTS tests are being cancelled at short notice on a large scale in many parts of the country; some candidates are already on their way and have printed their admission tickets, and the reason remains unknown.
2026-10-01
The National Defense Mobilization Law of the People's Republic of China officially took effect on October 1, stipulating that male citizens aged 18 to 60 and female citizens aged 18 to 55 shall legally undertake national defense service duties, including supporting and safeguarding military operations, preventing and relieving the disasters of war, and assisting in maintaining social order.
2026-10
The Chinese government has issued the "National Tax Administrative Penalty Discretionary Benchmarks (2026 Edition)," which for the first time incorporates social security contributions into the unified national tax administrative penalty discretionary system, effective November 1. Netizens are concerned that rising labor costs for enterprises may lead to the shifting of social security costs onto employees, resulting in wage cuts and exacerbating deflation and employment difficulties.
2026-10
China's births in 2025 totaled only 7.92 million, a decrease of 1.62 million from 9.54 million in 2024, hitting the lowest level in decades.
2026-10
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said it will use big data to identify people who have not paid social insurance, prompting netizen concerns that social insurance payments may become compulsory.
2026-10
Following a small aircraft collision at the CITIC Tower in Beijing this June that resulted in casualties, Beijing announced a citywide ban on the flight and sale of drones effective November 15.
2026-09-30
A Xinhua News Agency communiqué announced that Qiushi magazine will publish an article by Xi Jinping on strengthening universal, basic, and safety-net livelihood development, reiterating that there must be no excessive guarantees and that a slide into welfareism must be prevented.
2026-09-30
A frontline English teacher using the online name "Teacher Li the Educator" posted an article claiming that Chinese cultural and ideological-political elements make up nearly 80% of the new People's Education Press (PEP) English textbook, that the protagonists have been changed from Li Lei and Han Meimei to "Fuxing" (Rejuvenation), and that because relations with a certain country have deteriorated, all material from that country has been deleted, calling for textbooks that combine Chinese and Western elements.
2026-09-30
According to a Ministry of Commerce announcement on September 30, imports of beef from Brazil reached 100% of the 2026 quota of 1.106 million tons on September 29. Starting from 0:00 on October 1, an additional 55% tariff will be levied on top of the current tax rates. This safeguard measure takes effect on January 1, 2026 and lasts for three years.
2026-09-29
An X account named “所谓伊人在水一方” uploaded a video of a female teacher talking about student safety, in which she reminds high school students to guard against strangers, vehicles, and the risk of losing contact.
2026-09-29
On September 29, the Ministry of Finance, the central bank, and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly announced that starting October 1, eligible first-home mortgages will receive fiscal interest subsidies, with an implementation period provisionally set at one year — the first time the central fiscal budget has subsidized individual housing mortgages. The subsidy applies to newly purchased first-home loans for properties with an area of no more than 120 square meters and a total price of no more than 1.5 million yuan, providing an annualized interest subsidy of 1 percentage point on loans of up to 1 million yuan, for a maximum of five years.
2026-09-29
On September 29, China's central bank cut the one-year pledged supplementary lending (PSL) rate by 25 basis points to 1.5%, expanded the scope of support to include telecommunications, logistics networks and other fields, and increased the quota for equipment renewal and technology re-lending by 200 billion yuan to 1.4 trillion yuan.
2026-09-29
Around September 29, Peking University issued the "Implementation Measures for Meeting the Requirement of Living a Tight Life," making clear that meetings must not be held at 21 scenic and tourist areas, and restricting spending on meetings, training, and travel. The related topic trended on Weibo's hot search, prompting netizens to speculate that Peking University had run out of money.
2026-09-29
According to a September 29 report by the Chinese edition of The New York Times, China will include Jane Eyre in the ninth-grade Chinese "whole-book reading" list this autumn, and ninth-graders across the country are required to read it in full. State media said it helps foster a positive outlook on life and understand equality and an independent personality in love.
2026-09-29
Shanghai recently introduced new property market policies again; Hu Liren believes they are essentially stability maintenance measures and are unlikely to change the downward trend in real estate.
2026-09-28
China's Ministry of Commerce released a number of trade and economic implementation documents, including a tariff reduction list for the United States covering multiple agricultural products and high-end medical equipment, and extending the Kuala Lumpur tariff truce to January 2027.
2026-09-28
The United States and China have released lists of goods subject to reciprocal tariff cuts totaling as much as $60 billion, and extended the trade truce to January 2027.
2026-09-28
The CCP Ministry of Commerce released a Mid-Autumn report stating that average daily sales of key retail and catering enterprises rose 0.1% year-on-year, but it made no mention of mooncake sales, and the calculation baseline is disputed.
2026-09-28
On September 28, after Xi Jinping's visit to the US, the Ministry of Commerce released a 38-page list of products subject to reciprocal tariff reductions, covering corn, wheat, sorghum, meat, and seed soybeans, among others. However, non-seed US soybeans, a major trade item, were not included and still face an additional 10% tariff. The tariff reduction arrangements will be implemented after completing domestic legal procedures.
2026-09-28
According to a Bloomberg report on September 28 citing sources familiar with the matter, Chinese tax authorities have formed task forces consisting of local officials, tax inspection experts, and regulators to track the taxation of wealthy individuals, with some task forces specifically targeting a single billionaire.
2026-09-28
The Peace China Construction Work Conference was held in Beijing on September 28 to convey Xi Jinping's instructions, stating that the construction of a Peace China has achieved significant results since the 18th National Congress, and calling for the implementation of the overall national security concept with both punishment and prevention; Chen Wenqing required joint efforts in management, and Wang Xiaohong emphasized implementation.
2026-09-28
Concerned that debt collection practices could affect social stability, police authorities have recently stepped up scrutiny of collection companies and cracked down on violent debt collection. Some collection firms have laid off staff or ceased operations, and the pace of banks' non-performing loan recovery has slowed.
2026-09-28
On September 28, the State Taxation Administration issued the National Discretionary Standards for Tax Administrative Penalties (2026 Edition), bringing social insurance contributions within the scope of nationally unified tax penalty discretion. Where an employer fails to pay or underpays social insurance contributions and still fails to pay after being ordered to do so within a specified time limit, a fine of up to three times the amount in arrears may be imposed. The new rules take effect on November 1, 2026.
2026-09-28
Bloomberg reported that after the controlling shareholder of a company in Guangzhou received a tax bill of 100 million RMB, they threatened to move the enterprise to Shanghai, eventually convincing local officials to reduce the tax amount to 5 million RMB; the report did not disclose the name of the enterprise or the basis for the adjustment.
2026-09-27
On September 27, the WeChat official account of the Ministry of State Security published a comic titled "State Security Popular Science Theater: Infernal 'Rice'", claiming that foreign consulate personnel, agricultural experts, and biologists were dealt with according to the law for illegally collecting data on rice yields, planting distribution, and reserve conditions, and the village head who reported them was awarded a certificate of honor.
2026-09-27
According to a Wall Street Journal report on September 27, many places in China have set up heart-shaped balloons, floral arches and honeymoon coupons, transforming marriage registration offices into romantic check-in spots in the hope of attracting young people to marry and have children and boosting wedding-related tourism consumption.
2026-09-27
In the first year of the nationwide marriage registration policy, Nanjing saw marriage registrations increase by more than 15% year on year, with over 22,000 couples from elsewhere coming to obtain their marriage certificates. The Wall Street Journal noted that this may only attract people who were already planning to marry, and does not necessarily resolve concerns about the economic burden of marriage and childbearing.
2026-09-27
In response to the call for tightening their belts, many places across China are welcoming National Day in a frugal manner. Erqi District in Zhengzhou has achieved an old flag reuse rate as high as 82.26%, while Shiyan in Hubei and Jiande in Zhejiang have also adopted cost-saving measures such as reusing materials or relying on existing flowerbeds.
2026-04
Within two months starting from early April 2026, at least 15 bureau-level political, legal, and public security officials were investigated.
2026-09-26
Simulations and calculations show that, in order to hold to the general budget target, the government's continued intensification of tax collection would make the tax base and corporate profits unable to bear the load, and the moment the red line is burned through falls around October 2028.
2026
The video cites data claiming that in 2026 the central government's direct financing was about 13.24 trillion yuan, higher than the full-year 11.86 trillion yuan in 2025; no public source can be found for this figure, while publicly visible data shows about 7.49 trillion yuan of treasury bond issuance in the first half of 2026, and 11.86 trillion yuan of new government debt in 2025.
2026
In the first half of this year, China’s individual income tax revenue maintained relatively fast growth, but the tax authorities said that a considerable part of that growth came from back taxes and late payment surcharges, showing that strengthening tax collection and administration has become an important source of revenue for local governments.
7月21日
A blogger spent 200 yuan at a supermarket and discovered through a tax invoice that approximately 10% in hidden VAT had been quietly deducted. Netizens pointed out that Chinese supermarkets generally levy a tax of about 10% on daily food items, whereas in the United States, taxes are transparent and basic food items are tax-exempt.
2026-06-28
Starting from June 28, 2026, flight clubs in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Suzhou and other locations have been gradually receiving a total grounding notice.
2026-09-24
Based on the assessment results of the "correct view of political achievements," leadership teams at all local levels will undergo a change of term.
2026-09-24
The final deadline for the Chinese Communist Party's debt resolution plan is set for June 30, 2027.
2026-09-24
On September 24, The New York Times Chinese website published an article stating that Xi Jinping has invested over $184 billion through state-led funds and pledged hundreds of billions more to make artificial intelligence the leading goose of economic revolution, aiming for AI to cover 90% of society by 2030 to compete with the United States, while facing employment shocks and information control risks.
2026-06-17
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh completed his debut on June 17, with the decision to hold rates steady meeting market expectations. Dovish language was removed from the statement, and half of the officials believe that a rate hike will still be needed in 2026.
2026-06-23
The NPC Standing Committee is conducting an urgent first review of three draft laws: the Financial Law, the Government Procurement Law, and the Bidding and Tendering Law, with the core promotion of retroactive checks on major capital flows and a lifelong accountability mechanism.
2026-09-23
The Supreme Court, Supreme People's Procuratorate, and Ministry of Public Security have jointly issued and implemented opinions on the application of law in criminal cases involving fentanyl-related substances, with policies being implemented by the judicial system prior to the heads of state meeting.
2026-09-23
China's central bank announced the issuance of 60 billion RMB in central bank bills in Hong Kong on September 23, aiming to drain offshore RMB liquidity to maintain the RMB exchange rate.
2026-09-22
The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Public Security and other five ministries jointly issued Announcement No. 40, adding export controls on two fentanyl-related chemicals for the United States, Canada and Mexico.
2026-09-22
At a State Council press conference on September 22, Vice Minister of Natural Resources Zhou Xing announced a nationwide mineral exploration campaign targeting petroleum, iron, copper, and aluminum.
2026-09-22
China's Ministry of Commerce and four other departments announced the addition of two precursor chemicals to the export control catalog. Starting immediately, exports to the United States, Mexico, and Canada will require a license application, a move seen as a response to the Trump administration's demands for the control of fentanyl precursors.
2026-09-22
On September 22, the UK representative at the UN Human Rights Council called for the repeal of Hong Kong's National Security Law and the release of British citizen Jimmy Lai, who has been sentenced.
2026-09-21
The Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee held a meeting, officially determining that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee will be held in Beijing from October 26 to 29, and submitted the decision on exercising full and strict governance over the Party for deliberation.
2026-09-21
Xinhua News Agency reported that the Political Bureau meeting decided to submit the draft decision on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party to the 5th Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee for deliberation.
2026-09-21
It is reported that 17 municipal hospitals in Beijing have explicitly rejected bids for imported products in centralized medical equipment procurement, fully implementing domestic substitution.
2026-09-21
On September 21, Liu Huanxin, Director of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, announced at a State Council Information Office press conference that a comprehensive "whole grains table revolution" will be launched to ensure national food security.
2026-09-21
The Ministry of Education released the "Management Measures for Primary and Secondary School Leadership Personnel," stipulating that having taught in rural and weak schools for more than 3 years will be a priority condition for the selection of school leaders, and encouraging leaders of quality urban schools to exchange, take up posts, and study in rural schools.
2026-09-21
On September 21, Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the CCP Political Bureau, stressing the sustained advancement of full and strict Party self-governance, and reiterating Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought, which was said to signal a tightening of politics within the Party.
2026-09-21
According to Bloomberg, China is planning to invest approximately $295 billion over the next five years to build a national data center network. Xi Jinping emphasized that the focus should be on "hard power" and "new quality productive forces" rather than just GDP growth. Despite warnings from multiple economists that AI is unlikely to boost employment and could weaken consumption, officials continue to push forward with the investment plan, sparking public concern over an "AI Great Leap Forward".
2026-09-21
Beijing announced that starting November 15, except under special security circumstances, the possession and storage of drones and their core components are prohibited.
2026-09-21
Reuters reported on September 21, citing people familiar with the matter, that in some robot data collection centers and joint venture projects local governments may bear 80%–90% of the initial investment, and that project orders can support company valuations and help them reach the listing threshold; regulators are examining whether this represents genuine demand.
2026-09-19
On September 19, the Beijing Municipal Market Regulation Bureau announced that it has launched investigations into four online hotel and travel platforms—Fliggy, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. On the same day, the China Hotel Association pointed out that these platforms are involved in issues such as high commissions, forced bundling, and data opacity, and called on them to make their search ranking and commission rate rules public.
2026-09-20
The Beijing airspace control department issued Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) A4484/26, announcing the activation of a 24/7 long-term no-fly zone centered on Beijing with a 300-kilometer radius starting from September 20, covering Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as well as parts of Shanxi, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning.
2026-09-17
On September 17, the European Parliament passed a resolution by an overwhelming majority condemning the Hong Kong National Security Law and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance for causing the collapse of freedom, calling on the EU to sanction relevant officials, and demanding the release of political prisoners including Jimmy Lai, Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung, Albert Ho, and Wong Ji-yuet.
2026-09-18
Fujian's Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Department of Finance, and Taxation Bureau issued a notice on September 18, setting the upper limit of the pension insurance contribution base at 22893 yuan and the lower limit at 4579 yuan, and requiring back payment of the difference after January 1, 2026, with no late fees if paid in full before the end of December.
2026-09-18
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced on September 18 that it plans to reward tipsters in 17 cases, including the Huawei Microelectronics case. Applications must be registered by December 18, after which they will be treated as waived. The announcement did not disclose the names of the whistleblowers.
2026-09-17
In many places of Jiangxi Province, cases have emerged where individually registered businesses that had been canceled were forcibly reinstated in tax registration by tax authorities, sparking widespread concerns among the accounting industry and netizens about the government's intensified tax collection efforts and fiscal pressure.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a community in Dongying City, Shandong Province announced the implementation of the "Young-Old Service for the Elderly" project, encouraging people aged 60 to 70 to provide public services for seniors aged 70 to 90. The policy sparked heated public debate, with netizens questioning it as a disguised forced labor amid pension shortfalls.
2026-09-16
On September 16, to comply with the implementation of the "Shanxi Provincial Electric Bicycle Management Regulations," multiple schools in Yongji City, Shanxi Province, required students to bring the helmets used for riding electric bicycles into classrooms and mark them with their class and name. Helmet usage was incorporated into students' daily behavior evaluations and growth records, triggering netizens' doubts about insufficient campus space and over-management.
