2026-11-11
After a student died, a large number of family members gathered at the gate of the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental School to defend their rights, accusing the school of delaying notification to parents and shirking responsibility by claiming the 'child fell on their own'.
2026-11-11
Recently, multiple netizens in Shenzhen posted on Xiaohongshu and Douyin that their companies, in order to comply with the two-day APEC holiday, are requiring employees to use their annual leave to offset the time off. Those who have no annual leave left for this year are being asked to deduct it from their 2027 annual leave. Some in the comment section shared similar arrangements.
2026-11-11
Recently, a store at Shenzhen MixC issued a notice stating that, in order to cooperate with the APEC 'Green Travel, Smooth Traffic' campaign, parking of e-bikes and bicycles will be strictly prohibited on surrounding roads. All employees are required to commute by subway or bus from November 11 to 21 to avoid having their vehicles seized.
2026-11-10
On November 10, the Steering Committee of the Japanese House of Representatives approved Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's overseas visit schedule: first to the Philippines to attend ASEAN-related summits, and then to Shenzhen to participate in the APEC Leaders' Meeting from the 18th to the 19th, marking her first visit to China since taking office.
2026-11-10
A residential committee in a Shenzhen community suggested in a group chat that residents go out for trips from November 17 to 19, stating that those who remain at home will be visited by party and government personnel during specific periods. Empty apartments will have electronic seals with chips placed on their doors, which will trigger an alarm upon opening, and residents must be accompanied by staff to return home. The APEC meeting is being held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19.
2026-11-10
On November 10, a netizen posted that on the eve of the APEC meeting in Shenzhen, workers at a construction site in Shekou were restricted from entering and leaving, and nearby street vendors were banned from operating until the 21st, affecting the workers' daily meals.
2026-11-09
Bloomberg reported on November 9, citing people familiar with the matter, that Japanese officials have been striving to ensure Sanae Takaichi receives the same reception as other attending leaders from the Chinese side. It is expected that Xi Jinping will shake hands with her as per protocol, though it remains unconfirmed whether the two will hold a separate meeting.
2026-11-09
A netizen submission exposes a notice posted on a water dispenser at a factory in Guangzhou, stating that day laborers are not allowed to use the water here, and those caught doing so will be fined.
2026-11-09
On November 9, multiple netizens posted that in order to welcome the APEC meeting, Shenzhen has launched city-wide urban appearance cleanup efforts. Cleaning crews are scrubbing stains at subway stations, painting pipes, and washing road bollards. Netizens questioned whether these measures provide any benefit to ordinary workers.
2026-11-08
On November 8, U.S. President Trump stated that he expects to meet with Xi Jinping and Putin during the APEC leaders' meeting to be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19, with topics covering denuclearization and ending the war in Iran; the Chinese side stated it is communicating with relevant parties, and the trilateral formal talks have not yet been confirmed.
2026-11-07
On November 7, a teacher surnamed Xie at the Yangchun Ziyong After-school Care Center in Guangdong choked a student while snatching an item from them. The parent used a children's smartwatch to record the incident, but the teacher snatched the watch and forcibly deleted the video. The parent then used a mobile phone to record a second video as evidence.
2026-11-07
On the morning of November 7, high school students at Chaoyang Experimental School in Shantou, Guangdong, were required to go to the playground and stand together to study as soon as the sky brightened, sparking mockery from netizens regarding the school's prison-like management.
2026-11-07
On November 7, during the women's singles awards ceremony at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Shenzhen, Japanese champion Mone Chiba was met with shouts of "get off" as she took the podium. Some audience members remained seated during the Japanese national anthem, and others shouted for refunds. Netizens later debated whether the commotion was triggered by perceived unfair scoring by the judges.
2026-11-06
On November 6, at the 2026 Mobile Network Conference held in Guangzhou, China Mobile showcased an "anti-fraud call" technical solution. By identifying high-risk keywords such as "transfer" and "account," the system triggers alerts and inserts anti-fraud audio. The feature requires users to manually enable it, sparking concerns over call privacy and freedom of communication.
