2026-11-12
Following the incident where an excavator was used to demolish a government service hall, Xining in Qinghai announced complaint hotlines for unpaid wages in various districts and counties via SMS. The Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau announced online and offline reporting channels, Sichuan launched the "Sharp Sword Protecting Wages" campaign, and the Xinjiang Department of Human Resources and Social Security opened a dedicated hotline for rights defense regarding unpaid wages starting in November.
2026-11-12
Multiple JD.com delivery riders have exposed on social media that the platform is forcing them to deliver charity orders with a delivery fee of 0 yuan, sparking widespread concern over the labor rights of delivery workers.
2026-11-11
After a student died, a large number of family members gathered at the gate of the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental School to defend their rights, accusing the school of delaying notification to parents and shirking responsibility by claiming the 'child fell on their own'.
2026-11-11
On the afternoon of November 11, an unknown gas leak occurred at a chemical plant in Haibowan District, Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia. The gas spread, causing widespread coughing among nearby residents. Officials later explained it as a harmless gas.
2026-11-11
On November 11, 2026, the Xi'an Zion Light Church, which has been established for nearly forty years, issued a prayer appeal via the internet, requesting outside prayers and forwarding for their nearly seventy-year-old overseer, Pastor Gao Quanfu, and the church's situation.
2026-11-11
Recently, multiple netizens in Shenzhen posted on Xiaohongshu and Douyin that their companies, in order to comply with the two-day APEC holiday, are requiring employees to use their annual leave to offset the time off. Those who have no annual leave left for this year are being asked to deduct it from their 2027 annual leave. Some in the comment section shared similar arrangements.
2026-11-11
On November 11, BYD officially responded to reports from netizens regarding the wheel mismatch on the Tang EV, stating that specialized testing showed the affected vehicles do not have compromised handling and pose no safety risks while driving.
2026-11-10
On November 10, due to wage arrears by the Yangling Urban Investment in Xi'an, multiple migrant workers gathered outside the Yangling Demonstration Zone Environmental Monitoring Station in Xianyang City to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages. Inspired by the incident where an excavator was used to demand unpaid wages and demolish a government service center in Xi'an's Peidong New City, netizens in the comment section collectively called for "bringing in the excavator," with some claiming that "if you bring the excavator, they will pay the next day."
2026-11-10
User Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher released observations on intercepting petitioners in Dadong Village, documenting the local situation of intercepting petitioners.
2026-11-10
On November 10, a Luxeed V9 owner posted that their new car, purchased for approximately 500,000 yuan, was involved in two accidents within one month: the intelligent driving system hit a width-limiting stone bollard, and the brakes failed while the steering wheel malfunctioned in an underground garage, causing the car to hit a wall. Huawei explained it as ground slippage and negotiated compensation in the form of maintenance, but the owner rejected this, demanding evidence.
2026-11-10
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.
2026-11-10
On November 10, a netizen posted that they had a dispute with a JD.com courier in the Dalian Development Zone. Six months later, during the Qingming Festival, they received funeral items ordered and sent by the courier. After reporting it to the police, the courier continued to send threatening text messages. JD.com customer service asked for understanding, citing the courier's family difficulties, and the courier was only suspended for training and continued to deliver packages.
2026-11-09
On the same day that a forced demolition incident involving an excavator occurred in Xi'an, taxi drivers in the city collectively gathered outside their company to demand unpaid wages, with a large number of police deployed to the scene for stability maintenance.
2026-11-09
On November 9, a large number of workers and distributors gathered in front of the Suzhou Dreame Technology Park to defend their rights. Megaphones at the scene played slogans such as "Dreame, return our blood-and-sweat money," accusing Dreame of maliciously withholding the wages of migrant workers who decorated the stores, leaving them unable to maintain their livelihoods.
2026-11-09
On November 9, taxi drivers in Xi'an gathered outside their company to demand unpaid wages, with a large number of police deployed to the scene for stability maintenance.
2026-11-09
Multiple petitioners went to the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls in Beijing to line up and register their grievances; on-site footage shows a long queue outside the reception office.
2026-11-09
On November 9, multiple netizens in Inner Mongolia drove to the entrance of PowerChina Sinohydro Bureau 1 to demand payment for engineering projects. Netizens in the comments section and bullet screens posted messages such as "bring the excavator" to show their support.
2026-11-09
On November 9, workers who were owed wages for high-altitude work at the Wuhan Northwest Lake Center gathered outside the building, using loudspeakers to broadcast "give me back my hard-earned money" to demand their pay.
2026-11-09
On November 9, a netizen posted that they were fired the day after leaving a negative review of their factory employer on Amap, and were forced to sign a resignation letter. The companies involved are Jiangsu Hongji Metal Products Co., Ltd. and Hongji Weiye (Suzhou) Auto Parts Co., Ltd. The factory identified the account that left the review by checking employees' phones and refused to settle wages in person.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a netizen posted on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) that a 'Ling Shi You Ming' store had posted a sign stating 'Priority checkout for cigarette buyers.' The sign was alleged to violate the tobacco advertising ban under the Advertising Law. The netizen has filed a complaint with 12315. The 12315 hotline stated that the store is legally permitted to sell cigarettes if they have the proper licenses, but could not immediately determine if the sign itself is reasonable.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a disabled resident in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian Province posted videos for several consecutive days stating that they could not cook because the gas company refused to deliver gas, forcing them to eat instant noodles for days in protest. Complaints have not received an effective response to date.
2026-11-07
Recently, Wang Xiuying, a villager from Lifan Village, Xiabaishi Town, Fu'an City, Fujian Province, recorded her experience of petitioning in Beijing: her grievances remain unresolved, submitting materials has become even more difficult, and she was expelled from Beijing. She describes this as a typical portrayal of the implementation of the new 'July 1st' petition regulations.
2026-11-06
Huanle Aijia, a supermarket chain in Zhumadian, Henan, failed to honor its previously promised payment plan. When a large number of cardholders gathered to defend their rights, they were met with a heavy presence of police and SWAT police for stability maintenance, and many were taken away.
2026-11-06
Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher released recent records of the authorities intercepting petitioners, showing that many petitioners were subjected to stability maintenance measures such as interception and detention.
2026-11-06
On November 6, because the promised payment plan was not fulfilled, a large number of cardholders gathered in front of Huanle Aijia to protest, accusing Chairman Wang Haizhou of "not keeping his word" and shouting "refund the money." A large number of police gathered at the scene to maintain stability.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a netizen in Henan posted multiple videos alleging that China Chemical Engineering Third Construction Co., Ltd. is in arrears and refusing to pay workers' wages at the Baotou Xinte Silicon project in Inner Mongolia; the netizen discovered they had been blocked after sending messages demanding payment to the company's official account.
2026-11-06
Petitioners line up to submit materials at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (commonly known as Jia-1). Staff told them not to record video, and when petitioners asked what was wrong with recording, a dispute broke out.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, a large number of petitioners were seen lining up at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls reception office in Beijing to register their complaints, and the scene was recorded and posted.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a driver from Xi'an Xigao Bus Co., Ltd. posted a video stating that the company had not paid wages for half a year and had stopped paying medical insurance. He said he had no money for food and announced he would no longer drive, receiving support from many netizens.
2026-11-06
On November 6, another employee of Xigao Bus posted that they discovered their medical insurance had been suspended while seeking medical treatment. The company had returned multiple employees to third-party labor agencies without prior notice, leaving the employee and their colleagues unable to work normally, and they are calling for relevant departments to intervene.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a vlogger in Beijing was charged a default fee of 340 yuan by an inspection station while registering an electric motorcycle. After discovering that the normal cost is only a few dozen yuan, the vlogger returned to question the charge. Staff claimed 280 yuan was a "comprehensive service fee," but refunded the 280 yuan via WeChat on the spot after the vlogger threatened to call 12315 to report them.
2026-11-06
On November 6, parents of students at Chonghua Middle School in Nankai District, Tianjin, reported that the school required students who had not received the self-paid HPV vaccine to get vaccinated over the weekend, or otherwise provide a certificate from a Grade A tertiary hospital stating they are unsuitable for vaccination. After parents complained, they were told this was based on a joint notice from the Municipal Health Commission and the Municipal Education Commission.
2026-11-06
On the morning of November 6, lawyer Fan Chen was attending a court hearing at the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court in Hebei Province when the presiding judge, surnamed Zhong, demanded he put away his water cup. Fan Chen questioned the legal basis for this demand and refused to hand over the cup. The presiding judge then called in bailiffs and announced an adjournment, with the date for the resumed hearing to be notified later.
2026-11-06
On November 6, petitioners in Beijing queued at the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing, to submit their case filing materials.
2026-11-05
On November 5, Huanle Aijia released a "Report on the Latest Progress," stating that the situation had exceeded expectations and that it would abandon voluntary negotiation for repayment, opting instead to apply to the court for restructuring.
2026-11-05
A public institution employee in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, submitted a report stating that after civil service salary adjustments in 2022, the compensation for public institution staff was not adjusted simultaneously. Various bonuses totaling about 160,000 RMB from 2022 to 2025, and routine assessment awards totaling about 50,000 RMB for over thirty months from December 2023 to June 2026, have not been paid, leaving them with only a basic monthly salary of 3,000 to 4,000 RMB.
2026-11-05
X user Cyberxinfang posted a documentary of recent petitioners visiting the Supreme People's Court Petition Reception Office located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
2026-11-05
A salesperson claiming to be a third-party contract worker for Li Auto in the Guangdong region posted that their monthly performance pay was wiped out by the city general manager in October. After multiple failed attempts at communication and reporting the issue to HR, their work phone was deactivated, their WeChat Work contacts were migrated, and their devices were remotely locked.
2026-11-05
A herder posted a video claiming that after a hydropower station was built in 2012, water from the dam area flooded their pasture, creating a mud pit. Over time, 200 sheep and more than 20 cattle and sheep have drowned, including a loss of 37 lambs on April 17, 2025 alone. Despite multiple reports to village and town authorities, there has been no resolution or compensation. The herder hopes for drainage to eliminate the hazard and compensation for the losses.
2026-11-05
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.
2026-11-05
On the evening of November 5, Cao Jun, a student of Bai Baoguo, confirmed to the media that the suicide note circulating online was indeed written by Bai Baoguo himself and was released with the authorization of his family. Multiple teachers anonymously confirmed that the practice of self-funding and managing accounts through personal channels is relatively common.
2026-11-05
On November 5, a netizen posted an exposure about a bar in Wuhan, Hubei, owing several cleaning ladies months of wages. The ladies, unable to write, could only send voice messages in the operations group to demand their pay, saying they were waiting to pay their rent. The poster stated that most of the ladies are from out of town, work extremely long hours, and that they are speaking out on their behalf.
2026-11-04
Public institution staff in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, reported to the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration that since 2022, the district party committee and district government have been in arrears with performance-based wages and policy-based bonuses for thousands of employees across the district, with an average cumulative debt of approximately 210,000 yuan per person. They requested that the case be placed under supervision and that the arrears be paid within a specified time limit.
2026-11-04
On the evening of November 4, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education announced that it had formed a joint investigation team with relevant parties to investigate the issues raised in the suicide note of Yan'an University teacher Bai Baoguo.
2026-11-04
User Cyberxinfang posted a submission stating that Chinese petitioners waiting at Jiujingzhuang are served only ham, pickled mustard greens, and steamed buns for all three meals a day. Any leftovers are taken out of the center, and the situation for petitioners has worsened following the implementation of new petitioning regulations.
2026-11-04
Students from the old campus of Liaocheng No. 3 High School in Shandong reported that the school requires students to arrive at 6:45 AM and leave at 10:30 PM. Freshmen and sophomores get a break once every two weeks, while seniors get a break once every three weeks. Students have fainted and been taken to the hospital by ambulance, and many suffer from mental health issues. The school administration ignores these problems, the municipal education bureau covers for them, and students' exposure posts on Douyin have been maliciously reported multiple times.
2026-11-04
On November 4, a large number of employees at Ningbo Wan'ai Electric Co., Ltd. in Zhejiang staged a collective protest at the factory gate to demand unpaid wages. During the protest, one worker collapsed and remained unresponsive.
2026-11-04
Recently, petitioners in Beijing have been visiting the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
2026-11-03
On November 3, dozens of workers at Fujian Jinjiang Shuangchang Shoe Materials Co., Ltd. climbed to the top of the factory area to protest collectively due to unpaid wages, demanding that the company pay their overdue salaries.
2026-11-03
Multiple workers at Jiangyang Cable in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, staged a collective protest after 2,000 yuan was deducted from their wages for both September and October, leaving them with only 2,500 yuan in hand. Workers stated that they even had to pay out of pocket to cover their mortgage payments.
[Follow-up · November 2026] Workers at Jiangyang Cable in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, protested against wage deductions. Online chat logs indicate that workers had 2,000 yuan deducted from their pay for two consecutive months (September and October), leaving them with only 2,500 yuan in take-home pay, with no prior consultation with the workers.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen in Yancheng, Jiangsu, posted a video claiming that the FAW Yancheng branch had defaulted on employee wages and laid off staff. Employees gathered at the factory gate to defend their rights, with multiple police cars and SWAT police vehicles present at the scene. The netizen who posted the video stated that they were owed two months' wages and that the company had laid off employees during a leave period without prior notice.
2026-11-03
On November 3, the student posted a video stating that 119 days after the incident, the school stopped paying for rehabilitation costs, refusing to even cover a 14.5 yuan registration fee. The student also claimed that surveillance footage was initially reported as lost but later recovered, and that the two individuals involved have yet to face any substantive disciplinary action.
2026-11-03
On November 3, the headquarters of Chongqing Kunpeng Payment Service Co., Ltd. was crowded with a large number of people demanding rights. Multiple merchants and agents reported that their POS devices have frequently experienced issues such as funds not arriving and delayed settlements recently.
2026-11-03
After an internal appeal failed, the teaching assistant posted their experience online. Subsequently, their office access was revoked and their employment contract was terminated. The contract stipulated a work week of no more than 40 hours over five days.
2026-11-03
A parent posted online that the school repeatedly urged their child to get the HPV vaccine. After refusing once, the teacher still stated that without it, "attending school in the second half of the year will be difficult," leading the parent to question if this was a threat.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a woman in Inner Mongolia took her child to demand unpaid wages from China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau No. 2, was driven away, and subsequently posted a video accusing the company of wage arrears.
2026-11-03
After posting a video, the student commented that college teachers came to find him. He stated that he refused private negotiations and demanded that all negotiation outcomes be made public.
2026-11-03
On November 3, employees of "Mango Shared E-bikes" at Wuhan University posted that they had been owed three to four months of wages. They stated that leaders would not answer their calls or reply to messages, and the rights defense post was deleted shortly after it was published.
2026-11-03
The Xiangwen platform made public the reply from the human resources and social security department of Yueyanglou District regarding a wage complaint filed by an employee of a Yueyang Daily subsidiary. The reply stated that statutory employee claims enjoy priority repayment and advised the employees to seek rights protection through the bankruptcy administrator, without mentioning investigation results or the reissue date for wages. The page showed the matter as processed.
2026-11-02
On November 2, a large number of villagers from Shiyuan Village, Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the entrance of the Zhongyuan District Committee office to protest and demand unpaid demolition transition fees. Police were present at the scene to maintain order.
2026-11-02
On November 2, Wendao High School in Huailai County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, shut down its cafeteria and suspended operations due to unpaid wages for teachers and cafeteria staff, forcing most students to return home. Many parents went to the school to defend their rights, demanding that students' normal classes be guaranteed and calling for intervention from relevant departments, with only 200 days left until the gaokao.
Location: Huailai County, Zhangjiakou ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-11-02
The child's mother posted on Douyin stating that she had not received an explanation from the school after the incident, and that she received a call demanding she delete the video after she posted it.
2026-11-02
Recently, multiple petitioners traveled to the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1A Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Documentary footage of the event was posted by X user Cyberxinfang.
2026-11-02
On November 2, dozens of migrant workers from the Shui'an Mingju project in Xixian New Area, Shaanxi, went to demand unpaid wages. They stated that the project was constructed by China Chemical City Investment Co., Ltd., and that wages have been in arrears for a year and remain unpaid.
Location: Xixian New Area, Shaanxi ·
Importance II ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-11-02
On November 2, Zhongshan Yuantian Orthopedic Hospital in Guangdong announced that it had suspended all medical services and operations starting October 30. Following the suspension, multiple employees gathered at the hospital entrance to demand unpaid wages. A netizen claiming to be a medical supplier commented that the hospital still owes them tens of thousands of yuan in unpaid invoices.
2026-11-02
On November 2, Chongqing Jiangjin Hotel owed wages, and multiple employees lay or sat in the hotel's internal hallway and outside the main entrance to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages.
2026-11-02
On November 2, homeowners of Phase III of Runyang Guanlan Ludao in Chengdu, Sichuan gathered at the underground parking lot entrance to defend their rights. They protested that the property management and the developer were the same company, which forcibly collected property and parking fees, banned vehicles from entering or exiting for non-payment, and engaged in false advertising. They forcibly removed the parking barrier gates.
2026-11-02
According to Chinese media reports on November 2, part-time employees at Bona Film Group cinemas in Guangzhou and Zhongshan, Guangdong, reported that their September wages were delayed and posted about demanding unpaid wages on social media; two interviewed employees confirmed that the arrears were paid on October 30.
2026-11
A factory in Jiangxi forcibly deducted workers' wages for two consecutive months without any explanation, causing wages to drop to 2,500 yuan and triggering protests.
2026-11
After victims established a main group and three Beijing-based rights defense groups to report the case to the police, police entered the group chats, called the group owners and members to demand the dissolution of the groups, and summoned some of the activists for questioning.
2026-11
Recently, many petitioners who traveled to Beijing gathered at Jiujingzhuang to register for rights defense. This is a documentary record of the petitioners' demands and the stability maintenance measures taken on-site.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] X user Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher (@whyyoutouzhele) posted "Jiujingzhuang Documentary" on November 7, 2026, recording the situation of petitioners being intercepted and detained at Jiujingzhuang in Beijing.
2026-11-01
According to X user @Cyberxinfang, the number of people queuing at the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration has significantly decreased, as many petitioners in Beijing are choosing to pressure local governments by 'entering the village'.
2026-11
Recently at Hunan University, an elderly female rights defender wearing white clothes inscribed with her grievances demanded that school leaders honor the promises made during the forced demolition of her home.
2026-11
After the patient reported the medical malpractice, the hospital admitted in writing that the situation was true and disciplined three nursing staff members.
2026-11
Recently, petitioners overcame numerous difficulties to reach Beijing, arriving at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1A Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Suspected of lacking provincial-level documentation, they were unable to submit their grievances and were pushed out of the compound by security guards.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, according to the on-site situation posted by Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher, there were many petitioners at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, with petitioners from various regions queuing to register their complaints.
2026-11-01
On November 1, multiple homeowners at the Guorui Huating residential complex in Lijiang, Yunnan, gathered at the sales office to collectively defend their rights, demanding that relevant leaders come forward. Homeowners stated that after the delivery of phases one and two, they discovered that there were only 390 actual parking spaces, despite the planned 1,080.
2026-10-31
Recently, a Douyin user posted that 500.04 yuan in their WeBank digital RMB wallet could not be transferred back to their bank card. After calling customer service with no answer, netizens in the comments section questioned whether digital RMB can be frozen at will.
2026-10-31
After a female student died, her family accused the school and the Education Bureau of shirking responsibility. A deputy director of the local police station urged them not to petition. Even after requesting intervention from higher authorities, the case remained under the jurisdiction of the local Education and Sports Bureau, prompting the family to issue a letter of accusation.
2026-10-31
On October 31, multiple workers at the CCCC "Lianfa Heyue Dongfang" project construction site in Chengzhong District, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, used vehicles to block the construction gate to defend their rights. A loudspeaker at the scene played a loop of "CCCC Third Harbor Engineering, pay back our hard-earned money."
2026-10-31
On October 31, workers at the Binjiang Hecheng project in Zunyi, Guizhou, won their lawsuit for unpaid wages in both the first and second instances. However, the engineering department refused to fulfill the payment obligation, and coordination by multiple departments yielded no results. Some workers blocked the project's construction gate with vehicles to demand their wages.
2026-10-31
On October 31, at the sales office lobby of "Huafa Zhuhai Bay" in Zhuhai, Guangdong, multiple construction workers sat by the sand table to demand unpaid wages.
2026-10-31
A student posted on the Baidu Tieba forum for Xidian University complaining about two international students sitting side-by-side on the stairs and blocking the way. The student was subsequently identified by the university's student affairs office, which contacted them to demand the post be deleted. The student questioned whether the university violated the privacy provisions of the Civil Code.
2026-10-31
On October 31, in Sangmu Village, Taixing City, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, the Yaowang Subdistrict demolition team and the village committee forcibly demolished a prefab house and shipping container on the private land of the former Xiaotang Group 1 old residence without posting notices or providing official documents. Staff refused to show legal paperwork and engaged in a physical altercation with the parties involved, resulting in two injuries.
2026-10-30
On the evening of October 30, a large number of students at the Gaoyao School of Zhaoqing Gaoyao District Shimen Middle School (Group) (Gaoyao No. 2 Middle School) gathered in their dormitories to demand that the school turn on the air conditioning. The humidity that night reached over 90%, making it feel stiflingly hot.
2026-10-30
Shanghai rights activist Shen Yanqiu claims her family was harassed and intimidated by outsourced personnel posing as staff from the neighborhood Public Security Office, and that the individuals were released after she called the police.
2026-10-30
User Cyberxinfang posted a documentary article with footage of petitioners 'entering the village' in Beijing, China, recently, recording the gathering of petitioners and the on-site stability maintenance situation.
2026-10-30
On October 30, multiple coal miners at Chuxin Mining in Bijie City, Guizhou Province, clashed during a demand for unpaid wages, leaving one person collapsed on the ground.
2026-10-29
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a water and power outage due to equipment failure. As the school refused to let students leave, a large number of students gathered and climbed over the walls to leave the campus.
2026-10-29
User @Cyberxinfang on X released a series of records documenting the harassment and stability maintenance (weiwen) measures implemented by authorities against petitioners and rights defenders during the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee.
2026-10-29
On October 29, staff at the Yaoshan Scenic Area in Pingdingshan, Henan, went on strike due to unpaid wages. The scenic area was unable to open normally, buses stopped operating, and the entrance was blocked, leaving a large number of tourists stranded at the gate. Tourists stated that no prior notice of the closure had been issued.
2026-10-29
Following the student's death on October 29, the family of the deceased gathered outside the gate of Bobai County No. 5 Junior High School at night to burn paper as a form of rights defense; multiple students claiming to attend the school questioned the claim that the surveillance cameras were broken, stating that they had never encountered obstacles when requesting to view footage in the past.
2026-10-29
After the student passed away, the family did not receive an explanation for a long time. The parents hung a banner reading 'Return my granddaughter's life' at the school gate to defend their rights and demand an explanation.
2026-10-29
On October 29, in Shangtou Village, Binhai Street, Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, a large group of villagers gathered at the entrance and service hall of the Shangtou Community Party-Mass Service Center to demand land expropriation compensation. Local netizens reported that village cadres were suspected of embezzling collective land compensation funds, leaving villagers without the payments they were due. Police arrived at the scene to maintain order.
2026-10-29
Readers pointed out that the cover and inner pages of the 'South China Sea Marine Life Popular Science Series' published by China Agriculture Press featured illustrations of 'two-headed shrimp.' The publisher stated it is notifying all platforms to remove and recall the books in question. The book had previously been recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for the 2026 National Excellent Popular Science Book list.
2026-10-29
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a power and water outage for several hours due to equipment failure. Students, unable to study or live normally, demanded to leave the school. Because the electric gate was malfunctioning and school leaders refused to let them out, the students gathered at the school gate, shouting in unison to be allowed to go home.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a Douyin influencer posted two notices from Yucai School in Pingyin County, Jinan, Shandong, dated October 27: due to loan approval failure and tight funds, June wages were delayed, and wages for May and June would be combined and paid at the end of November; social security and medical insurance for all staff would be terminated starting this month. The influencer claimed the school had not paid social security for 33 months, teachers had been legally demanding unpaid wages for two months, and many were forced to resign.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a netizen posted a video accusing the Hulunbuir Army Border Defense Force border project (Heimeng project), for which the CSCEC Sixth Division is the general contractor, of long-term wage arrears for migrant workers since construction began in 2020. The project has long been completed, but workers have repeatedly failed to receive their pay and are now speaking out online, pleading with the competent authorities to supervise the matter.
