2026-11-08
Since the beginning of this semester, Henan University of Economics and Law has required students to sign in for every class using facial recognition and location tracking. The system also identifies the IP address, network environment, and device information at the time of sign-in, including proxy IPs and IPs from tools for circumventing the Great Firewall. It has been verified that those using tools to sign in on behalf of others will be directly marked as absent, and those with severe absenteeism may face expulsion.
2026-11-04
On November 4, Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention to spend 390,000 yuan on a network security gateway. The requirements include the ability to identify VPN proxies, automatically block unauthorized overseas access, and retain logs for traceability. The announcement stated that existing equipment poses a risk of being flagged by higher-level regulatory authorities.
2026-11-02
On November 2, the Suzhou Government Procurement Network announced that the "Convenient and Benefit-to-the-People" medical project of the Suzhou Health Commission Information Center, which includes anti-firewall monitoring equipment, was won by Unisplendour Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. with a total bid price of 18.58036 million yuan.
2026-11-02
At noon on November 2, the Nanchang University Student Union held a meeting to remind students not to circumvent the Great Firewall. At 3:57 PM, their official account posted a promotional article for a Lushan music festival ticket lottery, with the IP location showing the United States, suspected that the operator forgot to turn off their VPN. The original post was subsequently deleted, and when it was reposted at 4:52 PM, the IP location showed Jiangxi.
2026-11-02
On November 2, the Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Southwest Medical University in Luzhou, Sichuan, issued a notice proposing the procurement of cross-border unauthorized access monitoring and reporting services. The requirements include a gateway for managing the circumvention of the Great Firewall, capable of identifying, blocking, and auditing internal network circumvention activities, and retaining circumvention logs to meet the regulatory inspection and evidence collection requirements of the Cyberspace Administration and the police.
2026-11
Jilin University has recently issued multiple notices requiring students not to "jump the wall" (circumvent the Great Firewall) and mandating that they sign a "Student Commitment for Civilized Internet Use," in which the third article explicitly prohibits "jumping the wall."
2026-10-31
On October 31, a developer reported that their friend received a call from the police, demanding they uninstall X and Telegram.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the Henan Provincial Public Resource Trading Center released a public tender announcement for the Henan Provincial People's Hospital. The procurement list includes 1 Xinchuang anti-circumvention security gateway and 2 internet behavior management devices, with a total package budget of 2.2 million yuan, covering firewalls, vulnerability scanning equipment, and supporting services.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at Hefei University published the 2026 version of its student handbook on its official website. It lists unauthorized use of non-statutory channels for international internet access as a separate disciplinary offense, grouped with the dissemination of computer viruses. Depending on the severity, students may face a serious warning or higher, with a 6-month disciplinary period recorded in their files. Students receiving such disciplinary action will also lose their eligibility for scholarships.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the official website of Hongshan College of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics released a tender announcement, planning to purchase a cross-border VPN monitoring system with a budget of 245,000 yuan. The system is required to integrate with internet authentication, link to the real names of faculty and students, and track the number of 'sensitive site visits' per person. The system must be capable of decrypting Shadowsocks traffic and include a real-time dashboard for statistics on circumventing the Great Firewall.
2026-10-29
On October 29, Neijiang Vocational and Technical College released an announcement on its official website stating that it plans to procure anti-circumvention security services with a budget of 60,000 yuan per year, totaling 180,000 yuan for three years. The project is commissioned by the school's library and archives information center, procured for three years at once, with contracts signed annually.
2026-10-29
On October 29, at a meeting of the Theoretical Learning Center Group of the Jinggangshan University Party Committee, Party Secretary Luo Xubiao demanded strengthening the governance of unauthorized use of software for circumventing the Great Firewall, regulating and guiding student self-media accounts and online communities, and ensuring "early detection, early assessment, and early disposal" of public opinion involving the school. He also emphasized that campus media must reflect the will of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The meeting studied Xi Jinping's discourses on ideology, building a strong cyber nation, and news and public opinion work.