2026-09-17
On September 17, Peking University issued the "Implementation Measures for Fulfilling the Requirement of Tightening Our Belts," strictly controlling expenditures on meetings, business travel, and asset procurement, explicitly prohibiting holding meetings at 21 scenic spots including Huangshan and Jiuzhaigou. Recently, Beijing Forestry University, Anhui Jianzhu University, and several other universities have also successively issued detailed rules to curtail administrative extravagance.
2026-09-17
From September 16 to 17, 2026, the National Advanced Manufacturing Conference was held in Beijing. Li Qiang, Zhang Guoqing, and Wu Zhenglong attended. Xi Jinping himself did not attend; Xinhua News Agency only reported on its front page on September 17 that he had given important instructions on developing advanced manufacturing.
2026-09-14
On September 14, official media reported that the National Health Commission is revising the Blood Donation Law, proposing to raise the upper age limit for blood donation from 55 to 65 years and shorten the donation interval from 6 months to 3 months, sparking widespread online discussion and jokes.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the State Council's Regulations on Outbound and Inbound Management officially came into effect, stipulating that Chinese citizens who violate export controls or endanger national security may be prohibited from leaving the country. Foreign media and scholars worry that this move will tighten control over technical talent, turning international travel into a privilege requiring administrative approval.
2026-09-15
Recently, multiple posts on platforms like Xiaohongshu (RedNote) have surfaced, showing that many enterprises are still being required to pay back individual income tax, verify undistributed profits, or restore tax registration after deregistration. Some enterprises have even been pursued for taxes two years after deregistration, and systems are blocking instant deregistration due to "declared income being less than platform-reported income," sparking widespread criticism from netizens.
2026-09-14
On September 14, Lei Haichao, Director of the National Health Commission, stated that in the face of negative population growth, the fundamentals of China's total population remain unchanged. He proposed actively promoting views on marriage and childbearing, resisting negative views on marriage and childbearing, and simultaneously promoting the integration of childcare and preschool education while reducing the costs of giving birth and raising children.
2026-09-13
On September 13, the Central Organization Department, together with relevant ministries and commissions, revised the management measures for leaders of schools, research institutions, public hospitals, and the propaganda and cultural system, clarifying that the “two establishments” and the “two safeguards” are the primary political criteria for appointments, and these are integrated throughout the entire process of selection, training, and supervision.
2026-09-15
The "Regulations of the State Council on Exit and Entry" promulgated by the Chinese Communist Party's State Council officially took effect on September 15, 2026, requiring that reasons for exit be truthful and lawful, and possibly requiring the presentation of documents and electronic data, otherwise exit will be denied.
2026-09-15
New Chinese entry and exit regulations took effect on September 15, implementing stricter restrictions and penalties regarding reasons for application, travel to high-risk countries and regions, special technical personnel, and the responsibilities of intermediary agencies, sparking widespread concern over obstacles to traveling abroad.
2026-09-15
China will implement new exit and entry regulations starting September 15, further tightening its borders and restricting ordinary citizens' freedom to travel abroad.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Xi Jinping rolled out closed-door isolationist regulations aimed at restricting citizens from leaving the country, a move that sparked widespread dissatisfaction and resistance among people from all walks of life in China.
2026-09-15
State Council Order No. 81 has begun to take effect, which stipulates that Chinese citizens engaged in illegal or criminal activities abroad that are deemed to endanger national security and interests may be barred from leaving the country for a certain period after returning home.
2026-09-15
The new exit and entry administration regulations officially took effect on September 15. The regulations contain 19 articles, meaning that passports will be kept by Party organizations.
2026-09-15
On September 15, 2026, the Shanxi Province Electric Bicycle Management Regulations officially took effect, stipulating that both drivers and passengers must wear safety helmets that meet national standards; failure to wear a helmet or carrying passengers in violation of the rules will result in a warning or a fine of 20 yuan.
2026-09-14
China's central bank released August financial data. New renminbi loans nationwide totaled only 59.1 billion yuan, while household loans fell by a net 202.9 billion yuan.
2026-09-14
According to Reuters, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has been intensively instructing banks to raise the foreign exchange hedging ratio for enterprises, lifting the national average to around 35.3 percent and coastal export-heavy provinces to above 40 percent.
2026-09-14
The State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) requires central state-owned enterprises to dynamically clear defaults and arrears owed to small and medium-sized enterprises, with cash payment becoming a mandatory requirement. No new bills or notes with terms exceeding 6 months will be issued, and SMEs can report arrears issues to central SOEs and SASAC platforms.
2026-09-14
On September 14, the State Council (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission) stated at a State Council Information Office policy briefing that central enterprises will take the lead in raising funds and ensuring timely payment. It required large enterprises to compress the maximum payment period for small and medium-sized enterprises to within 60 days, strictly prohibited issuing new bills with a term of more than 6 months, and called for joint interviews and rectifications targeting large enterprises that intentionally prolong account periods.
2026-09-11
On September 11, netizens released the ninth-grade first-semester "Morality and Rule of Law" textbook compiled by the Ministry of Education, which requires students to arm their minds with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It also quotes "A household with a thousand mouths is led by one person" and emphasizes the maintenance of Xi Jinping's core position, sparking public attention.
2026-09-10
On September 10, the General Office of the State Council of China issued a notice on governing the difficulty for small and medium enterprises in receiving payments. It requires focused monitoring of large enterprises' arrears, stipulates that government procurement and central enterprise projects must be paid in full cash, and prohibits large enterprises from forcing small and medium enterprises into accounts receivable financing.
2026-09-09
On September 9, according to The Information, after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) raised the listing threshold for humanoid robot companies through non-public window guidance, related companies must prove they can form sustainable revenue, are narrowing losses, or possess genuine technological innovation to go public. This policy shift is related to the financing frenzy in the primary market and the drastic stock price fluctuations after the listing of Unitree Robotics.
2026-09-12
Affected by the decline in births and the concentration of the population in towns and cities, many places have begun to make use of idle rural primary and secondary school buildings, converting some idle primary schools into nursing homes, elderly care service centers and other facilities.
2026-09-09
On September 9, Hefei, Anhui, introduced new safety supervision regulations for food delivery, requiring riders to go offline for 20 minutes after delivering for more than four consecutive hours, and implementing joint punishment for traffic violations. Riders generally disagree with this, pointing out that low delivery fees are the primary cause of overtime work and violations.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the Guangdong Provincial CDC issued a marked confidential urgent notice (Guangdong CDC Transmission Prevention Letter [2026] No. 73), requiring strengthened prevention of chikungunya and dengue fever before and after the Mid‑Autumn and National Day holidays, including mandatory testing during heat, household inspections, meeting disinfection standards, and urging avoidance of excessive epidemic control that could spark public opinion.
2026-09-09
On September 9, the SSE issued a regulatory letter to Xingyu Shares and its actual controller, without disclosing specific details.
2026-09-09
The new edition of the Grade 5 first-semester 'Morality and Rule of Law' textbook, revised according to the 2022 curriculum standards, has been released, covering political indoctrination such as the history of the CPC, socialist propaganda, and the core status of Xi Jinping.
2026-09-10
The National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued Document No. 1303, the "Notice on Matters Concerning Cost Accounting for Low-Price and Disorderly Competition in Important Industrial Products," requiring cost accounting for important industrial products.
2026-09-10
The CCP's National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued NDRC Price [2026] No. 1303, the "Notice on Matters Concerning Cost Accounting for Low-Price Disorderly Competition in Important Industrial Products," stipulating that important industrial products must not engage in low-price disorderly competition, and determining a cost floor price for enterprises through administrative means.
2026-09-09
Under new Hefei food-delivery rules taking effect on September 9, 2026, delivery riders who accumulate three violations such as running red lights within one month must undergo mandatory training and have their orders capped for three days; five violations will result in a dispatch suspension of at least seven days; those who cause accidents or repeatedly offend will be dismissed and placed on an industry blacklist.
2026-09-09
The new Hefei food delivery rules taking effect on September 9, 2026 also require delivery vehicles to comply with national standards and strictly prohibit modifications; platforms must establish health records for riders, those suffering from infectious diseases should be suspended from duty, and riders must sign a "Traffic Safety Commitment" and pass an assessment before starting work.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a netizen posted photos of a revised edition of the fifth-grade first-semester elementary school textbook “Morality and the Rule of Law,” updated in line with the 2022 version of the curriculum standards. Its four units revolve around the history of the Chinese Communist Party, socialist construction, reform and opening up, and the “New Era,” containing statements such as “Only socialism can save China,” and explicitly stating that Xi Jinping has established “the core position of the Party Central Committee and the core position of the whole Party.”
2026-09-08
The video mentions that mainland China will tighten entry and exit management on September 15, 2026. This move is seen as synchronized with the previously introduced “Anti-National Unity Bill”, aiming to provide authorities with legal grounds to control and detain individuals at entry and exit points, especially those deemed to have “insulted China or the CCP”.
2026-09-08
According to an analysis released in September 2026, China's massive subsidies for electric vehicles mainly began in 2015, and the cumulative scale of direct and indirect subsidies is projected to have reached 3 trillion yuan.
2026-09-08
According to a video from Hu Liren's Real China dated September 8, 2026, days after a symposium in Hangzhou on experience in improving the writing style of the theory pages of Party newspapers and journals, the Chinese Communist Party held the Second International Academic Symposium on Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, promoting the implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture.
2026-09-07
Xinhua News Agency reported on September 7, 2026 that eight major state-owned financial institutions, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China, simultaneously issued capital increase announcements, planning to raise 360 billion yuan to replenish capital through the issuance of special treasury bonds and capital injections from the Ministry of Finance, among other means.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, the General Administration of Sport of China stated at a State Council Information Office press conference that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period it will promote the construction of fitness facilities at rest stops for couriers and food delivery workers, prompting public discussion that it is detached from the reality of their labor.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, media reported that several commercial banks in Shanghai are implementing new mortgage rules. Because they enforce the restriction that age plus loan term must not exceed 75 years, borrowers must be under 35 to take out the full newly introduced 40-year mortgage.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, Hong Kong netizens exposed that a new primary school Grade 5 humanities textbook, approved by the Education Bureau, marks the origin of Chinese civilization at 5000 BC, sparking controversy over historical narratives.
2026-09-01
An announcement by the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration stipulates that dividend and bonus income received by foreign individuals from foreign-invested enterprises will no longer be exempt from individual income tax and will be taxed at a rate of 20%, effective from September 1.
2026-09
The CCP Politburo meeting decided, demanding strict control of thought within the party and unifying around Xi Jinping, seen as a major political signal.
2026-09
The 2026 Central No. 1 Document proposes continuing efforts to address high bride prices in rural areas.
2026-09-01
According to the relevant announcement, for enterprises that failed to withhold or pay individual income tax, foreign individuals must complete the supplementary tax payment before June 30 of the year following the receipt of income.
2026-09
As of the end of September, the enrollment scale of China's basic pension, unemployment, and work injury insurance ranks first in the world, and the authorities have proposed mobilizing uninsured people to enroll through measures such as policy optimization and using data to identify people.
2026-09
China’s National Health Commission has required that logistics personnel at hospitals be kept to 15%, and the hospitals concerned are facing demands to control their spending accordingly.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration jointly announced that dividend income received by foreign individuals from foreign-invested enterprises will no longer be exempt from individual income tax and will be uniformly taxed at a rate of 20%.
2026-09
Amid soaring bad loans and inadequate capital at major state-owned banks, China's Ministry of Finance issued 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds in September 2026 to replenish the capital of major state-owned banks such as the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank.
2026-09
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scheduled to be held in October 2026, in the fourth quarter. Its theme is to persistently advance full and strict Party self-governance, consolidate the Party's ruling position, and improve the system of strict Party self-governance. Ahead of the session, the National Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP Central Committee also held a plenary meeting in preparation.
2026-09
In 2026, the central bank has neither cut the reserve requirement ratio nor lowered interest rates. The 7-day reverse repo rate of 1.4% and the LPR (1-year at 3%, 5-year at 3.5%) have gone unadjusted for 16 consecutive months since May 2025.
2026-09
Through issuing special treasury bonds that were subscribed by banks and then converted into targeted share issuances, the Ministry of Finance injected 500 billion yuan in 2025 and 300 billion yuan in 2026, a total of 800 billion yuan, to replenish the core tier-1 capital of the big banks, making Central Huijin the largest shareholder of the four major banks.
2026-09
By the end of 2025, over 82% of financing platforms had exited, most of them by being renamed as operating financial debt; an estimated 5 to 7 trillion yuan remains. Policy requires platforms to completely sever government credit before June 30, 2027, with a measurable stock of 9.87 trillion yuan.
2026-09
From March 2025 to the end of March 2026, the Ministry of Justice carried out a special campaign to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, identifying and correcting over 66,000 problem leads, recovering 30.7 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises, and seeing the national total of administrative inspections drop by 34% year on year.
2026-09
In September 2026, Reuters published the article "How Unassuming Yttrium Became the Focus of a Global Dispute," revealing that China has imposed export controls on yttrium since April 2025, with exports to the US repeatedly disrupted and capped (60 tons in March 2026, 29 tons in July), and noting that Japan has faced an informal embargo and the EU has demanded that China resolve the issue before October.
2026-09
Beijing has issued new regulations banning the possession of drones across the entire city starting November 15, requiring residents to sell, scrap, recycle, or ship out their drones; those who dispose of them before the end of October can receive a subsidy of up to 3,000 yuan, while the subsidy drops to a maximum of 1,500 yuan from November 1 to 14.
2026-09
Chinese authorities have drafted a law requiring AI companies to prevent their models from being used to write malicious code. The newly revised "Artificial Intelligence Safety Governance Framework" also highlights the out-of-control risks that may be caused by "recursive self-improvement".
2026-09
Beijing has released newly revised regulations on drone management. Effective November 15, 2026, except under special safeguard circumstances, the possession and storage of drones and their core components within Beijing's administrative area is prohibited.
2026-09-01
On August 24, 2026, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued guidelines requiring Chinese automakers to avoid frequent and large price adjustments overseas and not to disrupt market order.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, some kindergartens in Hong Kong had young children perform Chinese-style marching drills to raise the flag at their opening ceremonies, and the Education Bureau disclosed that it had held 40 flag-raising workshops for more than 1,000 kindergarten teachers across Hong Kong to strengthen patriotic identity.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, the new autumn edition of the fifth-grade primary school textbook Morality and Rule of Law was put into use. Unit 1 was changed from daily life to "Without the Chinese Communist Party There Would Be No New China," with party history and political ideology content substantially increased.
2026-09
The national security reporting and acceptance platform 12339.gov.cn carried the full text of the Implementing Regulations of the Counter-Espionage Law of the People's Republic of China, defining espionage acts, the identification of hostile organizations, and citizens' obligations and legal responsibilities.
2026-09
Recently, a number of universities, including Beijing Forestry University, Anhui University of Architecture, and Shanxi Vocational College of Finance and Trade, successively introduced detailed rules for living within their means, stipulating measures such as banning flowers at meetings, prohibiting the distribution of souvenirs, and purchasing low-cost air tickets for travel, in order to cut administrative extravagance.
