2026-11-04
On November 4, multiple merchants posted videos stating that sales representatives from Dongpeng Beverage's "Bushuila" brand visited small supermarkets and shops across various regions, manually using new stickers to cover the image of Kylian Mbappe on the bottle labels, sparking dissatisfaction in the comments section from netizens.
2026-11-03
A woman posted a video stating that she purchased a Bull power strip on Pinduoduo labeled as '100% authentic' and 'ten times compensation for fakes.' Upon receiving it, she discovered the power cord plug was not an original Bull part. The merchant admitted the cord end was from another brand, and the product page simultaneously claimed it was authentic while noting it came with a non-original cord.
2026-11-03
On November 3, The Wall Street Journal cited research from The Accounting Review, stating that Chinese companies provide less information in their English annual reports compared to their Chinese versions. The probability of them responding to inquiries from foreign investors is only half that of domestic investors, leading to lower forecast accuracy for foreign analysts.
2026-11-02
Google released a report stating it had dismantled a botnet controlling over 1.3 million TV set-top boxes, noting that the backdoor was developed by Shenzhen Shizhuang Technology and used for malicious ad fraud and bandwidth rental.
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.
2026-10-29
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.
2026-10-27
On October 27, Shandian News exposed that multiple companies in Henan are processing chicken frames—left over after removing chicken necks and breast meat—into meat paste to supply the production of sausages, meatballs, and dumplings. Some workshops were found with sewage flowing everywhere, and some companies lacked food production licenses. The person in charge of Qixian Xinrui Food stated that the daily production capacity is at least 30 tons, with a selling price of 3,800 yuan per ton, and warned consumers to eat as little stuffed food products as possible.
2026-10-24
On October 24, X blogger Elshayib posted what he said were promotional documents from Kimi (Moonshot AI), requiring bloggers promoting K3.1 Pro to submit drafts for review first, not to label paid partnerships, and providing talking points such as the AI gap between China and the US having narrowed to one month. He refused to participate and struck back by posting screenshots of private messages.
2026-10-24
Recently, FAW-Volkswagen employees reported online that the company has delayed the payment of policy bonuses. Some netizens questioned that this money was included in the compensation package during recruitment, but there has been no clear news about its distribution to date.
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
According to a report by the UK's Financial Times on October 22, the liquidators of China Evergrande sent a demand letter to Harvard University, asking for the return of $2 million from a 2020 research grant, and the two sides are in negotiations. The liquidation report disclosed that Evergrande also paid the university about $156 million in 2013 and 2016, and the liquidators said they found no clear commercial rationale for these payments.
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.
2026-10-20
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.
2026-10-19
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
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
On October 17, a netizen posted on Xiaohongshu that when applying for a bank card at the Chengyi Plaza Branch of ICBC in Jimei, Xiamen, the teller unauthorizedly opened a personal pension account for them; the money transferred in could not be withdrawn, and they were told it could only be withdrawn upon retirement.
2026-10-16
According to a post by the account @ChinaSelect on October 16, 2026, inspectors from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found numerous extremely serious sanitary violations at two Chinese plants producing active pharmaceutical ingredients for combination GLP-1 drugs, including black mold on equipment and extensive insect activity on ceilings, raising concerns about the safety of US pharmaceutical companies' reliance on Chinese supply chains.
2026-10-16
Douyin influencer “Crazy Little Yang Ge” had previously been suspended from streaming for two years over fraud, and his originally planned return on September 20 was abruptly halted by the Cyberspace Administration of China. On October 16, Little Yang Ge and his brother deregistered their original Douyin accounts, issuing statements and resuming streaming under the new IDs “Qingyang” and “Kaiyang” respectively. According to the Twitter user @GFWfrog, a large number of accounts impersonating “Qingyang” have already appeared on the Douyin platform.
2026-10-16
On October 16, according to media reports, Huawei Executive Director and Terminal BG Chairman Yu Chengdong reposted MAEXTRO's statement on cooperating with a joint investigation by three departments, stating that justice may be late, but it will never be absent.
