Campus Bullying · Full chronicle and history

Around November 10, a netizen posted on Douyin recalling that a boy in the Tsinghua-Peking University elite class jumped to his death after being repeatedly reprimanded by teachers and parents following a poor performance in a monthly exam. His family wore mourning clothes and wailed at the school gates for days, sparking heated discussions among netizens.

Recently, flowers appeared at the gate of Tangshan No. 8 Middle School in Hebei Province to mourn the death of a female student, Zhang Xintong. There has been no official information regarding the student's death, and the relevant posts published by her father on Douyin have been successively cleared.

On November 8, a student at Wenzhou Vocational Secondary School in Zhejiang Province fell to their death after their mobile phone was confiscated by a teacher. Several family members went to the school gate to demand rights (weiwen).

On November 7, a teacher surnamed Xie at the Yangchun Ziyong After-school Care Center in Guangdong choked a student while snatching an item from them. The parent used a children's smartwatch to record the incident, but the teacher snatched the watch and forcibly deleted the video. The parent then used a mobile phone to record a second video as evidence.

Recently, a junior high school student in Peixian, Jiangsu, was beaten by a teacher for using the restroom during a study hall, resulting in two broken ribs. The child's mother posted several elementary school certificates of merit, accusing the school of poor management, and expressed suicidal thoughts, hoping to draw the attention of relevant authorities.

On November 6, a second-year middle school student at the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental School was pushed by other students in the dormitory, causing the back of their head to strike the ground. The student was diagnosed with a closed, severe craniocerebral injury and brain death, and later died due to coagulation dysfunction.

A tuberculosis screening at Kangping No. 1 High School in Shenyang, Liaoning, involved the reuse of needles. Discrepancies between official figures and parent-reported numbers have sparked protests.

A school in Wuhan was recently exposed for a case where a male student dressed in makeup and a skirt to disguise himself as a girl, successfully infiltrating the female dormitory and living there for three full months before being discovered.

After a female student died, her family accused the school and the Education Bureau of shirking responsibility. A deputy director of the local police station urged them not to petition. Even after requesting intervention from higher authorities, the case remained under the jurisdiction of the local Education and Sports Bureau, prompting the family to issue a letter of accusation.

A middle school in Shenyang committed a serious medical violation during a tuberculosis skin test screening for students, using the same needle on 78 students without changing it, which led parents to gather at the school to demand an explanation.

The investigation team for tuberculosis screening in Kangping County issued a report, admitting that a medical worker violated operational protocols involving 78 students, and claimed that the results of the full-staff special testing showed no abnormalities.

On October 29, a student at Bobai County No. 5 Middle School in Yulin, Guangxi, died abnormally on campus. The school claimed the student jumped to their death and stated that the surveillance camera in the area was broken.

On October 29, a student at Tangshan Foreign Language School (Tangshan No. 8 Middle School) died while at school. After the incident, the playground was cordoned off, and students were driven away from the scene and instructed not to discuss the matter.

On October 29, a male teacher at Weifang Nursing Vocational College lost control of his emotions during a lecture, punching, kicking, and striking the projector screen on the podium. Students stated that his mood had been unstable since the start of the semester, and he frequently expressed anger and complaints for no reason, causing concern among some students.

On October 28, during a PPD skin test screening for tuberculosis organized by Kangping County High School in Shenyang, Liaoning, it was verified that multiple students shared the same needle. The school administration proposed arranging tests for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C for the affected students.

During a tuberculosis screening for students at Kangping County High School in Shenyang, Liaoning, a serious medical violation occurred where multiple students were subjected to the use of shared needles, sparking panic and protests among parents.

On October 25, a student at Zhengzhou No. 16 Senior High School posted a video reporting that a hair dryer caught fire in the dormitory while the school was enforcing a mandatory stay on campus. The students tried to use a fire extinguisher to save themselves, only to find it damaged and unusable, and the fire alarm's volume was too low to serve as a warning.

