Breaking News, Spreading Privately in Group Chats, No One Inside the Great Firewall Dares to Say It! This National Day Holiday Is Ruined Too, a Complete Mess! Qiqi Baba TALK "Refreshing Talk 787" 20261003

This episode is hosted by Qiqi. It first covers the incident where a mainland fishing boat crossed into the waters of Dongsha Island, Taiwan, and ignored warnings from the Coast Guard Administration, noting that the incident was completely censored within the Great Firewall. Subsequently, the program compiles videos filmed by netizens across the country during the 2026 National Day holiday, showcasing scenes of extreme depression, including closed shops, deserted tourist attractions, no traffic jams on the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, homestays being transferred at a loss, ride-hailing drivers with no orders, and unemployed people picking up bottles on the streets. Finally, the host analyzes that although some tourist spots had crowds, the lack of consumer purchasing power has led to a severe consumption downgrade, and this redundant population without employment or consumption capacity will become a destabilizing factor for the stability maintenance system.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. I saw a piece of news, but I haven't seen any relevant official reports about this matter within the Great Firewall; it is even being spread privately in secret. I haven't seen any mention of it by officials. If any official media with a large readership has mentioned this, friends can let me know in the comments section, and I will go take a look.

There was a Chinese-registered fishing boat that entered the waters of Dongsha Island, Taiwan, early the day before yesterday. Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration found it and kept broadcasting: "You must leave immediately! You have reached an area where entry is not allowed, and you have violated regulations." But the other party just wouldn't leave, completely pretending not to see or hear anything. Later, they were quite resistant, so to speak, and then the following scene occurred.

3.6 minutes, 119 degrees 06.4 minutes East, mainland fishing boat, you have violated the border and are operating illegally. You have violated the border and are operating illegally. Our repeated warnings have been ineffective. Our repeated warnings have been ineffective. You will pay the price, you will pay the price.

Qiqi Baba, Qiqi Baba TALK.

This is the Republic of China Coast Guard Administration enforcement warning. You must leave to the west, leave immediately. Leave to the west. What is that dog barking at?

What stock?

It's quite fierce now, fuck! You want to bite me? Fuck!

Still quite good.

Everyone.

Really, fuck! Uh.

Uh, regarding this matter, the CCP said nothing, that's right. And now it's during the National Day holiday, so at this time, they won't even issue a serious warning? Hmm, at such a critical moment, such a critical event, haven't you always claimed that Taiwan is yours? Then why is this sea area not under your jurisdiction, right? It's just that they censor information to such an extent; what over a billion people can know and what they cannot know is entirely decided by those people in the CCP. We should all know the importance of information for us humans to make judgments and think, right? But they have complete control over information, so you should know.

I mean, what kind of power is this? What kind of feeling is this? It's that over a billion people are completely under your control. Such a big event, and very few Chinese people know about it. Uh, actually, if everyone thinks about it, they can understand why those dictators, even before they come to power, might not have the thought that "I must have absolute power, I must do this or that." They might even think, "Oh, I want to be a good leader, I want to change this country, I want to make it develop better." But once they sit in that position, why does everything change? It's because once they seize this opportunity and experience this feeling, they would truly rather die than step down from that position.

This National Day is a bust! It's October 1, 2026, and the shops on the street are all closed. There's not a soul in sight. It has truly broken historical records; I have never seen such a desolate National Day.

I have to ask, what happened to our tourist attractions? No money, no money, no money! Is everyone really so broke that they can't spend? This year's National Day is the worst I've ever seen. There are no lines at the attractions. Is everyone still on the road, or is there really no money left?

I feel like I'm living through a fake National Day. There's not a single person on the road, and no business for anyone. Where did you all go for the holidays? If the poor aren't spending, are the rich not spending either?

Look, this National Day is a bit bleak. There aren't many tourists coming. Have the tourists not reached their destinations yet?

Something big has happened! Look at the exit of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link this year. It's currently 8:33 PM, Beijing time, on September 30th. Look at this exit, including the ramps on and off the bridge; it's not congested at all. In previous years, this place would be packed with traffic, jammed for four or five hours. I want to ask everyone, are you all just not taking the bridge? Basically.

I basically don't see any national flags! If there are any, they are last year's flags.

I've been in Zhongshan for so many years, and they always hang national flags for National Day. Why aren't they hanging them this year? It's strange.

You say it's October 1st, and so many cars aren't going out, and there's no one going out to play. Look, look, the cars on both sides of the road are parked. Look, they are all full, the parking lots are full.

And the activities, our activities are all free, not spending a single cent! All of us.

