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A NetEase account revealed that Jingmen Rural Commercial Bank in Hubei, together with the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, has launched a social security loan product aimed specifically at insured persons who lack the ability to pay, with the loan proceeds transferred directly into their social security account.

On June 19, 2025, the Social Security Bureau of Jingmen City, Hubei Province published a promotional article titled “Paying Social Security Contributions with Loans: A Win-Win for All Three Parties,” urging the public to pay their social security contributions by taking out loans. Recently, as new rules mandating social security contributions have drawn public attention, the article was dug up again by netizens and met with skepticism. It has since been deleted and now returns a 404 status.

On October 13, Jingmen police responded that the gun involved was an air rifle and the case is still under investigation; earlier, a man had called the police to turn himself in, claiming he had mistaken the elderly person for prey and shot at them.

In the early hours of September 25, the Mid-Autumn Festival, a 64-year-old man surnamed Cheng, wearing a headlamp, went out to the fields to do farm work in Macheng Town, Jingmen, Hubei, and was fatally shot by an air rifle. He had two penetrating wounds on his body, and the ambulance arrived about an hour later.

On July 16, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi published a report revealing that two people with disabilities of unknown identity in Jingshan City, Jingmen, Hubei, had been held by a local rice mill and a scrap station for periods ranging from several years to 20 years, reduced to unpaid forced labor and subjected to abuse.

An article published in China Social Security Magazine on August 15, 2025 introduced a “social insurance bank loan” product launched by Jingmen Rural Commercial Bank in Hubei, offering low-interest loans to flexible workers who have difficulty paying contributions so that they can pay their social security contributions, claiming it achieves a three-way win of enhanced social security credit, customer acquisition for the bank, and benefits for the public. The article was dug up by netizens in October 2026 and sparked heated discussion.