2026-11-06
The Financial Times reported on November 6 that Shenzhen has stepped up enforcement ahead of the APEC summit. Dozens of vendors in the Huaqiangbei second-hand mobile phone market were arrested, foreign iPhones were banned from sale, and counterfeit goods in Luohu Commercial City were removed, with frequent inspections and police stations on 24-hour duty.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a second-year middle school student at the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental School was pushed by other students in the dormitory, causing the back of their head to strike the ground. The student was diagnosed with a closed, severe craniocerebral injury and brain death, and later died due to coagulation dysfunction.
2026-11-06
On November 6, netizens filmed sanitation workers in Shenzhen, who were participating in city appearance maintenance for the APEC meeting, lacking proper rest and dining facilities. They were seen squatting on the roadside at noon eating cold meals and pickles they brought themselves, and sleeping in green belts at night. Netizens are calling for the improvement of rest stations and hot meal support.
2026-11-05
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has formally initiated a public prosecution against Ma Xingrui for suspected duty-related crimes.
2026-11-05
A salesperson claiming to be a third-party contract worker for Li Auto in the Guangdong region posted that their monthly performance pay was wiped out by the city general manager in October. After multiple failed attempts at communication and reporting the issue to HR, their work phone was deactivated, their WeChat Work contacts were migrated, and their devices were remotely locked.
2026-11-05
According to a netizen's report, the Foshan Women and Children's Hospital has implemented a blanket exit-entry restriction on ordinary staff who are not involved in classified work or middle management. Employees were disciplined for applying for travel documents without approval, and a corresponding penalty system was established. This is alleged to be in violation of the Passport Law and the Exit and Entry Administration Law.
2026-11-04
A Guangdong netizen posted a social security retirement income certificate from Shenzhen, showing a monthly payment of 1,989 yuan after nearly 20 years of contributions, sparking public concern over pension gaps and the proposed extension of the social security contribution period to 20 years.
2026-11-04
According to a report by the Financial Times on November 4, Oracle canceled a five-year, approximately $7 billion chip leasing agreement with Tencent under pressure from the Trump administration. The original agreement allowed Tencent to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips in Southeast Asian data centers. During the same period, senior officials from Guangdong visited Tencent and demanded that it switch to domestic chips.
2026-11-04
The Shenzhen police announced that the APEC security command system has entered wartime mode, and low-altitude control will be implemented starting November 7. Drones, kites, and sky lanterns are all within the ban.
2026-11-04
On November 4, the fourth day of the implementation of Shenzhen's new no-honking rule, drivers encountered pedestrians blocking the road but dared not honk, resorting to shouting to warn them to move. A bus driver, seeing the car in front not moving at a green light, got out to knock on the front car's window to remind them. Netizens remarked, 'This place is becoming increasingly surreal.'
2026-11-04
On the evening of November 4, Longxi Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. in Huicheng District, Huizhou, Guangdong, required employees to collectively shout slogans wishing "General Manager Wei" a happy birthday, conditional on not working overtime that night, which sparked sarcasm from netizens.
2026-11-04
On November 4, a netizen posted that after paying social security in Shenzhen for 20 years and just retiring, their monthly pension is only 1,989 yuan.
2026-11-03
On November 3, Google released an investigation report stating that Shenzhen Shizhuang Technology exploited certification testing vulnerabilities to pre-install backdoors in TV boxes before they left the factory, selling device access rights to black and gray industry syndicates. Over 1.3 million devices worldwide were remotely controlled to click ads and install malware. Google has severed the control servers and terminated its certification partnership.
2026-11-03
On November 3, netizens discovered that as the APEC meeting approaches, white barriers have been installed at parking areas for electric bicycles near subway stations on Longzhu Avenue and other locations in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, to conceal the vehicles, sparking mockery from netizens who called it an act of 'burying one's head in the sand' and a waste of money.
