On December 22, 2014, the Standing Committee of the CCP Central Committee's Politburo announced that it had placed Ling Jihua, then head of the United Front Work Department, under investigation; nine days later, Sun Chunlan succeeded him as head of the United Front Work Department.
On December 8, 2014, the grand premiere of the new film 'Gone with the Bullets', directed by Jiang Wen, was originally scheduled for that evening. It was urgently called off due to new developments in the censorship process and was held one week later.
The CCP Central Committee reported that Zhou Yongkang leaked Party and state secrets, committed adultery with multiple women, and engaged in power-for-sex and money-for-sex transactions.
A video circulating online claims that the Guizhou provincial government has established a leading group for government debt management, with Chen Min'er as head and Chen Yiqin as executive deputy head, requiring control over the scale of debt and prevention of blind project launches. This claim originated from a video, and no public document can be found.
Wang Ning transferred from Deputy Chief of the General Staff to Commander of the People's Armed Police.
Dong Jun was transferred from Deputy Commander of the East Sea Fleet to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy.
The first World Internet Conference was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, inviting political and business figures from multiple countries as well as internet industry participants.
FBI declassified documents record that Fang Fang invited an associate close to Swalwell to visit China during an election night gathering.
In November 2014, the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at the University of California, Los Angeles held an “If You Are the One” matchmaking event, and Zhang Wanying was listed as the fifth female guest.
On October 14, 2014, China International Capital Corporation (CICC) announced that Zhu Yunlai had resigned from the positions of president and chairman of the management committee, with Lin Shoukang serving as acting president.
On the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the birth of Xi Zhongxun, Xi Yuanping published a reminiscence article titled “Beautiful Woodlands” in the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, recounting the love story with his wife Zhang Lanlan and accompanied by a photo of the two together; the article was subsequently reported to have been ordered deleted across the entire network.
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission announced the approval for the preparation of Shanghai Life Insurance, with Mi Chunlei's Landsea Holdings as the largest shareholder and Mi Chunlei as the proposed chairman.
In September 2014, Jiang Wen gave a speech to over 700 students at the University of Pennsylvania, discussing the relationship between the Cultural Revolution and his personal growth.
Actors Ren Quan, Li Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming put up 80 million to establish the celebrity venture capital fund Star VC.
In June 2014, Fang Xinghai was promoted to Director of the Economic Department Four of the Central Financial and Economic Leadership Group Office.
At the end of May 2014, all Google websites became inaccessible in China and have never been unblocked since. Foreign websites shifted from a blacklist system to a de facto whitelist system.
Xi Jinping made his first instruction regarding the problem of illegal villas in the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains in the Xi'an section, kicking off a four-year campaign involving six instructions to crack down on illegal construction in the Qinling Mountains.
In April 2014, Song Lin, Chairman of China Resources Group, was brought down due to his involvement in the Shanxi coal asset acquisition case, which implicated the family interests of Ling Jihua.
In 2014, former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xu Caihou was investigated, marking the beginning of Xi Jinping's purge of Jiang Zemin's influence in the military.
In 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Leadership Group, with Xi Jinping serving as its head.
Li Na defeated Cibulkova in the 2014 Australian Open final to claim the second Grand Slam title of her career.
In 2014, a serious knee injury forced Li Na to bid farewell to the professional tour, and she announced the end of her professional tennis career at her retirement press conference.
Zhao Wei and Huang Youlong invested HK$3.1 billion to acquire a 9.18% stake in Alibaba Pictures. Confidential documents show that the funds were provided by Xiao Jianhua's Tomorrow Holding, with the couple acting as proxy holders.
Following the introduction of China's Anti-Espionage Law, the methods for taking hostages have become more diversified.
The Ghanaian couple, the Jia Cheng couple, who run a café in Dandong, a border city between China and North Korea, were arrested by Chinese state security on suspicion of espionage and endangering national security; the timeline is basically the same as that of the arrest and release of the Ghanaian-Chinese businessman Su Bin.
During Ren Zhiqiang's tenure as president, he vigorously promoted the "One Suosuo Tree" project, combining desertification control with the development of the rural economy, achieving significant ecological and economic benefits.
Chen Huimin said in a mainland program interview that Hong Kong gangs are very patriotic and will obey the country's orders.
Pan Shiyi has stopped acquiring land and begun selling off SOHO assets on a large scale in Shanghai and other locations, cashing out a cumulative total of approximately 30 billion RMB.
Chiang Wan-an's father, Chiang Hsiao-yen, traveled to Beijing to attend a family banquet with Xi Jinping.
Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has carried out Operation "Fox Hunt" to pursue officials abroad. By 2023, it had brought back more than 12,000 people from over 120 countries.
A video of Xi Jinping's 2014 visit to Fiji has resurfaced, with his facial expressions interpreted by netizens as "cerebral palsy," "hungry," or "needing to use the restroom," sparking a meme translation movement.
According to a streamer friend, in 2014 or 2015, the annual income of grassroots police officers in Shanghai dropped from 200,000 to 300,000 yuan to 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
"Songs and Smiles" once again served as the closing finale number at the 2014 CCTV June 1 Gala.
Investigative journalist Luo Changping said Tang Can was tried and served a sentence in Hubei in early 2014, and was later secretly taken to Beijing to assist in the investigation of a major military case; the authorities did not announce it, and in 2012 there were online rumors that she had been sentenced to 15 years.
A video blogger speculated that around the time of Liu Xiang's retirement, Nike and he rearranged a long-term contract covering roughly ten years after his retirement, rather than a lifetime contract in the traditional sense; this claim has not been confirmed by any public report.
Data from Freedom House's database shows that between 2014 and 2024, a total of 1,219 incidents of physical transnational repression occurred worldwide, of which the Chinese Communist Party was responsible for 272, accounting for 22%.
After Xi Jinping took power, the two recently retired vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission, Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, were successively purged, and most of the vice chairmen who fell from power were charged with the crime of colluding with the enemy.
In 2014, People's Daily published a commentary on pensions, stating that civil servants hold public power and if their pension benefits are poor, it is difficult to lead the team, suggesting that occupational annuities be used to widen the gap in benefits between civil servants and enterprise employees. This article sparked renewed heated discussion in early November 2026.