2026-10-29
According to the official website of Hefei University, a cybersecurity training session held on October 29 analyzed typical risk cases of unauthorized circumvention of the Great Firewall within the university and set requirements for rectifying such violations. The meeting was attended by leaders in charge of various secondary units and website administrators.
2026-10-28
On November 2, the official website of the School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering at Henan Polytechnic University published an article introducing a training session for graduate student leaders held on October 28. The deputy secretary of the school's Party committee demanded a strict prohibition on disciplinary violations such as unauthorized circumvention of the Great Firewall and private access to overseas resources.
2026-10-27
On October 27, Zhejiang Pharmaceutical Vocational University published the contract announcement for the procurement project of smart campus data security control equipment. The procurement list included 2 cross-border VPN monitoring devices, priced at 95,000 yuan each, totaling 190,000 yuan.
2026-10-27
On October 27, Qingdao University of Science and Technology held an "Anti-Fraud Lecture on Campus," listing circumventing the Great Firewall as one of its three core topics. Qu Yuanyuan, a police officer from the Jinjialing Police Station stationed at the university, stated that using an illegal VPN to access overseas websites is not a matter of personal freedom, but an illegal act that endangers network security. The university's official website disclosed this on October 29.
2026-10-26
On October 26, the Student Affairs Department of Hubei University of Education issued a notice requiring all students to sign the "2026 Cybersecurity Commitment Letter" through the student affairs system, to self-check overseas app accounts such as Twitter and overseas game servers. Those confirmed to have circumvented the Great Firewall will face circulated criticism and disciplinary action, and serious cases will be handed over to the police and state security.
2026-10-26
The official website of Xinjiang Agricultural Vocational and Technical University stated that even privately circumventing the Great Firewall to access academic materials is illegal and in violation of regulations, and demanded that people use the school's academic resources or apply for external network access permissions, adding that there are proper channels for studying and that there has never been a justified reason to jump the wall.
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2026-10-26
On October 26, the official website of Nanyang Vocational College in Nanyang, Henan published a post stating that the School of Sports held a cybersecurity lecture for all freshmen of the 2026 cohort. Yu Xiaofeng, secretary of the directly affiliated Party branch, said that circumventing the Great Firewall to go online touches the bottom line of the law and school rules, and will directly affect personnel file records, political vetting for further study and employment development. He also stressed that online speech is recorded throughout the entire process, and warned students not to speak carelessly online, not to comment carelessly on hot topics, and not to spread rumors carelessly.
2026-10-26
From October 22 to 23, the Foreign Languages Department of Jinzhong University of Technology held a themed group day activity against circumventing the Great Firewall. Students of the English 2503 branch studied the legal risks of VPNs, accelerators, and proxy plugins, and pledged not to install, use, or spread circumvention software. The school classified accessing overseas websites as a risk of exposure to harmful information, and published an article about it on its official website on October 26.
2026-10-25
Recently, the official government account of the Inner Mongolia Department of Education, the Low-Altitude College of Chongqing Hailian Vocational and Technical College, and the Student Affairs Department of Changzhi Medical College successively published articles with the same title, claiming that circumventing the Great Firewall is illegal regardless of motivation or duration, and may bring consequences such as a criminal record and elimination during political vetting, while requiring students to obtain information through official media such as CCTV.
2026-10-24
It is circulating online that the National University of Defense Technology is carrying out an "information cleanup," strictly investigating the use of circumventing the Great Firewall and foreign tools, requiring computers and cabinets to be checked person by person and room by room, emphasizing that "there must be no doors that cannot be opened," and that any discovered problem will result in a one-vote veto.
2026-10-23
On October 23, Central South University issued a notice requiring all undergraduate and graduate classes across the school to carry out safety education from October 24 to November 2, listing anti-circumvention of the Great Firewall as part of class meeting content, stressing the consequences of disciplinary penalties for using circumvention tools without authorization, and requiring the installation of the National Anti-Fraud Center App and the timely reporting of improper online speech.
