2016 G20 Hangzhou summit

Pollution in China

In the days before the G20 Hangzhou summit, only some vehicles were allowed through the city, construction sites were stopped, inhabitants received a week-long holidays (and were encouraged to leave the city) and factories in the region (including more than two hundred steel mills) were asked to stop their production (in order to temporarily reduce air pollution).^[3][4][5][6]

Climate change

On 3 September 2016, US President Barack Obama and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping announced the ratification of the Paris Agreement (of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference) by their countries,^[7][8] bringing the total number of countries ratifying the agreement to 26;^[9] the United States and China represent respectively 18 percent and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions (the driving force behind global warming).^[8][10]

Economic statements

The main themes of final communiqué of the summit are:^[11]

• Fight against tax evasion (asking the OECD for a black list of tax havens).
• Favour international trade and investments and opposition to protectionism.
• Fiscal stimulus and innovation to boost economic growth.
• Combating "populist attacks" against globalization.
• Strengthen support for refugees.

Summit documents

The heads of state and government of G20 issued a joint statement with a summary of the main results of the meeting. The statement is divided in the following documents:

• Communiqué 2016^[12]
• Annex to the Leaders' Declaration^[13]
• Hangzhou Action Plan^[14]
• Blueprint on Innovative Growth^[15]
• G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development^[16]

Invited guests

• 
  Chad
  Idriss Déby,
  President, chairperson of the African Union for 2016
• 
   Egypt
  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President, guest invitee^[18]
• 
   Kazakhstan
  Nursultan Nazarbayev, President, guest invitee
• 
   Laos
  Bounnhang Vorachith, President, chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for 2016
• 
   Senegal
  Macky Sall, President, president of New Partnership for Africa's Development^[18]
• 
   Singapore
  Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, guest invitee^[19]
• 
   Spain
  Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister, permanent guest invitee^[18]
• 
   Thailand
  Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister, guest invitee

International organizations

• 
  World Bank
  Jim Yong Kim, president
• 
  International Monetary Fund
  Christine Lagarde, managing director
• 
  Financial Stability Board
  Mark Carney, chairman
• 
   United Nations
  Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General
• 
  International Labour Organization
  Guy Ryder, director-general
• 
  World Trade Organization
  Roberto Azevêdo, director-general
• 
  OECD
  José Ángel Gurría, secretary-general

Internet censorship

CCP general secretary Xi Jinping in the speech quoted "Guoyu", Traditional Chinese history books, in Chapter 9 of the "通商宽农" (tōng shāng kuān nóng, meaning reducing taxes and make road easy to walk, promote commercialization, and relax agriculture^[21]), but he mistakenly pronounced it as "通商宽衣" ("宽衣" kuān yī means Undress), the Central Propaganda Department ordered media and social platforms to prohibit this discussion.^[22]

Russian hacking of 2016 United States elections

In December 2016, President Obama stated that, when Obama was in China in early September 2016, he told Vladimir Putin not to hack the U.S. election infrastructure. Obama stated, "What I was concerned about in particular was making sure the 2016 DNC hack wasn't compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting, affect the actual election process itself." He continued, "So in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn’t. And in fact we did not see further tampering of the election process."^[23]