2026-11-03
On November 3, the Guangxi Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Deng Guofu, former Party Secretary and President of the Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences and a hybrid rice expert, has been expelled from the CCP and is under investigation. He had been engaged in hybrid rice breeding for nearly 40 years, resigned as a member of the Guangxi CPPCC at the end of January this year, and was placed under investigation at the end of May.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a netizen posted a video claiming that more than three months after the floods in Hengzhou, Guangxi, desilting and rescue work in some affected towns still mainly depends on civilian volunteer teams. The home of an elderly person living alone was buried in mud and sand, and after clearing it alone for three months he had only dug out a small portion; lonely elderly residents are still coming forward to ask for help.
2026-10-19
Circulating images show several students placing fresh flowers next to the entrance and exit of the Guangxi University metro station to mourn the student surnamed Ning, who fell to his death.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a video circulated online showing members of the Nanning Blue Sky Rescue Team in Guangxi wearing uniforms and shoulder lights, standing watch and patrolling the Yongjiang First Bridge at night and chanting the slogan "Public welfare guarding the bridge, rescue by your side." Netizens questioned whether the root cause of people jumping off the bridge should be addressed.
2026-10-17
On the evening of October 17, Guangxi University announced that a student surnamed Ning had died in a fall from height, saying it had fulfilled its duties of education and management, and warning that it would deal with the fabrication of false information and malicious hype in accordance with the law, without specifying what the alleged false information was.
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.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the WeChat public account of Guangxi Medical University reposted an article from "Chongqing Education" stating that college students using VPNs and other means to jump the wall constitutes illegal network access, and cited cases of students placed on probation at school and two individuals criminally detained for selling VPN accounts and profiting over 1 million yuan.
2026-10-12
On the evening of October 12, a Guangxi University student surnamed Ning was found dead below a campus dormitory building. Police preliminarily determined that the death resulted from a fall from height and ruled out a criminal case.
2026-09-27
On September 27, netizens posted a video claiming that two dormitory balconies on the 7th floor of a building at Nanning Vocational and Technical University in Guangxi had no railings installed at all. The school only put up warning tape but still arranged for students to move in, sparking concerns among netizens.
7月23日
On July 23, a netizen in Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou, Guangxi posted a video claiming that the area continues to suffer from heavy rainfall, and the newly opened road has been washed away again.
7月22日
On July 22, disaster victims in Hengzhou, Guangxi, began speaking out, claiming that temporary shelters had suddenly issued an emergency notice requiring them to move out by a deadline and prohibiting them from returning to the shelters.
2026-09-17
Flood disasters occurred in Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou, Guangxi. The houses of multiple villagers were destroyed, and they are in urgent need of daily living supplies such as autumn and winter clothes, bedding, and kitchenware. Netizens have launched donation appeals on social media platforms.
2026-09-16
On September 16, Chinese Communist Party official media announced that the Pinglu Canal, connecting Hengzhou in Nanning with Beibu Gulf, has officially opened to navigation. Construction of the canal began on August 28, 2022. With a total length of 134.2 kilometers, it is a Class I inland waterway capable of accommodating 5,000-ton vessels. The total volume of earth and rock excavation reached 315 million cubic meters, and it is touted as setting four world records.
2026-09-07
A man jumped in front of a train at Nanning Station on September 7.
2026-09
Students at Nanning Vocational and Technical University reported that the balconies of two dormitory rooms on the seventh floor have no railings, yet the school still arranged for students to move in and put up warning tape on the balconies.
2026-08-15
A Chinese woman was taken into a room by customs officers at Nanning Airport in Guangxi for checks on her phone, luggage, and financial records; her passport was subsequently revoked, and she was told that students at her school were banned from leaving the country because some students had overstayed in Spain.
2026-08-12
On August 12, volunteers released footage of the post-disaster scene in Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou, Guangxi, showing that nearly a month after the flood, many villagers' homes deep in the mountains were still piled with heavy mud and stones, leaving elderly disaster victims to clear the debris themselves with shovels.
