Construction of the Three Gorges New Channel project, with a total investment of nearly 80 billion yuan, officially commenced in Yichang, Hubei. Executive Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang attended and announced the start of construction, while Hubei Provincial Party Secretary Guan Zhiou was downplayed in the official report.
Chen Weijun, former member of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee and former vice chairman of the autonomous region government, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and dismissed from public office, and transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution.
Elderly officials of the Chinese Communist Party pushed for Guan Zhiou to bypass Xi Jinping and directly assume the post of Hubei Provincial Party Secretary, taking charge of financial funds related to the Three Gorges Project.
Wei Xiaokui went to Fujian in October 2024 to serve as vice governor, and later took over as secretary of the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection around mid-2025.