Actress Shao Xiaoshan posted on Weibo stating that she had been approached by the Second Department of the General Staff since the age of 17 and ordered to date the son of a Western diplomat to gather intelligence.
On July 28, 2011, the sixth day after the Wenzhou train crash, Premier of the State Council Wen Jiabao rushed to Wenzhou and responded to outside questions about the timing of his arrival.
In the early morning of July 24, 2011, at the site of the Wenzhou train crash, bulldozers crushed fragments of the derailed carriages and dug pits to bury them on the spot, triggering a fierce public reaction. The Ministry of Railways later acknowledged that it had buried the locomotive.
On the evening of July 23, 2011, CRH trains D301 and D3115 on the Ningbo–Taizhou–Wenzhou Railway collided in Wenzhou, sending several carriages off the bridge; much of the information was sent out by passengers via Sina Weibo.
After hiding in Canada for twelve years, Lai Changxing was deported back to China in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
When serving as Vice President, Xi Jinping met with South Korean Democratic Party leader Sohn Hak-kyu at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where he put forward three wishes for China: qualifying for the World Cup, hosting the World Cup, and winning the World Cup.