On December 18, 2010, Ai Weiwei was interviewed by the documentary program of Sunny TV, talking about Yang Jia as he knew him: he liked blogging, mountain climbing, and spending time with people he liked — not a reclusive person, but a person who made choices. He said Yang Jia went this far to defend the dignity of life; when most people swallow down filthy things, Yang Jia said, I won't swallow this.
Around December 2010, the second trial of the He Shengkai case in Guizhou opened, which the outside world called the "Guizhou Yang Jia case." He Shengkai once wrote in his diary, "Yang Jia's fine deed is Xuanyuan's lamentable affair." Netizens and lawyers placed his case alongside the Yang Jia case, worried that his judicial rights and interests would not be safeguarded.
November 26, 2010 marked the second anniversary of Yang Jia’s execution. His mother, Wang Jingmei, traveled to Beijing’s Futian Cemetery to pay her respects, and the authorities deployed police to monitor her. Radio Free Asia reported that Yang Jia is regarded by many as a victim of China’s judicial system.
On the evening of October 16, 2010, a drunk-driving hit-and-run occurred at the new campus of Hebei University, leaving two female students, one dead and one injured. After the driver, Li Qiming, was caught, he shouted “My dad is Li Gang,” causing an uproar in public opinion.
In October 2010, the Chinese Communist Party's 17th Central Committee 5th Plenary Session decided to add Xi Jinping as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress subsequently confirmed him as Vice Chairman of the State Military Commission the same month.
Geely completed the acquisition of Volvo for $1.8 billion, with local state-owned capital from Daqing and Jiading, Shanghai, participating in the funding and securing commitments for industrial bases.
On June 12, 2010, Li Tucun, the former president and chairman of the board of the former Hunan Taizunai Group, who once pioneered the golden age of Chinese lactic acid bacteria beverages and twice won the CCTV 'Advertising King' title, was formally placed under criminal detention by the Zhuzhou Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province for suspected illegal absorption of public deposits. On July 20 of the same year, his arrest was approved by the Zhuzhou prosecutorial owns. Previously, the Taizunai Group had experienced a broken capital chain due to the Hunan financial storm of 2008 and the gambling agreement crisis with investment banks during its rapid expansion. To save itself, the group had raised funds from employees and distributors as payment reserves. In 2009, the Zhuzhou municipal government led the establishment of Gaoke Dairy Industry to implement trusteeship. During this period, Li Tucun and the trusteeship group and local officials had a heated conflict over corporate control and restructuring plans. After being detained for approximately 15 months, the Tianyuan District People's Procuratorate of Zhuzhou City issued a 'Non-Prosecution Decision' on January 20, 2012, ruling that his borrowing was of the nature of private lending and corporate financing, and did not constitute a crime. Li Tucun was eventually releaseds without charge.
British otaku Sarah triggered a flash crash that wiped out $1 trillion from the US stock market in 36 minutes through a five-year false-order scheme, with his pending orders once accounting for 40% of the total sell orders.
On April 5, 2010, Qingming Festival, Wang Jingmei went to Beijing Futian Cemetery to pay respects to her son. Large numbers of police and plainclothes officers surrounded the cemetery, several people filmed the mourners with video cameras, and more than a dozen police cars were parked nearby. The police told Wang Jingmei that Yang Jia's grave would receive "special attention."
After Operation Aurora and multiple clashes and war of words with the Chinese government over search result filtering, Google officially announced its withdrawal from the Chinese mainland market.
In mid-December 2009, Google reported a hacker attack from China, saying the attackers attempted to steal Google's internal information and the Gmail accounts of dissidents. The operation was later called Operation Aurora, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied it.
In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked then CCP Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao as the world's most powerful person of the year.
After scandals such as the ink-splashing incident and the fake-donation scandal, Zhang Ziyi's career resources gradually began to return starting in 2010.
After studying in Shanghai, U.S. student Glenn Duffie Shriver accepted funding from Chinese intelligence personnel and applied for a U.S. government position. When the matter came to light, he admitted violating the Espionage Law and was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison.
Facing strict internet censorship and political pressure, Google chose to exit the Chinese market in 2010.
While loudly opposing the United States and criticizing universal values over a long period, Sima Nan spent about $257,000 to purchase a property in California, USA, which later sparked public controversy.
In 2010, the central government introduced the 'Ten National Measures' and supply restriction orders to further tighten control over housing prices, yet it still failed to reverse the trend of prices rising despite the regulations.
In mid-January 2010, netizens found that Zhang Ziyi's actual donations after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake did not match her pledges, and the whereabouts of the funds she raised in Cannes were unclear; her agent said it was a mistake, after which she donated an additional 160,000 yuan, and Zhang Ziyi denied the donation fraud allegation in an exclusive interview in March.
The video claims that, according to official CCP data, China's land finance revenue from 2010 to 2025 totaled about 82.1 trillion yuan; this cumulative figure cannot be found in any public report, and only the sum of the official annual land transfer revenues is of a comparable magnitude.
Heilongjiang's resident population fell from a peak of 38.33 million in 2010 to 30.01 million in 2025, a decrease of 8.32 million over 15 years.
Henan examinee Li Mengmeng scored 565, 13 points above the first-tier cutoff, but her paper application form never entered the admission process and was forgotten in the admissions office.
After Li Mengmeng's case spread on Weibo, it drew public attention. About ten days later, she was offered admission to the accounting program at Henan University of Economics and Law, and the responsible parties were dealt with.
In January 2010, Huang Qifan was elected Mayor of Chongqing at the third session of the third Chongqing Municipal People's Congress; prior to that, from November 2009, he had served as Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Acting Mayor.
In 2010, after IMDb listed a film about the Dalai Lama, China punitively blocked the IMDb website.