The Ghanaian couple, the Jia Cheng couple, who run a café in Dandong, a border city between China and North Korea, were arrested by Chinese state security on suspicion of espionage and endangering national security; the timeline is basically the same as that of the arrest and release of the Ghanaian-Chinese businessman Su Bin.
During Ren Zhiqiang's tenure as president, he vigorously promoted the "One Suosuo Tree" project, combining desertification control with the development of the rural economy, achieving significant ecological and economic benefits.
Chen Huimin said in a mainland program interview that Hong Kong gangs are very patriotic and will obey the country's orders.
Pan Shiyi has stopped acquiring land and begun selling off SOHO assets on a large scale in Shanghai and other locations, cashing out a cumulative total of approximately 30 billion RMB.
Chiang Wan-an's father, Chiang Hsiao-yen, traveled to Beijing to attend a family banquet with Xi Jinping.
Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has carried out Operation "Fox Hunt" to pursue officials abroad. By 2023, it had brought back more than 12,000 people from over 120 countries.
A video of Xi Jinping's 2014 visit to Fiji has resurfaced, with his facial expressions interpreted by netizens as "cerebral palsy," "hungry," or "needing to use the restroom," sparking a meme translation movement.
According to a streamer friend, in 2014 or 2015, the annual income of grassroots police officers in Shanghai dropped from 200,000 to 300,000 yuan to 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
"Songs and Smiles" once again served as the closing finale number at the 2014 CCTV June 1 Gala.
Investigative journalist Luo Changping said Tang Can was tried and served a sentence in Hubei in early 2014, and was later secretly taken to Beijing to assist in the investigation of a major military case; the authorities did not announce it, and in 2012 there were online rumors that she had been sentenced to 15 years.
A video blogger speculated that around the time of Liu Xiang's retirement, Nike and he rearranged a long-term contract covering roughly ten years after his retirement, rather than a lifetime contract in the traditional sense; this claim has not been confirmed by any public report.
Data from Freedom House's database shows that between 2014 and 2024, a total of 1,219 incidents of physical transnational repression occurred worldwide, of which the Chinese Communist Party was responsible for 272, accounting for 22%.
After Xi Jinping took power, the two recently retired vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission, Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, were successively purged, and most of the vice chairmen who fell from power were charged with the crime of colluding with the enemy.
In 2014, People's Daily published a commentary on pensions, stating that civil servants hold public power and if their pension benefits are poor, it is difficult to lead the team, suggesting that occupational annuities be used to widen the gap in benefits between civil servants and enterprise employees. This article sparked renewed heated discussion in early November 2026.
Xi Jinping, accompanied by his entourage, went to the Qingfeng Bun Shop on Yuetan North Street in Beijing's Xicheng District, where he ordered scallion buns, stir-fried liver, and mustard greens.
On November 23, 2013, Zhang Ziyi won Best Leading Actress at the 50th Golden Horse Awards for Wong Kar-wai's film The Grandmaster, and combined with her previous awards she became a grand slam winner of the five major Chinese-language Best Actress honors.
Xi Jinping had his last face-to-face meeting with Bo Xilai in Qincheng Prison. The two discussed power struggles and women, with Bo Xilai lamenting his loss.
The Third Plenary Session passed an economic decision. The head and main drafters of the drafting group did not include Li Keqiang, indicating a shift in decision-making power regarding major economic directions.
On October 19, 2013, New Express Daily reporter Chen Yongzhou was criminally detained across provincial lines by Changsha police on suspicion of damaging commercial reputation after publishing reports critical of Zoomlion; the newspaper subsequently ran "Please release him" on its front page.
On October 1, 2013, Xia Junfeng was buried on the seventh day after his death; his family went to the Shenyang Memorial Cemetery, and besides relatives and friends, hundreds of netizens came to see him off; the authorities blocked and deleted related news.
On September 25, 2013, after the Supreme People’s Court approved his death sentence, Xia Junfeng, a street vendor from Shenyang, Liaoning, was executed by the Chinese Communist Party’s evil regime. Earlier, while setting up his stall on the street, he was beaten by chengguan and forced to draw a knife in self-defense, killing two chengguan. The court categorically refused to admit the defense’s eyewitness testimony, sparking years of joint appeals by legal scholars, lawyers, and citizens across the country to “spare his life.” Before his death, Xia Junfeng left these last words: “I will never accept this even in death; I was acting in self-defense.”
Bo Xilai was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013. The video claims he later met with Baozi (Xi Jinping) in Qincheng Prison.
On September 13, 2013, Beijing police criminally detained venture capitalist Wang Gongquan on suspicion of assembling a crowd to disrupt order in public places. He is a major supporter of the New Citizens' Movement, and his Weibo account had previously been deactivated.
In 2013, the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate issued a judicial interpretation stipulating that online commentary reposted 500 times or more can be prosecuted as the crime of defamation.
In September 2013, Fang Xinghai joined the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs Office as a巡视员 (Inspector) of the Economic Group I.