2026-10-13
In response to the scandal of its brake pedal breaking three times in a row, Huawei's Maextro publicly released a test report issued by the Testing Center of the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute, claiming that it passed a 3000-newton force test.
2026-10-13
According to a report by National Business Daily on October 13, Stelato V800 sales staff insist publicly that the brake pedal has no quality problems, but a text message sent to owners admits that the strength margin under extreme force needs to be improved, with upgrades expected to roll out successively starting in November; the inspection explanation will not be published through the official account, and stores will contact users one by one.
2026-10-13
On October 13, netizens found that the China Automotive Technology and Research Center, which issued the inspection report for the brake pedal of the Huawei Stelato V800, was also the organization that carried out the earlier controversial Li Auto i8 test in which it "sent a Chenglong truck flying," for which the organization had publicly apologized.
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.
2026-10-11
According to audit reports from 24 provinces disclosed by Southern Weekly, 587 construction projects failed to pay work injury insurance for their employees, accounting for 1/4 of the projects audited; 91 units fraudulently obtained 310,000 yuan from the work injury insurance fund and maternity support funds; 18 projects at 4 universities double-claimed 2.1196 million yuan in research funding, and 2 universities owed enterprises 70.2501 million yuan in project payments.
2026-10-11
On October 11, CreditEase sent an apology letter to investors in fixed-income-like products, acknowledging that the products were in substantive default. It stated that redemptions had been completely suspended since May 22, that preliminary financial due diligence found the company may be insolvent with a large debt repayment gap, and that market-based disposal efforts had yielded no results.
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.
2026-10-09
Maextro announced that it has no problems of its own, attributing responsibility for vehicle issues to national standards, while rolling out a free upgrade plan; the announcement made no mention of a recall. Netizens pointed out that Harmony Intelligent Mobility (HIMA) has repeatedly used the free-upgrade routine before.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Xiangyuan Culture and Tourism announced that its actual controller, Yu Faxiang, had received a Case Filing Notice from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) over suspected violations of information disclosure laws and regulations. The company said its production and operations were normal and unaffected.
2026-10-09
On October 9, reporters from The Beijing News visited and called four MAEXTRO stores in Beijing and received different explanations: some said reinforcing the pedals, some said adjusting materials, some were unaware of the upgrade content, and some directly said they did not know.
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.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a Dongchedi test video showed that the brake pedal bracket of Huawei's Maextro V800 broke one after another during consecutive emergency braking tests, triggering netizen doubts and a wave of order cancellations, while JAC Motors' stock price hit the limit down at midday.
2026-10-07
On October 7, Taiwan's New Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted 10 business operators, alleging that since 2017 they had used the names of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and others to purchase high-speed military-grade chips from Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, altered the outer packaging to launder the origin before illegally selling them to China and Hong Kong, and profited more than NT$300 million; prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of 10 years for the principal suspect.
2026-10-07
At a New York trial on October 7, a former HSBC compliance executive testified that after HSBC decided in 2017 to end its cooperation with Huawei, Huawei attempted to modify the draft termination letter, trying to portray its unilateral withdrawal as a bilateral consensus, but HSBC refused. The HSBC witness also said that in 2016 the bank discovered that Huawei was paying US dollars to sanctioned regions such as Iran through intermediary agencies.
2026-10-03
On October 3, Zheng Jiyan, a former employee of China Telecom, released a video in which he publicly accused several senior executives of the group of allegedly embezzling 38 million yuan in government funds in the National Industrial Internet Big Data Center project, saying that his internal reports since 2023 had gone nowhere and that his labor contract was terminated in August 2026. He questioned how a core software development contract signed just 13 days before the project deadline listed a workload of 33779 person-days, that all four bidding companies were wholly owned subsidiaries of China Telecom, and said he had submitted the report through the 12388 website and was willing to provide 18 items of original evidence. As of press time, China Telecom had not responded.
