On September 30, 2025, the CCP Central Committee announced a personnel adjustment: Liu Jianchao no longer serves as Minister of the International Department of the CCP Central Committee, and is succeeded by Liu Haixing.
At the National Day reception on September 30, 2025, the supreme leader took the initiative to announce that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee would be held the following month and would study the proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Dresden Higher Regional Court sentenced Guo Jian, an assistant to an Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker, to four years and nine months in prison, finding that he worked for Chinese intelligence services; logistics worker Yaqi, a co-defendant in the same case, received a suspended sentence.
On September 30, after Zhejiang Propaganda published an article criticizing Hu Chenfeng, Hu Chenfeng's accounts on all platforms were banned, officially wiping him off the internet.
On September 30, Zhejiang Propaganda published an article criticizing Hu Chenfeng, pointing out that he uses worship of the foreign to dissolve consensus, exploits young people's anxiety to harvest consumers, and uses extreme emotions to distort values. Previously, Zhang Xuefeng had already been criticized for shaking the foundations of the state.