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.
On December 8, 2014, the grand premiere of the new film 'Gone with the Bullets', directed by Jiang Wen, was originally scheduled for that evening. It was urgently called off due to new developments in the censorship process and was held one week later.
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.
Wang Ning transferred from Deputy Chief of the General Staff to Commander of the People's Armed Police.
Dong Jun was transferred from Deputy Commander of the East Sea Fleet to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy.