Corporate Responsibility · Full chronicle and history

Employees of Shanghai Zuiqingfeng Health Technology Company revealed that the company sets high-difficulty question-bank assessments as performance indicators to maliciously lay off staff.

Recently, the Xianyu platform blocked keywords related to AI service top-ups such as ChatGPT and WorkBuddy. Subsequently, sellers began using underworld jargon like 'genius programmer Tibo' and 'Ultraman monthly pass' to evade censorship. Practical testing on September 21 showed that these slang keywords can no longer be searched for on Xianyu.

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.

Employees exposed that China Comservice Guangxi Branch delayed wage payments and withheld performance bonuses, resulting in take-home pay as low as 200 yuan, while N+1 severance compensation was only about 1,000 yuan, triggering labor disputes.

Starbucks China stores require employees to hand-draw smiles on every cup of coffee. Those who miss drawing them will receive a secondary warning, and accumulating two warnings will result in the loss of their 13th and 14th-month bonuses or even termination.

On August 29, a dispatch worker posted online that their employer reduced their salary by 1000 yuan without prior notice, and, citing a demand from the discipline inspection commission, ordered them to return nine years' worth of physical examination fees and holiday benefits. The employer claimed that dispatch workers should not enjoy such benefits, leaving the individual feeling helpless due to age and employment pressure.

On September 21, it was circulated online that the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes distributed by Huawei's Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU had expired, causing multiple employees to experience symptoms such as diarrhea and allergies after consumption. Huawei created an internal shared Excel sheet specifically to track the physical reactions of employees who ate the mooncakes.

To pass Walmart's social responsibility audit, Guangxi Wuzhou Tianmijia Bee Industry required employees to memorize false statements to cover up long-term mandatory overtime without days off, wage withholding, illegal employment practices, and lack of fire safety facilities, while also carrying out hasty temporary renovations to cope with the inspection.

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.

An employee submission from Shanghai Gree Auto exposes that the company has a severe excessive overtime issue, and project site managers subject employees to verbal insults and sexual harassment.

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.

On September 21, at the breakfast canteen of the passenger car plant of CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. in Changchun, Jilin Province, an incident of refusing cash occurred. Netizens reported that using cash to pay at the canteen was refused. After the on-site manager called the store manager for instructions, they still explicitly refused to accept cash.

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.

Yunnan Jiuji Technology Co., Ltd. (Jiuji Network) internally implements a "Striving Value" system, quantifying employees' overtime hours and daily behavior as core indicators for performance appraisal and daily management.

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.

On September 19, Ronald Balimwezo, Mayor of Kampala, Uganda, inspected the Salaama Road drainage construction project, questioned the construction quality, and demanded that China Railway 18th Bureau demolish and rebuild it. The contractor subsequently completed the rectification.

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.

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.

On September 16, Heilongjiang Mudanjiang Wanding Dairy Co., Ltd. was exposed for withholding wages from 23 employees, leaving them facing severe survival crises including being unable to afford medical treatment, difficulties with their children's education, and mortgage default.

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.

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.

On August 29, the semi-annual report of China State Construction Engineering Corporation showed that its accounts payable exceeded 1.1 trillion yuan, with nearly 300 billion yuan overdue for more than a year. The company admitted to extending payment cycles for subcontracted projects, despite holding 395.1 billion yuan in cash and cash equivalents. On September 10, the State Council required state-owned enterprises to take the lead in making timely payments, focusing on large enterprises that have sufficient cash but still delay payments.

Prosecutors presented internal emails, flight records, and surveillance footage, accusing Huawei employee Adam Zhong of attempting to obtain T-Mobile test robot parts and take photos.

On September 14, a BYD employee posted on Maimai questioning the company's excessive cost reduction, revealing that body parts were switched from stainless steel to carbon steel, the material inspection department was dissolved and all materials exempted from inspection, and the review process was artificially rushed. Several self‑identified internal employees echoed in the comments and disclosed more quality control loopholes.