2026-10-29
On October 29, workers at the standard factory building project of the New Energy Industrial Park in Hohhot Jinshan High-tech Zone, contracted by Shanxi Electric Power Construction No. 3 Co., Ltd., were unpaid. Multiple workers used vehicles to blockade the project gate to demand their wages.
2026-10-28
On October 28, a large number of employees from the Zhongjian Magnesite Brick Company in Dashiqiao, Yingkou, Liaoning, gathered in front of the municipal government building to demand the payment of unpaid wages and social security contributions, with a large police presence on-site.
2026-10-28
This week the Fifth Plenary Session was held in Beijing, and a number of petitioners who had traveled to the capital were sent to the Jiujingzhuang Assistance Service Center.
2026-10-28
On October 28, workers from Zhongjian Magnesite Brick in Dashiqiao, Yingkou, Liaoning Province, gathered at the plaza in front of the city government to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights, as the company had failed to pay wages for 15 months and social security contributions for 19 months. A large number of police and SWAT police stood in lines to guard the scene for stability maintenance.
2026-10-28
After the shared needle incident was exposed, a large number of parents rushed to Kangping County High School to protest and negotiate, questioning the risk of infection and demanding in unison that the school release surveillance footage, while expressing dissatisfaction with the school's initial plan to conduct blood tests.
2026-10-28
On October 28, Zhengxing Flour Industry Co., Ltd. in Shicao Town, Dancheng County, Zhoukou, Henan, was reported to owe large sums of money to local villagers. A large number of villagers gathered at the factory and office area to demand repayment. Villagers stated that the company continued to purchase wheat normally despite owing money, and others claimed that funds deposited into the company for interest could not be withdrawn.
2026-10-28
On October 28, a large number of owners at the Feiyang Huafu Huayuhu residential complex in Xingyi City, Guizhou Province, gathered outside the homeowners' committee office to defend their rights, claiming that two property management companies (Lantian Garden and Dazhou Property) refused to vacate after their contracts expired and were forcibly collecting property management fees. A large number of police arrived to maintain stability.
2026-10-28
On October 28, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, the Baiyun New Energy Storage Industrial Park (Phase I) project of China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. was in arrears for construction payments. Although the building has been topped out, the payments remain unpaid. Multiple rights defenders blocked the gate of the project department with their vehicles.
2026-10-28
On October 28, in Handan, Hebei, the project management department of the Hanma Connecting Line project under China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. faced protests as rights defenders parked vehicles with 'pay back the debt' slogans outside the project department gate for several consecutive days due to unpaid wages.
2026-10-28
On October 28, a blogger posted a silent video with subtitles reading, "The momentum for two-day weekends must not fade" and "We can contribute our spending power, but please respect our labor," calling for the implementation of a two-day weekend system.
2026-10-28
On October 28, homeowners at the C&D Jiuliwan residential complex in Wuxi, Jiangsu, posted a video reporting roof cracks in stacked-unit houses, construction waste buried inside the waterproofing layer and structure, and water accumulation under the insulation layer, stating that their daily rights defense efforts have yet to resolve the issues.
2026-10-27
October 27, follow-up on the illegal fundraising incident involving the "Tianzhongxing Card" at Huanle Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan: stores are deserted, shelves are basically cleared, and multiple depositors seeking rights defense chased and attempted to intercept the person-in-charge Wang Haizhou, shouting demands for the immediate repayment of their hard-earned money.
2026-10-26
Teachers from a public school in Zunhua, Tangshan, Hebei, went to the city's Education Bureau to block the entrance and demand unpaid wages after long-term salary arrears. A large number of police were present to maintain stability.
2026-10-26
Jiujingzhuang on Nanyuan Road in Fengtai District, Beijing, is a concentration camp where the authorities detain petitioners and rights defenders who travel to Beijing to petition. After the July 1 new petitioning rules took effect, more petitioners chose to enter the compound voluntarily to pressure local jurisdictions; detentions during sensitive periods are coercive, and mobile phones are confiscated at security checks upon entry.
2026-10-26
On October 26, several teachers from a public school in Zunhua City, Tangshan, Hebei, collectively went to the west gate of the Zunhua Education Bureau to block it and defend their rights after being owed wages for a long time. Several teachers sat on the ground, and police and security personnel were present to maintain stability.
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2026-10-26
Recently, a college student posted on Xiaohongshu saying that the windproof cover on her electric bike parked at the school gate was stolen. After she reported it to the police, she was scolded by her academic advisor. She apologized repeatedly and said the matter had been resolved, but was still accused of "going her own way even when police handling is involved."
2026-10-26
On October 26, at the parents' open day at Bowen School in Xining, Qinghai, several parents stood up to question and protest the school's implementation of the Dulangkou education model, saying the classroom order was as chaotic as a vegetable market and that children were being used as guinea pigs. Parents in the audience clasped their hands together in support, saying they would not accept it and firmly opposed it. Parents said that under this model, students teach the classes themselves while teachers' explanations account for less than 10 minutes.
2026-10-26
On October 26, a probationary employee at Chengdu Xindahan Human Resources Management Co., Ltd. sent a message in the company's large group chat demanding severance for leaving their job, claiming they were dismissed without cause and received no compensation. A prior written objection had been read but left unanswered. The employee was subsequently removed from the group chat and their messages were muted. They demanded one month's wages in compensation as well as a certificate of separation, and stated they would apply for labor arbitration.
2026-10-26
On October 26, a petitioner in Beijing posted multiple videos on Douyin claiming to be guarded and tracked by multiple people, and blocked from going out to buy groceries. Earlier, they posted that someone followed them all the way from their doorstep onto a bus, and shared doorstep surveillance footage mocking stability maintenance.
2026-10-25
On October 25, outside Building A of the office complex of Sinohydro Bureau 5 Co., Ltd. of China Power Construction, several workers held banners to defend their rights, accusing PowerChina Fifth Bureau of breaking its promised audit unit prices and skimming high management fees on the Zhengzhou airport district greening project, causing huge losses for the contractor, and pleading with the relevant authorities to investigate and punish the violations according to law.
2026-10-24
Multiple workers said they are owed money by the Digital Art Industry-Education Base of Henan Vocational Academy of Art. Although they had won their lawsuits, they had not received the owed payments for a year, so they laid red banners reading "Return the Hard-Earned Blood Money of Migrant Workers" at the school gate to defend their rights.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a netizen posted a video claiming that the boss of Fujian Jinjiang Burì Shoe Industry Co., Ltd. was suspected of fleeing after owing wages, with large numbers of workers gathering to demand payment. Police arrived to maintain order. One worker said they had not received a single cent in wages, while another netizen said wages had not been paid for several months.
2026-10-23
On October 9, a 51-year-old male patient was admitted to Tang County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Baoding, Hebei, for anal fistula surgery. After the operation, his leg pain was fobbed off by a nurse as being due to the cold weather; on October 18 he was diagnosed with a high-risk blood clot, collapsed after getting out of bed, and died. On October 23, family members went to the hospital to demand an explanation and were driven off by security guards who sprayed them with fire extinguishers. The family questioned whether the hospital had tampered with the medical records, saying this was the second death following hemorrhoid surgery at the hospital within two years.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a parent at Jiangnan Experimental Primary School in Tunxi, Huangshan, Anhui held up a sign at the school gate seeking help, saying that while the child was in class on September 28, the child was repeatedly poked with a ballpoint pen by a deskmate, leaving more than 20 bruises on the limbs. The school only made the student involved reflect at home for three days; the parent demanded the student be transferred out of the class and asked the education bureau to intervene.
2026-10-22
On October 22, on the eve of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, multiple depositors of village and town banks in Henan said they were blocked from going to Beijing to petition: some were confined to their homes, some were intercepted at train stations, and some were forcibly sent back after arriving in Beijing.
2026-10-22
On October 22, an AITO owner in Sichuan posted a video on Douyin saying that in May this year his vehicle caught fire while driving without any collision, with flames shooting out from the passenger-side center console. The inspection report attributed the fire to "an aromatherapy bottle refracting sunlight." The owner asked in helplessness, and netizens sarcastically commented in the danmaku: "malicious fire."
2026-10-22
On October 22, Tai'an Electric Power Installation Co., Ltd. in Baoding, Hebei was accused of owing wages to multiple workers totaling 280,000 yuan, with arrears spanning five or six years; the workers unfurled banners in front of the company to defend their rights.
2026-10-22
On October 22, several workers in Rong County, Sichuan, took to the streets holding signs reading “Where is justice? Give us back our hard-earned money” to defend their rights, accusing Rong County Xinding Ceramics Co., Ltd. of withholding payments. They said three bosses had long refused to answer calls or reply on WeChat, and pleaded with the relevant authorities to intervene.
2026-10-22
On October 22, a netizen posted that their house was washed away in a flood, and that their homestead had been reallocated in the post-disaster reconstruction plan and designated as a public parking lot, making it impossible to rebuild on the original site. The comment section sparked heated discussion.
2026-10-22
A subsidiary of the Yueyang Daily Media Group in Hunan entered bankruptcy liquidation in November 2025. It negotiated the termination of labor relations with three employees but has yet to pay a total of 50,000 yuan in owed wages and severance compensation. Before the 2026 Spring Festival, the company arranged funds to repay some external debts, but employees were repeatedly told by Yueyang Daily leadership that there were no funds available.
2026-10-21
Workers at the CSCEC Second Division's Huangdao project in Qingdao climbed to the roof to demand 600,000 yuan in unpaid wages; on the same day, construction workers in Shantou also climbed to a rooftop for rights defense.
2026-10-21
On October 21, in Qingdao, Shandong, the "Ocean Vitality Zone" project of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) Second Engineering Division in Huangdao District has failed to pay over 600,000 yuan in wages to several interior plasterers since the project's completion at the end of 2024, leading multiple workers to climb to the roof to threaten suicide in order to demand their unpaid wages.
2026-10-21
On October 21, homeowners in Gushi County, Xinyang, Henan, gathered outside the Central Park Xinhe Group Century City sales center to defend their rights, raising their fists and chanting slogans to demand their apartments, and called out company leader President Chen by name, demanding the return of their homes.
2026-10-21
A student at Yunnan Vocational and Technical College of Communications in Chenggong District, Kunming, Yunnan, went missing after being sent by the school to an internship placement. The family repeatedly approached the school with no result, and recently held a banner displaying the child's photo outside the school gate to search for the person, getting into a dispute with police.
2026-10-21
On October 21, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi released a plea from a family, stating that the police have not opened a case more than a month after the report. He called on relevant departments in Guangdong to verify the labor compensation, whether forced labor exists, and the reasons for the man's departure from the recycling station.
2026-10-21
On October 21, several employees of Zhuimi Fengxing Intelligent Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang gathered inside a warehouse to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights. The employees at the scene accused the company of being in arrears on wages for as long as five months.
2026-10-21
On October 21, several workers in Lingui District, Guilin, Guangxi who are owed wages by Xinglin Chengtou held banners outside the company's door to defend their rights. The banners bore slogans such as "You owe money and won't pay, with no regard for whether others live or die," and they accused the company of lying flat and failing to act in resolving its debt.
2026-10-21
On October 21, in Jinping District, Shantou City, Guangdong, several people suspected of being involved in a dispute over unpaid wages climbed to the edge of a rooftop near the local government to defend their rights.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a Douyin blogger with 550,000 followers posted a video saying that the Huawei smartwatch they purchased did not support standalone video calls, so they applied for a refund and returned it within less than 10 seconds of receiving it; the merchant refused the 960 yuan refund citing a scratched screen and sent the item back, and their earlier complaint video was taken down.
2026-10-21
On October 21, several workers involved in a marine ecological restoration project in Yingkou, Liaoning, publicly filed a real-name report against the contractor, China Communications Construction Port & Waterway Bureau, for withholding their wages for five months, saying that after repeated complaints the relevant leaders kept passing the buck, so they publicly called on netizens to share the post and push for a resolution.
2026-10-20
Changsha Unicom employees wearing red vests blocked an entrance to demand money, while workers at Guangxi Tianyang Nanhua Paper Industry shouted slogans at the factory gate to demand compensation.
2026-10-20
Liu Ying, a petitioner from Shangrao, Jiangxi, was blocked at her doorstep around the clock by a large number of masked personnel who restricted her movement as she prepared to travel to Shanghai for medical treatment.
2026-10-20
Recently, the Chinese government successively closed the Lajia Town Girls' School and the Golog Daozha Welfare School (the filming location of the movie "Son of Light") in Golog Prefecture, Qinghai. The two schools retained many educational approaches for passing down Tibetan culture; primary school students were transferred to the local central primary school, and middle school students may be moved to the distant Golog Xining National Middle School and Golog Haidong Middle School, sparking Tibetan concerns about the deprivation of their right to pass on their national culture.
2026-10-20
On October 20, dozens of workers in blue work uniforms gathered in front of the gate of Guangxi Baise Tianyang Nanhua Paper Co., Ltd., chanting slogans such as “Defend our interests, we want compensation” in unison. The poster said the company is a subsidiary of the Yangpu Nanhua Group and was transferred to a third party without informing or compensating the employees.
2026-10-20
On October 20, outside the China Unicom office in Changsha, Hunan, multiple employees wearing red vests printed with the words “Unicom,” “Pay back the money,” and “Demand unpaid wages” gathered to defend their rights. They ate boxed meals on site and insisted on protesting, demanding that the leaders come out and resolve the issue. Commenters posted screenshots of their low pay to show support.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the "Zhangshang University" platform under Hangzhou Xinmai Technology was accused of collecting high service fees on the promise of a "guaranteed minimum sales volume," then failing to perform, delaying refunds indefinitely, and owing wages to internal employees and campus agents. Large numbers of people gathered at the company's premises to defend their rights, and victimized merchants issued a petition urging regulators to investigate severely.
2026-10-20
X user Cyberxinfang posted recent footage of petitioning at the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration reception office at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, and tagged #CyberPetitionBureau.
2026-10-20
On October 20, at the entrance of the Wanda Plaza construction site in Zhuozhou, Baoding, Hebei, a group of workers gathered to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights, with some parking cars and trucks at the entrance to block the gate.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a netizen in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, posted an accusation that Zhejiang Hengtong Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. unlawfully deducted wages when handling their work injury case. On October 5, they were struck on the head by an iron rod being dumped; the company determined they had operated in violation of rules and deducted 800 yuan. The employee said the iron rod was not secured and posed a hazard, and that they were transferred to another post without receiving training; they have resigned after being obstructed for insisting on filing a work injury report.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the person involved in the "lymph meat" incident at the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group posted that after more than a month of rights defense, they had received the company's decision to terminate the canteen contractor's contract, expressed satisfaction with the result, and received likes and support from many netizens.
2026-10-20
On October 20, Chengdu Kangte'en Technology Group Co., Ltd. issued an internal notice, citing the coordination of its Chengdu and Shenzhen office areas, proposing to adjust Chengdu employees' attendance hours to 9:00–18:15 starting November 1, extending the daily schedule by 35 minutes compared with the original arrangement. Under the notice, employees left a continuous stream of comments saying "disagree" and "firmly disagree," with one employee stating that they would attend work at the original times until an agreement is reached.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the Qiligou Liquefied Gas Station in Zhuxi County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province no longer allowed residents to fill their own gas cylinders, instead requiring unified delivery and charging an additional service fee. Many villagers gathered in front of the gas station to express their dissatisfaction, questioning that they were being forced to buy. After the incident came to light, it drew support from netizens.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the "Aerospace City Libang Rose Block" project of Xi'an Construction in Xi'an, Shaanxi was accused of withholding migrant workers' wages. On the day of handover, many workers gathered outside the project's gate holding banners reading "Give Us Our Hard-Earned Money" to protest and defend their rights.
2026-10-20
On October 20, Zhejiang Jujiang Construction Group Co., Ltd. was accused of withholding workers' wages. After several workers went to the company to demand their unpaid wages without success, they laid out bedding outside the company gate and slept on the ground in a rights-defense protest.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a Douyin user posted a video claiming that his 31 million yuan deposit had been frozen for nearly three weeks and was inaccessible, during which he sold two Audis and one BMW to keep his company afloat. After two workers fell to their deaths at his father's construction site, his father was taken into police custody; the man said he spent 3 million yuan in cash to get his father out. The bank demanded proof of large transaction flows, and staff also demanded that he delete the video before returning his ID card. The reason for the account restriction remains unclear.
2026-10-19
On October 19, several workers in Zhejiang, China, smashed the tiles they had already laid after failing to receive payment for their tiling work and getting nowhere in their demand for unpaid wages.
2026-10-19
On October 19, at a project site in Qujiang, Xi'an, Shaanxi, undertaken by Zhongtian Construction, several construction workers held banners to demand unpaid wages, playing through a loudspeaker "Shame on those who withhold wages, give us back our hard-earned money." Workers said they had been owed three months' wages, and their wage demands had been repeatedly delayed.
2026-10-19
On October 19, the "Longfor Future Eye Yunhe Song" project in Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi was withholding project payments, and several workers held up banners at the project site in a rights-defense protest.
2026-10-19
On October 19, several workers in Zhejiang posted videos saying they had not received payment after completing tiling work. After their attempts to demand unpaid wages failed, they collectively smashed the tiles they had already laid.
2026-10-19
On October 19, in front of the "Yuyi Decoration" store on Panlu, Zhanqian District, Yingkou, Liaoning, multiple homeowners drove their cars to block the entrance in rights defense, hanging a banner reading "Multiple Payments Made, No Work Done — Cheating Ordinary People Out of Their Hard-Earned Money."
2026-10-19
On the evening of October 19, YTO Express issued an apology, denying claims such as that inquiries result in penalties, saying that its outlet had relayed incorrect information, leading the courier to mistakenly believe he faced a fine; it said only one work-order overtime assessment of 20 yuan was generated, and that the courier involved had been transferred out of his original service area.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen claiming to be the actual driver of an AITO M9 posted on Autohome saying that while traveling with his young daughter in late August, the vehicle lost power twice in a single day, with one instance leaving it stopped in a highway traffic lane until traffic police handled it; after mediation through the 12315 hotline he still failed to obtain the backend driving logs, and the SD card footage from the two periods of power loss is missing, so he is demanding a written report based on real data.
2026-10-19
In 2014, the Taiyuan Beifu Community Residents' Committee, on the grounds of preventing residents from spending blindly, borrowed demolition compensation funds for urban village renovation, agreeing on a monthly return of 1.5% and repayment of principal by the end of August 2016; after maturity, it verbally lowered the return to 1%, and residents demanded repayment multiple times, yet 1.5 million yuan of principal remains unpaid to this day. Reported by Benliu News on October 19.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a Meituan dedicated delivery rider posted his 27th rights defense video on Bilibili, saying that after 6 years of working as a dedicated rider no entity had paid social insurance for him, and that for nearly 5 years he had been registered as an individual business owner. The app shows that his labor contract has been approved but cannot be opened. The case is scheduled to be heard at the Tinghu District Court in Yancheng on October 28; at the last hearing the contractor failed to appear.
2026-10-19
According to Xinnwang reports on October 19, Mr. Wang from Yantai reported that his mother, in her seventies, has been charged for a Huawei video membership since December 2022. The charges were 12 yuan for the first month and 29 yuan per month thereafter, totaling over 1,000 yuan. The elderly woman neither used nor activated the service. The family demanded a full refund; customer service increased the offer from a 1-month refund to 24 months, refusing to refund earlier charges due to the time elapsed. Huawei stated they would arrange for verification and a response.
2026-10-17
Between 2022 and 2025, Hunan Zhonghuilu and its subsidiaries long owed workers more than 5 million yuan in labor remuneration, and have failed to pay social insurance in accordance with the law since 2021. After labor arbitration and litigation, the effective rulings have still not been carried out; the enterprises are accused of maliciously transferring assets to evade enforcement, and some workers are living in hardship.
2026-10-17
On October 17, a high school teacher in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, submitted a post claiming that evening self-study and tutoring fees have long been unpaid, and that the school's overworked operation is harming the physical and mental health of teachers and students, calling on society at large to implement two-day weekends.
2026-10-17
On October 17, a netizen in Changchun, Jilin, posted a video claiming that the Xintiandi Huawei service center had ruined his phone screen so it could no longer display. Unable to contact anyone to settle the account, he brought a number of workers wearing orange reflective vests into the store to sit down and demand an explanation, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-16
A land dispute occurred in Dongguan Village, Mei County, Baoji, Shaanxi. Villagers say local authorities deployed police to assist a city investment company in occupying land to build a food market.
2026-10-16
Knowing full well that Ruan did not meet the requirements for entering Beijing, Du assisted him in hiding in the cargo compartment of a truck at the Xiaotun checkpoint in Tongzhou District in an attempt to evade inspection and enter the city; both were placed under administrative detention by Beijing police in accordance with the law.
2026-10-16
According to netizen submissions and documents from the Pingjiang County Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, from 2022 to 2025 Zhonghuilv and its subsidiaries owed at least 127 employees over 6 million yuan in labor remuneration, and have paid no social insurance since 2021. After labor arbitration and litigation, the effective ruling has still not been carried out to date. Employees pursued rights defense through subdistrict coordination, labor inspection complaints, compulsory enforcement and other channels, and the handling of the case has exceeded the deadline by over 3 months with no feedback.
2026-10-16
During a rights-defense struggle over land requisition that has dragged on for more than ten years, the family involved went step by step from petitioning the authorities to being deprived of medical care, placed under communications surveillance, criminally detained, tortured, and violently assaulted, and a relative passed away. Netizens called on the authorities to stop blocking the family from seeking medical treatment and to investigate the abuse in detention.
2026-10-16
At 10:40 p.m. on October 16, after evening self-study ended at Wuzhou No. 7 Middle School in Wuzhou, Guangxi, a school leader surnamed Zhang, citing the excuse that "only 20 people asked for leave tonight," opened just a single lane at the school gate turnstile for hundreds of students to pass through. Several students missed the last bus, and students posted online to complain.
2026-10-16
On October 16, over unpaid wages, multiple workers gathered at the site of the project management department of the China Railway 15th Bureau's Guangxi Wuxiang Grain Reserve Depot grain storage facility construction project to defend their rights and demand their pay. The workers said this was their fourth visit and warned that if the company continued to ignore them, the company would be responsible for any subsequent problems.
2026-10-16
On October 16, outside the property service center of Hailunbao Yuelongwan in Bazhou, Langfang, Hebei, two workers sat at the entrance, holding loudspeakers and unfurling a banner to publicly demand unpaid wages.
2026-10-16
On October 16, several workers on the "Jintongju" project, built by Henan Guangjian, drove trucks to block the project gate to demand unpaid wages after their pay was withheld, and during the process they got into a physical altercation with project staff.
2026-10-16
Recently a man posted a video complaining about the push to enroll in social insurance, saying he had repeatedly encountered bosses who failed to pay wages, had already been to arbitration three or four times, and had to recover even 200 yuan in wages through arbitration. Working in self-media with a monthly salary of only 2000 yuan, he was still criticized by his boss for being too expensive, and he asked in return how he is supposed to pay social insurance without money.
2026-10-15
On October 15, dozens of road maintenance workers wearing "Renrenjie" vests in Qianxi County, Tangshan, Hebei, gathered in front of the county transport bureau, saying they had been owed nearly six months of wages. After trying to demand payment for three or four months without success, they demanded to resolve the matter face-to-face with officials.
2026-10-15
Chen Yanhua, a demolition-affected resident of Yong'an Xili in Beijing, posted that her house was torn down 14 years ago and that despite repeated requests for resettlement, there has still been no outcome.
2026-10-15
On October 15, unpaid wages at Boyuan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Baoding, Hebei sparked a wage-demanding rights defense by workers. Several employees hung banners at the company entrance and used loudspeakers to publicly demand their unpaid wages.
2026-10-15
On October 15 in Beijing, a netizen captured footage of what appeared to be petitioners from Shenyang, Liaoning, being intercepted by several men on the street, who tried to take away two elderly people. The elderly cried out that they had pursued rights defense for five years without any result and that there was not a single cent in their salary cards.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a veteran in Anhui posted a video appeal, showing his veteran preferential treatment certificate, two outstanding soldier medals, and the medical records of all four family members. He said his family was hospitalized with serious illnesses and unable to pay the costs, and that doctors told him his child's life would be in danger if not treated promptly.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a netizen posted to expose that Nanjing Audit University had launched a “Dormitory Anomaly Analysis” feature in its student affairs system, matching dormitory and campus gate turnstile data with class schedules to automatically record class absences and anomalies; in serious cases, students are disciplined according to the student handbook. Students posted to question this and reported that the “Direct Feedback Box” in WeChat Work could not be opened.
