Chen Yixin, former director of the Policy Research Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, has succeeded Chen Wenqing as Minister of State Security.
At the closing ceremony of the 20th CCP National Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by staff, and subsequently, Hu Chunhua was not included in the new Politburo list.
At the closing ceremony of a major CCP meeting, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by security guards in full view of the public, marking the complete bankruptcy of political norms such as inter-generational succession designation.
At the closing session of the 20th CCP Congress, political successors left by Hu Jintao—including Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, and Hu Chunhua—failed to enter the new Politburo Standing Committee, while Xi Jinping successfully secured his reappointment as General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Ye Jianchun was elected as a member of the 20th CCP Central Committee on the list of members of the 20th CCP Central Committee announced on October 22, 2022.
Peng Lifa hung protest banners opposing Xi Jinping and the epidemic policies at Beijing's Sitong Bridge, an event that has garnered widespread attention.
Peng Zaizhou hung a banner on Beijing's Sitong Bridge to protest the lockdown, and was later arrested.
Bai Yansong interviewed Liang Wannian on the program News 1+1, raising nine questions about the economic cost and necessity of the dynamic zero-COVID policy; the program only arranged for Liang Wannian alone to answer and reiterated the policy's rationality.
Mototaka Ikawa, former chairman of Daio Paper, revealed in an interview that Shinzo Abe personally recounted an experience of encountering a 'honey trap' arranged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his hotel room during a 2001 visit to China.
At the closing session of the CCP's 20th National Congress in October 2022, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was unsteadily escorted out of the venue early, in full view of everyone, drawing widespread attention.
University of Chicago scholar Martinez, using satellite nighttime light data, found that annual GDP growth in authoritarian countries is overstated by an average of about 35%, and that China's figure may have been overstated by about one third over the past two decades.
Overseas leaks claim that the Politburo of the 20th Central Committee was unprecedentedly set at an even number of 24, indicating that a name was scraped off the list before the closing, reportedly Peng Liyuan, who was pushed back by the military's old marshals.
Rumor has it that during the CCP's 20th National Congress in 2022, Zhang Youxia, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, ordered Zhou Hongxu, director of the Central Guard Bureau, to lock down the venue.
During the 2022 National Day holiday, a property management company in Sichuan scheduled security team leader surnamed Xie to work all 7 days. He was not granted leave and did not show up at any point, and was subsequently fired by the company. His labor contract stipulated 12 hours of work per day and 6 days per week.