On October 23, a parent at Jiangnan Experimental Primary School in Tunxi, Huangshan, Anhui held up a sign at the school gate seeking help, saying that while the child was in class on September 28, the child was repeatedly poked with a ballpoint pen by a deskmate, leaving more than 20 bruises on the limbs. The school only made the student involved reflect at home for three days; the parent demanded the student be transferred out of the class and asked the education bureau to intervene.

Large numbers of students in Suqian, Jiangsu, have posted their schools' temporary closure notices, most citing repairs for a cafeteria boiler failure; commenters speculate it may be related to a student's fatal fall in the area.

On October 22, a hornet attack occurred during a 're-walking the Long March' hiking event organized by Ningqiang Tianjin Senior High School in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, at the Hanyuan Forest Park. Dozens of teachers and students were sent to the hospital for treatment, with some reportedly admitted to the intensive care unit.

On October 21, 8-year-old Qiqi, a student at Peixin School in Huadu District, Guangzhou, fell and hit the back of her head after being bumped by her desk mate during recess. A PE teacher carried her to the infirmary like a sack of rice, while the school doctor and homeroom teacher watched without calling 120. She was sent to the hospital about an hour later. On November 2, Jiangsu News Radio reported that the child suffered a brain hemorrhage and a fractured skull, and has been declared brain-dead. The school denies any negligence.

According to a complaint letter from her family, a Grade 10 female student at Weifang No. 4 Middle School in Shandong was long-term ostracized and insulted by classmates, and forced to write apology letters. When she reported this to her teachers, she was accused of causing trouble. On October 18, she cried and asked for leave to transfer schools, and on October 20, she committed suicide.

On October 20, a parent in Xushui District, Baoding, Hebei, posted a video accusing a teacher at Nanshaozhuang Rainbow Bridge Kindergarten of kicking down a young child during an activity.

On October 20, a protective netting installer in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, posted a video of construction work at a school on Douyin, showing workers installing dense metal netting outside the corridors of multiple floors, from the railings to the top. Netizens commented that it looked like a "prison style" and that "as long as they don't die at school, it's fine."

Circulating images show several students placing fresh flowers next to the entrance and exit of the Guangxi University metro station to mourn the student surnamed Ning, who fell to his death.

On October 19, the Yandu District Education Bureau responded, saying that the case of the student being severely beaten is still being handled and that Xiaotian is recovering in Shanghai.

On the evening of October 17, Guangxi University announced that a student surnamed Ning had died in a fall from height, saying it had fulfilled its duties of education and management, and warning that it would deal with the fabrication of false information and malicious hype in accordance with the law, without specifying what the alleged false information was.

On October 14, 2026, according to posts on social media, a 16-year-old student was raped and murdered and her body thrown downstairs; when the body was found, it was naked and had two knives stuck in her back. Reports indicate the killer is suspected to be the child of a Chinese Communist Party official, and afterwards local authorities disguised the case as a suicide by jumping from a building, while tightly controlling the victim's family, forbidding any pursuit of accountability or speaking out. The incident has sparked intense fear and condemnation among netizens over public security and judicial injustice.

On October 13, at the gate of Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin, a car violently crashed into a facial-recognition turnstile, smashed it open and drove onto the campus. The identity and motive of the perpetrator are unknown.

On October 13, Tianjin Xiangyu Liren School organized students for an autumn outing to Fantawild. While the students were lining up, a teacher reprimanding the students forcefully pulled one of them, causing the student to fall to the ground. After the video was exposed, it sparked heated discussion among netizens.

On the evening of October 12, a Guangxi University student surnamed Ning was found dead below a campus dormitory building. Police preliminarily determined that the death resulted from a fall from height and ruled out a criminal case.

On October 4, a netizen filmed and exposed multiple leaks in the ceiling and walls of a laboratory at Shanghai University, with rusted lab benches and equipment, water running through 380V high-voltage sockets, and large areas of standing water on the floor. Netizens said the metal parts might be energized, posing an electrocution risk.