2026-11-03
On November 3, Shenzhen announced temporary traffic control measures during the APEC meeting via the "Shenzhen Fabu" WeChat official account: from November 17 to 20, between 6:00 and 22:00 daily, non-Guangdong B licensed passenger cars are prohibited from driving in the six districts of Futian, Luohu, Nanshan, Bao'an, Longgang, and Longhua, and trucks are also subject to restricted access by category and time period.
2026-11-03
Recently, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video: A man was chopping meat on the roadside, with the cut pieces piled on a mat on the ground. He used his foot twice to push the meat pieces together with his shoe, while a person nearby continued to shovel the meat into bags using a plastic dustpan.
2026-11-02
On November 2, Guo Yonghang, who served as the top aide to Ma Xingrui in Guangdong, was expelled from the Party and public office and transferred to judicial authorities, involving the Ma family's capital chain and urban renewal projects in Shenzhen.
2026-11-02
On November 2, Zhongshan Yuantian Orthopedic Hospital in Guangdong announced that it had suspended all medical services and operations starting October 30. Following the suspension, multiple employees gathered at the hospital entrance to demand unpaid wages. A netizen claiming to be a medical supplier commented that the hospital still owes them tens of thousands of yuan in unpaid invoices.
2026-11-02
On November 2, Elephant News reported that sanitation workers in Huadu District, Guangzhou, were required to wear smart electronic badges capable of tracking their location. The local urban environmental sanitation management office responded that the badges do not record audio or video and do not infringe on personal privacy, but are used to monitor attendance, which has sparked skepticism among netizens.
Location: Huadu District, Guangzhou ·
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2026-11-02
According to Chinese media reports on November 2, part-time employees at Bona Film Group cinemas in Guangzhou and Zhongshan, Guangdong, reported that their September wages were delayed and posted about demanding unpaid wages on social media; two interviewed employees confirmed that the arrears were paid on October 30.
2026-11-02
On November 2, a netizen submitted a report to [Niuma.ICU] stating that, in order to reduce highway accident rates, the leadership of the Dongguan Public Security Bureau has arranged for all police officers in the bureau to patrol highways with sparse traffic every day from 2:00 AM to 6:00 AM.
2026-11-02
On November 2, staff at the Zhaoqing High-tech Zone Government Service Center explained to Jing-TV Live that the self-service area is open 24 hours a day and requires access control to protect internal equipment.
2026-11-01
The Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department held a mobilization meeting for the APEC summit security of the entire provincial public security organs, deploying high-level duty and heavy police presence on the streets for strict control.
2026-11-01
On November 1, 17 days before the opening of the APEC Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department ordered all public security organs across the province to initiate high-level duty, deploy heavy forces onto the streets for strict management and control, and transfer police personnel to support Shenzhen for enhanced inspection and control on the outer peripheries of Shenzhen and Guangdong.
2026-11
Recently, students at Dongguan No. 5 High School spontaneously formed a 'Long-Haired Men's Club.' On the day of its founding, over 100 students attended the gathering, most out of curiosity. After the gathering, the initiating students were punished by the school, and comments on related content have become invisible.
2026-11
As the 2026 APEC meeting approaches, security measures in Shenzhen have become strict. Some residents report that their online orders are being returned to the sender, and daily items such as nail clippers cannot be shipped normally.
2026-11-01
On November 1, a netizen in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, posted that they went to the 24-hour self-service area of the High-tech Zone Government Service Center to replace their ID card, but had to swipe their ID card to enter. Unable to get anyone to open the door, they eventually had to ask a family member to swipe their card for them to gain access.
2026-10-31
On October 31, at the sales office lobby of "Huafa Zhuhai Bay" in Zhuhai, Guangdong, multiple construction workers sat by the sand table to demand unpaid wages.
2026-10-31
On October 31, as the national anthem played at Wenshan Primary School in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, students, parents, security guards, and volunteers outside the school gate stood still in the street. Some students faced the school and saluted, a scene captured and uploaded by netizens.
