Tongji University · Full chronicle and history

On the morning of September 30, the family sought justice for their daughter at the main gate of Tongji University, but no school leaders or her academic advisor appeared. Her brother uploaded an account of what happened to Xiaohongshu and other platforms, where it was deleted within a short time; in the afternoon, some students uploaded the related content to GitHub to prevent post deletion.

On September 30, the brother of the female student who fell to her death circulated the account of the incident in a campus WeChat group she had belonged to, saying his sister excelled in both character and academics, was a Chinese Communist Party member and the head of her master's class, questioning school leaders for ignoring students' lives, saying he had already been removed from the dormitory group, and appealing to anyone with information across the school and the entire internet for help.

In the early hours of September 26, Yang Ziyi, a 23-year-old graduate student in energy and power engineering at Tongji University's School of Automotive Studies, fell to her death at the Jiading campus. Her family said she had already bought a train ticket to go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival but refunded it because the school had something going on.

On September 17, a female student at Tongji University in Shanghai went to the school infirmary to request a sick note for menstrual pain, but was asked by the school doctor to take off her pants to prove her physical condition. Multiple students from the same school confirmed that this regulation exists. Currently, the relevant posts exposing the incident have been deleted.

On July 31, Tongji University issued new rules announcing that it would no longer sign long-term employment contracts and that teachers must undergo periodic assessments. Scholars criticized the move as abolishing tenure and pushing universities toward social Darwinism.

On July 30, 2026, Nature and Nature Cancer simultaneously retracted two papers involving academic misconduct from Tongji University and Nankai University. Tongji's corresponding author Wang Ping was removed from the position of dean and demoted, while first author Jin Jiali was dismissed; Nankai's corresponding author Chen Quan was removed from the position of dean and demoted, and first author Zheng had their employment terminated.