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.
2026-10-01
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.
2026-09-30
On September 30, the Kaifu District Market Supervision Bureau in Changsha announced that it had issued a "Notice of Rectification" to the Qingquange store involved, ordering an immediate suspension of operations for rectification and stating that it would continue to follow up on the progress.
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, Gansu market regulators released a penalty decision: from April 2023 to September 2024, Zhangjiachuan Zhongyuan Gas used gas cut-offs to force residents to buy designated gas hoses, bundling sales to 2,052 households in total, selling hoses that cost 6 yuan/meter for 50-60 yuan/meter; the 9 resident commitment letters submitted by the company were verified as having been written afterward as required, and cannot prove the absence of bundled sales.
2026-09-24
On September 24, a netizen with an IP address located in Hebei shared photos of mooncakes and a red envelope given by their company — the box was empty and the red envelope was empty too, and many commenters shared similar experiences.
2026-09-22
On September 22, netizens discovered that in the 'Micro-Wish' mini-program under the China Youth Development Foundation, the prices of wish items for children in need were significantly higher than market norms: school bags at 243 yuan, eye-protection desk lamps at 298 yuan, and insulated lunch boxes at 199 yuan. The comment section was flooded with questions about whether the donations could truly reach the children.
2026-09-22
Xiamen Lulin Sen Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. was fined 20,000 yuan by the Xiamen Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau for failing to accurately record pesticide use over a long period, refusing to correct the issue after being ordered to do so, and being identified as having carried out false rectification.
2026-09-22
On September 22, Li Auto released an advertisement in collaboration with actor Xie Mian. Due to its striking similarities in creativity, composition, and camera movement with Volvo's 2013 ad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, it triggered netizens' accusations of plagiarism.
2026-09-21
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.
2026-09-19
On September 19, the Beijing Municipal Market Regulation Bureau announced that it has launched investigations into four online hotel and travel platforms—Fliggy, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. On the same day, the China Hotel Association pointed out that these platforms are involved in issues such as high commissions, forced bundling, and data opacity, and called on them to make their search ranking and commission rate rules public.
2026-09-20
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.
2026-09-20
The company's statement claimed that there were no temporary workers in the workshop, and that during the audit process it asked temporary workers to leave the site to avoid the auditors; in fact the workshop had temporary workers, a large number of dispatched labor workers, summer workers, and vocational school interns.
2026-09-20
The company had never conducted fire drills; had it not been for Walmart's audit, the emergency lights and exit signs in the workshop would not have been powered on, and the smoke alarms, emergency alarms, and emergency lights in other areas were only installed two days before the audit.
2026-09-18
On Sep 18, developers revealed that Zhipu's AI programming tool, ZCode, uploaded users' entire workspace code to servers without clear notice. Zhipu subsequently apologized and admitted the feature was enabled by default. On the same day, related skeptical posts were complained and deleted by Meizhou Direction Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd., triggering public opinion suppression over the controversy.
2026-09-18
On September 18, a user posted a screenshot claiming that a post titled "Zcode silently uploads code, domestic products can't be trusted either" was deleted following an infringement complaint. The complainant was listed as Meizhou Direction Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd., sparking questions about suppression of public opinion.
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
Seres outsourced workers say their hourly wage is 21 to 22 yuan, and with overtime every day their monthly income is only 5,000 to 6,000 yuan, claiming that the factory's advertised monthly salary of 7,000–8,000 yuan and good benefits are a scam.
2026-09-18
An AITO owner posted fault records, saying the vehicle's air conditioning compressor had been replaced multiple times, and that after-sales service only provided some of the fault records, refusing to print earlier ones.
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.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Wall Street Journal reported that China's blueberry industry, driven by illegal propagation of foreign protected varieties and bank credit, achieved a surge in production, leading to overcapacity and price wars. A breeding company’s investigation found that a nursery in Yunnan was obtaining cuttings of protected varieties through illegal channels.