2026-10-31
On October 31, Nanfengchuang reported that 36-year-old Chen Cheng (pseudonym), a Fujian native who obtained U.S. citizenship, works as a container truck driver in the New York-New Jersey port area while simultaneously partnering in a company in Guangdong and paying social security, stating it is a backup plan for himself, which has sparked ridicule among netizens.
2026-10-30
Huafa Shares released its Q3 report, showing a net loss attributable to the parent company of 6.437 billion in the first three quarters. As of September 30, the owner's equity attributable to shareholders of the listed company was only 3.093 billion, a sharp decline from 19 billion within one year.
Location: Zhuhai, Guangdong ·
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2026-10-30
The owner of a restaurant in Longhua District, Shenzhen, revealed that local police came to the premises and used metal chains to lock up all the kitchen knives in the community restaurant.
2026-10-30
A restaurant owner in Longhua District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, claimed that kitchen knives were chained and fixed by the police. It is rumored that this control measure is being widely implemented in local communities.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the owner of the 'Jiudao Geng Quan Niu Yan' restaurant in Longhua District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, stated that police officers came to the premises and used chains to lock and secure their kitchen knives, adding that they heard this control measure was being implemented throughout the local community.
2026-10-30
On the evening of October 30, a large number of students at the Gaoyao School of Zhaoqing Gaoyao District Shimen Middle School (Group) (Gaoyao No. 2 Middle School) gathered in their dormitories to demand that the school turn on the air conditioning. The humidity that night reached over 90%, making it feel stiflingly hot.
2026-10-30
On October 30, uniformed personnel wearing "anti-fraud" armbands were seen patrolling in front of multiple shops in Shenzhen. The intensity of the patrols has increased compared to the past, and netizens have submitted photos documenting the scene.
2026-10-29
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a water and power outage due to equipment failure. As the school refused to let students leave, a large number of students gathered and climbed over the walls to leave the campus.
2026-10-29
On October 29, in Shangtou Village, Binhai Street, Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, a large group of villagers gathered at the entrance and service hall of the Shangtou Community Party-Mass Service Center to demand land expropriation compensation. Local netizens reported that village cadres were suspected of embezzling collective land compensation funds, leaving villagers without the payments they were due. Police arrived at the scene to maintain order.
2026-10-29
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a power and water outage for several hours due to equipment failure. Students, unable to study or live normally, demanded to leave the school. Because the electric gate was malfunctioning and school leaders refused to let them out, the students gathered at the school gate, shouting in unison to be allowed to go home.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a Shenzhen netizen posted that due to APEC security controls, the Evian facial spray they purchased could not be shipped. Multiple netizens reported that scissors, knives, mosquito coils, deodorant sprays, and other items sent to Shenzhen addresses were either refunded by merchants or flagged as being outside the sales area.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the Weibo topic "Mbappé-endorsed drink sees zero sales in a single day" reached number two on the trending list. Guangdong Radio and Television reported that a merchant in Guangzhou claimed the drink had zero sales for the day, while netizens in the comments section posted photos to refute the claim, stating they were still purchasing it.
2026-10-28
Insiders confirm that two matured trust products of Zhuhai Huafa Group were not redeemed on schedule, causing a sharp drop in the price of its offshore dim sum bonds.
2026-10-28
On October 28, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, the Baiyun New Energy Storage Industrial Park (Phase I) project of China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. was in arrears for construction payments. Although the building has been topped out, the payments remain unpaid. Multiple rights defenders blocked the gate of the project department with their vehicles.
2026-10-28
On October 28, multiple people in New York, USA, held a rally to support Wangwang, a stray mother dog, and her puppies who were brutally killed in Jieyang, Guangdong. They held signs calling on China to enact animal protection laws and demanding that online platforms be held accountable for spreading videos of animal abuse.
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2026-10-27
In October 2026, a screenshot of a court judgment document concerning the murder of blogger Huijian circulated online, involving impersonating police to kidnap people, forcing the disclosure of the people behind a WeChat official account, forced deletion of posts, and beating someone to death across provincial lines.
