On September 3, 2024, The Washington Post published an investigation stating that the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles paid for food and lodging for pro-CCP “welcome crowds”, involving at least 35 overseas Chinese groups, hiring at least 60 security guards, and with at least four diplomats present.
After some areas failed to receive national-level alerts during the Hualien earthquake, Taiwan openly discussed problems with its alert system and, starting in September 2024, expanded the scope of alert issuance.
The last time China conducted a missile test was in September 2024.
Bloomberg once again mentioned in its report the German hospitals' contingency plan for handling 1,000 casualties per day, sparking attention.
In mid-September 2024, as Academician Wang Zhenyi was awarded the "Medal of the Republic," videos from self-media outlets visiting Zhu Yuejun, who practices medicine in poverty in rural Wugang, Hunan, went viral on platforms like Douyin and Weibo. The stark contrast between his past role as the first author of a top-tier leukemia paper and his current status as a village doctor living on social security caused a sensation online, rapidly evolving into a public opinion storm regarding "stolen achievements and academic lords suppressing those from humble backgrounds."
The Chinese government announced 360 billion yuan in aid to Africa.
According to news data cited by the program, sales of household appliances achieved double-digit growth for four consecutive months from September to December 2024, with annual sales exceeding 1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.3%.
A grid worker's preliminary investigation in Jiulong Town, Qidong, found that a 55-year-old man in the village receiving subsistence allowances had 20,000 yuan in savings, after which his subsistence allowance was cancelled. After repeatedly arguing his case to no avail, the man rushed into the village committee and killed a 25-year-old female grid worker, then committed suicide by taking poison.
After a Japanese boy was attacked in Shenzhen, some netizens posted celebratory remarks online such as "Well killed, Japanese brats aren't human," saying that the mothers picking up their children from school should be killed as well.
After a Japanese boy was attacked in Shenzhen, Sichuan official Huang Yiru commented on the incident, saying "There was no indiscriminate killing of innocents; our discipline is to kill Japanese."
Officially released figures show that profits in Beijing's catering industry fell 88.8% year-on-year.
China's National Development and Reform Commission announced that China has established paired cooperation with 46 African hospitals and has dispatched medical teams totaling 25,000 person-times to help Africa's medical sector.
Online reports claim that China has begun implanting chips into student school uniforms for location tracking and surveillance.
A court in China auctioned off assets of a bankrupt company, opening bidding for a bottle of Sprite originally priced at 6 yuan at 4.2 yuan, because the company had no more property available for enforcement.
A food delivery rider in Hangzhou was found slumped over a scooter by the roadside; passersby thought he was asleep, but he had in fact already died.
A 33-year-old food delivery worker in Chengdu was rushed to the hospital after a brain hemorrhage. His wife decided to remove the life support and give up treatment, arguing that even if he survived he would be a useless burden and would require huge medical expenses.
Xi Jinping met with visiting U.S. National Security Advisor Sullivan at the Great Hall of the People.
After public attention and police intervention in the investigation, Enxu was allowed to leave the school; 12 days later, the school was closed. The local education bureau said the reasons for its intervention included violations of business scope, overcharging training fees, and providing boarding services.
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has arrived in Beijing for two days of strategic communication with Wang Yi.
On August 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of former 1989 student movement participant Tang Yuanjun in New York, charging him with acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese Ministry of State Security, spying on overseas pro-democracy activists, and making false statements.
After Lai Ching-te took office, the “Thunderbolt Operation” was launched again, claiming to have uncovered over a thousand infiltration cases, but Taiwan officials said they do not understand.
After the women's 100m sprint at the Paris Olympics, Afghan athlete Kimia Yousufi showed the camera the slogan on the back of her bib, “Education, Sports, Our Rights”, to protest the Taliban regime's deprivation of Afghan women’s right to education and participation in sports.
On August 8, 2024, lawyer Yi Shenghua released case materials, exposing how Shanxi Aorui Biomaterial Company colluded with funeral homes in Sichuan, Shandong, Guangxi and other places to illegally purchase and dismember thousands of cremated corpses for producing allogeneic bone implant materials.
On August 7, 2024, Wang Jiajia, a judge of the Yancheng District People's Court in Luohe, Henan Province, was stabbed and killed in an underground garage of a residential compound by a person surnamed Dang, a party to a road traffic accident dispute case, in revenge.
Wang Shujun, a U.S. citizen who set up the Hu Yaobang Zhao Ziyang Foundation in Flushing, was found guilty by a jury on all four counts.