2026-09
A number of businesses in Jiangxi that had ceased operations and completed deregistration have been ordered by local authorities to forcibly reinstate their tax registration and pay taxes again. One business deregistered in September 2025 had its registration forcibly reinstated on June 22, 2026, on the grounds that, at the time of deregistration, its financial statements showed over 300,000 yuan in undistributed profits, which must be taxed at 20%.
2026-09
From January to September 2026, the central bank net bought government bonds each month in the secondary market, totaling about 400 billion yuan, with June's 10 billion yuan being the lowest since bond buying resumed in October 2025; it has not sold any government bonds this year, and the last sale through securities lending was in July 2024.
2026-09
China's 10-year government bond yield peaked at 1.9% in January, fell to a low of 1.675% on August 14, and averaged around 1.7% in September. For the full year, it fluctuated by only about 25 basis points, holding in a sideways range under the central bank's guidance.
2026-09
A total of 6 trillion yuan in local government replacement bonds from 2024 to 2026; as of the end of August 2026, 5.84 trillion yuan had been issued, accounting for 97.3%. The year 2026 is the final year.
2026-09
Peking University issued the "Implementation Measures for Fulfilling the Requirement of Living Tight Lives," drawing attention against the backdrop of an economic downturn.
2026-09
Multiple private business owners reported that after deregistering their companies they still received notices to pay back individual income tax and to have their undistributed profits verified; some were required to restore their tax registration, and one company's application for deregistration was rejected by the system on the grounds that its declared revenue did not match. The related topic trended on the hot search.
2026-09
Beijing's official supporting plan specifies that from September 12 to November 14, eligible individuals may send drones via EMS to an address outside Beijing, and after verification the shipping fee will be waived.
2026-09
Anhui announced in September that the lower limit of the 2026 social insurance contribution base will be raised from 4,311 yuan to 4,354 yuan, effective from January; those under flexible employment pension insurance must make up a difference of 8.60 yuan per month.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Guizhou is establishing the Guizhou Rural Commercial United Bank to accelerate the rollout of city-level unified legal entities; Guizhou's broad debt ratio exceeds 650%, its fiscal self-sufficiency rate is below 30%, and the rate of legal entity elimination among rural commercial banks exceeds 50%.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Henan abandoned the plan for city-level unified legal entities and instead directly set up a provincial unified legal entity, merging round after round and absorbing over a hundred institutions in one go, with the provincial rural commercial bank's registered capital piling up to nearly 100 billion yuan; Henan's debt ratio exceeds 420%, and its legal entity elimination rate exceeds 60%.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Liaoning's debt ratio exceeds 500%, the elimination rate of legal persons of rural commercial banks exceeds 70%, and dozens of county-level banks have been merged into the provincial rural commercial bank in one step.
2026-08-28
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the CCP has passed the newly revised National Defense Mobilization Law, which will take effect on October 1, 2026.
2026-08-28
Article 58 of the newly revised National Defense Mobilization Law stipulates that male citizens aged 18 to 60 and female citizens aged 18 to 55 shall all perform national defense service, while personnel with special expertise are not subject to age limits.
2026-08-28
Article 64 of the newly revised National Defense Mobilization Law stipulates that all organizations and individuals have the obligation to accept the lawful requisition and expropriation of civilian resources.
2026-08-28
The central bank has introduced a new policy extending the term of personal housing loans from 30 years to 40 years, and related media have promoted it as easing the monthly repayment burden on homebuyers.
2026-08-28
Hong Kong's Education Bureau announced a series of student mainland exchange programs themed on the "90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March" for the new school year, arranging for students to visit relevant memorial sites and participate in themed activities.
2026-08-28
The draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law has been opened for public comment starting from August 28, covering overseas deposit and investment reporting, anti-money laundering cooperation, cross-border corporate compliance, and state-owned enterprises' overseas projects, among other content.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress revised and promulgated the National Defense Mobilization Law, stipulating that men aged 18 to 60 and women aged 18 to 55 shall lawfully undertake national defense duties, effective October 1.
2026-08-28
On August 28, China's NPC Standing Committee revised and passed the National Defense Mobilization Law, which will take effect on October 1. Compared with the old 2010 law, civilian resources have been expanded from "requisition" to "expropriation and requisition."
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the official "Statistical Bulletin on the Development of China's Health Undertaking in 2025" was released, showing that the national number of births in 2025 fell to 7.92 million, with a sex ratio at birth of 111.5.
2026-08-28
China has introduced a new real estate policy that allows 30-year mortgages to be extended to 40 years, correspondingly lowering monthly payments, and permitting a gap period of several months.
2026-08-28
Those struggling with mortgage repayments can reportedly negotiate with banks to defer payments or set up a buffer period, but the outstanding debt still must be repaid.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the Hong Kong Education Bureau sent a circular to all primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong, launching a student mainland exchange program for the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, organizing students to visit Zunyi and other places to enhance their sense of identity.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the People’s Bank of China and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly issued new real estate credit policy rules, officially extending the maximum term of personal housing loans from 30 years to 40 years, sparking widespread public debate.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, China's Ministry of Finance released a draft of the Local Surcharge Tax Law for public comment, proposing to merge the urban construction tax, the education surcharge, and the local education surcharge into a single local surcharge tax, with a unified tax rate set at 11% to 13%.
2026-08-26
Reported in August 2026, over a hundred Chinese listed companies were levied back taxes and penalties for the first half of this year, totaling about 7.7 billion RMB, with an unprecedented level of retroactive enforcement.
2026-08-26
On August 26, Leibo County in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan held the 2026 autumn education administration meeting, proposing that teachers scoring below 30 in primary school and below 15 in junior high must collectively take a "shame photo" to motivate teaching performance through humiliating means.
2026-08-25
The meeting heard the National Commission of Supervision's submission for deliberation of the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, the Ministry of Finance reported on government debt management, and deliberation began on personnel appointment and removal bills.
2026-08-25
The Chinese Communist Party's draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law has been submitted to a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for its first reading.
2026-08-24
A meeting of the CCP Central Leading Group for Party Building officially announced the completion of the grand screening of the view on political performance, and will use the results as a hard indicator for local leadership transitions.
2026-08-21
China's National Health Commission held a press conference to address claims circulating on social media that COVID-19 in August is caused by a new and more severe strain.
2026-08-21
The Ministry of Finance said that more than 2 trillion yuan of bonds will continue to be issued in the second half of the year, a relatively large scale for the same period of previous years; the 2026 quota for new special bonds is 4.4 trillion yuan, and ultra-long-term special treasury bonds total 1.3 trillion yuan.
2026-08-21
China’s National Health Commission stated at a press conference that flu vaccination will gradually be launched in various regions in September.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the Ministry of Finance released the national fiscal revenue and expenditure situation for January to July. Local governments' income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights was 1.1731 trillion yuan, down 30.8% year-on-year.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the National Development and Reform Commission solicited public comments on the revised Measures for the Administration of Outbound Investment, incorporating for the first time direct overseas investment and reinvestment by individual residents within China into the approval and filing regulatory framework.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, multiple users reported that, without their knowledge, their participation in a Baidu Netdisk sharing campaign led the operator to file personal income tax labor compensation declarations of 89.1 yuan on their behalf, raising questions about tax compliance.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, netizens in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangzhou Province reported that after dengue fever cases appeared locally, the economic cooperative notified businesses and workers in its jurisdiction to bring their ID cards and go collectively to the senior activity center for blood testing.
2026-08-20
Without any advance notice, the U.S. Treasury suddenly announced that it would raise the liquidity buyback cap for long-end old bonds with maturities of 10 to 30 years from $2 billion per operation to $4 billion.
2026-08-20
Shanghai has introduced the “Eight Shanghai Measures,” a package of optimized real estate control policies; Hu Liren believes this is a trap to drain the savings of ordinary people and plunge them deep into mortgage debt.
2026-08-19
On August 19, 2026, the Financial Times reported that, months after Beijing restricted imports of Nvidia H200 chips, officials have approved ByteDance and Tencent to each purchase 10,000 H200 units, driven by urgent computing power demands for frontier large models.
2026-08-17
Li Qiang presided over a State Council meeting, calling for persisting in expanding domestic demand, focusing on the principal contradiction, seizing on areas with long industrial chains and large scale, and promoting the domestic economic cycle and consumption upgrading.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, an investigation by foreign media revealed that Chinese authorities are pushing full speed ahead with the construction and external sharing of datasets, attempting to change the landscape dominated by Western language models and implant official ideology into global AI.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, Caixin reported that as the school-age population shrinks, surplus school places have appeared in primary schools across the country, yet some megacities have chosen to cut places, and the threshold for migrant children to enroll remains as high as ever.
2026-08-17
On August 17, WeChat updated the "WeChat Privacy Protection Guidelines," specifying that when using the AI assistant Xiaowei, it collects users' typed text, voice, images, documents, and output content, and that when Xiaowei is invoked in scenarios such as Official Accounts, Channels, and Moments, it also processes the information users view or enter in the corresponding scenarios.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, a new media account under the CCP Central Committee's United Front Work Department reposted an article that characterized the American academic school of the "New Qing History" as a political conspiracy by separatist forces and launched an open criticism of it.
2026-08-16
US cable news network CNN published a report analyzing the restrictions and censorship on Chinese Communist Party members marrying foreigners, pointing out that this could be regarded as "endangering national security."
2026-08-15
The Ecological Environment Code has officially come into force, repealing multiple existing environmental regulations and introducing a large number of penalty provisions, sparking public concern about a fine-driven economy.
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, Chinese citizens working in New Zealand reported receiving verification text messages from the domestic tax bureau; holding only 1,000 yuan in fixed-term deposits, they were asked to verify taxes due to the automatic exchange of CRS financial account information.
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, media reported that, in response to China's stringent AI algorithm regulatory thresholds, Apple separately trained a large language model for the Chinese market and connected it to local model services.
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, the State Taxation Administration responded to concerns about the tax burden triggered by the recent acceleration in many places of efforts to solidify corporate social insurance contribution bases, making clear that it will advance in stages and will not carry out a centralized clearing of arrears.
2026-08-12
The report on the implementation of monetary policy for the second quarter, released by the People's Bank of China on August 12, proposed downplaying attention to lending as a single financing channel and instead observing lending together with bond financing; the statement was criticized as glossing over the stagnation of private credit.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, the Shaaanxi Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission issued an announcement stating that, because Kaiyuan Securities had previously experienced a network communication failure that caused abnormal user logins and failed to report the incident promptly as required, regulatory measures including the issuance of a warning letter were taken against the brokerage.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, the Zhejiang Securities Regulatory Bureau issued an announcement stating that, due to multiple compliance management issues in Caitong Securities' brokerage and proprietary trading businesses, regulatory measures were imposed against it in accordance with the law.
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2026-08-07
It is alleged that the CCP Central Committee General Office conveyed requirements to Wang Xiaohong through Chen Wenqing, mandating the state security system to conduct political vetting of individuals entering and exiting China.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, Zhou Zuyi, Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, convened a meeting, reviving the "Fortress Project" deployed in Fujian 35 years ago and calling for it to be integrated into grassroots Party building across the province and into the leadership elections of village and community two committees.
2026-08-06
Reuters reports that China's tax authorities have begun piloting, in Beijing and Hangzhou, the collection of a 20% individual income tax on part of the returns from Hong Kong insurance policies held by local residents.
2026-08-06
Xinhua News Agency released early on August 6 an infographic themed on "quasi-steady and ruthless," announcing a deepening of the special campaign to sweep away black and eliminate evil, which was accused of paving the way for a political purge.
2026-08-05
China's Ministry of Commerce announced export controls on drones and prohibited trade with six US entities, calling it a response to relevant US restrictive measures.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, China's Ministry of Commerce issued an announcement stating that, pursuant to the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, it had taken counter-sanctions measures against six US entities, including Applied DNA Sciences, which were suspected of participating in the supply of Taiwan-related military products and technical support.
2026-08-05
On August 5, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the launch of the country's first foreign trade national security investigation into imported printing and copying equipment that use foreign software and systems, as a countermeasure against the US.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, multiple departments in Henan Province jointly issued a notice promoting staggered paid leave for employees, requiring leading cadres to take the lead in taking leave, and combining holiday-merging with cultural and tourism discounts to activate consumption potential, while strictly investigating employers that refuse to arrange leave.
2026-08-03
Xinhua News Agency released content reiterating adherence to the Party's overall leadership and the Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership, which was interpreted as a measure taken by Xi Jinping to consolidate power.
2026-08-03
Sichuan dissolved 10 county-level rural commercial banks within a single day and merged the related institutions into rural commercial banks in prefecture-level cities such as Meishan and Mianyang, involving the replacement of signs at 330 outlets.
2026-08-02
The WeChat public account of the CCP's Political and Legal Affairs Commission posted an article claiming that black and evil crimes are "stubborn, recurrent and complex," continuing to build momentum for deepening the special campaign to sweep away black and eliminate evil.
2026-08-02
On August 2, CCTV.com reported in a Q&A format that a responsible official of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission addressed the reasons for deepening the special anti-gang and anti-evil campaign and its key tasks, with opinion-based extortion and internet water armies listed as key targets of the crackdown.
2026-08-01
On August 1, the Chinese Communist Party announced that the “New Exit-Entry Administration Regulations” will officially take effect on September 15, consisting of 19 articles covering exit reviews and other content.
2026-08-01
The 15th issue of Qiushi magazine, published on August 1, carried the article “Accelerate the Building of a Healthy China,” proposing to build a “Healthy China” by 2035.
2026-08
The CCP's political-legal system is accused of retroactively reviewing old cases and cleaning out networks of interests on the grounds of increasing fiscal revenue, while carrying out cross-border recovery of illicit assets; the scope of investigation may cover closed cases, case-handling personnel, and related parties.
2026-08
The video cites insiders as saying that local government finances are strained, and higher-level authorities are requiring the grassroots to handle finances with one hand and maintain stability with the other, achieving this through tax audits, fines, and strengthened control over personnel; no public reports have been found backing this claim.
2026-08
The CCP's 20th Central Committee left it until the last minute to finalize the date of its Fifth Plenary Session, and the notice focuses on strictly governing the Party, reflecting a lack of consensus within the Party due to the fiscal crisis and the collapse of the spoils-sharing table.
2026-08
Chinese banking systems are tightening resident foreign exchange and overseas transfers, requiring in-person counter transactions, explanations of fund usage, and submission of relevant supporting documents; the amount of foreign exchange individuals can exchange and remit is subject to quota limits.
2026-08
The State Taxation Administration has reportedly received orders to begin retroactive audits of personal income tax for overseas citizens, affecting Chinese citizens who have worked abroad for many years as well as some individuals who have renounced their citizenship, in conjunction with overseas asset investigations and exit controls.
2026-08
China’s central bank and the financial regulator issued Document No. 171, allowing borrowers who cannot repay to defer payments, extend loan terms, or directly delay principal repayment, with extensions capped at half of the original loan term.
2026-08
The flight of Chinese commercial aircraft is strictly controlled; business owners must undergo state security (MSS) review to use commercial aircraft to go abroad.
2026-08
The State Council has reportedly ordered an investigation into STO Express, with related actions involving its equity and corporate asset control issues.
2026-08
It is alleged that Chinese citizens holding green cards are required to report to the local police upon returning to China, and their accommodation and movement information may be incorporated into surveillance systems.