2026-10-27
On October 27, a netizen submitted via [Niuma.ICU] to expose that Shenzhen Deshengyuan Technology Co., Ltd. requires 6 workdays per week and 12 hours per day, that the workshop has only fans with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees, that no social insurance or housing provident fund is paid, and that wages are not paid on time.
2026-10-27
Shenzhen's new no-honking rules take effect: from November 1, all motor vehicles are banned from honking on all roads citywide from 0:00 to 24:00 every day; violators will be fined 300 yuan, and the rules are valid for 5 years. Netizens then played up the meme, posting dubbed videos of residents screaming at the top of their lungs.
2026-10-27
On October 27, a Guangdong netizen posted on Xiaohongshu saying that for nearly four years their social insurance had been paid at the minimum base. HR held a talk with them, proposing to pay social insurance in full starting November, but demanding that they bear the company's share; after calculation, their salary was cut by more than 1,000 yuan.
2026-10-26
On October 26, a netizen in Guangdong captured footage of a public life-saving equipment box by a riverside embedded between a railing and the curb, with its door able to open only a narrow gap. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-26
On October 26, a blogger on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) posted a video showing sanitation workers in Shenzhen using steel wool to scrub stainless steel road bollards. Netizens questioned the formalism and called for extra compensation for the sanitation workers.
2026-10-25
On October 25, Russian presidential aide Ushakov stated that preparations for a trilateral meeting between Xi Jinping, Trump, and Putin have begun, that all three countries are in principle ready to meet, that the Chinese side's attitude is "very serious," and that the meeting is planned to be held during the Shenzhen APEC summit on November 18-19.
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen shared their experience taking a ride-hailing car in Guangdong: because of a GPS positioning error that wasted the driver’s time, they were berated. The netizen casually said “It’s all America’s fault,” and the driver immediately turned to seriously criticizing America, and the tension subsided.
2026-10-24
On October 24, a blogger posted a video claiming that some staff at the Canton Fair exhibition halls give Chinese visitors a cold shoulder while bowing and scraping to foreigners, and give people attitude if they don't speak English, suggesting that visitors should speak English rather than Chinese if they can.
2026-10-23
On October 23, an online store selling model protective spray paint notified customers that, because Shenzhen is hosting the 2026 APEC Meeting (November 18 to 19), the product falls within the control zone, and deliveries to Shenzhen addresses are temporarily suspended. Shipping will resume after November 19, and buyers in Shenzhen were advised not to place orders for now.
2026-10-23
On October 23, the Market Supervision Administration of Luoding City, Guangdong issued a notice soliciting clues in the market supervision field related to gang-related and evil forces, listing knowingly buying fake goods, deliberately nitpicking, and filing complaints and lawsuits in batches as malicious claims for compensation, with suspected gang and evil crimes to be transferred to the police.
2026-10-22
A netizen submission claims that China Telecom's Pengjiang District branch in Jiangmen City almost every weekend runs promotional activities, with leaders forcing employees to go out and set up stalls, and that there will be no days off for the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
2026-10-22
A netizen posted real photos of Shenzhen on Douyin; three hours later, sharing was restricted and the post was taken down, with a notice saying it was under review, and the account was immediately permanently banned, suspected to be triggered by the words "Xijiu" and "1988" in the photo.
2026-10-22
On October 22, a netizen in Guangdong posted that during Shenzhen's "green travel" voluntary no-drive declaration period, some grassroots departments and enterprises had turned the voluntary program into quota targets, with managers requiring employees to scan a QR code to declare and submit screenshots, and those failing to meet the targets would be held accountable, sparking dissatisfaction among netizens.
2026-10-21
On October 21, 8-year-old Qiqi, a student at Peixin School in Huadu District, Guangzhou, fell and hit the back of her head after being bumped by her desk mate during recess. A PE teacher carried her to the infirmary like a sack of rice, while the school doctor and homeroom teacher watched without calling 120. She was sent to the hospital about an hour later. On November 2, Jiangsu News Radio reported that the child suffered a brain hemorrhage and a fractured skull, and has been declared brain-dead. The school denies any negligence.