Oh my, this is Mount Putuo! I see it here, in the direction I'm pointing, these are all places where people are queuing. I've already seen tens of thousands of people queuing here. It feels like tens of thousands of people are queuing at Mount Putuo. The 11th is here, welcome everyone!

On National Day, the rooms aren't even fully booked. In previous years at this time, there wouldn't be anywhere to stay in the whole of Mount Putuo.

There's no foreign flavor at all, look, it's one after another.

This year it's not full, everyone has lowered prices to 500 or even 300. You can all come in the future and book on the day; it's like playing the stock market, very exciting.

From October 1st to 3rd, how many houses did everyone rent out? My family, my aunt's family, my other aunt's family, and my friends' families combined only rented out twenty-something units.

Today is National Day, October 1st. Our place actually has no one. The customers who were supposed to check in yesterday basically cancelled, and today there are only a few scattered ones. This is the most miserable, most miserable National Day in history.

Look at this, what kind of National Day is this? What kind of National Day is this? Ah! When stocking up, you go all in, filling the car up!

When.

There's no one, sigh, this fucked up National Day, this fucking business, it's so fucking hard to do! It's stone cold, stone cold, look.

Who would have thought that what's dominating the tourism industry this year isn't luxury hotels, but the tents in the hands of young people!

Oh, look.

Still, look at this at night, there are still many people arriving.

These are all, these are all friends, there are so many people, sigh, so many in this countryside, these friends, these, these are all.

Everyone look, these are all out-of-town tourists setting up tents here.

There are trailers, RVs, and ordinary sedans.

Think about it, why do you say that the number of tourists in Xinjiang hasn't decreased recently, but hotel business has worsened, and catering has worsened? You all know the reason now, right?

The current situation of Lijiang homestays and hotels has completely collapsed, completely frozen over. There are over 6,000 homestays in Lijiang, all suffering huge losses, losing everything this year.

Sigh, what kind of good person would open a homestay? Can't even book one room during the holidays. Every day when I open my eyes, it's rent. It's too hard.

I'm almost forty, started a business opening a homestay, and fell into poverty in middle age. At first, I thought doing a homestay was my dream, but later, when I realized I had poured all my income from the last thirty-something years into this homestay, I really didn't expect that opening a homestay would require so many costs. I don't even have living expenses now.

For this shop, I don't want a transfer fee now, free transfer! And then, the renovation, fire safety, all given away for free, a total of 28 guest rooms. I'm even paying 50,000 in cash to transfer this shop; I don't want a single cent in transfer fees. In ten days, the landlord will take the property back. If no one wants it, I'll remove all these renovations, furniture, and so on. Once removed, it can never be restored.

Look at this, it looks like a wasteland. Sigh, traveled 1,900 li, spent thousands of yuan. Sigh, look at this scenic spot, oh my, besides dead branches, it's just people. Look at these people, oh my, oh my, oh my.

Today is the first day of the National Day holiday. Our Jiaxing market seems to have been swept by a broom; who is there to pick up goods? No one is buying goods, this National Day is passing by in a desolate way.

Could it be that you Fujianese have used your 'Empty City Strategy' on us? No one is around on National Day, where did you go to play? Say it in the comments section.

Look, it's about 12:30 PM on National Day today, listen. Back in the day, this street was packed with people, it was hard to walk, and cars couldn't pass. Look at Zhengzhou this year, it's so quiet!

I can't believe it, today is the 2026 National Day, by the Qiantang River in Hangzhou.

Still.

Only a few lonely cruise ships, basically didn't see anyone. Where are the people? Where are the crowds of people?

This tourism, it's getting worse year by year. This is the first day of the Golden Week on October 1, 2026. You all look, the situation at the entrance of the 26-family residential complex. It used to be bustling with traffic, now I don't see a single person.

I'm just passing through for a look. I haven't seen a single female passenger.

Fellow catering business owners, today is October 1st, how is business on your end? It's a bit scary over here! It's midday, look, it's 1:30 now, the place is completely empty; I've never seen a situation like this! Where did everyone go this October 1st? Are they all sleeping at home?

Fuck! Is everyone going back to their hometowns for the National Day? Are you all not coming out to play? It's 7 o'clock and there's still no movement, what the hell? If things go on like this, we're all going to be laid off, brothers!

There are exceptionally many dormitories this year, so many dormitories, everywhere. The shops outside are failing, and for the National Day, everyone is coming to the airport to wait for buses. The line is at least two kilometers long, fuck, there are so many people! Previously, there were at least two thousand taxis here.

This is the National Day, huh.

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A few scattered people.

You don't know about this.

There's no one around, even the wet market is empty.

363.

No orders this month.

