Yangjiang Town Government in Qionghai, Hainan Publicly Apologizes over Fabricated Story of Helping a Holdout Household

In Yangjiang Town, Qionghai, Hainan, a propaganda cadre's claim that he paid out of pocket for tree seedlings to win over a holdout household was exposed as false by the person involved; the town government issued a notice on September 3, 2026 acknowledging discrepancies between the account and the facts and publicly apologizing.