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.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, after a flash flood disaster in Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou City, Guangxi, infrastructure was severely damaged and roads were cut off. Remote mountain villages were short of supplies, and villagers relied on ropes and human power to pull small boats to rescue themselves and transport grain.
2026-08-08
On August 8, 2026, volunteer rescuers reported that a month had passed since Zhenlong Township in Hengzhou, Guangxi was hit by flash floods and mudslides in early July. Houses in remote villages such as Najian Village, Gulou Village, and Shangxu Village were severely damaged, living supplies are short, and tap water has still not been restored.
2026-08-07
On August 7, flower farmers in Hengzhou, Guangxi released footage showing that, affected by the flooding from the discharge of the Liulan Reservoir for more than ten days, large areas of jasmine plants in local fields had lost their leaves and withered, and the soil was severely compacted.
2026-08-06
On August 6, residents of Shangwei Village, Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou, Guangxi, reported that more than a month after the floods, the village's tap water had still not been restored, and villagers could only carry out repairs to the damaged water supply pipes by hand in the mountain gullies.
2026-08-06
On August 6, aerial video showed large patches of reddish-brown exposed landslide scars on multiple hillsides in the valleys around Zhenlong Middle School in Zhenlong Town, Hengzhou City, Guangxi, with surface soil and vegetation washed away entirely by flash floods.
2026-08-06
On August 6, police in Hengzhou, Guangxi, announced that as of that day they had investigated 25 online rumor cases related to the floods and administratively detained 24 people; a man who commented in a comment section that he had heard the flood killed tens of thousands was detained for 3 days.
2026-08-05
On August 5, villagers in Longtou Village, Zhenlong Township, Hengzhou City, Guangxi, posted videos reporting that one month after the flood, the village was still covered in thick mud, and villagers could only rely on mutual help from relatives and friends to dig and clear it out household by household.
2026-08-05
On August 5, inspection personnel entered Dengwei Village, Yunbiao Town, Hengzhou City, Guangxi. On-site video shows that the village road is still lined with mud and broken trees along its entire length, floodwater has yet to recede in some areas, and multiple houses have been severely damaged and collapsed.
2026-08-04
Villagers in Xiaoyi Town, Hengzhou, Guangxi, affected by floods, rejected the official designation of the disaster as a natural disaster and the low compensation of several hundred yuan, publishing an article to defend their rights and accusing reservoir management of severe inaction and uncontrolled flood discharge that caused the flood to destroy the village.
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
On August 4, 2026, the official authorities of Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi announced that administrative penalties had been imposed on 18 netizens who posted information about local floods on the grounds of spreading disaster-related rumors, prompting netizens to satirize in the comments section that the truth about the flood was being covered up.
2026-08-03
Victims in the dam-break disaster area in Guangxi said in interviews and videos that relief supplies were severely insufficient, that local private donations were blocked, and that videos they posted showing their monotonous three meals a day were taken down online.
2026-08-02
In the early hours of August 2, 2026, tents at the temporary resettlement site for flood victims in Dutian Village, Hengzhou, Guangxi, were removed overnight. The affected villagers lost their centralized shelter and were forced to rent housing elsewhere at their own expense.
2026-07-31
On July 31, 2026, flood victims in Dutian New Village, Hengzhou City, Guangxi, reported that officials distributing relief supplies required villagers to bring their own oil drums and rice bags, and that each person received only one jin of rice and one jin of cooking oil, sparking public questioning and heated discussion.
2026-07-26
Internal information from the disaster area in Hengzhou says that 17,000 people died locally; police are standing guard to prevent people from entering and banning rescue teams from entering in order to cover up the truth.
2026-07-25
X account Luo Xiang posted a video submitted by a netizen showing that some disaster victims in the Hengzhou area of Guangxi staged a protest due to dissatisfaction with post-disaster resettlement. The video footage shows smoke filling the air in the night.
2026-07-22
According to leaks from an insider at the Three Gorges project, Hengzhou first burned the huge number of victims' bodies in the open air with fuel in order to cover up the deaths and destroy the evidence, but because progress was too slow it switched to using highly concentrated acid to disfigure the remains.
