2026-11-10
On November 10, netizens revealed that a BYD employee in Anyang, Henan, had been assigned 12 to 13-hour night shifts for several consecutive days. The employee collapsed and fell while riding a bike on the way home from work and is currently in the ICU. After the family applied for financial aid and requested an advance on medical expenses, the employee's corporate WeChat account was banned, making it impossible to log in and retrieve attendance and overtime records. The company has not processed the incident as a work-related injury.
2026-11-09
According to a netizen submission, during the recent county-level People's Congress election in Anyang, Henan, government departments used household registration information to verify voter identities, allowing them to access personal information in the system backend and cast votes on behalf of voters without needing their ID numbers.
2026-11-09
On November 9, a netizen in Henan captured a photo of a local elderly person wrapped in plastic bags to keep warm during the cold winter. The photo sparked concern, and many netizens expressed their willingness to provide help.
2026-11-08
Since the beginning of this semester, Henan University of Economics and Law has required students to sign in for every class using facial recognition and location tracking. The system also identifies the IP address, network environment, and device information at the time of sign-in, including proxy IPs and IPs from tools for circumventing the Great Firewall. It has been verified that those using tools to sign in on behalf of others will be directly marked as absent, and those with severe absenteeism may face expulsion.
2026-11-08
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.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a food delivery rider in Henan suffered a sudden illness while on duty, collapsing to the ground in convulsions. Passersby helped lift his e-bike and attempted to provide aid by pressing his philtrum.
2026-11-07
On November 7, netizens filmed new employees at the Xinlianxin Chemical Group in Xinxiang, Henan, wearing uniforms and marching in formation within the factory grounds. Some netizens added that the factory previously organized flag-raising ceremonies and drill training every Monday.
2026-11-07
Based on surveillance footage, the court of first instance determined that Qin started the altercation and struck Ma's head multiple times, ordering Qin to bear 70% of the civil liability. On November 7, Red Star News reported that the Zhengzhou Intermediate Court rejected Qin's appeal and upheld the original verdict requiring compensation of over 840,000 yuan to the family.
2026-11-07
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.
2026-11-06
Huanle Aijia, a supermarket chain in Zhumadian, Henan, failed to honor its previously promised payment plan. When a large number of cardholders gathered to defend their rights, they were met with a heavy presence of police and SWAT police for stability maintenance, and many were taken away.
2026-11-06
He Xiong, former Deputy Secretary-General of the Henan Provincial Government, was stripped of his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress on the spot and transferred to judicial authorities.
2026-11-06
On November 6, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi exposed that a scrap yard in Xiaowanglou Village, Huaidian Town, Shenqiu County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, was suspected of controlling three intellectually disabled individuals for over a decade, forcing them into hard labor without pay, withholding food if they failed to work, and subjecting them to physical abuse. One of the victims remains unidentified. Shangguan questioned why previous reports had not been investigated.
2026-11-06
Around November 6, the official media outlet "Changge Toutiao" released a video showing a patriotic program at a local school sports meet opening ceremony, where students held signs for various provinces and responded "Here!" when "Taiwan" was called out. Netizens in the comments section sarcastically remarked, "How is this not a way of winning?"
2026-11-05
A public institution employee in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, submitted a report stating that after civil service salary adjustments in 2022, the compensation for public institution staff was not adjusted simultaneously. Various bonuses totaling about 160,000 RMB from 2022 to 2025, and routine assessment awards totaling about 50,000 RMB for over thirty months from December 2023 to June 2026, have not been paid, leaving them with only a basic monthly salary of 3,000 to 4,000 RMB.
2026-11-04
Public institution staff in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, reported to the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration that since 2022, the district party committee and district government have been in arrears with performance-based wages and policy-based bonuses for thousands of employees across the district, with an average cumulative debt of approximately 210,000 yuan per person. They requested that the case be placed under supervision and that the arrears be paid within a specified time limit.
2026-11-04
Mr. Liu stated that he did not receive valid notices for the court hearing or the judgment. His application for a retrial was rejected by the Dengzhou City Court on the grounds that service via SMS and phone call was legal. On November 4, the original trial judge responded that the retrial application had been answered and that it was inconvenient to accept an interview.
2026-11-02
On November 2, a large number of villagers from Shiyuan Village, Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the entrance of the Zhongyuan District Committee office to protest and demand unpaid demolition transition fees. Police were present at the scene to maintain order.
2026-11-02
On November 2, the Henan Chest Hospital issued a price negotiation announcement, planning to spend 154,000 yuan to procure a network control platform capable of supporting the management and control of at least 1,000 terminals, in order to monitor access to overseas websites and retain access records for normal business operations.
2026-11-01
According to the application page uploaded by a netizen on November 1, the living subsidy policy for educated talent in Zhengzhou expired on October 31. New applications are currently not being accepted, and will be processed according to new regulations once the updated talent policy is issued. Matters already accepted within the validity period will be handled under the old policy.
2026-11
The court determined that there was a causal link between the assault and the victim's death from cerebral infarction. In the first instance, the assailant was ordered to bear 70% of the liability and pay over 846,500 yuan to the victim's family. After the assailant appealed, the Zhengzhou Intermediate Court recently rejected the appeal in the second instance and upheld the original verdict.
2026-10-31
On October 31, officials at Henan Medical University stated that they will use a student comprehensive profiling analysis platform to conduct graded early warnings and closed-loop management for abnormal situations in academics, psychology, and attendance, shifting student management from passive response to proactive prediction.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the Henan Provincial Public Resource Trading Center released a public tender announcement for the Henan Provincial People's Hospital. The procurement list includes 1 Xinchuang anti-circumvention security gateway and 2 internet behavior management devices, with a total package budget of 2.2 million yuan, covering firewalls, vulnerability scanning equipment, and supporting services.
2026-10-30
The Education and Sports Bureau of Changyuan City, Xinxiang, Henan Province, issued a document requiring all middle schools to achieve an HPV vaccination rate of over 80% by November 20. The bureau will rank schools based on their vaccination rates, and the principals of the bottom three schools will be summoned for talks by bureau leaders. Vaccination sites are operating 24 hours a day. Parents in many places have reported being pressured by homeroom teachers and principals.
2026-10-29
On October 29, staff at the Yaoshan Scenic Area in Pingdingshan, Henan, went on strike due to unpaid wages. The scenic area was unable to open normally, buses stopped operating, and the entrance was blocked, leaving a large number of tourists stranded at the gate. Tourists stated that no prior notice of the closure had been issued.
2026-10-29
As of October 29, videos regarding Dancheng County Zhengxing Flour Industry Co., Ltd. owing funds to villagers and villagers gathering to demand payment have been reported and taken down.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the 'Nanshan Folk' bar in Gongyi City, Henan Province, issued an announcement stating that it would refuse entry to customers wearing cosplay costumes or special effects makeup on the night of October 31. The post included the hashtag 'No Foreign Festivals,' which subsequently triggered questioning and ridicule from netizens.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the Zhengzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau released the latest list of talent subsidies. The initial review only covers applications up to March 2026, while the re-review covers up to February. Netizens have reported that they have not received the subsidies they applied for since October 2024.
2026-10-28
On October 28, Zhengxing Flour Industry Co., Ltd. in Shicao Town, Dancheng County, Zhoukou, Henan, was reported to owe large sums of money to local villagers. A large number of villagers gathered at the factory and office area to demand repayment. Villagers stated that the company continued to purchase wheat normally despite owing money, and others claimed that funds deposited into the company for interest could not be withdrawn.
