On the evening of December 23, 2009, a large poster outside Zhang Ziyi's home in Beijing was splashed with ink. The following January, socialite Zhao Xinyu came forward claiming a grudge with Zhang Ziyi, and brought Shanghai businessman Mr. A into the picture.
On November 11, 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xia Junfeng to death for intentional homicide in a first-instance ruling; his defense lawyer said the court refused to accept testimony from six eyewitnesses and instead relied on the testimony of chengguan officers.
On August 14, 2009, Sina Weibo began closed beta testing; on September 25, it officially added @, direct messages, comments, and reposting functions.
In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot destroyed Xiaolin Village in Jiasian Township, Kaohsiung, burying 474 people alive, and the government at the time was questioned over its inadequate disaster prevention and rescue efforts.
From the evening of July 7, 2009, Fanfou suspended its service under the impact of the Urumqi riots, and was subsequently closed for a long period, until the page could be opened again only in November 2010.
On June 16, 2009, the court of Badong County, Hubei, found Deng Yujiao guilty of intentional injury in the first-instance ruling, but, taking into account such circumstances as excessive self-defense and voluntary surrender, exempted her from criminal penalty.
On May 16, 2009, Xia Junfeng and his wife were penalized by chengguan for setting up an unlicensed street stall in Shenyang. A conflict broke out at the Binhe duty room, in which Xia stabbed two chengguan officers to death. The defense argued that he had been beaten by a group first and acted in self-defense, but the court did not accept the claim.
Deng Yujiao, a hotel waitress in Badong County, Hubei, fought back against officials who forced her to provide "special services," resulting in one death. Amid intense nationwide public attention and online support, she was ultimately found by the court to have exceeded the bounds of self-defense and was exempted from criminal punishment.
On the evening of May 10, 2009, Deng Yujiao, a hotel attendant in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Hubei, stabbed one person to death and wounded another after being pestered by officials; after the case spread through the internet, it drew nationwide attention.
Around the 20th anniversary of the 2009 June Fourth incident, China blocked overseas platforms such as Google, YouTube and Facebook.
Following the July 5 Xinjiang riots in 2009, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were permanently blocked in China.
Since 2015, the Chinese government has begun providing large-scale subsidies for the electric vehicle industry, with cumulative direct and indirect subsidies reaching 3 trillion yuan. This policy drove the rapid development of China's electric vehicle industry, but also laid the groundwork for subsequent overcapacity.
On the morning of November 26, 2008, Yang Jia was executed by lethal injection in Shanghai at the age of 28. This was only five days after the Supreme People's Court issued its approval ruling, and less than a day after his mother received the ruling.
On November 21, 2008, the Supreme People's Court issued a criminal ruling approving the death sentence of Yang Jia. It was only after 7 p.m. on November 25 that Wang Jingmei received this ruling, with only one night left before the execution.
On November 5, 2008, the State Council executive meeting decided to launch an investment plan of about 4 trillion yuan to cope with the international economic crisis, which was announced publicly on November 9; most of the funds were invested in infrastructure.
On October 20, 2008, the Shanghai High People's Court issued Criminal Ruling (2008) Hu Gao Xing Zhong Zi No. 131, rejecting Yang Jia's appeal, upholding the first-instance death sentence, and reporting it to the Supreme People's Court for review and approval. When the ruling was issued, Yang Jia's mother, Wang Jingmei, was still confined in a psychiatric hospital.
On the day of Yang Jia's second-instance trial, a large crowd gathered outside the Shanghai High People's Court, with some shouting "Long live Yang Jia." About a dozen protesters wearing T-shirts printed with Yang Jia's portrait and the words "If you don't give me an explanation, I'll give you one" were taken away on the spot in front of the police. This was a rare street action in China in support of a defendant.