2026-10-21
On October 21, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi released a plea from a family, stating that the police have not opened a case more than a month after the report. He called on relevant departments in Guangdong to verify the labor compensation, whether forced labor exists, and the reasons for the man's departure from the recycling station.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a netizen photographed a poster put up in an office building in Shenzhen titled “In Order Not to Cause Trouble for the Shenzhen APEC Summit, Please Choose Your Way of Contributing,” which listed options such as working overtime until late at night and letting your beloved car sit idle. It sparked heated discussion among netizens and was subsequently taken down.
2026-10-21
On October 21, in Jinping District, Shantou City, Guangdong, several people suspected of being involved in a dispute over unpaid wages climbed to the edge of a rooftop near the local government to defend their rights.
2026-10-21
On October 21, South Korean girl group Hearts2Hearts announced the cancellation of a fan-signing event originally scheduled to be held in Shenzhen, citing force majeure, without specifying the reason.
2026-10-21
According to a New Yellow River report on October 21, when iQIYI sued Xunlei, it listed a Huizhou car rental company as a defendant and sought 50,000 yuan in compensation, claiming that the company's vehicles came "pre-installed" with the software. The owner of the rental company said the software was installed by the renter after picking up the car. A lawyer interviewed believes the move was intended to use the rental company's location to argue for trying the dispute with Shenzhen-based Xunlei in Huizhou.
2026-10-20
On October 20, blogger Shangguan Zhengyi posted on Weibo to expose that an operating room and an embryo transfer laboratory of an underground surrogacy agency were found in a courtyard by the Liuxi River in Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou. He reported the case to the police and brought officers to the scene, but police station personnel did not enter on the grounds that no one opened the door to lead the way, and they strictly verified his identity as a whistleblower.
2026-10-20
After Shangguan Zhengyi publicly reported online, local Guangzhou authorities intervened and entered the compound in question, finding related medical devices and drugs; Shangguan Zhengyi called on the Guangzhou police to thoroughly investigate the illegal activities across the entire surrogacy chain.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the person involved in the "lymph meat" incident at the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group posted that after more than a month of rights defense, they had received the company's decision to terminate the canteen contractor's contract, expressed satisfaction with the result, and received likes and support from many netizens.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a protective netting installer in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, posted a video of construction work at a school on Douyin, showing workers installing dense metal netting outside the corridors of multiple floors, from the railings to the top. Netizens commented that it looked like a "prison style" and that "as long as they don't die at school, it's fine."
2026-10-19
On October 19, a tenant in Baiyun District, Guangzhou posted that he was fined 500 yuan because a relative visited and stayed for two days without registering residence information. He said calling to complain was useless, and several Guangdong netizens in the comments said they had encountered similar fines.
2026-10-19
On October 19, at Haosheng Industrial Park in Nancun Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, the boss of Shunyixin Clothing suddenly disappeared on payday, leaving a large amount of goods and equipment in the workshop. The workers have no right and dare not sell them off privately, and can only face the plight of demanding unpaid wages.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen in Jiangmen, Guangdong posted a video claiming that Yishan Technology Group Co., Ltd. forced employees to recite slogans at a morning meeting on the factory playground shortly after 7 a.m. Netizens in the comments complained that it took up rest time and joked about it being a "Northern Myanmar branch."
2026-10-19
On October 19, a bank employee in Guangdong posted a notice from their workplace group chat requiring unmarried employees to share their parents' WeChat contacts and married employees to share their spouses' WeChat contacts with grid administrators, to be completed within the same day. Netizens said some banks also demand parents' ID numbers, job titles, and their children's school and class information, and even home visits.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen posted a notice: during the APEC meeting from November 16 to 20, Shenzhen citywide will not have a unified holiday or adjusted rest day; enterprises may independently arrange working from home, staggered commuting hours, flexible working hours, and paid annual leave, and it was emphasized that flexible arrangements must not be used to unlawfully extend working hours, evade overtime pay, or lower wage standards.