2026-10-28
On November 2, the official website of the School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering at Henan Polytechnic University published an article introducing a training session for graduate student leaders held on October 28. The deputy secretary of the school's Party committee demanded a strict prohibition on disciplinary violations such as unauthorized circumvention of the Great Firewall and private access to overseas resources.
2026-10-27
October 27, follow-up on the illegal fundraising incident involving the "Tianzhongxing Card" at Huanle Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan: stores are deserted, shelves are basically cleared, and multiple depositors seeking rights defense chased and attempted to intercept the person-in-charge Wang Haizhou, shouting demands for the immediate repayment of their hard-earned money.
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.
2026-10-26
On October 26, the official website of Nanyang Vocational College in Nanyang, Henan published a post stating that the School of Sports held a cybersecurity lecture for all freshmen of the 2026 cohort. Yu Xiaofeng, secretary of the directly affiliated Party branch, said that circumventing the Great Firewall to go online touches the bottom line of the law and school rules, and will directly affect personnel file records, political vetting for further study and employment development. He also stressed that online speech is recorded throughout the entire process, and warned students not to speak carelessly online, not to comment carelessly on hot topics, and not to spread rumors carelessly.
2026-10-26
PLA Daily reported on October 24 and 26: a unit of the Air Force conducting training no longer hands out new briefcases and instead circulates old ones, while officers and soldiers of a detachment of the Henan Armed Police Corps made mobile target drones and other training equipment themselves to save procurement funds.
2026-10-25
On October 25, a student at Zhengzhou No. 16 Senior High School posted a video reporting that a hair dryer caught fire in the dormitory while the school was enforcing a mandatory stay on campus. The students tried to use a fire extinguisher to save themselves, only to find it damaged and unusable, and the fire alarm's volume was too low to serve as a warning.
2026-10-24
Multiple workers said they are owed money by the Digital Art Industry-Education Base of Henan Vocational Academy of Art. Although they had won their lawsuits, they had not received the owed payments for a year, so they laid red banners reading "Return the Hard-Earned Blood Money of Migrant Workers" at the school gate to defend their rights.
2026-10-23
Recently, the Douyin account of a primary school in Henan posted a classroom video in which only one girl was in the room. The teacher took attendance as usual, and the girl answered, "Everyone's here." After class, she left the classroom alone. Netizens left comments joking that she was the teacher's "final disciple."
2026-10-23
On October 23, a teacher surnamed Gao at Zhuangyuanqiao Middle School in Xihua County, Zhoukou, Henan, said the school's security checks have entered a "double insurance" mode, with two additional security screening devices installed to strictly inspect students for prohibited items, prompting netizens to sarcastically remark that students are being treated like prisoners.
2026-10-22
On October 22, on the eve of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, multiple depositors of village and town banks in Henan said they were blocked from going to Beijing to petition: some were confined to their homes, some were intercepted at train stations, and some were forcibly sent back after arriving in Beijing.
2026-10-22
On October 22, despite cooling temperatures and rainy weather, Zhengzhou Industrial Safety Vocational College in Zhengzhou, Henan, still organized a large gathering of students on the sports field to listen to leaders' speeches. Many students got soaked and caught colds with fevers, while the leaders stood right on the stage. Some students said that last year they were also required to hand in their phones and delete related content.
2026-10-22
On October 22, the netizen who posted the exposure video stated in the comments section that they had been asked to delete the video, adding "I'm going to disappear, brothers."
2026-10-22
On October 22, a locale in Henan organized a vehicle convoy to go down to the countryside to promote and urge payment of medical insurance; the convoy played payment reminder audio through loudspeakers at village entrances and in the alleys.
2026-10-21
On October 21, homeowners in Gushi County, Xinyang, Henan, gathered outside the Central Park Xinhe Group Century City sales center to defend their rights, raising their fists and chanting slogans to demand their apartments, and called out company leader President Chen by name, demanding the return of their homes.
2026-10-21
On October 21, the official account of Jiaxian Experimental High School in Jiaxian, Pingdingshan, Henan, posted a promotional video showing several teachers carrying kettles into classrooms during breaks to pour water for students one by one, captioned "A cup of hot tea warms the heart." This drew criticism from netizens, who said that bullying of teachers should be banned and that teachers should be able to work with dignity.
2026-10-20
Rights defense activist Xing Wangli (55) from Xixian County, Henan, is serving a sentence at Sanmenxia Prison. After visiting him on October 20, his wife Xu Jincui reported that he had visibly lost weight, that the skin on both hands was worn through and bleeding, and that he could barely endure the long hours of labor. His family is worried about the disability in his right hand and an old head injury, and is calling for a reduction in the intensity of his labor and attention to his health.
2026-10-19
The 12th Henan Provincial Party Congress held its preparatory meeting, presided over by Zhou Zuyi, with the formal opening of the congress scheduled for the following day.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen in Nanyang, Henan posted a video showing a delivery worker suddenly breaking down emotionally on the road at night, first smashing his own head with his helmet and then smashing it against the ground until the helmet shattered.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen from Henan posted that their school tallies and reports the number of students who show up for morning runs and the number who sweat; classes that meet the sweating target receive bonus points in quantitative scoring, while those whose students do not sweat lose points — all amid a sharp drop in temperature.
2026-10-18
A woman in Zhengzhou, who was supporting three children and a sick elderly parent, earned less than 200 yuan in 8 days of food delivery work. Facing despair that hard work could not feed her family and the survival predicament of the new era, she chose to burn charcoal. The incident involves three children aged 2, 4, and 9, and has been called by outsiders a replay of the Yang Gailan incident in Gansu ten years ago.
2026-10-17
On October 17, the Zhengzhou government reported a tragic incident in which an entire family died together because they could no longer get by in life.
2026-10-17
An elderly man in Henan posted a video online to protest gas prices being too high to afford, shouting slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism" and "Long live the Chinese Communist Party."
2026-10-17
On October 17, an elderly man in Henan, unable to afford cooking gas because prices were too high, beat gongs and drums in his courtyard with a gas cylinder on his head, shouting slogans to call for a nationwide uniform reduction in gas prices. The related video drew netizens' attention.
2026-10-15
According to a Voice of Hope report, on the afternoon of October 15, 2026, a fire broke out in a high-rise residential building at Evergrande Binfen City in Suiyang District, Shangqiu, Henan Province. The fire started in a resident's kitchen and spread rapidly, causing large areas of the building's exterior facade to catch fire, with thick black smoke billowing from the scene and burning debris falling. Officials subsequently announced that the fire caused no casualties.
2026-10-15
According to information posted by X user QuanLujun, on October 15, 2026, a fire broke out in a high-rise residential building at Evergrande Binfencheng in Suiyang District, Shangqiu, Henan, and it is circulating online that the fire was set deliberately. The poster noted that at the time of the incident, no high-tech rescue equipment such as aerial firefighting gear was seen in operation at the scene. The relevant cause of the fire and any casualties remain to be further verified.
