The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival opened on June 12th. For the first time in its 20-year history, the festival has canceled its "Japan Film Week."
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.
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.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Beijing on an invitation for a visit. Xi Jinping held talks with him, while Li Qiang and Zhao Leji met with him separately, indicating that foreign affairs activities are handled by other high-ranking officials for specific matters.
The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China further named individuals of Chinese descent, those involved in business disputes, and U.S. citizens with ties to the U.S. government, warning that they face additional risks.
On the night of June 15, Xi Jinping's birthday, "China Action" successfully broke through defense lines to carry out a projection protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C.
The National Symposium on Party Building has deployed the study of the new formulation, 'Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building'.
The CCDI reported the violation of conducting financing trade by Liu Xuewu, former general manager of Inner Mongolia Communications Group, coordinating with Wang Yong's research group to create a deterrent effect.
Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau released an AI-produced video on its official website, calling on anti-communist individuals in mainland China to actively provide intelligence related to the mainland to Taiwan's intelligence agencies. This is seen as a proactive step by Taiwan.
Ye Jianchun presided over the meeting on promoting the rectification of national statistical inspection feedback, stating that there is no room for bargaining and that all requirements must be accepted in full.
On the public consultation day of the Five-Year Plan, the Hong Kong government unveiled a new approach, incorporating multiple intermediate stages into total R&D expenditure, thereby raising the proportion of total local innovation activity expenditure from 1.13% to 1.63%.
On June 15, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi posted a video exposing that a contractor in Gaoche Village, Huangpi District, Wuhan, allegedly purchased a disabled person for 10,000 yuan and forced them into hard manual labor for 20 years.
On June 15, 2026, Bloomberg reported that China's tactics toward Taiwan have shifted: while the frequency of military aircraft circling the island has been halved, it has for the first time dispatched a Ministry of Transport survey vessel and a fireboat to carry out gray-zone patrols on a regular basis in the waters east of Taiwan.
On June 15, 2026, the New York Times reported that Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae is accelerating Japan's rearmament on the grounds of countering military threats from China and North Korea, including deploying long-range cruise missiles and lifting the ban on arms exports.
On June 15, 2026, the overseas civic protest group Guangfu zhi Lu projected protest images such as "I will not shoot the people" onto the outer wall directly outside the main gate of the Chinese embassy in Washington, where they were blocked by embassy security personnel holding umbrellas.
On June 15, 2026, Xi Jinping’s birthday, a national symposium on Party building was held in Beijing, where “Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building” was put forward for the first time. On the same day, CCTV released the current affairs short film “Communist Party Member Xi Jinping,” drawing attention at home and abroad.
On June 15, 2026, the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University released a report revealing that the average monthly pension benefit for urban employees in China is about 3825 yuan, while the average monthly benefit under the basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents is only about 246 yuan, a difference of 15.5 times.
On June 15, 2026, the UK's Financial Times reported that the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia sent a letter to the Indonesian government, criticizing its policy of restricting nickel ore mining and warning that the new rules would impact about $50 billion in Chinese investment and threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Since 2025, the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Biyang County, Henan, has cross-provincially intercepted and seized frozen food from 21 trucks across 10 provinces and municipalities and auctioned it off for cash, drawing accusations of revenue-driven enforcement; on June 15, 2026, an official notice stated that Wang Lei, the former director of the bureau involved in the case, and others were placed under detention measures.
Wang Yiyan, a Chinese scholar based in the United States who has long studied China's internet firewall and anti-censorship tools, went missing for nearly two years after returning to China in the summer of 2024; on June 15, 2026, "Chinese Human Rights" issued a statement calling on the Chinese government to disclose his legal status and guarantee his personal safety.
On June 15, 2026, a pinned video on the Douyin account of the official livestream room of well-known sports brand PEAK exposed the company's arrears of Olympic sponsorship fees, and an operations employee publicly stated in the comments section that the company had owed them wages for a year.
On June 15, 2026, the Cambodian government officially launched a trial visa-free policy for Chinese citizens traveling to Cambodia on ordinary passports, allowing stays of up to 14 days, with a pilot period of four months.
On June 15, 2026, local villagers in Hejin City, Yuncheng, Shanxi, unfurled rights-defense banners to protest construction violations during an aluminum plant renovation project that caused cracks and damage to multiple nearby villagers' homes without any compensation.
On June 13, 2026, the first day of the HNC Health and Nutrition Expo in Shanghai, a display board at an exhibitor's booth showed the Republic of China flag — the blue sky, white sun, and a wholly red field. The next day, the board had been removed by the organizer.
On June 15, 2026, Guoyao Xinguang Biomass Resources Co., Ltd. in Linyi County, Yuncheng, Shanxi withheld labor remuneration, and several migrant workers owed back pay hung banners in front of the company gate to defend their rights and demand their unpaid wages.
On June 15, 2026, an incident of unpaid wages for migrant workers occurred at the Vanke Guanshan Yinxiu real estate project in Jinan, Shandong, and several construction workers had no choice but to lie in front of the project site's main gate to demand their unpaid wages and defend their rights.
In late June 2026, Chuangda Bus, a privately operated public transit company in Panyu District, Guangzhou, fell into arrears on about half a year of drivers' wages, sparking a collective strike by drivers demanding unpaid pay and causing multiple bus routes connecting Panyu and Nansha to suspend service, exposing a fiscal crisis in local public transportation.
On June 15, 2026, it was reported online that some shopping malls had received notices from local police stations requiring that outdoor commercial advertising screens and the like strictly refrain from broadcasting content related to entertainment figures on specific sensitive dates.
On June 15, 2026, a finance blogger on the Douyin platform was muted and banned for 30 days by the platform for posting a debate video discussing Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and reflecting on the drawbacks of centralized planned economy.
On June 15, the Xiabashi Town Government of Fu'an City issued a written reply to the issue raised by Wang Xiuying about the forcible seizure of village land, stating that the land had been lawfully requisitioned by the Fishing Port Command and the Fu'an Shipyard, among others.
Jin Ze's girlfriend Li Zifeng posted his chat records from before his death on Douyin, saying that Jin Ze suffered a myocardial infarction due to high-intensity work, and that he was powerless when subjected to a casting couch by iQiyi vice president Liu Tao.