2026-10-22
On October 22, the Mechanical Retired Party Branch of Jiangnan University organized a party lecture on cybersecurity at the Jiangyin campus. Branch Secretary Huang Zhengming listed "unauthorized circumvention of the Great Firewall" alongside phishing emails, data leaks, and the spread of online rumors as warning cases. Xu Junping stated that cybersecurity education has been incorporated into the "Three Meetings and One Lesson" and themed party day activities.
2026-10-21
On October 21, four schools of Xi'an Jiaotong University — Human Settlements, Chemistry, Frontier, and Chemical Engineering — jointly held a safety education lecture. Chang Shuai of the Security Department reminded students to be alert to the legal risks of circumventing the Great Firewall to access overseas websites, stressed fighting espionage, and called on them to consciously resist the infiltration of harmful information from abroad.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the Graduate Student Union of the Institute of Psychology and Brain Science at Liaoning Normal University published an initiative on its official website stating that circumventing the Great Firewall without approval is a violation of the law, naming VPNs, proxy software, game accelerators, and overseas plug-ins, and demanding that students neither use nor spread circumvention tools, and that they promptly and in good faith advise any classmate found doing so.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the School of Economics and Management of Inner Mongolia University invited Officer Wang of the Hohhot Public Security Bureau to give an anti-circumvention lecture to faculty and student representatives, demanding that private circumventing of the Great Firewall and the dissemination of circumvention channels be eliminated. The lecture claimed that exposure to harmful foreign ideologies endangers national security, and warned that violators would face school disciplinary action, administrative penalties, and even criminal liability.
2026-10-19
On October 19, the School of Electrical Engineering at Three Gorges University issued a notice on a themed class meeting, placing illegal use of VPNs alongside internet addiction and other issues, requiring guidance for students to obtain information through official channels and install the National Anti-Fraud Center App, and to submit class meeting records for archiving before October 28.
2026-10-18
According to a tweet posted by X user @GFWfrog, Shenzhen state-owned enterprise Guosen Securities issued an announcement stating that its employees were publicly criticized by the Luohu District Cyberspace Administration for circumventing the Great Firewall to access the overseas internet. This incident reflects the relevant authorities' regulatory scrutiny of corporate employees' online behavior and has drawn attention online.
2026-10-17
On October 17, the China Government Procurement Network announced that the campus network monitoring and blocking service for Zhejiang Chinese Medical University was purchased for 219,000 yuan. The procurement documents require the system to identify mainstream proxy software and VPN (airport) applications, link traffic that triggers alerts to campus network accounts, devices, and access times, support blocking of non-compliant requests based on a list, and list the discovery and disposal of on-campus users accessing sensitive or non-compliant information as a core project objective.
2026-10-16
On October 16, the School of Architecture and Energy Engineering of Wenzhou Institute of Technology held a mobilization meeting for the final push of the undergraduate teaching qualification evaluation. At the meeting, Party Secretary Chen Zhongnong called on all faculty and students of the school to strictly prohibit any form of online circumventing of the Great Firewall and to build a solid line of defense for cybersecurity.
2026-10-15
According to China Digital Times (CDT), twenty students in Harbin were disciplined by their school for using a VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall. It is reported that these students were investigated and punished by the school after being reported by their classmates. This incident reflects the prevailing culture of snitching on Chinese campuses, where internet surveillance and reporting mechanisms are further weaponized, and students face increasing risks of disciplinary action for accessing overseas information.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a winning bid announcement reposted by Caizhao Network showed that Sichuan Dazhou Vocational College of Traditional Chinese Medicine's "Illegal Great Firewall Circumvention Management Equipment and Services Project" was awarded to China Unicom (Sichuan) Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. for 136,500 yuan.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the Silk Road College of Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical University held a student management work meeting, demanding a strict ban on students circumventing the Great Firewall to go online and on unorganized gatherings, strictly observing the bottom line of online speech and conduct, and incorporating this into the building of civilized norms.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the WeChat public account of Guangxi Medical University reposted an article from "Chongqing Education" stating that college students using VPNs and other means to jump the wall constitutes illegal network access, and cited cases of students placed on probation at school and two individuals criminally detained for selling VPN accounts and profiting over 1 million yuan.
