In 2016, Shentong Express went public in Shenzhen. Previously, Alibaba founder Jack Ma had invested in Shentong, pushing it to leverage the growth of online shopping to expand its courier business.
Zhao Wei's shell company Longwei Media signed a share transfer agreement with Wanjia Culture, attempting to acquire control of Wanjia Culture with high leverage, which ultimately terminated due to financing failure.
Shenzhen Xinqiao Industrial, under Huacheng Group, acquired full equity in the Shenzhen Yuemeng Industrial Zone Project.
At the end of December 2016, Huang Qifan stepped down as mayor of Chongqing and was succeeded by Zhang Guoqing, ending his posting of about 15 years in Chongqing.
On the morning of November 15, 2016, the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court carried out the death penalty on Jia Jinglong in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People's Court; he had shot and killed village Party secretary He Jianhua after his own marital home was forcibly demolished.
Trump stated that since his first election in 2016, he has established a friendship with Xi based on mutual respect and the fundamental interests of the peoples of both countries.
The Cybersecurity Law was passed in November 2016 and took effect in June 2017, stipulating that platforms are also held responsible when anti-Communist or pornographic content appears on them, and that group owners may be punished if someone in a group violates the rules; thereafter, all platforms greatly increased their content moderation staff.
Two female independent candidates in Beijing running for grassroots People's Congress deputy were surrounded and obstructed by a large number of men in black, and their qualifications were ultimately revoked.
In 2016, several legal scholars and lawyers wrote to Zhou Qiang, President of the Supreme People's Court, arguing that approving Jia Jinglong's death sentence did not meet the standards and policies for the cautious use of the death penalty, and requesting that it not be carried out; the list of co-signers and the date of October 25 could not be verified.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party studied major issues of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. After the meeting, it adopted a new code of intra-party political life and a revised regulation on intra-party supervision, and formally put forward "the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core."
Xi Jinping publicly stated that state-owned enterprises are an important pillar for the Chinese Communist Party's governance and national rejuvenation, demanding that they be strengthened, optimized, and expanded, marking the beginning of state-owned enterprises squeezing out private enterprises.
Deng Guangying, a Chongqing petitioner who had spoken about the disappearances in Chongqing and the organ harvesting scandal, was arrested and repatriated after being interviewed in Beijing, and has been held at the Sanmiao Psychiatric Hospital in Hechuan District ever since.
Originally, the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress had 62 members, of which 38 lost their qualifications, resulting in the number of members falling below half, making it impossible to hold normal meetings and perform duties.
In 2016, a Ministry of Finance investigation found that 72 of 93 automakers were suspected of defrauding subsidies, with the case rate reaching as high as 80%.
Zhang Yimou directed the water-based scenic symphonic concert "Hangzhou, a Memory Forever" at the Hangzhou G20 Summit, presenting a gentle and open image of China to the world through Jiangnan landscapes and classical symphonic music.
Old Beijing Teahouse began producing episodes in September 2016, after which it gradually increased from one episode per week to several episodes per week.
In September 2016, Dushan County in Guizhou broke ground on a nearly 100-meter-tall all-wood Water Company Building despite fiscal revenue of less than 1 billion yuan, taking on nearly 200 million yuan in debt; it later became an unfinished project after the funding chain broke.
In September 2016, Gao Xiaosong stepped down as chairman of Alibaba Music and took over as chairman of the Alibaba Entertainment Strategy Committee, responsible for international strategy and representing Alibaba at cultural and entertainment events.
Xi went to the Tangshan Earthquake Site Memorial Park, presented flower baskets to the compatriots who perished and to the heroes of earthquake resistance, bowed three times to the memorial wall, visited earthquake survivors with paraplegia, and inspected post-disaster reconstruction.
On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration issued its ruling in China's absence, upholding nearly all of the Philippines' claims and rejecting the historical rights claims based on the nine-dash line.
After Roast Season 1, hosted by Zhou Jie, drew about 30 million views within three days of going online, it suddenly disappeared from the platform; eight months later it was relaunched after its offensive angle was revised.
After the South China Sea arbitration case ruling was announced in July 2016, young netizens once again organized in groups to jump the Great Firewall and go on an expedition; together with the expedition organized by Li Yi in January of the same year, this formed a fixed pattern of online expeditions.
On May 17, 2016, the Hebei High People's Court rejected Jia Jinglong's appeal in a second-instance ruling, upheld the first-instance death sentence handed down by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court, and submitted it to the Supreme People's Court for review.
