On the morning of November 15, 2016, the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court carried out the death penalty on Jia Jinglong in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People's Court; he had shot and killed village Party secretary He Jianhua after his own marital home was forcibly demolished.
Trump stated that since his first election in 2016, he has established a friendship with Xi based on mutual respect and the fundamental interests of the peoples of both countries.
The Cybersecurity Law was passed in November 2016 and took effect in June 2017, stipulating that platforms are also held responsible when anti-Communist or pornographic content appears on them, and that group owners may be punished if someone in a group violates the rules; thereafter, all platforms greatly increased their content moderation staff.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party studied major issues of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. After the meeting, it adopted a new code of intra-party political life and a revised regulation on intra-party supervision, and formally put forward "the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core."
Xi Jinping publicly stated that state-owned enterprises are an important pillar for the Chinese Communist Party's governance and national rejuvenation, demanding that they be strengthened, optimized, and expanded, marking the beginning of state-owned enterprises squeezing out private enterprises.
Originally, the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress had 62 members, of which 38 lost their qualifications, resulting in the number of members falling below half, making it impossible to hold normal meetings and perform duties.
In 2016, a Ministry of Finance investigation found that 72 of 93 automakers were suspected of defrauding subsidies, with the case rate reaching as high as 80%.
In September 2016, Dushan County in Guizhou broke ground on a nearly 100-meter-tall all-wood Water Company Building despite fiscal revenue of less than 1 billion yuan, taking on nearly 200 million yuan in debt; it later became an unfinished project after the funding chain broke.
On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration issued its ruling in China's absence, upholding nearly all of the Philippines' claims and rejecting the historical rights claims based on the nine-dash line.
After the South China Sea arbitration case ruling was announced in July 2016, young netizens once again organized in groups to jump the Great Firewall and go on an expedition; together with the expedition organized by Li Yi in January of the same year, this formed a fixed pattern of online expeditions.
On May 17, 2016, the Hebei High People's Court rejected Jia Jinglong's appeal in a second-instance ruling, upheld the first-instance death sentence handed down by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court, and submitted it to the Supreme People's Court for review.
The Xicheng District Committee of Beijing has decided to place Ren Zhiqiang on probation within the party for one year, finding that he has repeatedly made erroneous remarks.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has legally closed the Weibo account of Ren Zhiqiang, who had nearly 37 million followers, on the grounds of "continuously publishing illegal information."
Xi Jinping inspected three major state media outlets and put forward the assertion that "media sponsored by the Party and government must adhere to the Party."
In 2016, Xi Jinping put forward the requirement that party media belong to the party, further tightening ideology and public opinion control.
Ren Zhiqiang publicly questioned on Weibo that “party media are partisan”, prompting a concentrated criticism by official media, and was labeled “anti-party” etc.
Xi Jinping inspected People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CCTV, proposing that media run by the Party and government must be loyal to the Party. CCTV displayed the slogan 'CCTV is loyal to the Party, absolutely loyal.'
According to a report by Caixin, Zhang Jun, chairman of Fuide Insurance Holdings, was taken away by relevant authorities on February 5, 2016 to assist in an investigation; market rumors linked the case to Liu Zhigeng, vice governor of Guangdong Province.
China introduced the Regulations on Online Publishing Service Management and the Cybersecurity Law in 2016.
Wang Zhanjiang founded Shenzhen Huasheng Investment Co., Ltd., and within less than four weeks the company cooperated with CITIC Real Estate and others to establish Shenzhen Xinghuo Xinteng Real Estate Co., Ltd., obtaining a credit endorsement for the Shenzhen old city renovation project.
An investigation by South Korean prosecutors found that ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) drew up the "Hefei Plan" in early 2016, targeting Samsung's DRAM processes and talent; a former Samsung employee who jumped ship in 2016 was accused of providing large amounts of handwritten materials on DRAM technology.
In 2016, Heilongjiang's current-year pension shortfall reached 32 billion yuan, and its cumulative surplus was negative, making it the only province in the country where the cumulative pension surplus went into deficit.
In 2016, fixed-asset investment in Liaoning Province plunged 63.5%, and in March of the same year Northeast Special Steel went into substantive default, marking the complete collapse of Northeast China's balance sheet and credit.
Ling Jihua, former director of the CCP Central Committee General Office, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, while his younger brother Ling Wancheng had previously fled to the United States with confidential materials.
After Cao Jiongfang became Party Secretary of Xiangtan in May 2016, knowing full well that the debt had already been flagged, he still pushed the "Exquisite Xiangtan Two-Year Action," rolling out 345 projects with a total investment of 61.7 billion yuan, adding 43.5 billion yuan of new debt in violation of regulations, and leaving behind 33 unfinished projects.
In 2016, Ling Jihua, former director of the CCP General Office, was sentenced to life imprisonment and is still serving his sentence.
In 2016, Xi Jinping made clear at the symposium on the Party's news and public opinion work that media sponsored by the Party and the government must bear the Party's name, that media work must embody the Party's will and reflect the Party's positions, and he emphasized giving priority to positive publicity.
In 2016, Xi Jinping proposed that housing is for living in, not for speculation, in an attempt to push down housing prices. Local governments passively resisted due to fiscal and debt problems, and collective incidents of unpaid wages for teaching staff and public employees occurred. Xi Jinping ultimately abandoned this policy and turned to backstopping local government debt.
In 2016, China fully lifted its two-child policy, but in 2017 the number of births fell instead of rising, coming in millions short of projections.