This one has no orders either, sigh, this whole row has no orders, and I don't have any orders either, sigh.

First day of the National Day, others are celebrating the holiday, and I'm picking up bottles. I've been in this city for two years, and I've been unemployed for two years. My head is injured, and construction sites won't hire me. I went to a job fair once, but didn't get any offers.

The bitterness of struggling.

There are quite a few soda cans on National Day. Today I picked up twenty cans, 1.5 mao each, which is 3 yuan more expensive than mineral water bottles; I can buy two steamed buns with that. Everyone is celebrating the holiday, but many people don't have a holiday at all. Sanitation workers are still on duty, food delivery riders are still on the road, security guards are on watch, and couriers are also on the road. I'm picking up bottles on the side of the road; we are all just holding on to life, just in different situations.

I'm not recording you, brother! Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry! Brother, brother, it's recording, it's recording, brother, brother, it didn't record me, it didn't record me, brother, brother.

Even 50-yuan homestays in Dali are empty, yet the industry says weeding out low-quality homestays is a good thing. Only those doing business are desperate for money, with streets full of tourists looking through telescopes, and consumption vouchers are not as good as saving money. Initial investment for a homestay is over a hundred thousand, and they are forced into low-price involution. We raise prices for stall materials, but don't dare to raise prices for customers; if we charge a few yuan more, customers just turn and leave. Once the market slides, it's hard to recover from losses.

Irreparable. Over seven thousand homestays are fighting for the customer base of one hundred thousand beds; the supply growth rate is more than four times the tourist growth rate. What's even more absurd is that 95% of the homestays look exactly the same: white walls, raw wood, reed decorations, even the angles for influencer photo walls are identical. Tourists open booking apps and flip through ten pages, thinking they are looking at the same shop. Some people sold their houses in Beijing to chase dreams in Dali, dumping millions in, and can't even recover the transfer fees. Who to blame? Blame the cold-blooded market, or blame yourself for treating sentiment as a business model?

All four guest rooms are empty, no one is staying, no one is coming.

Look at our market on the 11th, the National Day, which in the past used to be so crowded you couldn't move. Now, the few people you see walking in the hallway are all owners, plus some children; it's really dizzying. Up until now, I haven't had a single customer, and I tell you, look at the Golden Week of the 11th, our mall is like this now during the holiday, and I haven't even opened for business—it's not that I haven't opened, it's that many people haven't opened, at least 50% of people are willing to open.

Tomorrow is the first day of the National Day. I originally thought it would be fully booked and jammed with traffic by this afternoon, but I didn't expect drivers in many places to say there were plenty of cars but no orders. Drivers in Shijiazhuang opened the heat map at 4 PM today, and it was cold and quiet. Drivers said the holiday doesn't help either. A driver in Changsha said he rested for almost an hour this afternoon without a single order; the car was parked near Changsha Station, with 13 ride requests and 24 empty vehicles. However, there are some cities where order volumes are still rising. It's raining heavily in Shanghai today, and the evening rush hour coincided with the holiday; many drivers said the discounted orders were non-stop, and hitchhiking services required constant price increases before drivers would accept them. Did you get a surge of orders where you are?

Uh, I know, I know, you don't need to emphasize it to me, I know. Now, this year's National Day, many tourist attractions are still packed, packed, indeed crowded with people, there's no place to even stand. But there's no consumption, friends, there's no consumption. Can everyone understand this difference? It's that no matter how crowded it is inside, they aren't consuming, which is equivalent to no one being there. No matter how many people are crowded into this scenic spot, what it always looks at is consumption power, right? What we are comparing now is this economy, and the economy is about looking at consumption power. Previously, the population was an advantage because, look, let's calculate, even if one person spends 10 yuan, then you say relying on the population, it's also a consumption that cannot be underestimated, right? But this refers to the middle class, because although the middle class doesn't spend much, if the population is large, the quantity will indeed be very huge.

But the biggest problem inside the Great Firewall right now is that the number of people willing to spend that ten yuan is decreasing, or rather, the number of people who can afford to spend that ten yuan is decreasing. So, while it looks like there are a lot of people, crowded together, the people who have nothing to spare in their pockets, or who have no money to spend, are actually the ones growing faster and becoming more numerous. These people are, in fact, a kind of redundant population for the CCP, because since they cannot find jobs and lack purchasing power, they will become a large group of uncertain and unstable factors in this society. Sigh, for the CCP, for whom stability maintenance (weiwen) is a matter of life and death, the existence of these people actually makes them very uneasy. Alright, that is all for this episode. If you would like to support me, please join the membership channel. I especially hope to see you during the next member-only livestream and chat with you in real time. That is all for this episode, see you next time.