Shanghai imposed a lockdown starting on March 28, 2022. It was originally planned to last 9 days but actually continued for about two months, until normal production and daily life resumed on June 1. Residents experienced shortages of supplies, hardship in daily life, and psychological pressure.
Shanghai implemented a lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, with residents restricted from going out; the program said the doors of some residents had been welded shut.
A China Eastern Airlines passenger aircraft crashed.
The 2022 315 Gala first exposed production chaos at multiple pickled vegetable companies in Huarong and Junshan, Hunan, with workers stepping barefoot into the pickled greens and cigarette butts thrown about; the brands involved issued urgent apologies and terminated cooperation.
On March 1, 2022, Jin Xing posted on Weibo about the Chained Woman of Xuzhou and the Russia-Ukraine war, calling for opposition to the war. The post was subsequently blocked, and her account was banned.
Wang Yi held phone calls with officials from the UK, France, and the EU, stating that NATO has expanded eastward multiple times and that Russia's security concerns should be taken seriously.
The Russian military has begun a full-scale military operation against Ukraine, and the Russia-Ukraine war has escalated comprehensively.
On February 24, 2022, Putin announced the launch of a "special military operation," and Russian forces invaded Ukraine on four fronts, after which Western countries backed Ukraine.
On February 4, 2022, the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xi Jinping and Putin held talks and issued a joint statement claiming that China-Russia friendship has “no limits” and cooperation has “no forbidden areas.” Twenty days later, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Zhang Yimou once again served as chief director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics, using technological means such as LED floor screens and digital algorithms to present an ethereal and romantic Olympic opening ceremony.
On January 28, 2022, the Ministry of Finance announced that income from the transfer of state-owned land use rights in 2021 was 8.7051 trillion yuan (about 8.7 trillion yuan), an increase of 3.5% year on year, hitting a record high.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revoked the Section 214 operating authorization of China Unicom Americas Operations Co., Ltd.
The head of UK MI5 issued a national security intervention alert to Parliament, naming Chinese lawyer Christine Lee as a spy for the CCP United Front Work Department and exposing her scandal of buying British members of Parliament.
In 2022, net direct investment on China's balance of payments turned negative for the first time, at -0.1% of gross domestic product.
Meta's ad unit price fell by 16%, capital expenditure rose due to Metaverse investment, and free cash flow dropped from $38.4 billion to $18.4 billion, with the stock price falling to approximately $120.
Meta repurchased 160 million shares for approximately $28 billion, but the buyback failed to offset the impact of declining cash flow and rising discount rates on intrinsic value.
Former CCP Central Committee Inspection Team Deputy Leader Dong Hong sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
According to reports, by 2022 Zibo's debt increased to approximately 108 billion RMB, doubling from before Jiang Duntao took office.
Since 2022, the United States has gradually implemented export restrictions on China covering advanced AI chips, semiconductor equipment and high-bandwidth memory.
During the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's so-called "return," Stephen Chow accepted an exclusive TV interview and said: "I will always be Chinese, and I will tell China's stories well."
After Sun Yuchen took over the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, he was accused of handling platform users' assets through rule adjustments, targeted liquidations, and account bans.
In 2022, backed by massive subsidies, China's photovoltaic industry as a whole achieved net profits of over 100 billion yuan, reaching the industry's peak.
The Chinese Communist Party carried out grain depot inspections in Heilongjiang, opening cases against more than 1,000 people in one year, with grain bureau chiefs in 8 counties being investigated and punished.
The Commission for the Control of Files of Interpol decided to remove Huang Youlong's name and the red notice from the database, determining that the case was political in nature.
Mi Chunlei was taken away by the local public security economic investigation department between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, and subsequently failed to perform his duties for a long period.
The program's retrospective said that Old Beijing Teahouse had already aired more than 600 episodes and was preparing to launch its 625th episode.
The CCP proposed the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project at the 2022 SCO summit.
Hu Xiaowu, a professor at Nanjing University, conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,200 people in 2022, finding that 63% of young people under 18 have basically no contact with their relatives.
The Foshan Pineapple Volunteer Team is carrying out projects in Guizhou such as caring for the elderly with free breakfasts, supporting education, aiding agriculture, rural revitalization, and youth study tours.
Jiemian News and 36Kr (Times Finance) reported that Zhang Jun, the actual controller of the Fude group, made a low-profile return at the end of 2022 after being absent for several years and reshuffled the senior executives of Fude Group. No public explanation has been given as to the reasons for this or whether he faced any judicial action, and neither of these two sites can be reached from the United States either.
Land transfer revenue peaked at 8.7 trillion yuan in 2021, then recorded double-digit declines for four consecutive years starting in 2022, falling to 4.15 trillion yuan in 2025, a drop of about 52.3% from the peak.
The video claims that Rongding Group estimated China's actual GDP for 2022 to 2025 to be about 11% lower than the official figures; the publicly available Rongding report only gives an actual growth rate of 2.5% to 3% for 2025, and no such cumulative estimate can be found.
The British government has invested nearly 700 million pounds to forcibly buy out China General Nuclear Power Group's shares in the Sizewell C nuclear project, kicking the Chinese Communist Party out of the nuclear project.
In early 2022, the liquid assets of Russia's National Wealth Fund were about $113.5 billion, accounting for roughly 7% of its GDP.
In 2022, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Turkish businessman Sitki Ayan and the network of companies he controls, which had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars in oil sales proceeds for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force and was an upstream link in the business allegedly conducted by Golden Global Bank.
The Nanning government once sold local parking space operating rights from 2022 through 2052, a term as long as 30 years.
In 2022, CCTV Agriculture published content accusing the so-called formaldehyde cabbage claim circulating online of being hyped by foreign forces.
In 2022, the green crops of 31 households in Xicun, Dongcun Town, Lan County were destroyed overnight. Villagers claim it is related to a previous land acquisition dispute.