2026-10-15
According to a report by Red Star News on October 15, in the case of the elderly man's death in Xiangcheng, the family denies any intent to kill, the defense questions the causal link between the obstruction of rescue and the death, multiple relatives have filed appeals, and the case is still under second-instance trial.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the Silk Road College of Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical University held a student management work meeting, demanding a strict ban on students circumventing the Great Firewall to go online and on unorganized gatherings, strictly observing the bottom line of online speech and conduct, and incorporating this into the building of civilized norms.
2026-10-14
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.
2026-10-13
Recently a netizen posted a video of an Anti-Japanese War-themed live-action performance at a scenic spot in Henan: a bound woman shouted slogans such as “You can’t kill all the Chinese,” a person in a Japanese military uniform made whipping motions, and the bullet-comment section was filled with phrases like “Good hit” and “Beat her to death.”
2026-10-13
On October 13, a netizen in Henan who claimed to have been unemployed for many years released an exaggeratedly styled cross-dressing video, publicly calling on Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, and jokingly requesting that he arrange a job "serving the people" so as to pay social insurance contributions, sparking heated discussion among netizens in the comments section.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video exposing that the Zulijian company in Zhengzhou, Henan, owes wages and social insurance to more than 300 employees. Large numbers of employees gathered in the company's office area for collective rights defense, shouting "Pay our wages."
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen from Henan posted on Xiaohongshu saying that while working at a photography studio they ate two apples and a bottle of milk that the boss allowed them to take. After being accused of having no sense of boundaries, they were dismissed. Of the 958.3 yuan in wages for 11.5 days of work, 557.67 yuan was deducted. The post received 20,000 likes.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video claiming that New Times Elite School in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, requires students to make no sound while eating in the canteen. A large number of students ate quietly while management personnel patrolled and supervised the aisles. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-11
Reports circulating online claim that three suspected cases of plague imported from Russia have been found in Henan, China, and the host reminds the public to pay attention and take precautions.
2026-10-10
Zhou Xianwang, former mayor of Wuhan, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the crime of bribery in a first-instance trial in Shangqiu, Henan, sparking speculation outside China about his involvement in the early situation of the 2020 epidemic.
2026-10-10
The Intermediate People's Court of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, sentenced Zhou Xianwang of Hubei to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes, finding that the total amount of bribes accepted amounted to more than 60.5 million yuan.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the Shangqiu City Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province publicly pronounced its first-instance verdict in the bribery case of Zhou Xianwang, former vice chairman of the CPPCC Hubei Provincial Committee, sentencing him to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes, along with a fine of 5 million yuan, with his illegal gains to be turned over to the state treasury. Zhou Xianwang once served as mayor of Wuhan and was heavily criticized in the early stage of the epidemic for concealing the outbreak and punishing whistleblowing doctors.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the Silk Road College of Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical University released a meeting announcement stating that dorm heads serve as fourth-tier grid leaders, known as "frontline sentinels," and must keep an eye on roommates' ideological trends, track and record them, and report at the earliest opportunity.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the official website of Linzhou Architecture Vocational and Technical College published an article that divides circumventing the Great Firewall into intentional and unintentional categories, brings the use of foreign-server online game accelerators and automatic cross-border network connections made by software in the background under its warnings, and requires students to consistently obtain information through CCTV, state media, and campus platforms.
2026-10-08
On October 8, as the Henan Provincial Party Secretary and governor were replaced at the same time, depositors of village and town banks across the country wrote letters to the new Provincial Party Secretary Zhou Zuyi, governor Wang Lujin, and 15 leaders of central ministries and commissions, accusing the former provincial Party committee and government of feigning compliance while defying orders and refusing to settle old accounts. Tens of thousands of depositors and their relatives have been unable to withdraw a single cent from their bank card deposits for five years, and have been driven to extremes.
2026-10-06
On October 6, a blogger in Henan posted a video visiting an elderly resident in a village. The elderly person has for years survived on noodles boiled with collected rainwater and snowmelt, with no electric lighting at home and relying only on moonlight at night. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a netizen from Henan posted a video on Douyin showing villagers cooking over wood fires in large woks, saying they were even required to put out the fire while cooking. The video received about 34,000 likes, and sarcastic and joking remarks flooded the bullet comments and comment section.
2026-10-04
On October 1, the Mixue Bingcheng Luoyang flagship store's opening day revenue exceeded 1 million yuan. Recruitment information showed that part-time employees for morning, afternoon, and night shifts were paid 100 to 120 yuan, which equates to an hourly wage of about 12 yuan. This sparked heated discussion after being exposed by netizens on October 4.
2026-09-30
Zhengzhou has proposed cleaning and repairing national flags used in previous years for reuse, and preparing them before National Day for use in the following year.
2026-09-30
On the evening of September 30, Pang Donglai founder Yu Donglai announced on his personal social media account that from March 2027, employees and management will work five days a week, seven hours a day, 35 hours in total, extending two-day weekends to ordinary employees.
2026-09-30
On September 30, several homeowners at the Jinsha Qingyun Academy community in Zhecheng County, Henan, staged a protest with banners and a sit-in in front of the sales office, opposing the developer's plan to build a large waste transfer station near the main entrance of the community, saying the stench was seriously affecting their living environment.
2026-09-30
On September 30, primary school students of all grades at Nanle County Fourth Experimental Primary School in Henan marched in formation wearing matching uniforms, hands pressed tightly to their trouser seams, arms motionless, shouting slogans such as "prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony" in unison. The scene was filmed by netizens and drew questions and mockery.
2026-09-30
From late September to October, several community grid workers in Henan posted on Xiaohongshu to report that their wages had not arrived, social security and housing provident fund contributions had not been implemented, and they were still required to take duty during the National Day holiday. Some said they planned to resign. Relevant notices stated that wages could not be issued before the holiday and promised full payment after the holiday.
2026-09-27
In response to the call for tightening their belts, many places across China are welcoming National Day in a frugal manner. Erqi District in Zhengzhou has achieved an old flag reuse rate as high as 82.26%, while Shiyan in Hubei and Jiande in Zhejiang have also adopted cost-saving measures such as reusing materials or relying on existing flowerbeds.
2026-09-26
From September 26 to 27, a 1,000-person singles matchmaking event was held at Zhongyuan Wanda Plaza in Zhengzhou, Henan. Netizens captured footage showing on-site zones designated for those inside the system, high-net-worth individuals, and highly educated people.
2026-09-24
According to the materials, Henan Governor Wang Kai resigned on September 24, and the announcement did not state a reason.
2026-07-06
Henan Provincial Party Secretary Liu Ning led a Henan Party and government delegation to Xinjiang. Public agenda items included counterpart support for Xinjiang and industrial cooperation, and a meeting with Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo.
2026-09-24
Recently, as the North China Plain entered the autumn harvest season, large numbers of farmers in Henan, Hebei, and other areas went into the fields to pick up leftover peanuts. Due to overcrowding, some people were pushed into rivers along the edges of the fields. Some netizens said that some people entered the fields to pick up peanuts without the landowners' consent.
2026-09-23
On September 23, at the Party-Mass Service Center in Hebaizhuang, Chengjiao Township, Sheqi County, Nanyang, Henan, after He Xianglin's fundraising scheme collapsed and the funds were suspected to have been absconded with by an upstream operator, a large number of investors showed up to defend their rights; most participants were elderly villagers from various villages, involving about 2,000 households.