2026-10-13
On October 13, Northwest University released the "Notice on Campus Network Security Management," placing circumventing the Great Firewall alongside phishing, high-risk viruses, and Trojans, stating that it will adopt technical means to detect and restrict such activity, demanding that faculty and students eliminate high-risk operations such as circumventing the Great Firewall, and claiming that normal internet access will not be affected.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the School of Intelligence at the Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) issued a statement warning that using foreign SIM cards for roaming or accessing restricted websites via VPN constitutes illegal internet connectivity that bypasses regulation.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the official website of Linzhou Architecture Vocational and Technical College published an article that divides circumventing the Great Firewall into intentional and unintentional categories, brings the use of foreign-server online game accelerators and automatic cross-border network connections made by software in the background under its warnings, and requires students to consistently obtain information through CCTV, state media, and campus platforms.
2026-10-09
On October 9, the official website of the School of Insurance at Central University of Finance and Economics published a legal education article stating that college students who circumvent the Great Firewall are “violating the law simply by using it,” warning that relevant records could affect scholarship evaluations, postgraduate recommendation, civil service exam political vetting, and military enlistment reviews, and demanding that students not promote, not forward, not purchase on behalf of others, and not build proxy tools.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics issued a tender with a budget of 300,000 yuan to procure a cross-border VPN monitoring system, requiring that synchronized online accounts link violations to individuals, generate user profiles and behavioral heat maps, and add VPN service IPs to a blacklist linked with the firewall for interception.
2026-09-30
On September 30, the Communist Youth League of Shangsi County, Guangxi, published a cybersecurity awareness article on its WeChat official account, listing YouTube, Chrome, Facebook, Twitter and Google services on a strictly prohibited download list, banning game accelerators and international versions of online games, claiming that using circumvention software to browse any content is a violation of law and discipline, and demanding that people check their VPN settings, browser playback history, and whether they have registered accounts on overseas social media platforms.
2026-09-29
On September 29, Zhejiang University of Technology announced its government procurement intentions, planning to spend 240,000 yuan to procure abnormal network traffic monitoring, analysis, and handling services, requiring the use of trusted DNS for precise monitoring and continuous reduction of abnormal traffic, as well as auditing and handling of violations of cross-border internet access rules.
2026-09-27
On September 27, commenting on the Harbin Engineering University student who was disciplined for circumventing the Great Firewall, a netizen compared China's information control to the historical "Single Channel for Profit" technique of ruling the people, stating that today it is "Information from a Single Channel," forcing hundreds of millions of citizens to view the world only through the eye of a needle.
2026-09-24
On September 24, the General Office of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region released a procurement intention announcement, with a budget of 80,000 yuan to procure cross-border VPN monitoring services, requiring around-the-clock real-time monitoring, evidence collection, and interception of unauthorized VPNs within the unit and violations of Great Firewall circumvention. The service provider is to submit monthly monitoring and analysis reports and assist with tracing and rectification.
2026-09-24
On September 24, the official website of Shanxi Media College announced a procurement intent to purchase an Internet attack surface management platform (anti-circumvention) for 200,000 yuan. The requirements include the precise identification of encrypted VPNs and covert circumvention tools, as well as the identification, monitoring, auditing, and tracing of illegal cross-border access, with procurement expected in October.
2026-09-23
The comments section of the CCTV Finance Musk interview video shows “author has enabled filtering, some comments are not displayed”, and some comments are restricted.
2026-09-19
In January 2024, Shanghai entrepreneur Zheng Shuai was taken away by Shaoyang County police because his company developed VPN software. Citing financial difficulties, the police demanded 100 million yuan to "buy freedom." Although Zheng paid the money, he was still arrested. Currently, at least 64.8 million yuan has been credited to the Shaoyang County treasury. The case involves prolonged detention beyond statutory limits without a verdict, and the implicated Public Security Bureau Director Yin Xiangfeng and others were removed from office in July 2025.
