On December 25, 2011, the State Council investigation team released its report on the Yongwen line accident, confirming 40 deaths and 172 injuries; prior to this, pits had been dug at the accident site to bury the locomotive, sparking public questioning.
During the expanded meeting of the Central Military Commission, Liu Yuan brought into the hall a photo of Gu Junshan's luxurious general’s residence built in Puyang, Henan, and demanded an investigation into related issues.
When the project building was nearing completion and about to start collecting rent, Shenzhen Metro Group transferred its entire 60% share to Yuanwei Enterprises.
US FBI official Sarah submitted an encrypted email to Xi Jinping detailing Wang Lijun's monitoring of calls between central leaders. Upon learning of this, Xi Jinping decided to handle the matter personally.
On July 28, 2011, the sixth day after the Wenzhou train crash, Premier of the State Council Wen Jiabao rushed to Wenzhou and responded to outside questions about the timing of his arrival.
In the early morning of July 24, 2011, at the site of the Wenzhou train crash, bulldozers crushed fragments of the derailed carriages and dug pits to bury them on the spot, triggering a fierce public reaction. The Ministry of Railways later acknowledged that it had buried the locomotive.
On the evening of July 23, 2011, CRH trains D301 and D3115 on the Ningbo–Taizhou–Wenzhou Railway collided in Wenzhou, sending several carriages off the bridge; much of the information was sent out by passengers via Sina Weibo.
After hiding in Canada for twelve years, Lai Changxing was deported back to China in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
On the evening of June 21, 2011, Guo Meimei showed off a villa and luxury cars on Weibo under the identity of "General Manager of Commerce of the Red Cross Society of China," sparking public questions about the Red Cross and the transparency of charitable work.
29-year-old Li Na defeated her opponent in the French Open women's singles final in Paris to win the title, becoming the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles championship.
In May 2011, Kaifeng Mayor Zhou Yizhong was placed under shuanggui, and was later sentenced to life imprisonment in early 2014 on charges of accepting bribes.
On May 9, 2011, the Liaoning Provincial High People's Court concluded the second-instance trial, upholding the first-instance judgment of the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court and sentencing Xia Junfeng to death; his defense lawyer argued that Xia Junfeng had acted in self-defense, which was not accepted.
The shortfall in urban employee pension insurance in Heilongjiang Province had already exceeded 11 billion yuan as early as 2011, and the current-period balance turned negative in 2013 — 15 to 17 years earlier than the nationally projected 2028 turning point.
In 2011, the Jasmine Revolution broke out in China, and the Hu Jintao administration suppressed it with iron-fisted means.
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.