2026-09-18
On September 18, after the completion of a project by Zhengzhou Engineering Co., Ltd. of China Railway Seventh Group in Zhengzhou, Henan, it was accused of defaulting on workers' wages. Multiple workers went to the company to collectively defend their rights and demand payment of arrears.
2026-09-20
On September 20, Shangguan Zhengyi posted that at a ton-bag yard in Shiti Village, Xixia County, Nanyang, Henan, a mute woman with deformed hands had been doing hard labor there for many years. The local aid station had intervened a month ago, but her relatives have not yet been found, and her labor compensation and background remain under investigation.
2026-09-19
On September 19, volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi reported that a mentally disabled woman, approximately 40 years old, in Yexian, Pingdingshan, Henan, was allegedly brought back from Hainan to cohabitate with a local man when she was 17 years old. The man claimed the woman was born in 1988, but her household registration states 1977. Currently, the woman's identity, the process by which she was taken away, and the authenticity of her household registration remain to be verified, and volunteers are calling on local authorities to intervene and investigate.
2026-09-18
On September 18, the official authorities in Zhumadian, Henan released a promotional video showing citizens spontaneously observing a moment of silence when the air raid siren sounded. This triggered skepticism among netizens in the comment section, who accused it of being staged and mocked official formalism such as not granting a holiday on the anniversary and keeping assembly lines running.
2026-09-18
On September 18, a large number of depositors in Zhumadian, Henan Province, gathered in the rain outside the municipal petition office to defend their rights, after the company chairman Wang Haizhou failed to fulfill his promise to distribute living expenses before the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays. They chanted slogans demanding to "see the mayor" and called for government intervention to resolve the issue.
2026-09-14
On September 14, at a construction site in Beiguan District, Anyang City, Henan Province, multiple workers whose wages had been delayed hung a banner reading "Return my blood and sweat money" at the site and used a megaphone to demand payment from the employer.
2026-09-18
On the anniversary of the September 18 Incident, official media in Zhumadian, Henan released a video showing e-bike owners voluntarily getting off their vehicles to observe a moment of silence during an air raid siren, which led to a traffic jam and sparked mockery from netizens.
2026-09-16
On September 16, CCTV News reported that a shopping mall in Hebi, Henan hung posters of figures like Yuan Longping, Tu Youyou, and Zhang Guimei, praising them as the top-tier stars of the Chinese nation. Data from September 17 showed the video received 170,000 likes, but the comment section had only 74 comments, sparking public skepticism over comment control.
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2026-09-18
Li Auto L8 first-batch owners displayed a banner at the Li Auto delivery center in the Zhengzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone to defend their rights.
2026-09-16
On September 16, The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Zhengzhou Zhirong Network Technology Company used AI technology to organize stolen foreign government classified data and sold intelligence to the Chinese public (Public Security) organs, involving secrets of countries such as Russia, the Philippines, Pakistan, and the Vatican.
2026-09-15
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.
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.
2026-09-15
On September 15, multiple migrant workers from Henan Xiayu Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. wore reflective vests with slogans demanding unpaid wages and collectively protested for their rights for the fifteenth consecutive day at the project department entrance.
2026-09-09
Starting September 9, 2026, the Wansui Mountain Wuxia City in Kaifeng, Henan began trial operation of a marriage registration point, prompting netizens to leave various sarcastic comments in the comment section.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a university in Henan posted an anti-circumvention propaganda poster, stating that using VPN may involve violating national security and listing risks, which sparked netizen doubts.
2026-09-15
On September 15, due to the suspected collapse of the Huanle Aijia Supermarket's "Tianzhongxing Card" and allegations of illegal fundraising, a large number of depositors gathered at the Aijia Disney store in Yicheng District, Zhumadian City, to defend their rights and protest the capital side's postponement plan. Physical clashes occurred between depositors and SWAT police at the scene, and multiple people were detained by the police.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, a military supply station in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, owing workers’ wages, had several workers hang a banner reading “Military Supply Station, Return My Blood‑Sweat Money” at the station’s gate, publicly demanding immediate wage settlement. No police presence was seen on site; after persisting for several hours, the workers left without receiving an immediate response.
2026-09-12
On September 12, 2026, Hebi Foreign Language Middle School in Henan Province forced students to stay after school for extra classes on weekends and holidays, claiming they were ‘voluntary’. Dissatisfied with the school's closed management, students in uniform gathered at the school gate, and several high school students climbed the iron fence to climb out of the campus. The on‑site video spread online and was soon blocked and removed by the platform.
Location: Hebi own content archive., Henan ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-14
On September 14, more than 100 employees and fund contributors at Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan, surrounded chairman Wang Haizhou to demand the return of their money, and clashed with police at the scene. The company had long encouraged employees to deposit their wages and savings into the so-called Tianzhong card; an economic crisis broke out in August, several supermarkets closed and cash withdrawals were suspended.
2026-09-10
On September 10, 2026, a scene of an elderly scavenger in Henan carrying a national flag while rummaging through a trash can attracted attention. The video's comment section was subsequently cleared, but a large number of sarcastic bullet comments remained.
2026-09-11
In September 2026, multiple high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for implementing Saturday single day off for make-up classes and mandatory boarding since the start of the semester, with schedules from 6 AM to 11:30 PM. Unable to accept the excessively long schedule and the change from two days off to a single day off, students chose to commit suicide after only 10 days of school.
2026-09-11
After the start of the school year in September 2026, many high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for forcing all students to board. The daily schedule lasts from 6:00 AM to 11:30 PM. In addition to regular classes, morning reading and evening self-study sessions are arranged. Some schools have compressed meal times and require students to enter the classroom early for study.
2026-09-11
Just 10 days after the start of the fall semester in September 2026, a high school student in Zhengzhou committed suicide, unable to cope with the heavy psychological burden caused by the school's decision to replace the two-day weekend with a one-day weekend for remedial classes.
2026-09-11
In September 2026, students at several high schools in Zhengzhou collectively exposed on social media their schools’ forced extra classes and excessively long schedules, and filed online joint petitions to the Henan Provincial Department of Education and the mayor’s hotline, protesting the schools’ illegal deprivation of their statutory right to rest.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party decided to appoint Wang Song as Party Secretary of Zhengzhou; he holds a doctorate from Tsinghua University and came from a background as deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, moving from head of the Henan Provincial Committee's publicity department to the top post in the provincial capital.
2026-09-08
Henan University of Economics and Law has implemented a mandatory facial recognition and location-based clock-in attendance system, and stipulates that leave of absence requests require parental cooperation, sparking widespread questioning and dissatisfaction among students regarding the excessive administrative and prison-like management of universities.
2026-09-08
Dozens of sanitation workers in Lushan County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, gathered in front of the county government to demand their long-overdue wages.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, several students at Henan Vocational College of Art reported that the school issued a sudden notice on the eve of the new term, ordering sophomores to transfer to a secondary vocational program. Students questioned whether the school was using the name of work-study alternation as a pretext to covertly arrange for them to work in factories.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, multiple parents of students at Bo'ai Primary School in Changyuan, Henan, gathered at the school gate to protest with banners, reporting that the new classrooms lacked air conditioning, fans, and curtains, leading to students suffering from heatstroke and nosebleeds, and that lunch services had been canceled.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, multiple owners of the Nayunxi Section 4 development in Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou, Henan, having endured a housing delivery delay of as long as six years, had no choice but to climb onto the unfinished rooftops and unfurl banners in a rights-defense protest.
