On February 25, 2018, Xinhua News Agency suddenly released the CCP Central Committee's constitutional amendment proposal dated January 26, in which Article 14 deleted the provision of Article 79 of the Constitution that the President and Vice President "shall not serve more than two consecutive terms." There had been no public discussion beforehand, and two weeks later, on March 11, the National People's Congress voted to pass it.
Li Shufu spent 7.3 billion euros through an overseas entity to become the largest shareholder of Daimler. The acquisition funds and the regulatory green light have sparked speculation about political-business relations.
In Hanzhong, Shaanxi, Zhang Koukou attacked the Wang family in revenge for his mother being killed 22 years earlier and the murderer receiving a light sentence, killing three members of the Wang family. After the incident he turned himself in, and was executed the following year, sparking intense public discussion about judicial fairness and private revenge.
Changpeng Zhao appeared on the cover of Forbes when Binance had been founded for less than 1 year.
China launched a nationwide special campaign to crack down on gangs and eliminate evil, which lasted for about 3 years and was announced to have ended in 2021.
In January 2018, Tianjin Binhai New Area switched its GDP statistical basis from registered to local, revising its 2016 GDP from 1,000.231 billion yuan to 665.4 billion yuan, a drop of about one third; the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics said this had no impact on the city's overall GDP.
Beijing held a flag-presentation ceremony for the People's Armed Police Force, where Xi Jinping presented the force's flag to Commander Wang Ning.
In January 2018, Guangzhou doctor Tan Qindong was arrested across provincial lines by police in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia, and detained for nearly 100 days after writing a popular science article questioning the false advertising and medication risks of Hongmao Medicinal Liquor. The case was ultimately dropped due to insufficient evidence and concluded with a settlement.
In 2018, during the Trump administration, the United States began imposing high-tech sector restrictions on China; on April 16, the U.S. Department of Commerce reimposed a seven-year export ban on ZTE.
In 2018, China amended its constitution to abolish term limits for the presidency, fundamentally rewriting the power structure in Zhongnanhai with the aim of achieving long-term governance and ensuring the concentration of supreme power.
After the military reform, the People's Armed Police (PAP) were placed under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and incorporated into the military system; Wang Ning subsequently retired.
China has released its first official Arctic white paper, putting forward its political claims as a 'near-Arctic state,' asserting that wherever there are interests, there is a right to participate in Arctic governance and resource acquisition, with the goal of becoming a polar great power by 2030.
Arranged by CCP agent Yang Tengbo, British Prince Andrew began sending handwritten birthday letters to Beijing every year on Xi Jinping's birthday.
The Chinese Coast Guard is wholly placed under the command of the People's Armed Police, belongs to the PAP sequence, but externally still enforces the law as a coast guard.
Guo Yonghang, former member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee during Ma Xingrui's tenure in Shenzhen, has left Shenzhen to serve as Secretary of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee.
Cai Huabo has sold the majority of his shares in Taihe Holdings, a move seen as a step toward asset concealment and withdrawal.
Michael Wolff published Fire and Fury, which disclosed Bannon's criticisms of the Trump family; Trump subsequently attacked Bannon publicly, and Rebekah Mercer cut ties with Bannon.
During the 2018 constitutional amendment to allow term extensions, the Chinese Communist Party announced the launch of a three-year special campaign to "sweep away black and eliminate evil."
Jing Tian used a hand warmer printed with a cartoon portrait of Zhang Jike; Zhang Jike wrote "KT" on a variety show and posted a poem on Weibo hiding the characters "Jing" and "Tian," further bringing their relationship into the open.
After being placed under an exit ban, Justin Sun left the country through unconventional means and has since remained abroad for an extended period.
A homebuyer in Zhengzhou reported that the property purchased in 2018 cost over one million yuan in total, including the purchase price, down payment, and interest. Listing prices in the same residential compound have since fallen sharply, leaving the buyer facing massive asset losses.
Wuhan citizens Huang Jingyi and Geng Caiwen were seized by local police and detained for a month for recording a 10-second "reversing" video.
Since 2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used Tang Yuanjing's longing for home as a lure of returning to China and successfully turned him.
Xi Jinping visited Shanghai in 2018. The program quoted a member of the Shanghai Municipal Government Security Protection Department as saying that about 3,000 personnel from the Central Guard Unit were involved in perimeter security and safety work at the time.
Kim Myeong-il said that in 2018 the government imposed similar administrative restrictions on his house, affecting his work and buying and selling, and putting him in debt.
Kim Myeong-il said that after the Beijing church was cracked down on in 2018, the VOA Chinese website invited him to talk by telephone about his own situation and that of the Xi'an Church.
A group of researchers conducted tests by grouping individuals with normal film viewing experience and those with almost no experience watching film and television works. The results showed that the former would infer emotions based on adjacent frames, while the latter mainly viewed the frames as independent facts.
The Brazilian government and McDonald's have been engaged in a long-running legal battle since 2018 over whether a cone counts as ice cream or a dairy beverage and which turnover tax rate applies.
In CCTV's special program celebrating the 40th anniversary of Reform and Opening Up, “Songs Drifting Through Forty Years,” the Yinhe Children's Television Art Troupe once again performed “Songs and Smiles.”
A house-price article falsely attributed to Ren Zhiqiang has been circulating online, and Pan Shiyi responded on Ren Zhiqiang's behalf through his own Weibo account.
The video claims that between 2018 and 2022, about 100 million households bought homes at peak prices, accounting for more than 20% of all households nationwide; no public source can be found for this estimate.
Over three years, China has rectified approximately 40,000 weak and lax village Party organizations, dealt with over 40,000 village officials, and investigated more than 90,000 cases under the guise of cracking down on 'protective umbrellas,' resulting in the punishment of over 110,000 people.
A graduate doctor working at a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangzhou published a post pointing out that Hongmao medicinal liquor contains a variety of toxic Chinese herbs. After the article was widely shared online, Inner Mongolia police, without any coordination with local public security, secretly arrested him across provincial lines and detained him for months. When he was released from prison, he was physically and psychologically traumatized and covered with illnesses.
As disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, Huawei has long helped the Chinese Communist Party build the Skynet surveillance system, and in 2018 developed the “Uyghur Alert” feature, which automatically triggers an alarm as soon as police cameras identify a Uyghur.
Between 2018 and 2020, Tong Liya continuously received important resources from CCTV, with related content linking this to the period when Shen Haixiong was in charge of the station.
In 2018, the Starwood database under Marriott Hotels was breached, exposing data on approximately 383 million travelers, with passport numbers, travel records and other information all exposed.
Zhang Koukou, a veteran from Hanzhong, Shaanxi, witnessed his mother beaten to death by local thugs as a child. In 2018 he returned home and killed several members of the family responsible, a case seen as a typical instance of folk revenge against village bullies and local tyrants.
Public interactions between Jing Tian and Zhang Jike began to decrease, hinting that problems may have arisen in their relationship.
In 2018, Gao Xiaosong posted on Weibo that he had officially joined Harvard University as a researcher. Netizens searched Harvard's website and found that his English title was Associate, raising questions about him exaggerating his credentials.