Du Xishan Resigns from All Posts at Golden Coast
Eight days after Du Shicheng's incident, his relative Du Xishan resigned from all positions at Qingdao Golden Coast Hotel Co., Ltd.
Eight days after Du Shicheng's incident, his relative Du Xishan resigned from all positions at Qingdao Golden Coast Hotel Co., Ltd.
In October 2006, Li Wei was taken into police custody on suspicion of evading tax payments; she was reportedly close to Chen Tonghai, then chairman of Sinopec.
In October 2006, the Pengyu case occurred in Nanjing. The court of first instance ordered the young man who had helped an elderly person who fell to compensate the plaintiff. The reasoning in the judgment and the subsequent handling sparked a long-running nationwide controversy over trust and mutual assistance among strangers.
On September 24, 2006, the CCP Central Committee decided to remove Chen Liangyu from his posts as Secretary of the CCP Shanghai Municipal Committee and others, and to place him under investigation, on suspicion of misappropriating Shanghai social security fund investments.
Overseas investigators, calling on behalf of an embassy, questioned Bo Xilai by telephone about the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners during his tenure in Liaoning, and Bo Xilai implicated Jiang Zemin in the conversation.
The "Zhi Jiang Xin Yu" column of Zhejiang Daily published an article titled "Integrating Dialectics into Every Business Opportunity," which explains the meaning of "inexplicable" (mo ming qi miao).
The CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection began a thorough investigation into Shanghai's social security system, paving the way for a subsequent investigation into Chen Liangyu.
During a research symposium in Yiwu, then-Zhejiang Party Secretary Xi Jinping summarized the commercial rise of Yiwu as 'inexplicable,' 'creating something from nothing,' and 'turning stones into gold.'
In May 2006, Li Wei, through Huang Songyou, Yang Xiancai and others, signed a contract in the name of Sinopec with a company under Guo Cheng, buying the North Tower of Zhongcheng Plaza in Guangzhou for more than 1.3 billion yuan; the building was sealed up over debt disputes after its completion in 1996.
On April 28, 2006, 24-year-old graduate student Hu Xinyu, during a critical Huawei project push, worked until 3 a.m. every day for a long stretch, going home only 4 times in 30 days. He collapsed at the office, was diagnosed with acute meningitis, and died 10 days after being hospitalized. Huawei subsequently hired internet commenters to post articles and published pieces such as "Heaven Rewards Diligence" to promote a culture of struggle, suppressing the incident.
Before his research trip to Yiwu in March 2006, Xi Jinping once used the term "inexplicable" to describe Yiwu's development.
On January 26, 2006 (January 25 US time), Google launched the Chinese version of its search engine Google.cn, filtering search results in accordance with the rules of the Chinese authorities, and noted in the footer that some results were not displayed.
Around January 25, 2006, Google launched a specially tailored google.cn with filtering. Google said that completely denying search to one fifth of the world's population would be a more serious violation of its mission.
On January 24, 2006, Ice Point Weekly of China Youth Daily was ordered to suspend publication by the Publicity Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee because it had published an article by Yuan Weishi questioning history textbooks; editor-in-chief Li Datong and deputy editor-in-chief Lu Yuegang were dismissed, and neither of them returned when the publication resumed on March 1.
During Hu Jintao's term, the agricultural tax, which had lasted for over two thousand years, was successively abolished, and the Compulsory Education Law was amended.
Ren Zhiqiang's remarks on commodity housing at a public forum were taken out of context by the media, leading to him being labeled as 'only building houses for the rich', and the nickname 'Ren Cannon' spread as a result.
Sun Daolin admitted to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, was sentenced to 4 years in prison, and is currently serving his sentence in a federal prison.
Duan Weihong was introduced to Wang Qishan by Zhang Peili, wife of Wen Jiabao, and after 2008 began frequently having multi-hour tea meetings with Wang Qishan.
Entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma, Guo Guangchang, and Ding Lei established the Jiangnan Club. Through joint investments in projects like Huayi Brothers and Cainiao Network, they further bound their capital into a community of shared interests.
Jing Tian debuted as a singer at the age of 18. Her first EP Who Are You was produced by Zhang Yadong and its MV was directed by Ning Hao, showing that she received high-caliber resource support from the very beginning of her career.
Li Zheng began founding special training schools in Hunan in 2006; since then his school network has expanded to at least 4 provinces, with at least 10 schools.
In 2006, the central government issued the 'Six National Measures' in an attempt to stabilize housing prices, but it faced local resistance and achieved poor results.
Starting in 2006, rural western China was the first to waive tuition and fees; in 2007 this was extended to all rural areas, and in 2008 free education was achieved in both urban and rural areas. The Two Exemptions and One Subsidy policy covered 150 million rural students, bringing to an end the system of paying fees during the compulsory education stage.
7 World Trade Center, the first World Trade Center building rebuilt by Larry Silverstein after the 9/11 attacks, was completed in 2006. Silverstein built the original 7 World Trade Center in the 1980s, which was his first involvement in the development of the World Trade Center complex.