2026-09-02
According to online reports, a boss who was preparing to pay 500 employees went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Zhengzhou to withdraw money, but was refused by the bank on various pretexts. He then set fire to the bank, and firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the fire.
2026-09-02
A blogger on the X platform shared a video in which a woman says her savings of 29 million yuan have gone missing.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, multiple medical staff at the Xiangfu District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Kaifeng, Henan, reported that the hospital has long withheld performance pay and forced a 40% salary cut across the entire hospital, with some staff receiving only four or five hundred yuan per month.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, a notice soliciting campus performances at Pingdingshan University in Pingdingshan, Henan, drew attention online. The document requires that selected songs be uplifting and full of positive energy, and specifically stipulates that foreign-language lyrics and lines are strictly forbidden throughout the entire performance.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, projects related to the Central Hospital of Xicheng District in Luohe, Henan Province, were in arrears on wages owed to migrant workers. Several workers held up banners at the hospital entrance in rights defense, protesting the malicious withholding of wages.
2026-09
A college student in Henan broke down from being unable to endure workplace involution and economic pressure, reflecting the widespread plight faced by China's working population.
2026-09
A university in Henan stipulated that foreign-language lyrics and foreign-language dialogue are prohibited throughout the entire program when soliciting campus performances.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, anti-trafficking blogger Shangguan Zhengyi exposed that a farm in Jiyuan, Henan illegally confined two disabled people and forced them to work as unpaid laborers for more than ten years; the victims lived in squalid conditions and were often beaten.
2026-09
In September 2026, it was rumored online that Henan veterans were diverted to tertiary-industry companies under the pretext of exam training during demobilization placement, and failed to obtain formal positions at central state-owned enterprises in accordance with policy.
2026-09
After Bian Yuye was held in custody for more than three months, his daughter Bian Jin, who was still breastfeeding, was notified to cooperate with questioning and was detained. Father and daughter were held in the same compound but could not meet for 35 days. Defense lawyers said that before the daughter was detained, Bian Yuye consistently denied having profited, but afterward his confession reversed and he ultimately pleaded guilty.
2026-09
Bian Yuye recalled that while he was held in detention he was handcuffed behind his back, subjected to freezing punishment in low temperatures, deprived of sleep and subjected to other restrictions, and was also ordered to slap himself hard in the face, with a single instance reaching more than 800 slaps. His defense lawyer questioned the way evidence was obtained during the trial and requested the complete interrogation footage.
2026-08-31
On August 31, 2026, it was reported online that dozens of depositors of Henan village and town banks traveled to Xuchang to demand their deposits; immediately after exiting the station they were surrounded by unidentified men in black, taken to the headquarters of Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank, and had their personal freedom illegally restricted.
2026-08-31
On August 31, dozens of depositors from village and town banks in Henan traveled to Xuchang to demand their bank card savings. Immediately after exiting Xuchang Railway Station, they were surrounded by multiple unidentified men in black, forcibly taken to the headquarters of Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank, and illegally detained until late at night.
2026-08-30
According to the video, Henan abandoned the plan for city-level unified legal entities and instead directly set up a provincial unified legal entity, merging round after round and absorbing over a hundred institutions in one go, with the provincial rural commercial bank's registered capital piling up to nearly 100 billion yuan; Henan's debt ratio exceeds 420%, and its legal entity elimination rate exceeds 60%.
2026-08-29
On August 29, 2026, multiple owners of Meisheng Zhonghuan No. 1 residential compound in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan, protested and defended their rights because the promised primary and secondary schools had halted construction and were never built. They were violently obstructed and beaten by property management staff, and some owners were injured and taken to the hospital.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, hundreds of owners at Country Garden Phoenix City in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, Henan, went to the Zhongyuan District Education Bureau and the subdistrict center to protest and defend their rights, shouting demands about schooling, after the promised high-quality middle school was downgraded and replaced.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi confirmed that a disabled man who had lived at a pig farm in Zhengyang County, Henan for nearly ten years successfully located relatives he had been separated from for over thirty years.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, some owners of PowerChina Gaoxin Huaxi Mansion in Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the entrance of the residential compound to protest, demanding that the developer fulfill the school-district housing and educational facilities commitments made in the home purchase contract.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, several growers in Yuanyang County, Xinxiang, Henan gathered at the door of the county seed company to defend their rights, reporting that the crop seeds they purchased failed to sprout after sowing and questioning whether the seeds had quality problems.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, some owners of the Huarui Ziyun City residential community in Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered at the sales office to protest and defend their rights over disputes concerning the school district zoning for their children's enrollment.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, students at Henan Technician College exposed on the internet that their dormitory was extremely overcrowded, with as many as 30 students arranged to live in a single room. The poor living conditions have sparked widespread attention and criticism online.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, a public-interest blogger in Xinxiang, Henan was stopped by staff while clearing dangerous ground studs on the street on the grounds that the grinding dust affected environmental protection; the subsequent response from the environmental department, which suggested filing in advance, sparked heated discussion.
2026-08-24
In Yudian Village, Huangchuan County, Henan, hundreds of investors in Yufeng Grain Industry and Zhongxing Grain and Oil gathered at the village committee to demand resolution of the payout of their investment funds, and clashed with government workers and police. Some netizens said that it was suspected that a rights-defending protester had died.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, multiple migrant workers in Longhu Town, Xinzheng City, Henan Province, went to the Yongxing office building to demand unpaid wages, only to be locked inside by the landlord and the company involved, restricting their personal freedom. Workers reported that their complaints were not handled in a timely manner.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, some property owners in a busy downtown area within the Third Ring Road of Zhengzhou, Henan, gathered to defend their rights, protesting against the rezoning of former driving school land near their residential complex into a cemetery renovation and upgrade project, questioning its impact on the living environment.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, students at the Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, gathered in protest at the school gate over the cumbersome deposit refund process and abnormal student status information, climbed over the iron gate into the campus shouting "refund our money," and multiple police cars arrived at the scene.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, laborers reported that the "Lingbao City Secondary Vocational School New Campus Construction Project" in Henan, undertaken by Shanghai Baoye, had not paid migrant workers a single cent of their wages from January to August, causing the project to come to a complete halt.
2026-08-19
On August 19, 2026, multiple owners of the Jianye Junlinfu project in Huaiyang District, Zhoukou, Henan collectively went to the front of the Huaiyang District Party Committee to petition for rights defense, demanding that officials urge a solution to the delayed delivery of housing.
2026-08-18
A netizen in Henan posted a video showing a huge banner reading “Let’s go, let’s get married and register” hanging on the street, prompting jokes from other netizens.
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, multiple owners at the Longhu Kongquecheng community in Zhengzhou, Henan staged a collective rights defense inside the compound, protesting that the property management has long charged high property fees while service quality seriously fails to meet standards.
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, Henan retail enterprise Pangdonglai released a public recruitment notice, announcing targeted hiring of 100 retired border defense soldiers and 20 released prisoners who had served sentences of five years or more.
2026-08-13
On the evening of August 13, 2026, due to heavy rainfall and the backwater effect of the Sha Ying River, a section of about 30 meters of the east-bank levee of the Jialu River in Chuanhui District, Zhoukou, Henan, gave way; containers were used in the emergency effort to plug the breach but to no avail, and large tracts of farmland were flooded.
