The Hainan Provincial Government issued an administrative reconsideration decision, ruling that the Hainan Provincial Public Security Bureau's refusal to disclose the allocation details of the 517 million auction funds to Tan Dekui was illegal, but made no compensation ruling.
Zhao Wei appeared in the Hongyin livestream room of the Menglong Winery and interacted with the host; about 10 minutes later, the livestream feed was cut off and banned.
On December 31, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced quota restriction measures on beef imports from countries including Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia and the United States, imposing an additional 55% tariff on beef imports exceeding the quota.
The Eastern Theater Command announced the start of military exercises involving the army, navy, air force, and rocket force. The next day, it issued navigational warnings for live-fire shooting areas, followed by the announcement of the completion of the exercises.
The Huizhou Intermediate People's Court handed down a first-instance verdict to Zhao Bing and more than ten defendants; principal offender Zhao Bing was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional injury, and the remaining defendants received various sentences.
On December 28, 2025, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an went to Shanghai to attend the Shanghai-Taipei City Forum, stressing that contact is better than confrontation. The two cities signed two cooperation memoranda, on water governance and vocational skills training, bringing the cumulative total to 49.
Zhang Liang, an engineer at Beijing-based state-backed Fanghong, had been working long hours at high intensity since August 2025. After working 140 consecutive days of overtime, he suffered a sudden illness and passed away on Saturday, December 27, while working overtime, at the age of only 37.
Entrusted by Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao and Wang Yang summoned 22 Politburo members for talks. At the democratic life meeting, Xi Jinping faced 11 rounds of stern criticism, with multiple members directly pressuring him on the spot to resign and take responsibility.
Just forty-five days after the closing ceremony of the National Games, Guo Yonghang was removed from his posts as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CCP and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee, with the central authorities announcing he will be reassigned.
In the early morning of December 22nd, the Kuaishou platform was suspected of being attacked by hackers, with a large number of pornographic live stream content appearing on the platform. Even its official live stream accounts were altered into pornographic live stream rooms, attracting widespread attention from netizens.
On December 21, Guo Dianli, a former curator at the Nanjing Museum, filed a real-name report against former director Xu Huping, accusing him of massively and illegally embezzling and smuggling cultural relics relocated from the Palace Museum during his tenure, and selling them to overseas businessmen and domestic artifact dealers for huge profits.
Changsha Helong Puli Community banned delivery drivers from entering with e-bikes, sparking strong dissatisfaction, delivery boycotts, and fierce conflicts.
A report by Rhodium Group dated December 22, 2025 estimated that China's real GDP growth in 2025 was between 2.5% and 3%, roughly half the officially announced rate.
The Chinese military promoted two generals in December 2025.
On the night of December 22, Yu Faxiang, the actual controller of the "Xiangyuan group" and a billionaire worth tens of billions of yuan, was subjected to criminal coercive measures by the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of committing a crime. The case is under investigation, and all three listed companies — Xiangyuan Culture and Tourism, Jiaojian Shares, and Haichang Ocean Park — have confirmed it in announcements.
The Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products applied on December 17, 2025 for a patent concerning the stable and large-scale production of the Yersinia pestis F1 antigen.
On December 17, 2025, China's National Health Commission (NHC) publicly solicited opinions on the Blood Donation Law (Draft Amendment for Public Comment), proposing to raise the upper age limit for blood donation from 55 to 65 and to shorten the minimum interval for whole blood donation from 6 months to 90 days.
The U.S. has sold $11 billion worth of key weapons to Taiwan, with another approximately $14 billion in arms sales approved but not yet completed.
Starting in December 2025, the U.S. State Department requires F, M, and J students, exchange visitors, H1B work visa applicants, and H4 dependent visa applicants to set their social media accounts to public.
On December 14, a motorcycle owner in Jilin saw a video on Douyin showing his previously impounded motorcycle appearing on the streets of Congo, Africa, sparking questions about the disposal of impounded vehicles.
To prevent a recurrence of the Chongqing projection incident, a company has developed police equipment specifically designed to counter projections.
Tongwei, GCL and other leading polysilicon producers have pooled 3 billion yuan to establish a storage platform, attempting to halt the decline in polysilicon prices by purchasing excess capacity and shutting it down in a coordinated manner.
On December 9, a school in Zhejiang issued a notice prohibiting students from celebrating Christmas, requiring that no Christmas elements be used on social media platforms and that no related activities be held, while threatening that violators would face serious criticism and education.
In December 2025, netizens re-uploaded the CCTV video from that year welcoming Meng Wanzhou back to China, leading netizens to jokingly refer to it as 'Ms. Meng of Canada visits the mainland.'
On December 5, well-known Little Pink blogger Lu Kewen published an article titled "China Is Preparing for War Against Japan" on his WeChat public account, claiming that China has already begun systematic preparations at the levels of public opinion, legality and military force, and that China and Russia are capable of handling a two-front war; the article was subsequently taken down, and on December 8 his WeChat public account was banned.
