On September 30, 2025, the CCP Central Committee announced a personnel adjustment: Liu Jianchao no longer serves as Minister of the International Department of the CCP Central Committee, and is succeeded by Liu Haixing.
At the National Day reception on September 30, 2025, the supreme leader took the initiative to announce that the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee would be held the following month and would study the proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Dresden Higher Regional Court sentenced Guo Jian, an assistant to an Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker, to four years and nine months in prison, finding that he worked for Chinese intelligence services; logistics worker Yaqi, a co-defendant in the same case, received a suspended sentence.
On September 30, after Zhejiang Propaganda published an article criticizing Hu Chenfeng, Hu Chenfeng's accounts on all platforms were banned, officially wiping him off the internet.
On September 30, Zhejiang Propaganda published an article criticizing Hu Chenfeng, pointing out that he uses worship of the foreign to dissolve consensus, exploits young people's anxiety to harvest consumers, and uses extreme emotions to distort values. Previously, Zhang Xuefeng had already been criticized for shaking the foundations of the state.
On September 28, 2025, in Hujiatun Village, Wanquan District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, a village official exploited his position as an agent at a China Construction Bank branch to secretly transfer tens of millions of yuan of villagers’ pension savings into a personal account and absconded with the money, leaving many elderly residents in dire straits.
On September 23, 2025, the barrier lake on the Mataian River in Hualien overflowed and its dam breached, flooding Guangfu Township with floodwaters and mud, killing 19 people; after the disaster, large numbers of volunteers took part in clearing the silt.
Wang Xiaohong publicly attended and chaired a national video conference of public security organs on September 22, and has not made a public appearance since for over half a month.
Tang Yuanjun, a naturalized U.S. citizen and New York resident, has admitted to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government within the United States, reporting information on overseas pro-democracy activists to the state security (MSS).
In late September 2025, influencer Hu Chenfeng's accounts on multiple platforms including Weibo, Douyin and Bilibili were banned or shut down.
Guo Youcai originally sold barbecue in Heze, Shandong, before becoming famous through live-streaming songs. Driven by capital, he started a company and invited Angie Chiu to support him. By September 11, 2025, less than two years later, he was reported to have lost all his savings and incurred debts, returning to the old platform of the South Station of Heze Railway Station in Shandong Province to continue selling barbecue. Unlike his previous efforts to increase income, his purpose for returning to the barbecue business has shifted to paying off his debts as quickly as possible.
On September 11, 2025, 37-year-old actor Yu Menglong fell to his death at the Sunshine Upper East residential complex in Chaoyang District, Beijing. His studio stated that the police have ruled out criminal suspicion, while his mother claimed it was an accident caused by intoxication; there are other unverified claims online, and the incident remains controversial.
Miao Fatai's six-bedroom mansion in Arcadia, California was sold through Zhang Wanying, with a transaction price of about $4 million.
On September 5, multiple media outlets confirmed that Yi Huiman, former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has been taken away for investigation on suspicion of corruption, marking the second probe of him this year. Sources familiar with the matter said it is related to his relatives interfering in IPOs and internal corruption at ICBC. During his tenure, he oversaw 1,838 A-share IPOs with a total value exceeding 11 trillion yuan.
Trump family crypto project World Liberty froze about 595 million WLFI in Justin Sun's address, worth about $107 million at the time.
While accompanying foreign guests at the September 3 military parade, Xi Jinping mentioned that people this century might live to 150, drawing outside attention and discussion.
On the morning of September 3, 2025, a military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan was held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, with the troops on parade formed up along Chang'an Avenue to be reviewed by Xi Jinping.
During the September 3, 2025 military parade, many people noticed that in CCTV news footage Xi Jinping's entire head, and even his upper body, showed obvious twitching, seemingly beyond his own control; his breathing was also labored, and he needed to frequently raise his head to complete a breath.
According to bank records, the FBI found that a credit card under Zhang Wanying's name had a $265.25 charge at the Marriott Hotel at Seattle Airport, related to lodging there together with Miao Fatai.
Zhang Wanying went to Seattle on instructions from Chinese government officials, waiting outside the home of Lai Ching-te's son Lai Ting-yu to film him.
During the UN General Assembly in September 2025, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy warned the Russian leadership that Ukraine knows the locations of their bunkers.
Times Higher Education originally planned to publish a report alleging that Cambridge University professor Jason Arday's doctoral thesis and several journal articles involved plagiarism, but Arday subsequently hired a law firm to force the report to be taken down.
A U.S. federal court indictment states that Zhang Wanying and an accomplice flew from Las Vegas to Seattle, rented a car to go to Lai Ting-yu's residence to record video, and reported to a contact on the Chinese Communist Party side.
After the grand military parade ended, Xi Yuanping came forward to host the second generation of red elites and military families, holding a banquet and taking group photos with them; at the time, the major families believed they could hold on to their vested interests and privileges.
Facing weak genuine corporate borrowing demand and pressure from credit assessment targets, banks absorbed large volumes of bills by pushing down their internal bill-purchase costs, leading to a sharp increase in bill financing and corporate deposits across the market.
The Jiangsu Provincial Government has issued implementation opinions on zero-based budget reform, requiring that all personal wages and allowances, engineering projects, and corporate subsidies be paid using digital RMB.
Zhang Liqi attended the 93rd parade in Beijing.
According to on-chain tracking, about 32 hours before World Liberty froze Justin Sun's address, an HTX collection address linked to Sun Yuchen transferred approximately 60 million WLFI to a Binance deposit address.
AITO has filed a report with the public security authorities over relevant online remarks, saying that those spreading rumors may bear criminal liability.
U.S. federal prosecutors' charging documents state that Zhang Wanying traveled to Seattle in 2025, photographed the residence, vehicles and license plates of Lai Ching-te's family, and reported to the Chinese side via WeChat.
The Lan County Natural Resources Bureau opened an investigation in October 2023. Materials from September 2025 show that the County Transport Bureau occupied a total of 94.57 mu of collective land in Xicun and Dongyangjian villages without approval. It was fined 11.0807 million yuan and ordered to return the land, but reporters found the factory buildings still standing during their visit.
In September 2025, a document purportedly consisting of the key points of a Chinese Communist Party internal stability maintenance training course circulated online, listing control methods for preventing mass resistance, such as diverting social contradictions, splitting rights defense groups, steering debates, and entrapment-style law enforcement.