In 2016, several legal scholars and lawyers wrote to Zhou Qiang, President of the Supreme People's Court, arguing that approving Jia Jinglong's death sentence did not meet the standards and policies for the cautious use of the death penalty, and requesting that it not be carried out; the list of co-signers and the date of October 25 could not be verified.
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.
Deng Guangying, a Chongqing petitioner who had spoken about the disappearances in Chongqing and the organ harvesting scandal, was arrested and repatriated after being interviewed in Beijing, and has been held at the Sanmiao Psychiatric Hospital in Hechuan District ever since.