Then-Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Xi Jinping personally inscribed a message for all the elders and fellow villagers of Dengzhou Xincun in Henan, confirming their ancestral home as Dengzhou, Henan.
On February 24, 2004, Jiang Yanyong wrote to the National People's Congress, the CPPCC, the leaders of the CCP Politburo and the State Council, calling for a reevaluation of June Fourth, 1989, and recounting what he witnessed at the 301 Hospital in treating the casualties.
Ren Zhiqiang ran for supervisor of Alxa SEE for the first time but was not elected. He later stated in his memoirs that this failure made him truly understand the rules of organizations and the principle of equality for all.
When the air rights property project above Shenzhen Dongmen Old Street subway station was established, Shenzhen Metro Group held 60% equity, and Yuanwei Industrial held 40%.
Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu criticized central policies at a Politburo meeting for harming the interests of the Yangtze River Delta, and relations with the Hu-Wen faction began to grow tense.
At the urging of Sun Jinfang, director of the tennis management center, Li Na considered it for several months before deciding to make a comeback, returning to the Hubei provincial team in January 2004 and promising to compete for Hubei at the National Games.
The Alashan SEE Ecological Association was established, where entrepreneurs learn the skills of rule-based negotiation and self-governance through internal governance and one-person-one-vote elections.
The Shenzhen Municipal Government hired the Shenzhen branch of China Development Bank as its financial advisor, and during the relevant period, the Shenzhen branch of China Development Bank signed a 30 billion yuan credit line with the Shenzhen Municipal Government.
The open-air landscape performance "Impression·Liu Sanjie," directed by Zhang Yimou, officially premiered in Yangshuo, Guangxi, marking the beginning of Zhang Yimou's deep involvement in local tourism and entertainment business operations.
In 2004, a SARS virus leak occurred at a laboratory in Beijing, infecting multiple people, placing hundreds under quarantine, and causing at least one death.
After a communications trade show in Chicago closed in 2004, Fujitsu staff found an Asian man holding a Chinese passport issued a few weeks earlier photographing equipment at the booth with a camera; he was stopped by security, and the camera's memory card contained photos of equipment from Fujitsu and other companies.
In 2004, China Development Bank provided Huawei with over 80 billion RMB in loans, raising the figure to 240 billion yuan in 2009, and was seen as an important channel through which Huawei received state support.
In 2004, demographers including Gu Baochang and Wang Feng jointly petitioned the central authorities, recommending that the one-child family planning policy be changed to a two-child policy. Gu Baochang was cold-shouldered, and Wang Feng was silenced.
In 2004, Huang Qifan, then executive vice mayor of Chongqing, led the establishment of Chongqing Yufu Company, later known as the "Yufu Model" state-owned asset operating platform.
A man with an intellectual disability went missing in the Guangzhou and Foshan area in 2004. His family searched for him for 22 years, and only learned of his whereabouts in September 2026.
From December 5 to 7, 2003, the National Conference on Propaganda and Ideological Work was held in Beijing. In his speech, Hu Jintao called for staying close to reality, close to life, and close to the masses, and stated that the Party's control over propaganda and the Party's control over ideology must never waver at any time.
Liu Xiaoguang visited the Moon Lake in Alashan for the first time, discussed with over thirty entrepreneurs how entrepreneurs can keep themselves upright, and was moved by the desert scenery, sparking the idea of establishing an environmental organization.
Bai Yansong resigned from his positions as producer of News Meeting Room, China Weekly, and Time and Space Link because he felt that the producer role made his expression mediocre and led to self-censorship, while retaining his role as host.
After multiple rounds of supplementary investigations and legal defense, Liu Xiaoqing was granted bail on August 15, 2003, and walked out of the detention center the next day along with her sister Liu Xiaohong.
Mainland China and Hong Kong signed the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, providing policy facilitation for Hong Kong co-productions to enter the mainland market, subject to requirements on the proportion of mainland actors and censorship.
After the Sun Zhigang case, on June 20, 2003, the State Council promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Assistance for Vagrants and Beggars with No Means of Support in Urban Areas, and the Measures for Custody and Repatriation were abolished as of August 1.
In 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily's reporting on the Sun Zhigang case directly contributed to the abolition of China's custody and repatriation system.
On April 20, 2003, the CCP Central Committee decided to remove Zhang Wenkang, Party Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and Meng Xuenong, Deputy Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, from their posts. On the same day, Beijing's case figures were revised upward from 37 to 339 and changed to daily releases; Meng Xuenong subsequently resigned as mayor, and Zhang Wenkang was removed as Minister of Health on April 26.
Longtime FBI informant Katrina Leung and her handler James Smith have been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified technical operations and counterintelligence program information to Chinese intelligence officers.
On April 4, 2003, military doctor Jiang Yanyong learned that Health Minister Zhang Wenkang had claimed there were only 12 SARS cases in Beijing. He then told the real case numbers from military hospitals to CCTV and Phoenix TV, and the information was relayed out by foreign journalists.