The Xicheng District Committee of Beijing has decided to place Ren Zhiqiang on probation within the party for one year, finding that he has repeatedly made erroneous remarks.
At a Buckingham Palace garden party, Queen Elizabeth II complained to the Scotland Yard commander in charge of security about the rude behavior of the Chinese delegation.
In April 2016, Alibaba transformed Tiantian Dongting into Ali Planet, an app combining music listening, following stars, performances, and fan interaction. A large number of users left, and months later Ali Planet shut down its main services. Gao Xiaosong later admitted this was a wrong decision.
Guo Wengui got in touch with Voice of America reporters, who then prepared to interview him, and Gong Xiaoxia decided to lead a team to conduct the interview.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has legally closed the Weibo account of Ren Zhiqiang, who had nearly 37 million followers, on the grounds of "continuously publishing illegal information."
Ren Zhiqiang publicly questioned the requirement that media sponsored by the Party and the government must bear the Party's name. Subsequently, his Weibo account, which had more than 30 million followers, was shut down, and he was given the punishment of probation within the Party.
Xi Jinping inspected three major state media outlets and put forward the assertion that "media sponsored by the Party and government must adhere to the Party."
In 2016, Xi Jinping put forward the requirement that party media belong to the party, further tightening ideology and public opinion control.
Ren Zhiqiang publicly questioned on Weibo that “party media are partisan”, prompting a concentrated criticism by official media, and was labeled “anti-party” etc.
Xi Jinping inspected People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CCTV, proposing that media run by the Party and government must be loyal to the Party. CCTV displayed the slogan 'CCTV is loyal to the Party, absolutely loyal.'
According to a report by Caixin, Zhang Jun, chairman of Fuide Insurance Holdings, was taken away by relevant authorities on February 5, 2016 to assist in an investigation; market rumors linked the case to Liu Zhigeng, vice governor of Guangdong Province.
China introduced the Regulations on Online Publishing Service Management and the Cybersecurity Law in 2016.
On the eve of Taiwan's presidential election, Chou Tzu-yu released an apology video in which she read from a script a statement about one China and her own identity.
Wang Zhanjiang founded Shenzhen Huasheng Investment Co., Ltd., and within less than four weeks the company cooperated with CITIC Real Estate and others to establish Shenzhen Xinghuo Xinteng Real Estate Co., Ltd., obtaining a credit endorsement for the Shenzhen old city renovation project.
An investigation by South Korean prosecutors found that ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) drew up the "Hefei Plan" in early 2016, targeting Samsung's DRAM processes and talent; a former Samsung employee who jumped ship in 2016 was accused of providing large amounts of handwritten materials on DRAM technology.
In 2016, Heilongjiang's current-year pension shortfall reached 32 billion yuan, and its cumulative surplus was negative, making it the only province in the country where the cumulative pension surplus went into deficit.
In 2016, fixed-asset investment in Liaoning Province plunged 63.5%, and in March of the same year Northeast Special Steel went into substantive default, marking the complete collapse of Northeast China's balance sheet and credit.
Ling Jihua, former director of the CCP Central Committee General Office, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, while his younger brother Ling Wancheng had previously fled to the United States with confidential materials.
In January 2016, organizations related to Li Yi launched a campaign where tens of thousands of young people grouped together to circumvent the Great Firewall and spam Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook account with memes. In July of the same year, events related to the South China Sea arbitration occurred, marking the formation of a fixed pattern of online crusades by the young generation of netizens under the tone set by the Communist Youth League and the promotion of platform algorithms, as well as the public emergence of the early Little Pinks.
Ren Zhiqiang steps down as chairman of Alashan SEE, and the media reported with the headline “Alashan Bids Farewell to the Era of Big Shots”, indicating a shift in the direction of the times.
A company named 'Chua & Li membership' has appeared in the Hong Kong company registry database, with Li Qianxin and Cai Huabo as shareholders, both of whom provided the same residential address.
The Panama Papers leak reveals that Cai Huabo was listed as the sole beneficiary of a British Virgin Islands company, proving his use of offshore structures to hold assets.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CCP Central Committee passed relevant documents proposing that one-man rule and patriarchal systems should not be practiced; since then, Xi Jinping's power has further expanded.
The FIFA Museum in Zurich, Switzerland opened in 2016.
The CCP began to contact then-low-level official Sun Wen in 2016 and began to bribe him.
Cai Fuchao stepped down from his post as head of the central radio and television administration at around 65 years of age, and subsequently entered retirement.
China held the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, and the host said that a large number of international internet companies and related figures attended at the time.