The CCP Central Committee issued a decision stipulating that, effective from 00:00 on January 1, 2018, the People's Armed Police shall be under the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Military Commission.
In 2017, Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China known as the "internet czar," fell from power over corruption, and in 2019 he was sentenced to 14 years, a longer term than many of the big-name internet influencers he had arrested while in office.
Cai Qi, then Beijing Party Secretary, stressed at a meeting that bayonets must draw blood, and directed the large-scale expulsion of Beijing's low-end population, which left large numbers of people sleeping on the streets in the bitter winter and drew worldwide condemnation.
The first Politburo meeting after the 19th National Congress adopted relevant regulations requiring Politburo members to submit written performance reports to the CCP Central Committee and the General Secretary annually, further strengthening supreme centralization of power.
On the closing day of the First Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, Chen Xi took over the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee and the Central Party School, breaking the convention that a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau concurrently serves as the president of the Party School.
In the list of Standing Committee members announced at the 1st Plenary Session of the 19th CCP Central Committee, Hu Chunhua failed to enter the Standing Committee. Although Li Keqiang and Wang Yang were included, the succession plan laid out by Hu Jintao in 2012 has been significantly compromised.
The CCP has amended its constitution to establish the leadership role of party committees in state-owned enterprises and is pushing for "two coverages," requiring party branches to fully cover private enterprises.
Li Zhanshu entered the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ranking third.
While seeking political asylum in the United States, Guo Wengui was introduced to an interview with journalist Bill Gertz; after learning of his situation, Bannon met with Guo Wengui and established contact.
During the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping went to the Guizhou delegation to take part in its discussion, and Chen Yiqin took part in the related activities.
After the 19th National Congress, Chen Yiqin went to Qiannan to deliver reports at the county, town and village levels, and asked cadres to keep in mind the General Secretary's kindness toward Guizhou.
After 19 years on air, the program "Qiangqiang Sanrenxing" suddenly announced on its official Weibo without any warning that it was temporarily suspended due to company program adjustments, and subsequent search results were blocked.
Duan Weihong went missing from her Beijing office a few weeks after Sun Zhengcai was brought down, with her executives and assistants disappearing simultaneously, and was subsequently detained by the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
On September 4, 2017, the People's Bank of China and six other government departments jointly issued an announcement declaring initial coin offerings (ICOs) to be unapproved illegal public financing, suspected of crimes such as illegal fundraising, and demanding that they be stopped immediately and unwound.
On September 4, 2017, the People's Bank of China and six other ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Announcement on Preventing the Risks of Token Offering Financing," halting ICOs, requiring completed offerings to be unwound, and domestic Bitcoin trading platforms subsequently ceased operations one after another.
From August 31 to September 2, 2017, Justin Sun's TRON raised approximately $70 million through an initial coin offering (ICO). Days later, Chinese regulators halted ICOs, and TRON shifted its focus overseas.
On August 30, 2017, Jin Xing announced on Weibo that The Jin Xing Show had been cancelled, and Dragon TV has not revived the program since.
In July 2017, Sun Zhengcai was suddenly investigated and expelled from the CCP. He and Hu Chunhua were once seen as candidates for the sixth-generation leadership; his downfall marked a turning point for the succession plans Hu Jintao had left for himself.
The South China Morning Post published an investigative report by financial columnist Shirley Yam regarding the relationship between Cai Huabo and a close aide to Xi Jinping, but it was subsequently retracted due to "unverifiable insinuations."
As Next Magazine began tracking his whereabouts and launching an investigation, Cai Huabo suddenly resigned from his top position at Taiho Holdings.
After Binance launched, China began to regulate the digital currency industry, and Changpeng Zhao led his team to shift the business overseas.
The 'General Principles for Content Review of Online Audiovisual Programs' were released, requiring online audiovisual programs to be reviewed before broadcast and strictly restricting subjective speculative commentary, mocking serious topics, and negative controversial topics.
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television called out Sina Weibo, AcFun, and Phoenix New Media, ordering them to halt audiovisual program services and carry out comprehensive rectification, pointing out that they extensively broadcast non-compliant current affairs audiovisual programs and social commentary programs.
Former CIA officer Kevin Mallory was lured to Shanghai in the spring of 2017 and sold top-secret defense intelligence to China, ultimately receiving a 20-year prison sentence.