2026-08
The CCP is collaborating with CCTV and pro-unification KOLs to study history textbooks used by Taiwanese students, aiming to develop a new generation of united front brainwashing narratives targeting the Taiwanese people in an attempt to divide Taiwanese society and supporters of various political parties.
2026-08
The State Council has introduced new measures for housing provident fund management, relaxing policies to encourage ordinary people to take out loans to buy homes, which critics say is a disguised way of harvesting their savings.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives released its 15th Five-Year development plan, announcing that by 2030 it would build 1,000 county-level distribution centers and more than 100 strategic agricultural input reserve warehouses in major grain-producing counties, sparking concerns about a return to a planned economy.
2026-08-01
From August 1, China unilaterally implemented new management regulations for the Huangyan Island national nature reserve, announcing a complete ban on fishing, mining, and coral reef excavation within the waters, and that the China Coast Guard will establish a regular patrol mechanism. The United States and the Philippines said they do not recognize it.
2026-08
In late August 2026, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held an unprecedented national plenary meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to prepare for the upcoming Fifth Plenary Session, stressing strict political discipline and discipline for the leadership transition, and calling for a comprehensive purge of two-faced people who harbor divided loyalties and say one thing while doing another, as well as a crackdown on political opportunism and factionalism.
2026-08
In August 2026, China proposed a draft cross-border anti-corruption law to counter "excessive or fabricated" restrictions imposed by foreign countries on Chinese enterprises in the name of anti-corruption.
2026-08
In August 2026, media reports quoted sources from local tax and human resources and social security departments confirming that audits of social insurance contribution bases have been tightened, with multiple regions requiring full actual contributions within three to five years; the related policies have triggered public discussion about the contribution burden.
2026-07-31
Chen Wenqing, Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, presided over a national video conference on the campaign to combat organized crime and root out local mafia, announcing the relaunch of the relevant special campaign for a period of approximately one year.
2026-07-31
China’s State Council has promulgated regulations on exit and entry administration, covering verification of purposes of exit, provision of electronic data, decisions by administrative authorities to restrict exit, and enforcement by border inspection.
2026-07-31
The Shanghai Municipal Administration of Planning and Natural Resources issued guidelines for the renewal of land use rights for industrial and commercial projects, stipulating that renewal prices must not be lower than 70% of the current benchmark land price, sparking public concern over land property rights and the mechanism of fiscal revenue collection.
2026-07-31
Xinhua News Agency released the State Council's Regulations on Exit and Entry Administration, which specify that individuals will be barred from leaving the country under various circumstances, including when civil lawsuits have not yet been concluded, and which will officially take effect on September 15.
2026-07-31
The CCP announced new regulations on exit and entry management. The relevant content is alleged to incorporate the public security, procuratorate, court, and state security systems into the review process for personnel going abroad.
2026-07-31
According to the streamer, Xi Jinping introduced a new law on July 31 that he called an "evil law"; the streamer believes this measure will further restrict Chinese citizens' access to overseas societies.
2026-07-31
China has announced the State Council Order No. 841, an exit ban order, which stipulates that individuals may not be notified in cases involving national security or criminal investigations.
2026-07-31
On July 31, Chinese authorities announced a one-year special campaign to deepen the crackdown on organized crime, vowing to remove the malignant tumors eroding the social fabric. Building on the fight against traditional criminal gangs, the campaign will focus on organized crimes committed through online platforms and soft violence.
2026-07-31
On July 31, 2026, China's State Council announced new exit-entry administration rules that list harm to national industrial security and technological security as grounds for exit prohibition, and grant administrative authorities the power to impose exit bans on dual-use items and core technical personnel.
2026-07-31
On July 31, Tongji University issued new rules announcing that it would no longer sign long-term employment contracts and that teachers must undergo periodic assessments. Scholars criticized the move as abolishing tenure and pushing universities toward social Darwinism.
2026-07-30
The CCP Politburo held a meeting and decided to convene the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing in October 2026. The agenda includes the Politburo report, advancing comprehensive strict party governance, analyzing the economic situation, and deploying work for the second half of the year.
2026-07-30
The Politburo meeting on July 30 set the schedule of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee for October.
2026-07-30
The CCP has confirmed that the Fifth Plenary Session will be held in October 2026.
2026-07-30
On July 30, 2026, the CCP Central Committee Politburo held a meeting to analyze the economic situation. The Wall Street Journal reported that the meeting emphasized supply-side optimization and the implementation of existing policies, sending a clear signal that there is no intention to unleash flood-style massive stimulus in the face of slowing economic growth.
2026-07-29
People's Daily published guidance opinions, releasing a strong signal of investigating the Ctrip monopoly case and cracking down on antitrust involution, drawing outside attention to the authorities' further rectification of foreign and private enterprises.
2026-07-27
The photovoltaic industry association released the General Rules for the Cost Accounting Model of the Photovoltaic Industry, which stipulates that the full cost of polysilicon material is 43 yuan per kilogram; the State Administration for Market Regulation subsequently carried out compliance guidance and required enterprises to implement it.
2026-07-25
In July 2026, netizens found that the new edition of the PEP Chinese textbook for 9th grade added an article by Xi Jinping, replacing classic texts such as Liang Qichao's "Dedication and Harmony with Others," prompting concern about ideological infiltration in basic education.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, China's Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement requiring individual residents to pay a 20% personal income tax on assets transferred into offshore trusts and the income generated during their existence, with a 90-day transition period.
2026-07-24
The CCP Central Committee and the State Council issued the Opinions on Strengthening Social Work in the New Era, covering arrangements for social work and social governance.
2026-07-24
The CCP Central Committee held a symposium with non-Party figures at Zhongnanhai. Presiding over the meeting, Xi Jinping said that China's economy is currently facing certain difficulties and challenges.
2026-07-24
According to the program, the CCP Central Propaganda Department has required schools at all levels in China, including private schools, to gradually hang portraits of Xi Jinping in prominent locations from the new academic year, along with inscriptions of Xi Jinping's words on education; specific details have not yet been released.
2026-07-24
At a symposium with non-Party figures, Xi Jinping acknowledged for the first time in his own words that China's economy is experiencing a severe downturn. The news is regarded as an important milestone, foreshadowing the gravity of China's economic situation.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement stating that residents must declare and pay individual income tax on property placed into offshore trusts and on income earned during the continuation of the trust.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement clarifying that residents must declare and pay personal income tax on assets placed into offshore trusts and on income earned during the trust's existence, at a rate of 20%.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued new rules stipulating that when Chinese tax residents transfer assets such as stocks and equity into offshore trusts, the relevant gains may be taxed at 20%. According to Reuters, the new rules have prompted some wealthy Chinese to raise cash and consider selling assets or borrowing to pay the tax.
2026-07-24
The Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement on July 24 stating that individuals who have obtained foreign nationality or permanent residency abroad but whose principal economic interests come from within China may be recognized as Chinese tax residents, and that upon converting to non-resident status they must carry out tax clearance on gains from offshore trusts.
2026-07-23
On July 23, 2026, the EU adopted its 21st package of sanctions against Russia, adding Huobi (HTX), banning EU persons from trading with it from August 23, but without freezing its assets.
2026-07-22
Li Qiang signed the "State Council Regulations on Exit and Entry Administration" (Order No. 841) on July 22, 2026. The regulations consist of 19 articles, covering the establishment of a filing management system for exit-entry intermediary services, and stipulate that public officials and military personnel who entrust intermediaries to handle immigration must report to supervisory organs.
2026-07-21
According to a hospital staff member, as the number of births declines, obstetrics and gynecology departments and maternal and child health hospitals in some parts of China have been abolished or converted into psychiatry and mental health departments.
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that it had detained a Czech businessman at the end of June on suspicion of endangering national security. Outside observers analyze the move as a tit-for-tat retaliation for the Czech Republic's earlier arrest of a Guangming Daily reporter suspected of espionage.
2026-07-15
In July 2026, China introduced restrictions targeting AI companions, requiring platforms to intervene in users' unhealthy dependence and prohibiting chatbots from establishing virtual relationships with minors. ByteDance's Doubao subsequently shut down the feature that allowed users to create virtual companions.
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, Reuters reported that China's financial regulatory authorities issued guidance to some banks, requiring that the interest rate for bill rediscounting business not fall below 0.5%, in order to curb an excessive decline in rates amid weak credit demand.
2026-07-13
The State Council of China unprecedentedly issued a document on expanding consumption under the name of a five‑year plan, aiming for total retail sales of consumer goods to reach 60 trillion yuan by 2030.
2026-07-10
The Central Committee held a special meeting on rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots. Cai Qi attended and arranged for 'tackling the issue of new officials ignoring old debts and focusing on the rectification of prominent problems'.
2026-07-10
On July 10, 2026, Bloomberg reported that China's local governments had completed about 94% of the issuance quota for special refinancing bonds used to swap hidden debt, but the overall debt pressure on localities remains severe.
2026-07-09
Bloomberg reported that regulatory authorities under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have asked some banks to reduce the underwriting of local government financing vehicle (LGFV) bonds with maturities of less than two years, in an attempt to restrict local financing vehicles from continuing to rely on rolling over old debt with new loans.
2026-07-04
The quarterly meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China adjusted the economic tone from "steady progress" to "toward the new, toward the better," and listed structural optimization as one of the challenges facing the economy.
2026-07-03
China will implement the Ethnic Unity Promotion Law starting July 1.
2026-07-02
In July 2026, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs issued the Measures for the Administration of Branches and Representative Offices of Social Organizations, stipulating that branches of social organizations must accept the comprehensive leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and establish grassroots Party organizations, while completely prohibiting the establishment of clan-based and regional branches.
2026-07-01
The CCP has officially implemented the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law; Article 63 of the law concerns holding overseas organizations and individuals legally liable.
2026-07
The CCP Central Committee has deployed a nationwide deepened special struggle to crack down on gangs and eliminate evil, lasting approximately one year starting from July 2026.
2026-07-01
Beijing authorities have officially implemented the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, drawing attention from the US Congress and human rights organizations.
2026-07
The Wall Street Journal reported that last summer, Ding Xuexiang received a closed-door briefing from Huawei on AI, in which Huawei claimed it could achieve Chinese autonomy in key AI fields within three years. Ding was leading the effort to consolidate resources in the chip industry at the time and warned that those who refused to use domestic chips were traitors.
2026-07
Xinhua News Agency reported on July 31 that Chen Wenqing stressed at the national video conference on the special campaign to sweep away black and eliminate evil that, in accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee, a one-year deepened special campaign to sweep away black and eliminate evil should be carried out solidly.
2026-07
China recently completed a successful recovery of a reusable rocket, sparking public discussion about China's technological breakthroughs and future investment in space programs.
2026-07-01
China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, enacted by China, took effect on July 1. Reports described it as a measure by Beijing to establish a legal basis for targeting specific critics abroad.
2026-07
The video cited relevant official statements saying that China's foreign exchange reserves exceed US$3 trillion, foreign exchange liabilities are about US$2.4 trillion, and 55% of the external debt is denominated in renminbi.
2026-07
DTCC has received regulatory clearance and plans to move U.S. stock and U.S. bond settlement on-chain in the second half of 2026, enabling the same security identifier to convert between traditional ledgers and on-chain form.
2026-07-01
The Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law took effect on July 1, 2026.
2026-07
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued a draft opinion aimed at rectifying society, which outside observers say is a Cultural Revolution-like campaign launched across society following the intra-Party purge, intended to cleanse society of dissenting views.
2026-07
Recently, the Chinese Communist Party has stepped up its recovery of social security contributions from companies, starting to force enterprises to pay back social security arrears from the past five to ten years, which puts greater pressure on private enterprises and employment.
2026-07
Six departments — the Equipment Development Department of the CCP Central Military Commission, the Logistics Support Department, the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense — issued a notice banning the sale of retired and scrapped equipment outside the approved catalog, strictly prohibiting the manufacture, modification, assembly, and sale of replicas that could lead the public to regard them as military equipment, as well as commercial marketing and promotion of retired and scrapped equipment. The move is intended to strengthen management and supervision and to guard against risks to public safety and military secrets.
2026-07-01
The CCP's "Law on Promoting National Unity" officially came into effect on July 1, sparking mockery from overseas and Taiwanese netizens regarding long-arm jurisdiction.
2026-07-01
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s National Unity and Progress Promotion Law took effect on July 1, and the law is considered to possibly provide a legal basis for the CCP to pressure or retaliate against Taiwan.
2026-07-01
Amnesty International issued a press release criticizing China's Law on Ethnic Unity and Progress for providing a state-level legal framework that infringes the rights of Uyghur, Tibetan and other non‑Han groups.
2026-07
The Chinese Communist Party's recently introduced "National Unity Law" is said to be intended to deal with Taiwanese who do not consider themselves Chinese, and may involve extraterritorial jurisdiction.
2026-07-01
China began implementing the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress on July 1. The United States and the European Union have criticized the law, arguing that it may restrict the rights of ethnic minorities and impose obligations on foreign entities.
2026-07-01
China has passed and enacted a law promoting ethnic unity and progress, which critics accuse of codifying the forced assimilation of non-Han groups such as Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongols, and of potentially being used as a lawfare tool for cross-border arrests of dissidents.
2026-07-01
Occupational injury protection will be fully implemented across 31 provinces nationwide starting July 1, 2026, covering new employment form practitioners such as food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers.
2026-07
The Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration released Announcement No. 21; videos claim the announcement involves tax measures on offshore trusts.
2026-07-01
In July 2026, China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress officially took effect. The law requires strengthening education in the national common language and script, promoting interaction, exchange, and integration among all ethnic groups, and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.
2026-07
China announced new rules in July, clarifying that income related to residents' personal offshore trusts must be declared and taxed regardless of whether it is distributed, at a tax rate of 20%; those who obtain foreign nationality but whose main economic interests come from within China can also be deemed Chinese tax residents.
2026-07
In July, the net fiscal contribution of China's new industries turned negative, dropping to negative 10.3 billion yuan, a significant decrease from the positive growth in the same period last year, reflecting exacerbated fiscal pressure driven by collapsing domestic demand and export tax rebates.
2026-07
The Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Education released the 2025 national education statistics bulletin, showing that the number of kindergartens nationwide fell by 24,100 in one year, a drop of 8.45%, while enrollment fell by 3.58 million children.
2026-07
In July 2026, an official document circulating online revealed that in many places in Guangdong, during the "630 Poverty Relief and Aid Day" campaign, in addition to requiring people inside the system, targets were assigned at every level to mobilize and even coercively force non-public enterprises within their jurisdictions to make large donations.
2026-07-01
On July 1, 2026, the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration's Measures on Further Regulating the Registration of Public Visits officially took effect, explicitly requiring people to file their complaints within their local jurisdiction, and greatly tightening the registration and acceptance channels for bypass-level and repeat petitioning.
2026-07-01
On July 1, 2026, China's new ethnic unity law officially took effect, and its provisions on exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction over activists involved in ethnic issues have drawn international attention and criticism from human rights organizations.
2026-06-30
On June 30, 2026, on the sixth anniversary of the entry into force of the Hong Kong National Security Law, Human Rights Watch released a report criticizing the full mainlandization of Hong Kong's governance structure; the report pointed out that within the year the Hong Kong government empowered police to compel the surrender of electronic passwords, and once again injected HK$5 billion into the national security budget.