2026-10-15
On October 15, Cambodian media outlet CamboJA published an investigative report in which several construction workers at the "Peninsula Bay" project in Sihanoukville said their wages had been repeatedly delayed in recent months. One plasterer said that after August wages went unpaid, workers sat at the gate of the site and refused to start work before they finally got paid; China State Construction serves as the general contractor.
2026-10-15
On October 15, former Chengdu Airlines pilot Liu Wei posted a video in a civil aviation uniform, saying that in the 12 years since he left his job, CAAC Document No. 109 had been used by superiors to block the transfer of his flight crew records, making it impossible for him to find new employment. He publicly solicited leads on illegal and criminal conduct by Manager Ye of the flight department and his wife, promising to keep sources confidential and to file reports on their behalf.
2026-10-14
On October 14, according to information posted by netizens, Desay SV Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. in Chengdu, Sichuan, owes payments for engineering materials and migrant workers' wages, and several people involved went to the company's entrance to hold banners and defend their rights.
2026-10-14
On October 14, at China Construction Seventh Engineering Bureau in Henan, wages were in arrears. Several workers went to the construction site to defend their rights and demand their unpaid wages. On-site video shows some workers lying directly on the ground in front of the entrance to the office building to express their protest.
2026-10-14
On October 14, workers at the CCCC Construction Group's Bailu West Tower project in Xiamen, Fujian, held banners to defend their rights due to unpaid wages. They had previously attempted to demand their wages multiple times without success. At the scene, some individuals obstructed filming and demanded the deletion of photos and videos.
2026-10-14
On October 14, owners of Minghe No.1 Phase II in Handan, Hebei hung banners to protest the unfinished project and the failure to deliver homes on schedule, accusing the developer of deceiving and defrauding ordinary people of their hard-earned money.
2026-10-13
On October 13, residents of Heping District in Tianjin posted a video saying that construction of Metro Line 8 had caused severe cracks in nearby houses. Residents quarreled and scuffled with construction workers, then stopped the work at the site, demanding a halt to construction, a safety appraisal, and negotiations on compensation, saying that no party had come forward to discuss a repair plan.
2026-10-13
After the original work was published, some petitioners successively followed up by "dueting" it, showing the forced demolitions and rights-defense difficulties they had experienced, forming online support.
2026-10-13
Ma Bo, a petitioner from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, reported that while petitioning in Beijing he was beaten and both of his legs were fractured. After his assault case was dropped, he has applied for prosecutorial supervision.
2026-10-13
On October 13, Hengtong Industry and Trade Company in Hanjiang District, Putian, Fujian, owed wages, and dozens of its employees took turns showing up to demand payment. Some netizens in the comments section said that Putian is notorious for being hard to get money out of.
2026-10-13
According to a report by Jizhou Studio, some young people who already have jobs call themselves "two-day weekend heroes," post their resumes on job platforms, and send rejection letters to companies that do not offer two-day weekends, saying they are looking for a company with a two-day weekend and that the other party did not make it into the shortlist.
2026-10-13
Guanyuan Data's Guangzhou branch, dissatisfied with the labor arbitration ruling, has sued Li Yu, a dismissed employee with late-stage stomach cancer, bringing the case into first instance. A company staff member responded that the toll that prolonged litigation takes on a seriously ill employee "is not something the company needs to consider."
2026-10-13
On October 13, a netizen in Xinjiang posted a video from a construction site wearing a hard hat, saying that because his boss owes him wages he has no ability to pay social insurance, that he is making a living hauling bricks, promising to pay the arrears as soon as he receives his wages, and calling on the relevant parties to stop pressing him.
2026-10-12
Because the Luchin Expressway construction project included no drainage system, the road has been flooded for a long time; villagers' collective rights defense led to a clash when large numbers of police and riot personnel arrived on the scene.
2026-10-12
After a fire at the Zhaoxing Electroplating Environmental Protection Industrial Park in Jinli Town, Zhaoqing, compensation remains unresolved and workers are owed wages; hundreds of workers jointly blocked the local government on October 12.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video exposing that the Zulijian company in Zhengzhou, Henan, owes wages and social insurance to more than 300 employees. Large numbers of employees gathered in the company's office area for collective rights defense, shouting "Pay our wages."
2026-10-12
On October 12, car owner Xia Hao posted again, stating that during the civil lawsuit against Huawei, he discovered that key surveillance video had been swapped and is preparing to file further administrative litigation.
2026-10-12
On October 12, according to Cover News, an aquarium hobbyist in Shandong said that a power outage caused by a Wolde smart power strip killed all the marine fish in the tank, with losses exceeding 20,000 yuan. Customer service was only willing to send a replacement socket, saying "if you don't accept it, go sue."
2026-10-11
The developer entered the site for construction without the villagers' consent to hand over the land and hired thugs who attacked the villagers with dry powder fire extinguishers and pepper water; after police arrived, they took no coercive measures against the thugs.
2026-10-11
Recently on Chinese social media, middle-aged unemployed people have issued a call urging everyone to boycott the products of companies that refuse to hire job seekers over the age of 35, as a counterattack against age discrimination in corporate recruitment.
2026-10-11
On October 11, Stelato customer service stated that once users who have ordered a car enter the lock-in period, the deposit cannot be refunded; Stelato had previously promised free upgrades for users who have taken delivery, but as of that day the specific plan had still not been determined.
2026-10-10
According to a report by The Paper, candidates taking the IELTS exam in multiple regions of China on October 10 were suddenly halted mid-test. Customer service at the British Council said it had received a short-notice instruction that IELTS test sites nationwide would cancel exams on October 10 and 11 due to technical reasons. Starting from October 11, candidates have been receiving refunds of their exam fees one after another. Lawyers say the organizers may have constituted a breach of contract.
2026-10-10
Employees of the 12345 government service hotline in Bazhong, Sichuan, have had their wages withheld. Netizens reported that their July and August salaries have been long overdue, with monthly pay of only just over 2,000 yuan, drawing attention.
2026-10-10
On October 10, "Shengongshe" of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions disclosed this old case: a security guard was scheduled to work all 7 days of the National Day holiday and was fired for failing to show up; an arbitration ruling ordered the company to pay nearly 30,000 yuan, but the court ruled that the company did not need to pay compensation.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the woman posted a follow-up video releasing the recording of Hello's customer service, in which the agent said the order was ruled the merchant's responsibility; she subsequently recovered 800 yuan and questioned why ordinary tourists can only end up paying for nothing.
2026-10-09
A man surnamed Zhou in Mian County, Shaanxi, fought a lawsuit against the local government for 8 years up to the Supreme Court over the forced demolition of his house. The original ruling of 700 yuan per square meter was overturned by the court, and compensation was set at 100 yuan per square meter, based on the standard for pigsties.
2026-10-09
One year has passed since the Beijing Zion Church "October 9" church case; eight pastors and church workers, accused of fraud and illegal business operation, are detained in Beihai, Guangxi, and the case has been transferred to the court awaiting trial.
2026-10-09
On October 9, police deployed a large number of officers at the Zhejin Center in Hangzhou and the Zhangjiaba petition reception point. Some rights defenders were visited late at night by multiple batches of police officers who harassed them after they posted messages such as "unite as one, never give up" in rights defense groups.
2026-10-09
On October 9, multiple owners of Binjiang Times Ruifu in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, unfurled banners at the construction site to protest and defend their rights, as the housing project had halted construction with no set date for delivery.
2026-10-09
BYD employees, angry over the company withholding profit bonuses, posted big-character banners inside the company to express their dissatisfaction; the banners were subsequently removed by security guards.
2026-10-09
On October 9, staff at a police station in Pingtan, Fujian told media that even if a property is rented out in its entirety, the living room still counts as a public area and the landlord may install cameras, so no case was filed; the room fee has been refunded, and Ms. Guo is preparing to sue the business.
2026-10-09
On October 9, a woman posted a video saying she rented a Tesla in Dali through the Hello app and purchased the "full compensation for scratches" add-on, but when returning the car the rental shop demanded 4,200 yuan over a scratch. She and her mother were blocked for about two hours, and even after police mediation they still paid 800 yuan before being allowed to leave.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Ms. Liu, seven months pregnant in Hangzhou, called customer service at the request of a YTO Express courier to cancel a shipping order. About 5 minutes later, the other party came to her door to question her about why she had complained; the courier said he would be fined 400 yuan. Ms. Liu called the police and sought medical treatment that night, where she was diagnosed with a threatened miscarriage.
2026-10-08
Hundreds of workers at Fengrun Textile in Fengxian County, Jiangsu, went to the company to collectively demand their unpaid wages, only to find that their access cards had been deactivated. They suspect the company is on the verge of collapse and is using the National Day holiday to evade compensation, and police arrived at the scene and demanded that the videos be deleted.
2026-10-08
On October 8, as the Henan Provincial Party Secretary and governor were replaced at the same time, depositors of village and town banks across the country wrote letters to the new Provincial Party Secretary Zhou Zuyi, governor Wang Lujin, and 15 leaders of central ministries and commissions, accusing the former provincial Party committee and government of feigning compliance while defying orders and refusing to settle old accounts. Tens of thousands of depositors and their relatives have been unable to withdraw a single cent from their bank card deposits for five years, and have been driven to extremes.
2026-10-08
On October 8, Fengcheng Salt Chemical in Xuzhou, Jiangsu suspended production and granted time off due to business conditions starting October 1. Large numbers of workers gathered outside the plant to defend their rights over wages, social insurance and other issues. Police and SWAT officers arrived at the scene, and nearby roads were closed.
2026-10-08
Zheng Zhengbang, legal representative of Zhongshan Fuhe Municipal Construction Co., Ltd., publicly reported Bank of China Zhongshan Branch in his own name, claiming that he borrowed 400 million yuan but actually paid about 350 million yuan, and raised questions about invoices, consulting fees and credit records.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a prospective car owner posted screenshots of a chat with a salesperson on Xiaohongshu, saying that after watching the brake pedal bracket fracture test, they no longer wanted the deposit or the car; the salesperson said that if the test was a deliberate smear, it could not serve as grounds for returning the car, and the final cancellation result remains unclear.
2026-10-08
On October 8, the Bazhong Business Environment and Data Bureau responded that the claim of "frequent wage delays" is untrue, and that the delay was actually caused by late settlement at China Telecom's Bazhong branch. August wages were paid in full by the end of September, and July wages are promised to be paid in mid-October.
2026-10-08
On October 8, several contractors at the Yuanda SOHO development in Changchun, Jilin Province, staged a banner protest at the entrance of the property's marketing center, demanding payment, as the developer, Changchun Yuanda Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., still owed construction funds two years after the handover of the units.
2026-10-07
Recently, domestic brand Wolda's smart power strip for aquariums is suspected of becoming unusable due to a power outage after its backend was hacked. Multiple fish-keeping enthusiasts posted complaints; one user said all their ornamental fish died, customer service said it needs to be mailed back for repair, while another user restored power after pressing the controller button.
2026-10-07
On October 7, a video creator posted a video satirizing the fact that openly going to work during the National Day holiday in violation of the labor law goes unchallenged, while riding an electric bike without a helmet normally gets one stopped by traffic police.
2026-10-06
According to Reuters, as China's national statutory holidays approach, Chinese workers are publicly demanding the rest and holidays they are entitled to. The situation has drawn outside attention to labor rights and the implementation of holiday entitlements.
2026-10-06
On October 6, in Langfang, Hebei, the Shijingyuan project of China State Construction Sixth Bureau owed migrant workers their wages. A large number of workers went to the project office to sleep on the floor and demand their unpaid wages, waiting for the wage issue to be resolved.
2026-10-05
A candidate in a teacher recruitment exam in Puning, Guangdong, posted that on August 6 staff of the municipal Education Bureau persuaded him to fill out a voluntary withdrawal of employment form on the grounds that he failed the HIV physical exam. The physical exam standards revised in 2013, as specified in the recruitment announcement, do not list AIDS as a disqualifying condition, yet the Education Bureau refused to hire him based on the version revised in 2007. After refusing to sign, the candidate filed complaints with the letters and visits, human resources and social security, and discipline inspection departments, and on August 17 received a written certificate of physical exam failure and applied for administrative reconsideration; the problem remains unresolved.
2026-10-04
Recently, several veterans who had traveled to Beijing to petition appeared in the alley where the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration (commonly known as Jia Yi) is located on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
2026-10-04
A netizen posted an entry titled “Taoran Bridge Underpass” in the petitioning dictionary, referring to the underground pedestrian passage near Taoran Bridge in Beijing. Because it is close to the Letters and Calls Bureau reception office on Yongdingmen West Street, it has become a place of residence for many petitioners who travel to Beijing.
2026-10-04
On October 4, multiple villagers in Pengyuan Village, Chengtang Town, Yifeng County, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, gathered at the gate and inside the offices of the Chengtang Town Villagers' Committee to protest and defend their rights, after public welfare forest and natural forest compensation payments went unpaid for more than 20 years following restrictions on commercial logging of collectively owned forest rights.
2026-10-03
On October 3, the boss of a factory in Zhejiang was suspected of fleeing. Workers called the police and went to the factory to try to demand wages that had been owed for several months, but they did not know who to turn to. Some coworkers said they had installed cameras at their workstations at their own expense, so that they could call the police immediately if anything happened and prevent the boss from running away.
2026-10-02
On October 2, a netizen revealed that after a student at Xiuyuan Middle School in Shuyang, Suqian, Jiangsu, reported to the education bureau that the school was giving only one and a half days off for the National Day holiday, the student received a phone call from someone claiming to be a teacher in the principal's office, was questioned with "if you don't want to study, then don't," and was scolded. The student's complaint information was suspected of having been handed over to the school. The school responded that it was a teacher's personal act, drawing criticism.
2026-10-02
On October 2, residents of Matarape village in Morowali, Indonesia, blocked a road to protest dust pollution caused by Askon company's transport operations. About 40 Chinese workers arrived at the scene, some carrying wooden sticks and iron tools, and clashed with residents. The incident left 5 residents and 1 foreign national injured, 5 work vehicles damaged, and 5 excavators burned.
2026-10-02
On October 2, residents of Shiping Village, Qiaotouhe Town, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province, reported that the public notice information for a 450,000 yuan vegetable base project construction payment in the village in 2023 did not match the actual project. The contract attached to the notice showed Longwan Village, and after the greenhouses were crushed by heavy snow that first winter, they have been abandoned ever since.
2026-10-02
On October 2, a labor-dispatch worker in Wangdu County, Hebei posted a video on Bilibili saying that he worked at the County Administrative Approval Bureau as a dispatched worker, was rated excellent by the Organization Department for his poverty-alleviation work in a village from 2019 to 2022, and was dismissed and had his medical insurance payments halted after being diagnosed with myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction. The 1245 hotline replied that his physical examination had not detected any related diseases, and described his village work as auxiliary work.
2026-10-01
On October 1, multiple owners of the C&D Ruiyun development in Fuzhou, Fujian, gathered in front of the sales office and along the street over suspected false advertising and products not matching the description, holding banners and shouting "C&D fraud, C&D refund our homes." Relevant personnel at the scene held up umbrellas to block the view and snatched the banners.
2026-10
The Chongqing Trust product for the Dijingyuan luxury residential project in Xiamen has not been fully paid out since its maturity in December 2021. Over 300 investors nationwide have been seeking rights defense for a long time, and were recently offered a 20% buyout of their trust shares. Chongqing Trust previously announced that the collateral was valued at approximately 27 billion yuan and that the project had no ultimate risk.
2026-10-01
Recently, a netizen found a hair in their ice cream while dining at the Italian gelato shop Venchi in Shanghai's IAPM mall. The merchant agreed to a refund and paid a settlement of 1000 yuan, on the condition that a confidentiality agreement be signed; if the information is disclosed, the consumer must compensate the merchant 1 million yuan.
2026-10-01
On October 1, two petitioners ran naked on the Great Wall in Beijing to air their grievances, publicly voicing their demands.
2026-10
The Smart Commerce Cold-Chain Logistics Park project in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi, has long been in arrears on migrant workers' wages and project payments since 2024, and has still not paid up. Recently, a netizen exposed the matter by posting a video.
2026-10
A factory arranged a holiday of more than ten days. Ten workers, worried something might go wrong, stood guard by the factory 24 hours a day. On the second day of the holiday they caught the boss bringing people in to move things out. They subsequently received their wages, while the other workers on leave did not.
2026-10-01
On October 1, the app "Two-Day Weekend Go," which advocates prioritizing purchases from companies that implement two-day weekends and treat employees well, went on the Apple App Store. Users can view companies' rest systems and submit tips, and the platform states that it does not build a blacklist of companies and only positively includes information that has been reviewed.
2026-10
Recently, petitioners who traveled to Beijing queued overnight at the gate of the petition reception office of the Supreme People’s Court at No. 40, Hongsicun, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing, waiting to be received; documentary footage recorded the scene.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a netizen claiming to be a relative of Yang Ziyi posted on Xiaohongshu (RedNote), questioning that she had sought help from her supervisor only to be refused, and that two supervisors later refused to step forward, demanding that the school give the truth. The related plea posts were subsequently deleted, and the related content is also hard to search for.
2026-09-30
Creditors of Zhejin Company applied to the Zhejiang Provincial Local Financial Regulatory Administration for the disclosure of government information such as the risk disposal plan for the Huaxin products of the Zhejin Center, but the bureau refused to disclose it on the grounds that the relevant information had been classified as state secrets and might endanger national security.
2026-09-30
On September 30, 2026, internet user Ji Yichen published a post publicly raising four demands, specifically: requiring the Longhua Road Police Station to return the 12,000 yuan he was forced to pay; investigating the demolition compensation issue in Longsha District; demanding that the Fifth Company of China Railway 19th Bureau Group pay nearly 2 million yuan in project payments owed to his family; and restoring the reputation of his grandfather Ji Dexiang, a revolutionary army veteran. He stated that he does not want privileges, only fairness.
2026-09-30
Netizens have published a dictionary entry for petitioning, introducing the queuing voucher issued by the Reception Office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, to petitioners visiting the capital. Those holding the small ticket can return to their original place in line after leaving to eat or use the restroom during the overnight wait.
2026-09-30
On September 30, netizens reported that near the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration reception office at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, a petitioner fell to the ground sobbing.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a netizen posted their personal monthly working-hours record, showing a single-day maximum of 18.2 working hours. In the related recommendations, many workers posted their attendance for September and the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, with monthly working hours generally over 300 hours and some exceeding 350 hours, complaining about working non-stop without any rest.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a middle school student in Handan posted a long essay accusing school leaders of being keen on superficial projects, with thousands of students forced to accompany leaders in a “drill,” grades treated as achievements, holidays exploited, and free will suppressed.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a student filed a real-name report on the official website of the Linyi Municipal Education Bureau, reporting that Yishui County Third Experimental Middle School forced students to attend morning exercise training from 7 to 8 a.m. every day during the 7-day National Day holiday, with no leave permitted, in violation of Shandong Province’s standards for running primary and secondary schools. When submitting the report, the student entered the correct CAPTCHA multiple times but was still told it was wrong, and the report was repeatedly obstructed.
2026-09-30
On September 30, the brother of the female student who fell to her death circulated the account of the incident in a campus WeChat group she had belonged to, saying his sister excelled in both character and academics, was a Chinese Communist Party member and the head of her master's class, questioning school leaders for ignoring students' lives, saying he had already been removed from the dormitory group, and appealing to anyone with information across the school and the entire internet for help.
2026-09-30
A Singaporean couple joined a six-day, five-night group tour of Guizhou on September 8. On the final day of the itinerary, the tour guide took them to a jade shopping venue, where they spent 37,240 yuan on about 16 pieces of jade jewelry. One of the items, a Buddha amulet accompanied by an appraisal certificate listing it as "ink jade," was found to be serpentine when tested by the Nanyang Gemological Institute after they returned home. The couple's daughter said her mother called twice during the shopping trip to ask for money, a total of 6,500 Singapore dollars, and appeared helpless.
2026-09-30
On September 30, several homeowners at the Jinsha Qingyun Academy community in Zhecheng County, Henan, staged a protest with banners and a sit-in in front of the sales office, opposing the developer's plan to build a large waste transfer station near the main entrance of the community, saying the stench was seriously affecting their living environment.
2026-09-30
On September 30, Sichuan Mobile Newspaper posted a video on Douyin about the Chengdu–Dazhou–Wanzhou high-speed railway "working non-stop through National Day" with the hashtag "salute to the laborers," saying that 1,050 builders on Section 5 were working round-the-clock in shifts. Several netizens in the comments asked about triple wages, and one such comment received 4,393 likes.
2026-09-30
From late September to October, several community grid workers in Henan posted on Xiaohongshu to report that their wages had not arrived, social security and housing provident fund contributions had not been implemented, and they were still required to take duty during the National Day holiday. Some said they planned to resign. Relevant notices stated that wages could not be issued before the holiday and promised full payment after the holiday.
2026-09-29
The fiscal interest subsidy policy was officially announced on September 29 and went into effect at the start of the National Day holiday; combined with developer discounts, it drove up new home transaction volumes in some key cities.
2026-09-29
Netizen Cyberxinfang said that last year he received petition materials from Yanhu District, Yuncheng, Shanxi. The petitioner alleged that local gangsters colluded with government officials in the long-term gang rape of her granddaughter, and that she was threatened with lifetime imprisonment if she petitioned again. She has since gone missing, and he is now publicly soliciting information about the case.
2026-09-29
Ahead of the National Day holiday, a topic on Weibo opposing make-up workdays during the holiday garnered 360 million views and 120,000 discussions, and workers' dissatisfaction with holiday shifting, low wages, and excessive overtime has spawned consumer boycotts and rights defense through legal channels.
2026-09-29
On the morning of September 29, the Taiyuan Municipal Public Security Bureau took Xuncheng Reformed Church preacher An Yankui from his home. His wife Yao Congya received a phone call from the police and was told that he had been placed under administrative detention for 15 days for "illegally organizing religious activities."
2026-09-29
Under the name “Cyber Letters and Calls Bureau,” netizens released recent documentary footage of petitioners visiting a certain petition reception site, recording the scene of petitioners gathering to air their demands.
2026-09-29
On September 29, a netizen posted a video saying that their family's China Mobile account was charged overage data fees of 480.89 yuan, 540 yuan and 150 yuan in July, August and September respectively, totaling over 1,200 yuan. Customer service only agreed to refund half; the blogger has filed a formal appeal demanding a full refund, and the video has drawn widespread support from netizens.
2026-09-29
On September 29, Beijing Yezhi Feng Nuohua Home Decoration Group Co., Ltd. was in arrears on wages, and multiple workers traveled from other regions to the company's headquarters to defend their rights and demand their unpaid pay.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a large number of villagers in Gushan Village, Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan, gathered in front of the village Party-mass service center, raising their arms and protesting in unison. They accused the village committee of failing to distribute elderly pensions as required, illegally disposing of land, and unlawfully bundling votes on demolition and relocation together with social security resettlement. Police and local officials arrived at the scene to handle the situation.
2026-09-28
On September 28, outside the gate of Li Central School in Suining County, several parents held up a banner reading "Give Us Back Our Child, Demand Justice," raised portraits of the deceased and wept in protest, saying the school failed to notify the family in time and sent the child directly to the funeral home.
2026-09-28
Relevant documents show that villagers in Gushan Village whose rights were infringed have entrusted a law firm to conduct legal confirmation regarding the legitimacy of the voting and the ownership of rights for three plots of land.
2026-09-28
A Chengdu woman says she spent over 100,000 yuan at Tiffany on diamond jewelry; the salesperson gave the promised mooncakes to someone else, offering only about 20 yuan of loose peach cookies as compensation, which she refused. After she posted about it, the brand demanded post deletion; after she refused, her Xiaohongshu account was restricted from logging in and the original post was deleted.