On April 3, 2003, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang told a press conference in Beijing that Beijing had only 12 SARS cases and 3 deaths, and said it was safe whether or not you wore a mask; the next day, Jiang Yanyong disclosed higher figures from military hospitals.
Hubei youth Sun Zhigang was sent to a custody station in Guangzhou for not carrying a temporary residence permit and was beaten to death. The incident spread rapidly across the internet and eventually led the State Council to abolish the custody and repatriation system.
In January 2003, Cisco sued Huawei in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that it illegally copied Cisco's IOS software and source code, technical documentation, and other copyrighted materials, and infringed multiple patents.
In 2003, Li Wei obtained the development rights to 61,800 square meters of land at Taipingjiao in Qingdao. The project was nominally applied for under Capital Group, but in fact fell under Yichuang Real Estate, which was held in her name, and she later earned 84 million yuan from the transfer.
Li Jiating was investigated in 2001, and two years later was finally sentenced to death with a reprieve for accepting bribes of more than 18.1 million yuan; his son Li Bo and his mistress Xu Fuying were also successively sentenced.
Yu Xiaoping was transferred from the head office to serve as the president of the China Development Bank Shenzhen Branch. He ruled locally for seven years, leading massive and enormous policy-backed loans for projects such as the Shenzhen Metro.
Jia Qinglin served as a member of the CCP Central Committee Political Bureau Standing Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for 10 consecutive years starting from 2003. During this period and thereafter, his son-in-law Li Botan managed the family's wealth through offshore companies and white-glove agents.
While the author's father was hospitalized at Zhongshan Hospital, the author met a fellow patient waiting for an organ transplant. The patient said they had a QQ group where many people were waiting for organs and mentioned that Shanghai had many sources of organs. The patient also said the organs they were waiting for might be "dry" and speculated that they could be related to executed drug traffickers, but the author expressed doubt, believing that the health condition of drug traffickers would not be suitable for transplantation.
The Changchun Municipal Government internally reported in 2003 that the incident of seizing Ms. Ma Yongtian's factory was illegal and wrong.
Sima Nan was elected as a deputy to the Dongcheng District People's Congress in Beijing. When voting on the list of the presidium at the first plenary session, he cast an abstention, and subsequently, after multiple conversations, he gradually changed his attitude and adapted to the system.
The Beijing municipal government invited entrepreneurs to discuss economic policy. While Pan Shiyi was speaking, Ren Zhiqiang took over the topic, criticized the policy, and demanded that officials uphold the credibility of the market.
Chen Jin's team ground off the markings on purchased Motorola chips and reprinted them as "Hanxin No. 1", announced it in February 2003, defrauding about 110 million yuan in research funding (over 60 million yuan received), and was exposed in early 2006.
In 2003, China began piloting the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, with fiscal subsidies increasing year by year; by around 2010 it covered more than 800 million farmers.
In the summer of 2003, Jiang Peizhen, the boss of Golden Throat, paid $300,000 and a jersey to have Ronaldo take a photo with her while wearing a jersey printed with the Golden Throat logo. Subsequently, Golden Throat used his image for television advertising for four years, while Ronaldo himself was completely unaware of it.
Zhang Yimou's commercial wuxia film Hero premiered at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, eventually grossing over 200 million yuan in the mainland and ushering in the era of Chinese commercial blockbusters.
McConnell was elected Senate Republican whip, becoming the second-highest-ranking Republican in the Senate.
In November 2002, the Chinese Communist Party held its 16th National Congress, and Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, but the Standing Committee was expanded from 7 to 9 members, most of whom were from Jiang Zemin's faction, greatly weakening Hu Jintao's political power.
At the CCP's 16th National Congress in 2002, Jiang Zemin did not step down as chairman of the Central Military Commission; his remaining in office created an emperor-emeritus dynamic. Although Hu Jintao became General Secretary, military power remained in Jiang Zemin's hands.
In October 2002, Xi Jinping was transferred to serve as Deputy Party Secretary and Acting Governor of Zhejiang Province; in November, he was elected as a member of the CCP Central Committee for the first time at the 16th National Congress, and was promoted to Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province at the end of the month.
After leaving the national team, Li Na and Jiang Shan together entered Huazhong University of Science and Technology to study journalism, during which time the focus of their lives shifted to campus, and they occasionally played for the school.
On August 29, 2002, Google was blocked in China for two weeks, regarded as the first major test of Great Firewall technology.
As a shareholder of Skyhigh, CCT Telecom applied for an injunction in the Hong Kong court to prohibit Andy Lau from participating in film production and performances. The two parties eventually reached a settlement on the day of the hearing in November.
In 2002, Liu Xiaoqing was taken into custody for allegedly evading tens of millions in taxes, where she was detained for 422 days.
After Xi Zhongxun passed away, his ashes were placed in the columbarium of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing in accordance with sub-national-level standards, without an independent mausoleum being built at the time.
Liu Xiaoqing and her boyfriend flew from Beijing to Shenzhen and attempted to take a boat to France via Hong Kong, but they were intercepted by border control officers at the Shenzhen airport ferry terminal who had been notified in advance, causing their escape plan to fail.