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On October 18, Huangyan District in Taizhou, Zhejiang held the Changtan Lake cycling race. Roads were closed during the morning of the event, and large numbers of residents who commute by electric scooter were stranded inside the non-motorized lanes blocked by guardrails, unable to pass. Some people at the scene were loudly complaining and cursing.
On September 14, Chi Wen, a former police officer at the Huangyan Branch of the Taizhou Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, filed a real-name report against his two brothers, Chi Guangxu and Chi Rixin, who are both public officials. He accused them of long-term illegal business operations and using their power to monopolize the packaging bag business in their jurisdiction, securing high profits of 30% to 40%. He also alleged that they bribed leaders in the industry and commerce department and received tip-offs when they were under investigation by the discipline inspection commission.
The three typhoons Bavi, White Dolphin and Saudel made landfall successively near the same short stretch of coastline at Kanmen within 50 days.
In the early hours of August 12, 2026, torrential rain suddenly hit Taizhou City in Zhejiang, causing severe flooding on multiple roads in the city center. Personnel from local government units revealed that officials have begun controlling WeChat Moments, strictly forbidding public servants from posting videos of the flooding.
Video footage from a disaster site in Taizhou, Zhejiang, on August 11, 2026, shows some relief workers directly throwing disaster-relief food and supplies into filthy floodwaters for victims to fish out themselves, drawing criticism from netizens for a lack of dignity and basic empathy.
On August 10, 2026, affected by flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall from Typhoon “White Dolphin,” some areas of Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang, were hit by disaster, and a man’s body was found being swept away by the raging floodwaters in the Chuxi waters.
On August 10, 2026, affected by strong convective weather on the periphery of Typhoon "White Dolphin," a violent tornado suddenly struck parts of Songmen Town, Wenling City, Taizhou, Zhejiang, causing severe damage to multiple buildings and facilities.
On August 7, 2026, affected by typhoon weather, a family of four was knocked down by huge waves at the seaside of Shitang, Wenling, Zhejiang. One 9-year-old boy was swept away by the waves and went missing, and local authorities launched a search and rescue operation.
Typhoon Bavi, the 9th typhoon of this year, made landfall around 23:20 on the night of July 11 in Kanmen, Yuhuan, Taizhou, Zhejiang, with a maximum wind force of level 13 near the center upon landfall.
In June 2026 it was exposed online that officers from a police station in Taizhou, Zhejiang, led by two deputy directors, collectively solicited opposite-sex hostesses at a KTV and were caught on the spot by the discipline inspection commission; for two years after the incident the authorities made no public announcement, imposing only minor internal punishments of removal from office while all of them retained their public-sector posts.
During his tenure as Secretary of the CCP Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Xi Jinping went to Taizhou for research and visited the Geely factory, providing early political and credit endorsement for Geely, which was then a small private factory.