2026-09-28
On September 28, the Fujian project of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. was in arrears on wages, and multiple workers collectively went to the project management office to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a parent posted on Xiaohongshu claiming that after their child consumed Hema's MSC-certified Antarctic Silver Cod children's meals for about 8 months, tests revealed elevated blood mercury levels. After reporting this to the merchant, the supplier replied that the testing was qualified and claimed that 'children's meals' was merely a description of the product form. The parent also encountered other children with suspected elevated blood mercury levels at the hospital.
2026-09-28
A bus driver with Chongqing Urban Transportation Development Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. fell ill on his way to work and died after more than 48 hours of emergency treatment. The company refused to pay compensation on the grounds that the case did not meet the criteria for work-related injury recognition.
2026-09-28
On September 28, the family of a bus driver who died of illness went to Chongqing Urban Transport Development & Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. to defend their rights. Several security guards blocked them at the company entrance, and a dispute broke out between the two sides.
2026-09-28
On September 28, at the China Railway 12 Bureau Laolongxi No. 2 Tunnel project in Anhua County, Yiyang, Hunan, wages were in arrears, and several workers drove vehicles to block the tunnel in demand of their unpaid wages.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a Douyin blogger released a video titled "No Good Employer Has One-Day Weekends," questioning the claim that taking one less day off means earning more money, arguing that many monthly salaries are padded out by extending working hours, and saying wages should be evaluated by hourly rate, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-09-27
On September 27, Nandan County, Hechi City, Guangxi, announced that it had established a special investigation team to conduct a comprehensive investigation and verification into the controversy over "teachers being forced to pay for their own training." The county education bureau had previously denied screening teachers based on teaching performance, but confirmed that teachers were required to cover their own transportation, food, and accommodation expenses.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a primary school teacher reported to the media that 309 teachers in Nandan County, Guangxi, were included in a "teaching capacity building training program." Some were reportedly selected due to lower rankings in teaching performance. The training takes place every Friday, with transportation and lodging expenses to be borne by the participants themselves, posing a particularly long and difficult commute for rural teachers.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a netizen in Guangdong posted a work drawing an analogy to “public toilets used to charge fees, and it was only after predecessors spoke out that the charges were abolished,” calling on workers to lawfully voice their demands for implementing the two-day weekend system. The post received over 100,000 likes, and a large number of netizens left comments supporting the two-day weekend and the eight-hour workday.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a netizen claiming to be a disabled veteran posted a plea for help in Yongji County, Jilin Province, saying he had difficulty with food and lodging and questioning the relevant assistance.
2026-09-26
As of September 26, the "Xiuxiu Cha" mini-program shows that it has included 1,453 companies, 26 products, and 1,578 employee tags.
2026-09-25
On September 25, Yan Zongmin, principal of Kangjie Middle School in Yuncheng, Shanxi, responded to recent controversies: he stated that staggered holidays during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day were due to poor communication; admitted that the national flag was not raised to the top during the flag-raising ceremony and that the September 18 warning education was poorly handled; and claimed that the blackboard newspaper text was verified by the police as being self-created by students, reading phrases like "Long live Comrade Mao Zedong," while adding that the students' method of posting notes to express demands was unacceptable and that the police had intervened in the investigation.
2026-08-21
Hundreds of former students of the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School gathered at the school for three consecutive days, demanding the return of deposits that had been withheld for a long time, during which conflicts broke out with the school.
2026-06-10
Since June 10, 2026, hundreds of residents of Wuchang, Wuhan have clashed with police over a planned hazardous waste laboratory at their doorstep.
2026-09-24
Wang Xiuying, a villager group leader in Fu'an, Fujian, has been litigating since 2000 against the government's illegal issuance of certificates for 371 mu of village farmland to businessmen. Courts at the county, city, and provincial levels have failed to review the legality of the certificate issuance, focusing only on her standing as a plaintiff and whether the case constitutes a petitioning issue.
2026-09-24
On September 24, it was reported online that family members of a student held banners to demand rights outside the gate of Yangxi County No. 1 Middle School in Yangjiang, Guangdong. The incident stemmed from a student suspected of suffering from depression who jumped to their death on campus. The family accused the school of forcing the child, who was resting at home, to return to school by threatening to record their absence as truancy in their permanent file. There are reports that the teacher involved may have attempted suicide by swallowing pills; the incident is awaiting official notification.
Location: Yangjiang City, Guangdong ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-24
On September 24, the Communist Youth League Central Committee released a promotional video on Bilibili for the National Day eve themed around "many places hanging five-star red flags." After it aired, the danmu were flooded with calls for "two-day weekends," with netizens seizing the opportunity to express demands for the enforcement of the two-day weekend system.
2026-09-24
On September 24, after China Minmetals MCC Construction failed to pay wages owed to the "Buluo" flooring team's workers in Wuhan, a group of workers went together to the project office entrance and demanded their unpaid wages by banging gongs and drums.
2026-09-24
On September 24, after Hebei Lanniao Furniture Co., Ltd. failed to pay wages, employees went together to the factory gate and hung banners to demand their unpaid wages.
2026-09-24
On September 24, workers at the Hebei Changli County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital project, undertaken by Qinhuangdao Remote Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., protested wage arrears. Multiple workers held banners reading "Return Our Blood and Sweat Money" and went to the project site entrance and the Second Hospital of Changli County to collectively demand their wages.
2026-09-24
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.
2026-09-24
On September 24, a netizen posted an AI-generated video, adding hashtags such as "Refuse Silence," "Eight-Hour Workday," and "Five Days On, Two Days Off," saying that all injustice is acquiesced to through countless silences; many voiced support in the comments section.
2026-09-23
On September 23, at the south gate of the BYD Industrial Park in Fuyang, Anhui, after a worker reportedly died in a work-related incident, multiple family members knelt at the scene to demand their rights and held up a banner reading "Worker died three days ago and no one has dealt with it," protesting the factory's three-day failure to respond.
2026-09-23
On September 23, at the Party-Mass Service Center in Hebaizhuang, Chengjiao Township, Sheqi County, Nanyang, Henan, after He Xianglin's fundraising scheme collapsed and the funds were suspected to have been absconded with by an upstream operator, a large number of investors showed up to defend their rights; most participants were elderly villagers from various villages, involving about 2,000 households.
2026-09-23
On September 23, dozens of workers at Hongxing Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Xingtai, Hebei hung banners at the factory gate to demand unpaid wages, saying the controlling listed company, Shanzi Hi-Tech, had failed to pay wages and stopped paying social insurance contributions, leading some employees to be forced to terminate their labor contracts.
2026-09-23
Two depositors encountered obstruction and difficulty from the bank when attempting to withdraw money at the counter. A fierce conflict erupted between the two parties, with the bank threatening to call the police, sparking strong dissatisfaction among the depositors.
2026-09-23
On September 23, 2026, multiple workers in Chongyang County, Xianning City, Hubei Province, held banners outside the gate of Hubei Huadian Fuxin Chongyang New Energy Co., Ltd. to demand unpaid wages.
2026-09-23
On September 23, Cai Xiaodan updated her rights-defense progress on Bilibili, saying that it had been the fifth day she stayed overnight in the company's conference room awaiting a reply; her 83-year-old grandfather felt unwell and was taken to hospital by ambulance 120, and after receiving an IV drip he returned to the company to fetch belongings but was blocked again. Her husband passed away nearly nine months ago, and the company has repeatedly called the police to demand that the family members leave.
2026-09-21
On September 21, because Shandong China Construction Traffic Engineering Co., Ltd. owed migrant workers' wages, multiple workers went to the company to hang banners for rights defense and demanding unpaid wages.
2026-09-21
On September 21, homeowners of Shengshijindu Estate in Chengdu's Tianfu New Area gathered to protest, accusing the developer of using banned techniques during tap water pipe construction, which polluted the water supply and threatened residents' health. After previous multi-party coordination failed, homeowners demanded a property refund on-site.
2026-09-22
Recently, a large number of petitioners gathered near the reception office of the National Bureau of Letters and Calls, located at No. Jia 1, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
2026-09-22
On September 22, multiple construction workers at Hong Kong International Airport hung banners to protest five months of unpaid wages, with banners reading slogans such as "Sweat delivered, no pay received."
2026-09-22
Guangdong Foshan Jinting Communication (Machinery) Co., Ltd. was exposed for defaulting on a total of 4 million yuan in wages for all employees. Multiple employees hung banners and lay on the ground at the company entrance to protest and demand unpaid wages.
2026-09-22
Students at Zhongshan Memorial Middle School in Guangdong chanted in residential buildings to protest after the school broke its holiday promise by cutting the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday down to just one day.
2026-09-22
A forcible demolition dispute occurred in Shuangliu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, where multiple residents formed a human wall in front of an excavator to stop the construction.
2026-09-22
Employees of Xi'an Feibao Technology publicly complained about the company executive. It is reported that the company is a core supplier to the People's Liberation Army.
2026-09-20
On September 20, inside a classroom at Qiqihar No. 3 Middle School in Heilongjiang Province, students wrote messages such as "not a single penny of corruption spared" and "not a single regular class taught" on their desks or walls, protesting the school's teaching quality and integrity issues.
2026-09-21
Xishan Senior High School in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, required students to purchase a "smart device kit" priced at 4,280 RMB, with a service life of only three years. Parents questioned why the price far exceeded similar products on the market, believing that the costs of building an "AI campus" were being shifted onto students.
2026-09-21
On September 20, villagers in Shangliangkeng Village, Dapo Town, Gaozhou, Maoming, Guangdong, clashed with relevant personnel while trying to stop their crops from being forcibly cleared, resulting in one death and three injuries. On September 21, a large number of villagers went to the gate of the Dapo Town government to hang banners for rights defense, with a large number of law enforcement personnel maintaining order at the scene.
2026-09-20
The National Day holiday shift makeup policy on September 20 sparked public dissatisfaction, with numerous posts on social media platforms like Xiaoshongshu (RedNote) opposing the shift adjustments. Netizens expressed their discontent and proposed forms of retaliation such as slack off and reducing large purchases.
2026-09-21
On September 21, multiple workers gathered to defend their rights at the Shenzhen JD.com headquarters project. Workers stated that the construction party and general contractor, Shanghai Baoye, unilaterally canceled their access cards and demanded they leave the site before settling payments. Consequently, the workers protested at the project department's entrance, demanding the resolution of unpaid wages and related payment issues.
2026-09-21
A domestic blogger posted a video criticizing the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday arrangement, pointing out that only one day is a newly added holiday while the other two days are already the weekend. The blogger also expressed dissatisfaction with the exclamation mark used in official propaganda stating 'Three-day holiday, no work schedule adjustment!', arguing that it attempts to create a fake sense of welfare.
2026-09-20
On September 20, over 80 workers from the Longhu Sanqianji project in Chenghua District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, sat on the ground downstairs to demand unpaid wages collectively and engage in rights defense due to wage arrears by the developer and the construction contractor, Qingrui Decoration Company.
2026-09-20
On September 20, Bailuo Cleaning Company in Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, owed sanitation workers four months of wages, leading a large number of employees to strike and go to the company headquarters to collectively demand unpaid wages and defend their rights.
2026-09-20
On September 20, at the Longtan Industrial Park in Bobai, Yulin, Guangxi, 7 workers who had been owed over 500,000 yuan in back pay for nearly 5 years by Yulin Yongda Fire Protection Engineering Co., Ltd. hung a banner in front of the company branch to demand their unpaid wages.
2026-09-18
On September 18, after the completion of a project by Zhengzhou Engineering Co., Ltd. of China Railway Seventh Group in Zhengzhou, Henan, it was accused of defaulting on workers' wages. Multiple workers went to the company to collectively defend their rights and demand payment of arrears.
2026-09-21
On September 21, a fifth-grade female student at Mingtian School in Shenxian, Liaocheng, Shandong Province, died on campus. Family members questioned the school for delaying medical treatment, concealing her condition, and obstructing access to surveillance footage. A large crowd gathered at the school gate to defend their rights, and police and SWAT police were dispatched to maintain order.
2026-09-21
September 21, Guangxi Yulin Beiliu City Guanhe (Beiliu) Toy Co., Ltd delayed employee wages, and many employees gathered at the factory gate, raising banners to demand unpaid wages. #InternationalRelations
2026-09-21
On September 21, due to four years of unpaid wages for migrant workers at the Zhaotong Sunac Jiutangfu project, workers dismantled the previously installed aluminum panel materials on-site, with multiple law enforcement officers and workers present to observe.
2026-09-21
On September 21, bus drivers in Gaobeidian, Hebei Province, gathered at the depot gate to strike and protest after going eight months without pay. Multiple buses were parked at the scene.
2026-09-21
On September 21, a large number of villagers from Cao Wang Town, Boxing County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, gathered at the town government to protest the village secretary of Cao Er Village selling hundreds of mu of land without the villagers' knowledge. Villagers and security personnel clashed physically at the scene, and one person was carried onto an ambulance.
2026-09-21
On September 21, multiple workers of Jining Land Development Group in Jining City, Shandong Province, went to the group's lobby to defend their rights against unpaid wages, demanding the person in charge to come forward and resolve the payment issue.
2026-09-19
On September 19, it was exposed that after rectification, the student protection post at Eryumatou Primary School in Wutongqiao District, Leshan, Sichuan, was still manned by elderly people. Previously, parents reported that the protection post increased the burden on dual-income families, and the education bureau had requested the cancellation of mandatory scheduling. The school's system requires protection personnel to hold equipment while on duty and explicitly demands that they promptly stop criminal acts when discovered.
2026-09-19
On September 19, discussions about the compensated off-days system topped Weibo's trending list. Netizens and bloggers criticized the system for shuffling weekend days to piece together long holidays, aiming to boost consumption rather than guarantee rest. They noted that the two-day weekend and paid leave systems have long failed to be implemented, leading to increased fatigue among the public. Weibo's official account also interpreted the system's design as being born out of domestic demand-driven motives, triggering strong dissatisfaction among netizens over policies ignoring public opinion.
2026-09-19
Late at night on September 19, residents of Poly Philharmonic Town and surrounding communities in the Zhaoqing Hi-Tech Zone gathered in front of Zhaoqing Juyuan Biochemical Co., Ltd. and Zhaoqing Changlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. to protest. Due to long-term health damage caused by exhaust pollution from nearby chemical plants, they demanded an investigation into the enterprises' illegal discharge. Local police and environmental protection departments arrived at the scene to handle the situation, and there is currently no resolution.
2026-09-20
Regarding the compensatory leave arrangements for the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, "boycott consumption during compensatory leave" once topped the Weibo trending list, with netizens advocating for no travel and no shopping during the compensatory leave period.
2026-09-18
On September 18, multiple employees of Dongguan Shengkai Animation Technology Co., Ltd. gathered on a rooftop to demand unpaid wages spanning from May to September after management became unreachable. Fire departments at the scene laid out an inflatable rescue air cushion for emergency response.
2026-09-20
On September 20, at the Douyin Creator Conference held in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, multiple bloggers openly expressed dissatisfaction with the current schedule adjustment system and explicitly supported restoring two-day weekends and canceling schedule adjustments.
2026-09-20
On September 20, a Xiaohongshu user posted that dispatched labor workers in Shanghe County, Jinan, Shandong, have been owed more than ten months of wages, and every time they ask they are told there is no money. Many in the comments section reported similar wage arrears in Tianqiao District, Shizhong District, and elsewhere.
2026-09-19
Local government in Zhijiang, Hunan, dispatched administrative staff and police into a residential compound in an attempt to demolish facilities deemed excessively tall while refusing compensation, triggering on-site protests by owners, and the two sides at one point came into conflict.
2026-09-18
On September 18, a large number of depositors in Zhumadian, Henan Province, gathered in the rain outside the municipal petition office to defend their rights, after the company chairman Wang Haizhou failed to fulfill his promise to distribute living expenses before the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays. They chanted slogans demanding to "see the mayor" and called for government intervention to resolve the issue.
2026-09-13
On September 13, in Aobei Village, Shuikou Subdistrict, Huicheng District, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, multiple villagers gathered at a construction site to stop work, protesting the highway construction project that excavated and leveled Mashan Hill within the village.
2026-09-16
On September 16, villagers in Xujiagou Village, Qian'an City, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, protested against environmental pollution and land destruction caused by mining construction. A large number of SWAT police and security personnel gathered at the scene, engaging in physical clashes with villagers during the dispersal, resulting in multiple villagers being forcefully carried away.
2026-09-12
On September 12, as Shandong Zaozhuang Tengzhou Urban Construction Group failed to repay the principal and interest of a loan upon maturity, multiple investors gathered at the entrance of the company headquarters for rights defense, demanding an explanation from the company.
2026-09-14
On September 14, at a construction site in Beiguan District, Anyang City, Henan Province, multiple workers whose wages had been delayed hung a banner reading "Return my blood and sweat money" at the site and used a megaphone to demand payment from the employer.
2026-09-13
On September 13, multiple villagers in Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei Province gathered to protest the local government's forced seizure of land and destruction of forestry without proper consultation.
2026-09-14
On September 14, families of multiple victims in Lishui, Zhejiang, held portraits of the deceased and went to the headquarters of Lishui Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. to conduct rights defense. The family members stated that their father was killed after being struck by a bus while performing road work. Nearly three months after the incident, the bus company has yet to provide a clear response, prompting the family to visit the company to demand accountability.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a BYD employee had their corporate WeChat account banned after sending an open letter to their department opposing the company's policy of deducting performance pay based on rankings. The employee had previously organized colleagues to sign a petition against the pay cuts, but after being warned by department heads, only six people participated.
2026-09-17
On September 17, a large number of workers sat squatting outside the Shaanxi Construction Engineering Group to demand unpaid wages. Meanwhile, multiple leaders in formal attire lined up on the steps of the main building to pose for a group photo. Additionally, employees reported severe wage arrears, stating that as of October, wages had only been paid up to February.
2026-09-17
On September 17, at the entrance of the Huazhang Xuanhua Computing Power Hub Industrial Base in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, multiple migrant workers hung a banner reading "Please pay last year's arrears of migrant workers' wages," publicly demanding their unpaid labor compensation.
2026-09-17
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.
2026-09-18
In September 2026, Huawei and Seres suddenly cut ties with the AITO brand. AITO owners worry about their in-car systems, build quality, and a sharp drop in used-car value; used-car dealers have suspended taking in AITO models, triggering a series of disputes including after-sales rights defense.
2026-09-18
On September 18, multiple employees held banners outside the gate of Shandong Xinfalike Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights.
2026-09-18
An AITO owner says staff snatched his phone and deleted album photos while he was filming the battery at an after-sales service center; another owner questions the after-sales center for forcibly denying warranty coverage on the grounds that the screen was deliberately punctured, and got no result after demanding to see evidence of deliberate puncture marks.
2026-09-18
Li Auto L8 first-batch owners displayed a banner at the Li Auto delivery center in the Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone to defend their rights.
2026-09-16
On September 16, multiple BYD Changfeng-affiliated 4S dealerships in Guiyang, Guizhou (including Changfeng Wangchao, Qianxindi Haiyang, etc.) were exposed as having closed overnight. Employees were owed months of back pay, and suppliers and staff staged rights defense actions on-site; numerous car owners are facing dilemmas such as being unable to register their vehicles, hindered delivery, and unfulfilled after-sales service packages.
2026-09-16
On September 16, the homeowners association of Phase II of Xinghai Mingcheng in Beihai, Guangxi held a vote-counting box opening ceremony. Due to residents not participating in the vote, the scene faced strong boycotts. Residents immediately questioned the staff for staging a self-directed performance, exposing that the election process involved no voting and was purely a fabricated formality of public will.
2026-09-17
The Fucheng District government in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, issued an anti-gang and anti-evil notice, explicitly defining malicious wage-demanding, forging evidence, surrounding construction sites, and coercing transactions as "labor porcelain-smashing" (extortion), and announced a severe crackdown.
2026-09-17
Zhang Liang's family traveled by car from Hebei to the company to negotiate matters concerning his work-related death; the company promised to give a reply after discussion but repeatedly delayed.
2026-09-12
On September 12, a video of an elderly migrant worker in Jiangsu using a phone with a damaged screen to communicate with his boss about demanding unpaid wages spread online, sparking strong attention and discussion among netizens about wage arrears.
2026-09-16
On September 16, Foshan Dongrong Metal Products Co., Ltd. in Shunde, Guangdong, due to long-term wage arrears of up to 9 months for employees, triggered a large number of workers to collectively protest and defend their rights.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Kaifeng Yulin Furniture Co., Ltd. in Henan, due to long‑term wage arrears and being found to have attempted to secretly transfer assets, employees blocked the factory gate and intercepted vehicles, leading to a standoff between the two sides.
2026-09-17
Following a food poisoning incident among students, a large number of parents gathered in front of the teaching building of Dongdaihe Zhizhen Middle School, demanding that the school authorities provide a clear explanation for the poisoning incident.
2026-09-17
On September 17, the Wutongqiao District Education Bureau replied on “Ask Sichuan” that the education authorities have not stipulated that parents must participate in guarding the school, and that schools have been urged to cancel mandatory scheduling and switch to voluntary sign-ups, putting an end to such practices as elderly people taking over shifts and paid substitutes standing in.
2026-09-17
On September 17, multiple employees of Tianqu (Xi'an) Co., Ltd. in Lantian County, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, held up a banner reading "Return my blood and sweat money" at the company entrance to protest and demand unpaid wages.
2026-09-17
On September 17, Cai Xiaodan, widow of engineer Zhang Liang, and her family were invited to negotiate with Beijing Fanghong Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tsinghua Tongfang. The company promised twice to provide a written response by the end of the workday on September 21, but as of September 23, it has failed to do so, nor has it provided the requested materials such as work records, attendance sheets, and payroll records.
2026-09-17
Some netizens discussed protests by tobacco farmers in Yunnan, saying that farmers were mobilized by the government to grow tobacco, with promises of considerable income, but at purchase time the tobacco leaves were only bought for a few yuan per kilogram, leaving them with just a few dozen yuan of income after working more than half a year on one mu of land.
2026-09-16
An employee of the milk tea shop “Yidian Dian” discovered a foreign object in the black tea, reported it to quality control and was instructed to remove it and continue using it. The employee later applied for arbitration due to an irregular labor contract, and the company sent someone to his grandparents’ home to threaten them in order to force him to give up defending his rights.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Apple released the official version of iOS 17, which includes a new alarm feature that supports compensatory leave (tiaoxiu). Wenzhou state media "Temperature News" called this an "epic update," sparking widespread ridicule from netizens who accused Apple of compromising with China's compensatory leave system and keeping pace with the regression of the times.
2026-09-14
On September 14, customers at the Huanle Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan, protested over restrictions on the use of stored-value cards. Chairman Wang Haizhou appeared on-site, promising that the company's assets were sufficient to cover its debts and pledging to announce a solution by November 6.
2026-09-15
On September 15, multiple migrant workers from Henan Xiayu Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. wore reflective vests with slogans demanding unpaid wages and collectively protested for their rights for the fifteenth consecutive day at the project department entrance.
2026-09-14
On September 14, multiple workers from Guangdong Zhengye Construction, the general contractor for the New World Four Seasons Mountain and Water project in Guangzhou, Guangdong, sat on mats outside the construction site gate to demand unpaid wages. Several security personnel were present, on alert.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Qingyuan campus of Guangdong Nanhua Business and Technical College delayed wages for migrant workers, prompting many workers to go to the school gate, hold a banner protest and demand their pay.
2026-09-14
September 14, Guangdong Shenzhen Jindi Center, multiple migrant workers went to the building to protest over unpaid wages. The workers said that before protesting they had completed legal procedures such as filing lawsuits and arbitration and had won, but still have not received the owed wages.
2026-09-14
On September 14, several nurses at the Second People's Hospital of Hulan District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province reported that the hospital had been withholding wages for up to two years. After prolonged unsuccessful rights protection, the medical staff chose to publicly expose the issue online to seek a solution.
2026-09-14
On September 14, over one hundred miners at Xinglong Coal Mine of Xihan Group in Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, whose wages had been withheld for several months, went to the government service center to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights, during which they got into a physical clash with police and security guards maintaining order on site.
2026-09-15
September 15, Guangdong Gaozhou's Third People's Hospital mental rehabilitation campus construction site had a wage-demand incident. Several migrant workers of the project contractor China Railway Shanghai Engineering Bureau hung red cloth banners on the fence and used loudspeakers to repeatedly play audio demanding wages, with people gathering on site.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, multiple workers at the Guangdong Zhuhai Hengqin International Business Center, after more than three months of wage arrears, collectively went to the company to sit in protest and defend their rights.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a wage arrears rights defense incident occurred at the headquarters of China Construction Fourth Bureau First Company in the CNBM Building, Guangzhou, Guangdong. Multiple migrant workers, whose wage payments were in arrears, went to the building and staged a sit-in protest in the lobby, demanding that the relevant parties resolve the wage arrears issue.
