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.
On October 12, the Hubei Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security publicly named and shamed: the Xiangyang Gengdu Town project, general-contracted by CSCEC Seventh Bureau, owes 118 migrant workers a total of 3.2015 million yuan in labor remuneration. After being ordered by the Xiangyang Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau on May 13 to rectify within a time limit, the overdue corrections were not made, and on August 6 the human resources and social security authorities issued another administrative penalty decision.
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.