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.
2026-09-14
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.
2026-09-15
The Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development reported that the China Institute of Building Standard Design and Research Co., Ltd. issued five inspection reports for ductile iron manhole covers with fabricated data without conducting load-bearing tests. Surveillance verification confirmed that the pressure testing machine involved was not turned on during the relevant dates. The commission fined the institute 62,500 yuan and suspended its municipal engineering material testing business for one year.
2026-09-15
In a Wall Street Journal report, a Yunnan nursery employee admitted that he had obtained protected L25 blueberry variety cuttings from a Driscoll's farm through connections for propagation.
2026-09-14
According to an ICIJ investigation based on 4.8 million confidential documents, ICBC's London branch, at the behest of its Beijing headquarters, provided financing for Belt and Road projects and opened accounts for the daughter of Azerbaijan's dictator, Russian oligarchs, and companies linked to Belarus's military-industrial complex.
Location: London, United Kingdom ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-14
According to an ICIJ investigation, days after Meng Wanzhou was indicted by the United States in February 2019, ICBC's London branch urgently convened nine employees on a Saturday, bypassing internal compliance procedures to remit more than $1.3 billion in Huawei deposits back to China; compliance officers raised risk warnings, but the Beijing headquarters insisted on proceeding with the transaction.
Location: London, United Kingdom ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-10
On September 10, Shao Tianlan, founder and CEO of Mech-Mind, posted on his WeChat Moments, accusing Galaxy Core, a company valued at over 20 billion yuan and featured on the Spring Festival Gala, of fabricating revenue through related-party transactions to rush its IPO. He publicly questioned whether Beijing municipal leaders support such companies going public.
2026-09-10
Wu Zhongmin, a reporter from Jiangxi Radio and Television Station, was slapped in the face by the father of the person in charge of a company involved in a dispute while interviewing at a Xiaer Baba homestay in Shenzhen. The All-China Journalists Association has spoken out in support of the reporter's right to perform their duties according to law and demanded severe punishment for the assailant.
2026-09-09
A tech blogger exposed an email invitation for a Huawei product promotion that required concealing the paid sponsorship relationship, sparking industry doubts about commercial transparency and Huawei's marketing tactics.
2026-09-07
Star Union Shares personnel punishment controversy: The person in charge of human resources was dismissed after being dismissed as a director in the past, and the position was questioned.
2026-09-06
On September 6, 2026, an investigative report by The New York Times revealed that Inspur Group, a Chinese company under U.S. sanctions, purchased tens of billions of dollars' worth of advanced-process chips and evaded export controls by renaming its Silicon Valley subsidiary and using a transshipment network in Southeast Asia.
2026-09
Catering enterprise Xibei is rumored to face bankruptcy due to a broken capital chain. Instead of reflecting on the pre-made meal issue, its founder Jia Guolong reportedly plans to sue Luo Yonghao, who previously exposed the problems, triggering public discussion about the company shirking responsibility and potentially evading debts.
2026-09
In September 2026, a digital repair blogger transplanted and tested the memory chip of a Huawei Pura 70 Pro, finding it was actually manufactured by Samsung, raising questions about the labeling. The original test video subsequently disappeared and the account was switched to private.
2026-09
Online reports claim that office towers such as Shenzhen's Future Assets Plaza only turn on their exterior lighting at night while the interiors stand empty, creating the false impression of a brightly lit, thriving building, when in fact many floors are vacant.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, The Beijing News published an investigative report revealing that a disinfection and pest control company in Xiamen had long-term filled mineral water bottles with the highly toxic pesticide dichlorvos, tearing off the labels to evade inspection, and carried out pest control operations in violation of regulations for dozens of chain restaurants, with the work directly contacting tableware and food ingredients.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, in response to the incident in Hebei, China, where cabbage was dipped in a formaldehyde solution, South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it was verifying with the Chinese side whether the cabbage in question had been exported to South Korea, and that it would conduct up to three formaldehyde tests on imported Chinese cabbage.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance agreed to pay a $400 million civil fine to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Location: Washington, United States ·
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2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, multiple users reported that, without their knowledge, their participation in a Baidu Netdisk sharing campaign led the operator to file personal income tax labor compensation declarations of 89.1 yuan on their behalf, raising questions about tax compliance.