2026-09-16
On September 16, inside the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Xicheng District, Beijing, two petitioners committed suicide by drinking pesticide. It is reported that the reception office had refused to allow petitioners to check in starting this Monday, leaving a large number of petitioners with no way to resolve their grievances.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, two petitioners protested by drinking pesticide in front of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Beijing.
2026-09-16
Villagers of Duoren Village, Pukou Street, Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, gathered to demand an explanation from the local government after failing to receive demolition compensation for many years.
2026-09-16
On the evening of September 16, after dining at the cafeteria, students at Zhizhi Middle School in Dongdaihe New District, Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, suffered collective vomiting and diarrhea. According to the receiving hospital, more than 80 students sought medical treatment. Official notices stated that the incident was acute gastroenteritis caused by improper cooking and food handling in the cafeteria. Some parents revealed that the principal said only 7 yuan of the meal fee would be refunded. Several parents went to the school to protest, but school officials did not come forward to respond.
2026-09-16
On September 16, when the homeowners committee of Xinghai Mingcheng Phase II in Beihai, Guangxi opened the ballot box and read out the vote counts, an owner questioned on the spot that a vote had appeared even though they had not voted, accusing the committee of staging the whole thing and strongly resisting it.
2026-09-16
On September 16, villagers of Xujiaogou Village in Tangshan, Hebei, protested the pollution and environmental damage caused by iron ore mining. The local government mobilized staff, police and SWAT forces into the village to suppress the rights-defending villagers and forcibly push ahead with mine construction.
2026-09-16
An employee at a “Yi Dian Dian” milk tea shop found that the labor contract they had signed was not legitimate, and therefore applied for labor arbitration.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a blogger posted a video expressing dissatisfaction with holidays being squeezed by adjusted workdays, resonating with a large number of netizens who complained in the comments about working multiple days in a row and the shrinkage of holidays caused by adjusted workdays.
2026-09-16
Contractors for the China Co-op Wenxi Mansion project in Jishou City, Hunan Province, hung banners in front of the marketing center demanding payment after the developer defaulted on their payments.
2026-09-14
After the closure of Yucai School in Pingyin County, Jinan City, Shandong Province, a teacher posted a complaint about the school owing wages and social security contributions, and suspected that their personal items in the office had been rummaged through. On-site footage shows items scattered across the classroom, with desks and books discarded at will.
2026-09-14
On September 14, an influencer in Chongqing launched a challenge to only purchase products from businesses where employees enjoy a two-day weekend. After visiting streets and shopping malls, it was discovered that most service industry businesses operate on a one-day weekend or no-day weekend schedule. Ultimately, the influencer only managed to buy a cup of Luckin Coffee and ended the challenge, unable to fill their stomach with products from businesses with two-day weekends.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a netizen in Chongqing posted that they discovered a hard glass-encapsulated foreign object containing the IDs of 15 pet chips in takeout zhajiang noodles. After failing to contact the vendor, the netizen has lodged complaints through the food delivery platform and 12315, and the market regulatory authorities are now intervening to investigate.
2026-09-15
On September 15, due to the suspected collapse of the Huanle Aijia Supermarket's "Tianzhongxing Card" and allegations of illegal fundraising, a large number of depositors gathered at the Aijia Disney store in Yicheng District, Zhumadian City, to defend their rights and protest the capital side's postponement plan. Physical clashes occurred between depositors and SWAT police at the scene, and multiple people were detained by the police.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, a military supply station in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, owing workers’ wages, had several workers hang a banner reading “Military Supply Station, Return My Blood‑Sweat Money” at the station’s gate, publicly demanding immediate wage settlement. No police presence was seen on site; after persisting for several hours, the workers left without receiving an immediate response.
2026-09-12
On the evening of September 12, 2026, homeowners in the Cuiping Bay community of Baqiao District, Xi'an protested against unreasonable property fee charges. Video from the scene shows the owners shouting "Is there any law?" before police used violent methods to maintain order and arrested several protesters. The incident was shared online by netizens, who accused the police of abusing their authority.
2026-09-14
On September 14, more than 100 employees and fund contributors at Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan, surrounded chairman Wang Haizhou to demand the return of their money, and clashed with police at the scene. The company had long encouraged employees to deposit their wages and savings into the so-called Tianzhong card; an economic crisis broke out in August, several supermarkets closed and cash withdrawals were suspended.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, over 100 miners at the Xinglong Coal Mine of the Xi'an Group in Hancheng, Shaanxi, went to the government service center to demand unpaid wages after being owed several months of pay, during which physical clashes broke out with police and security guards at the scene.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a user posted on Xiaohongshu saying that as a dispatched worker they had gone six months without receiving wages, and that confronting their supervisor had led nowhere. A large number of commenters said they were owed wages for periods ranging from 5 to 20 months.
2026-09-14
Multiple migrant workers gathered at the entrance of China Resources New Energy Tongchuan Co., Ltd. on September 14 to protest the company's failure to settle engineering payments owed since last year.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, a blogger in Chongqing launched a challenge: in one day, only buy from businesses that state their employees have two-day weekends. After an afternoon of visits and repeated rejections, the blogger ended up buying just one cup of coffee.
2026-09-14
On September 14, in the comments section of the aforementioned netizen's post, a netizen wrote that they had not been paid for 20 months, and social insurance and medical insurance contributions had not been made.
2026-09-14
On September 14, in the comments section of the aforementioned netizen's post, a netizen left a message saying that they had not been paid for 5 months, and that complaining and defending their rights instead led to being denounced.
2026-09-14
On September 14, Wang Haizhou, Chairman of Huanle Aijia, appeared on-site and wrote a letter of guarantee, stating that the company's assets far exceed its debts and promising to release a repayment plan by November 6.
2026-09-12
On September 12, 2026, Jianlu Clothing Co., Ltd. in Suqian, Jiangsu Province was exposed by a current employee who claimed that in August 2026 the company arranged employees to work more than 350 hours, and also deducted overtime pay, failed to fully pay social insurance, and covertly forced employees to resign. The employee said that long-term excessive overtime had caused serious bodily damage. Subsequently, the employee submitted a report to the local labor inspection department and formally delivered a "Notice of Forced Termination of Labor Relationship" to the company.
2026-09-13
On September 13, 2026, a large wage-demand slogan was painted on the exterior wall of the Beijing City Construction project site in Guangzhou. The wall displayed texts such as “Return my hard‑earned money”, “Beijing City Construction Company No.5 repeatedly subcontracted and colluded”, “People act, heaven watches”, accusing the project of serious violations and demanding the disciplinary inspection department to conduct a thorough investigation. The graffiti was carried out by unknown individuals, and no construction personnel responded on site.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a senior student at Dongguan Experimental Middle School had his night snack taken by first- and second-year students after a late class dismissal. After reporting to the school, the administration posted a notice on the bulletin board, including the statements “The teacher wants you to rank in the top 100 of the grade, can you do it?”, “Your parents want you to get into a 985 university, can you meet the requirement?”, and “Don’t always expect others to satisfy you, learn to empathize.” The incident sparked heated discussion online, with netizens questioning the school’s pressure tactics. The next day, September 12, the original poster’s account was deleted.
2026-09-11
On September 11, at the Huawei Hongmeng Smart Mobility User Center store on Chuangye 2nd Road in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, several workers climbed onto the roof to conduct rights defense. After the incident, the involved store issued a statement in response, and the related on-site video was subsequently taken down from the entire network.
2026-09-13
On September 13, multiple villagers from Pengliao Village, Longtang Town, Xuwen County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, gathered at the site to protest after the Longtang town government designated their farmland as forest land and planned to plant trees on it.
2026-09-10
On September 10, an elderly woman from Shandong who has been petitioning for 17 years was found on the streets of Beijing; she has been homeless in Beijing for five months. The elderly woman wept, recounting her husband's passing and her son's accident at a hospital, stating she is alone and helpless and dares not return home due to fear.
2026-09-10
The lawsuit filed by Hong Kong Journalists Association Chairwoman Ronson Chan Man-fai against Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, over his dismissal has concluded. The court ruled that Dow Jones obstructed the exercise of union rights, but the claim of illegal dismissal was not established. Sentencing will be scheduled for a later date.
2026-09-12
On September 12, Liu Anjun went to the Beijing Guangnei Police Station and other departments to demand clarification on Sun Meihua's suspected abandonment, trafficking, and purchase of persons, and was told that the case was still ongoing and that information was kept confidential from non-direct family members.
2026-09-10
A teacher in Wuhan posted a video exposing their August salary of only 120 yuan, received on Teacher's Day. They were deducted 1800 yuan due to being on sick leave since June after an injury and the student enrollment not meeting the required standard. Although the Wuhan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau accepted their work-related injury claim application on August 3rd, the result is pending and they have to cover their own surgical expenses. Their appeals to superiors have been fruitless.
2026-09-10
On September 10, a netizen in Beijing filmed a challenge to find 100 jobs without weekends. In the video, a low-level security guard revealed that he did not have a single day off last month, working 12 hours a day, approximately 84 hours per week, and had no social security contributions such as the five insurances and one fund.
2026-09
Recently, protesters holding banners appeared at the entrance of the Shenzhen International Exchange Academy, accusing the school of withholding various subsidies for a teacher who died of illness, totaling more than 400,000 yuan.
2026-09-11
As discussions about implementing two-day weekends increase on the internet, the comment sections of many videos on the Douyin platform themed around second-generation factory owners inheriting family businesses have been targeted by a large number of netizens asking about basic labor rights such as social security, the eight-hour workday, and two-day weekends.
2026-09-10
On September 10, a netizen specifically asked an online store's customer service whether they implemented a two-day weekend. After learning it was a single-day off system, they explicitly stated they would no longer purchase products from stores that do not have two-day weekends. This statement sparked heated discussion and support among netizens, reflecting public dissatisfaction with long-term overtime and single-day off systems.
2026-09
After inquiring about vacation policies, netizens are refusing to consume from or are returning goods from companies that do not provide two-day weekends, focusing on labor rights.
2026-09-09
On September 9, multiple workers from the Longhu Shangcheng project in Xianyang, Shaanxi, went to the sales office to demand payment of overdue wages, but were blocked outside the door by security guards.
2026-09-10
On September 10, a video revealed that brands like Starbucks have 8 to 9 days off per month, while others like Bawang Chaji have only 4 days. Netizens left comments confirming this and calling for the implementation of two-day weekends.
2026-09-11
In September 2026, students at several high schools in Zhengzhou collectively exposed on social media their schools’ forced extra classes and excessively long schedules, and filed online joint petitions to the Henan Provincial Department of Education and the mayor’s hotline, protesting the schools’ illegal deprivation of their statutory right to rest.
2026-09-11
A Rosa roxburghii juice brand drew attention after posting a notice of 13 consecutive days off for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, receiving more than 200 orders, more than twice the usual level. The employment notice explicitly states that overtime is not encouraged and team-building events will not be held on rest days.
2026-09-11
Li Yu was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer on May 20. During the medical treatment period, on June 16, he was dismissed by the Guangzhou branch of Guanyuan Data on the grounds of failing to meet performance targets. On September 11, the labor arbitration ruled that the company had unlawfully terminated the contract, ordering it to pay compensation of 15,700 yuan and a medical subsidy of 94,500 yuan.
2026-09-09
Villagers of Rongbei Village, Guiping, Guangxi, gathered at the village committee to defend their rights due to land acquisition compensation issues, and had a heated argument with the village committee staff.
2026-09-09
A Victoria's Secret employee in Zhejiang had their request for care leave for their mother's lung cancer surgery rejected by their supervisor. After posting on social media and complaining to the headquarters, they were granted paid leave, and subsequent related public opinion was deleted by the platform.
2026-09-08
Xiaohongshu users have launched a 'strike-out' campaign, calling for a boycott of products from companies that implement single-day-off or alternating own-day-off systems, to force companies to implement double-day-off systems, sparking widespread resonance.
2026-09-08
Due to over-enrollment, Jingdezhen College organized personnel late at night to forcibly break down doors and pry locks to compel a senior female student to move to a dormitory with poor environment, and threatened her with party membership and civil service exams.
2026-09-01
Multiple villagers from Yongping Village, Tonghu Town, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, gathered by the riverbed and blocked the road to defend their rights, demanding that relevant departments resolve the compensation issue as land acquisition compensation payments have been long delayed.
2026-09
Multiple employees of Chongqing Dalongwang Technology Group gathered in protest in front of the company, shouting slogans demanding the return of their money to protect their rights, due to long-term unpaid wages.
2026-09-09
On September 9, several workers at Nanjing Chengbei MixC used ropes to hang banners on the outer wall to demand their unpaid wages.
2026-09-08
Dozens of sanitation workers in Lushan County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, gathered in front of the county government to demand their long-overdue wages.
2026-09-08
According to the student who posted the message, when Jingdezhen University ordered fourth-year female students to move dormitories, it gave each of them only 30 yuan as compensation, deposited into their bank cards, while the new dormitories were dirty and cluttered and had reduced space.
2026-09-07
On September 7, the blogger "Yulie Qige" filmed a barge directly dumping a full hold of black muddy material into the Yangtze River near the Wuhan Qingshan Yangtze River Bridge. According to reports, the blogger witnessed three barges carrying out similar operations within 1.5 hours and has filed a complaint with the relevant authorities.
2026-09-07
On September 7, 2026, an outdoor blogger’s aerial footage revealed that in the waters of the Qingshan Yangtze River Bridge, multiple barges dumped an entire hold of black, unidentified mud-like material directly into the Yangtze River in just over ten seconds. The person involved has reported the matter to the environmental protection authorities.
2026-09-07
On September 7, 2026, outside the gate of Kaifeng Industrial Gas Company in Luhe County, Shanwei, Guangdong, several workers gathered and kept vigil to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, accusing the company of long-term malicious wage arrears long after the project was completed, and calling on the competent authorities to intervene.
2026-09-05
In a Zhihu Q&A, a netizen revealed that Xingyu's layoff of fresh graduates was taken to the EU, and said that the student had previously gone through the labor arbitration process, reporting up the line all the way to the municipal Party secretary, and that all of them concluded the company's layoffs were not in violation and there was no subsidy fraud.
2026-09-05
Reports claim that on September 5, 2026, after fresh graduates laid off by Changzhou Xingyu Co., Ltd. filed complaints with overseas institutions, the local labor department and officials reversed their position and ruled that the company's layoffs were illegal while avoiding accountability for subsidy fraud; related discussions on Zhihu were deleted.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, a gathering of rights defenders took place at the entrance of the Dreame Technology Industrial Park in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Multiple workers demanding unpaid wages and suppliers owed money shouted slogans demanding repayment, pursuing long-overdue project payments and labor fees.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, several migrant workers in Guangxi hung banners outside the gate of the Southwest Company of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Bureau and blocked the entrance with vehicles to demand unpaid wages; after rights defenders posted videos online, they were intimidated and threatened with charges such as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, because the school cafeteria owed suppliers as much as 730,000 yuan in unpaid food bills, several suppliers gathered outside the gate of Changmao Garden School in Haikou, Hainan, holding banners to defend their rights and demand payment of the money owed.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, officials in Houyang Village, Hetang Town, Gutian County, Ningde, Fujian, forcefully demolished a large outdoor Guanyin stone statue. The demolition was blocked on the spot by several villagers. Relevant authorities deployed riot-control security personnel to maintain order, and a standoff and clash ensued.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, a ninth-grade student at Guangdong Bowen School in Zhongshan, Guangdong, died by suicide on the first day of school. Suspecting that the student had suffered long-term school bullying, the family held up a portrait of the deceased outside the school gate in a rights defense action, prompting police to arrive and cordon off the area.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, a large number of villagers gathered in protest outside the gate of Liaoning Datang International Fuxin Coal-to-Natural-Gas Company, accusing the company of emitting pungent, foul-smelling gas for days, which caused health problems such as sore throats and shortness of breath among many villagers; police stood guard at the scene.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, after Radio Free Asia reported on the Changzhou Xingyu incident, Chinese workers paid widespread attention to defending their rights with the help of the EU Forced Labor Regulation, and several labor experts offered interpretations of the determination standards and the supply chain complaint mechanism.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, outside the gates of Zhongjian Road and Bridge Group in Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, a group of workers gathered to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, accusing the company involved of failing to honor its payment agreement and of misappropriating the wages it refused to pay.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, four employees of Yilong New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. in Longyan City, Fujian Province, climbed onto the rooftop of the factory building to protest and demand tens of thousands of yuan in wages that had been withheld for half a year, threatening to jump off the building. Police arrived at the scene to handle the situation.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, several grassroots community medical workers and staffed teachers in Shaanxi reported on social platforms that their wages were in arrears and performance pay had been suspended. Some employees with official staffing status said they were burdened by mortgages and even had to consider taking out loans in order to keep working.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, a contractor from Chenzhou, Hunan, posted a video to report state-owned enterprise Shaanxi Construction No.7 Group under his real name, claiming that the group still refuses to pay more than 2 million yuan in project payments, over a year after completion of the Ruoqiang Loulan Town project in Xinjiang, which it had contracted as general contractor.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, media reported that a doctor at a health clinic in Wuchuan, Guangdong refused to treat a girl with an allergy and wrote the word 'unruly' in her medical record. The health bureau confirmed this was true but accused the parents' online rights defense of being a smear against Wuchuan.
Location: Zhanjiang, Guangdong ·
Importance II ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, several students at Henan Vocational College of Art reported that the school issued a sudden notice on the eve of the new term, ordering sophomores to transfer to a secondary vocational program. Students questioned whether the school was using the name of work-study alternation as a pretext to covertly arrange for them to work in factories.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, an AITO car owner posted a video revealing that while filming the old battery during a faulty power battery replacement at a 4S dealership, after-sales staff snatched his phone twice and forcibly unlocked his photo album to delete the photos.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, multiple parents of students at Bo'ai Primary School in Changyuan, Henan, gathered at the school gate to protest with banners, reporting that the new classrooms lacked air conditioning, fans, and curtains, leading to students suffering from heatstroke and nosebleeds, and that lunch services had been canceled.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, at the Gari Kindergarten project in Rangtang County, Ngawa, Sichuan, undertaken by Sinohydro Bureau 10, multiple workers drove vehicles to block the project gate, demanding unpaid wages and defending their rights after three months of unpaid wages.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, a worker in Jin'an District, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, climbed to the end of a tower crane at a construction site in an attempt to take his own life to defend his rights after his wages were withheld. Police, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene to handle the situation.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, multiple owners of the Nayunxi Section 4 development in Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou, Henan, having endured a housing delivery delay of as long as six years, had no choice but to climb onto the unfinished rooftops and unfurl banners in a rights-defense protest.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, two contract teachers who had taught for five years in the primary school division of Meixi Experimental School in Xuwen County, Zhanjiang, Guangdong were unilaterally verbally dismissed by the school, and were stopped by security guards outside the school gate when reporting for the start of the new term.
2026-09-02
A blogger on the X platform shared a video in which a woman says her savings of 29 million yuan have gone missing.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, large numbers of villagers in Yuzhen Village, Longhai District, Zhangzhou, Fujian, whose contracted land was forcibly reclaimed and whose livelihoods were cut off as local authorities pushed forward a photovoltaic project, went to local government departments to stage a rally and petition for the defense of their rights.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, it was reported online that a worker was electrocuted to death during renovation and demolition work at Poly Times Mall in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. Due to a dispute over compensation, the victim’s family paraded a portrait of the deceased around the mall to defend their rights.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, more than 20 construction workers gathered at the Second Division of the China Railway 24th Bureau Xiyu High-Speed Railway Project Management Department in Dazhou, Sichuan, to defend their rights, seeking construction wages that had been unpaid for nearly a year.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, outside the gate of Changqi Middle School in Huazhou City, Maoming, Guangdong, a large number of parents hung banners to protest unfair zoned enrollment and the incomplete facilities of the new campus. Security personnel confiscated the banners and scuffled with the parents.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, projects related to the Central Hospital of Xicheng District in Luohe, Henan Province, were in arrears on wages owed to migrant workers. Several workers held up banners at the hospital entrance in rights defense, protesting the malicious withholding of wages.
2026-09
Following his release, Pastor Kim Mingri stated that although China's policies support major religions, the rights of faith communities are not fully guaranteed in actual practice. He called on the international community to pay attention and urge Beijing to release those detained for their religious beliefs.
2026-09-01
Owners of the Jingxi Yinyue residential community in Fangshan, Beijing, gathered to defend their rights and confronted police over insufficient parking spaces caused by planning defects, poor vehicle management, and fire safety hazards.
2026-09-01
In Huazhou, Guangdong, a large number of students' parents gathered at the school gate to protest after some students were required to transfer to other campuses, and clashed with police.
2026-09
Due to reduced demand from tobacco companies and a lack of contractual guarantees, some tobacco farmers in Yunnan are facing the dilemma of being unable to sell the tobacco leaves they worked hard to grow, leading some to even destroy their crops.
2026-09
A parent publicly opposed command-style education for first-grade primary school students, arguing that children should be treated with equality and respect.
2026-09
Workers at the CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. Green Building Materials EPC Base in Jianshi County, Enshi, Hubei, slept on the ground in front of the company gate to collectively demand unpaid wages after experiencing long-term wage arrears and multiple broken promises by the employer.
2026-09
Middle school students in many places report conflicts in canteen dining times and insufficient food, leading to long-term hunger among students; parents call on schools to increase meal preparations.
2026-09
A netizen from Fangzi District, Weifang City, Shandong Province, posted on Xiaohongshu revealing that local hired teachers are facing severe wage arrears, with salaries delayed by 180 days, performance bonuses by 545 days, and housing provident funds by 300 days. Heating fees are two years overdue. The poster complained about not having money to pay back wages before the Mid-Autumn Festival and being unable to return home for the holiday, jokingly referencing slogans from within the system, sparking discussions among netizens about grassroots finances and teacher compensation.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, a large number of staff from electricity retail companies in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, went to China Energy Investment Corporation's Guangdong Power Co., Ltd. to protest, demanding that outstanding payments be settled. Some people lay on the ground in protest at the scene, and clashes broke out.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, Volkswagen China responded to complaints that Xingyu Co. had pushed out fresh graduates, saying it had immediately launched a special investigation and stressing that the principle of respecting workers' rights applies to the supply chain.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, Volkswagen's China unit responded to complaints that Changzhou-based Xingyu Shares had collectively pushed out fresh graduates, saying the group had launched a special investigation into supply chain companies and stressing that respecting workers' rights is a core principle of its operations.
2026-09
In early September 2026, the Wuyuan County Smart Commerce Cold-Chain Logistics Park project forcibly launched Phase II construction while payments remained outstanding, triggering gatherings of migrant workers to defend their rights; at the scene, elderly people knelt on the ground pleading for help.
2026-09
In September, the founders — a married couple — of Qianye Jewelry, a gold and jewelry brand with more than 200 self-operated stores nationwide, went missing. The Beijing headquarters was left deserted, product listings in stores on multiple e-commerce platforms were emptied or taken down, employees were owed unpaid wages, and the rights-defense group already had more than 60 members.
2026-09
In September 2026, some tobacco farmers in Yunnan held rallies to defend their rights after tobacco companies tightened their leaf purchasing standards, downgraded and cut the price of their tobacco leaves, or even refused to buy them. Some farmers said that over a thousand jin of tobacco leaves fetched only a few dozen yuan after grading deductions for weight.
2026-09
On September 14, 2026, an elderly person in Harbin City disclosed to the public via video, stating that after Harbin Vocational and Technical University carried out campus expansion works, the construction site's drainage system has long been discharging onto his own land, causing trees on the campus to be soaked and die; at the same time, construction spoil was dumped on his plot, crushing fruit trees and grape vines that had been planted for more than ten years. The video shows the plot overgrown with weeds, and some areas piled with bricks, plastic bags and other construction waste. The elder said he had repeatedly negotiated with the school to no avail, and now requests relevant authorities to intervene.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, a large number of homeowners at the Jingxi Yinyue community in Beijing launched a rights defense protest, objecting to the developer's severely inadequate parking space planning and poor property management that led to vehicles blocking fire access lanes.
