The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission reported that the former president of the Guizhou Provincial Medical Association Yang Keqin was expelled from the Party; the report is detailed and its scope far exceeds his retired deputy division-level status.
On the 50th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake, CCP leader Xi Jinping was absent from the commemorative activities, with Premier Li Qiang attending on his behalf to conduct inspections, offer condolences, and present a flower basket.
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.
US President Trump met separately at the White House with Ukrainian President Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, discussing air defense missile support, the Iran issue, and a troop withdrawal plan.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae urged about 300,000 people in Kumamoto Prefecture to evacuate and remain alert.
Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office announced the detention of Nvidia senior business development manager Zhang Denglong, accusing him of allegedly smuggling controlled AI chips to mainland China.
Entrusted by the general secretary, Li Qiang represented the central government in presenting flowers, bowing three times at the Tangshan Earthquake Ruins Memorial Park, and visiting paralyzed survivors at a sanatorium, according to official reports.
Netizens entered Yunbiao Village in Guangxi after it was ravaged by floods, discovering that the village had become a ruin, lives were destroyed, and due to a decline in public attention, there is absolutely no relief for the disaster victims.
At the premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the China Film International Cinema in Hefei, a movie fan held up a movie poster, which netizens said looked like holding up a blank sheet of paper from behind; the comments section of the related video was subsequently cleared and the video taken down.
The blue-white camp held a rally on Ketagalan Boulevard, putting forward demands including food safety, and claimed that people's lives have not gotten better after the great recall ended in a major failure.
On July 28, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence by a vote of 51 in favor to 47 against, making him the first permanent leader of the 18 intelligence agencies.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Alvaro Smith stated while attending the Army Day event at the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. that current U.S.-China military relations are at their most stable period in recent years.
A project constructed by China Railway Fourth Engineering Bureau in Tianjin Binhai New Area has experienced unpaid wages, and workers blocked the entrance to demand their unpaid wages on July 28.
Micron suffered consecutive sharp declines from July 28 to 29, with a single-day drop close to 10%. Financial media widely hyped the collapse of the memory sector, while Nasdaq 100 futures initiated aggressive de-leveraging starting June 2 to flush out retail investor chips.
According to an analysis, Hu Haifeng, one of the parties involved in the rumors of Hu Jintao's poisoning, attended a CCP meeting on July 28, and the footage shows him with white hair reading a small notebook.
On July 28, the Organization Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee publicized that Zhou Tongwei, deputy director of the Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources, is proposed to be nominated as the candidate for chief of the Fengtai District Government.
In his program on July 28, 2026, Hu Liren predicted that Xi Jinping is being forced out by all factions acting together and will step down by the end of August at the latest; if negotiations break down, civil war could follow.
On June 24, 2026, Gelonghui published an analysis of individual income tax data showing that the number of individual income tax payers nationwide is only about 110 million, accounting for 8% of the total population; the top 10% of high-income earners pay more than 90% of the tax, and 64% of tax revenue comes from five provinces and cities in the east.
On July 28, 2026, Bloomberg reported that U.S. customs officials launched surprise inspections of multiple manufacturing companies in Vietnam involving Chinese investment, focusing on investigating whether transshipment trade is being used to evade U.S. tariffs by laundering the country of origin.
On July 28, 2026, the on-site emergency search and rescue headquarters of Pengshui County, Chongqing, issued its latest disaster bulletin. A total of 30 victims' bodies have been recovered and confirmed at the site of the landslide collapse at the Wujiang Third Bridge, while multi-party search and rescue work continues to advance.
On July 28, 2026, the US Federal Communications Commission announced that it would bring foreign-produced new humanoid robots, quadruped robots, and smart photovoltaic inverters within the scope of national security restrictions, guarding against potential remote-control and critical-infrastructure intelligence risks.
On July 28, 2026, Ban Yue Tan, a journal of the CCP Central Propaganda Department, released a video calling for vigilance against a suppressive view of public opinion. The comment section was instantly flooded with tens of thousands of netizens who spammed protests over the Jieyang dog abuse incident and called for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be dispatched; the account immediately turned on comment selection.
On July 28, 2026, severe fires broke out at multiple material warehousing bases in Qingjiangpu District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. Thick smoke billowed from the scene, blotting out the sky, and local fire and rescue teams rushed to the site to bring the blaze under control.
网传2026年7月28日前后，天津滨海新区部分海滩与沿海区域被设铁栅栏、高墙封闭，引发网民对公共资源封闭化的质疑；该说法查无公开媒体报道，官方未回应。
On July 28, 2026, Xiamen in Fujian was suddenly struck by an extraordinary rainstorm. The city's drainage system was overloaded, causing widespread flooding across urban areas. In some low-lying sections, water reached nearly waist-deep, and residents and delivery workers struggled to wade through it.
On July 28, 2026, the Tianjin Qingshan Green Energy Intelligent Manufacturing Production and Research Base project, due to long-term unpaid wages for frontline workers, triggered a collective work stoppage and strike by all construction workers, who held banners on site to defend their rights and protest.
Starting July 28, 2026, Microsoft officially ceased providing the personal edition of Teams on desktop and web in mainland China, marking a further tightening and adjustment of overseas collaboration and communication software's personal business in China.
On July 28, 2026, netizens exposed the poor sanitary conditions at the Shengwei Food Factory in Yuhong District, Shenyang, Liaoning. Maggots were found swarming in the food packaging area that supplies buffets and in the gaps of turnover trays, raising concerns about food safety in the catering supply chain.
On July 28, 2026, several owners of the Country Garden Yunlu Jiuli community in Liaocheng, Shandong, went to the municipal government to petition and defend their rights over housing quality defects and long-term use of temporary electricity. Local authorities deployed a large number of SWAT police to the scene, who used force to remove the rights-defending owners.
On July 28, 2026, satirical cartoonist Zhu Senlin posted a satirical cartoon titled "After Winning the Award" on the Douyin platform, attacking academic utilitarianism and the phenomenon of grabbing research achievements. After resonating with netizens and sparking heated discussion, the work was quickly deleted by the platform.
On July 28, 2026, a traffic accident occurred at the intersection of Qianjin Street and Renmin Road in Hengshui, Hebei. A police car on duty collided with a private civilian vehicle and flipped over on the spot, drawing a crowd of passing residents.
Zhang Yi, a Wuhan dissident who had previously been sentenced for taking part in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, was taken away by police while traveling in Lhasa, Tibet in July 2026, and was formally approved for arrest on July 28 on the charge of inciting secession.
On July 28, Southern Daily published a commentary article revealing that Shaanxi's culture and tourism authorities had been subjected to days of continuous telephone harassment by netizens calling themselves "pseudo-historians," who demanded the demolition of related cultural relics and historic sites on the grounds that the Tang Dynasty never existed.