A student revealed that the school collected 100 yuan per person in August for a student accident insurance policy, but had not actually taken out the insurance; emergency insurance records were only made up the day after the incident.

On September 30, some high schools in Changzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, and other places in Jiangsu province suddenly adjusted the National Day holiday for senior students from three or four days to seven days. Schools notified students and parents to attend a parent meeting that evening to explain the situation. Netizens speculate it may be related to rumors of student falls.

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.

An X account named “所谓伊人在水一方” uploaded a video of a female teacher talking about student safety, in which she reminds high school students to guard against strangers, vehicles, and the risk of losing contact.

At 18:00 on September 28, in the indoor gymnasium of Xianyang Caihong High School, a student braced his hand against the wall while retrieving a ball and punched through the hollow tile wall. Broken tiles cut an artery, causing severe bleeding. Classmates went for help but the school clinic was already closed, so they could only keep pressing on the wound to stop the bleeding.

On September 27, a student at the Huaxi Campus of Guizhou Normal University in Guizhou Province reportedly died after a suspected fall from a building. While the family was negotiating with the university, a family member fainted on the spot due to a teacher's perfunctory attitude, and the teachers involved watched coldly throughout. Afterwards, the related video was taken down by the platform.

At around 5 p.m. on September 27, a student at Li Central School in Suining County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu fell to their death from the fifth floor. The student had previously asked a classmate to request sick leave on their behalf due to feeling unwell, but the teacher did not handle it.

On September 27, netizens posted a video claiming that two dormitory balconies on the 7th floor of a building at Nanning Vocational and Technical University in Guangxi had no railings installed at all. The school only put up warning tape but still arranged for students to move in, sparking concerns among netizens.

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 25, during a physics teacher's demonstration of electromagnetic induction at Jilin Changchun City Wenli High School, a student said 'so awesome' twice, and was kicked by the teacher and had the desk flipped.

On September 23, an instructor at the Vocational Education Center in Wuqiang County, Hengshui, Hebei used an electric baton to punish students, and several students were burned by electric shocks. The homeroom teacher said they were aware of the incident but did not know the details. The school evaded questions about the origin of the electric baton and whether the instructor involved was still on campus, saying that the police had already intervened.

After a fire broke out in a dormitory at the Dalian campus of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, students said the school arranged for personnel to paint over the smoke-blackened walls, compensating them with only one quilt and three free laundry washes, and did not respond to questions about the fire alarm and evacuation.

On September 17, two students at the Guangzhou College of Commerce and Business had a dispute over dormitory bed allocation. During the conflict, one student brandished a knife at the other multiple times, raising concerns about campus safety.

On September 17, students at Hainan Commercial School reported extreme military training intensity, including 6 laps of frog jumps, 500 squats, and long-distance running daily, which continued even in the rain. Multiple students suffered leg injuries and were unable to walk after training, and some students chose to drop out as a result.

On September 16, more than 100 students at Dongdaihe Zhizhen Middle School in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, experienced symptoms such as nausea and vomiting after having meals at the school, and dozens were sent to the hospital. On September 17, the food safety office of Suizhong County reported that it was caused by improper processing in the cafeteria leading to acute gastroenteritis, and some students remained in the hospital for observation.

On September 16, during military training at Hubei Enshi University, instructors required multiple students to brave heavy rain and enter muddy pits to conduct simulated military mud combat and wrestling confrontation, triggering widespread public skepticism about the necessity of military training and student health and safety.

On September 12, a first‑grade middle school girl in Beitian Town, Yuci District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province was surrounded, verbally abused, slapped and kicked by several students while going to a market. The video shows the victim being beaten by many people, with no one intervening. The school said it was a minor dispute among students; the education bureau and the police station expressed a passive attitude toward the bullying nature and the injuries. The victim is currently hospitalized for observation, and the police have intervened.