2026-09
In September 2026, Zhang Chao, a teacher at Guizhou Industry Polytechnic College, posted a suicide note online, publicly accusing some school leaders of improperly occupying two housing units, and saying he had long suffered retaliation.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, at the gate of Hekou Experimental Primary School in Dongying, Shandong, a parent brought their daughter — who was left disabled and confined to a wheelchair after jumping from a building due to corporal punishment — to the school to defend her rights, protesting the school's long-term evasion of responsibility; police arrived to maintain order.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, workers at the BRICS Specialized and New Industrial Park of Xiamen Torch Group in Fujian, who were owed unpaid wages, drove several large trucks to block the gate of the project department in a rights defense action demanding their pay.
2026-09
Previously, parents reported on the "Wenzheng Sichuan" platform that the guard duty at Ertou Primary School conflicts with working hours, adding to the burden on dual-income families; some have asked grandparents to take their place, while others pay people to cover the shift.
2026-08-31
A student at Chongqing Youyang County No. 1 Middle School allegedly fell to their death on the first day of school. The school transferred the body without the family's consent and refused to provide evidence, citing damaged surveillance footage. The family is now protesting for their rights at the school gate.
2026-08-31
On August 31, 2026, it was reported online that dozens of depositors of Henan village and town banks traveled to Xuchang to demand their deposits; immediately after exiting the station they were surrounded by unidentified men in black, taken to the headquarters of Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank, and had their personal freedom illegally restricted.
2026-08-31
On August 31, dozens of depositors from village and town banks in Henan traveled to Xuchang to demand their bank card savings. Immediately after exiting Xuchang Railway Station, they were surrounded by multiple unidentified men in black, forcibly taken to the headquarters of Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank, and illegally detained until late at night.
2026-08-30
On August 30, 2026, a group of workers at the Kunshan Jiandu Company of Jiangsu Shenkun Group, who had been subjected to unpaid wages, collectively drove multiple cement mixer trucks to block the company's main gate in a protest demanding their pay, and SWAT police rushed to the scene to handle the situation.
2026-08-29
On August 29, 2026, a labor dispute broke out at the Shandong Grand Canal Linshui Bieyuan project. A number of construction workers gathered in front of the gate of the project department of China Railway 24th Bureau Group to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights, and police from the local jurisdiction arrived at the scene to maintain order.
2026-08-29
On August 29, 2026, a gathering of workers demanding unpaid wages occurred at the Powerlong Marketing Center in Haikou, Hainan. Several workers were blocked by on-site security personnel, and during the incident one worker demanding wages suddenly fell into a coma from high blood pressure and was rushed to the hospital.
2026-08-29
On August 29, 2026, multiple owners of Meisheng Zhonghuan No. 1 residential compound in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan, protested and defended their rights because the promised primary and secondary schools had halted construction and were never built. They were violently obstructed and beaten by property management staff, and some owners were injured and taken to the hospital.
2026-08-28
Several fresh graduates whose employment contracts were terminated by Changzhou Xingyu complained about the matter to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the German Volkswagen Group; the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and relevant Volkswagen departments confirmed that they had received the materials.
2026-08-28
Owners of a residential development in Chengdu gathered to defend their rights over numerous safety problems at the property. After police took away some of them, the remaining owners surrounded the officers and demanded their release.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, fresh graduates whose offers were rescinded by Changzhou Xingyu Shares filed complaints over labor rights violations with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and their client, Germany's Volkswagen Group. The HKEX's Listing Division and Volkswagen's investigation office successively confirmed in writing that the complaints had been received and would be examined.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, hundreds of owners at Country Garden Phoenix City in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, Henan, went to the Zhongyuan District Education Bureau and the subdistrict center to protest and defend their rights, shouting demands about schooling, after the promised high-quality middle school was downgraded and replaced.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, several workers at the Phase II Yishanhu project in Jiyang District, Sanya, Hainan unfurled banners at the construction site to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, stating that the project had owed workers' wages for as long as two years.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, villagers of Maiba Village, Kangding City, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province reported that a newly stationed military camp, during wall construction, dug up and buried the villagers' ancestral tombs and dumped garbage, and that their representations to the relevant functional departments were met with buck-passing.
Location: Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan ·
Importance II ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, a collective strike and rights defense action took place in front of the Hubei Xiangyang Chuneng New Energy project office built by China Railway Construction Group. Construction workers blocked the main gate to demand unpaid wages, accusing the project owner of being more than three months in arrears on wages.
2026-08-27
A group of luxury homeowners in Shanghai went to protest at the state-owned developer's headquarters after the property management company collected high property fees and then prepared to charge additional parking management fees. A clash broke out at the scene and at least one homeowner was arrested.
2026-08-27
On August 29, 2026, hundreds of fresh graduates whose offers were rescinded by Xingyu Co. forced the company to issue a public apology and pay compensation by filing reports on forced labor to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the EU, and European clients.
2026-08-27
On the evening of August 27, 2026, Guangzhou No. 89 Middle School ordered nearly 800 students to continue military training in a rainstorm and forbade them from using umbrellas. Students who felt unwell were berated by those in charge, sparking strong protests from students and parents as well as accusations online.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, some owners of PowerChina Gaoxin Huaxi Mansion in Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the entrance of the residential compound to protest, demanding that the developer fulfill the school-district housing and educational facilities commitments made in the home purchase contract.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, several growers in Yuanyang County, Xinxiang, Henan gathered at the door of the county seed company to defend their rights, reporting that the crop seeds they purchased failed to sprout after sowing and questioning whether the seeds had quality problems.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, it was rumored online that Dongguan city, in order to coordinate the traffic congestion when employees of Huawei's terminal headquarters get off work on Fridays, changed nearby schools from two-day weekends to one-day weekends, sparking online discussion.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, several landscaping workers reported under their real names that while they had participated in the landscaping works of the key shantytown renovation project in Yuedengge Village, Xi'an, the winning bidder Tianjin No. 2 Construction Engineering Company failed to pay remuneration as agreed, owing more than 300,000 yuan in unpaid wages in total.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, a villager from Yilin Village, Zhaozhou County, Daqing, Heilongjiang, posted a video reporting that while making a real-name complaint about corn drip irrigation tape issues on-site, the village party secretary issued a death threat using aggressive language to their face, while the discipline inspection officials present failed to intervene.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, several workers at the Quanzhou International Center project in Fujian's Quanzhou, owed unpaid wages, protested for their rights by driving vehicles to block the gate of the Quanzhou Urban Construction Group. SWAT police from the jurisdiction subsequently rushed to the scene to maintain order.
2026-08-26
Liu Xiang posted on Weibo asking netizens for help, saying the Shanghai Sports Bureau required him to choose between a "buyout of his years of service" and "becoming a coach," and questioning why the placement issue had been delayed for ten years. The Shanghai Sports Bureau responded that it would arrange proper placement.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, Zhao, an owner of an unfinished building at the Evergrande Cultural Tourism City in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, who had participated in rights defense, fell suddenly ill and was taken to hospital after being placed under administrative detention by police, and died after rescue efforts failed.
Location: Hohhot, Inner Mongolia ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Hearsay ·
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2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, Olympic champion Liu Xiang posted on Weibo, publicly questioning the Shanghai Sports Bureau's recent requirement that he choose between transitioning to a coach or having his personnel relationship bought out, and questioning the advertising fee sharing system of that year.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, the Zhongxi Garment Factory in Panyu, Guangzhou, was accused by multiple employees of maliciously withholding wages and docking half the pay of departing workers, sparking a gathering of employees at the factory site for a rights defense protest.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, some owners of the Huarui Ziyun City residential community in Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the sales office to protest and defend their rights over disputes concerning the school district zoning for their children's enrollment.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, a motorcycle owner in Shanghai posted a video reporting that he encountered layer upon layer of obstacles and deliberate difficulties while handling compulsory traffic insurance at the People's Insurance Company of China; the insurance company was accused of de facto refusing to sell compulsory motorcycle insurance because profits are thin.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, several construction workers gathered at the entrance of the Shidai Tianjiao commercial housing project in Tongzi County, Zunyi, Guizhou, to demand unpaid wages, saying their pay had been in arrears for as long as four years.
2026-08-25
A worker in Guanghan, Sichuan, climbed to the top of a Sanxingdui-themed landscape street lamp and hung a banner reading "Give us back our blood and sweat money" to demand unpaid wages, and was rescued after about 11 hours.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, in Guanghan City, Deyang, Sichuan Province, a migrant worker seeking unpaid wages climbed a tall roadside streetlight pole and sat there for as long as 8 hours in 36-degree heat to defend his rights.
2026-08-25
On the evening of August 25, 2026, several workers at the Shuanglei Brick Factory in Jiechou Township, Shouyang County, Jinzhong, Shanxi, went to the factory to demand unpaid wages after being owed their pay. A clash broke out during the process, and one worker was beaten to the ground and could not get up.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, in front of an office building of a China Railway Sixth Group engineering project in Lanzhou, Gansu, multiple construction workers gathered to demand unpaid wages. On-site video sparked netizen discussion about widespread wage arrears in the construction engineering industry.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, students at No. 17 Middle School in Yiyang, Hunan Province, posted a video exposing the dirty, run-down and dilapidated conditions of their dormitories. The school subsequently responded by saying these were conditions from previous years and demanded that students delete the exposé video.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, a wage-arrears dispute broke out at the Longfor Qingyunque construction project in Tianfu New Area, Sichuan. Several migrant workers gathered at the site to demand their unpaid wages, and local police dispatched officers to the scene to maintain order.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, in Qiaolin Town, Pukou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, an elderly man who had sought rights defense for nearly ten years after his house was mistakenly demolished was followed, tracked, and intercepted by unidentified people throughout his petition to air his grievances.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, media reported that smart door locks used in an apartment in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, would continuously display commercial advertisements before tenants could unlock the door, and would lock them out if rent was overdue, triggering strong dissatisfaction among tenants regarding personal privacy and user experience.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, workers at the Runshi Jiayuan project of China Railway Prefabricated Construction Technology in Guilin, Guangxi, who were owed unpaid wages, hung banners and blocked the site gate in protest to demand their back pay.
2026-08-24
In Yudian Village, Huangchuan County, Henan, hundreds of investors in Yufeng Grain Industry and Zhongxing Grain and Oil gathered at the village committee to demand resolution of the payout of their investment funds, and clashed with government workers and police. Some netizens said that it was suspected that a rights-defending protester had died.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, multiple migrant workers in Longhu Town, Xinzheng City, Henan Province, went to the Yongxing office building to demand unpaid wages, only to be locked inside by the landlord and the company involved, restricting their personal freedom. Workers reported that their complaints were not handled in a timely manner.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, some property owners in a busy downtown area within the Third Ring Road of Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered to defend their rights, protesting against the rezoning of former driving school land near their residential complex into a cemetery renovation and upgrade project, questioning its impact on the living environment.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, a supplier filed a real-name report online, alleging that Guomen Hospital in Jiangcheng County, Pu'er, Yunnan has long owed payments for engineering projects, supplier goods, and the wages of multiple workers.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, several workers in Anji County, Huzhou, Zhejiang, gathered collectively in front of the county's Social Contradiction Dispute Resolution and Mediation Center to defend their rights over unpaid wages.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, workers at a construction site in Shaanxi Province staged a collective work stoppage over long-standing unpaid wages, demanding that the contractor settle all wages before work resumes.
2026-08-23
On August 23, 2026, Jiangsu businessman Xue Jianxing publicly called out leaders of Guizhou Province, reporting that three greening projects he undertook in Jiangkou County, Tongren City, with a total cost of approximately 200 million yuan, have been completed and inspected for eight years, yet audit settlement remains unfinished and payments have been long overdue.
2026-08-23
On August 23, 2026, workers on the Xinjiang Provincial Road 345 highway project of China State Construction Road and Bridge Group, owed wages, collectively laid out bedding at the gate of the company's site office to protest and demand payment of their wages.
2026-08-23
On August 23, 2026, several construction workers at a China Railway 10th Bureau project in Qamdo, Tibet, gathered collectively at the project site entrance to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages after the project owed them wages.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, engineering workers in Hunan called out online to China State Railway Group and the person in charge of the Guangzhou Bureau, demanding that more than 16 million yuan in project payments, unpaid for 16 years, be settled by its Changsha Railway Construction Company.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, students at the Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, gathered in protest at the school gate over the cumbersome deposit refund process and abnormal student status information, climbed over the iron gate into the campus shouting "refund our money," and multiple police cars arrived at the scene.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, at the Hainan University of Science and Technology project construction site in Baimajing, Danzhou, Hainan, an incident occurred in which workers' wages were in arrears. Several migrant workers climbed to the top of a building to defend their rights and demand their unpaid wages by threatening to jump, with police officers present at the scene.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, a dispute over unpaid wages broke out at the Global 100 · Poly Exhibition Hall in Haikou, Hainan, where multiple workers collectively blockaded the office to defend their rights and demand their wages, and a number of police officers arrived on the scene for stability maintenance.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, several students at the Sino-German School of Shanxi University of Finance and Economics posted online to protest, accusing the school of breaking its "3+1" promise of studying in Germany upon enrollment by forcibly shortening the overseas semester to less than half a year and obstructing the paperwork.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, a student at Zhanjiang Technician College in Guangdong, China, exposed online that a student at the school had long been threatening, beating, and extorting classmates. The school was accused of covering up the behavior multiple times. The victim has reported the case to the police and taken a leave of absence.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, netizens revealed that Shanghai Fangde Automation Equipment Co., Ltd. owed employees 4 to 8 months of wages, totaling 12 million yuan, and had long failed to pay social insurance and the housing provident fund, sparking a rights defense by employees.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the Shudao Railway Investment Longhuang Railway project in Luzhou, Sichuan was exposed for withholding construction machinery fees and workers' wages. Several rights defenders went to the lobby of the company involved and lay on the ground in protest to demand their unpaid wages.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, a netizen in Xinjiang revealed that the Second Construction Zone of the general contracting project of the China Communications First Highway Engineering Group's Bazhou project has been withholding workers' wages since 2025, and that when workers went to demand their unpaid wages, they were blocked by checkpoints set up by the project side.
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2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, laborers reported that the "Lingbao City Secondary Vocational School New Campus Construction Project" in Henan, undertaken by Shanghai Baoye, had not paid migrant workers a single cent of their wages from January to August, causing the project to come to a complete halt.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, workers at Beiteer Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. in Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu exposed that the factory had maliciously withheld wages year after year, and some workers owed wages were forced to defend their rights through extreme means yet still could not recover the arrears.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, several construction workers at a project site in Xinjiang reported that their wages had been withheld by the China Gezhouba Group; lacking food and accommodation support and the travel money to return home, they remained stranded at the site, gathering to defend their rights and demand payment of unpaid wages.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, residents of Xidui Village, Huxi Town, Dongyang, Zhejiang, clashed physically with personnel wearing red armbands after opposing the routing of a sewage pipeline for a 100,000-head-per-year pig farm through the village and right next to a water source protection zone.
2026-08-20
On August 20, a self-described teacher, Zhang Zhengjie, issued an open letter accusing Zhou Yingchun, Party secretary and principal of Chongqing No. 8 Middle School, of having police take him away from his home in the middle of the night on charges of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, after he reported violations such as illegal admissions, the setting up of key classes, and hyping up college admission rates; the police later terminated the investigation on the grounds that no illegal acts had been found. The letter also relays students' experiences of having only a two-week summer vacation and frequent weekly tests, and calls for an end to illegal make-up classes.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, several construction workers in Xi'an, Shaanxi reported that the Xi'an branch of Hebei Construction Group had maliciously withheld workers' wages for as long as 6 years. The workers used megaphones in the company's office area to protest and demand their unpaid wages.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, inside the command office of the Chengdu Hub Section 2 works of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway by China Railway No.2 Engineering Group in Chengdu, Sichuan, large numbers of migrant workers gathered with their families, sitting and even lying on the ground in protest, demanding that their unpaid wages be settled.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, workers at Shanghai Huate Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. collectively signed a joint complaint letter and went on strike for three consecutive days to protest the company withholding five months' worth of wages.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, multiple staff members exposed that the crew of Season 8 of Tencent Video's variety show The Exciting Offer worked more than 18 hours of overtime, withheld overtime pay, and threatened and blamed employees who defended their rights.
2026-08-19
A conflict broke out in Xidui Village, Dongyang City, Zhejiang, because authorities insisted on pushing forward a large-scale pig farm project within a drinking water source protection zone despite villagers' opposition. Over a hundred government workers clashed fiercely with protesting villagers.
2026-08-19
On August 19, 2026, in Mangshi, Dehong, Yunnan, workers of Yunnan Construction Investment First Construction Co., Ltd., after being owed wages for a long time, brought their family members and children to block the company's entrance and lay bedding on the ground to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages.
Location: Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan ·
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2026-08-19
On August 19, 2026, multiple employees of Shanghai Huate Auto Parts Co., Ltd. gathered at the factory gate to collectively defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, reporting that the company had been in arrears for as long as five months.
2026-08-19
On August 19, 2026, multiple owners of the Jianye Junlinfu project in Huaiyang District, Zhoukou, Henan collectively went to the front of the Huaiyang District Party Committee to petition for rights defense, demanding that officials urge a solution to the delayed delivery of housing.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, Rongcheng No. 3 Middle School in Weihai, Shandong was reported by students to the oversight authorities, revealing that the school planned to organize Grade 11 students to return early on August 20 for make-up classes and take measures to evade inspections.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, it was reported online that in Shining Village, Tangpeng Town, Lianjiang City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, personnel from the Juxinyuan Mining Company were suspected of violently seizing villagers' mountain and forest land and beating villagers and minors, triggering a fierce physical clash.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, Taojia Decoration Company in Leping, Jiangxi suffered a business collapse. Multiple homeowners who had paid decoration fees gathered in front of the company to defend their rights, demanding refunds of the decoration fees.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, multiple owners of the Chubaoli project by Wuhan Urban Construction in Wuhan, Hubei, gathered at the sales office to defend their rights, reporting that resettlement housing vouchers purchased through agents could not be cleared in the system after being verified at the sales office.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, one month since the underground garage collapse accident at Midea Times City in Shenyang, affected owners report that they remain homeless and must continue repaying their loans on schedule, while online rights defense has encountered platform throttling.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, the Jinlaike factory in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, triggered a mass work stoppage after long-term wage arrears, with large numbers of workers gathering at the factory gates to block the entrances and demand their unpaid wages.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, at the Fengya Yuzhu Lake No. 1 project in Sihong County, Suqian, Jiangsu, workers went on collective strike because the developer had long been in arrears with their wages, and they blocked the main gate of the construction site with three excavators to defend their rights and demand payment.
2026-08-16
On August 16, 2026, multiple employed people in Jinan, Shandong posted in concentrated batches on social networks, disclosing that local urban construction state-owned enterprises, non-establishment teachers, and grassroots public welfare posts have suffered wage arrears lasting three to five months.
2026-08-16
On August 16, 2026, a Zhejiang netizen went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to close an account, bringing a death certificate, a cremation certificate, and a household register. Because the bank did not accept the household register and government service app documents, they were asked to go to the police station to obtain a new certificate bearing an official seal.
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, China's first Ecological Environment Code officially took effect. On the same day, a court in Quzhou, Zhejiang, delivered a verdict in the country's first noise pollution liability dispute case tried under the code.
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, multiple owners at the Longhu Kongquecheng community in Zhengzhou, Henan staged a collective rights defense inside the compound, protesting that the property management has long charged high property fees while service quality seriously fails to meet standards.
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, Wuli Xiongxing Footwear in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian was shut down after failing a fire safety inspection. A large number of workers, unable to receive unemployment benefits, gathered at the company's office and outside the building to defend their rights.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, several villagers in Guhang Village, Luxin Town, Wuxuan County, Laibin, Guangxi, blocked a road in protest and to defend their rights after compensation payments for a quarry's mountain excavation were embezzled. Security and riot personnel arrived at the scene to handle the situation and took away several villagers.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, several construction workers gathered at the entrance of the CSCEC Fourth Bureau Star River Bay project in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages. The workers reported that nearly a year after the project was completed, their wages had still not been settled.
2026-08-12
On August 12, a JD.com courier in Shenzhen posted about his extremely long working hours and said he was criticized by managers for damaging the company's image; he was subsequently placed on indefinite leave.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, a Beijing Film Academy graduate using the name "Shang Mengmeng" posted an account saying that after she had long complained about secondhand smoke on campus and wore protective gear to protect herself, she was pinned to the ground in the street by six school staff members while walking off campus, who tore off her gas mask and seized her phone.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, Li Wenzhang, Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, wrote an article in Study Times, on the one hand calling for correcting local interception and blocking, and on the other hand emphasizing a severe crackdown on troublemaking and disruption of order, as well as persistent petitioning and making a scene, resolutely achieving the goal of not letting conflicts be passed upward.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, a large number of migrant workers in Nanning, Guangxi, whose labor remuneration had been withheld, went to the gate of the office building of Nanning Wuxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Industrial Investment Group to stage a sit-in, defending their rights and demanding unpaid wages.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, several workers of Chengshi Group in Xindu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, who had long been owed wages, blocked the company gate to defend their rights, and were subsequently subjected to on-site police stability maintenance control.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, the student rights organization 611Study reported that Fengcheng Senior High School in Laiwu, Jinan, required senior-year students to return to school early on August 20 for extra classes and to attend 57 hours of classes per week. The local education department has formally accepted the report of this violation.
2026-08-12
On the evening of August 12, 2026, multiple villagers in Lincuo Village, Waisha Subdistrict, Longhu District, Shantou, Guangdong gathered in a sit-in protest, objecting to the authorities changing agricultural household registration to resident household registration without public notice, and demanding protection of collective land rights.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, several depositors of village banks in Henan went to the Beijing Financial Court, the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, the Supreme People's Court and other departments to report the problem of their deposits being frozen for five years and unable to be withdrawn. They wept bitterly at the scene, filed appeals, and called for the initiation of case filing and litigation.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, Fengming Senior High School in Tongxiang City, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, was exposed by students for illegally organizing the Grade 11 Excellence Class to start the new term early and hold centralized remedial classes during the summer vacation.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a counselor at Southwest Medical University in Sichuan notified students that everyone was required to purchase brand-new textbooks through a school-designated mini-program, with second-hand books strictly banned, sparking online protests and exposure by students.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a contract worker in Beijing revealed that the company had uniformly reduced employees' salaries by 10% on the grounds of implementing the government's requirement to pay social insurance in full, sparking protests among workers over companies shifting the cost of social insurance compliance onto them.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, a malicious wage-arrears incident occurred at a factory near the Nianmushan farmers' market in Pujiang County, Jinhua, Zhejiang. Because the boss withheld wages, eight employees climbed onto the factory rooftop together to demand their unpaid wages and defend their rights by threatening to jump off the building.
2026-08-10
On the evening of August 10, 2026, several owners of Tianyu Garden Phase I in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, held banners inside the residential compound to protest the entry of Guangzhou Mylike Medical Beauty Hospital. Prior to this, the environmental protection authorities had determined that the hospital was suspected of putting environmental protection facilities into use without acceptance inspection and had ordered rectification.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, hundreds of active and retired workers from the Jinbaotun Coal Mine, Longjiabao Coal Mine and others under the Jilin Energy Investment Group went to the group's headquarters to defend their rights, protesting the company's long-term arrears of wages and social insurance payments spanning dozens of months.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, the student rights organization 611Study called the Education Bureau of Fangshan County, Lüliang, Shanjiang, to report that Fangshan County Senior High School was holding illegal holiday tutoring during the summer vacation and requiring students to return to school early, and demanded that the authorities intervene and investigate.
2026-08-09
A large-scale protest by Chinese workers broke out at the Baltic Gas Chemical Complex project in Russia, undertaken by China National Chemical Engineering No. 7 Construction Co., Ltd. The unrest began after Chinese workers were taken away by police while demanding unpaid wages, and over 1,000 workers surrounded the police and forced them to release the workers involved.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a consumer in Chengdu, Sichuan reported that a gold bar bought at a China Construction Bank branch was found to actually be made of copper when it was sent to a gold shop for processing. The person involved immediately called the police, and the police have intervened in the investigation.