On September 5, a screenshot showing that security personnel for the Shanghai China GT Chinese Supercar Championship earned only 60 yuan per day attracted public attention. Netizens used this incident to discuss how labor dispatch and multiple layers of outsourcing lead to mismatched compensation and risk, pointing out that systemic exploitation of the grassroots can cause a loss of society's ability to respond to crises.

On September 13, 2026, the founder of Pang Donglai, Yu Donglai, posted a statement on social media stating that the company will designate newly hired employees as “trainees”, set the contract term to four years with no renewal, and employees who do not meet the training goals will not receive a qualification certificate; the list of qualified employees will be publicly searchable on the company’s website. This measure aims to cultivate employees’ life philosophy, independent personality and technical skills, in line with the enterprise’s talent development plan.

On September 11, 2026, a Huawei exclusive store in Zhejiang Province forced two on‑the‑job employees to perform compulsory deep‑squat punishments, requiring them to squat continuously in place for dozens of times. Passersby on the scene witnessed and recorded the whole incident on their phones; the video later spread on social platforms, sparking netizens’ doubts and criticism of the company’s labor practices. The store has not issued any public response.

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.

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.

On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted on social media, calling for a slowdown in frontier AI development, stronger international cooperation, and the introduction of third‑party assessment bodies to track safety practices. Subsequently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed agreement with the call and revealed that the originally planned listing has been postponed to 2027 due to safety concerns. The statements from the two CEOs stem from former Anthropic and OpenAI employee Jacob Coxon warning on X and in an NPR interview that the two companies are "gambling with our lives" and expressing worry that rapid AI progress could pose a lethal threat to humanity within a decade. Amodei emphasized that AI remains beneficial to humanity, but must be built in the right way.

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.

On September 11, a netizen posted that after two months of job hunting in Qingdao, they encountered over 40 companies suspected of false recruitment and illegal employment. The positions were mostly fake customer service, street promoters, or disguised sales roles. Some companies had issues with wage arrears, no social security, and harsh working conditions, leading to the netizen's livelihood being in distress.

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.

In early September 2026, a netizen in Shandong reported that their mother suffered a sudden, critical acute myocardial infarction. While panicking, the father, who suffers from cerebral infarction, used an Honor phone to call the 120 emergency hotline. Due to accidentally triggering the system's default full-screen commercial ad 'Magic Pictorial' by swiping up on the lock screen, and because the close button was hidden and he could not quickly return to the dial pad, the golden window for medical rescue was delayed, and the mother unfortunately passed away. After the incident was exposed, it sparked strong condemnation across the internet regarding mobile phone advertisements blocking life-saving channels and flaws in age-friendly designs.

[Follow-up · September 11, 2026] On the evening of September 11, the party involved in the Honor 'Magic Pictorial' incident posted a clarification and apology, stating that the father's failure to connect the emergency call during his cerebral infarction episode was a misunderstanding and had nothing to do with the Honor phone. Honor expressed condolences for the death of the party's mother, but accused the false post of causing brand damage, stating that "out of humanitarian care, no further action will be pursued," which triggered netizens' doubts about the embedding of 'Magic Pictorial' and the official attitude.

[Follow-up · September 12, 2026] On September 12, the Weibo account of the involved party, Mr. Zhang, showed that it had been deactivated, all content on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) was cleared, and only the report by Jiemian News was retained.

Cameras were installed in the men's restroom of an office building in the Sany Heavy Truck Park in Changsha, Hunan, and the matter was exposed by netizens' submissions.

On September 9, the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group was reported by netizens for allegedly providing suspected inferior lymph meat for a long time. Employees stated that after multiple unsuccessful reports, they decided to expose it.

The federal court in the Eastern District of New York has begun jury selection and the trial for the Huawei case, with Judge Ann Donnelly presiding. Prosecutors accuse Huawei of 20 years of theft, lying, and cover-ups, involving 12 charges, including using the Hong Kong-based company Skycom to conduct business in Iran to deceive U.S. and European banks, stealing trade secrets, and obstruction of justice.