2026-06-29
China's Ministry of Commerce placed 20 Japanese entities on the dual-use export control list and added another 20 Japanese entities to a watchlist; the Japanese government lodged a stern protest and demanded the measures be withdrawn.
2026-06-29
The People's Bank of China injected 300 billion yuan in temporary overnight reverse repos, but did not disclose the interest rate for the operation.
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, China's Ministry of Commerce issued an announcement expanding export controls on Japan, announcing new sanctions against 40 Japanese entities, of which 20 were placed on the control list and 20 on the watch list, saying the aim is to curb the development of Japan's military industry.
2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress announced the termination of the representative qualifications of 14 people, including Li Yunze, Ma Xingrui, Fei Gaoyun, and Guo Yonghang, of whom 6 were removed by congress of servicemen and 1 resigned.
2026-06-26
On June 25, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported that China is reviewing a new bill that would authorize prosecutorial organs to file civil public interest lawsuits against foreign organizations and individuals in order to counter foreign sanctions and economic pressure, posing additional compliance risks for foreign enterprises.
2026-06-26
In late June 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress released the draft amendment to the Lawyers Law, with new clauses explicitly requiring practicing lawyers to support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist rule of law, and mandating that law firms establish grassroots Party organizations in accordance with the Party Constitution.
2026-06-25
The National Petition Bureau has introduced new regulations, requiring the public to cross their own level or the next higher level of agencies to petition in Beijing; they must have written or electronic documents from a provincial-level agency, otherwise registration will not be accepted.
2026-06-24
On June 25, 2026, China's State Council Information Office answered questions on the forthcoming Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. Article 63 of the law provides for overseas accountability, triggering strong doubts from legal circles and human rights groups over its long-arm jurisdiction and lack of legal basis.
2026-06-23
The National Audit Office of China released an audit work report revealing that between 2023 and 2025, the Bank of China used employee capital contributions to "make up numbers" and packaged private equity funds as public funds, evading a cumulative 2.367 billion yuan in taxes.
2026-06-23
The Auditor General publicly disclosed issues such as tax avoidance by the Bank of China, local financial circular churning, and fire safety violations to the National People's Congress.
2026-06-23
On June 23, 2026, the State Council Information Office held a press conference, at which the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the municipal governments of Hangzhou and Chengdu introduced measures to expand automobile consumption, such as trade-in car purchases and self-drive tour consumption scenarios; official media said this was in response to a Qiushi article on boosting consumption.
2026-06-22
Heilongjiang Beidahuang Agriculture was ordered by the tax department to pay approximately 1 billion RMB in corporate income tax for the years 2021 to 2025, along with approximately 400 million RMB in late fees.
2026-06-19
Xinhua News Agency published an article titled "The Three Great Transformations: An Unprecedented and Profound Social Revolution," stripping away the lessons of history to whitewash the history of joint state-private ownership, releasing a strong political signal regarding the direction of private economic policy.
2026-06-19
With fuel prices rising, Russia's central bank lowered its benchmark interest rate from 14.5% to 14.25% on June 19, 2026, marking its ninth consecutive rate cut since a previous historic high of 21%.
2026-06-19
On June 19, 2026, the Trade Remedy and Investigation Bureau of China's Ministry of Commerce issued an announcement, ruling that increased imports of beef cause injury to the domestic industry, and imposing a 55% tariff on imported beef originating in Australia effective June 20.
2026-06-18
The website of the Chinese Communist Party's theoretical journal Qiushi published a commentary article titled "Boost Consumption with Greater Vigor," proposing measures such as increasing residents' income, improving the social security system, rescuing the real estate sector, and repairing residents' balance sheets.
2026-06-17
The front page of the People's Daily defines Xi Jinping's party-building thought as the party-building chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
2026-06-17
At the Lujiazui Forum, Pan Gongsheng, governor of the central bank of the Chinese Communist Party, rolled out six new tools in one go, including narrowing the interest rate corridor, non-bank liquidity support, and overseas central bank repo facilities.
2026-06-17
At the Shanghai Lujiazui Forum, Fang Xinghai suggested that Hong Kong should attract mainland quantitative institutions to establish operations there.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, universities in multiple Chinese provinces successively announced the establishment of counselor colleges, specifically to strengthen the counselor workforce's ideological monitoring of college students and the work of Xi Jinping Thought on Ideology and Politics for a New Era education.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, several Double First-Class universities announced their 2026 undergraduate enrollment plans, generally expanding enrollment scales and focusing on increasing training efforts in shortage disciplines such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, and new energy.
2026-06-15
Xinhua News Agency announced 'Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building.' Head of the Organization Department Shi Taifeng chaired the meeting, and Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Liu Jianguo attended. Cai Qi only delivered a keynote speech and did not hold dominant control.
2026-06-15
The Party media journal Qiushi published a signed article piecing together 19 old speeches to emphasize "breaking the four onlys," which has been pointed out as becoming a policy tool for purging mediocre officials and mediocrities.
2026-06-15
The National Symposium on Party Building has deployed the study of the new formulation, 'Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building'.
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and four other departments issued a document regulating the management of single-purpose prepaid cards (Hu Shang Gui [2026] No. 1), specifying that one-time or seasonal pickup vouchers are not subject to prepaid card management.
2026-06-10
On June 10, 2026, China's State Taxation Administration released data showing that taxpayers who earned overseas income in the first five months of this year had collectively paid back approximately 13 billion yuan in taxes, with tax authorities placing a key emphasis on strengthening the collection and administration of overseas tax sources.
2026-06-08
On June 8, 2026, the Hong Kong government submitted to the Legislative Council a proposal to amend subsidiary legislation, seeking to establish a Chief Executive certification mechanism, stipulating that the Chief Executive may determine whether an ordinary criminal case involves national security, and that cases so determined will be tried under National Security Law proceedings.
2026-06-08
Statistics from the financial industry show that China's financial regulators issued 435 administrative penalty notices against the banking sector in the first 5 months, with cumulative penalties reaching 445 million yuan, up 15.3% year-on-year, of which rural commercial banks accounted for nearly half of the fines due to credit violations and other problems.
2026-06-05
The General Office of the State Council released new regulatory rules for private equity funds, known as State Council Document No. 54. Combined with the speech at the Asset Management Association conference and the new 'Nine Rules' policy system, this further tightens the space for institutional excess returns.
2026-06-04
On June 4, 2026, media reported that first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai are successively reopening night markets and outdoor commercial vending spaces, with sales of street-stall equipment surging in many places, reflecting the system's attempt to ease employment pressure through the street-stall economy against the backdrop of an economic downturn.
2026-06
An audit report revealed that Bank of China used methods such as gathering people through employees to package private equity funds as public funds, evading approximately 2.367 billion yuan in taxes over a period of more than two years.
2026-06
An audit disclosure shows that financial institutions formed approximately 1.41 trillion yuan in inflated loan scales through methods such as idle fund circulation, false profit concessions, and relaxed risk controls.
2026-06
Cai Qi, leader of the Central Leading Group for Party Building, issued a notice on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought, demanding study across the entire Party.
2026-06
The State Council announced the issuance of 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds to replenish the capital of the six major commercial banks, exposing the fact that bank capital has been severely depleted.
2026-06
An audit report states that tax and customs authorities overcharged or pre-collected corporate income tax and value-added tax from 1,954 enterprises, totaling 40.427 billion RMB.
2026-06
An audit report revealed that 21 provinces and cities artificially inflated fiscal revenue by 59.651 billion yuan through methods such as pre-spending and subsequently recalling treasury funds.
2026-06
Audits explicitly named ICBC, CCB, Bank of Communications, CITIC, and other banks for tech-finance that fails to live up to its name, stating that 126 provincial branches retroactively labeled 64.22 billion yuan in loans as tech loans after the fact.
2026-06
An audit report revealed that relevant financial institutions illegally covered up or disposed of 63.943 billion yuan in non-performing assets, and illegally conducted credit business totaling 67.6 billion yuan.
2026-06
An audit pointed out that the Agricultural Bank of China issued 11.066 billion RMB in loans to projects not belonging to high-standard farmland, and some funds were diverted to purchase wealth management products and bonds.
2026-06
In the first 5 months of 2026, 475 banks received a total of 2,744 fines, amounting to 870 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27%; among them, fines for data reporting and governance violations increased significantly.
2026-06
Shanghai has launched an offshore RMB trading ecosystem built on the free trade zone account system and the Foreign Exchange Trading Center, prompting outside scrutiny of its true degree of marketization and the nature of its controls.
2026-06
In June 2026, the CCP central bank began restricting banks from buying bonds.
2026-06
In June 2026, a claim circulated on Weibo that staff on the payroll must not only hand in their passports but also voluntarily cancel them and have their exit records over the past five years retroactively checked.
2026-06
Listed company Beidahuang was ordered to pay a total of 1.41 billion yuan in back taxes and late fees due to tax issues, with a five-year retroactive period. Throughout the year and in subsequent months, numerous enterprises face pressure to make up for unpaid taxes.
2026-06
After Putin's visit to China and his promise to increase oil supplies to China, CCP China eased refined oil export restrictions in June, resuming some external contract fulfillment.
2026-06
On July 9, 2026, the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors issued window guidance to some banks, requiring them to avoid underwriting local government financing vehicle bonds with maturities of less than two years, in order to restrict chengtu short-term debt from rolling over old debt with new borrowing.
2026-06
In June 2026, Heilongjiang Beidahuang Agriculture Co., Ltd. announced that tax authorities had recovered about 1.41 billion yuan in taxes, exceeding its projected full-year net profit for 2025, and its stock price fell 10% in a single day.
2026-06
On June 14, 2026, multiple Counter-Strike 2 players reported receiving notices from local tax authorities requiring them to pay additional taxes on hundreds of thousands of yuan in transactions and earnings from third-party skin trading platforms.
2026-06
In June this year, the Central Military Commission issued special measures, emphasizing living frugally, cost control throughout the entire process, and implementing the principle of building the military with diligence and frugality.
2026-05-28
On May 28, 2026, the Beijing and Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureaus signed a cooperation framework agreement, established a coordinated governance mechanism for online catering food safety, and jointly carried out administrative guidance on Meituan, Taobao Shanguo, and JD Food Delivery.
2026-05-28
On May 28, 2026, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that because lending fell in April and demand remained weak in May, the People's Bank of China has issued informal guidance to some large state-owned banks, asking them to increase credit provision.
2026-05-22
On May 22, 2026, the securities regulator and seven other departments issued a plan to crack down on illegal cross-border securities business, and plan to impose fines totaling more than 2.2 billion yuan on Futu and Tiger; both stocks fell 30 to 40 percent before the open.
2026-05-22
The Chinese Communist Party's securities regulator announced a crackdown on cross-border brokerages such as Futu and Tiger, accusing them of doing business with domestic residents without a license. The news sent the two companies' shares plunging 30% to 40% in pre-market trading in the US.
2026-05-22
On May 22, 2026, eight departments including the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) jointly issued a plan announcing a two-year campaign to completely ban illegal cross-border securities and futures activities. The plan specifically named Futu Securities, Tiger Brokers, and Longbridge Securities for illegal operations, proposing to confiscate illegal gains and impose fines.
2026-05-07
China's National Financial Regulatory Administration recently issued verbal guidance suggesting that several major domestic banks suspend issuing new RMB loans to five refineries sanctioned by the U.S. for involvement in Iranian oil transactions.
2026-05-04
On May 4, 2026, the High Court of Hong Kong granted a restraining order applied for by the Department of Justice, freezing HK$8.93 billion in assets belonging to 42 people including Chen Zhi and their associated companies.
2026-05-02
In response to U.S. sanctions targeting Chinese small refineries that purchase Iranian oil, China’s Ministry of Commerce has invoked its blocking rules for the first time, allowing affected companies to sue third-party institutions that comply with U.S. sanctions in domestic courts.
2026-05
In May 2026, primary and secondary school teachers, nurses, grassroots civil servants and others were widely required to hand over their passports to be kept by their work units.
2026-05-01
Beijing's new drone regulations officially took effect on May 1. Display counters at stores such as DJI have been left empty, and netizens in many places have turned to balloons carrying action cameras as a substitute for filming.
2026-05
In May 2026, domestic media reports praised a company known as the “warmest sugar factory” for producing for five consecutive months with only two days off factory-wide; its head thanked employees for their dedication, prompting public questioning over suspected serious violations of the labor law.
2026-04-29
The Ministry of Civil Affairs and eleven other departments jointly issued opinions on promoting the development of mutual aid elderly care services, proposing to achieve a coverage rate of no less than 70% for urban and rural community elderly care service systems by 2030.
2026-04-24
The third reading draft of the Social Assistance Law was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for deliberation, proposing to change the term 'vagrants and beggars' to 'dispersed persons', sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-04-24
On April 24, 2026, the Chongqing Financial Regulatory Bureau approved the dissolution of Tongnan Minsheng Village Bank, with all of its assets, liabilities, business and employees taken over by Minsheng Bank.
2026-04-21
License information from the National Financial Regulatory Administration shows that as of April 20, 2026, 72 village banks had completed exit and deregistration within the year, compared with 27 in the same period last year.
2026-04
In April and May 2026, the Chinese Communist Party promulgated regulations on industrial chain security and countermeasures against improper foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction, expanding restrictions on personal freedom.
2026-04
In the first quarter of 2026, China issued more than 6.7 trillion yuan in government bonds, of which local government bonds exceeded 3.1 trillion yuan and treasury bonds exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan.
2026-03-12
The NPC of China passed the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, which comprises a preface and 7 chapters with 65 articles; Beijing said it establishes norms and legal responsibilities for the cause of ethnic unity and progress.
2026-03-12
On March 12, 2026, the National People's Congress passed the Law on Promoting National Unity and Progress, stipulating that schools and government agencies must use Mandarin as their primary language. From preschool to high school, Mandarin will be used for instruction, while Tibetan, Uyghur, and Mongolian are phased out of core curricula.
2026-03-12
China has passed the Law on Promoting Democratic Unity and Progress, pushing the Chinese nation's community from a propaganda slogan into a legal obligation, requiring citizens to promote a specific identity community, making political neutrality even more difficult.
2026-03-12
On March 12, 2026, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress passed the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. Article 63 stipulates that overseas organizations and individuals who undermine ethnic unity and progress and incite ethnic division shall be held legally liable in accordance with the law, effective July 1.
2026-03-09
The Supreme People's Procuratorate work report disclosed that within one year, nationwide procuratorial organs handled as many as 19,900 cases of illegal out-of-area enforcement and profit-driven enforcement, supervised the withdrawal of 2,760 cases, decided not to prosecute 3,539 people, and returned illegal seized, detained, and frozen assets totaling 2.63 billion yuan.
2026-03-05
Affected by the situation in the Middle East and the energy supply chain crisis, the CCP central government issued a document on March 5, requiring all companies exporting gasoline and fuel to temporarily suspend signing refined oil export contracts with other countries.
2026-03
This year's Two Sessions proposed strengthening housing security for families with first marriages and first births, issuing childcare subsidies, promoting inclusive childcare services, and resolving issues around parental leave, in an attempt to encourage young people to marry and have children.
2026-03
In March 2026, the Ministry of Finance issued a document further increasing the proportion of annual profits remitted to the state by central enterprises, leading to internal salary structure adjustments and increased pressure within these enterprises.
