To provide fuel for "backyard furnaces", about 30% to 40% of rural houses were demolished during the Great Leap Forward, leaving people with nowhere to shelter from the wind and rain.
Xi Jinping arrived at Shanghai's Xijiao State Guest House 48 hours in advance to present his governing achievements to CCP elders, facing strong doubts from the elders regarding his policies.
On September 24, Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for a state visit. Officials including Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi waited on the plane for the US side to lay out the red carpet.
中共计划于10月召开五中全会，公开议题包括讨论党内若干重大问题；张又侠、刘振立案件被指可能成为会议议题。
中共二十届五中全会预计召开，届时将进行人事变动和表决。
中共中央委员会第五次全体会议（五中全会）即将召开，被认为是权力洗牌的关键节点。
如果全球AI投资泡沫破裂导致深度衰退，油价长期跌破40美元，俄罗斯可能在2027年迎来全面的财政崩盘。
Xi Jinping plans to visit the US National Museum, Trump may accompany him.
Roads along the route of Xi Jinping's motorcade to the National Museum may not be fully closed, potentially leading to clashes between protest groups and pro-CCP individuals, and even interception of the motorcade.
At a rate of 100 tanks scrapped per month, Russia's heavy equipment inventory is projected to hit bottom in March-April 2027.
预测显示，到2041年中国人口年龄中位数将超过50岁，人口老龄化和少子化趋势持续。
According to the presidential schedule released by Roll Call, the Trump couple will greet the Xi couple at the South Portico of the White House at 22:00, hold a welcome ceremony at 22:10, the two heads of state will each deliver a speech at 22:15, followed by gift exchange, a silent gun‑drill performance, and a Rose Garden military review at 23:00.
根据“正确政绩观”考核结果，地方各级领导班子将进行换届。
Reports indicate that around the time Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were detained, Wang Qishan also lost his freedom and is facing a secret investigation by a central special investigation group headed by Cai Qi.
Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County in Chengde, Hebei, suffered 48 hours of continuous torrential rain, triggering flash floods and frequent landslides. Over 100,000 people were affected, and communications were cut off in many areas.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh completed his debut on June 17, with the decision to hold rates steady meeting market expectations. Dovish language was removed from the statement, and half of the officials believe that a rate hike will still be needed in 2026.
A large-scale non-violent non-cooperation movement took place across 34 counties and districts in Heilongjiang province, where merchants collectively shut down their businesses for over two months to protest unbearable exorbitant fines.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited the US from September 21 to 24, meeting with Trump in New York ahead of Xi Jinping's US visit, out of concern that the US might compromise with China on sovereignty issues in exchange for Chinese orders.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Liu Jianchao was taken away for questioning by authorities immediately after returning to China in late July 2025 following his overseas visit.
Reuters cited insiders as saying that Liu Jianchao's residence was searched in early August 2025.
Tomorrow Holding boss Xiao Jianhua was cross-border taken back to the mainland from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong by state security (MSS) personnel, and his massive network of proxy-held and money-laundering assets began to be investigated.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Sun Lijun, Vice Minister of Public Security who once oversaw Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan affairs as well as cross-border law enforcement, is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation for suspected severe violations of discipline and law.
Procuratorates in Dongguan, Guangdong issued a Red Notice for Huang Youlong through Interpol. Huang Youlong was arrested immediately upon landing in Bordeaux, France, after arriving on a private jet from Iceland.
Alvin Chau (also known as "Sikit Wah"), founder of Macau gaming junket giant Suncity Group, was arrested in Macau and later sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Macau's Court of Final Appeal delivered its final verdict in the Alvin Chau case, sentencing him to 18 years in prison and confiscating all illegal proceeds for the Macau SAR government.
The trial of Guo Wengui began in Courtroom 15D of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan and lasted for seven weeks.
In the first quarter of 2026, Xiaomi's revenue was 99.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 10.9%; adjusted net profit was 6.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year drop of 43.1%, effectively being halved.
