Xi went to the Tangshan Earthquake Site Memorial Park, presented flower baskets to the compatriots who perished and to the heroes of earthquake resistance, bowed three times to the memorial wall, visited earthquake survivors with paraplegia, and inspected post-disaster reconstruction.
On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration issued its ruling in China's absence, upholding nearly all of the Philippines' claims and rejecting the historical rights claims based on the nine-dash line.
After Roast Season 1, hosted by Zhou Jie, drew about 30 million views within three days of going online, it suddenly disappeared from the platform; eight months later it was relaunched after its offensive angle was revised.
After the South China Sea arbitration case ruling was announced in July 2016, young netizens once again organized in groups to jump the Great Firewall and go on an expedition; together with the expedition organized by Li Yi in January of the same year, this formed a fixed pattern of online expeditions.