The Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee selected 100 excellent songs for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, and "Songs and Smiles" ranked 53rd.
The host said that several people who followed his advice returned to China in early 2019 and sold properties in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, Hainan, Zhuhai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai and other places.
Hu Liren said that in January 2019, while Liu He was in Washington for the China-US trade negotiations, he put slogans on his vehicle and drove in protest, lasting about 100 days.
The son of Nicky Wu and Liu Shishi was born in a Taipei hospital during the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement, and holds a Republic of China passport and household registration.
Sun Yuanping was taken by several police officers to a police station, searched, and forced to close his Twitter account after retweeting a cartoon depicting dictators, including Xi Jinping, playing cards. He was subsequently placed under administrative detention for seven days.
During the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement, young mainland netizens, spurred by the Communist Youth League's official line and driven by platform algorithms, once again organized in groups to jump the wall and go on an expedition, continuing the model of online crusades that had prevailed since 2016.
During the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, the CCP massed a large number of troops and military vehicles around the Lo Wu Bridge area. President Trump warned on Twitter that the CCP must be prevented from a bloody crackdown on Hong Kong and a repeat of the Tiananmen incident, and the U.S. side issued a stern warning.
When Huawei employee Li Hongyuan left the company in 2018, he negotiated a severance package of 330,000 yuan. Shortly after the money arrived, he was criminally detained by Shenzhen police, with the charges changing from embezzlement and leaking trade secrets to extortion. Because Li had kept recordings of the negotiations and public pressure mounted, he was released without charge after 251 days in detention and received state compensation of 107,522 yuan paid by the government.
According to a 2019 report by The New York Times, Huawei's Safe City system in Ecuador was used by the local government to monitor the opposition and journalists.
According to a 2019 report by the Danish newspaper Copenhagen Times, the Chinese embassy forcibly demanded that the Danish government deploy a Huawei 5G system in the Faroe Islands, threatening to abolish the China-Denmark free trade agreement.
In 2019, Cheng Wanjun was reported for commenting on Xi Jinping at his workplace, subsequently sentenced to six years in prison. After completing his sentence in 2025, he left the country and arrived in Thailand.
In 2019, Gao Xiaosong joined the Chinese Communist Party-led Jiusan Society, saying he had finally joined the intellectual family he had long aspired to.
In January 2019, Huang Qifan began serving as chair of the Industry Transformation Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University's Institute for Internet Industry.