2026-10-18
Recently, netizens in many places across China have reported on social media that they received notices of increased social insurance premiums, requiring them to pay back the difference for January to September. A netizen in Shenzhen said the social insurance payment was nearly 2,000 yuan, lamenting the heavy pressure on life amid economic difficulties.
2026-10-18
According to a tweet posted by X user @GFWfrog, Shenzhen state-owned enterprise Guosen Securities issued an announcement stating that its employees were publicly criticized by the Luohu District Cyberspace Administration for circumventing the Great Firewall to access the overseas internet. This incident reflects the relevant authorities' regulatory scrutiny of corporate employees' online behavior and has drawn attention online.
2026-10-18
On October 18, Dongguan Guanyin Guanshi Catering Company in Guangdong announced that its stores had suffered cumulative losses of over 500,000 yuan since April. It decided that starting November 1, employees with a monthly salary of 4,800 yuan or more must give up up to 20% of their salary to share the operating losses, with any amount exceeding that to be borne by the shareholders.
2026-10-17
According to a post by X user LuJun Quan (@QuanLujun), netizens who circumvent the Great Firewall are warned that KuaiMiao VPN is phishing software. Its registered address is shown as a police officers' dormitory building in Shenzhen, and some netizens have reported being approached by police for talks four times after using this VPN. In addition, the post points out that most VPNs in the Apple and Google app stores are operated by Chinese companies, posing enormous security and compliance risks.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a netizen posted chat screenshots claiming that police in a certain place in Guangdong were requiring landlords to evict tenants who had not paid social insurance, saying that those without jobs cannot rent homes, and that temporary workers and food delivery riders were also among those being evicted. The day before, another netizen had already posted asking whether one could rent a home without paying social insurance, sparking discussion.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a woman who described herself as a married mother of three born in '04 posted her daily working life in Guangdong on Douyin: starting work at 7 a.m. and getting off at 8:30 p.m., then going home to look after the children and do housework; her mother-in-law gave her 300 yuan in living expenses that month and her husband 600 yuan, while the barrage comments flooded the screen with "You've got it good."
2026-10-15
The Zhuhai Jinwan District Tax Bureau has notified immigration authorities to block Xie Pingzhong from leaving the country starting October 15, citing the failure of Zhuhai Sanying Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. to settle outstanding taxes and late fees, or to provide a guarantee.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a blogger posted a video of an urban village in Guangzhou on Douyin: buildings on both sides pressed close together and the alley dim, claiming "Guangzhou's sunlight needs to be paid for." Netizens in the comments section mocked with remarks such as "So the sky was blocked, I thought the light was gone."
2026-10-14
Shenzhen's social security pension base has risen again, and back payments and supplementary payments are required for the period from January to December. The difficulty of recovering the shortfall from departed employees is increasing the burden on businesses.
2026-10-14
Multiple areas of Shenzhen have implemented large-scale temporary traffic controls and road closures ahead of APEC-related meetings or drills, causing traffic congestion and disrupting residents' travel.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video pouring out the last bit of rice left in the rice jar, captioned with the question "Should I buy rice first, or pay social insurance first?" Netizens in the comments section hotly debated the pressure of making a living.
2026-10-14
On October 14, Shantou in Guangdong rolled out themed buses and ferries for mobile outreach on social security policies, saying the shift is from "people looking for policies" to "policies finding people," with a focus on serving flexible workers, migrant workers and other groups. Netizens joked, "I will find you, whether north or south, east or west."
2026-10-14
On October 14, a Douyin blogger posted a video showing a strivers' hostel in Shenzhen that charges 14 yuan per night and has 8 beds. Most of the guests are college graduates looking for work; some have stayed for months, and late at night some guests are still out working and have not returned.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the Nanshan Branch of the Shenzhen Social Insurance Fund Administration set up a consultation booth at the entrance of a park, carrying out social insurance publicity under the themes of "Everyone Fulfills Their Duties · Everyone Enjoys the Benefits" and "2026 Social Insurance Services Go Into Every Household." Netizens commented sarcastically that they should set up at company entrances and have employers pay social insurance for their employees.