2026-03
China announced the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress in March 2026.
2026-03
In March of this year, Xi Jinping explicitly demanded that the People's Liberation Army put every penny of the military budget "where it counts," stressing that the military must live frugally.
2026-02-27
The Ministry of Education issued a document mentioning that Shanghai is implementing the "Construction Standards for Ideological and Political Courses in Universities," requiring private universities to establish the awareness that "the School of Marxism is the primary school" and "ideological and political courses are the primary courses," and to fulfill their primary responsibility for the construction of ideological and political courses. Public data shows that the number of Schools of Marxism in universities nationwide has expanded 18-fold over twelve years (2012 to 2024).
2026-02-06
On February 6, the drafting group for the Fifth Plenary Session documents held its first plenary meeting at Huairentang. Xi Jinping proposed 39 major issues across 8 areas, setting a strict tone.
2026-02
According to global payment data measured by SWIFT standards, as of February 2026, the RMB's share of global payments has fallen to just 2.74%.
2026-01-06
The State Administration for Market Regulation summoned the photovoltaic industry association and six leading companies for talks over industry collusion to raise prices, ordering a halt to self-imposed production and price limits, which caused polysilicon futures to hit the limit down.
2026
In 2026, the posted one-year lump-sum deposit rate at large state-owned banks was 0.95% and the three-year rate was 1.25%; the video analyzed on this basis that the purchasing power of household savings is being eroded by inflation.
2026
China's central bank has issued a trillion-level buyout reverse repo for the third time this year to cope with the rapid spread of financial risks.
2026
Between 2023 and 2026, thousands of county-level rural commercial banks in China quietly disappeared, absorbed and merged by prefecture-level city rural commercial banks, masking trillions of yuan in hidden debt held by local governments.
2026
In 2026, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued a document incorporating support for technical schools to enroll unemployed university graduates into national policy, with multiple provinces encouraging university graduates to return to technical schools for vocational training.
2026
China's Ministry of Justice announced the results of a crackdown on local law enforcement violations, saying it identified and corrected more than 66,000 problems and recovered economic losses of 30.7 billion yuan for businesses.
2026-01
According to a report by Economic Observer, from January to February 2026, the nationwide total volume of voluntary blood donations fell 9.8% year-on-year; the number of blood donation visits by college students dropped from 2.366 million in 2023 to 1.06 million in 2025.
2026-01-01
Starting in 2026, banks in China will need to verify the remitter's information for any one-time overseas remittance exceeding 5,000 RMB, further raising and encrypting the barriers against foreign currency purchase and capital outflow.
2026
The Hong Kong budget plans to issue 160 billion to 220 billion in bonds each year over the next five years, totalling 970 billion. Government debt as a share of GDP will rise from about 12% in early 2026 to 20%, and the debt-issuance ceiling will be raised for the third time to 900 billion.
2026
The Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration jointly issued Document No. 28 of 2026, the "Measures for the Administration of Withholding and Remitting Value-Added Tax on Behalf of Natural Persons by Domestic Entities", which is set to be mandatorily enforced nationwide from November 1, 2026. When any entity settles fees with an individual that give rise to value-added tax, it must withhold the VAT and related taxes and fees; otherwise it bears joint responsibility for tax evasion.
2026
In 2026, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Jiangxi announced the implementation of administrative measures or work guidance for the renewal of commercial land use rights, stipulating that the renewal of commercial property upon expiration requires payment of no less than 70% of the benchmark floor land price on the expiration date, or that the land be reclaimed on the grounds of the public interest; more than ten provinces have already completed formulation and are preparing to implement them.
2026
In 2026, China issued Order No. 834, restricting foreign companies from collecting information on China's supply chains and conducting due diligence on suppliers; exit bans may be imposed on relevant personnel found to have discriminated against Chinese suppliers.
2026
In 2026, China issued Order No. 835 to counter foreign measures deemed by the Chinese side to constitute "improper extraterritorial jurisdiction" that harm China's sovereignty, security, or development interests.
2026
In 2026, China issued Order No. 837 to regulate Chinese companies' overseas direct investment, including to whom assets can be sold, and to take countermeasures against countries that discriminate against Chinese investors.
2026
China recently ordered a strict investigation into corporate tax back payments and fines of all kinds, extending the audit lookback period from five years to twenty years, with all revoked and deregistered companies also being re-examined.
2026
China has recently required stricter reviews of the overseas historical investment records of companies and residents, extending the look-back period from five years to 20 years.
2026
Shanghai's Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources released the 2026 base floor land prices. For commercial land, grades 1 through 4 are 36,670 yuan, 29,790 yuan, 21,030 yuan, and 16,780 yuan per square meter respectively; for residential land, grades 1 through 4 are 52,600 yuan, 44,800 yuan, 37,200 yuan, and 29,140 yuan respectively.
2026
The Ministry of State Security issued a notice warning that the so-called anonymity of virtual currencies is only an illusion; because their flows are covert and difficult to regulate, they have become an important tool for criminals engaged in illegal and criminal activities, breeding security risks on multiple fronts.
2026
In 2026, Hunan issued a notice on the revitalization and utilization of idle rural primary and secondary school buildings, listing elderly care services and others among the possible directions for using idle school buildings.
2025-12-31
On December 31, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced quota restriction measures on beef imports from countries including Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia and the United States, imposing an additional 55% tariff on beef imports exceeding the quota.
2025-12-17
On December 17, 2025, China's National Health Commission (NHC) publicly solicited opinions on the Blood Donation Law (Draft Amendment for Public Comment), proposing to raise the upper age limit for blood donation from 55 to 65 and to shorten the minimum interval for whole blood donation from 6 months to 90 days.
2025-12
In December 2025, the draft amendment to the Blood Donation Law of the People's Republic of China proposed extending the upper age limit for blood donation from 55 to 65, and shortening the donation interval from 6 months to 3 months. In recent years, some government agencies and units have forced blood donations under the guise of voluntariness.
2025-12
In response to the frequent occurrence of illegal drone flights, the Ministry of Public Security has been conducting a six-month national special rectification campaign for airspace security since last December.
2025-10-28
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee in Ningbo deliberated on the 15th Five-Year Plan, where new energy vehicles were removed from the core position of strategic emerging industries, signaling the downgrading of the automotive industry into an object of governance.
2025-10-22
Data released by the Supreme People's Court shows that courts nationwide accepted 648,000 first-instance labor dispute cases in the first three quarters of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 37.5%.
2025-10-09
On October 9, 2025, the Ministry of Commerce of China announced the strictest rare earth export control measures to date, and Trump immediately announced an additional 100% tariff on China; after a ceasefire was reached in early November, China suspended the measure.
2025-10
The People's Bank of China has officially unveiled its master console, centralizing eight major authorities—including currency issuance, wallet management, risk control, and smart contracts—under the central bank. It has also connected thirty commercial banks directly to the system, building a super-console capable of reaching into individual wallets.
2025-09
Facing weak genuine corporate borrowing demand and pressure from credit assessment targets, banks absorbed large volumes of bills by pushing down their internal bill-purchase costs, leading to a sharp increase in bill financing and corporate deposits across the market.
2025-09
The Jiangsu Provincial Government has issued implementation opinions on zero-based budget reform, requiring that all personal wages and allowances, engineering projects, and corporate subsidies be paid using digital RMB.
2025-08-18
The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration issued a Q&A clarifying that age-appropriate girls should fulfill their obligations for immunization program vaccines, but completion of the HPV vaccination does not affect a child's school enrollment.
2025-06-30
The Politburo held a meeting to review the "Regulations on the Work of Decision-making and Consultative Bodies of the CCP Central Committee," clarifying that these relevant bodies coordinate major issues but do not replace the functions of individual departments.
2025-06
At the end of June 2025, the CCP Central Committee Political Bureau convened a meeting, at which it reviewed and adopted the Regulations on the Work of the Party Central Committee's Decision-Making and Deliberation Coordination Bodies; the meeting also removed Ma Xingrui from his post as Secretary of the CPC Xinjiang Regional Committee.
2025-05-12
The State Council Information Office released the first national security white paper in the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
2025-04-30
China passed and implemented the Private Economy Promotion Law on May 20, the first foundational law in New China specifically regulating the private economy.
2025-04-25
According to a report dated April 25, 2025 by Pingshan County's official account "Pingshan Fabu," a local villager aged 60 or above with family difficulties applied for an 82,300 yuan "social security credit loan" and completed the pension insurance make-up contribution procedures on site.
Location: Pingshan County, Yibin ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2025-04-04
China has implemented export controls on medium and heavy rare earths since April 2025.
2025-04
The Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing stock exchanges jointly released new regulations on quantitative trading, drawing a line for high-frequency trading at more than 300 orders per second or more than 20,000 orders per day, and implementing differential fees.
2025-03-27
On March 27, a pro-natalist slogan appeared locally in Jiangsu: “Listen to the Party, have a third child, no overtime, two-day weekends, subsidies for third-child formula.”
2025-03-21
Beijing tax authorities announced the results of their handling, finding that Sima Nan underpaid taxes and fees by concealing income and other means between 2019 and 2023, with a total recovery of 9.2694 million yuan including late payment surcharges and fines.
2025-02-17
Xi Jinping convened another symposium on private enterprises, inviting several well-known private entrepreneurs to attend, and emphasized the consistency and unchangeability of policies regarding the private economy.
2025-02
In February 2025, the Chinese Communist Party began restricting exports of tungsten and antimony (medium and heavy rare earths).
2025
Ministry of Finance data: In 2025, national general public budget revenue was 21.6 trillion yuan, down 1.7% year on year; expenditure was 28.74 trillion yuan, up 1% year on year.
2025
According to the program, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee was originally supposed to be held in 2025, with its main task being to put forward proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan, but the meeting was postponed to 2026.
2025
China's non-tax revenue increased from 2.98 trillion yuan in 2021 to 3.96 trillion yuan in 2025.
2025
In 2025, China's annual social security contributions increased to 12.6 trillion yuan, higher than the 9.47 trillion yuan recorded in 2021.
2025
The number of rural small and medium-sized banking institutions in China has seen a net decrease of 670 within one year through methods such as mergers and acquisitions, reflecting the significant risk pressure faced by small banks.
2025
Hubei Province and local banks have launched a product called Social Insurance Loan, officially promoted as a warm-hearted path of social security.
2025
Statistics bulletin of the National Health Commission shows that in 2025 there were 15.109 million voluntary blood donation visits nationwide, with a donation rate of 10.9 per 1,000 people; all three key indicators dropped by about 11% compared with 2023; in 2024, donations were already more than 1 million visits fewer than in 2023.
2025
On August 28, official data showed that China's annual birth population in 2025 was only 7.92 million, continuing the downward trend in births.
2025
In 2025 China's Ministry of Finance issued 520 billion yuan in special treasury bonds to replenish the capital of large state-owned banks; a year later the finance authorities issued bonds again to inject capital.
2025
In 2025, five departments in Hubei Province issued a document proposing that by 2028 the coverage rate of the student milk drinking program in basic education schools should reach more than 85%, and the awareness and acceptance rate among students and parents should reach more than 90%; at the same time, it stipulated that promotion should follow principles such as government guidance and parental voluntariness.
2024-12
Data shows that by the end of 2024, the total number of social organizations in China dropped to 871,800, declining for three consecutive years since 2022; from 2021 to 2025, authorities cracked down on a cumulative total of 75,000 zombie-like organizations and targeted over 8,000 illegal social organizations.
2024-11-08
On November 8, 2024, the Chinese Communist Party approved a quota of 6 trillion yuan for replacing hidden debt, rolling over and cutting interest rates on local government financing vehicle (LGFV) debt at a pace of 2 trillion yuan per year, effectively shifting losses onto creditors.
2024-11
The Fuzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau issued a document reminding that the “mini-week” of “one week with no days off, one week with a single day off, two days off per month” is suspected of being illegal, pointing out that under the standard working hours system, working hours per week shall not exceed 40 hours, with at least one day of rest per week.
2024-09
According to news data cited by the program, sales of household appliances achieved double-digit growth for four consecutive months from September to December 2024, with annual sales exceeding 1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%.
2024-09
Online reports claim that China has begun implanting chips into student school uniforms for location tracking and surveillance.
2024-07-15
The Chinese Communist Party's Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee was held in Beijing from July 15 to 18, 2024, later than the usual timing (September to December of the year following the Party Congress). The video claims that the delay of the session is linked to personnel changes in the military.
2024-07-11
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the suspension of the securities lending business, a practice previously promoted by Fang Xinghai and widely regarded by retail investors as a tool for 'leek-cutting' (fleecing investors).
2024-06-24
Fang Xinghai attends the Summer Davos Forum to discuss potential changes in China's private equity and venture capital following U.S. restrictions on capital entering China.
2024-06-17
At the Lujiazui Forum, Fang Xinghai suggested that Hong Kong attract mainland quantitative investment firms, stating that their management capabilities and technical levels are on par with international peers.
2024-05-28
The settlement cycle for U.S. securities was changed from T+2 to T+1 on May 28, 2024. Related data indicate that total clearinghouse margin fell from $12.8 billion to $9.1 billion, and the failed-trade rate dropped from just over 2% per month to 1.9%.
2024-05
China introduced a policy to lower the mortgage down payment ratio to 15% in order to boost the property market.
2024-04
Regulators ordered major banks to stop manually topping up interest on corporate deposits, causing demand deposits at the four major state banks to plunge within a short period, while corporate structured deposits surged, bill rates fell to zero, and the interest margin was pushed back up.
2024-03
After Hong Kong's Article 23 legislation, contacts between groups and overseas entities may be accused of colluding with foreign forces, freedoms of speech, publication, assembly, association, demonstration and marching are further lost, and Hong Kong is trending from an open world city toward closure.
2024-02-21
According to data from the China Childbearing Cost Report, excluding extra expenses such as school district housing, the cost of raising a child in China to age 18 or university graduation is extremely high, leading to a precipitous drop in China's birth rate.
2024-01-09
On January 9, the Central Leading Group for Thematic Education on Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era issued an internal instruction to party and government committees and governments across the country, demanding that party and government organs at all levels and party cadres profoundly comprehend the spirit of Xi's instruction and make living a frugal life a normalized habit.
2024
China has introduced the new "Nine Guidelines" and the "1+N" policy system to further advance tighter supervision and reform of the capital market.
2024
The Chinese Communist Party has released the Ethnic Unity Promotion Law, expanding enforcement to the global level with the intention of policing all speech involving Chinese issues.
2024
The interest rate on three-year bank fixed-term deposits fell to 1.25% in 2024, a decline of more than 60% compared with 2024.
2024
According to data cited in the video, China's personal income tax revenue in 2025 grew by 11.5% compared with 2024.
2024
Hailun budgeted 38.3 million yuan in revenue from fines and confiscations at the beginning of the year, but actual revenue at year-end was 59.51 million yuan, a budget completion rate of 155%.
2024
Nenjiang's ledger shows that revenue from fines and confiscations rose 115.7% year on year, with final accounts for such revenue reaching 68.4% of the budget set at the beginning of the year.
Location: Nenjiang, Heilongjiang ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2024
The video notes that by 2024 China's fertility rate had nearly dropped to zero, and only then did the country begin to fully lift its birth restrictions.
2023-10-24
On October 24, 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress approved the issuance of 1 trillion yuan in additional government bonds for post-disaster reconstruction and disaster prevention and mitigation; a subsequent audit report said that less than 32% of the funds could actually be accounted for.
2023-10-24
The Chinese Communist Party issued 500 billion in special treasury bonds nominally for Hebei flood relief, but some of the funds were used to purchase surveillance equipment and stability-maintenance infrastructure.
2023-10
Starting in October 2023, Guizhou concentrated on issuing special refinancing bonds, issuing 214.9 billion yuan in just over a month, the highest among all provinces, to repay existing debt; the video claims that newly added debt is mainly used to cover the “three guarantees” expenditures such as wages.
2023-09
The central government has issued Document No. 35, which explicitly stipulates that newly borrowed LGFV debt can only be used to pay interest, triggering immense pressure on local government finances and the salaries of public officials.
2023-07
Since July 2023, the Chinese Communist Party has begun systematically blocking rare earth exports, including heavy rare earths and high-purity graphite, and has gradually restricted exports of extraction, separation and smelting foundations.
2023-04-26
The revised Anti-Espionage Law was passed, significantly expanding the definition of espionage activities, adding a dedicated chapter on security prevention, and incorporating the mass line and the primary responsibility of work units into the law.
2023-03-16
The CCP Central Committee has established the Central Social Work Department, responsible for work related to the social sector.
2023
Zhumadian City's confiscated fine revenue reached 3.936 billion yuan in 2023.
2022-08
The tax authorities demanded that Wangjing SOHO pay approximately 1.733 billion yuan in back land appreciation tax, plus a late payment surcharge of 0.05% per day; by the end of 2025, the principal, interest and late fees had rolled up to 2.566 billion yuan.
2022-07-07
SOHO China announced in a filing that Chief Financial Officer Ni Huiyang is under investigation for suspected insider trading in the company's shares, and assets have been forced to remain within China.
2022
In 2022, backed by massive subsidies, China's photovoltaic industry as a whole achieved net profits of over 100 billion yuan, reaching the industry's peak.
2022
The Nanning government once sold local parking space operating rights from 2022 through 2052, a term as long as 30 years.
2021-09-10
Blackstone made an offer to acquire all of SOHO China's shares, but the deal lapsed that September after the State Administration for Market Regulation launched an antitrust investigation.
2021-09-02
On September 2, 2021, the National Radio and Television Administration issued a notice requiring television and online audiovisual platforms to take political literacy as a criterion for personnel selection, specifying that "personnel with incorrect political stances who are alienated from the Party and the country must be resolutely rejected."
2021-09
On September 10, 2021, Blackstone terminated its acquisition of SOHO China; on December 17, Jianhua Land, a SOHO subsidiary, was ordered by Beijing tax authorities to pay back taxes and a fine for underpaid taxes, totaling 709 million yuan.
2021-08-25
China introduced a policy prohibiting public schools from cooperating with private schools in running schools, and as a result Hengshui No. 2 High School's cooperation with the relevant private schools has come to an end.
2021-07-24
On July 24, 2021, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Double Reduction" guidelines, prohibiting academic after-school tutoring institutions from listing for financing and making profits. This led to the bankruptcy of a large number of companies in the tutoring industry and mass unemployment for workers.
2021-07-24
The General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Easing the Burden of Homework and Off-Campus Tutoring on Students in Compulsory Education, delivering a devastating blow to the tutoring industry.
2021-07-02
Two days after Didi listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced the launch of a network security review of the company; its app was subsequently forced off shelves, and it was ultimately delisted in June 2022 and hit with a massive fine.
2021-04
The CCP has completed its control over large companies such as ByteDance and Weibo through 'golden shares,' which hold a very low percentage of equity but possess veto power.
2021-04
The Chinese Communist Party officially claimed that between April 2021 and July 2022, it persuaded 230,000 people overseas to return to China.
2021-03-29
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that the previously launched special campaign to crack down on organized crime and root out local mafia has come to a successful conclusion.
2021
China enacted the Data Protection Law in 2021.
2021
In 2021, the CCP announced that it would advance the normalization of the campaign to sweep away gangsters and evil forces.
2021
China introduced policies targeting after-school tutoring and the private education industry; the video claims that education and training institutions such as New Oriental were hit as a result.
2021
The video points out that China did not begin to relax the three-child policy until 2021, and that before then, adjustments to the family planning policy lagged seriously behind.
2020-11-03
As Ant Group was preparing for its IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong, its complex multi-layered equity structure and the hidden shareholdings of red-aristocracy bloodlines, such as the families of Jiang Zemin and Jia Qinglin, were exposed, leading to the suspension of its listing plan.
2020-11-03
On November 3, 2020, following Jack Ma's Bund speech criticizing financial regulation, the Shanghai Stock Exchange announced the suspension of Ant Group's A-share listing just two days before it was scheduled to go public. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange followed suit immediately, halting the world's largest IPO.
2020-11-03
The Shanghai Stock Exchange suddenly announced the suspension of Ant Group's listing process on the STAR Market, even though the project had already entered its final stage.
2020-11-02
On November 2, 2020, Jack Ma and executives of Ant Group were jointly summoned by four regulatory authorities. The following day, the Shanghai Stock Exchange announced the suspension of Ant Group's listing.
2020-09-29
Between 2008 and 2016, 15 JPMorgan traders systematically spoofed the precious metals markets, resulting in $920 million in fines from U.S. regulators and criminal charges against three traders.
2020-08-20
On August 20, 2020, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the People's Bank of China held a symposium for key real estate enterprises, proposing the "three red lines" to restrict the growth of interest-bearing liabilities of real estate companies based on the asset-liability ratio excluding advance receipts, the net gearing ratio, and the cash-to-short-term debt ratio.
2020-06-30
On June 30, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It was gazetted and implemented in Hong Kong at 11:00 PM that night. Subsequently, many countries suspended their extradition treaties with Hong Kong, and the United States revoked Hong Kong's special status.
2020-06-30
The CCP's forceful implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong marks the end of "One Country, Two Systems".
2020-05-18
On May 18, 2020, after Australia called for an independent investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced anti-dumping and countervailing duties totaling 80.5% on Australian barley, and subsequently restricted imports of Australian beef, wine, coal and other products.
2020-04-29
On April 29, 2020, Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, formally announcing for the first time that decisive results had been achieved in the defense of Wuhan and the defense of Hubei, and that major strategic results had been won in the nationwide fight to prevent and control the epidemic.
2020-02-24
The public security system held a conference to study the February 23 speech, at which it put politics first and called for cracking down on forces using the occasion to attack the Party.
2020-02-23
Xi Jinping convened a national teleconference, summarizing for officials the deployment of epidemic prevention and control and the so-called institutional advantages.
2020-02-14
On February 14, 2020, in his first public remarks after the outbreak began, Xi Jinping said that the Wuhan epidemic had exposed China's shortcomings and loopholes in biological materials and biosafety management, called for the formulation of a new biosecurity law, and urged that biosecurity be incorporated into the national security system.
2020-01-20
Under the exposure of insider information and public pressure, the Chinese government admitted human-to-human transmission and announced a surge in cases within 24 hours, followed by Wuhan's announcement of a lockdown.
2020
The video claims that during China's pandemic lockdowns, ocean freighters stopped sailing and some goods supplies were disrupted, prompting overseas businesses to turn to other countries for procurement; public reports only show an increase in ships waiting at anchor in waters around Shanghai during the 2022 lockdown, with no source found for a widespread halt of ocean freighters.
2020
The coverage rate of Party organizations in China's above-scale private enterprises has reached over 90%.
2020
Peking University's National School of Development estimates that if wind power is included, relying solely on electricity price subsidies, the total subsidies for wind and solar power would exceed 2 trillion yuan.
2020
In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party began blocking supplies such as medical equipment and masks, an early stage of its blockade strategy.
2020-01
China implemented strict zero-COVID policies and lockdowns over the long term starting with the Wuhan lockdown on January 23, 2020, broadly restricting people's movement; after the "New Ten Measures" were issued on December 7, 2022, it effectively abandoned dynamic zero-COVID.
2019-11-02
Xi Jinping proposed "whole-process democracy" and announced that China has achieved whole-process democracy, claiming that Chinese democracy is even better than that of the United States.
2019-07
In July 2019, Caixin reported that the Office of the Leading Group for the Special Rectification of Internet Financial Risks recommended that the police open an investigation into Sun Yuchen over suspected illegal fundraising, money laundering, pornography- and gambling-related issues.
2019
In 2019, the Chinese Communist Party introduced new rules under which regional GDP accounting would no longer be handled by each region itself, but would instead be calculated uniformly by the central government.
2018-11-01
At a symposium on private enterprises, Xi Jinping specifically refuted circulating societal narratives such as the "theory of the exit of the private economy" and the "new joint state-private ownership theory," emphasizing that the fundamental principles and policies of the Party and the state regarding the development of the private economy remain unchanged.
2018-10-03
On October 3, 2018, Xinhua News Agency reported that national tax authorities had confirmed that Fan Bingbing evaded taxes, recovering a total of 883 million yuan in taxes and fines, with criminal liability waived once the payment was made.
2018-07
After Xi Jinping issued his sixth directive, Xu Lingyi, Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, led a team into Shaanxi to demolish 1,194 illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains and discipline multiple provincial and ministerial-level officials.
2018-05
Cui Yongyuan publicly attacked the film 'Cell Phone' and Feng Xiaogang, prompting the State Taxation Administration to launch an investigation, causing Huayi Brothers' stock price to plummet and shelving the 'Cell Phone 2' project.
2018-04
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issued a warning to Zhao Wei and her husband, fined them 300,000 yuan each, and imposed a 5-year securities market ban.
2018-03-17
About two years before the outbreak of the pandemic, Xi Jinping reorganized the government and established the Ministry of Emergency Management, centralizing power and funds; this network was later used for control and profiteering in the anti-epidemic campaign.
2018-03-11
On March 11, 2018, the first session of the 13th National People's Congress passed the amendment to the constitutional provisions regarding the terms of office of the President and Vice President, removing the limit that the President and Vice President 'shall not serve more than two consecutive terms.' This amendment was interpreted as potentially paving the way for the leader's long-term rule.
2018-03
China has merged the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council into the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee, shifting overseas Chinese affairs from the administrative system to the party system.
2018-01-24
China launched a nationwide special campaign to crack down on gangs and eliminate evil, which lasted for about 3 years and was announced to have ended in 2021.
2018
In 2018, China amended its constitution to abolish term limits for the presidency, fundamentally rewriting the power structure in Zhongnanhai with the aim of achieving long-term governance and ensuring the concentration of supreme power.
2018-01
China has released its first official Arctic white paper, putting forward its political claims as a 'near-Arctic state,' asserting that wherever there are interests, there is a right to participate in Arctic governance and resource acquisition, with the goal of becoming a polar great power by 2030.
2018
During the 2018 constitutional amendment to allow term extensions, the Chinese Communist Party announced the launch of a three-year special campaign to "sweep away black and eliminate evil."
2018
Over three years, China has rectified approximately 40,000 weak and lax village Party organizations, dealt with over 40,000 village officials, and investigated more than 90,000 cases under the guise of cracking down on 'protective umbrellas,' resulting in the punishment of over 110,000 people.
2017-12-27
The CCP Central Committee issued a decision stipulating that, effective from 00:00 on January 1, 2018, the People's Armed Police shall be under the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Military Commission.
2017-10-27
The first Politburo meeting after the 19th National Congress adopted relevant regulations requiring Politburo members to submit written performance reports to the CCP Central Committee and the General Secretary annually, further strengthening supreme centralization of power.
2017-10-24
The CCP has amended its constitution to establish the leadership role of party committees in state-owned enterprises and is pushing for "two coverages," requiring party branches to fully cover private enterprises.
2017-09-04
On September 4, 2017, the People's Bank of China and six other government departments jointly issued an announcement declaring initial coin offerings (ICOs) to be unapproved illegal public financing, suspected of crimes such as illegal fundraising, and demanding that they be stopped immediately and unwound.
2017-09-04
On September 4, 2017, the People's Bank of China and six other ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Announcement on Preventing the Risks of Token Offering Financing," halting ICOs, requiring completed offerings to be unwound, and domestic Bitcoin trading platforms subsequently ceased operations one after another.
2017-08-31
From August 31 to September 2, 2017, Justin Sun's TRON raised approximately $70 million through an initial coin offering (ICO). Days later, Chinese regulators halted ICOs, and TRON shifted its focus overseas.
2017-07
After Binance launched, China began to regulate the digital currency industry, and Changpeng Zhao led his team to shift the business overseas.
2017-02-01
Cai Huabo has been appointed as Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of the Hong Kong-listed company Taiho Holdings, controlling the company's shares through Taiho Financial Group.
2016-10-24
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party studied major issues of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. After the meeting, it adopted a new code of intra-party political life and a revised regulation on intra-party supervision, and formally put forward "the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core."
2016-10-10
Xi Jinping publicly stated that state-owned enterprises are an important pillar for the Chinese Communist Party's governance and national rejuvenation, demanding that they be strengthened, optimized, and expanded, marking the beginning of state-owned enterprises squeezing out private enterprises.
2016
In 2016, Heilongjiang's current-year pension shortfall reached 32 billion yuan, and its cumulative surplus was negative, making it the only province in the country where the cumulative pension surplus went into deficit.
2016
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CCP Central Committee passed relevant documents proposing that one-man rule and patriarchal systems should not be practiced; since then, Xi Jinping's power has further expanded.
2016
In 2016, Xi Jinping proposed that housing is for living in, not for speculation, in an attempt to push down housing prices. Local governments passively resisted due to fiscal and debt problems, and collective incidents of unpaid wages for teaching staff and public employees occurred. Xi Jinping ultimately abandoned this policy and turned to backstopping local government debt.
2016
In 2016, China fully lifted its two-child policy, but in 2017 the number of births fell instead of rising, coming in millions short of projections.
2015-03-10
Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin introduced the gradual delayed retirement policy at the Two Sessions press conference. That evening, CCTV's "Two Sessions 1+1" made it a key topic, and Bai Yansong explained it on the program as an inevitable trend whose benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
2015-03-08
The General Office of the State Council issued 50 articles of the Overall Plan for Chinese Football Reform and Development, proposing a combination of the whole-nation system and market mechanisms, and incorporating football development into local government performance evaluations.
2015
Xi Jinping mentioned in public that no 'Iron-Hat Princes' would be allowed to exist, after which high-ranking generals such as Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong were brought down.
2015
The video notes that the family planning policy, which should have been revised when Xi Jinping took office, was not relaxed to allow two children until 2015.
2015
In 2015, the CCP issued a red notice through Interpol to assist in tracking fugitives abroad, but its effectiveness varies depending on political relations between countries.
2015
From late 2015 to 2016, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League faced reforms, its organizational staffing was streamlined, and its budget was significantly cut, weakening the Youth League faction's ability to cultivate young cadres.
2015
China's auto production capacity soared after 2015, with the government offering subsidies of up to 90% for building electric vehicle plants, giving rise to overcapacity.
2014-12
A video circulating online claims that the Guizhou provincial government has established a leading group for government debt management, with Chen Min'er as head and Chen Yiqin as executive deputy head, requiring control over the scale of debt and prevention of blind project launches. This claim originated from a video, and no public document can be found.