After taking office, Xi Jinping inspected Shenyang Machine Tool and said that technology, like food, cannot be relied on others for; the remarks have since served as a long-standing political banner for the high-end CNC machine tool and industrial mother machine sectors.
On the evening of August 23, 2013, 13 days after attending the Social Responsibility Forum for Internet Celebrities, Xue Manzi, who had 12 million followers on Weibo, was arrested in a residential compound in Anhuibeili, Chaoyang District, Beijing on suspicion of soliciting prostitution, and was subsequently forced to make a televised confession of about 10 minutes, stating that he had spread false information.
On August 19, 2013, internet promoter Qin Zhihui (online alias Qin Huohuo) was criminally detained by Beijing police on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and illegal business operations, becoming the landmark case of that year's special campaign against online rumors.
China has begun a crackdown on major online influencers, issuing regulations such as the “Seven Bottom Lines for Cyberspace”, and Ren Zhiqiang foresaw the danger of speaking the truth in his book.
Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, presided over the Social Responsibility Forum for Internet Celebrities and put forward seven bottom lines; afterwards, internet big-V Xue Manzi was arrested in Beijing on suspicion of soliciting prostitutes and was forced to make a televised confession.
After taking office, Li Keqiang adopted 'Likonomics' measures such as restricting government spending and deleveraging, attempting to control ballooning debt and promote market-oriented reforms.
On the afternoon of May 7, 2013, at 5 pm, 18 days before the wedding date, the demolition team of the Beigaoying Village Committee forcibly demolished Jia Jinglong's wedding home with an excavator. His father was restrained, relatives were beaten, Jia Jinglong was injured in the head, and the engagement was later broken off.
At the press conference after her second-round defeat at the French Open, Li Na fired back at reporters by asking, "Should I kowtow three times and kowtow nine times? Apologize to them?", sparking a huge public controversy and criticism from state media.
After Jia Jinglong's marital home was forcibly demolished in May 2013, he repeatedly wrote letters of complaint to the Chang'an District Procuratorate and the district letters and visits bureau, and repeatedly sought talks with village head He Jianhua over compensation, all to no avail.
The CCP issued Document No. 9, designating constitutional democracy, universal values, and six other ideas as cultural symbols to be vigilant against and eliminate.
During the 2013 Qingming Festival, the public faced little obstruction in mourning Zhao Ziyang, but six artists and more than thirty petitioners who went to Yang Jia's grave in Beijing were taken away by the police station. Netizens called Yang Jia a knight-errant and a swordsman.
In April 2013, Second Floor Press published 5,000 copies of a painting album by Xia Jianqiang, the son of Xia Junfeng, priced at 128 yuan; the paintings were later accused of plagiarizing Jimmy Liao, sparking controversy.
In his speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Xi Jinping indirectly denied the possibility of democratization in China with his "shoe theory."
On January 14, 2013, the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Guangdong Provincial Committee deliberated and approved the list of members of the 11th Provincial CPPCC Committee, with Stephen Chow among them; on January 22 he did not check in in person, and his secretary collected the attendance badge on his behalf.
While delivering a speech at a seminar for newly promoted members of the CCP Central Committee, Xi Jinping stated that the historical period after reform and opening-up cannot be used to negate the historical period before it, and vice versa.
The first session of the 12th Liaoning Provincial People's Congress elected 102 deputies to the National People's Congress; it was later discovered that 45 of them were involved in vote-buying. Among the 619 provincial deputies, 523 were implicated and eventually resigned or were removed from office.
Ren Zhiqiang actively interacted with netizens on Weibo, and his influence rapidly expanded, making him a public figure with immense public opinion power, even capable of influencing the stock prices of listed companies.
To acquire three companies including Century Partners, Beijing Culture raised approximately 3.3 billion yuan through a private placement, of which Fude Life Insurance subscribed for over 1.3 billion yuan, becoming Beijing Culture's largest shareholder with a 15.81% stake.
Cosar was fined $2.8 million by the US and £600,000 by the UK, and sentenced to three years in prison for harvesting profits in the commodity market by placing fake large orders to lure followers and then instantly canceling them.
Ren Zhiqiang was elected the fifth president of Alxa SEE. His role shifted from supervisor to organizer, where he began learning to listen and compromise, setting a pragmatic goal of increasing membership by 200.
Southern Weekend's New Year's address "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream" was withdrawn by the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, marking an intensification of media control.
Well-known public intellectual Xue Manzi was arrested on charges of prostitution and had his account banned, signaling a crackdown on public opinion.
China's current Exit and Entry Administration Law was passed in 2012 and began to be implemented in 2013.
After serving as Deputy Secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and Acting Governor of Guizhou Province, Chen Min'er was confirmed and officially took office as Governor of Guizhou Province.
Big Fifty-Cent Sima Nan publicly questioned Pan Shiyi and Ren Zhiqiang over suspected benefit transfers and the embezzlement of state-owned assets, slapping them with the "Pan-Ren-Mei" label.