Deng Xiaoping summoned Premier of the State Council Li Peng, labeling it as "turmoil", setting the tone for the subsequent clearing operation.
Deng Xiaoping convened a Politburo Standing Committee meeting at home to discuss whether to impose martial law in Beijing, and Zhao Ziyang explicitly stated that it could not be carried out.
In mid‑2020, despite the easing of the pandemic and a rising stock market, the U.S. Treasury issued bonds wildly to implement massive fiscal stimulus, causing a huge inflow of market funds into Treasury bonds; viewed purely from the liquidity pipeline, the pressure index surged to 1.5, the highest in 11 years.
Xi Jinping made his first instruction regarding the problem of illegal villas in the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains in the Xi'an section, kicking off a four-year campaign involving six instructions to crack down on illegal construction in the Qinling Mountains.
According to conservative estimates by Bloomberg, by the end of 2025, over 100 million of China's 1.1 billion adult population faced overdue debts, accounting for a staggering 10.6%.
The head of UK MI5 issued a national security intervention alert to Parliament, naming Chinese lawyer Christine Lee as a spy for the CCP United Front Work Department and exposing her scandal of buying British members of Parliament.
The NPC Standing Committee is conducting an urgent first review of three draft laws: the Financial Law, the Government Procurement Law, and the Bidding and Tendering Law, with the core promotion of retroactive checks on major capital flows and a lifelong accountability mechanism.
The 52nd G7 Summit was held in France, and the meeting issued a joint statement opposing any unilateral attempts to change the status quo, especially opposing any attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.
Just twenty days before the graduation ceremony, at what should have been the opening ceremony, Chen Xi still delivered a speech in his capacity as president, only to step down subsequently without any official handover announcement.
Xi Jinping, top leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), visited Pyongyang, North Korea, from June 8 to 9, and was welcomed by Kim Jong Un at Kim Il Sung Square.
CPPCC Chairman Wang Huning, accompanied by United Front Work Department Head Li Ganjie, conducted research in Xinjiang from June 5 to 9, accompanied and coordinated by Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Xiaojiang.
Xi Jinping paid a 27-hour visit to North Korea. The joint communique lacked mentions of nuclear weapons and military alliance cooperation, reaching consensus only on commemorative facilities and other minor matters.
Shenzhen Metro Group completely transferred up to 60% of the state-owned shares in the Dongmen Old Street overhead property project to Yuanwei Industry, turning the project into private property for the elite.
Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong conducted research trips in Xiong'an, Baoding, and Shijiazhuang, Hebei. The official report did not mention Hebei Provincial Party Secretary Ni Yuefeng, which is seen as a political signal aimed at deterring Hebei officials.
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman Wang Yong led multiple financial and statistical officials to Inner Mongolia for research, focusing on investigating computing power, energy, and illegal local financing black accounts.
Following the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Changjie, the long-retired former head of the Xinjiang Public Security Department and vice president of the China Police Association, was taken away for investigation by the CCDI on suspicion of assisting Wang Xia洪 in building a power-money alliance and underground money laundering network.
In a report, the PLA Daily named the so-called "competition specialist" brigade from the 72nd Group Army—where He Weidong made his career—as having disappeared, and published a commentary severely criticizing deviations in political achievements and the bubble of new-quality combat capabilities.
The tax-sharing reform, finalized at the end of 1993 and implemented the following year, established the framework for central-local fiscal distribution and land finance.
During the U.S. national anthem, a formation of two B-1 bombers flew over the Andrews Air Force Base welcome ceremony site. A White House account confirmed that two aircraft participated in the formation flight.
The Chinese top leader arrived by special plane in Washington. US President Trump broke a 64-year convention by personally going to the tarmac at Andrews Base to greet him.
消息指习近平专机预计于9月23日晚抵美，24日会见川普后随即于25日回国，全程未安排出席同期举行的联合国大会。
US President Trump delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly accusing Iran of funding terrorism, stating that it will never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons and faces a choice between reaching an agreement or total destruction.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced that, at the invitation of US President Trump, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25.