2026-08-20
Xu Jiayin, former chairman of Evergrande Group, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and his two sons, Xu Zhijian and Xu Tenghe, were also sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court publicly pronounced the first-instance verdict on the Evergrande Group and Xu Jiayin and others. Xu Jiayin received a combined sentence of life imprisonment for multiple crimes and had all his personal property confiscated.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong ·
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2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, reports circulated online that the Yaogang Cold Storage and Xinglong Cold Storage in Bozhou, Anhui had been hit by a scandal; the cold storage operators were accused of unauthorizedly hauling away and reselling large batches of medicinal herbs stored by merchants, prompting a large number of affected merchants to arrive on site to defend their rights and call the police.
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
Continental Aerospace Technology Company, a mainland aviation technology firm under China's state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), has agreed to pay more than $11.77 million to settle a False Claims Act case in which it was accused of improperly applying for US Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for small and medium-sized enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2026-08
Master Kong reported instant noodle business revenue of over 13.7 billion yuan, up 2% year on year; Uni-President reported food business revenue of over 5.6 billion yuan, up 4.7% year on year.
2026-08
To prepare for the Walmart audit on September 9, 2026, the factory launched a major cleaning and renovation push in mid-August, canceling rest days and working continuous overtime purely for show.
2026-07-25
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has found that Ctrip abused its dominant position in the hotel booking market, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a fine totaling approximately 5.179 billion yuan.
2026-07-24
A Chinese electric vehicle owner drove from Zhengzhou to Paris. Shortly after the vehicle crossed the border into Kazakhstan, it was remotely locked by the manufacturer and could no longer be driven.
2026-07-01
Alibaba is accused of failing to prevent merchants on its platform from conducting approximately 80,000 transactions involving the export of illegal drugs, equipment, and other items to the United States between January 2016 and December 2024.
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, rights-defense users who had reported that the Juxiaohua and Yikoudai platforms withheld loan funds and triggered a blow-up revealed that Henan's Daxiang News had been instructed by its superiors to stop following up on the story; previously, report videos published by Henan's Metropolitan Report and Shandong's Life Help had also been deleted and taken down across the entire web.
2026-06-25
In late June 2026, the "Juxiaohua" and "Yikoudai" platforms operated by Liaoning Orange Digital Technology collapsed. After a large number of borrowers repaid their loans, the platforms maliciously withheld the funds and failed to forward them to the lending financial institutions, leaving dozens of overdue loans on the borrowers' records and subjecting them to intensive debt collection.
2026-06-23
The National Audit Office of China released an audit work report revealing that between 2023 and 2025, the Bank of China used employee capital contributions to "make up numbers" and packaged private equity funds as public funds, evading a cumulative 2.367 billion yuan in taxes.
2026-06-18
Goldman Sachs released a research report stating that gold would continue to fall due to interest rate hikes, but SEC filings from the same period show it secretly increased its holdings in gold ETFs.
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.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, a tech blogger posted a video exposing that an enterprise-grade mechanical hard drive he purchased from JD.com's self-operated section, which was promised to be brand new and unopened, was found upon disassembly to have internal firmware and a production date from a ten-year-old drive.
2026-06-09
On June 9, 2026, The New York Times reported that Chinese companies are openly hawking wigs and other goods made by North Korean laborers on social media, and disclosed that the workers are toiling long hours under intense conditions, allegedly in violation of UN sanctions resolutions against North Korea.
2026-06
An audit report revealed that Bank of China used methods such as gathering people through employees to package private equity funds as public funds, evading approximately 2.367 billion yuan in taxes over a period of more than two years.
