Taiyuan University of Technology Organizes NPC Deputy Voting
A netizen submission states that Taiyuan University of Technology organized faculty and students to participate in the voting for NPC deputies.
A netizen submission states that Taiyuan University of Technology organized faculty and students to participate in the voting for NPC deputies.
On November 2, the Shanghai University of Engineering Science issued a notice stating that to facilitate the district-level People's Congress representative election on November 16, classes at the Songjiang and Changning campuses will be suspended that morning. Teachers and students are to be organized to participate in the election, and it is required that affected courses make up for the missed progress, with no reduction in syllabus content allowed.
On October 24, a Hunan netizen captured grassroots officials and volunteers wearing red vests and using shovels to fill potholes on a village road with asphalt. Red flags and personnel taking photos and recording video were present at the scene, with a caption thanking the Communist Party, sparking mockery among netizens.
According to X user @__Inty__, when responding to questions about whether Trump's business interests influence presidential decisions and whether there is corruption in the White House, US Vice President JD Vance stated clearly that he has never seen any evidence of corruption by Trump or by this administration, rejecting the related allegations.
On October 9, a netizen posted a video claiming he was stopped by a security guard while lying down to rest at Jing'an Park in Shanghai, asking in return, "Did my lying here affect the city's appearance?" and complaining about formalism. Shanghai's 2018 version of the "Park Civilized Visiting Rules" lists "do not lie down at will" among the park order provisions.
On September 18, the official authorities in Zhumadian, Henan released a promotional video showing citizens spontaneously observing a moment of silence when the air raid siren sounded. This triggered skepticism among netizens in the comment section, who accused it of being staged and mocked official formalism such as not granting a holiday on the anniversary and keeping assembly lines running.
On September 6, 2026, an ideological and political theory teacher at Xiamen City Vocational College issued a notice strictly forbidding students from sitting in the last three rows, and claimed to use 360-degree panoramic surveillance to strictly check students' head-up rate, sparking ridicule over formalism in ideological and political courses at universities.
In August 2026, several grassroots civil servants and public institution staff in Fushun, Liaoning reported that the municipal party secretary was pushing formalist flood control: whenever it rained, everyone was sent out to stand guard on the streets, and staff were even required to keep watch continuously at sites with 40-degree heat and no cooling facilities.
On August 10, 2026, foreign media reported that Shenzhen significantly tightened metro security checks in preparation for an international summit, scanning and searching passengers' belongings one by one, causing morning rush-hour queues lasting up to half an hour. It was criticized as an expensive, formalistic "security performance."
The Central Committee held a special meeting on rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots. Cai Qi attended and arranged for 'tackling the issue of new officials ignoring old debts and focusing on the rectification of prominent problems'.
A university teacher submitted a post arguing that engineering education accreditation, while wearing a non-governmental mask, is actually an administrative directive that reduces engineering universities to formalistic administrative performances, resulting in the 'high schoolization of universities'.