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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.

On November 1, a Weibo blogger posted a Xinhua News Agency report about record-high egg prices in Japan. Netizens left comments mocking the state media for caring about the livelihoods of other countries, and referenced the old meme of Taiwanese people mocking mainlanders for being unable to afford tea eggs.

On October 31, Xinhua News Agency reported that egg prices in Japan have reached a new record high, with an average price of 312 yen for a carton of 10, equivalent to approximately 13.2 yuan, an increase of 3 yen from September.

Xinhua News Agency released data claiming that in the first half of this year, discipline inspection and supervision organs nationwide filed a total of 538,000 cases, reflecting the large-scale investigation and punishment of officials against the backdrop of an intense anti-corruption campaign.

Xinhua News Agency reported on October 26 that the qualification review for applications to the 2027 central government agencies and their directly affiliated institutions has concluded. A total of 3.45 million people passed the review, resulting in an average of about 97 applicants competing for a single recruitment vacancy.

On October 16, Xinhua News Agency released a popular-science poster on railway train schedule adjustments labeled "Xinhua Authoritative Quick Look." Detection screenshots show it was generated by an OpenAI tool, credited to Fan Xi and produced by the Domestic Department, and no AI-generated notice appeared on the page.

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.

On October 15, Xiaohongshu users noticed that Xinhua News Agency had reposted a video of Zheng Qinwen's China Open title-winning interview from Guancha.cn, without retaining the watermark of the original interviewing outlet VOGUE or noting the original source.

Netizens questioned why a post reproducing a Xinhua interview, with the watermark cropped out, was taken down on the grounds of "distorting and misinterpreting national policies and regulations." Xinhua subsequently edited the video caption to add Guancha.cn as the source, but still made no mention of VOGUE.

On October 12, 2026, Xinhua News Agency published an article praising Nike CEO Elliott Hill for making a special trip to the Shanghai Shenhua home stadium to invite Chinese fans to watch a match and gift them jerseys. Netizens compared this to the agency's 2021 condemnation of Nike over the Xinjiang cotton issue, sarcastically calling it 'coming and going'.

On October 9, Xinhua News Agency deleted the response statement from Stelato regarding the brake fracture incident that it had previously reposted, and related topics in Weibo's top 50 trending searches were also entirely cleared.

On October 8, Xinhua News Agency's Weibo and WeChat official accounts published a whitewashing press release involving Maextro, and large numbers of questioning voices appeared in the comment section; the relevant comment section was switched to featured comments, and over a thousand comments were deleted across the entire internet at 1 a.m. on October 9.

On October 7, Xinhua News Agency released a flash report on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, stating only that "2 scientists won the prize," without mentioning their names, nationalities, or the reasons for the award, drawing questions from netizens in the comments; Xinhua Online's subsequent report that day added the winners' identities and the reasons for the award.

On October 6, Xinhua News Agency reported on the National Day film market with “Celebrating the National Birthday with Light and Shadow, New Trends Surging in the Market,” while CCTV Finance said the market’s heat continues to climb, placing the National Day box office breaking 1 billion yuan alongside the 480 billion yuan output value of the entire film industry chain.

China's Xinhua News Agency and CCTV reported that the US-China leaders' meeting reached an eight-point consensus, and listed cooperation in the AI field as a major achievement, promoting the idea of joint China-US governance of AI.

On September 4, 2026, Xinhua News Agency published an article calling for action against crushing bride prices that weigh on rural young people. The article was shared tens of thousands of times, but only two supportive comments were selectively shown in the comment section, prompting netizen discussion about the one-way messaging and comment control of state media.

Following the BRICS summit, Xinhua News Agency published a defining article titled "Always Be a Pioneer of the Era, Gather the Power of Unity." The article departs from the previous practice of portraying Xi Jinping as an "absolute" imperial-style figure behind the scenes, and for the first time uses the term "always be a pioneer of the era" extensively, attempting to provide political packaging and rationalization for the reality of his recent frequent visits and the collapse of his public persona.

Xinhua News Agency reporters interviewed local residents in the disaster area of a mudslide in Nepal, recording residents' escapes, survivors' experiences, and houses buried by mud and sand.

Xinhua reported that as of 8 a.m. on August 27, rescue workers had successfully found and rescued 2 villagers from Resuo Village.

On the evening of August 10, 2026, a fireball appeared after a Long March 7A rocket launched from a viewing site on Hainan Island. Xinhua News Agency said the rocket experienced a flight anomaly and the launch mission failed.

On the evening of August 10, 2026, Xinhua News Agency released an official report stating that the Zhongxing 4B satellite was launched from the Wenchang launch site in Hainan aboard a Long March 7A carrier rocket. After ignition and liftoff, the flight developed an anomaly and the launch mission ended in failure.

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.

Xinhua said that during Xi Jinping's visit to Kyrgyzstan, China and Kyrgyzstan signed more than 20 cooperation documents in various fields; the claim by Kyrgyzstan's official news agency listing more than 30 such documents could not be verified.

Xinhua News Agency released the press release and video of the commemoration meeting for the 100th anniversary of Jiang Zemin's birth. The names of any active-duty military generals or representatives from the five theater commands were absent from the official report and the list of attendees, sparking speculation about a complete rift between the military and Xi Jinping.

Xinhua News Agency released a press release on the Yang Keqin case, which was reposted by many websites nationwide, showing that the case has attracted attention from senior officials.

On the morning of July 17, 2026, Xinhua News Agency released news of a landslide in Pengshui, Chongqing, reporting that multiple people were buried.

The US detected that China test-fired an unarmed, intercontinental-range ballistic missile from a submarine, which landed in the South Pacific. Xinhua News Agency described it as routine annual training.

Xinhua News Agency has continuously published two articles related to the 13th and 14th National Congresses of the CCP, including affirmations of Deng Xiaoping and related historical lines.

Xinhua News Agency published an article concerning the CCP's 14th National Congress and Deng Xiaoping, re-emphasizing the socialist market economy and related historical line.

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.

In December 2024, Xinhua News Agency revoked the retirement benefits of Gu Wanming, former head of its Guangdong branch. Prior to this, he had been criminally detained for issuing an open letter over the death of Li Keqiang, and was sentenced by a court to one year in prison on the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

On May 4, 1989, reporters and editors from the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, and China Youth Daily took to Chang'an Avenue, carrying banners demanding that the news must tell the truth.