On September 17, a mass food poisoning incident occurred among students at Zhizhen Middle School in Dongdaihe, Suizhong County, Liaoning Province, with dozens of students sent to the hospital for medical treatment.

On September 15, a medical student in an eight-year bachelor-master-doctorate joint program at Southern Medical University fell to death on campus. Online rumors indicated that both of the student's parents were critically ill in the ICU, the leave request was approved for only three days, and the student faced heavy academic, research, and work pressures. After the incident, students laid flowers at the scene to mourn.

[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, a 2020-cohort eight-year clinical medicine student at Southern Medical University fell to death. At the time of the incident, the Tencent Video show "The King of Land. Offer 8" was being recorded on campus, triggering public concern and discussion over the high-pressure training model and professional competition pressures faced by medical students.

[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On the morning of September 15, numerous netizens left comments in the review section of Southern Medical University's admissions office social media account, demanding that the school authorities respond to recent controversial incidents.

[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, a student suicide by falling occurred at Southern Medical University. On September 16, students on campus published posts mourning the deceased classmate.

[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, an official WeChat account published an article mourning the deceased and calling for the establishment of a student burden-reduction mechanism, arguing that advisor authority should have boundaries and students are not cheap labor. The article attracted attention and was subsequently taken down after publication; the author later republished the original text.

[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Southern Medical University released an announcement confirming the student's fall on campus and ruling out homicide. The school stated it would strengthen student mental health work, which triggered netizens' questioning of faculty ethics issues.

[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Wang, the advisor of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University, responded that the online rumors were untrue. Regarding key issues such as the student's parents' car accident and the duration of the leave, Wang refused to respond on the grounds of school regulations and hung up the phone when pressed about the number of leave days.

[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Southern Daily reported that the family members of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University denied that the advisor coerced the student, and displayed transfer records from the advisor. On the same day, China News Weekly called the advisor regarding the online rumor of "only three days of leave granted," but the advisor did not respond and hung up the phone.

[Follow-up · September 17, 2026] On September 17, a fellow lab-mate of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University publicly spoke out for the school's advisor, Teacher Wang, stating that she suffered cyberbullying and attempting to defend her.

After the stabbing incident in Guangzhou University City on September 14, netizens posted that during the emergency state at the University City campus of Guangdong University of Technology, multiple food deliveries in the centralized pickup area were stolen or even cleared out amidst the chaos, sparking heated discussion online.

On September 11, 2026, a Douyin user uploaded a mashup video themed around campus safety nets. The video shows students lying horizontally on safety nets outside classroom windows, large areas of safety net installed inside teaching buildings, and a banner hanging beside the safety line that reads "Challenge yourself, break limits." The video quickly garnered a flood of bullet‑screen comments on the platform, with netizens teasing, "Campus?", "Birth rate is still too high", "No wonder so many people voluntarily go to the campus", "Thinking about it is terrifying." This video and its comments reflect public attention and satire toward campus safety facilities.

On September 13, a blogger who claimed to have attended Hengshui No.2 Middle School in Hebei posted a video exposing high‑pressure control and serious human‑rights violations within the school. She said teachers often beat and verbally abuse students, causing sternum or clavicle fractures; a sophomore girl, after being insulted, cut her wrist in the dormitory; and a female student, seeking protection, developed a relationship with a male teacher, whose homeroom teacher was later taken away on suspicion of rape.

On September 13, a blogger who claimed to be a graduate of Hengshui No. 2 High School posted a video saying that a second-year high school girl suffered a psychological breakdown after being verbally abused by her homeroom teacher and slit her wrists in the dormitory, committing suicide.

On September 13, a blogger claiming to be a graduate of Hengshui No. 2 High School posted a video stating that her homeroom teacher during her second year of high school was later taken away on suspicion of rape.

