On February 26, due to a rise in Xiaomi's stock price, Lei Jun briefly became the richest person in China, but he urgently denied the report, calling it fake news.
On February 21, 2025, bipartisan members of both houses of the U.S. Congress jointly introduced a resolution explicitly opposing the CCP's distortion of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, reaffirming that the U.S. "one China policy" is not equivalent to the CCP's "one China principle," and supporting Taiwan's international participation.
A U.S. senator disclosed in Congress that in 2025, parties involved in China's dumping of toxic waste into Zambia's main river contaminated the drinking water of millions of local people, and were accused of forcing local parties to sign confidentiality agreements to cover up the incident.
On February 18, 2025, the “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” team announced the interim results of “611Study,” having collected data on excessive schedules from 2,113 high schools across the country within two weeks, and pushed schools in multiple regions to restore two-day weekends and delay the start of the school term.
Xi Jinping convened another symposium on private enterprises, inviting several well-known private entrepreneurs to attend, and emphasized the consistency and unchangeability of policies regarding the private economy.
The U.S. State Department updated its description of Taiwan, adding wording that opposes changing the status quo through coercion, in addition to opposing the use of force to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait.
Official announcement on February 13: Jiang Qiulian's fundraising donations are not suspected of fraud; no clues of tax-related issues were found, and no cashing out through POS machine proxy swiping was used; the claim that she raised another son is inconsistent with the facts. Previously, multiple accusations of donation fraud by media worker Li Ji and writer Chen Lan, among others, were all denied.
CCTV exposes rare internal details of the Rocket Force's underground nuclear Great Wall, boasting of a 5,000-kilometer super-project and intercontinental missile silos, constructing a so-called doomsday survival fortress.
On February 4, 2025, in response to Beihang University student Geng publicly blasting his Russian Academy of Engineering academician status for lacking research achievements, Ding Zhifeng brought company executives to Beihang to talk with Geng in person, triggering a confrontation and debate.
Singapore has charged three men, accusing them of deceiving Dell and Supermicro regarding the final destination of servers containing Nvidia chips.
In February 2025, the Chinese Communist Party began restricting exports of tungsten and antimony (medium and heavy rare earths).
The Thai government repatriated a group of Uyghurs to China in a secret operation, sparking strong condemnation from Western countries.
In February 2025, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange showed that the net inflow of foreign direct investment into China in 2024 was only about $4.5 billion, the lowest since 1991 and just 2% of the 2021 peak of $344.1 billion.
In February 2025, Meituan, JD.com and several other platforms successively issued announcements stating that they would gradually start paying social insurance for food delivery riders. Media professional Xiang Dongliang calculated that Meituan has about 820,000 full-time and stable riders, and that paying the five social insurances and the housing provident fund at the minimum contribution base would cost 15.5 billion yuan per year, exceeding Meituan's net profit of more than 13.8 billion yuan in 2023. He believes the platforms cannot bear the full cost and will merely open accounts to make the deductions on riders' behalf.