2026-06
Audits explicitly named ICBC, CCB, Bank of Communications, CITIC, and other banks for tech-finance that fails to live up to its name, stating that 126 provincial branches retroactively labeled 64.22 billion yuan in loans as tech loans after the fact.
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
The video claims that in June 2026 another 4 new energy vehicle companies, including IM Motors, showed a clear decline, and that some IM Motors dealers took payments from customers and then left.
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.
2026-05-28
On May 28, 2026, Shuanghui Development issued an apology statement regarding lincomycin levels in pork hind leg meat from its subsidiary Wangkui Shuanghui Beidahuang Food exceeding the limit by 37.5 times, stating that a special task force has been set up to conduct a comprehensive investigation.
2026-05-27
In late May 2026, a "pink wood ear" product at Hema Fresh sparked public controversy over vulgarity because its label used a female silhouette and sexually suggestive copy; Hema subsequently issued a public apology, announced that all products involved would be removed from shelves, and launched an internal review and rectification.
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.
2026-05-10
From May 10 to 15, 2026, the Shandong Provincial Drug Administration inspected Line 103 of the lyophilized powder injection workshop at Shandong Huatai Pharmaceutical, concluded that there was 1 serious defect and that the results were non-compliant, and decided to suspend production of amiodarone hydrochloride injection.
2026-05-08
The Zhengzhou Teresa Teng Digital Technology Music Center opened, featuring a holographic projection of Teresa Teng singing her new song "Going Home," which prompted the Teresa Teng Cultural and Educational Foundation to issue a public statement saying it was unauthorized.
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 female master's student in Shanghai said that after a one-month internship without signing a formal agreement, her personal information was registered by the company as the person in charge of finance, the person in charge of tax, and a company executive who must bear legal responsibility.
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.
2026-03-30
The global commercial organization World Data Organization (WDO) held its inaugural conference in Beijing, drawing high-profile state media promotion, though it has been pointed out as essentially a shady shell company lacking international legal basis.
2026-01-20
On January 20, 2026, the Office of the Central Special Mechanism for Combating Formalism and Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots Level, together with the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, announced: from 2022 to 2024, 34 above-designated-size industrial enterprises in Shuangjiang County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, cumulatively falsified their reported output value by 3.5 billion yuan.
2025-11-26
The fire at Wing Fook Yuen in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on November 26, 2025 killed more than 100 people; the exterior protective netting is suspected to have been produced by two Shandong companies, whose test reports cannot be found on the testing agency's official website, and outsiders question whether the materials were substandard.
2025-08-06
On August 3, 2025, China Automotive Research Institute stated that the test outline was drafted by Li Auto and was a simulated test for a specific scenario; on August 6, Li Auto, China Automotive Research Institute, and Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor issued a joint statement, in which China Automotive Research Institute apologized for not explaining the purpose of the Chenglong truck promptly and clearly.
2025-07-30
At the Li Auto i8 launch event on July 30, Li Auto released a video claiming that when the Li Auto i8 collided with an eight-ton truck, the truck's four wheels flew up and the cab separated.
2025-07-29
On July 29, 2025, Li Auto released a video of a head-on collision test between its i8 and a Chenglong truck. In the footage, all four wheels of the truck leave the ground and the cab tips over, raising questions about the safety of Chenglong trucks.
2024-08
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a settlement order against Wu Zheng, finding that during his tenure at Edison Max he concealed related-party transactions and used a listed company's money to pay off his own debts.
2023-12-26
On December 26, 2023, Yu Chengdong unveiled the Aito M9 at Huawei's Winter Full-Scenario Launch Event, claiming it would redefine "the best smart flagship SUV under 10 million yuan."
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
Bank of China used its subordinate financial institutions and employee contributions to create public-like holder structures for 11 private equity funds in order to exploit tax incentives meant for public funds.