2014-09-18
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission announced the approval for the preparation of Shanghai Life Insurance, with Mi Chunlei's Landsea Holdings as the largest shareholder and Mi Chunlei as the proposed chairman.
2014-06
In June 2014, Fang Xinghai was promoted to Director of the Economic Department Four of the Central Financial and Economic Leadership Group Office.
2014-05-13
Xi Jinping made his first instruction regarding the problem of illegal villas in the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains in the Xi'an section, kicking off a four-year campaign involving six instructions to crack down on illegal construction in the Qinling Mountains.
2014
Following the introduction of China's Anti-Espionage Law, the methods for taking hostages have become more diversified.
2014
Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has carried out Operation "Fox Hunt" to pursue officials abroad. By 2023, it had brought back more than 12,000 people from over 120 countries.
2013-11
The Third Plenary Session passed an economic decision. The head and main drafters of the drafting group did not include Li Keqiang, indicating a shift in decision-making power regarding major economic directions.
2013-09
In September 2013, Fang Xinghai joined the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs Office as a巡视员 (Inspector) of the Economic Group I.
2013-06-20
After taking office, Li Keqiang adopted 'Likonomics' measures such as restricting government spending and deleveraging, attempting to control ballooning debt and promote market-oriented reforms.
2013-04-22
The CCP issued Document No. 9, designating constitutional democracy, universal values, and six other ideas as cultural symbols to be vigilant against and eliminate.
2013
China's current Exit and Entry Administration Law was passed in 2012 and began to be implemented in 2013.
2013
In different regions of China, the purchase price for solar photovoltaic power is about 0.9 yuan to 1 yuan per kilowatt-hour, higher than the cost of coal power over the same period, and a commitment is made to continue purchasing at this preferential price for 20 years.
2013
The fact that Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting had three children in violation of the birth policy was publicly exposed, after which the Binhu District Family Planning Bureau of Wuxi City collected more than 7.48 million yuan in social maintenance fees from them.
2013
In 2013, Zhejiang lawyer Wu Youshui applied for information disclosure, revealing that China's total fines for exceeding birth quotas in 2012 amounted to about 30 billion yuan; scholars estimate that over more than 30 years of enforcing the one-child policy, total fines reached 1.5 to 2 trillion yuan, and local governments have never disclosed where the money went.
2012-07
Bai Yansong invited scholars on the program News 1+1 to discuss the delayed retirement policy then under study by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, sparking public debate over pension fairness and youth employment.
2012-05
Jing Junhai took office as the head of the Publicity Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, and subsequently, with the support of Zhao Leji, led the whole process and initiated the large-scale expansion of Xi Zhongxun's mausoleum.
2012
During Li Zhanshu's tenure as director of the CCP Central Committee General Office, the General Office successively issued rules targeting retired cadres, requiring that they not hold private gatherings, not make reckless comments about the Central Committee, not interfere in personnel arrangements, and that retired cadres obtain approval from the General Office before leaving Beijing.
2010
In 2010, the central government introduced the 'Ten National Measures' and supply restriction orders to further tighten control over housing prices, yet it still failed to reverse the trend of prices rising despite the regulations.
2009
Since 2015, the Chinese government has begun providing large-scale subsidies for the electric vehicle industry, with cumulative direct and indirect subsidies reaching 3 trillion yuan. This policy drove the rapid development of China's electric vehicle industry, but also laid the groundwork for subsequent overcapacity.
2008-11-05
On November 5, 2008, the State Council executive meeting decided to launch an investment plan of about 4 trillion yuan to cope with the international economic crisis, which was announced publicly on November 9; most of the funds were invested in infrastructure.
2008-09
In the face of the global financial tsunami, in September 2008 Wen Jiabao led the State Council in announcing a large-scale 4 trillion yuan bailout plan for infrastructure investment.
2007
Xi Jinping became Shanghai Party Secretary in 2007. After about seven months in the post, he moved to Beijing, becoming a key figure groomed in the Chinese Communist Party's top-level personnel arrangements.
2006
During Hu Jintao's term, the agricultural tax, which had lasted for over two thousand years, was successively abolished, and the Compulsory Education Law was amended.
2006
In 2006, the central government issued the 'Six National Measures' in an attempt to stabilize housing prices, but it faced local resistance and achieved poor results.
2006
Starting in 2006, rural western China was the first to waive tuition and fees; in 2007 this was extended to all rural areas, and in 2008 free education was achieved in both urban and rural areas. The Two Exemptions and One Subsidy policy covered 150 million rural students, bringing to an end the system of paying fees during the compulsory education stage.
2005-12-29
On December 29, 2005, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress voted to repeal the Agricultural Tax Regulations. Hu Jintao signed Presidential Order No. 46 on the same day. From January 1, 2006, Chinese farmers no longer paid agricultural tax, reducing the burden on farmers nationwide by 133.5 billion yuan per year, an average of 140 yuan per person.
2005
Fang Xinghai was appointed Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Financial Services Office in 2005.
2005
In 2005, the central government issued the 'Eight Measures' to control housing prices, but due to a lack of control over local governments, the results were concerning.
2004-03
Article 13 of the Constitution was amended to state that citizens' lawful private property is inviolable, establishing a framework where lawful property is protected rather than recognized as a conventional absolute right.
2004
In 2004, demographers including Gu Baochang and Wang Feng jointly petitioned the central authorities, recommending that the one-child family planning policy be changed to a two-child policy. Gu Baochang was cold-shouldered, and Wang Feng was silenced.
2003-08-19
Bai Yansong resigned from his positions as producer of News Meeting Room, China Weekly, and Time and Space Link because he felt that the producer role made his expression mediocre and led to self-censorship, while retaining his role as host.
2003-06-20
After the Sun Zhigang case, on June 20, 2003, the State Council promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Assistance for Vagrants and Beggars with No Means of Support in Urban Areas, and the Measures for Custody and Repatriation were abolished as of August 1.
2003-04-25
In 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily's reporting on the Sun Zhigang case directly contributed to the abolition of China's custody and repatriation system.
2003
In 2003, China began piloting the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, with fiscal subsidies increasing year by year; by around 2010 it covered more than 800 million farmers.
2001-12-11
On December 11, 2001, China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization after an agreement was reached at the ministerial conference in Doha.
2001
At the 2001 annual meeting of CCTV's "Tell It Like It Is" program team, a satirical comedy short, "Division of the Family in October," was produced, in which colleagues openly mocked Bai Yansong's rationalizing, brow-furrowing, preachy style by remixing Soviet films and their character names.
2000
At the fifth national census in 2000, the total fertility rates of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang had all fallen below 1.0, 23 to 25 years ahead of the national average.
1999
The central bank specified that the maximum term for personal housing loans issued by commercial banks with credit funds will be extended from 20 years to 30 years.
1999
In 1999, the number of university students enrolled in China surged from 1.08 million to 1.6 million, as higher education began its transition toward mass enrollment.
1998-08
The Ministry of Finance issued 270 billion yuan in special treasury bonds to replenish the capital of the Big Four banks, and set up four major asset management companies to strip off 1.4 trillion yuan in non-performing assets.
1998-06-09
The central authorities issued Document No. 10, characterizing the mass layoff of workers as an inevitable process in the economic transition, acknowledging that it would bring temporary difficulties to some workers, while claiming that this accords with the long-term interests of the working class.
1998
China began implementing the Blood Donation Law of the People's Republic of China, which stipulates that all blood donations must be unpaid, in order to meet the country's blood supply needs.
1998
In 1998, the direct election of the township head in Buyun Township, Sichuan, was suspended by the central authorities on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, marking the freezing of grassroots elections during the Jiang Zemin era.
1998
Zhu Rongji replicated in the State Council Shanghai's approach to streamlining processes, cutting the number of ministries and commissions in half from 40; large numbers of cadres at division level and above were reassigned to the private sector or took early retirement, making the scale of personnel changes unprecedented.
1997-04
The Deputy Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee inspected Xihaigu in Ningxia, decided to carry out diaozhuang relocation and establish Minning Village, laying the groundwork for a political and economic arrangement that would last for twenty-nine years.
1997
During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Wang Qishan was transferred to address issues related to the financial system, and thereafter served in the financial system.
1997
In the early stage of China's real estate industry, the term of personal housing mortgage loans was stipulated to be no longer than 20 years at most.
1996
China continues to carry out severe crackdown operations.
1995
Starting in 1995, Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji proposed the "grasping the large and letting go of the small" reform for state-owned enterprises, requiring them to gradually withdraw from non-critical industries.
1995
In 1995, the Law on the People's Bank of China and the Commercial Bank Law were passed, marking the initial establishment of China's modern financial framework.
1994-01-01
On January 1, 1994, the official and market exchange rates of the Renminbi were merged, forming a unified exchange rate.
1994
In 1994, China carried out price reform, abolishing the dual-track pricing system of capitalism and socialism, and the problem of official profiteering (guandao) was initially resolved.
1994
To attract overseas capital and encourage foreign investment, China introduced a rule temporarily exempting dividends and bonuses received by foreign individuals from foreign-invested enterprises from individual income tax.
1994
In 1994, the Budget Law was passed, further improving China's modern financial framework.
1994-01-01
Zhu Rongji pushed forward the tax-sharing reform, allocating 75 percent of value-added tax to the central government and retaining 25 percent for local governments, while establishing a vertical national tax team. This led to a massive surge in central government fiscal revenue alongside a sharp increase in local fiscal pressure, laying hidden dangers for land finance and local government debt.
1993-12
In late 1993, China determined the plan to unify the RMB exchange rate, merging the official and market rates. The relevant reforms were officially implemented the following year.
1993-05-01
“Oriental Horizon” officially went on air, and Bai Yansong, from a temporary planner, was pushed in front of the camera, ushering in a period of public opinion supervision later known as the “mini spring” of CCTV news.
1993
In 1993, Jiang Zemin abolished Su Shi's statistical system and formally adopted GDP as the main criterion for measuring development results and official promotions.
1993
In 1993, China's Company Law was officially passed, laying the legal foundation for the building of a modern financial framework.
1993
In June 1993, Zhu Rongji led the introduction of the sixteen measures for macroeconomic control to curb inflation; in 1994 the tax-sharing reform was implemented, redividing central and local finances, and the economy subsequently made a soft landing.
1992-01-18
Deng Xiaoping delivered his southern tour speeches, emphasizing that development is of overriding importance, while reiterating the need to consistently uphold the Four Cardinal Principles and oppose bourgeois liberalization.
1992
In early 1992, Deng Xiaoping promoted and proposed the development of a socialist market economy, and the relevant line was confirmed during the 14th National Congress of the CCP.
1990
In the 1990s, Hainan's land speculation activities were rectified, and Zhu Rongji was credited with halting related land speculation.
1989-07
Following the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, Deng Xiaoping ordered the official closure of Kanghua Company to isolate risks.
1988
The Chinese Communist Party's attempt to abolish the dual-track system and implement price reform triggered panic buying and severe inflation, becoming a major economic background for the outbreak of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
1988
China has once again launched a severe crackdown campaign.
1987
With Qiao Shi's support and Zhao Ziyang's approval, China Kanghua was officially established. It subsequently rapidly split into numerous subsidiaries, becoming a symbol of official profiteering and privileges.
1983-08-19
On August 19, 1983, China launched a nationwide "strike hard" campaign. A large number of people were arrested, sentenced, and executed, and some were later sent to labor camps in Xinjiang, Tibet, and other regions.
1983-07
The Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China is officially established, primarily undertaking foreign intelligence and counter-espionage work, forming a parallel system with public security organs that handle domestic security.
1983
To cultivate successors, the CCP Organization Department established the Youth Cadre Bureau, which screened a 1,068-member “third tier” list according to the “four requirements” standard, becoming an important basis for cadre promotion.
1983
China launches a crackdown campaign.
1982
To ensure that he could legally serve as Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Deng Xiaoping promoted an amendment to the CCP's 12th Congress party constitution, stipulating that the Chairman of the CMC must be selected from the members of the Politburo Standing Committee.
1981-06-27
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party adopted the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, repudiating the Cultural Revolution and distinguishing Mao Zedong's later errors from Mao Zedong Thought.
1981
In 1981, a CCP Central Committee plenary session passed the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party, completely negating the Cultural Revolution, but the two slogans at Xinhua Gate — "Long live the great Chinese Communist Party" and "Long live the invincible Mao Zedong Thought" — were not removed.
1981
In 1981, China established the National Family Planning Commission. Over the following 20-plus years it grew into a massive bureaucratic system, with full-time family planning public employees reaching 800,000 by 2000.
1980-02-23
The 5th Plenary Session of the 11th CCP Central Committee adopted the "Guiding Principles for Inner-Party Political Life," proposing to uphold collective leadership, oppose individual arbitrariness, and prohibit "one-voice" rule and individuals from placing themselves above the Party organization.
1979-03-30
To prevent national development from being overemphasized to the point of subverting the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Deng Xiaoping introduced the Four Cardinal Principles, emphasizing the leadership position of the CCP.
1978
In 1978, after missile expert Song Jian went abroad for exchanges, he and Tian Xueyuan and others used mathematical models to calculate, claiming that if China did not control its population, it would reach 4.264 billion by 2080; Tian Xueyuan also proposed that China's population ceiling should be 650 million to 700 million, providing a basis for family planning.
1977
After Mao Zedong's death, in 1977, with the support of Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang, China restored the gaokao (college entrance exam), allowing many children of families persecuted during the Cultural Revolution to change their fate through the exam. Subsequently, in the 1980s, overseas scholarships and government-sponsored study abroad programs emerged, and large numbers of Chinese students went to the United States for further studies.
1966-09
In September 1966, with the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, the state completely stopped issuing fixed dividends to former private industrialists and businessmen, prematurely terminating the buyout period and completely zeroing out the status and assets of former capitalists.
1959-07
In July 1959, the CCP Central Committee convened the Lushan Conference, after which China's political campaigns and economic policies shifted further.
1958
The CCP implemented the Great Leap Forward policy. During this period, the climate was normal, and there were no large-scale wars or epidemics, yet at least 45 million Chinese people died abnormally, with causes of death including starvation, overwork, and beatings by cadres.
1958
To provide fuel for "backyard furnaces", about 30% to 40% of rural houses were demolished during the Great Leap Forward, leaving people with nowhere to shelter from the wind and rain.
1956-01
In January 1956, Beijing and large and medium-sized cities across the country rapidly completed the state-private joint ownership of entire industries. Through a fixed-interest system, the state peacefully bought out private industry and commerce, marking the basic completion of the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production.
1951
The CCP launched the "Three-Anti and Five-Anti" campaigns, seizing the property of capitalists and private business owners on a large scale under charges such as tax evasion, and conducting public humiliation and struggle sessions.
1950-06-30
In June 1950, the Agrarian Reform Law of the People's Republic of China was promulgated, and land reform rolled out across rural areas nationwide. Although the original intent was to distribute landlords' land to poor peasants, in actual implementation it evolved into a bloody and violent plundering feast, with numerous landlords stripped of their land and killed. Death tolls estimated by various scholars range between 200,000 and 2 million.
1950-06
The CCP launched a nationwide land reform movement, inciting hatred and violence, which resulted in the massacre of approximately 2 million landlords and their families.