10.26
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Jinzhong, Shanxi
From October 22 to 23, the Foreign Languages Department of Jinzhong University of Technology held a themed group day activity against circumventing the Great Firewall. Students of the English 2503 branch studied the legal risks of VPNs, accelerators, and proxy plugins, and pledged not to install, use, or spread circumvention software. The school classified accessing overseas websites as a risk of exposure to harmful information, and published an article about it on its official website on October 26.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Jinzhong
On September 12, a first‑grade middle school girl in Beitian Town, Yuci District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province was surrounded, verbally abused, slapped and kicked by several students while going to a market. The video shows the victim being beaten by many people, with no one intervening. The school said it was a minor dispute among students; the education bureau and the police station expressed a passive attitude toward the bullying nature and the injuries. The victim is currently hospitalized for observation, and the police have intervened.
2026.09
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Jinzhong
Students in the dormitories at the Zhongdu campus of Shanxi Medical University have upper bunks with no ladders. Parents have to buy a ladder from a shop off campus for about 200 yuan and bring it into the school to install it, and the university only allows parents to enter campus on the day of registration. Netizens question whether the school is working with merchants to fleece parents.
08.25
·Hearsay
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Jinzhong, Shanxi
On the evening of August 25, 2026, several workers at the Shuanglei Brick Factory in Jiechou Township, Shouyang County, Jinzhong, Shanxi, went to the factory to demand unpaid wages after being owed their pay. A clash broke out during the process, and one worker was beaten to the ground and could not get up.
06.12
·Hearsay
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Jinzhong, Shanxi
On June 12, 2026, dozens of Lolita clothing consumers who fell victim to a pre-sale deposit scam went to Jinzhong, Shanxi, to file a report with the assistance of an anti-fraud team, only to be told verbally by police that the case would not be accepted and to be refused a written decision.
2024.12.06
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Jinzhong, Shanxi
A woman surnamed Bu from Jinzhong, Shanxi, who suffered from schizophrenia, went missing for 13 years and was found with a son and a daughter. Police reported that she was taken in by a resident named Zhang in Qingcheng Town after she went missing. Media reports described Zhang as an honest man, sparking outrage among netizens who pointed out that this was actually rape and illegal detention.
2001.10.26
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·Jinzhong, Shanxi
On the night of October 26, 2001, Hu Wenhai, a villager of Dayukou Village in Jinzhong, Shanxi, shot and killed 14 people in a row after having reported village officials to the authorities for a long time without result; he was executed by shooting on January 25, 2002.