At 9:30 a.m. on October 13, 2008, the Shanghai High People's Court opened the second-instance trial of the Yang Jia case in a closed hearing. The defense lawyer requested a new psychiatric evaluation, but the court rejected it on the spot, ruling that the grounds were insufficient. During the hearing, the prosecution and the defense debated the appearance of witnesses, the qualifications of the appraisal institution, and whether Yang Jia had been beaten at the police station.
In the face of the global financial tsunami, in September 2008 Wen Jiabao led the State Council in announcing a large-scale 4 trillion yuan bailout plan for infrastructure investment.
On the morning of September 1, 2008, the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court announced its verdict, sentencing Yang Jie to death for intentional homicide and deprivation of political rights for life. Yang Jie and his defense lawyer did not speak throughout the announcement, nor did they indicate whether they would appeal. Online questions about the closed trial, the qualifications of the appraiser, and the identity of the defense lawyer immediately spread.
On the afternoon of August 26, 2008, the Yang Jia case was heard in first instance at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court; the hearing was postponed to this day because of the Beijing Olympics. The court gave all the gallery seats to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, more than 20 domestic and foreign media outlets and citizens who came to observe were turned away, and the hearing notice was only displayed on the electronic screen in front of the court. No verdict was announced that day.
During the Beijing Olympics, the authorities set up a demonstration zone. On August 18, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said it had received 77 applications involving 149 person-times in total, and not a single one was approved.
On August 17, 2008, two elderly people, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, who had applied to petition in the Beijing Olympics protest zone because their homes were forcibly demolished, were decided to be subjected to one year of re-education through labor on the grounds of disturbing public order; on August 29, that decision was rescinded under pressure from international public opinion.
Zhang Yimou served as chief director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games, presenting the country's image and a visual spectacle to the world through massive human formations and militaristically precise choreography.
The night after the Yang Jia case occurred, his mother Wang Jingmei was first taken to the Datun Police Station in Chaoyang District, and was then sent by Shanghai and Beijing police to the Ankang Psychiatric Hospital of the Beijing Public Security Bureau in Shunyi District and forcibly detained. Her family only learned of her whereabouts four months later, and legal professionals pointed out that there was no regulatory basis whatsoever for sending her to a psychiatric hospital.
On July 1, 2008, Yang Jia, a young man from Beijing, walked alone into the Zhabei Public Security Bureau in Shanghai, stabbing six police officers to death and wounding four officers and one security guard, and was arrested on the spot. In October of the previous year, while riding a rented bicycle in Shanghai, he was stopped and questioned by Zhabei police, taken into the police station and beaten. For the following nine months he filed complaints everywhere but could not get any redress. On November 26 of the same year, Yang Jia was executed by the Chinese Communist Party's tyrannical regime.
The video claims that in June 2008 Hu Jintao presided over a Politburo meeting to deploy Olympic security, with Beijing mobilizing 50,000 police officers and more than 1 million militia patrol members and volunteers; no public reports of this meeting or these figures can be found.
Liu Shaokun, a teacher in Deyang, Sichuan, photographed school buildings that collapsed during the earthquake and questioned the construction quality. He was taken away by police on June 25, 2008, and was later sentenced to one year of re-education through labor.
In June 2008, Wang Yi, Vice President of the China Development Bank, who had been in a relationship with Liu Fangfei and paid off her mortgage, was taken away by a special investigation team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for 'shuanggui' (a form of detention for party members). He was later sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in 2010.
On May 12, 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Wenchuan. Statistics as of September 25 of that year showed about 69,000 people killed and 18,000 missing, with large numbers of students buried under collapsed school buildings.
On May 12, 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Wenchuan, Sichuan. Official statistics as of September 25 recorded 69,227 dead and 17,923 missing, with a large number of houses collapsed; the video links the casualties to building quality.
After the Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008, large numbers of civilian volunteers and professional rescue teams from various regions joined the disaster relief effort, which is often regarded as a symbol of the rise of civil society in China.