2026-09-20
On September 20, the School of Mathematical Sciences of Harbin Engineering University reported that, after verification by higher authorities, 20 undergraduates and graduate students used campus network accounts to access overseas networks via VPN on September 18–19, which was recorded by the network security monitoring system. Because it was their first violation and there were no serious consequences, they were given a warning sanction.
2026-09-20
On September 20, Xiamen Software Vocational and Technical College issued a notice requiring all faculty and students to self-inspect devices such as computers and phones connected to the campus network and uninstall circumvention software; the creation and forwarding of tutorials and nodes is also included in the inspection, with serious cases handed over to law enforcement agencies, and the college also required prioritizing the use of on-campus and domestic academic resources.
2026-09-18
The School of Mathematical Sciences at Harbin Engineering University announced that 20 undergraduate and graduate students were given warnings for using VPNs over the campus network to access overseas internet.
2026-09-16
During the National Cybersecurity Publicity Week from September 14 to 20, 2026, several universities carried out publicity and education; the course materials listed circumvention of the Great Firewall alongside sensitive photography and overseas part‑time work as high‑risk actions, and marked circumvention of the Great Firewall as illegal access to foreign networks.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a university in Henan posted an anti-circumvention propaganda poster, stating that using VPN may involve violating national security and listing risks, which sparked netizen doubts.
2026-09-11
On September 11, netizens posted a group chat screenshot on a social platform. In the screenshot, an account self‑identified as “counselor” said the school’s backend could query the circumvention tools students use, the websites they visit, the posts they browse, and the videos they watch, and claimed all records could be retained for traceability. The account demanded that all students immediately uninstall circumvention tools, warned that verified violations would result in disciplinary action, and that serious cases would be transferred to the police (Public Security) for handling, also stating that circumvention would lead to personal information leakage and device infection.
2026-09-11
Anhui University plans to build a campus network system for analyzing and controlling politically sensitive network behavior, with China Mobile winning the bid for construction at a cost of 868,000 yuan. The system aims to detect, alert, asynchronously audit, and trace politically sensitive information and activities like "wall-climbing." It is scheduled for acceptance and use by the end of 2026.
2026-09-10
On September 10, a netizen posted that they had not subscribed to the campus network but were included in the school's list of people circumventing the Great Firewall. The counselor announced and reprimanded this in the class group, warning that having a record of circumventing the Great Firewall would affect one's entire life, and required the named person to explain the situation and fill out a form.
2026-09-10
The Security Department of Nanjing Engineering Institute, during a freshman safety education course, categorized circumventing the Great Firewall as a matter of political security and stated that it is illegal in itself, requiring students not to use circumvention tools and to use official library channels for researching information.
2026-09-10
On September 10, it was revealed that the Cybersecurity and Informatization Office of a university in Gansu monitored students' VPN use via the campus network, not only listing the names of students who bypassed the firewall, but also precisely recording the duration of their access to foreign social media.
2026-09-11
On September 11, a netizen posted screenshots of a group chat in which a counselor said the school's backend can check students' circumvention software, visited websites and browsing content, demanded that all students immediately uninstall circumvention tools, and warned that verified cases would result in disciplinary action, with serious cases referred to the police.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, a Chinese university issued a notice requiring students to treat September as a month of concentrated crackdown on circumvention of the Great Firewall, prohibiting access to overseas websites, using overseas game accelerators, or installing circumvention software, with serious penalties for violators. The notice was forwarded by netizens online, sparking attention to university network control.
2026-09
Harbin Engineering University issued a notice giving warning punishments to 20 students who used a VPN over the campus network to access foreign websites, sparking public attention over online information control.
2026-09
Harbin Engineering University issued an official notice punishing students for circumventing the Great Firewall to use a VPN, drawing attention and commentary from netizens.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, it was reported online that a Chinese university issued a notice designating September as a concentrated month for cracking down on circumventing the Great Firewall, publishing a list of 124 software programs including game accelerators and warning that students who violate the rules would be seriously dealt with.
