On September 24, according to a speech released on the Ukrainian President's official website, the Ukrainian President disclosed during his general debate speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York that the Ukrainian side has recently handed over two previously captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea.
Reports indicate that starting September 24, the three major telecom operators have suspended financial installment phone purchase services and will no longer process new "0-yuan phone acquisition" transactions.
The Philippines stated that the China Coast Guard blocked its resupply mission for troops stationed at Second Thomas Shoal on September 24; the China Coast Guard responded that the Philippine side violated agreements and provoked, stating it will continue law enforcement and rights defense in the relevant waters.
On September 24, Fox News aired an exclusive interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who stated in New York during the UN General Assembly that Iran's funds in China are restricted, making it impossible to even retrieve proceeds from goods exported to China, attributing this to U.S. pressure.
On September 24, the Communist Youth League Central Committee released a promotional video on Bilibili for the National Day eve themed around "many places hanging five-star red flags." After it aired, the danmu were flooded with calls for "two-day weekends," with netizens seizing the opportunity to express demands for the enforcement of the two-day weekend system.
On September 24, the Standing Committee of the Xinzhou Municipal People's Congress accepted Liu Yuan's resignation from the position of mayor, only 88 days after his election on June 29. The resignation news published by Xinzhou Daily did not state the reason.
In the early hours of September 24, a Chinese restaurant named after Xi Jinping in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, was broken into by 4 Chinese nationals who vandalized it with spray paint, and its ingredients were sprayed with a liquid suspected to be pesticide. About an hour after the crime, they left the country via Incheon Airport, flying to Yantai and Shanghai. The owner said the restaurant had previously been subjected to multiple protests and acts of vandalism; police are investigating the motive and considering international judicial cooperation to pursue them.
Independent media outlet Aquarius Era reported on September 26 that police have been standing guard 24 hours a day outside the home of Sun Meihua's brother-in-law Liu Anjun since September 24. Liu Anjun had previously repeatedly asked police to investigate Sun Meihua's disappearance and suspected trafficking.
In the early hours of September 24, four Chinese suspects broke into a Chinese restaurant in Bundang-gu, Seongnam, South Korea, originally named “Xi Jinping,” spraying paint, damaging facilities, and spraying a substance suspected to be pesticide on food ingredients, before flying back to China later that day.
During Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States on September 24, 2026, protests outside the White House in Washington were nearly continuous; around 3:20 p.m. a clash occurred near 17th Street, and several people were arrested.
On September 24, the General Office of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region released a procurement intention announcement, with a budget of 80,000 yuan to procure cross-border VPN monitoring services, requiring around-the-clock real-time monitoring, evidence collection, and interception of unauthorized VPNs within the unit and violations of Great Firewall circumvention. The service provider is to submit monthly monitoring and analysis reports and assist with tracing and rectification.
Three days before Vucic's resignation, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Vucic, calling him an "old friend and good friend of the Chinese people."
U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chief member Gregory Meeks issued a statement before the Thursday summit between U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. [Follow‑up · September 23, 2026] On September 23, Democratic chief member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks issued a statement ahead of Xi’s visit to the United States, urging Trump to stick to the Taiwan policy, pay attention to the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea situation, raise human‑rights issues, and urging the Chinese side to release Jimmy Lai, Dong Yuyu, Zhang Zhan, and U.S. citizens Min Xin and Chen Youlin.
A psychologist at the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University displayed his backend September consultation records, showing a large number of teenagers becoming the patient group of the psychiatry department, generally facing anxiety, depression, insomnia, school aversion and psychological disorders, with notes involving parental pressure, family changes, campus bullying and academic stress among other reasons.
Recently, as the North China Plain entered the autumn harvest season, large numbers of farmers in Henan, Hebei, and other areas went into the fields to pick up leftover peanuts. Due to overcrowding, some people were pushed into rivers along the edges of the fields. Some netizens said that some people entered the fields to pick up peanuts without the landowners' consent.
On September 24, People's Daily released a video titled "Crossing the Trap," revisiting the question Xi Jinping raised in May, during Trump's visit to China, of whether China and the US can overcome the "Thucydides Trap," and said the new positioning of China-US relations as a "constructive, strategically stable relationship" is the answer to that question.
On September 24, after China Minmetals MCC Construction failed to pay wages owed to the "Buluo" flooring team's workers in Wuhan, a group of workers went together to the project office entrance and demanded their unpaid wages by banging gongs and drums.
On September 24, after Hebei Lanniao Furniture Co., Ltd. failed to pay wages, employees went together to the factory gate and hung banners to demand their unpaid wages.
On the afternoon of September 24, a fire broke out in a rooftop warehouse of a factory building in the Xicheng Industrial Zone, Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, with heavy flames accompanied by billowing smoke; as of that night the open flames had still not been fully extinguished, and casualties were unknown.
On September 24, at Lafayette Square outside the White House in Washington, D.C., protesters beat a sandbag depicting Xi Jinping.
On September 24, photos of a lecture manuscript displayed on the big screen at Yunnan Normal University circulated on social media, stating that women get a free ride and grow rich without working, which triggered criticism from netizens.
On the evening of September 24 local time, as the White House state dinner was nearing its end, a crowd on the street outside the White House held Chinese flags and used a microphone to broadcast the slogan "Welcome, welcome, a warm welcome." A protester on the scene rebuked them, saying, "You are taking American welfare to work for the CCP."
On September 24, The New York Times Chinese website published an article stating that Xi Jinping has invested over $184 billion through state-led funds and pledged hundreds of billions more to make artificial intelligence the leading goose of economic revolution, aiming for AI to cover 90% of society by 2030 to compete with the United States, while facing employment shocks and information control risks.