The market experienced significant volatility, with the VIX fear index surging to 65 pre-market, before falling back below 20 within six trading days.
In August 2024, the Institute for Cross-Strait Urban Planning at Xiamen University published an article suggesting that Beijing should establish a Central Taiwan Work Committee as a shadow government as soon as possible to comprehensively prepare for the takeover of Taiwan. The article was subsequently deleted from the entire Chinese internet.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a settlement order against Wu Zheng, finding that during his tenure at Edison Max he concealed related-party transactions and used a listed company's money to pay off his own debts.
During his protest outside the Chinese embassy in Washington after illegally crossing the border into the United States, former Chinese military special forces soldier Zhao Guangjun violently beat and injured Chen Shuguang, a petitioner in his 60s from Guangdong, over trivial daily life matters at a residence near Arlington National Cemetery, and attempted to attack him with a knife.
Tencent launched "Talk Show and Its Friends," while iQIYI launched "King of Comedy Stand-Up Season," marking the revival of the talk show industry after it was split in two, with the production teams and performers of the former Xiaoguo Culture entering the two programs respectively.
Hui Jian published a post on a WeChat public account, accusing Liu Ren, president of the Cambodian Anhui Chamber of Commerce, of violent loan-sharking in casinos, beating a renovation boss to death, running telecom fraud parks, and armed transnational crime.
Dong Mingzhu, dubbed the "female version of Old Xi", has been intensively relinquishing power since August 2024, stepping down from at least six positions within two years, including at Chengdu Medical Equipment and Lingbianjie Company.
In August 2024, former Guizhou Provincial Party Secretary Sun Zhigang appeared in court for trial, accused of amassing vast wealth by helping others subscribe to shares, secure construction contracts and engage in real estate development, among other means, embezzling 813 million yuan. He said in court, "I have let the Party down and betrayed my original aspirations."
Henan judge Wang Jiajia was hacked to death by an old man just 20 meters from her front door, becoming one of a series of recent violent attacks targeting officials and judicial personnel.
On July 30, 2024, 22-year-old Fang Yirong from Loudi, Hunan, imitated the Sitong Bridge protest by hanging anti-Xi banners and playing a broadcast on a pedestrian bridge in Xinhua County. He subsequently recorded a video declaring his opposition to authoritarian rule and was arrested by the authorities shortly thereafter.
In late July 2024, Lao Dongyan, a professor at Tsinghua University's Law School, published an article openly questioning the network number and network certificate system that the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China plan to introduce, arguing that it is essentially the normalization of Health Kit surveillance. The article was swiftly wiped out across the entire internet.
A netizen submitted a report claiming that Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT system has a built-in website blocking function based on online detection, consistent with the blocking in Huawei phones' stock browser, and that every URL a user visits is uploaded to Huawei.
Fang Xinghai was scheduled to attend and deliver a speech at the China Wealth Management 50 Forum in Beijing, but he did not appear, and his nameplate was left empty.
Wang Yi discussed the China-Ukraine strategic partnership and bilateral trade with Kuleba, stating that China will continue to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Chen Jun pleaded guilty on July 24, 2024 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, admitting to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government and bribing IRS officials; on November 19 of the same year he was sentenced to 20 months in prison.
Lao Fan, a 70-year-old unmarried man with no children in Yangpu, Shanghai, was sentenced to seven months in prison for stealing an electric bicycle; a social worker's assessment pointed out that Lao Fan will face enormous survival problems after his release from prison.
China held a Palestinian peace conference in Beijing, inviting representatives from Hamas and other radical factions to attend, claiming it would help establish peace in the Middle East.
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee concluded on July 18.
Between 2023 and 2024, Rocket Force Commander Li Yuchao was investigated and later expelled from the Party.
On July 18, 2024, the communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stated that Qin Gang's resignation application was accepted and his membership on the Central Committee was revoked; the communiqué still referred to him as "comrade" and gave no specific reason.
A jury found Guo Wengui guilty on nine counts and not guilty on three. The guilty charges include racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and securities fraud.
Guo Wengui was found guilty by a U.S. jury on nine felony charges, including racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.
After a seven-week trial, a US jury found Guo Wengui guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering, among other charges.
After Enxu lost contact, Wang Yuhang posted missing-person information on social media and reported to the police that Enxu was missing; more than ten days later, the police said that Enxu had not been unlawfully deprived of personal freedom.
During the closed-door meeting of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee, Xi Jinping's head shook violently and half of his body leaned over, causing him to collapse in front of the podium, suffering a stroke and falling into a temporary coma.