At the GT China race venue, a racing accident occurred, the vehicle caught fire, rescue personnel responded slowly, and driver Ollie Millroy was seriously injured.

After the accident, Phantom Global Racing driver Luke Hartog stopped the car and got out, rescuing Ollie Millroy who was trapped in the burning race car.

After the accident escalated, several teams and drivers announced they will no longer participate in GT China events until the related safety issues are addressed, with some teams stating they will permanently withdraw from Chinese collective competitions.

The day after the accident, Wu Yanzu publicly criticized GT China for delaying the release of the red flag, the rescue system's failure, and said the organizers did not acknowledge the mistake or take responsibility.

Netizens reported that the organizer offered a daily salary of 3000 yuan for safety officers, but after multiple layers of subcontracting through recruiters and security companies, the two on‑site staff each received only 60 yuan per day.

德云社郭德纲在武汉演出京剧时改编红歌唱词遭网友举报，武汉市文旅局以演出内容未经报备为由依法立案调查。

中国化学第七建设有限公司承建的俄罗斯波罗的海天然气化工综合体项目发生大规模中国工人抗议，起因是中国工人讨薪遭警察带走，上千名工人包围并迫使警察释放涉事工人。

德云社旗下麒麟剧社在武汉专场演出京剧《济公活佛》时，郭德纲随口戏谑改编红歌《弹起我心爱的土琵琶》引发争议并遭举报。

A strategic nuclear submarine of the People's Liberation Army launched a submarine-launched strategic missile deep into the Pacific Ocean on July 6. Foreign media reported that the impact point was located in the South Pacific.

At the July 6 Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conference, Mao Ning confirmed that Xi Jinping had sent a congratulatory message to Trump celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence. The related Q&A was subsequently published on the Ministry's official website.

Following China's missile test, Japan expressed strong urges for China to reconsider its missile test plan, noting that the missile landed in the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone.

The China-Russia Maritime Joint-2026 military exercise kicked off on the morning of July 6 at Qingdao Port, with Russian warships and nuclear submarines entering Qingdao.

The day before the China-Russia joint maritime military exercises began, Xinhua News Agency reported that Putin and Trump had a phone call.

China sent He Wei, Chairman of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, to mourn Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei rather than a high-level delegation, reflecting Beijing's strategic adjustment in international relations.

Wang Gang and Zhang Shuguang were promoted and awarded ranks on July 3. The video claims Wang Gang has an air force background, while Zhang Shuguang belongs to Zhang Youxia's faction.

Funeral flowers placed by netizens near Saige Mall were taken away by security guards, the people who delivered the flowers were surrounded by plainclothes men, and a delivery driver's phone orders were even checked.

西安赛格商场内陕西利和商贸公司董事长严鹏在讨债过程中从商场高处坠落当场身亡，知情人指其被推下楼，引发社会广泛关注。

Jin Mingri, a Beijing house church figure and founder of Zion Church, has been released after years of detention and flown to the United States by a chartered flight from Beijing.

On July 1, Yan Peng, chairman of Shaanxi Lihe Trading, fell to his death from a high place in Xi'an Saige Shopping Mall. Videos indicated that an 11.45 million yuan fine and withheld payments led to the rupture of his capital chain.

On the afternoon of March 17, 2026, an AITO M9 lost control due to slippery road conditions in rainy weather in Anhui, resulting in a serious traffic accident. The vehicle collided three consecutive times, leaving two people with minor injuries and one person critically injured. The critically injured patient suffered a fractured fifth cervical vertebra, leading to high paraplegia.

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.

In September 2024, the Rocket Force launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the high seas of the Pacific Ocean. Videos claimed this was the first full-range test launch in 44 years.

During Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the Eastern Theater Command launched a dozen Dongfeng missiles around Taiwan, some of which flew over Taiwan's airspace and several landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.

The previously sealed indictment has been officially unsealed, and the US government has publicly announced a lawsuit against Huawei.

The Justice Department of the Trump administration filed a sealed indictment against Huawei in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging the company with multiple offenses.