2026-08-12
The residual circulation of Typhoon White Dolphin brought heavy rainfall to Luoyang City in Henan on August 12, causing waterlogging in low-lying areas and disrupting residents' travel.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, anti-child-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi posted a report revealing that those involved in the Pingdingshan surrogacy case had been sentenced, but his video questioning the regulatory responsibility of the joint investigation team of the provincial health commission was promptly throttled.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, affected by heavy rainfall, a wall in the underground parking garage of Yuhuwan Linxi Community in Xuchang, Henan suddenly collapsed, and a large amount of accumulated water and mud surged in, completely flooding the garage.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, the principal of a martial arts school in Jiyuan, Henan, posted a night patrol video on social media. Late at night, he entered the dormitory with a flashlight, forcibly lifted the bedding of students in bed, checked their undergarments, and filmed and published the footage. After drawing criticism for violating privacy, he took it down.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, Wuzhi Middle School in Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo, Henan was exposed for arranging drill instructors during its first lesson of the new term to repeatedly force students to stand up and sit down, carrying out mechanical obedience discipline.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, media reported that watermelons in Zhoukou, Henan were facing a severe sales slump, with purchase prices falling to a low point. A melon farmer in his seventies sold 300 jin of watermelons for only 10 yuan, and a large number of melon farmers face the inability to recover seedling costs and the plight of an aging rural labor force.
2026-08-09
After the Xia Fugang-related incident occurred in Xiping Village, Zhumadian, Henan, a large number of people went up the mountain to search under the guise of assisting in the mountain search, bringing supplies such as food and clothing to show support; the details of the incident remain controversial.
2026-08-08
After ten days on the run, Xia Fugang was captured by police in Luohe, sparking widespread online discussion and public sympathy and support for the fugitive.
2026-08-08
Xia Fugang, the suspect in a major murder case in Xiping County, Zhumadian, Henan, was apprehended by police in a cornfield in Yuanhui District, Luohe City, triggering online rumors and emotional discussions among the public regarding an elderly pear seller's report and a boycott of Luohe.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a large number of depositors from Henan village and town banks left comments under journalist Li Weiao's Weibo post, accusing their accounts of being frozen and having no recourse after five years of rights defense. The platform subsequently classified the depositors' comments as harmful content and uniformly set them to be visible only to the poster, ultimately deleting the original Weibo post entirely.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, Pang Dong Lai founder Yu Donglai announced that the Xuchang Life Plaza store, which has been in operation for 24 years and earns annual profits of over 100 million yuan, falls below the baseline of fairness because of its historical lease, and will officially close and exit after the lease expires in December 2026.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, multiple departments in Henan Province jointly issued a notice promoting staggered paid leave for employees, requiring leading cadres to take the lead in taking leave, and combining holiday-merging with cultural and tourism discounts to activate consumption potential, while strictly investigating employers that refuse to arrange leave.
2026-08-05
On August 5, a netizen in Huaxian County, Anyang, Henan, discovered that the names of all recipients in the subsidy payment table published by the local Talent and Employment Service Center had been blurred, raising public doubts about fake oversight.
2026-08-05
On August 5, Shi Jianjian, a depositor who was given a suspended sentence for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble after legally traveling to Henan to demand her deposits, received a certificate terminating her community correction, and stated that she would file an appeal in accordance with the law and apply for state compensation.
2026-08-04
The scale of the search and arrest operation has further expanded, with dozens of buses forming a convoy to transport personnel, and large numbers of police and civilians carrying sticks conducting inspections along the roads.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, in the Country Garden Nandu Mansion compound in Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province, a male homeowner, over a property dispute and other issues, climbed onto the rooftop of a residential building and staged an intense rights defense protest by threatening to jump.
2026-08-02
Local police mobilized a large number of officers to block the village entrance, deploying SWAT police, drones, and other equipment to conduct a search in the nearby cornfields.
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, Henan provincial authorities officially confirmed that illegal cheating occurred during the 2026 'Three Supports and One Assistance' public examination. The head of the Henan Personnel Examination Center has been suspended for investigation, and the police have established a special task force to open a criminal case.
Location: Zhengzhou, Henan ·
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Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-08
Xia Fugang, a man from Henan, killed a local official due to long-term domestic abuse and fled into a cornfield, where he went missing. The local reward has increased to approximately 125,000 yuan, but villagers and some netizens have publicly expressed sympathy, support, or assistance in searching for him.
2026-08
People in various parts of Henan drove to the area where Xia Fugang went missing, leaving behind car keys, food, drinks, and water, and writing "Wishing you safety" on the vehicles to publicly express their support.
2026-08
Xia Fugang, a renovation worker from Henan, is accused of clashing with a village official bully and causing multiple casualties in the official's family; he subsequently entered a cornfield and went missing, prompting a police search.
2026-08
It is reported that approximately 10,000 local people in Henan were dispatched into the mountains to search for Xia Fugang, but he has not been captured for several consecutive days.
2026-08
Xia Fugang from Xiping, Henan, was arrested after being reported by a local elderly man in Luohe, triggering widespread attention and heated discussion online. Influencers and netizens have expressed strong dissatisfaction and are calling for a boycott of local products.
2026-07-30
After a vicious case in Tandian Town, Xiping County, Henan left one dead and four injured, the suspect fled into a cornfield. Villagers are suspected of voluntarily going to his hiding spot to leave supplies to help him escape, and police subsequently deployed a large number of officers and SWAT police to hunt him down.
2026-07-30
A criminal case occurred in Baicheng Subdistrict, Xiping County, Zhumadian, Henan. After a dispute with a neighbor, tenant Xia Fugang carried out an attack and fled, sparking spontaneous support from villagers and widespread sympathy.
2026-07-30
A 51-year-old man named Xia Fugang had a dispute with a neighbor, resulting in at least one death and four injuries before fleeing into a cornfield. Police are offering a 50,000 yuan reward for his capture.
2026-07-30
Xia Fugang, a 51-year-old renter in Xiping, Henan, killed a neighbor with a knife and fled after a conflict.
2026-07-30
A man surnamed Xia in Henan is accused of wiping out the family of a village Party Secretary; following the incident, relevant authorities launched a mountain search operation, but his specific identity and whereabouts remain unknown.
2026-07-30
The search for the man surnamed Xia in Henan reportedly used drones, infrared imagers, and other detection equipment, but his whereabouts have not been found for several consecutive days.
2026-07-30
On July 30, 2026, a vicious case occurred in Tandian, Xiping County, Henan Province. Local police subsequently sealed off the village entrance, deployed SWAT police and drones in a manhunt, and issued a notice offering a reward of up to 50,000 yuan for clues about the suspect.
2026-07-30
On July 30, 2026, a major violent criminal case occurred in Tandian Township, Xiping County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. Police deployed large numbers of SWAT officers and drones to seal off the village and entered the cornfields to conduct a dragnet search for the fugitive suspect.
2026-07-29
A 36-year-old man in Zhengzhou toughed out a cold and fever for 8 days, then suffered cardiac arrest at the dinner table. After 20 days of emergency treatment in hospital he barely pulled through and was diagnosed with fulminant myocarditis.