2026-08-09
On August 11, 2026, at the site of the natural gas-to-methanol chemical complex project in Saint Petersburg, Russia, contracted and built by China National Chemical Engineering No. 7, a large number of Chinese workers launched a rights defense protest due to long-standing neglect of labor rights and wage arrears.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a student at Yangling Experimental School in Xianyang, Shaanxi submitted a report stating that the school notified students to return nearly a month early for extra classes, that it has long-running high-intensity morning and evening self-study sessions, and that it charges about 500 yuan per month in after-school service fees as well as miscellaneous fees to be borne by students themselves.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a student rights-defense platform received a submission stating that Quanzhou No. 9 Middle School in Fujian, during the summer vacation, illegally issued a notice requiring students to return to school early, ending their holiday ahead of schedule to resume classes.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, netizens exposed on social media that Guoyun Group (Qingdao) Security Service Co., Ltd. in Huangdao District, Qingdao, Shandong had long been in arrears with wages of grassroots employees, prompting victims to defend their rights online.
2026-08-07
In a first-instance ruling, the Qindu District Court found that Zhang Heng's act of resisting a forced demolition that resulted in a death constituted self-defense, acquitted him, and rejected the civil compensation claims filed by the deceased's family.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a lawyer disclosed that the Qindu District Court in Xianyang, Shaanxi, had issued a first-instance judgment in the case of Zhang Heng, finding that when his residence was illegally and forcibly demolished by a group of armed people in April 2023, his counterattack that resulted in one death constituted legitimate self-defense, and declaring him not guilty.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a student rights defense organization revealed that Yingshan High School in Sichuan Province illegally held supplementary classes and charged students fees during the summer vacation, while publicly claiming to offer free after-school care. During this period, students were forced to stay on campus at noon, and the quality of the cafeteria food was poor.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, multiple staff members at the Zhouzhi Water Street Scenic Area in Xi'an, Shaanxi, who were facing wage arrears, hung banners inside the scenic area to collectively demand unpaid wages and defend their rights.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a college student in Quanzhou, Fujian posted a request for help, saying that while working part-time at an educational institution in Quangang District, 4500 yuan in wages were withheld; the institution unilaterally cut the pay to 3000 yuan and deleted them as a friend, leaving them facing difficulties in rights defense because they had no company name.
2026-08-06
On August 6, a netizen submitted a report saying that after students reported their school for starting the semester early to the 12345 hotline and the Education Bureau, the Education Bureau leaked the students' list to the school, and school leaders pressured the students according to the list, demanding that they withdraw their complaints.
2026-08-06
On August 6, the developer of Zhengrong Mansion Phase II in Fuyang, Anhui, sealed off the underground garage without authorization and brought in outside workers with tools to forcibly tow vehicles, triggering a large gathering of owners in rights defense and a fierce clash.
2026-08-06
On August 6, 2026, an associate professor at a private undergraduate university in Guangdong reported that the school laid him off on the grounds that there were no teaching tasks due to structural changes in college entrance exam applicants and the majors they applied for, reflecting the impact of declining enrollment on university teaching positions.
2026-08-05
On August 5, Shi Jianjian, a depositor who was given a suspended sentence for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble after legally traveling to Henan to demand her deposits, received a certificate terminating her community correction, and stated that she would file an appeal in accordance with the law and apply for state compensation.
2026-08-05
On August 5, rights-defense activists recounted that after the new petitioning regulations took effect, petitioners in many places had their cases terminated procedurally at various petition windows, and large numbers of rights defenders moved to Jiujingzhuang in Beijing seeking registration to pressure their localities.
2026-08-05
On August 5, a foreign teacher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University posted on social media that the university had unilaterally terminated his contract, deemed it a voluntary resignation, and refused to pay compensation; he has formally applied for labor arbitration.
2026-08-05
On August 5, employees of the CNNC 23 Lufeng Nuclear Power Project, who had long been owed wages, spoke out and raised questions in a work group of several thousand people; their DingTalk accounts were immediately deactivated, and multiple employees reported widespread wage arrears.
2026-08-05
On August 5, students at Xinjiang Agricultural University organized materials to report that the school compels students to perform high-temperature, heavy manual labor during the summer vacation at tomato plants and similar facilities, working shifts of up to 12 hours, while confiscating their mobile phones and providing poor accommodation conditions.
2026-08-05
On August 5, the wife of Zhang Liang, a Beijing Fanghong engineer who died suddenly after 140 consecutive days of overtime, spoke out, saying the company's department required family members to sign a pledge not to post the evidence they had gathered online before it would cooperate with the application for work-related death determination.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, Guangzhou No. 113 Middle School in Guangdong Province was exposed by students for using a voluntary pledge as cover to effectively force summer tutoring, and the school sits right next to the Tianhe District Education Bureau building, sparking accusations of regulatory dereliction.
2026-08-04
Affected villagers posted stating that the flood was a man-made accident, and all residents of Liulan Village refused to sign, demanding an explanation from higher authorities.
2026-08-04
HIMA issued a statement saying it had monitored more than 56,000 pieces of information related to Zhuzhiliao, with 171 actual complaints and 144 items taken down by the platform, sparking further public attention and a surge in traffic.
2026-08-04
On August 4, students reported that Linfen No. 1 High School in Yaodu District, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, had illegally organized students to return to school and start classes early during the summer vacation.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, rights defense petitioners in Jiangsu Province found that when logging into the official online complaint platform of the Jiangsu Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau, the system repeatedly prompted that the phone number did not exist or the verification code was invalid, accused of setting up technical barriers to obstruct petition appeals.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, a civil society group released a documentary compiling 361 documentary clips of petitioners traveling to Beijing, recording the real living conditions of petitioners queuing outside the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration to air their grievances before and after the new petitioning regulations took effect.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, a factory in Yongxing Industrial Park, Fuqing 2nd Road, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, was exposed: the boss had withheld more than six months' wages from several employees and, under the pretext of a three-day holiday, emptied the plant of equipment overnight and fled, cutting off contact.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, in the Country Garden Nandu Mansion compound in Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province, a male homeowner, over a property dispute and other issues, climbed onto the rooftop of a residential building and staged an intense rights defense protest by threatening to jump.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, multiple homeowners at the Zhengsheng Shidai Gangwan residential community in Jiangjin District, Chongqing, gathered at the underground garage passage and the main gate to defend their rights, confronting security personnel, after the property management forcibly imposed additional parking fees and blocked vehicles from entering and leaving.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, Binhe High School in Lianshui County, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province was exposed for forcing students to return to school on August 5 to start the new term early, just two weeks after the vacation began, sparking strong protests from students and parents.
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, a medical malpractice incident occurred at an unlicensed clinic in Tongmu Town, Shangli County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, resulting in the death of a patient. The victim's family spoke out to defend their rights, claiming that the body was forcibly seized and cremated by the local government and police.
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, students at Jimei Middle School in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, submitted reports through an online platform, reporting that the school engaged in illegal operations such as unauthorized summer tutoring, arbitrary differentiated fees based on grades, and compulsory weekend labor.
2026-08
In August 2026, prominent criminal defense lawyer Chen Youxi publicly pointed out that in multiple cases involving fallen officials, the case-handling authorities appointed legal aid lawyers to crowd out the lawyers retained by family members, effectively depriving the parties of their right to defense.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, a fresh graduate posted a video stating that she had signed a teacher contract with a private high school in May and turned down other job offers, but on the day she was to report for work the school unilaterally tore up the contract, citing insufficient student enrollment, and compensated her with only a little over 1,000 yuan.
2026-08
In August 2026, the Hailegeao Parent-Child Park at Beihu Wuyue Plaza in Changchun, Jilin suddenly closed down, and many parents holding prepaid memberships gathered at the mall to defend their rights and demand refunds.
2026-08
In August 2026, a vice president of the Huarui Group in Heze, Shandong, posted a video publicly questioning the fairness of the bidding evaluation for school meal ingredients in Mudan District. He claimed that his company's bid was lower than the winning trading enterprise but still lost the bid, and demanded an explanation from the local Education and Sports Bureau.
2026-07-30
Multiple workers gathered in rights defense outside the Jiamusi Postal Bureau in Heilongjiang, reporting that the unit had not paid their housing provident fund and that there were problems such as exploitation and deliberate obstruction. During the incident, someone fell to the ground and was carried away by medical personnel.
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2026-07-29
On July 29, 2026, 28 depositors of Henan village banks went to the Zhejiang Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau to collectively defend their rights, asking Zhejiang officials to help coordinate with Henan departments to resolve the issue of deposits being frozen for five years, and requesting the provincial-level written certification documents needed for petitioning in Beijing.
2026-07-29
In late July 2026, grassroots contract workers in some townships of Kunming, Yunnian posted appeals on social media, reporting that tight public finances had left their salaries unpaid for several consecutive months, while similar cases of wage arrears also emerged in grassroots public institutions in many other places.
2026-07-28
A project constructed by China Railway Fourth Engineering Bureau in Tianjin Binhai New Area has experienced unpaid wages, and workers blocked the entrance to demand their unpaid wages on July 28.
2026-07-28
On July 28, 2026, the Tianjin Qingshan Green Energy Intelligent Manufacturing Production and Research Base project, due to long-term unpaid wages for frontline workers, triggered a collective work stoppage and strike by all construction workers, who held banners on site to defend their rights and protest.
2026-07-28
On July 28, 2026, several owners of the Country Garden Yunlu Jiuli community in Liaocheng, Shandong, went to the municipal government to petition and defend their rights over housing quality defects and long-term use of temporary electricity. Local authorities deployed a large number of SWAT police to the scene, who used force to remove the rights-defending owners.
2026-07-27
Residents of Victoria Bay in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao discovered that land planned for a kindergarten and a community hospital had been mortgaged and auctioned off as industrial land. Since July 27, they have been gathering outside the residential complex, demanding that higher-level authorities intervene and investigate.
2026-07-27
During a rights defense gathering by property owners at Victoria Bay, police set up human walls and privacy screens; that evening, some owners were cleared by police and taken away.
2026-07-27
A group of construction workers in Beijing, who have been owed wages for over 7 months, blocked the CREC headquarters building on July 27.
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, Beijing Zion Church pastor Kim Myeong-il, after arriving in the United States, gave an exclusive interview, disclosing that the authorities handling the case had characterized the believers' voluntary offerings, support for pastors, and theological training as fraud and illegal business operations involving over 10 million yuan.
2026-07-27
On July 28, 2026, Jiang Dong, head of Xiaohongshu's in-house media intelligence team, publicly posted a detailed account of how the company unilaterally terminated his labor contract with only 8 days left before his stock options expired, and how he filed for arbitration and litigation, openly questioning the company's option management mechanism.
2026-07-25
Recently, the mother of Zhu Yidan, a victim of the Zhejiang Financial Center default incident, wrote a letter to prosecutors and judges in Zhejiang Province. She stated that her daughter, who was in Changsha, was labeled a "principal offender" simply for forwarding relevant information in a WeChat group, and questioned whether the Hangzhou police, procuratorate, and courts were engaging in retaliation.
2026-07-22
In late July 2026, a doctoral student at a university in Chongqing publicly accused their supervisor under their real name on social platforms of long-term personal humiliation and appropriation of research achievements, revealing chat records in which the supervisor said the student was like an ant, sparking public attention to supervisor-student relationships in higher education.
2026-07-21
From July 21, 2026, Qizhen School in Zhangjiakou, Hebei was exposed for forcing senior year students to attend a fully closed summer tutoring program six days a week, sparking student protests over severe lack of rest.
2026-07-20
On July 20, 2026, dozens of owners at Hongrongyuan Jiayufu in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, took to the streets in a collective protest march over housing quality issues and downgraded planning commitments, shouting slogans to defend their rights against the developer and relevant authorities.
2026-07-18
The 8 detainees in the Xi'an church case were swiftly handed over to the court; their lawyers received no notice and were not heard.
2026-07-16
On July 15, 2026, netizens photographed the moat near the Yongdingmen Reception Division of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Beijing, where not only dense wire mesh had been installed, but sharp metal anti-climb spikes had also been affixed to the surrounding tree trunks, strictly guarding against petitioners climbing and lingering.
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, some sanitation workers in Miaoba Town, Dazhu County, Dazhou, Sichuan, reported that their monthly salary was only just over 1,000 yuan and demanded that the minimum wage be guaranteed. The town government officially replied that the two sides were in a contractual relationship rather than an employment relationship, and refused to apply the minimum wage standard.
2026-07-15
In July 2026, Zhang Liang's wife, Cai Xiaodan, spoke out once again, stating that her husband died suddenly due to continuous overtime work. After the family reported the incident, the relevant departments referred the issue back to the company in question for self-handling.
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, several construction workers in Hebei, wearing vests printed with the words "Hebei Construction Group, Give Us Back Our Hard-Earned Money," beat gongs and drums in protest against unpaid wages at the gate of the headquarters of Hebei Construction Group Co., Ltd.
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, an environmental blogger revealed that areas around Yinzhan Town, Weng'an County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou have long suffered severe industrial waste gas pollution. The acrid air has killed trees and crops and caused villagers to vomit, and villagers' complaints over nearly ten years have gone unresolved.
2026-07-13
From mid-July 2026, the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Seda, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, has once again been hit by large-scale forced demolitions. The authorities plan to tear down about 2,000 monastic residences and forcibly send away non-local monks and nuns, while the military and police maintain a tight blockade and surveillance.
2026-07-09
In the early hours of July 9, artist Zhao Pinlin posted a real-name post demanding performance remuneration from "Yang Yangyang," the director of the variety show "100% Singer." This subsequently prompted multiple artists and industry peers to speak out in support, triggering a collective wave of demanding unpaid wages in the entertainment industry.
2026-07-09
On July 9, 2026, a migrant worker in Heze, Shandong, posted a video on social media, reporting in his real name that the "Shuxiang Yayuan" real estate project in Dongming County had withheld wages from 11 construction workers, demanding full payment of their hard-earned money.
2026-07-05
Unpaid wages occurred at a headquarters building project constructed by China Construction Seventh Engineering Division in Futian, Shenzhen, and workers blocked the project gates to defend their rights.
2026-07-04
On July 8, 2026, the underground garage of the Lijing Jinwan community in Fushun, Liaoning, was severely flooded by torrential rain, leaving a large number of vehicles submerged and damaged. Owners accused the property management of inaction and collectively went to government departments to petition and defend their rights.
2026-07-03
Kim Myeong-il said that after being taken out of the detention center he was transported by high-speed rail and police car to Guangzhou International Airport, where prosecutors announced they would not prosecute him, and then his passport was returned and he was put on a flight to the United States.
2026-07-02
On July 2, 2026, a bamboo raft in the waters off Houjiang, Nan'ao County, Shantou, Guangdong was capsized after being struck by an iron vessel, killing one person, and the vessel responsible fled the scene. Recently, the family took to the internet to report that no case had been filed long after the incident and that dock surveillance footage had been overwritten, publicly seeking help to defend their rights.
2026-07-01
New regulations from the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on standardizing the registration of public visits have begun to be strictly enforced.
2026-07
After the Daxiaojing Scenic Area in Luodian, Guizhou, handed over operations to the "Minsheng Company," villagers were prohibited from using bamboo rafts to carry passengers. Villagers began protesting on July 18, and on July 24, they clashed with government personnel, police (Public Security), and company staff.
Location: Luodian County, Guizhou ·
Importance IV ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-07
Kim Myeong-il arrived in the United States accompanied by the U.S. Consulate and learned that 8 of his coworkers are still in prison in his case, while another 9 have been released on bail.
2026-07
In a certain area of Anhui, a garbage dump project sparked public outrage, residents took to the streets in protest, and ultimately the local government cancelled the project.
2026-07
The Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, has been exposed for coaches mistreating students and withholding students' deposits over a long period. After the incident came to light, hundreds of students gathered in protest for three consecutive days, demanding the return of their deposits.
2026-07
After the exposure of Han Shihui's school equity being transferred for two yuan, multiple public officials were reported for illegally embezzling school assets.
2026-07-01
On July 1, 2026, Chinese Human Rights Defenders released a report disclosing that authorities in Beihai, Guangxi seriously infringed on the right to defense in the prosecution of the Beijing Zion Church case, obstructed lawyers' access to case files, and that pastoral staff such as Wang Lin and Wu Qiuyu face prolonged detention and harsh detention conditions.
2026-07-01
The new petition regulations that the CCP will implement from July 1 stipulate that when members of the public go to the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration and relevant central ministries and commissions to report problems, they must hold relevant written materials issued by provincial-level authorities.
2026-07-01
On July 1, in Bijie, Guizhou Province, migrant workers demanded unpaid wages and defended their rights at the site of a Sinohydro Bureau 9 project over wage arrears.
2026-07
Shangrao Third People's Hospital shuts down the central air conditioning in all wards every day after 5:30 pm. At night the wards become hot and stuffy, and many elderly, psychiatric and chronic patients suffer from the heat. Residents posted complaints on the Wenzheng Jiangxi platform, and the hospital replied that it was responding to the government's call to "live frugally."
2026-06-30
From June 26 to 30, 2026, villagers of Lincuo Village, Waisha Street, Longhu District, Shantou, Guangdong gathered for several consecutive days to defend their rights, protesting that the village committee sold off collective land without the villagers' consent, and demanding the restoration of household registration status that had been altered to non-agricultural without authorization.
2026-06-30
In late June 2026, a labor dispute broke out at a China Minmetals 23rd Metallurgical construction project in Haikou, Hainan. Several construction workers, owed unpaid wages, gathered in protest in front of the site gate and used steel pipes to block the passage, preventing vehicles from entering or leaving.
2026-06-29
In Liaoning Yingkou, Juxiaohua and Yikoudai platform users clashed physically during a rights defense event, with some rights defenders forcibly taken away by the police.
2026-06-29
Because the previous property management company and the new one failed to complete the handover at Wenyuan Xiyuan community in Gezhai, Zhengzhou, residents questioned the incoming company as a "shell property management firm." Residents gathered for rights defense and pushing occurred.
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, victims of the internet finance platforms Juxiaohua and Yikoudai from across the country went to Yingkou City, Liaoning Province for rights defense. At the protest site they got into a fierce physical clash with police, and multiple borrowers were forcibly taken away by the police.
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, a forced demolition operation took place near Dingren International in Xuzhou District, Yibin City, Sichuan Province. Demolition personnel clashed physically with residents, and several rights-defense residents were injured, left lying on the ground and crying for help.
2026-06-28
On June 28, 2026, at the Louli Reservoir project in Handan, Hebei, migrant workers, owed unpaid wages, staged an extreme rights-defense action by threatening to jump off a building rooftop, drawing local attention to wage arrears in government-funded investment projects.
2026-06-27
On the evening of June 27, 2026, thousands of residents in Luyang District, Hefei City, blocked Beierhuan Road in protest against the construction of a waste transfer station, confronting SWAT police. Eventually, the district chief and the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau arrived and announced the project's cancellation.
2026-06-27
On June 27, 2026, over a hundred residents near Haotianyuan in Luyang District, Hefei, Anhui Province, took to the North Second Ring Road to block traffic in protest against a planned garbage transfer station, paralyzing traffic. Under the residents' resolute resistance, District Mayor Yang Binghong announced on the scene that the garbage station project would be canceled.
2026-06-26
Villagers of Lincuo Village, Longhu District, Shantou, had their agricultural household registrations arbitrarily converted to non-agricultural household registrations. After sitting-in for rights defense for a month, they escalated their actions, with hundreds occupying the village committee and engaging in physical clashes with the police.
2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, after the former property management company of Xingfu Jiayuan residential community in Fangchenggang, Guangxi was officially placed on a warning list, it refused to hand over and vacate. During the officially supervised handover, it gathered more than 30 men in black who clashed violently with the residents on site.
Location: Fangchenggang, Guangxi ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Hearsay ·
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2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, a consumer exposed through a video that multiple Whisper sanitary pads, a P&G brand purchased from the official Taobao flagship store, had obvious yellow-brown stains on their surfaces; when contacted, P&G customer service was unable to explain the cause of the stains and did not acknowledge a quality problem.
2026-06-24
On June 24, 2026, wage arrears occurred at the Shashi District Elderly Care Center in Jingzhou, Hubei. Multiple on-duty employees collectively defended their rights inside the institution, demanding payment of their unpaid labor earnings.
2026-06-24
On June 24, 2026, a wage arrears incident occurred at the project department of the Smart Agriculture Training Building, built by China Railway 16 Bureau in Xi'an District, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang. A number of migrant workers gathered at the construction site to defend their rights, demanding payment of their labor earnings.
Location: Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang ·
Importance III ·
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2026-06-24
On June 24, 2026, at the Yunnan 14th Metallurgical construction project in Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan, an incident of unpaid wages to migrant workers occurred. The workers gathered collectively at the project office to demand payment of their hard-earned money and defend their rights.
2026-06-24
On June 26, 2026, several residential areas in Longyan, Fujian Province were filled with a pungent, foul odor for several consecutive nights, causing residents to suffer symptoms such as cough, sore throat, and nausea. Large numbers of people filed continuous complaints, and the environmental protection department deployed drones to patrol and investigate.
2026-06-22
Hundreds of residents in the Shimao Yunjing community in Chengdu, Sichuan, blocked roads to protest after their numerous attempts to defend their rights failed due to dissatisfaction with high property management fees, lacking services, and safety hazards. During the protest, they clashed with police and government personnel, resulting in multiple residents being arrested and at least one injured.
2026-06-20
The Taierzhuang Music Festival in Zaozhuang, Shandong withheld and delayed the part-time wages of college students, leading a large number of students to gather for rights defense. Videos of the rights defense were removed across the entire internet.
2026-06-19
In the Dijingwan community in Qingyuan, Guangdong, residents dismissed the old property management company due to long-term inaction. The former management refused to leave and blocked the new property company from entering, triggering a conflict that left one person injured. Police arrived at the scene to calm the situation.
2026-06-19
On June 19, 2026, Linyi Guohang, a well-known liquor trader in Linyi, Shandong, was reported to have suffered a capital chain breakdown. Large numbers of suppliers and liquor dealers gathered at the store to defend their rights, demand unpaid wages and debt repayment. Online reports say the amount owed runs into tens of millions of yuan.
2026-06-18
Pastor Wang Lin and seven others were formally indicted after undergoing rigorous interrogation in the detention center.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, Radio Free Asia reported that the Central China Hazardous Waste Technology Center project on Gongzheng Road in Wuchang, Wuhan, continued to trigger mass protests by hundreds of residents; police arrived to disperse the crowd and took away and injured many people, and online information was strictly controlled.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, a Jiangsu netizen posted a video showing a group of people in camouflage uniforms entering a courtyard, forcibly cutting off electricity and internet, pinning two elderly people to the ground and beating them for 15 minutes, then carrying out a violent forced demolition after the beating.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, the property management service company of Yangguang Huating Community in Xuedian Town, Xinzheng, Henan, was suspected of absconding with funds and going out of contact, leaving the community without management. Several owners gathered in the community to protest and defend their rights.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, a well-known "unmanned bookstore" that had operated for 20 years in Hexi University Town, Changsha, Hunan, was suddenly forcibly demolished. The owner published a post accusing officials and businessmen of conspiring through planning to hunt him down and of being driven out by hard power, while a large number of police and chengguan locked down the scene, drawing attention.
2026-06-17
At the Shenzhen import and export trade fair, due to a scarce turnout of buyers and suspicions of hiring fake foreigners to pad attendance, hundreds of exhibitors staged a collective protest demanding refunds of tens of thousands of yuan in exhibition fees, while a large contingent of SWAT police confronted and suppressed them at the scene.
2026-06-17
On June 17, 2026, an exhibitor at a foreign trade fair in Shenzhen discovered that the organizer had hired a large number of foreign students to pose as fake buyers to create an illusion of prosperity. A mass rights-defense action broke out on site, with exhibitors surrounding the organizer to demand refunds of booth fees, and SWAT police arriving to maintain order.
2026-06-17
On June 17, 2026, an incident of unpaid wages occurred at a cement pipe factory in Shangji Town, Suihua, Heilongjiang. Several migrant workers hung banners in front of the factory gate to demand their unpaid wages and defend their rights, calling for the release of their hard-earned money to guarantee their basic livelihood.
2026-06-17
On June 17, 2026, some villagers in Yushu City, Changchun, Jilin, had a dispute over land requisition and compensation rights, and collectively went to the local Letters and Calls Bureau with banners to petition and defend their rights, voicing their demands.
