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26.12.2025

The Day of the Democratic Life Meeting

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This page is an archive of main headlines from China for 26.12.2025.

It displays 64 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.

26.12.2025 ⇢ The Day of the Democratic Life Meeting
⌹On December 26, Chinese state media editors executed a total synchronization around the CPC Political Bureau’s 'democratic life meeting.' Following the previous day's focus on 2026 anti-corruption planning, morning headlines across Xinhua, CCTV, and People's Daily transitioned to Xi Jinping’s personal directive framing the 'eight-point decision' on party conduct as an 'iron rule' and 'hard bar.' This internal purification narrative was paired with a coordinated triumphalist campaign celebrating the national high-speed rail network surpassing 50,000 kilometers.
By early afternoon, the domestic focus on discipline shifted toward external friction. State-controlled military outlets and Global Times reported on countermeasures and sanctions against 20 U.S. defense firms in retaliation for Taiwan arms sales. While state media promoted infrastructure milestones like the new Xinjiang mega-tunnel, international sources highlighted a divergent reality, reporting on China’s low global human freedom rankings and ongoing trauma from the Wang Fuk Court fire in Hong Kong.
26.12.2025
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08:44 (00:44)⇢The Iron Gavel of Internal Purity

⌹State media outlets have solidified a unified narrative centered on internal political discipline, specifically the CPC Political Bureau's 2026 anti-corruption planning (Xinhua, People's Daily, CCTV, Global Times, China Daily, Huanqiu). In contrast, international and alternative Chinese-language sources are highlighting ideological friction, such as efforts to replace Christmas with nationalist commemorations and U.S. calls for the release of detained Christians (DW, VOA, China Digital Times).
08:54
壹视界·我们的“十五五” | 䞺䜕芁“投资于人”读懂政策里的发展密码
08:54 (00:54 in your timezone)
09:06
09:31
䞭囜䞭倮电视台
始终把人民攟圚心䞊 矎奜生掻的枩暖刻床 沃野的答卷 倧道笃行 䞍断巩固拓展经济皳䞭向奜势倎
09:31 (01:31 in your timezone)
10:08
党员干郚䞺什么芁“掻到老、孊到老、修养到老” 政商亀埀劂䜕做到既“亲”又“枅” 规范涉䌁执法怎样防止问题反匹、提振䌁䞚信心 䞓题
10:08 (02:08 in your timezone)
10:26
"血芁热倎芁冷骚子芁硬。䞀䞪人倒䞋去䞀矀人站起来。"这䞍是空掞的口号而是䞀代又䞀代抵抗者甚生呜乊写的真实。圚这䞪"只允讞红花独攟"的时代每䞀䞪发声的人郜是勇敢的。每䞀次记圕郜是对遗忘的抵抗。每䞀代人的觉醒郜是对未来的承诺。笌子还圚收玧䜆抵抗从未停止。圚歀向所有圚黑暗䞭坚守圚行劚䞭自由的人们臎敬。
10:26 (02:26 in your timezone)
10:30
10:33
今幎以来提振消莹各项政策发力星效促进消莹朜力䞍断释攟 圓前各地正加快从䟛需䞀端协同发力着力添劚胜、挖朜力、增后劲倚绎发力激掻消莹“䞻匕擎”
10:33 (02:33 in your timezone)
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12:04
倧囜应有的样子 时政埮视频䞚倧道笃行 孊思践悟习近平倖亀思想 砥砺奋进民族倍兎新埁皋 以䞭囜特色倧囜倖亀掚劚构建新型囜际关系 倧囜倖亀䞭䞺䜕屡次提到这仜“蓝囟”
12:04 (04:04 in your timezone)
12:04
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从䌠统农䞚倧省到科技倧省、新兎工䞚倧省、制造倧省“新的飞跃”让安埜日新向䞊倇受瞩目 安埜将“十五五”确立䞺“倯实基础、党面发力、创先争䌘、奋力远赶的关键时期”
13:06 (05:06 in your timezone)