2026-07-27
In late July 2026, after the results of Henan Province's Three Supports and One Assistance recruitment exam were released, regular gaps of unusually high scores appeared in multiple test areas such as Anyang and Jiyuan, with the first-place scorer leading the second-place scorer by as many as 20 points, triggering strong suspicion among the vast number of examinees of leaked exam questions and fraud.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, images circulating online showed that Anbo Foreign Language School in Hebi, Henan, had installed sealed iron railings inside the teaching building for its senior year students and welded the corridors shut, sparking widespread criticism from netizens over prison-style campus management and a psychological crisis among students.
Location: Hebi own content archive., Henan ·
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Verification: Hearsay ·
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2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, the Ruyang County Court in Henan announced its first-instance judgment in the case of a bridesmaid who was forcibly dragged out of a cabinet and thrown to the ground during wedding pranks, suffering a grade-nine disability. The newlyweds and nine participants in the pranks were ordered to jointly pay more than 230,000 yuan in compensation.
2026-07-12
On July 12, 2026, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi published a post reporting that a cement sales point in Shilin Town, Dengzhou City, Henan had illegally forced an unidentified disabled man to carry cement and do hard labor for more than ten years, and called on local authorities to investigate and rescue him.
2026-07
The Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, has been exposed for coaches mistreating students and withholding students' deposits over a long period. After the incident came to light, hundreds of students gathered in protest for three consecutive days, demanding the return of their deposits.
2026-07
Military personnel have reportedly intervened in the mountain search and are protecting the man surnamed Xia in Henan; related claims suggest he may have been secretly transferred by the military or other groups.
2026-07
In July 2026, a student in Henan who scored 702 on the gaokao failed the political review when applying to the National University of Defense Technology; the family posted a video claiming the failure was suspected to be linked to the applicant's grandfather having a prison record in his youth.
2026-06-29
Because the previous property management company and the new one failed to complete the handover at Wenyuan Xiyuan community in Gezhai, Zhengzhou, residents questioned the incoming company as a "shell property management firm." Residents gathered for rights defense and pushing occurred.
2026-06-27
On June 27, 2026, at the intersection of Kongming Road and Binhe Road in Nanyang, Henan Province, a black SUV deliberately struck multiple pedestrians in a busy street before speeding away, leaving two adults and one child seriously injured and convulsing on the ground.
2026-06-25
A man in Xuchang, Henan went to a police station to obtain a certificate of no criminal record, but the system showed that he had been sentenced to re-education through labor by a court in 2010, while he had in fact been working in Suzhou, Jiangsu at the time and had never been subjected to re-education through labor.
2026-06-23
On June 28, 2026, media reports revealed that after Biyang County in Henan adopted a siphoning-style, profit-driven enforcement model, similar practices also appeared in several places in Nanyang, Henan, where cold-chain trucks were lured to detour across the border only to be seized — 213 tonnes of frozen goods were confiscated within 47 days and auctioned off for cash to be turned over to the state treasury.
2026-06-19
On June 19, 2026, a fierce fire broke out at the Hongda International Auto Plaza in Zhengzhou, Henan. Multiple commercial buildings were swallowed by the flames, with thick smoke billowing and fire lighting up the sky at the scene, spreading to several surrounding commercial areas.
2026-06-18
Li Tao, who has long been in charge of Henan's state-owned industrial system, has been promoted to the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, seen as a steel nail planted by the veteran faction in the localities to audit state-owned assets and urban investment accounts.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, the property management service company of Yangguang Huating Community in Xuedian Town, Xinzheng, Henan, was suspected of absconding with funds and going out of contact, leaving the community without management. Several owners gathered in the community to protest and defend their rights.
2026-06-17
On June 17, 2026, a host of Henan Radio and Television's Elephant News posted a so-called video about respecting every frog and its well, drawing a flood of sarcastic comments from netizens mocking it as brainwashing and dumbing-down rhetoric; shortly afterward, the video's comment section was urgently cleared.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, a female part-time job seeker in Zhengzhou posted a plea for help, saying that while working part-time at a postgraduate exam study room she was beaten by her boss over 30 yuan in wages, fracturing her hand, and that after she called the police, the authorities refused to file a criminal case and instead demanded that she delete her post.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, the R&F New City real estate project in Kaifeng, Henan, drove a worker to death by withholding construction wages. The deceased's family hung banners near the project site and knelt holding a portrait of the deceased, defending their rights to demand justice.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, inside a factory in Minggang, Xinyang, Henan, multiple workers, because their piece rates had long been too low and their wages were still delayed and unpaid, gathered collectively in the factory premises to negotiate with the person in charge of the company, demanding unpaid wages and defending their rights.
2026-06-16
On June 18, 2026, villagers in Zhengyang County, Zhumadian, Henan reported that the Qingshui River appeared to be severely polluted by discharge; after irrigation, peanut fields and vegetables blackened and withered over large areas, and the village committee urgently issued a notice banning water diversion for irrigation.
2026-06-15
Since 2025, the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Biyang County, Henan, has cross-provincially intercepted and seized frozen food from 21 trucks across 10 provinces and municipalities and auctioned it off for cash, drawing accusations of revenue-driven enforcement; on June 15, 2026, an official notice stated that Wang Lei, the former director of the bureau involved in the case, and others were placed under detention measures.
Location: Zhumadian, Henan ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-06-13
On June 13, 2026, after the chain restaurant brand Yujian Xiaomian was condemned across the internet for filing a cross-province lawsuit against a husband-and-wife noodle shop in Nanyang, Yujian Xiaomian, for trademark infringement, it announced that it was withdrawing the lawsuit; the founder subsequently issued a public apology and gifted the trademark.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, a netizen posted a video showing multiple city and rural public buses parked together at the main gate of the bus and passenger transport terminal in Qingfeng County, Puyang, Henan Province, blocking the entrance and suspending operations, apparently in a collective rights defense by bus drivers over pay or operational disputes.
2026-05-28
In the early hours of May 28, 2026, a serious traffic accident occurred on the Henan Nanyang section of the G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway, when a bus licensed to carry 9 passengers but carrying 16 rear-ended a semi-trailer truck, killing 13 and injuring 3. The Ministry of Public Security dispatched a task force to guide the investigation.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, a college graduate in Henan posted to report that during graduation season their counselor repeatedly urged students in a group chat to sign, warning that online-signed employment agreements would be directly tied to internship and thesis grades and the issuance of graduation certificates, in order to apply pressure.
2026-05-27
Chutou, a 10-year-old influencer dog from Shangqiu, Henan, with over 1 million followers, was stolen by a stranger while its owner was driving to Georgia. It was sold to a dog meat trader for 180 yuan, skinned, and sold as meat. The owner tracked down the thief after days of searching.
2026-05-24
On May 24, 2026, inside the Grand Shanghai City mall in Zhengzhou, Henan, a man used a megaphone to publicly insult a gathering of ACG (anime, comic and game) youth as "traitors" and "sellouts," and was subsequently handcuffed and taken away by police who arrived at the scene.
2026-05-22
On May 22, 2026, the Henan Blue Sky Rescue team issued a notice stating that three teams from Yichuan, Yiyang, and Song County had traveled to Changde, Hunan to carry out rescue work and posted videos without completing the filing and approval procedures, and ordered all personnel to withdraw and issued internal written warnings.
2026-05-21
On May 21, 2026, regarding the incident where over 700 mu of shepherd's purse crops were swarmed, stolen, and looted by surrounding villagers, a farmer in Neihuang, Henan, formally submitted a criminal case application to the local police, demanding that the crime of intentional destruction of property be investigated and compensation for losses be made.
