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On November 10, Hebei Cangzhou Salt Industry Group Co., Ltd. faced protests from workers demanding unpaid wages. In the comment section, netizens jokingly suggested using an excavator to resolve the issue.
On October 26, a notice board was set up at the gate of Jinghang Senior High School in Cangzhou, Hebei, stating that no public phone is provided to prevent students from illegally bringing mobile phones, cigarettes and alcohol, engaging in early romantic relationships, and sneaking out of school, while also restricting parents from delivering supplies and banning the handover of snacks and drinks; netizens sarcastically commented that the treatment is worse than in prison.
On October 18, CCTV's Focus Report (Jiaodian Fangtan) reported that Xiaomakou Village in Dongguang County, Cangzhou, Hebei, with a population of only six or seven hundred, has 8 companies storing blended hazardous chemicals — 5 without licenses and 3 severely exceeding permitted quantities, standards, and scope — with some plants separated from residential houses by only a single wall. Villagers say 7 of the companies belong to brothers of the village Party secretary and 1 to the village head.
On September 17, a collective strike occurred at the Cangdong Power Plant project in Cangzhou, Hebei Province. The contractor, Energy China Tianjin Electric Power Construction, was accused of withholding migrant workers' wages for three and a half months, leading multiple workers to stage a sit-in protest in front of the office building.
The famous iron lion, a cultural relic standing for over 1,000 years, has been broken beyond recognition after experts carried out multiple erroneous preservation measures over the past nearly 60 years.
Some homebuyers at the Rongsheng Junlan Yuan residential complex in Yunhe District, Cangzhou, Hebei Province, unfurled rights-defense banners at the compound and in front of the sales center to protest over construction quality defects and disputes with the property developer over handover.
In December 2025, members of the public reported to the central ecological and environmental protection inspection team that more than 100 chemical enterprises in three townships of Dongguang County had no permits and other problems; the local response said the claims were untrue. An approval officer at the county Emergency Management Bureau told CCTV reporters that they were not shut down because they pay taxes to the county, and the county would not allow them to be banned.