A 15-year-old female student at Luancheng Middle School in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, who scored 736, was repeatedly forced by the school to cut and straighten her naturally curly hair, and was harassed and denied entry. Just 7 days after enrolling, she suffered a mental breakdown and jumped to her death. Her family later protested at the school gate with a petition, and special police were stationed at the scene. After the incident was exposed, graduates and netizens revealed that the school has long had extreme regulations, such as not providing seats in the cafeteria, forcing students to eat standing up, and implementing militarized management.

On September 9th, multiple students at Xinhua Primary School in Hechuan District, Chongqing, experienced nosebleeds. Parents suspect formaldehyde exceeding standards, while the school claims compliance and some parents were asked to delete posts.

Just 10 days after the start of the fall semester in September 2026, a high school student in Zhengzhou committed suicide, unable to cope with the heavy psychological burden caused by the school's decision to replace the two-day weekend with a one-day weekend for remedial classes.

On September 11, a student shared a photo of the teaching building at their high school, with the staircases covered in railings; netizens joked that it looked like a prison.

Students at Yantai Cultural Tourism Vocational College in Yantai City, Shandong Province, reported poor water quality of the campus water supply, with videos showing black grimes flowing from the faucets, and the water quality being as murky as ink.

On September 6, a netizen discovered that inside the “anti-bullying mailbox” set up at Dapeng School of Shenzhen Middle School, there were two already damaged and yellowed help letters, and the mailbox was heavily covered in dust. The netizen questioned, “Is it just for show?”. The letters show that the student writing to the principal reported that a certain classmate had long engaged in bullying behaviors such as hitting people and stealing others' belongings, and asked the principal “save us”. Netizens heatedly discussed in the comment section... #FanzeiAcademy

On September 7, 2026, police in Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong, placed the homeroom teacher surnamed Tan, who was involved in the case, under criminal detention, and the case was transferred to the procuratorate; previously, police had decided in August not to file a case, but after the family applied for reconsideration, the decision was changed to filing a case on September 4.

On September 4, 2026, a ninth-grade student at Guangdong Bowen School in Zhongshan, Guangdong, died by suicide on the first day of school. Suspecting that the student had suffered long-term school bullying, the family held up a portrait of the deceased outside the school gate in a rights defense action, prompting police to arrive and cordon off the area.

On September 4, 2026, Putian No. 4 Middle School in Fujian was severely flooded by torrential rain. Large numbers of students were trapped in their dormitories without electricity and short of food. After nightfall, the trapped students sang loudly together on the balcony to boost morale and cry for help from outside.

Students at Nanning Vocational and Technical University reported that the balconies of two dormitory rooms on the seventh floor have no railings, yet the school still arranged for students to move in and put up warning tape on the balconies.

On September 1, 2026, multiple students at Nanguan Primary School in Juye County, Heze, Shandong experienced symptoms such as dizziness and nosebleeds. As many as 260 students from 9 classes took leave due to the pungent smell of newly applied paint.

A student at Tengzhou Experimental Middle School in Shandong Province was forced to stand as a punishment for feeling unwell, and was violently beaten by a teacher and had their head pressed against glass until it shattered.

On September 1, 2026, the Education Bureau of Pingle County, Guilin, Guangxi announced that 78 students at Pingle Middle School were housed in a gymnasium converted into dormitories, acknowledged that the dormitories did not meet standards, and planned to arrange for the new students to transfer to a newly built school as a transition.

In the late night of August 31, 2026, two men brought large hunting dogs onto the campus of North China Electric Power University in Baoding, Hebei to hunt and kill stray animals. Several dogs are unaccounted for, and the men verbally abused and threatened students who were filming to gather evidence.

On August 22, 2026, a student at Zhanjiang Technician College in Guangdong, China, exposed online that a student at the school had long been threatening, beating, and extorting classmates. The school was accused of covering up the behavior multiple times. The victim has reported the case to the police and taken a leave of absence.

On August 21, the police officially opened a criminal investigation into the case where a student at Hubei Normal University suffered minor injuries of the second degree inflicted by campus security personnel.

