On December 22, 2014, the Standing Committee of the CCP Central Committee's Politburo announced that it had placed Ling Jihua, then head of the United Front Work Department, under investigation; nine days later, Sun Chunlan succeeded him as head of the United Front Work Department.
The CCP Central Committee reported that Zhou Yongkang leaked Party and state secrets, committed adultery with multiple women, and engaged in power-for-sex and money-for-sex transactions.
A video circulating online claims that the Guizhou provincial government has established a leading group for government debt management, with Chen Min'er as head and Chen Yiqin as executive deputy head, requiring control over the scale of debt and prevention of blind project launches. This claim originated from a video, and no public document can be found.
On October 14, 2014, China International Capital Corporation (CICC) announced that Zhu Yunlai had resigned from the positions of president and chairman of the management committee, with Lin Shoukang serving as acting president.
On the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the birth of Xi Zhongxun, Xi Yuanping published a reminiscence article titled “Beautiful Woodlands” in the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, recounting the love story with his wife Zhang Lanlan and accompanied by a photo of the two together; the article was subsequently reported to have been ordered deleted across the entire network.
At the end of May 2014, all Google websites became inaccessible in China and have never been unblocked since. Foreign websites shifted from a blacklist system to a de facto whitelist system.
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.
In April 2014, Song Lin, Chairman of China Resources Group, was brought down due to his involvement in the Shanxi coal asset acquisition case, which implicated the family interests of Ling Jihua.
In 2014, former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xu Caihou was investigated, marking the beginning of Xi Jinping's purge of Jiang Zemin's influence in the military.
In 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Leadership Group, with Xi Jinping serving as its head.
Li Na defeated Cibulkova in the 2014 Australian Open final to claim the second Grand Slam title of her career.
In 2014, a serious knee injury forced Li Na to bid farewell to the professional tour, and she announced the end of her professional tennis career at her retirement press conference.
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.