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On November 5, 2026, the School of Economics and Management at Jiangxi Normal University issued a public criticism against a 2024 student for traveling abroad without authorization. The student claims this severely violates their rights to privacy and reputation.
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.
On October 11, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology held a graduate admissions presentation, consultation and oath-taking rally. A large number of students at the scene wore matching white T-shirts printed with the words "Win the Master's Degree in One Shot" and "Get Ashore," raised their fists and took an oath in unison. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
On September 24, at the entrance of the Lianfa Plaza office building on Luyin Road, Honggutan District, Nanchang, Jiangxi, several migrant workers held up a banner reading "Lianfa Group owes migrant workers' wages, give us back our hard-earned money," and raised slogans saying that the rights defense would not stop until the project payment arrived in the account.
On September 1, 2026, Hongguan News in Nanchang, Jiangxi, published a flag-raising interview video featuring someone claiming to be a Taiwanese student. After netizens widely questioned the complete lack of a Taiwanese accent, the comment section was quickly closed.
On June 28, 2026, a knife attack occurred at Donghu Park in Nanchang, Jiangxi. A man attacked two people with a knife, leaving them severely injured and on the ground. The victims said they had been stalked and harassed by the man over a long period. The suspect was apprehended by police after the attack, and the case is under investigation.
Zhu Zisong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and former party chief of the Pudong New Area, was tried in another jurisdiction in Nanchang. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the first instance, convicted of accepting bribes totaling 139 million yuan, with his criminal origins traced back to his tenure at the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in 2003.
Jiangxi Normal University requires students to submit an application for all private international travel. This policy has been in effect for half a year, and specific implementation details have not been made public.
A netizen submission on April 17 reported that Jiangxi Normal University requires all students traveling abroad (or to Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan), whether for official business or tourism, to fill out an application form and undergo multi-level school approval. Failure to do so will result in disciplinary action. Several sections of the application form are alleged to severely infringe upon student privacy.
According to a Nanchang police notice in August 2025, the two had been hunting with an air gun near a construction site on the evening of July 6 of that year, and mistakenly shot a worker squatting in a field, mistaking him for game and killing him; the two were subsequently placed in criminal detention.
On December 22, 2024, the Nanchang police in Jiangxi and the subdistrict office issued a statement saying that, in response to an online dispute, they had lawfully sent Li Yixue, a party who had repeatedly pursued rights defense, to a hospital for psychiatric treatment, once again sparking controversy over being "diagnosed as mentally ill" against one's will.
The Comintern dispatched Luo Mingzi to guide the CCP leadership, providing guidance for the Nanchang Uprising.