On September 24, the Communication University of China announced the establishment of the 'Xi Jinping Cultural Thought Research Institute' and held an unveiling ceremony. University Party Secretary Liao Xiangzhong, President Zhang Shuting, and other university leaders, as well as heads of various schools and functional departments, attended the event. The day marked the second anniversary of Xi Jinping's reply letter to all faculty and students of the university.
On September 24, students at Kangjie Middle School in Yanhul District, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, left protest slogans and handwriting on the bulletin board, one of which read, 'Wildfires cannot burn it all away; with the spring breeze, it grows again.'
On September 24, Yantai Chinese-English School assigned 94 test papers for the 10-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday. Netizens commented that the physical and mental health of the students is worrying.
On September 24, workers at the Hebei Changli County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital project, undertaken by Qinhuangdao Remote Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., protested wage arrears. Multiple workers held banners reading "Return Our Blood and Sweat Money" and went to the project site entrance and the Second Hospital of Changli County to collectively demand their wages.
On September 24, when Bao'an Hope Primary School in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, welcomed visiting professors from Changchun and county education bureau leaders for an inspection, one student served as a guide while other students knelt and crawled on the ground to perform.
On September 24, a netizen from Hebei reported that their school notified staff that a lottery would be used to determine the list of teachers required to donate blood. A later update revealed that employees pooled together over 1,000 RMB to hire someone as a substitute donor, and stated that another blood drive would be held in two months.
On September 24, 2026, Xue Jian, China's Consul General in Osaka, stated at a National Day reception in Osaka that Japan is the "world champion of anti-China and Sinophobia."
On September 24, a netizen in Shenzhen posted that after resigning, they have spent over 30,000 yuan on self-funded social security over the past two years. Currently, the monthly medical and pension insurance payments exceed 1,500 yuan, which has become an unbearable burden. Many netizens in the comments section also shared their own financial pressure, with some even choosing to stop paying for pension insurance and only keep medical insurance.
On September 24, the event “The World Stands with Wang Wang” was held in Chicago, USA. Participants protested on the streets and near the Chinese Consulate-General in Chicago, calling on China to pass laws against animal abuse.
At the White House state banquet on September 24, thermos flasks were noticed placed in front of the seats of Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan. Associated Press photos showed that the brand of the thermos flasks used appeared to be Japan's Tiger Corporation.
On September 24, at the entrance of the Lianfa Plaza office building on Luyin Road, Honggutan District, Nanchang, Jiangxi, several migrant workers held up a banner reading "Lianfa Group owes migrant workers' wages, give us back our hard-earned money," and raised slogans saying that the rights defense would not stop until the project payment arrived in the account.
Reuters reported on September 24, citing data from GL Consulting, that China's commercial gasoline and diesel inventories have fallen to their lowest levels since 2011 and 2015, respectively; Kpler estimates that diesel inventories are about 20 million barrels below pre-war levels, and gasoline is about 9 million barrels lower.
Four Chinese nationals suspected of vandalizing the "Xi Jinping" Chinese restaurant departed through Incheon Airport on September 24, the day of the incident, and returned to China.
On September 24, a netizen posted an AI-generated video, adding hashtags such as "Refuse Silence," "Eight-Hour Workday," and "Five Days On, Two Days Off," saying that all injustice is acquiesced to through countless silences; many voiced support in the comments section.
On September 24, the official website of Shanxi Media College announced a procurement intent to purchase an Internet attack surface management platform (anti-circumvention) for 200,000 yuan. The requirements include the precise identification of encrypted VPNs and covert circumvention tools, as well as the identification, monitoring, auditing, and tracing of illegal cross-border access, with procurement expected in October.
According to a netizen submission, the boss of Changlin Restaurant in Nancheng, Dongguan City, subjected an employee to extreme verbal and character insults with a vicious attitude, and subsequently fired them.
Recently, under a Xiaohongshu post interviewing passersby about whether they like their president, netizens flooded the comments with 'dog head for self-preservation' to avoid taking a stance.
Netizens submitted that a bamboo dragonfly toy on the Taobao platform does not support shipping to Beijing addresses, reason unknown.
On September 24, a netizen with an IP address located in Hebei shared photos of mooncakes and a red envelope given by their company — the box was empty and the red envelope was empty too, and many commenters shared similar experiences.
At 4:30 pm on September 24, a villager in Fuqing, Fujian went to the Yinxi Subdistrict Party-Mass Service Center to handle some business, and found the lobby and offices completely empty with the air conditioning still running; he remarked on the spot that "this country is going to have problems," sparking widespread discussion among netizens.
On September 24, a Bilibili uploader posted an interview video in which a Tianjin elder who has been in the antique trade for many years said it is a good thing that overseas museums preserve Chinese cultural relics, and criticized the demolition of Beijing's old city, which destroyed the ancient city.
The national symposium of public security department and bureau heads was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong attended and emphasized the tune of absolute loyalty. The meeting was arranged and prepared by Hu Binchn, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province and Director of the Public Security Department.
Reports indicate that around the time Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were detained, Wang Qishan also lost his freedom and is facing a secret investigation by a central special investigation group headed by Cai Qi.
Xi Jinping traveled to Shanghai to attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, prompting high-level security and traffic controls in the area.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh completed his debut on June 17, with the decision to hold rates steady meeting market expectations. Dovish language was removed from the statement, and half of the officials believe that a rate hike will still be needed in 2026.
Liu Ning, Party Secretary of Henan Province, led a team to Xinjiang for counterpart industrial cooperation, which was interpreted by outsiders as seeking a new political stronghold.
He Lifeng led economic, trade, and technical bureaucrats at the JPMorgan Chase headquarters building in New York to hold round-the-clock talks with US officials for days, negotiating the deadline for rare earth deliveries and terms for soybean procurement quotas.