2026-07-20
On July 20, 2026, after the massive floods in Hengzhou, Guangxi receded, the entire city was left buried in silt. Due to a complete disruption of the municipal water supply, affected residents were forced to pay high prices out of their own pockets to purchase clean water to wash and clear their severely damaged homes.
2026-07-14
Volunteers in the Guangxi flood disaster area stated that the cafeteria was not allowed to deliver meals because it lacked a required certificate; netizens reported that multiple charity kitchens in Hengzhou were shut down by the supervision team for the same reason.
2026-07-11
On July 11, 2026, a warm-hearted person from Ningxia drove 2,000 kilometers to deliver several thousand jin of supplies to disaster-stricken Hengzhou in Guangxi, but was refused by officials and forced to distribute them to victims on the spot; the related livestream was promptly banned by the platform.
2026-07-10
On July 10, 2026, it was reported online that during the floods in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to the Liulan Reservoir, the Gandao, Yunbiao, Jijing and other reservoirs also suffered dam breaches. Officials were accused of covering up the disaster and arresting those spreading the news on charges of “spreading rumors.”
2026-07-06
Dam breaches and collapses occurred at the Liulan Reservoir and Yunbiao Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi. Downstream villages were washed away, and authorities subsequently issued a situation report and launched rescue operations.
2026-07-06
A 50-meter-wide breach was washed out in the dam body of the Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, turning multiple downstream villages and towns into a sea of water and causing major casualties and property losses.
2026-07-06
At 6:30 AM, the water level exceeded the eastern outlet, and Dengwei was flooded; Liulan Village downstream did not receive an evacuation notice, and some people were swept away along with their houses.
2026-07-06
A dam breach occurred at the Liujing Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi. The reservoir was built in 1958, and over 300 million yuan had previously been invested in reinforcement; the breach occurred less than a year after the reinforcement was completed.
2026-07-06
On July 6, 2026, a serious emergency occurred at the dam of Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, where a breach opened up. Large volumes of floodwater gushed down, inundating downstream areas. Several people were trapped and swept away by the floodwaters.
2026-07-05
The Reservoir Service Department issued a notice in the evening, warning the public to stay away from the riverbanks and preparing for flood discharge, but the sluice gates were not opened; the contractor claimed they were going to fish.
2026-07-03
Weather forecasts warned of a typhoon and heavy rain in two days, but the reservoir did not discharge water in advance to make storage capacity.
2026-07
A dike breach occurred at Liunan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Guangxi. The official timeline says the water level exceeded the design flood level at 2:30 a.m., the flood discharge gates were fully opened at 6 a.m., residents received an evacuation notice at 8 a.m., and the dam collapsed at 10:20 a.m.; officials say 39 people died.
2026-07
A person claiming to be a Three Gorges Project worker alleged that multiple reservoirs in Hengzhou, Guangxi, burst their dams during a typhoon, killing more than 17,000 people, and that the local government covered up the disaster.
2026-07
According to revelations, relevant reservoirs in Hengzhou, Guangxi discharged floodwaters without notifying residents in advance, doing so in the middle of the night, which caused people to be swept away by the flood.
2026-07
According to reports, police stood guard in disaster-stricken Hengzhou, Guangxi after the disaster, barring people from entering the affected area, and claimed the arrangements were meant to avoid triggering public opinion risks.
2026-07
In early July this year, several reservoirs in Hengzhou, Guangxi, collapsed, causing floods. Water conservancy expert Wang Weiluo, who lives in Germany, said the breach of the Liulan Reservoir is closely related to the Pinglu Canal, and he put forward three factors: the canal changing the direction of river flow, flood embankments obstructing drainage, and the destruction of the Yu River watershed.
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.
2025-06
In June 2025, local authorities issued a press release claiming that the Liunan Reservoir had completed standardized construction and was equipped with intelligent monitoring and intelligent water level monitoring systems.
2022
The Nanning government once sold local parking space operating rights from 2022 through 2052, a term as long as 30 years.