People in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, and other places dressed up and took to the streets during Halloween; police patrols or on-site dispersal occurred in many locations.
A Chinese woman wearing Hanfu was arrested in Shanghai during Halloween.
On October 31, 2024, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee simultaneously decided that Liu Dongwei would serve as Secretary of the Xicheng District Party Committee, and Zhi Haijie would serve as Deputy Secretary of the Xicheng District Party Committee and be nominated as candidate for district mayor.
Guangzhou Metro has set up makeup removal areas for passengers to remove their Halloween costumes.
Multiple police vehicles are parked along Changning Road in Shanghai, with volunteers and police officers stationed at the entrance of Zhongshan Park, and buses carrying police personnel nearby.
People were collectively turned away at the Guangzhou Halloween event site.
Zhuhai Fuhuali issued a notice stating that, due to requirements from relevant departments, the performance scheduled for Halloween night has been cancelled.
Someone dressed up and performed on the streets of Wuhan, and police (Public Security) and SWAT police asked the participants to leave; the police on site did not immediately force a dispersal.
Peng Jinhui, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, has been transferred away from the department to serve as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
On October 29, 2024, the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sun Zhigang to death for accepting more than 813 million yuan in bribes, with a two-year reprieve and life imprisonment.
Moutai Group has issued a letter of intent to Guizhou Bank, proposing to subscribe for no more than 619 million new shares.
On October 22, 2024, Jin Xing posted an open letter on Weibo naming Song Shuqin, director of the approval division of the Guangzhou Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, demanding the red-headed official document rejecting the dance troupe's performance approval.
China Resource Recycling Group was officially established, with Liu Yu appointed as its first Party Committee Secretary and Chairman.
Zhang Youxia meets with Russian Defense Minister Belousov, who is visiting China, in Beijing.
The Taiwan Affairs Office announced that it has listed Shen Bo and Robert Tsao as so-called stubborn Taiwan independence separatists, and imposed sanctions on the Kuma Academy, affecting related family members, organizations, and corporate partners.
Data released by the People's Bank of China shows that the balance of M0 cash in circulation at the end of September was 15.02 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.6%. Throughout last year, the M0 growth rate remained stable between 10% and 12%, indicating that despite the widespread adoption of QR code payments, the amount of cash held by the public continues to grow at a double-digit rate.
Belousov visited China for the first time as Russian Defense Minister. Dong Jun held talks with him in Beijing and inspected the honor guard.
Wu Bangguo, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, passed away in Beijing, China, on October 8, 2024, at the age of 84.
On October 8, 2024, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced the investigation of Qi Tongsheng, former chairman of the Ningxia CPPCC; on December 16, 2025, he was sentenced to a suspended death penalty in the first-instance trial for taking 111 million yuan in bribes.
On October 8, 2024, the Zibo Intermediate People's Court, in a retrial, found that the compensation received by a person surnamed Lu had been determined through negotiation between both parties, with no intent of illegal possession, and overturned the original verdict, declaring him not guilty.
On October 8, 2024, the Fifth Criminal Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that covertly slipping someone date-rape drugs (K.o. drops) to carry out a sexual assault does not constitute the use of a “dangerous instrument,” and therefore the aggravated provision carrying a minimum sentence of five years does not apply.
On October 1, a knife attack occurred at a daycare center in Zurich, Switzerland. A 23-year-old Chinese man attacked three children, leaving one of them seriously injured. The perpetrator was subsequently subdued by staff and bystanders and handed over to the police.
Wei Xiaokui went to Fujian in October 2024 to serve as vice governor, and later took over as secretary of the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection around mid-2025.
In October last year, the number of tanks in Russia's inventory was 2887.
Yi Lianhong was removed from his post as Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, subsequently assigned to the National People's Congress to cooperate with an investigation, and was announced to have fallen from power over a year later.
During Halloween 2024, Shanghai police strictly prohibited citizens from wearing Halloween costumes or cosplaying in areas such as Yuyuan Road. Many citizens who went out in costume were forcibly taken to the Public Security Bureau for questioning or arrested.
Ren Xinyi wrote an open letter stating that her father, Ren Zhiqiang, is suffering from a severe prostate condition and is in great pain in prison, and requested that he be granted medical parole.
In October 2024, a cosplay event at Nanjing Happy Valley was terminated.
A school group notice requires all student clubs to refrain from holding team-building or recreational activities on campus between October 31 and November 3, and instructs groups to contact their faculty advisors separately.
In October 2024, the Nantou County Government released a poll claiming that 87% of Nantou residents support the construction of a new renewable energy center (incinerator), but local opposition argued that the poll was merely a leading survey.
A 93-year-old man in Shaoyang, Hunan was sentenced to 15 years in October 2024, but the detention center refused to take him into custody on the grounds that he cannot care for himself.