On December 5, netizens discovered that after “Diao Maihu” and “She Japan,” Weibo was also circulating euphemisms for Xi Jinping such as “i in ing,” “she dripping,” “shejumping,” and “skipping,” and that these had already been automatically indexed by the algorithm into search suggestions.
In December 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced that Hu Chenfeng had long posted so-called "Android people" and "Apple people" remarks on multiple platforms that "incited group confrontation," and that the relevant accounts on each platform had been closed.
Sources claim that Zhang Youxia is being held at the Central Guard Bureau base in Gu'an, Hebei and is on a hunger strike; the authorities only announced on January 24, 2026 that they had opened a case for review and investigation against him.
Former Air Force Commander Chang Dingqiu reportedly died of a sudden heart attack while undergoing detention and interrogation by the military discipline inspection commission, with no official announcement made.
Zhang Youxia was secretly placed under control and arrested in December, and the news was made public the following January.
The Wuhu Intermediate Court has accepted the reorganization application of Anhui Guohou Asset Management and appointed a provisional administrator, marking the company's entry into bankruptcy proceedings.
Regulatory registry data show that by the end of 2025, only 2,933 rural and small and medium-sized bank legal entities remained in China, a decrease of 670 from a year earlier.
Urals crude oil prices have begun to recover from the low of $39 per barrel in December 2025.
The loan agreement for the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project was signed at the end of 2025.
According to estimates in the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics' "2025 Report on the Fiscal Conditions of Provinces, Cities, and Counties," in 2024 the average fiscal self-sufficiency rate of the country's 2,774 county-level areas was about 38%, with the lowest county at only about 1%.
From late 2025 to early 2026, Xi Jinping promoted several generals in the Central Military Commission: Zhang Shengmin as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Zhang Shuguang as secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Wang Gang as commander of the Air Force, Yang Zhibin as commander of the Eastern Theater Command, and Han Shengyan as commander of the Central Theater Command, all promoted to full general.
In 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi publicly mentioned the San Francisco Treaty, implying that Taiwan's status has remained undetermined since that treaty, and emphasized Japan's concern over Taiwan's security, provoking a strong reaction from Beijing.
Amid tensions with China in the South China Sea, the Philippines has opened bases close to Taiwan to U.S. military deployment, in response to the security situation in the Taiwan Strait.
In December 2025, members of the public reported to the central ecological and environmental protection inspection team that more than 100 chemical enterprises in three townships of Dongguang County had no permits and other problems; the local response said the claims were untrue. An approval officer at the county Emergency Management Bureau told CCTV reporters that they were not shut down because they pay taxes to the county, and the county would not allow them to be banned.
According to CBRE data, the vacancy area of Grade A offices territory-wide in Hong Kong reached 15.9 million square feet (about 1.48 million square meters) at the end of 2025, with an overall vacancy rate of 17.3% hitting a record high, before falling back to 16.1% in the second quarter of 2026.
In 2025, Hong Kong recorded a total of 89,137 criminal cases, 50% more than the 59,225 cases in 2019. Among them, 43,212 were fraud cases, accounting for half, with victims defrauded of HK$8.1 billion. Fraud cases have multiplied fivefold from fewer than 10,000 in 2019.
Hong Kong recorded 194 homicides in 2025, of which 168 — the deaths in the Wang Fuk Court fire — were classified as manslaughter, with the government arresting 16 people on manslaughter charges; of the 26 homicides outside the fire, 16 were committed among family members and relatives, compared with only 10 such cases in 2024.
In December 2025, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Mast, passed the Dismantle Foreign Scam Cartels Act, which aims to strengthen interagency coordination in legal form and bolster the U.S. government's response to the scam center crisis; it still awaits passage by the full House and Senate and signature by the President.
The CCP Eastern Theater Command has publicly announced the 'Justice Mission 2025' military exercises, utilizing naval, ground, air, and Rocket Forces to practice blockading key ports in Taiwan.
In December 2025, the draft amendment to the Blood Donation Law of the People's Republic of China proposed extending the upper age limit for blood donation from 55 to 65, and shortening the donation interval from 6 months to 3 months. In recent years, some government agencies and units have forced blood donations under the guise of voluntariness.
In response to the frequent occurrence of illegal drone flights, the Ministry of Public Security has been conducting a six-month national special rectification campaign for airspace security since last December.
In December 2025, Mr. Gu from Henan sued Mr. Liu from Shanxi in the Dengzhou People's Court for unjust enrichment. The court determined that Mr. Liu had received a mis-transfer of 19,800 yuan and failed to return it, and did not appear in court after being summoned; it ruled that he must return the funds and pay interest.
In December 2025, China Petroleum Daily announced its annual "Top Ten Outstanding Cases" in international communication, in which PetroChina's Niger company was selected for "breaking the deadlock with 'technology + communication' and setting a new green benchmark for China-Africa energy cooperation."
After the short film was released, it drew mockery from netizens and was subsequently taken down by CCTV.
On November 28, the official Douyin account of Nantong Culture and Tourism commented "Which young master got high?" under a Douyin video about the sealing of drug-use records. This remark attracted nationwide attention and heated discussion, causing the official account's follower count to surge rapidly from 355,000 to 2,545,000 in a short period.