When Xi Jinping visited Kazakhstan and toured the China Pavilion at the Expo, Chinese performers on site sang “Songs and Smiles” in front of him, and the song’s title was written out in the Foreign Ministry’s official communiqué.
In June 2017, then Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang stated that the Sino-British Joint Declaration, as a historical document, no longer had any practical significance and was not binding on the Central Government's administration of Hong Kong.
Three days after acquiring full equity in the Yuemeng project, Huacheng Group resold it to Evergrande, with the transaction involving an M&A fund established by CITIC Bank.
During the 12th Guizhou Provincial Party Congress, Xi Jinping, nominated by the central authorities to stand for election in Guizhou, was elected as a delegate to the 19th Party Congress with zero votes against from more than 730 delegates.
In April 2017, the first plenary session of the 12th CCP Guizhou Provincial Committee elected Chen Min'er to continue as provincial Party secretary, and Shen Yiqin as deputy provincial Party secretary, who also concurrently served as president of the provincial Party school.
On April 17, 2017, two officials from China's Foreign Ministry summoned Voice of America's Beijing-based correspondent, saying that a live-streamed interview with Guo Wengui constituted interference in China's internal affairs, and threatened that it would affect the journalist's renewal of a visa.
President Trump invited Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan to a summit at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where First Lady Melania Trump took Peng Liyuan to visit the Bak Middle School of the Arts.
During the interview, Voice of America demanded that the line be pulled, cutting off Guo Wengui's live broadcast, and subsequently placed the reporter who took part in the interview on administrative leave.
Liu Xiyong was taken to Yanbian, Jilin for interrogation in a different jurisdiction. During his time in Yanbian, he was subjected to torture by the special investigation team, resulting in seven fractures to his sternum and ribs, and died of asphyxiation.
China Newsweek published an article titled 'The Truth of Huawei's 34-year-old Employees' on page 6 of the 7th edition on March 23, 2017, revealing the event of Huawei centrally clearing out employees over 34 years old in 2017.
Cai Huabo has been appointed as Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of the Hong Kong-listed company Taiho Holdings, controlling the company's shares through Taiho Financial Group.
In February 2017, after stepping down as mayor of Chongqing, Huang Qifan took up the post of vice chair of the Finance and Economic Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, and left the post in March 2018.
Tomorrow Holding boss Xiao Jianhua was cross-border taken back to the mainland from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong by state security (MSS) personnel, and his massive network of proxy-held and money-laundering assets began to be investigated.
Liu Xiaoguang, one of the founders of Alxa SEE, has passed away. He once led many entrepreneurs into the desert and was changed by the rules.
In 2017, U.S. President Trump shattered the old consensus and ultimately called China America's rival.
CITIC Real Estate Chairman Hu Donghai succeeds Wang Jianyu as Chairman of Shenzhen Xinghuo Xinteng Real Estate Co., Ltd.
After Ms. Ma Yongtian's son and husband completed their immigration procedures to the United States in 2017, they were stopped from leaving the country by the Changchun Public Security Bureau. Their passports and related documents were confiscated, and they were designated as suspects of "illegal emigration," released on bail pending trial.
A US civil jury has awarded T-Mobile $4.8 million in damages, primarily on breach of contract claims, in a case involving Huawei engineers accessing Tappy testing robot technology.
Changpeng Zhao founded the cryptocurrency exchange Binance and later became an important figure in the cryptocurrency industry.
Trump had dinner with Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and during dessert, mentioned that the U.S. had launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles into Syria.
Han Shihui purchased about 468 mu of land in Hengshui, Hebei, invested about 2 billion yuan, and partnered with Hengshui No. 2 High School to found a private school with a capacity of about 20,000 students.
Ye Jianchun was promoted to Vice Minister of Water Resources in 2017.
From 2017 onward, the finale slot of the CCTV Children's Day Gala was taken over by politically charged songs such as "We Are the Successors of Communism" in place of "Songs and Smiles."
The first batch of 678 auxiliary police officers recruited in Shenzhen are reported to all hold bachelor's degrees or higher.
After Zhang Youxia was promoted to Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, by convention he no longer enters the list of Central Military Commission members at the Ministry of National Defense's August 1 banquet held in ordinary years.
The Law on the Administration of Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations in the Mainland of China was passed on April 28, 2016 and took effect on January 1, 2017, shifting the authority overseeing overseas NGOs from civil affairs departments to public security organs.