In the women's 20km race walk final at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Chinese athlete Wang Liping won the gold medal with a time of 1 hour 29 minutes 05 seconds, in the lonely situation where her coaching staff had left and no one cheered her on.
The U.S. Senate voted on granting China permanent normal trade relations status, with McConnell casting a "yes" vote, paving the way for China's accession to the WTO.
On May 21, 2000, the film 'Devils on the Doorstep', directed by Jiang Wen, participated in the Cannes Film Festival without domestic approval and won the Grand Prix. Upon returning to China, Jiang Wen was banned from directing for five years.
In late March 2000, Cisco's market capitalization exceeded $500 billion, briefly surpassing Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company; the bubble then burst, and its market cap shrank by about $431 billion.
On New Year's Day 2000, the Y2K bug did not trigger the predicted global system meltdown; after that, the Nasdaq continued to surge, peaking at 5048.62 points on March 10.
In an exclusive interview with 'Chinese Children' (Zhonghua Ernü), Xi Jinping stated that despite the difficulty of joining the Party, he wrote eight applications for the Youth League and ten for the Party, believing that joining the League and the Party was more important than getting into Tsinghua.
Cisco's revenue at the peak of the internet bubble in 2000 stood at $19 billion.
At the fifth national census in 2000, the total fertility rates of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang had all fallen below 1.0, 23 to 25 years ahead of the national average.
Wu Zheng and Yang Lan took control of a Hong Kong-listed company and transformed it into Sunshine Culture, with Yang Lan serving as chairman. At the same time, she founded Sunshine TV, which was later granted access to some of China's cable networks.
During his time in Zhejiang, the Wuzhen project was launched, some Wuzhen residents were relocated, and the project renovated the ancient town's buildings and developed tourism.
Niu Qun went to Mengcheng, Anhui to serve as deputy county magistrate. After seeing the local poverty, he raised funds to build schools and promoted education, rehabilitation, and employment assistance.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto published The Mystery of Capital in 2000, pointing out that the poor in developing countries hold large amounts of dead capital that lacks legal property rights.
Ren Zhiqiang wrote a letter criticizing SOHO Modern City; the related criticisms, Pan Shiyi's response, and outside debate were later compiled into "Critique of SOHO Modern City."
After the dot-com bubble burst, Cisco's stock price fell from $79 to $9.5 within two years, a cumulative decline of about 88%.
Hu Liren said that during a dinner with leaders of Shanghai Qingpu Prison, he asked whether a large number of Falun Gong practitioners had been arrested and had their organs harvested while in prison, and the other party retorted, "How do you know?" before admitting that this had happened.
While staying in Flushing, New York, Hu Liren met a Shanghai couple who practice Falun Gong. The wife said she had served two years in a Shanghai women's prison, where every day she was handcuffed behind her back and hung from a railing for hours, only being lowered during meals, which damaged the nerves in her hands and left her disabled. After her release, the couple hand out leaflets exposing the Chinese Communist Party every day in front of the Flushing post office.
A male Falun Gong practitioner from Shanghai whom Hu Liren met in Flushing, New York, said that he was sentenced and imprisoned in a Shanghai prison for practicing Falun Gong. While in prison, he was pinned to the ground with a chair pressed against him, and prison guards repeatedly shocked his head with multiple electric batons until he lost consciousness, leaving a large swelling on his head.