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
In May 2026, “Chutou,” a pet dog with one million followers in Shangqiu, Henan, was stolen and sold to dog dealers for 180 yuan to be slaughtered. After the owner reported the case to the police, the dog thief offered only 400 yuan in compensation, triggering widespread condemnation online.
2026-03-30
On March 30, 2026, a court in Xiangcheng, Henan, found in first instance that Cao's family members had discussed having the elderly person drink pesticide and die on the neighbor's homestead, using the death to force the neighbor to stop work and secure the release of her son Li, who had been criminally detained; six relatives, including her husband and daughter, were convicted of intentional homicide, with the husband sentenced to 6 years.
2026-03-15
In March 2026, 21-year-old female college student Suling in Beijing was deceived by her family because of her relationship and escorted to a correction facility in Sanmenxia, Henan, where her personal freedom was restricted for 11 days. She was later freed after her boyfriend searched for her across provinces, and the police declined to file a case on the grounds that no crime had occurred.
2026-01-12
On January 12, procurement documents released by Henan Medical University showed that the school spent 550,000 yuan to build a student comprehensive profiling analysis platform. The platform conducts non-intrusive collection and intelligent analysis of students' daily behavior, academics, mental health, and financial aid information, and includes functions such as dynamic tracking of key students and four-level grid management.
2026
After the vehicle left the Biyang County highway exit, the local Market Supervision Administration seized the vehicle on the grounds of suspected transport of uninspected and unquarantined frozen pork by-products.
2025-12
In December 2025, Mr. Gu from Henan sued Mr. Liu from Shanxi in the Dengzhou People's Court for unjust enrichment. The court determined that Mr. Liu had received a mis-transfer of 19,800 yuan and failed to return it, and did not appear in court after being summoned; it ruled that he must return the funds and pay interest.
2025-11-24
On November 24, a Xiaomi SU7 driving in Nanyang, Henan Province lost control and crashed into a roadside tree. The vehicle was severely damaged; the power did not automatically cut off after the collision, and none of the four door locks could unlock normally. Netizens worried that the doors could not be opened after a power failure.
2025-08
After police launched an investigation into Wang Qunshan's involvement in the case, her husband Meng Wei was listed as an accomplice, and in August, four months after the incident, he too chose to take his own life.
2025-07
21 refrigerated trucks, from July 2025 to January 2026, set out from Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Chongqing and other regions, originally destined for southern cities.
2025-07
Between July 2025 and January 2026, these 21 refrigerated trucks collectively deviated off course during the journey and ultimately entered the highway exit of Biyang County, Zhumadian, Henan.
2025-04-12
Wang Qunshan, a wealth manager at a Postal Savings Bank in Shangqiu, Henan Province, was found dead by hanging early the next morning after his superiors discovered problems in his work and he was spoken to by leaders; subsequently, his economic crime of embezzling more than 10 million yuan of depositors' funds came to light.
2025
The Ministry of Justice reported that a county fire brigade in Henan assigned administrative fine quotas to 23 townships and subdistricts, requiring no fewer than 2 fines per month totaling at least 2,000 yuan.
2024-12-17
On December 17, 2024, a 70-year-old resident surnamed Cao died in Xiangcheng, Henan, and a forensic examination concluded that the cause of death was consistent with sudden cardiac death. According to reports, her family had dragged her to a neighbor's homestead and obstructed rescue efforts while she still had vital signs.
2024-12-14
On December 14, 2024, a 59-year-old man surnamed Ma in Zhengzhou had a dispute with his employer, surnamed Qin, over unpaid wages and dismissal. Qin slapped him 9 times. That evening, Ma was hospitalized with an acute cerebral infarction and passed away after being in a coma for 14 months. Qin admitted to the assault at the police station.
2024-11-08
In early November 2024, hundreds of thousands of college students in Zhengzhou, Henan rode shared bikes at night into Kaifeng, triggering large-scale gatherings. Universities in Henan and many other places subsequently locked down their campuses and barred students from going out, while traffic police in both cities imposed a full closure of the Zhengkai Avenue.
2024-08-07
On August 7, 2024, Wang Jiajia, a judge of the Yancheng District People's Court in Luohe, Henan Province, was stabbed and killed in an underground garage of a residential compound by a person surnamed Dang, a party to a road traffic accident dispute case, in revenge.
2024-08
Henan judge Wang Jiajia was hacked to death by an old man just 20 meters from her front door, becoming one of a series of recent violent attacks targeting officials and judicial personnel.
2024-05
Outside an ONVO store in Zhengzhou, AITO owners unfurled banners claiming they waited 100 days for their cars and that after 60 days of driving the vehicle had already become an old model, while also criticizing after-sales service and the car-buying experience.
2024
In 2024, Zhumadian City's confiscated fine revenue reached 45.22 billion yuan, a historic high.
2024
In 2024, a 59-year-old man in Zhengzhou had a dispute with his former employer over unpaid wages and his dismissal. He was slapped nine times by the employer, subsequently suffered an acute cerebral infarction, and passed away after being in a coma for 14 months.
2023
Zhumadian City's confiscated fine revenue reached 3.936 billion yuan in 2023.
2022-09
Washington Post reporter Kader reported from a field visit that a village in Henan had images of facial expressions and occlusion states collected, and the villagers were paid with a bottle of cooking oil.
2022-04-18
In 2022, several village and town banks in Henan collapsed. The cause was collusion between major shareholders inside and outside the banks and the fabrication of loans, making it a pure fraud case.
2021-07-20
From July 17 to 23, 2021, Henan was hit by exceptionally severe rainstorms, with Zhengzhou suffering the worst devastation on July 20. A State Council investigation report put the death and missing toll at 398 across the province, including 380 in Zhengzhou.
2018
A homebuyer in Zhengzhou reported that the property purchased in 2018 cost over one million yuan in total, including the purchase price, down payment, and interest. Listing prices in the same residential compound have since fallen sharply, leaving the buyer facing massive asset losses.
2012
According to records of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) judiciary, Deputy Director Ma XXX of Biyang Industry and Information Bureau colluded with the local casting company head, fabricated a roster of absent workers, defrauded over 1.94 million yuan of closure small enterprise subsidy funds, and divided the loot according to the June Fourth ratio.
2011-05-15
In May 2011, Kaifeng Mayor Zhou Yizhong was placed under shuanggui, and was later sentenced to life imprisonment in early 2014 on charges of accepting bribes.
2010
Henan examinee Li Mengmeng scored 565, 13 points above the first-tier cutoff, but her paper application form never entered the admission process and was forgotten in the admissions office.
2010
After Li Mengmeng's case spread on Weibo, it drew public attention. About ten days later, she was offered admission to the accounting program at Henan University of Economics and Law, and the responsible parties were dealt with.
2004-02-27
Then-Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary Xi Jinping personally inscribed a message for all the elders and fellow villagers of Dengzhou Xincun in Henan, confirming their ancestral home as Dengzhou, Henan.
1975-08
In 1975, a massive flood occurred in Henan due to water conservancy issues and a change in the course of the Yellow River, causing a large number of deaths, and the government lacked public reporting on it for a long time.
1969-11-12
After enduring prolonged and brutal persecution and detention in Kaifeng, Henan, Liu Shaoqi passed away from illness in the early morning of November 12, 1969, and was cremated immediately.