An Oxfam report from October 2024 (using data from the first quarter of 2024) shows that the median monthly income of Hong Kong's poorest 10% of households was HK$1,600, down 54% from HK$3,500 in 2019, while the richest 10% earned 101,000; the gap between rich and poor widened from 34.3 times to 81.9 times, the poverty rate was 2.2%, and about 1.39 million people lived below the poverty line. The government's poverty report has not been updated since 2021.
In October 2024, a netizen known as "Major" put up 1 million yuan to hire people to kidnap Wu Kai, who frequently posted telecom fraud information. The perpetrators posed as police and abducted him in Huizhou, Guangdong, forcing him to reveal who was behind the public account and to delete the articles, then moved him to Heyuan and Dingnan in Jiangxi, where they continued to beat him before abandoning him in the mountains; on November 13, Wu Kai was found dead.
On October 1st, an outlet in Sichuan held a discount promotion. Customers rushed into the store to snap up Nike shoes, causing chaos. Netizens commented that everyone has already forgotten about the Nike Xinjiang cotton incident.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Cao Xingxin, former Vice General Manager of China Unicom who long served in the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, was subjected to disciplinary review and investigation, and later sentenced to 12 years in prison.
At the UN headquarters, Wang Yi, together with Global South countries including Brazil, South Africa, Egypt, Indonesia, and Turkey, launched the Group of Friends for Peace on the Ukraine crisis.
The 4th Chinese Film Week was held in Tehran, the capital of Iran, screening several Chinese films including 'The Battle at Lake Changjin'. The national anthem of the People's Republic of China was played before the screenings, with the entire audience standing.
In September 2024, the Rocket Force launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the high seas of the Pacific Ocean. Videos claimed this was the first full-range test launch in 44 years.
Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, attended the White House state dinner for Xi Jinping and were seated at the banquet.
Around September 23, 2024, biologist Rao Yi published “Facts Trump Emotion: Wang Zhenyi, Chen Zhu, Chen Saijuan’s Research and Zhu Yuejun” on his WeChat public account, carrying out a professional verification of the historical literature and timeline. Rao Yi pointed out that the core breakthrough of all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation therapy for leukemia predates Zhu Yuejun’s doctoral studies, so there was no plagiarism; Zhu Yuejun’s research foundation was at the doctoral level, and his failure to obtain a degree was the combined result of academic disputes, difficulties in interpersonal communication, and the evaluation mechanisms of the time. He called on the public to view this historical tragedy rationally rather than engaging in an emotional witch hunt.
Germany has received the first of the 35 F-35 fighter jets it ordered, but the aircraft still needs to remain in the United States for pilot training.
A Hong Kong man produced a video using the Cultural Revolution slogan "Revolution is not a crime, rebellion is justified" and uploaded it to social media to promote it. He was charged under Article 23 of the Basic Law with "knowingly publishing seditious publications" and was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on September 20.
On September 20, 2024, facing rumors continuing to swirl online about his "results being plagiarized and suppressed," Zhu Yuejun accepted a public interview to clarify the facts. He stated explicitly that his results had not been stolen, and that his failure to graduate back then was due to disagreements with his supervisor over research approaches that he refused to compromise on, rather than deliberate suppression by his supervisor; he said he had been unlucky but did not regret it, and that he had always been full of admiration for the pioneering contributions to medicine made by senior scholars such as Academician Wang Zhenyi.
On September 19, 2024, Liu Wenjie, Party Secretary and Director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Finance, died after falling from a residential building for the Department of Finance in Tianxin District, Changsha. Two other suspects involved in the same case also fell to their deaths. The police have classified the incident as a criminal case.
On September 18, a Japanese schoolboy studying at a Japanese school in Shenzhen, Guangdong, was attacked and injured on his way to school. Hiroshi Moriya, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, stated at a press conference that the Japanese side has requested local authorities to take measures to prevent such incidents from happening again and to provide detailed information.
Legal Daily published an investigative report revealing how mooncake vouchers with a face value of 100 yuan circulate among manufacturers, distributors, companies, and scalpers, and the price differentials involved, laying bare the inner workings of mooncake vouchers as interest-free notes.
On September 16, 2024, Song Binbin, a prominent Red Guard leader during the Cultural Revolution and daughter of CCP founding elder Song Renqiong, passed away in the United States. She was highly controversial for her involvement in the 1966 beating death of Bian Zhongyun, the vice principal of the Beijing Normal University Girls' Middle School.
On September 6, Yunnan Normal University held its opening ceremony for the 2024 freshmen. The original source material is incomplete, and specific details are unknown.
U.S. Envoy Vickov and Kushner met separately with Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky, but no framework agreement was reached.
Chinese-American politician Sun Wen was arrested in 2023, accused of accepting tens of millions of dollars in bribes from the CCP and obstructing exchanges with Taiwan and human rights issues.