2026-06-15
The 52nd G7 Summit was held in France, and the meeting issued a joint statement opposing any unilateral attempts to change the status quo, especially opposing any attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.
2026-05
Just twenty days before the graduation ceremony, at what should have been the opening ceremony, Chen Xi still delivered a speech in his capacity as president, only to step down subsequently without any official handover announcement.
2026-06-08
Xi Jinping, top leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), visited Pyongyang, North Korea, from June 8 to 9, and was welcomed by Kim Jong Un at Kim Il Sung Square.
2026-07-03
China sent He Wei, Chairman of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, to mourn Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei rather than a high-level delegation, reflecting Beijing's strategic adjustment in international relations.
2026-07-03
Wang Yi held a phone call with US Secretary of State Rubio, marking signs of a thaw in China-US relations.
2026-07-03
The Ministry of Commerce announced that China and the US have agreed in principle to lower tariffs on some agricultural products, indicating a easing of economic and trade relations between the two countries.
2026-07-03
China and Europe have finalized plans to hold their second regular economic and trade meeting this autumn, indicating that China-Europe relations are also moving toward normalization.
2026-07-03
Wang Yi will visit four Nordic countries this week to further promote diplomatic relations with Europe.
2026-07-02
Xinhua News Agency released a report on "Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building." This move has been interpreted as a sign that Xi Jinping's political status has retreated to the second line, and his ideology has been given a definitive conclusion.
2026-07-02
Following the July 1 Party Founding Day, the CCDI's arrest machinery resumed its normal speed, processing five units in a single day—including large state-owned enterprises, water conservancy construction worker organizations, government think tanks, and local people's congresses—demonstrating that the arrest operations are proceeding as planned.
2026-07-01
The former head of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has been replaced and succeeded by Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan. This move is interpreted as a pre-emptive effort by the Senate elders and reformists to control the trade union system in order to prevent grassroots turmoil.
2026-07-01
Du Ling, former vice chairperson of the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions, is under investigation. This follows closely after the leadership reshuffle at the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, indicating that the trade union system is being purged.
2026-06-30
The head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) has been changed from Zhang Yuzhuo to Cheng Fubo. Zhang Yuzhuo was considered a protégé of Chen Xi (Xi Jinping's college roommate), and this replacement is seen as Xi Jinping losing control over state-owned enterprise assets.
2026-06-26
A meeting of the NPC Standing Committee removed multiple senior officials from their posts in one fell swoop. Most of these high-ranking officials were Xi Jinping's loyal protégés, indicating that the power of the NPC no longer belongs to Xi.
2026-06-19
According to a report by the English edition of the Chosun Ilbo, the US Senate Armed Services Committee has for the first time included the malicious influence of the CCP within South Korea as a matter of special concern in its draft report for the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act.
2026-06-18
Xinhua News Agency released a State Council appointment and removal announcement, stating that Cai Qi concurrently serves as the President of the Chinese Academy of Governance, and Chen Xi no longer holds the position.
2026-06-17
Overseas political commentators Cai Shengkun and President Lu disclosed that Chen Xi has been drastically demoted to the vice-ministerial level.
2026-06-17
At the Shenzhen import and export trade fair, due to a scarce turnout of buyers and suspicions of hiring fake foreigners to pad attendance, hundreds of exhibitors staged a collective protest demanding refunds of tens of thousands of yuan in exhibition fees, while a large contingent of SWAT police confronted and suppressed them at the scene.
2026-06-16
After the National Bureau of Statistics released stable data showing a decline in the urban unemployment rate from January to May, the topic "I really want to know how many unemployed people there are now" surged to fourth place on Weibo's hot search list, triggering a massive wave of netizen commentary venting about employment difficulties.
2026-06-08
An 18-year-old boy in Kaizhou District, Chongqing, jumped into the river after being chased by fishery administration personnel while fishing downstream of a regulating dam. Law enforcement officers failed to rescue him, triggering protests from onlookers and family members on the shore, which were suppressed by the police.
2026-06-06
The website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision reported that Wei Xiaodong, Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-06-05
The CCP Central Committee Party School held the graduation ceremony for the second batch of classes of the spring semester. Official releases showed that Cai Qi has taken over the position of President of the Party School.
2026-06-05
On the afternoon of June 5, 2026, a welcoming ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping appeared under medical support, his gait showing signs of unilateral hemiplegia.
2026-06
Insiders within the firewall reveal that Chen Jining's wife has been investigated. As abnormalities emerge in the Tsinghua faction network and related arrangements formed by Chen Xi through the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee over the past decade, the 20th National Congress power map may be affected.
2026-05-23
Gong Qihuang has been relieved of his duties as president of Peking University. The official announcement made no mention of any new appointment, and he will be succeeded by Gao Song.
2026-04-01
NPC Vice Chairperson Li Hongzhong's high-profile inspection of the transition work has been interpreted as an announcement to the entire party that the succession process has begun and power is no longer in Xi Jinping's hands.
2026-04-01
Leaks claim that on the very day the transition deployment meeting was held, Hu Chunhua took office as the head of the group liquidating Xi's faction, marking the launch of the succession liquidation procedure.
2025-10
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has issued a dual expulsion order against Zhang Yaoxue, who served at Tsinghua University for a long time. The Chinese Academy of Engineering subsequently revoked his academician title.
2025-04-02
The Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee made a rare decision to swap the ministerial positions of Li Ganjie, then head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, and Shi Taifeng, head of the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee.
2024-10-30
Peng Jinhui, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, has been transferred away from the department to serve as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
2024-09-28
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Cao Xingxin, former Vice General Manager of China Unicom who long served in the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, was subjected to disciplinary review and investigation, and later sentenced to 12 years in prison.
2024-06-21
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Zhang Jianchun, former Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation, making him the earliest official to fall in this round of organizational system purging.
2017-10
On the closing day of the First Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, Chen Xi took over the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee and the Central Party School, breaking the convention that a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau concurrently serves as the president of the Party School.
2011-04
As he approaches the age of sixty, Xi Jinping used his political resources to arrange for Chen Xi to serve as the Party Secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology, thereby extending his political career.