On the evening of December 23, 2009, a large poster outside Zhang Ziyi's home in Beijing was splashed with ink. The following January, socialite Zhao Xinyu came forward claiming a grudge with Zhang Ziyi, and brought Shanghai businessman Mr. A into the picture.
Li Botan founded the Moutai Club in a government-owned courtyard house in Beijing, gathering red aristocrats, financial tycoons, and private entrepreneurs to form a covert organizational platform connecting power and capital.
In November 2009, Southern Weekly left its front-page headline blank, using an empty layout to protest the propaganda department's forced removal of an editorial accompanying an interview with Obama.
On November 11, 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xia Junfeng to death for intentional homicide in a first-instance ruling; his defense lawyer said the court refused to accept testimony from six eyewitnesses and instead relied on the testimony of chengguan officers.
Zhang Yiming founded 99fang, scraping, cleaning, categorizing and deduplicating housing listing information from different websites and feeding it into a mobile app.
On August 14, 2009, Sina Weibo began closed beta testing; on September 25, it officially added @, direct messages, comments, and reposting functions.
In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot destroyed Xiaolin Village in Jiasian Township, Kaohsiung, burying 474 people alive, and the government at the time was questioned over its inadequate disaster prevention and rescue efforts.
From the evening of July 7, 2009, Fanfou suspended its service under the impact of the Urumqi riots, and was subsequently closed for a long period, until the page could be opened again only in November 2010.
In April 2009, China demanded that Google remove from the google.cn homepage the link leading to google.com, but the request was refused; on June 18, the Internet Society of China issued a notice condemning Google for disseminating obscene, pornographic and vulgar information, while CCTV's Xinwen Lianbo and Focus Report criticized it in succession, and Google was temporarily cut off.
On June 16, 2009, the court of Badong County, Hubei, found Deng Yujiao guilty of intentional injury in the first-instance ruling, but, taking into account such circumstances as excessive self-defense and voluntary surrender, exempted her from criminal penalty.
On May 16, 2009, Xia Junfeng and his wife were penalized by chengguan for setting up an unlicensed street stall in Shenyang. A conflict broke out at the Binhe duty room, in which Xia stabbed two chengguan officers to death. The defense argued that he had been beaten by a group first and acted in self-defense, but the court did not accept the claim.
On May 16, 2009, Xia Junfeng and his wife were caught operating an unlicensed street stall by chengguan in Shenhe District, Shenyang, and Xia Junfeng went with the law enforcement officers to the Binhe duty office to receive punishment.
Deng Yujiao, a hotel waitress in Badong County, Hubei, fought back against officials who forced her to provide "special services," resulting in one death. Amid intense nationwide public attention and online support, she was ultimately found by the court to have exceeded the bounds of self-defense and was exempted from criminal punishment.
On the evening of May 10, 2009, Deng Yujiao, a hotel attendant in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Hubei, stabbed one person to death and wounded another after being pestered by officials; after the case spread through the internet, it drew nationwide attention.
Zhao Xiaolan's sister, Zhao Anji, serves as an independent director of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, marking the entry of a Zhao family member into the internal governance of a Chinese state-owned listed shipbuilding company.
Around the 20th anniversary of the 2009 June Fourth incident, China blocked overseas platforms such as Google, YouTube and Facebook.
Following the July 5 Xinjiang riots in 2009, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were permanently blocked in China.
At the 2009 Boao Forum, Jackie Chan made the remark “We Chinese need to be controlled”; the video contrasts it with Stephen Chow’s later public statement.
Zhou Jiugong, head of the Jiangning District Housing Bureau in Nanjing, was brought down and in 2009 was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
The Liunan Reservoir underwent risk-removal and reinforcement work in 2009, with the related tender budget exceeding 70 million yuan.
Since 2015, the Chinese government has begun providing large-scale subsidies for the electric vehicle industry, with cumulative direct and indirect subsidies reaching 3 trillion yuan. This policy drove the rapid development of China's electric vehicle industry, but also laid the groundwork for subsequent overcapacity.
After Yang Jia was executed, his mother Wang Jingmei opened a blog on Sina. Her first post wrote of the grief of losing her son. The blog was soon forced to close. Ai Weiwei cited this case in a blog roundtable discussion in January 2009 to illustrate the power of individual voices, and how afraid the authorities are.