Zhang Yimou's commercial wuxia film Hero premiered at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, eventually grossing over 200 million yuan in the mainland and ushering in the era of Chinese commercial blockbusters.
McConnell was elected Senate Republican whip, becoming the second-highest-ranking Republican in the Senate.
In November 2002, the Chinese Communist Party held its 16th National Congress, and Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, but the Standing Committee was expanded from 7 to 9 members, most of whom were from Jiang Zemin's faction, greatly weakening Hu Jintao's political power.
At the CCP's 16th National Congress in 2002, Jiang Zemin did not step down as chairman of the Central Military Commission; his remaining in office created an emperor-emeritus dynamic. Although Hu Jintao became General Secretary, military power remained in Jiang Zemin's hands.
In October 2002, Xi Jinping was transferred to serve as Deputy Party Secretary and Acting Governor of Zhejiang Province; in November, he was elected as a member of the CCP Central Committee for the first time at the 16th National Congress, and was promoted to Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province at the end of the month.
After leaving the national team, Li Na and Jiang Shan together entered Huazhong University of Science and Technology to study journalism, during which time the focus of their lives shifted to campus, and they occasionally played for the school.
On August 29, 2002, Google was blocked in China for two weeks, regarded as the first major test of Great Firewall technology.
As a shareholder of Skyhigh, CCT Telecom applied for an injunction in the Hong Kong court to prohibit Andy Lau from participating in film production and performances. The two parties eventually reached a settlement on the day of the hearing in November.
In 2002, Liu Xiaoqing was taken into custody for allegedly evading tens of millions in taxes, where she was detained for 422 days.
After Xi Zhongxun passed away, his ashes were placed in the columbarium of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing in accordance with sub-national-level standards, without an independent mausoleum being built at the time.
Liu Xiaoqing and her boyfriend flew from Beijing to Shenzhen and attempted to take a boat to France via Hong Kong, but they were intercepted by border control officers at the Shenzhen airport ferry terminal who had been notified in advance, causing their escape plan to fail.
In March 2002, tens of thousands of laid-off and still-employed workers at the Daqing Oilfield took to the streets over unfair compensation for buyouts of their years of service and cuts to their medical and pension benefits. The demonstrations lasted nearly three weeks, with the crowd at one point reaching 40,000 to 50,000 people, setting a record for the scale of collective worker protests since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2002, workers at the Liaoyang Ferroalloy Plant launched weeks of protests over long-term unpaid wages and losing everything after being laid off; worker representatives were subsequently arrested and sentenced on charges of illegal assembly, inciting subversion of state power, and others, on Zhu Rongji's signal.
Du Shicheng instructed that the land transfer of the two cultural heritage villas be changed to administrative allocation; Li Wei ultimately obtained the properties for 7.5 million yuan and obtained the property certificates.
In 2002, Du Shicheng supported converting a green space at Taiping Jiao in the Badaguan protected area into a real estate project, and criticized the opposition voiced by the Qingdao Municipal People's Congress.
Fumao Group has begun ordering the construction of a large number of big bulk carriers at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard, and the Zhao family's cooperation with China's state-owned shipbuilding system has entered a new stage.
In 2002, due to long-term pressure, endocrine disorders and an allergy to treatment hormones, along with dissatisfaction over the team's unauthorized adjustment of the mixed-doubles partner without discussion, 20-year-old Li Na left a retirement application, departed the national team and returned to Wuhan.
Ms. Ma Yongtian won a lawsuit regarding her factory being robbed in 2002 and obtained a court judgment.
Former Vice President Chen Chien-jen received the Tu Tsung-ming Prize in 2002 for a medical lecture on blackfoot disease, making him one of the politicians to win the award.