2026-06-16
On June 16, in front of the Supreme People's Court petition reception office and Yongdingmen West Street in Beijing, a large number of petitioners queued in heavy rain, with some denouncing the root causes behind the frequent occurrence of social revenge incidents.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, at the project department of China Power Engineering No. 4 Bureau in Shangyi County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, migrant workers went unpaid. The workers went to the construction site and unfurled rights-defense banners demanding payment of the owed wages.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, a female part-time job seeker in Zhengzhou posted a plea for help, saying that while working part-time at a postgraduate exam study room she was beaten by her boss over 30 yuan in wages, fracturing her hand, and that after she called the police, the authorities refused to file a criminal case and instead demanded that she delete her post.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, the R&F New City real estate project in Kaifeng, Henan, drove a worker to death by withholding construction wages. The deceased's family hung banners near the project site and knelt holding a portrait of the deceased, defending their rights to demand justice.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, villagers in a certain place in Guangxi gathered to protest a forced land requisition launched by the government without legally issued provincial-level land approval documents or a compensation list, and clashed physically with law-enforcement police at the scene.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, inside a factory in Minggang, Xinyang, Henan, multiple workers, because their piece rates had long been too low and their wages were still delayed and unpaid, gathered collectively in the factory premises to negotiate with the person in charge of the company, demanding unpaid wages and defending their rights.
2026-06-16
On June 18, 2026, villagers in Zhengyang County, Zhumadian, Henan reported that the Qingshui River appeared to be severely polluted by discharge; after irrigation, peanut fields and vegetables blackened and withered over large areas, and the village committee urgently issued a notice banning water diversion for irrigation.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, a pinned video on the Douyin account of the official livestream room of well-known sports brand PEAK exposed the company's arrears of Olympic sponsorship fees, and an operations employee publicly stated in the comments section that the company had owed them wages for a year.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, local villagers in Hejin City, Yuncheng, Shanxi, unfurled rights-defense banners to protest construction violations during an aluminum plant renovation project that caused cracks and damage to multiple nearby villagers' homes without any compensation.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, Guoyao Xinguang Biomass Resources Co., Ltd. in Linyi County, Yuncheng, Shanxi withheld labor remuneration, and several migrant workers owed back pay hung banners in front of the company gate to defend their rights and demand their unpaid wages.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, an incident of unpaid wages for migrant workers occurred at the Vanke Guanshan Yinxiu real estate project in Jinan, Shandong, and several construction workers had no choice but to lie in front of the project site's main gate to demand their unpaid wages and defend their rights.
2026-06-15
In late June 2026, Chuangda Bus, a privately operated public transit company in Panyu District, Guangzhou, fell into arrears on about half a year of drivers' wages, sparking a collective strike by drivers demanding unpaid pay and causing multiple bus routes connecting Panyu and Nansha to suspend service, exposing a fiscal crisis in local public transportation.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Developing ·
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2026-06-15
On June 15, the Xiabashi Town Government of Fu'an City issued a written reply to the issue raised by Wang Xiuying about the forcible seizure of village land, stating that the land had been lawfully requisitioned by the Fishing Port Command and the Fu'an Shipyard, among others.
2026-06-14
On June 14, 2026, at the protest scene at Sunac Center Yihao Yuan in Wuchang, Wuhan, large numbers of riot police formed a dense human wall between the residential compound and the construction site of the controversial hazardous waste laboratory to block residents' protests.
2026-06-13
On June 13, 2026, Jiafeng Electronics Factory in Dongguan, Guangdong was reported to have had its person in charge go missing and flee, while a large number of factory workers who were owed pay gathered collectively in front of the factory gate, holding banners to defend their rights.
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, the Gaizhou City Public Security Bureau in Liaoning formally returned 2,859.2 grams of gold products seized nearly 30 years ago to Dalian man Pan Yongjia and reached a settlement, with the party withdrawing his state compensation application.
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, dozens of Lolita clothing consumers who fell victim to a pre-sale deposit scam went to Jinzhong, Shanxi, to file a report with the assistance of an anti-fraud team, only to be told verbally by police that the case would not be accepted and to be refused a written decision.
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, it was reported online that villagers in a place in Zhejiang said the mining project brought in by the local government through investment attraction had caused serious damage to houses in surrounding villages due to excessive blasting vibrations, and they had received no compensation despite long-term rights defense.
2026-06-11
On June 12, 2026, a wage arrears incident occurred at Huaying Electronics Co., Ltd. in Dongguan, Guangdong. Large numbers of workers gathered collectively at the factory gate to defend their rights, demanding that the company pay the withheld wages in full.
2026-06-10
On June 13, 2026, large numbers of residents in Wuchang District, Wuhan, launched a collective rights defense action over dissatisfaction with the construction of a laboratory for a high-risk waste technology center right next to residential buildings on Gongzheng Road. The scene was met with a heavy police presence, and the internet was blocked.
2026-06-10
Multiple staff members on the public payroll at Tongwen School in Fengdu County, Chongqing, were forced to spontaneously organize and collectively petition the relevant education and administrative authorities to defend their rights and demand payment of back wages, because the local fiscal authorities had long been in arrears with their salaries and benefits.
2026-06-10
A serious incident of wage arrears occurred at the Shengshi Lanwan residential project in Jinghai District, Tianjin. Multiple construction workers, who have been owed four months of salary, held up rights defense banners at the site, demanding that the contractor pay their wages in full.
2026-06-10
Jinan Sino-German Orthopedic Hospital, which had been included in the 120 emergency network, suddenly announced its closure and shutdown and asked all staff to leave their posts. Working medical staff reported that the hospital has been in arrears for several months' wages since April, and has not publicized any lawful economic compensation plan.
2026-06-09
Some homebuyers and parents of students in the Chanba International Port area of Xi'an, Shaanqing Province became dissatisfied over the school district zoning plan released by the education authorities, and knelt collectively in front of the relevant departments in a rights defense protest, demanding a reasonable solution to the school enrollment issue for their school-age children.
2026-06-09
The Phase IV construction project of Aerospace Sunac Lanyuefu in Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province has been accused of illegal subcontracting and failure to pay wages in full. Several construction workers were forced to gather at the construction site and in front of the doors of relevant departments, holding banners to demand unpaid wages and defend their rights.
2026-06-09
A wage arrears incident occurred at Shanxi Yaobang Environmental Industry Group. Several sanitation workers who were owed wages gathered in front of the company and related institutions holding banners to defend their rights, demanding that the delayed labor remuneration be paid as soon as possible.
2026-06-09
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.
2026-06-08
A wage-arrears dispute broke out at the Chuxu Photovoltaic Power Station under Wanneng New Energy Co., Ltd. in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. Several workers demanding their unpaid wages went to the front gate of the power station and unfurled banners to protest and defend their rights.
2026-06-08
On June 8, 2026, in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, a candidate ranked first in a public institution exam but was illegally replaced. After the person involved continued to defend her rights and appeal, local officials directly issued an announcement canceling the entire recruitment position in question.
Location: Qitaihe, Heilongjiang ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-06-06
On June 6, 2026, more than 300 franchisees of Gemei Appliances in Hefei, Anhui went to the company's headquarters to collectively defend their rights, reporting that they had still not received the agreed-upon goods long after investing their money, and demanding that the company account for the whereabouts of the goods and refund their payments.
2026-06-01
Sanitation workers in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, went on a collective strike starting June 1 due to six months of unpaid wages, leaving garbage scattered all over the town.
Location: Yangjiang City, Guangdong ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Verified ·
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2026-06
Media reports revealed that two depositors at Jilin Fuyu Huimin Village Bank had a total of 18 million yuan in deposits misappropriated due to employees forging signatures for loss reports, triggering a situation where depositors have no way to seek rights defense.
2026-06
On June 16, 2026, an anti-counterfeiting blogger released an authoritative third-party national standard test report confirming that a Decathlon jacket purchased through Pinduoduo's 10 Billion Subsidy channel was counterfeit, and disclosed the source of the fake goods.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, a mother in Luotian County, Huanggang, Hubei, posted a video saying her child died at Luotian Siyuan School. Because the school gave no direct response afterward and shirked responsibility, the family went to the school to gather, defend their rights, and demand the truth.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, a netizen posted a video on social media accusing China Railway No. 4 Engineering Group in Hefei, Anhui, of maliciously withholding workers' wages, saying that repeated appeals to the relevant functional departments had failed to be handled effectively.
2026-05-31
Reports circulating online say that the exterior wall of an underground garage in a residential compound in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province collapsed during a rainstorm, causing rainwater to flow back in. Hundreds of private cars in the garage were flooded and damaged, and some owners were summoned and pressured by the local police station after seeking rights defense from the property management and posting videos of the scene online.
Location: Zhongshan, Guangdong ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Verifying ·
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2026-05-28
On May 28, 2026, a netizen posted a video showing that Beijing was hit by rain, and outside the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, large numbers of petitioners were still holding umbrellas and standing in long queues in the wind and rain, waiting to submit petition materials.
2026-05-27
On the evening of May 27, 2026, strict new dormitory phone control rules introduced by Guangzhou Information Technology Vocational School triggered a strong student backlash, with multiple students collectively shouting from the dormitory buildings to protest the mandatory management enforced by the school's student affairs office.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, several on-duty employees of BYD direct-sales stores posted videos online to defend their rights, accusing the company of suddenly converting direct-sales stores to independent dealerships without any communication or placement, hauling away display vehicles and equipment overnight and abandoning the employees.
2026-05-26
On May 26, 2026, an office worker in Nanning, Guangxi posted a complaint saying that their company, because performance targets had not been met, was forcing employees to accept physical punishment. The employee firmly refused this unreasonable rule and had a verbal confrontation with the supervisor on the spot.
2026-05-25
Kim Myeong-il stated that his case was transferred from the case-handling unit to the procuratorate on May 25, and the case files and other materials have entered the procuratorate's processing stage.
2026-05-25
According to multiple financial media reports, quasi-fixed-income products under CreditEase Wealth have blown up, and the company has launched the so-called "benign liquidation" starting May 22, 2026.
2026-05-25
On May 25, 2026, it was reported online that an employee of Shenzhen Haorui Technology Co., Ltd. died suddenly in a dormitory after working 13 consecutive days. The family said their work-injury application was rejected by the Social Security Bureau, drawing online attention.
2026-05-21
On May 21, 2026, regarding the incident where over 700 mu of shepherd's purse crops were swarmed, stolen, and looted by surrounding villagers, a farmer in Neihuang, Henan, formally submitted a criminal case application to the local police, demanding that the crime of intentional destruction of property be investigated and compensation for losses be made.
2026-05-07
A Mr. Fan in Jilin discovered that 88 liters of gasoline had been pumped into his 75-liter fuel tank at a PetroChina gas station. Gas station staff subsequently visited his home and attempted to settle the matter privately with 10,000 yuan in cash, which was refused.
2026-05
A Wuhan man found a Xiaomi Auto recruitment posting on BOSS Zhipin, traveled to Xiangyang for an interview, and was charged accommodation, bedding, and cleaning fees by an intermediary, only to discover that the position did not exist and that he had been blocked by the other party.
2026-05
Videos that surfaced in late May 2026 show that several-meter-high isolation iron fences have been installed along the south moat outside the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration; The Epoch Times says the move is intended to prevent desperate petitioners from jumping into the river, and officials have not explained it.
2026-05
In early May 2026, the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration on Yongdingmen West Street, Beijing, deployed three converted PCR testing booths as "check-in machines" for petitioners to swipe their ID cards to alleviate queuing pressure, but they were abandoned shortly after being put into use.
2026-04-29
On April 29 and 30, in front of the Changsha Intermediate People's Court in Hunan Province, dozens of victim investors of Xiangtan Shengda Financial Investment Management Co., Ltd. gathered and sang "The East Is Red" to defend their rights.
2026-04-29
Beijing Huangzhuang Vocational High School was relocated by the school authorities to a smaller campus lacking basic facilities such as a cafeteria and a sports field, sparking a collective protest in which students confronted school staff in the corridors and at the school gate.
2026-04-25
In Mingliu Village, Bobai County, Yulin, Guangxi, government personnel, police and construction workers tried to go up the mountain to forcibly install wind turbines, but local villagers collectively blocked the only road leading there and successfully stopped them.
2026-04-25
State Grid's Yantai–Weihai UHV line project entered Jiaoxi Town, Jiaozhou City, Shandong for construction without paying any compensation, and a female villager climbed a high-voltage tower in protest.
2026-04-25
Villagers of Houyang Village in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian formed a human wall, holding land certificates, and successfully blocked the forced land acquisition team from entering the village.
2026-04-24
After the Huiwang Group's funds collapsed, large numbers of Chinese and Cambodian depositors gathered outside the National Bank and the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia to defend their rights, demanding the return of their hard-earned money and pressing for the recovery of frozen funds.
2026-04-21
After their houses were demolished in Liushutang Village, Suizhou, Hubei, villagers rummaged through the rubble for cash and clothing, and reported that the house demolition compensation had been embezzled by the village committee.
2026-04-20
Hong Kong-invested toy contract manufacturing giant Huasheng Toys closed four factories in Guangxi on the same day, leaving nearly 10,000 workers instantly jobless. About 5,000 workers held consecutive rallies, blocking roads and holding banners to demand clearance of unpaid wages and payment of economic compensation.
2026-04-03
Cai Xiaodan, wife of Zhang Liang, filed a real-name report with the relevant departments over the company's attempt to shirk responsibility for the work-related death determination.
2026-04
In April 2026, Justin Sun sued World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family is involved, accusing it of illegally freezing the WLFI tokens he held and stripping him of his voting rights.
2026-03-15
On March 15, 2026, at the Guangzhou 315 Problem Car Show, several AITO (Wenjie) staff members used a huge rain tarp in front of the exhibition booth of car owners seeking redress to forcibly cover up the faulty vehicle logo and protest slogans, drawing onlookers' mockery.
2026-03-03
On March 3, on the eve of the annual Two Sessions meetings nationwide, a netizen in Beijing captured footage that appeared to show petitioners being abducted. Two of the people threatened him not to film or linger, and repeatedly tried to block the lens. The netizen retorted: Is this how you treat petitioners?
2026-03
In March of this year, Wang Xiuying, a villager from Xiabaishi Town in Fu'an, Fujian, traveled to Beijing to petition over the government's forced seizure of village land. She was brought back to her hometown by local authorities, and the government has continued to stall and fob her off ever since.
2026-02-25
Recently, a JD Logistics employee publicly called out Liu Qiangdong at a labor-rights defense venue in Hangzhou, saying he joined JD because Liu had promised not to mistreat employees, but now his wife is in the hospital receiving emergency treatment while his wages have been withheld for over a year, and he demanded to know why.
2026-01-21
After returning to her hometown in Guizhou, Xiao Wei (online name "Xiao Wei is not Xiao Wei"), a mainland spouse deported from Taiwan, has been actively defending the rights of local residents, live-streaming to denounce local government extravagance, and publicly challenging the local village committee to a debate in her live-stream.
2026-01-06
Host Liu Wen once spoke up for food delivery couriers and questioned Meituan's high commission rates. On January 6, she posted a video stating that her consumer fraud rights defense failed to receive compensation; instead, she was ruled as defaming, with the court issuing a prejudgment and sentencing her to apologize for one month and pay 500,000 RMB without her knowledge.
2025-12
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.
2025-11-09
On Nov 9, a delivery courier publicly called out Liu Qiangdong, criticizing JD Delivery's "0.01-yuan treat" promotional event. The event forced merchants to bear the costs and drastically lowered courier delivery fees, causing courier earnings per order to drop far below normal levels, which triggered strong backlash from both merchants and couriers.
2025-10-12
In October 2025, police intervened during the Sunday worship service of the Xuncheng Reformed Church in Taiyuan, and 11 people, including An Yankui, were placed under 15 days of administrative detention.
2025-07-25
On July 25, four workers in Fuzhou, Fujian, threatened to jump off a building to demand unpaid wages owed to them by YTO Express.
2025-05-15
On May 15, a female student at Beijing University of Technology Gengdan Institute went to the infirmary for a medical note due to menstrual cramps, but was asked by the on-duty staff to pull down her pants to prove her physical condition. Afterward, the school administration released a statement on Douyin, insisting that the on-duty staff's workflow complied with regulations and accusing the related videos circulating online of being distorted.
2025-05
The Light of Xi'an Church in Xi'an, Shaanxi, has been subjected to government suppression, with three people, including Pastor Gao Quanfu, arrested and held in custody.
2025-03-01
Around March 1, 2025, “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” and its team launched the “Niuma.ICU” project, soliciting from the public lists of companies across China that impose excessive working hours and violate labor laws, in an effort to advance labor rights defense.
2025-02-18
On February 18, 2025, the “Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher” team announced the interim results of “611Study,” having collected data on excessive schedules from 2,113 high schools across the country within two weeks, and pushed schools in multiple regions to restore two-day weekends and delay the start of the school term.
2025
One year after Enxu fled the Shengbo School, Wang Yuhang and Enxu said they had helped 13 students from special training schools get out, while hundreds of students remain trapped.
2024-12-14
On December 14, 2024, a 59-year-old man surnamed Ma in Zhengzhou had a dispute with his employer, surnamed Qin, over unpaid wages and dismissal. Qin slapped him 9 times. That evening, Ma was hospitalized with an acute cerebral infarction and passed away after being in a coma for 14 months. Qin admitted to the assault at the police station.
2024-11
An AITO owner in Guangzhou produced an inspection report claiming the vehicle's brakes failed, after which Seres filed a police report and pursued legal action.
2024-05
Outside an ONVO store in Zhengzhou, AITO owners unfurled banners claiming they waited 100 days for their cars and that after 60 days of driving the vehicle had already become an old model, while also criticizing after-sales service and the car-buying experience.
2024
In 2024, a 59-year-old man in Zhengzhou had a dispute with his former employer over unpaid wages and his dismissal. He was slapped nine times by the employer, subsequently suffered an acute cerebral infarction, and passed away after being in a coma for 14 months.
2023-11
While Fujian Zhangzhou consumer Ying Jie was waiting for his Mate60 to arrive, the store required him to buy accessories worth more than 200 yuan as a bundle.
2023-11
After the salesperson said there would be no model refresh in the near future, Beijing car owner Xiao Tang purchased the AITO M7 four-wheel-drive intelligent driving edition in November 2023, at a landed price of nearly 300,000 yuan, and waited nearly four months for delivery.
2023-04-01
On April 1, 2023, the home of Zhang Heng, a villager from Zicun Village in Xixian New Area, Shaanxi, was forcibly demolished by more than ten armed people; Zhang Heng and his son fought back, killing one demolition worker. The court later found that Zhang Heng had acted in legitimate self-defense and acquitted him.
2023
According to reports, Mr. Wu from Zhuzhou, Hunan, was promised a free mobile phone by a salesperson after staying on a network plan for three years. A few days later, he received a text message confirming a successful loan application. The contract showed a new consumer loan of 1,950 yuan under his name, to be repaid in 36 installments.
2023
In 2023, after attending a church youth camp, An Yankui was first given 15 days of administrative detention, and on the day that term expired he was given another 15 days of judicial detention over the enforcement of a fine.
2023
A 2023 first-instance ruling found that failure to report for duty from October 1 to 3 constituted a refusal to work overtime on statutory holidays rather than absenteeism, but absence from October 4 to 7 constituted absenteeism; the company's termination of the employment relationship was lawful, and it was not required to pay the 29992.82 yuan in compensation ordered by the arbitration award.
2021-09-13
Evergrande, China's largest real estate developer, is in trouble with $31 billion in debt, and a rare protest has broken out at its headquarters, marking the opening of the continuing downturn in China's property sector.
2019
When Huawei employee Li Hongyuan left the company in 2018, he negotiated a severance package of 330,000 yuan. Shortly after the money arrived, he was criminally detained by Shenzhen police, with the charges changing from embezzlement and leaking trade secrets to extortion. Because Li had kept recordings of the negotiations and public pressure mounted, he was released without charge after 251 days in detention and received state compensation of 107,522 yuan paid by the government.
2018-12
According to a report by Caixin, in the very month that Li Hongyuan was detained, 5 employees were arrested for demanding severance pay from Huawei, one of whom was arrested by Thai police while traveling in Thailand and later handed over.
2018
Kim Myeong-il said that in 2018 the government imposed similar administrative restrictions on his house, affecting his work and buying and selling, and putting him in debt.
2018
Kim Myeong-il said that after the Beijing church was cracked down on in 2018, the VOA Chinese website invited him to talk by telephone about his own situation and that of the Xi'an Church.
2015-02-19
On February 19, 2015, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Jinglong killed He Jianhua and then drove to turn himself in. On the way, his car was rammed to a stop by vehicles driven by He Jianhua's son and nephew, and he was restrained, suffering multiple injuries, including a comminuted fracture of the lower leg.
2013-05-07
On the afternoon of May 7, 2013, at 5 pm, 18 days before the wedding date, the demolition team of the Beigaoying Village Committee forcibly demolished Jia Jinglong's wedding home with an excavator. His father was restrained, relatives were beaten, Jia Jinglong was injured in the head, and the engagement was later broken off.
2013-05
After Jia Jinglong's marital home was forcibly demolished in May 2013, he repeatedly wrote letters of complaint to the Chang'an District Procuratorate and the district letters and visits bureau, and repeatedly sought talks with village head He Jianhua over compensation, all to no avail.
2013-04-04
During the 2013 Qingming Festival, the public faced little obstruction in mourning Zhao Ziyang, but six artists and more than thirty petitioners who went to Yang Jia's grave in Beijing were taken away by the police station. Netizens called Yang Jia a knight-errant and a swordsman.
2012-04-04
On April 4, 2012, Qingming, more than ten petitioners went to Yang Jia's grave in Beijing to pay their respects. The area around the grave was swarming with police, and surveillance cameras had been installed. Five petitioners, including Mao Hengfeng, were taken away by police as soon as they arrived at the grave.
2010
After Li Mengmeng's case spread on Weibo, it drew public attention. About ten days later, she was offered admission to the accounting program at Henan University of Economics and Law, and the responsible parties were dealt with.
2008-07-03
After the Yang Jia case occurred, artist Ai Weiwei published a series of posts on his blog, pressing questions about the details of Yang Jia's case, the circumstances of his mother being committed to a psychiatric hospital, and the violations of procedure during the trial; his blog at one point became a gathering point for online public opinion. After that, he spoke out for Yang Jia multiple times.
2008-03-15
On March 15, 2008, the inspection squad of the Zhabei Branch went to Beijing again to speak with Yang Jia. By then, five months had passed since Yang Jia's first complaint, and the Shanghai police still maintained that there had been no problem with the officers' law-enforcement actions — no apology and no compensation.
2007-10-06
After dawn on October 6, 2007, Yang Jia left the police station and took a train back to Beijing. From that day on, he repeatedly filed complaints through petition letters and emails with the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and the inspection department of the Zhabei Branch, demanding the dismissal of the officers involved, compensation for emotional distress, and reimbursement of telephone charges. After investigation, the inspection detachment of the Zhabei Branch concluded that the officers' law enforcement was not improper, and the complaint received no apology whatsoever.
2003
The Changchun Municipal Government internally reported in 2003 that the incident of seizing Ms. Ma Yongtian's factory was illegal and wrong.
2002-03
In March 2002, tens of thousands of laid-off and still-employed workers at the Daqing Oilfield took to the streets over unfair compensation for buyouts of their years of service and cuts to their medical and pension benefits. The demonstrations lasted nearly three weeks, with the crowd at one point reaching 40,000 to 50,000 people, setting a record for the scale of collective worker protests since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
2002
Ms. Ma Yongtian won a lawsuit regarding her factory being robbed in 2002 and obtained a court judgment.
2001
Ms. Ma Yongtian said that her factory was robbed in 2001, and then she began petitioning for rights.
1999-04-25
In 1999, under Li Hongzhi's direction, Falun Gong leaders across China coordinated via email to launch a mass siege of Zhongnanhai, prompting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to tighten internet controls.
1989-02-07
On the morning of February 7, 1989, the Snow Lion flag symbolizing Tibetan independence was raised in the main hall of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. More than 200 Lhasa police tried to force their way in to seize the flag but were driven out by the crowd. When the armed police returned the next day, the flag had already been hidden by Tibetans; the armed police took away more than 20 people and seized belongings to use as evidence.
Location: Lhasa own content archive., Tibet ·
Importance IV ·
Verification: Reported ·
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