13:31 (05:31)⇢The Human Investment Blueprint

⌹State media have transitioned to a forward-looking mobilization for 2026, synchronized around the transition to the 15th Five-Year Plan and the 'investment in people' (CCTV, People's Daily, Beijing Daily, Xinhua, China Daily, Guangming Daily). This is bolstered by triumphalist reporting on infrastructure, notably the high-speed rail network (Global Times). Simultaneously, regulators are tightening the legal framework for state-owned assets (Caixin), while critical external voices document civil resistance and cultural heritage scandals (China Digital Times, BBC Chinese).
14:00
西延高铁匀通革呜圣地延安迎来“高铁时代” 杭衢高铁匀通运营 长䞉角城际快速亀通眑再添新劚脉 沪枝蓉沿江高铁歊宜段匀通运营 长江经济垊高铁眑再扩展
14:00 (06:00 in your timezone)
14:07
14:19
《习近平法治文选》第䞀卷出版发行 䞻芁篇目介绍 习近平法治思想是党面䟝法治囜的根本遵埪和行劚指南 深刻讀识习近平法治思想圚实践䞭的创新发展 思想之光照亮法治航皋
14:19 (06:19 in your timezone)
14:51
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15:09
锲而䞍舍萜实䞭倮八项规定粟神 掚进䜜风建讟垞态化长效化 八项规定䞺新时代党和囜家事䞚发展提䟛有力䜜风保障
15:09 (07:09 in your timezone)
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16:24
䞭矎经莞关系互利共赢的本莚䞍容歪曲 秉持诚意和原则掚劚䞭矎经莞盞向而行 着県䞭矎经莞倧局 坚持平等互惠原则 䞭矎䞀囜完党可以盞互成就、共同繁荣 让䞭矎关系这艘倧船平皳前行
16:24 (08:24 in your timezone)
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17:03 (09:03)⇢Fifty Thousand Kilometers of Iron Veins

⌹State media have transitioned from broad ideological mobilization to a specific triumphalist celebration of China's high-speed rail network surpassing 50,000 kilometers (Xinhua, Global Times, China Economic Net). Simultaneously, a coordinated editorial campaign across major outlets emphasizes 'reverence for the people and discipline' to ensure political purity for the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan (People's Daily, CCTV, Beijing Daily, Huanqiu). Meanwhile, international and critical sources highlight escalating military friction regarding 2027 Taiwan projections (DW, Secret China).
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新时代党面深化改革的粟神特莚和实践品栌 新时代掚进和拓展䞭囜匏现代化的科孊指匕 统筹掚进高莚量发展䞎高效胜治理 党面建讟瀟䌚䞻义现代化囜家关键圚党
18:24 (10:24 in your timezone)
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19:08
习近平芁坚持把䞭倮八项规定䜜䞺铁规矩、硬杠杠毫䞍束懈敎治“四风”顜瘎痌疟䞍断掚进䜜风建讟垞态化长效化 䞓题
19:08 (11:08 in your timezone)
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19:26
习近平芁坚持把䞭倮八项规定䜜䞺铁规矩、硬杠杠毫䞍束懈敎治“四风”顜瘎痌疟䞍断掚进䜜风建讟垞态化长效化
19:26 (11:26 in your timezone)

19:28 (11:28)⇢The Eight Point Iron Rule

⌹State media editors have further synchronized around the CPC Political Bureau's 'democratic life meeting,' focusing on Xi Jinping's enforcement of the eight-point decision as an 'iron rule' for party conduct (Xinhua, People's Daily, CCTV, Huanqiu). While internal discipline dominates the domestic narrative, secondary triumphalism highlights infrastructure milestones like the 50,000 km high-speed rail mark and Xinjiang's new mega-tunnel (SCMP, People's Daily, China Economic Net).
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20:48
报告统计了党球165䞪囜家和地区结果发现平均自由氎平圚新冠疫情后虜略有回升䜆敎䜓仍䜎于2019幎。根据最新数据“圚2019幎至2023幎闎党球89.6%的人口遭遇人身自由䞋降”。其䞭䞭囜圚165䞪囜家䞭排名倒数第149䜍。
20:48 (12:48 in your timezone)
20:55
习近平芁坚持把䞭倮八项规定䜜䞺铁规矩、硬杠杠毫䞍束懈敎治“四风”顜瘎痌疟䞍断掚进䜜风建讟垞态化长效化 敬畏人民、敬畏组织、敬畏法纪 习近平芁坚持把䞭倮八项规定䜜䞺铁规矩、硬杠杠毫䞍束懈敎治“四风”顜瘎痌疟䞍断掚进䜜风建讟垞态化长效化 敬畏人民、敬畏组织、敬畏法纪
20:55 (12:55 in your timezone)
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21:20 (13:20 in your timezone)
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22:07 (14:07)⇢The Party Gavel Strikes the Iron Rule

⌹State media outlets have fully synchronized around the CPC Political Bureau’s 'democratic life meeting,' focusing on Xi Jinping’s enforcement of the eight-point decision as an 'iron rule' (Xinhua, People's Daily, CCTV, China Daily, Beijing Daily, China Economic Net, Huanqiu). While internal discipline remains the domestic priority, critical external sources highlight China's low global ranking in human freedom and ongoing US-China tensions over Taiwan and Venezuela (China Digital Times, SCMP, China Military Online).
22:51
习近平芁坚持把䞭倮八项规定䜜䞺铁规矩、硬杠杠毫䞍束懈敎治“四风”顜瘎痌疟䞍断掚进䜜风建讟垞态化长效化
22:51 (14:51 in your timezone)
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