2026-08-30
According to netizen reports, multiple Chinese-funded construction sites in Kyrgyzstan halted work due to the visit, and some Chinese workers were asked to stay in dormitories or designated areas.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, netizens reported that the official website of Zhejiang Library published a notice prohibiting the unauthorized use of VPNs, and that the library's public network has been upgraded with restrictions; tests showed that circumvention software can no longer connect to overseas networks.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, during the Beidaihe Meeting, local netizens in Qinhuangdao, Hebei tested and found that cellular mobile networks imposed a strict blockade on overseas VPN services, making connection completely impossible; the local authorities escalate stability maintenance controls at the same time every year.
2026-08-03
Because overseas large models such as OpenAI and Anthropic face access, registration and payment barriers in mainland China, developers have long called models such as GPT and Claude through domestic API relay stations. Recently these relay services have been raided by the police, their operators summoned, and the services shut down one after another.
2026-07-21
The Hunan Library issued an announcement on its official WeChat account stating that due to recent incidents where readers used public Wi-Fi to circumvent the Great Firewall and access prohibited overseas websites, posing serious cybersecurity risks, it has temporarily shut down its wireless network for rectification and exposed the mobile phone numbers of some readers.
2026-07-15
On July 15, Northwest University issued a notice on guarding against Trojan viruses, requiring faculty and students to reduce high-risk operations such as circumventing the Great Firewall, with wording milder than the word "eliminate" used in the October announcement.
2026-07-11
On July 11, 2026, a cybersecurity account disclosed screenshots of documents showing that Chinese listed cybersecurity company RenZixing established a VPN intelligence database, conducting deep traffic screening and feature tagging on more than thirty circumvention tools including Mist, Lantern, and others.
2026-07-04
In July 2026, a Decision on Release on Bail Pending Trial from the Haizhu Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau circulated online, showing that a party involved was criminally detained by police for as long as 37 days on suspicion of assisting information network criminal activities for purchasing a Hong Kong data card to log into Facebook.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, Guoji Beisheng released the "Cross-Border VPN Identification System for Universities – Product White Paper," claiming that by using bidirectional traffic monitoring and deep learning models, it achieves real-time detection, evidence collection, and violation profiling of circumventing the Great Firewall behavior.
2026-06
According to CBC, citing internal embassy emails obtained through access-to-information requests, Beijing local authorities planted two large trees overnight on municipal land outside the Canadian Embassy in China just before June 4th this year. The trees were placed about half a meter to a meter from the embassy's outer wall in an attempt to block the June 4th candlelight displayed on the embassy's street-facing electronic screen.
2026-04-28
Well-known VPN service provider for circumventing the Great Firewall, Kuailian Let's VPN, announced it is terminating all of its business operations in mainland China, mainly due to the continuously escalating internet blockade and disruptions to upstream resources.
2025-11-29
After the short film was released, it drew mockery from netizens and was subsequently taken down by CCTV.
2025-09-30
On September 30, Zhejiang Propaganda published an article criticizing Hu Chenfeng, pointing out that he uses worship of the foreign to dissolve consensus, exploits young people's anxiety to harvest consumers, and uses extreme emotions to distort values. Previously, Zhang Xuefeng had already been criticized for shaking the foundations of the state.
2015-03-10
Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin introduced the gradual delayed retirement policy at the Two Sessions press conference. That evening, CCTV's "Two Sessions 1+1" made it a key topic, and Bai Yansong explained it on the program as an inevitable trend whose benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
2003-08-19
Bai Yansong resigned from his positions as producer of News Meeting Room, China Weekly, and Time and Space Link because he felt that the producer role made his expression mediocre and led to self-censorship, while retaining his role as host.
2001
At the 2001 annual meeting of CCTV's "Tell It Like It Is" program team, a satirical comedy short, "Division of the Family in October," was produced, in which colleagues openly mocked Bai Yansong's rationalizing, brow-furrowing, preachy style by remixing Soviet films and their character names.
1993-05-01
“Oriental Horizon” officially went on air, and Bai Yansong, from a temporary planner, was pushed in front of the camera, ushering in a period of public opinion supervision later known as the “mini spring” of CCTV news.