Sexual Harassment · Full chronicle and history

On November 9, staff at Henan University of Economics and Law told Haibao News that the school has provided psychological counseling to the students involved and will release the investigation results.

On November 8, Henan University of Economics and Law announced that it had established a special task force to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Zhao Zengyan and had suspended all of his educational and teaching activities.

On November 7, a female student posted a report accusing Zhao Zengyan, a teacher at the Henan University of Economics and Law, of repeatedly hugging and kissing her during a trip to an off-campus scenic spot. She also claimed that before the return trip, he said, "Kiss me and then I'll drive." Zhao Zengyan is a former dean of the university's School of Marxism.

On October 23, a blogger released a documentary short visiting day laborers in Maqiaoqiao, Beijing. A 53-year-old female worker, Aunt Hu, recounted her experience of fighting back after being sexually harassed by a labor contractor, and said she spent 3,760 yuan to learn AI video-based product promotion, only to have the contractor disappear before the commission was withdrawn, and was then asked to pay an additional 1,450 yuan in traffic-boosting fees.

On October 10, according to a report by Sohu's Qianliyan, a male manager at a company in Tianjin was accused of sending obscene and explicit photos to a female subordinate. The woman's mother went to the company to show the photos to passersby and demand an explanation, and police officers arrived to handle the matter. Lawyer Zhou Zhaocheng said this constitutes sexual harassment, and the company has a duty to investigate and handle it.

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 Sep 18, netizens exposed chat logs showing a physics teacher at Dafang No. 2 Middle School in Bijie, Guizhou, sexually harassing a female student. The victim continued to be harassed after explicitly refusing, and has now reported the incident to the police. On Sep 19, the local police station, education bureau, and discipline inspection commission confirmed they have intervened in the investigation. The school stated that the teacher involved has been removed from his post.

Hu Liren mentioned in the program the Zhao Guangjun case he had talked about before, saying that Zhao Guangjun assaulted and sexually assaulted others, that these things had already happened, and that the victims had medical reports as well as police records.

On August 4, 2026, the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Hebei announced that an audio recording of improper remarks circulating online was authentic. Guo Hongbo, director of the enforcement bureau of the Congtai District Court, was suspended and placed under a special investigation for soliciting bribes from a female party to the case and verbally harassing her.

On August 4, 2026, a female employee in Wuhan, Hubei, posted under her real name to report that while working at a state-owned enterprise, a leader harassed her at a hotel during a business trip and demanded that she sleep with him. After she reported the matter to the company's discipline inspection authorities, the leader involved received only a perfunctory circulatory criticism as punishment.

On August 3, 2026, it was exposed online that a minor female employee was offered several thousand yuan by a restaurant owner for verbal and physical sexual harassment while working part time. The victim publicly released chat screenshots and audio recordings and plans to report the case to the police to defend her rights.

Yang Zili posted in a group, accusing Hu Liren of exaggerating the severity of the incident where Zhao Guangjun hit someone, and defended Zhao Guangjun. Hu Liren responded by listing facts such as Zhao Guangjun causing a mild concussion, threatening others with a knife, and sexually harassing Li Huanjun, criticizing Yang Zili for evading the truth and defending someone with a long record of misconduct.

Li Huanjun posted on Twitter, stating that she respects Yang Zili, but expressed dissatisfaction with his demand that she keep quiet about the Zhao Guangjun sexual harassment incident, considering it "going too far."

In August 2026, a woman in Hangzhou alleged that she was molested and pushed down by a man in her apartment building's elevator. Police did not classify the incident as molestation and instead detained her and her companion for a night. After she subsequently spoke out online to defend her rights, her Douyin account was banned.

CCTV cited data from the Ministry of Public Security stating that the number of criminal cases nationwide decreased by 16.1% year-on-year from January to May. However, the phenomenon of multiple regions investing financially in expanding detention centers and prisons has led to external doubts about the real public security situation.

On the evening of July 26, Zhao Haifeng, general manager of the Zhejiang branch of China Merchants Shekou, and the general manager of C&D Real Estate's Hangzhou company, among others, committed forcible indecent assault against a female subordinate who had organized the gathering while moving on to another KTV venue, causing second-degree minor injuries. The two were subsequently placed under criminal detention and dismissed from their posts.

In 2025, Hong Kong recorded a total of 89,137 criminal cases, 50% more than the 59,225 cases in 2019. Among them, 43,212 were fraud cases, accounting for half, with victims defrauded of HK$8.1 billion. Fraud cases have multiplied fivefold from fewer than 10,000 in 2019.

Data shows that in 2024, the annual number of criminal cases filed by Chinese police (Public Security) exceeded 10 million, a sharp increase compared to 2000, with the majority of short-sentence cases involving various "pocket crimes."