Since mid-2006, U.S. home prices have fallen by more than 20% on average; home equity dropped from about $13 trillion in 2006 to about $8.8 trillion in mid-2008, and the video says household net worth evaporated by about $13 trillion.
In the name of commemorating his late wife, Zhao Xicheng gave assets worth 5 million to 25 million US dollars to Zhao Xiaolan and McConnell, greatly increasing the McConnell couple's wealth.
During Wang Shi's tenure as the second president of Alxa SEE, the association experienced an incident where the secretariat unilaterally added investment funds. Ren Zhiqiang proposed impeachment, and Wang Shi publicly acknowledged his mistakes, demonstrating the association's rules' constraint on power.
After the Wenchuan earthquake, Wang Shi's suggestion that employees donate with a limit of 10 yuan sparked public criticism, Vanke's stock fell, Wang Shi was forced to apologize and make an additional donation, showing the societal pressure of supervision on public figures.
Citing data, the program claimed that China's cumulative infrastructure investment from 2008 to 2024 was about 120 trillion yuan, averaging roughly 9.7% of GDP per year; no public source could be found for this figure.
At the end of 2008, the national team adjusted its management measures, and players such as Li Na, Zheng Jie, Peng Shuai and Yan Zi began to arrange their own training and professional competitions, putting the "flying solo" system into practice.
On October 22, 2007, after the First Plenary Session of the 17th CCP Central Committee, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang were both elected to the Politburo Standing Committee. Xi Jinping ranked sixth but stood in front, and the outside world saw him as the successor to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao.
At the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping, with a narrow advantage, entered the Politburo Standing Committee along with Li Keqiang, becoming Hu Jintao's successor, while Bo Xilai only made it to the Politburo.
After dawn on October 6, 2007, Yang Jia left the police station and took a train back to Beijing. From that day on, he repeatedly filed complaints through petition letters and emails with the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and the inspection department of the Zhabei Branch, demanding the dismissal of the officers involved, compensation for emotional distress, and reimbursement of telephone charges. After investigation, the inspection detachment of the Zhabei Branch concluded that the officers' law enforcement was not improper, and the complaint received no apology whatsoever.
On the evening of October 5, 2007, Yang Jie was sightseeing in Shanghai. Riding a rented bicycle past the intersection of Zhijiang West Road and Pushan Road in Zhabei District, he was stopped by officers from the Zhijiang West Road police station and taken into the station for questioning until the early hours of October 6. He said he was insulted and beaten inside the station, which was the starting point of his nonstop complaints over the following year.
In 2007, Xi Jinping succeeded Zeng Qinghong as the head of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, serving in this position for five years until he ascended to the top leadership in 2012.
In June 2007, about 400 senior cadres held a closed-door democratic recommendation vote ahead of the 17th CCP National Congress. Reports said Xi Jinping ranked first in votes and Li Keqiang second; the results were never officially released.
In June 2007, Hu Jintao pushed forward a system of democratic recommendations, in which more than 400 Central Committee members and alternate members voted to select Politburo candidates from among more than 200 ministerial-level officials under the age of 63. Large numbers of Jiang Zemin faction members voted in blocs, resulting in Li Keqiang's elimination and Xi Jinping's victory, and Hu Jintao's succession plan fell through.
On March 24, 2007, Xi Jinping was transferred from Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee to Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, succeeding acting municipal Party Committee Secretary Han Zheng after the Chen Liangyu case.
The then-Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, Li Keqiang, told the US Ambassador that Liaoning's GDP figures were man-made and for reference only, and that he only looked at electricity consumption, railway cargo volume, and bank loans.
On January 23, 2007, the 38th collective study session of the CCP Politburo, themed on the building and management of online culture, Hu Jintao stressed strengthening the building and management of online culture.
McConnell was elected Senate Republican leader and held the position long-term.
According to reports, Zhu Yunlai's compensation at CICC in 2007 may have been as high as about $17 million (about $10 million in 2006), which was an outside estimate and not officially announced by CICC.