2023-03-22
The U.S. SEC has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Justin Sun, the TRON Foundation, and affiliated companies, accusing them of manipulating TRX trading volume, selling unregistered securities, and failing to disclose compensation for celebrity endorsements.
2023
The Huawei Nova11 SE went on sale at a starting price of 1999 yuan; the video claims that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 6000 4G chip it carries had previously been used in the OPPO360, which sells for about 700 yuan.
2023
Yu Chengdong released the Aito M9, calling it the best SUV under 10 million yuan.
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.
2022-03-15
The 2022 315 Gala first exposed production chaos at multiple pickled vegetable companies in Huarong and Junshan, Hunan, with workers stepping barefoot into the pickled greens and cigarette butts thrown about; the brands involved issued urgent apologies and terminated cooperation.
2022
After Sun Yuchen took over the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, he was accused of handling platform users' assets through rule adjustments, targeted liquidations, and account bans.
2021-09
On September 10, 2021, Blackstone terminated its acquisition of SOHO China; on December 17, Jianhua Land, a SOHO subsidiary, was ordered by Beijing tax authorities to pay back taxes and a fine for underpaid taxes, totaling 709 million yuan.
2020-09-29
Between 2008 and 2016, 15 JPMorgan traders systematically spoofed the precious metals markets, resulting in $920 million in fines from U.S. regulators and criminal charges against three traders.
2020-04-12
According to a report dated April 12, 2020 republished on the Yueyang County government website, Huaihua Hongling Qingcheng Real Estate Co., Ltd., the construction unit of the Yuelu Qingcheng project, was entered into the serious misconduct record for refusing to implement relevant rectification or work suspension notices.
2020-03
During the fork dispute in the Steem community, Justin Sun, together with Binance, Huobi, and Poloniex, used exchange-custodied Steem tokens to vote, overthrowing the community-elected witnesses.
2019-03
Huawei released the P30 Pro, claiming it could capture clear photos of the moon. Reviewer Wang Yuekun questioned whether the photos were generated by an AI algorithm. Wang Yuekun was subsequently fired by his employer, Afou Technology (Fview), sparking public controversy over Huawei's public relations and its way of responding.
2018-04
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issued a warning to Zhao Wei and her husband, fined them 300,000 yuan each, and imposed a 5-year securities market ban.
2018
In 2018, Gao Xiaosong posted on Weibo that he had officially joined Harvard University as a researcher. Netizens searched Harvard's website and found that his English title was Associate, raising questions about him exaggerating his credentials.
2016-09-08
In 2016, a Ministry of Finance investigation found that 72 of 93 automakers were suspected of defrauding subsidies, with the case rate reaching as high as 80%.
2013
In 2013, while Iran was under international sanctions, Huawei smuggled equipment through Xintong, a shell company in Iran, whose employees used Huawei email addresses and ID badges. Meng Wanzhou later confessed to this matter in exchange for an agreement not to be prosecuted.
2004-08-31
On August 31, 2004, Du Shicheng presided over a special meeting of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee to study land for housing for Sinopec experts and employees; through the coordination of Vice Mayor Luo Yongming, a total of 1000 mu of land was secured across the Qingdao Economic Development Zone, Huangdao District, and Jiaonan City.
2003
Chen Jin's team ground off the markings on purchased Motorola chips and reprinted them as "Hanxin No. 1", announced it in February 2003, defrauding about 110 million yuan in research funding (over 60 million yuan received), and was exposed in early 2006.
2003
In the summer of 2003, Jiang Peizhen, the boss of Golden Throat, paid $300,000 and a jersey to have Ronaldo take a photo with her while wearing a jersey printed with the Golden Throat logo. Subsequently, Golden Throat used his image for television advertising for four years, while Ronaldo himself was completely unaware of it.
1995-02-23
Illegal short selling and a bull-bear battle broke out in the treasury bond futures market; Wanguo Securities was hit and forced into liquidation; the exchange subsequently declared the last eight minutes of trading void, and treasury bond futures were shut down that May.