After the family filed a police report, police in Yuncheng, Shandong, declined to open a case against the homeroom teacher surnamed Tan on August 9 on the grounds that no criminal facts existed.

In the early hours of August 5, an explosion occurred in a laboratory at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, causing a student to lose multiple fingers on their left hand. The university's official notice blamed the accident on the student's violation of operating procedures, drawing widespread skepticism.

On August 4, 2026, while students at the Development Zone Campus of Qinhuangdao Normal University of Science and Technology in Hebei Province were forced to stay on campus during the summer for centralized classes and internships, a student suddenly went into shock and fell into a coma in the dormitory and was carried away for emergency treatment by paramedics.

In August 2026, several students at the Modern Information Technology School in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia reported that poor sanitation in the school canteen caused widespread diarrhea. After posting online to warn incoming students, they were threatened by school staff.

In August 2026, Anfeng Senior High School in Shou County, Huainan, Anhui, was exposed by netizens for installing large areas of anti-jump wire mesh safety netting on the exterior of campus teaching buildings and corridors, sparking discussion about the psychological pressure on high school students and exam-oriented control.

In August 2026, students at Shandong University of Technology reported a pungent formaldehyde odor in their dormitories after summer renovation work; the school subsequently issued a notice banning students from "believing and spreading rumors," sparking dissatisfaction among the student body.

On July 29, 2026, reports circulated online that a 13-year-old girl in Baitutan Town, Liling City, Hunan Province, was surrounded and beaten by several minors in a billiards hall, then taken to an area near a reservoir several kilometers away, where she ultimately drowned. Local police subsequently launched an investigation.

On July 7, a senior student at Hubei Normal University was restrained by security department personnel and injured. The injury was assessed as a secondary minor injury, and the student's finger is still unable to bend normally.

On July 1, 2026, a child abuse incident occurred at the International Baby Kindergarten in Yongqing County, Langfang, Hebei. Surveillance footage shows teachers inside the kindergarten successively slapping, pulling the hair of, and kicking the young children. The footage was exposed on July 10.

A 10-year-old boy in Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong, lingered at the school gate on June 29 and failed to enter the school twice, then drowned. After reviewing surveillance footage, his family claimed that he was beaten by his homeroom teacher, surnamed Tan, on 10 of the 12 class days before his death, and at least 8 times in the final week.

On June 16, 2026, a student at the Animation School of Jilin University of the Arts posted a plea for help, saying that she had suffered long-term bullying from her dormitory head, class monitor and others, which led to depression, and that her report to the school yielded no results, while the suspected bullies were developed as probationary Party members and awarded scholarships.

On May 27, 2026, a student in Nantong, Jiangsu posted on an online platform to defend their rights, reporting that they had suffered school bullying over a long period and that their homeroom teacher had covered for the bully. After raising the matter with the school to no avail, they were instead bombarded with dense phone calls from the school pressuring them to delete the post and keep quiet.

On the evening of May 21, 2026, it was reported online that a grade-11 student at No. 6 Middle School in Lengshuijiang, Hunan, was violently thrown, stomped on, and crushed by his homeroom teacher on the podium in front of everyone, and humiliated, because he was playing on his phone during self-study. After evening self-study ended, the student went home and jumped to his death.

On April 4, a sewage discharge pipe in the ceiling of a restroom on the campus of Yan'an Yuying Middle School leaked. The school failed to repair it in time and instead hung buckets of broad bean paste under the pipe to catch the feces-laden water, leaving students anxious every time they used the toilet.

On the evening of May 11, 2024, Xiaotian, a 13-year-old student at a private boarding school in Yancheng, Jiangsu, was beaten by a 15-year-old classmate, constituting a serious injury of Grade II. The school had just held an anti-bullying assembly that evening; the dormitory supervisor failed to notify the parents in time, and when the homeroom teacher arrived the child was already unresponsive. The parents were only contacted after the principal arrived.