On July 30, 2024, 22-year-old Fang Yirong from Loudi, Hunan, imitated the Sitong Bridge protest by hanging anti-Xi banners and playing a broadcast on a pedestrian bridge in Xinhua County. He subsequently recorded a video declaring his opposition to authoritarian rule and was arrested by the authorities shortly thereafter.
In late July 2024, Lao Dongyan, a professor at Tsinghua University's Law School, published an article openly questioning the network number and network certificate system that the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China plan to introduce, arguing that it is essentially the normalization of Health Kit surveillance. The article was swiftly wiped out across the entire internet.
A netizen submitted a report claiming that Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT system has a built-in website blocking function based on online detection, consistent with the blocking in Huawei phones' stock browser, and that every URL a user visits is uploaded to Huawei.
Fang Xinghai was scheduled to attend and deliver a speech at the China Wealth Management 50 Forum in Beijing, but he did not appear, and his nameplate was left empty.
Wang Yi discussed the China-Ukraine strategic partnership and bilateral trade with Kuleba, stating that China will continue to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Chen Jun pleaded guilty on July 24, 2024 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, admitting to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government and bribing IRS officials; on November 19 of the same year he was sentenced to 20 months in prison.
Lao Fan, a 70-year-old unmarried man with no children in Yangpu, Shanghai, was sentenced to seven months in prison for stealing an electric bicycle; a social worker's assessment pointed out that Lao Fan will face enormous survival problems after his release from prison.
China held a Palestinian peace conference in Beijing, inviting representatives from Hamas and other radical factions to attend, claiming it would help establish peace in the Middle East.
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee concluded on July 18.
Between 2023 and 2024, Rocket Force Commander Li Yuchao was investigated and later expelled from the Party.
On July 18, 2024, the communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stated that Qin Gang's resignation application was accepted and his membership on the Central Committee was revoked; the communiqué still referred to him as "comrade" and gave no specific reason.
A jury found Guo Wengui guilty on nine counts and not guilty on three. The guilty charges include racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and securities fraud.
Guo Wengui was found guilty by a U.S. jury on nine felony charges, including racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.
After a seven-week trial, a US jury found Guo Wengui guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering, among other charges.
After Enxu lost contact, Wang Yuhang posted missing-person information on social media and reported to the police that Enxu was missing; more than ten days later, the police said that Enxu had not been unlawfully deprived of personal freedom.
During the closed-door meeting of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee, Xi Jinping's head shook violently and half of his body leaned over, causing him to collapse in front of the podium, suffering a stroke and falling into a temporary coma.
Overseas rumors suggest that Xi Jinping suffered a stroke during the Third Plenary Session, military control changed hands, and Zhang Youxia placed him under control while contacting Hu Jintao through Liu Yuan.
The Chinese Communist Party's Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee was held in Beijing from July 15 to 18, 2024, later than the usual timing (September to December of the year following the Party Congress). The video claims that the delay of the session is linked to personnel changes in the military.
Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding Trump and leaving two people dead or wounded; the gunman was then shot dead.
Enxu said that three instructors, while he was heading to the countryside to sweep his grandmother's tomb, falsely claimed that his personal information was involved in fraud, forcibly put him in a vehicle, and sent him to Shengbo School 8 hours later.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the suspension of the securities lending business, a practice previously promoted by Fang Xinghai and widely regarded by retail investors as a tool for 'leek-cutting' (fleecing investors).
Macau's Court of Final Appeal delivered its final verdict in the Alvin Chau case, sentencing him to 18 years in prison and confiscating all illegal proceeds for the Macau SAR government.
In July 2024, Zhang Youxia and Liu Yuan seized military power into their own hands, after which Zhang Youxia drove Zhong Shaojun out of the Central Military Commission.
In July 2024, Han Song was transferred from China Huadian Corporation Xinjiang Power Generation Co., Ltd. to serve as Deputy General Manager of China Resources Group.
Two years ago, a scandal broke in China over industrial tanker trucks being used to carry edible oil. The account of Han Futao, the reporter involved in the coverage, was deactivated, and the related movement-tracking lookup feature was taken offline.
Under the influence of bank credit assessment and market supply and demand, the rediscount rate on one-month national joint-stock bank bills touched zero for the first time at the end of July, opening up the subsequent long-term low-interest-rate bill discount arbitrage channel.
Overseas sources claim that Wen Jiabao pushed for the establishment of a Party Central decision-making and deliberation coordination body and personally serves as its head, that major decisions do not go through the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, and that Xi Jinping has been effectively placed under house arrest at Fengze Garden in Zhongnanhai.
A relevant report documents 34 incidents of harassment and assault during the welcoming event in San Francisco and identifies 19 leaders of United Front overseas Chinese organizations, 12 of whom directly participated in the physical attacks, resulting in at least 3 people being hospitalized.
Overseas sources claim that after Xi Jinping collapsed from a stroke in July 2024, Zhang Youxia ordered the troops to fully enter Level-1 combat readiness, and via Liu Yuan connected a red hotline with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao within four hours.
Gaukas Wang (Wang Yiyan), a US-based Great Firewall and anti-censorship researcher, lost contact with the outside world after returning to China in the summer of 2024 and has been missing since July 2024. Chinese Human Rights issued a statement in June 2026 expressing concern.