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Former journalist Gao Qinrong recalled the past, stating that in 1998 he suffered retaliation and paid a heavy price for exposing Yuncheng's vanity project.

On February 2, renowned Chinese media personality and former investigative journalist Liu Hu was criminally detained by the Chengdu Public Security Bureau on suspicion of framing, false accusation, and illegal business operations.

The official promotional film "Great Nation Craftsmen" becomes a laughingstock, as netizens imitate it one after another, mocking the "how to use a vernier caliper" and "emergency stop button" scenes.

On January 11, an 8-meter-tall Marilyn Monroe statue inside the Central Avenue shopping mall in Dalian, Liaoning, was quietly removed; mall staff claimed they only noticed it when they arrived for work that day.

In the early morning of December 22nd, Kuaishou was suspected of being hacked, with a large number of pornographic live streams appearing on the platform, and even official live stream accounts were tampered with.

On Dec. 21, former Nanjing Museum curator Guo Dianli filed a real-name report against former president Xu Huping, accusing him of illegally occupying and smuggling cultural relics moved south from the Palace Museum during his tenure for huge profits.

To prevent a recurrence of the Chongqing screen projection incident, a company has developed specialized police equipment to counter projections.

On November 28, CCTV, together with Meituan, released a short film about a white-collar worker who quit her job to deliver food, saying that delivering food brings freedom and brings her closer to her dreams; the film was later taken down by CCTV.

On Nov 28, regarding the news that "drug use records can be sealed under new regulations in 2026," the official account of Nantong Culture and Tourism left a comment in the Douyin comments section saying "which young master took drugs," which attracted widespread online attention and rapidly gained over two million followers.

At the medical exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany, about 200 Chinese exhibitors collectively vomited and suffered diarrhea after eating 20-euro Chinese boxed meals, many were taken to hospital.