2026-10-13
Former Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan was detained at Shenzhen Airport, and it was announced on October 13 that he is under investigation.
2026-10-13
A netizen submission claims that Guangdong Zhuokewei Technology Co., Ltd. signed training contracts with schools without holding training qualifications, having students assemble machines and do projects for free, with daily working hours exceeding 12 hours.
2026-10-13
Guanyuan Data's Guangzhou branch, dissatisfied with the labor arbitration ruling, has sued Li Yu, a dismissed employee with late-stage stomach cancer, bringing the case into first instance. A company staff member responded that the toll that prolonged litigation takes on a seriously ill employee "is not something the company needs to consider."
2026-10-12
The Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Wang Shourui, former standing committee member of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, is suspected of serious disciplinary and legal violations. He voluntarily reported his problems to the organization and is undergoing review and investigation.
2026-10-12
After a fire at the Zhaoxing Electroplating Environmental Protection Industrial Park in Jinli Town, Zhaoqing, compensation remains unresolved and workers are owed wages; hundreds of workers jointly blocked the local government on October 12.
2026-10-12
A netizen posted a bill showing a social insurance payment of 2785 yuan made to the Shenzhen Tax Bureau through Alipay Huabei on October 12, sparking heated discussion online.
2026-10-12
On October 12, in front of Zhiyong School in Guangzhou, several duty students wearing red neckerchiefs and ceremonial sashes stood in a row, making gestures in unison and shouting together “Wear your red neckerchief or team badge” as students entered the school. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen in Guangdong who described themselves as a flexible-employment worker posted a video asking the AI assistant Doubao in English whether they would face compulsory enforcement for being unable to pay social insurance. The AI replied that they might be found through big data and persuaded, but would not be subject to compulsory enforcement, sparking heated discussion in the comments.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a social insurance payment bill showing a payment of 2,785.43 yuan in social insurance fees to the Shenzhen Municipal Tax Bureau via Alipay's Huabei, and said it could be paid in installments; the netizen also found that records of paying social insurance via Huabei in Shenzhen, Guangxi, Jingdezhen and other places had existed since 2022.
2026-10-11
On October 11, according to domestic media reports, a member of the parent committee at Siji School in Jinwan District, Zhuhai, proposed in a group chat that parents take turns going to the school to supervise students' midday rest, claiming the move was intended to allow teachers to rest better.
2026-10-11
On the evening of October 11, the topic climbed onto Weibo's social hot search list. Netizens complained about having to pay back the earlier difference, with one netizen from Guangdong saying the company had already covered the entire back-payment difference for its employees, comparing it to a landlord announcing a rent increase in October and demanding the price difference for the previous 9 months.
2026-10-10
74-year-old Huang Qifan attended a real estate launch event in Zhongshan, Guangdong, and delivered a speech on high-quality development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, after which his itinerary was cut short.
2026-10-10
In the early hours of October 10, a fire broke out in a three-story residential house in Xintang Town, Guangzhou, caused by the homeowner parking and charging an electric bicycle indoors. The fire destroyed two electric vehicles and one gasoline car, but fortunately no one was injured.
2026-10-09
A netizen submission claimed that employees at Guangdong Dongbo Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. don't get off work until after 11 p.m. every night, with monthly overtime reaching over 100 hours.
2026-10-09
On October 9, the Shenzhen Tax Service issued an announcement stating that the social insurance payment function via channels such as the Alipay life account "Shenzhen Tax Service" has been restored.
2026-10-08
Zhang Shuofu, formerly Beijing's Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary, was announced under investigation on October 8. He had once been Cai Qi's key assistant in Beijing for carrying out arrests.
2026-10-08
Three departments in Guangdong issued a notice dated September 17 and published on the tax bureau's official website on October 8, retroactively unifying the lower limit of the pension contribution base for enterprise employees to 5,510 yuan as of January and 5,521 yuan from July onward. Shenzhen's original lower limit of 4,775 yuan was raised by about 15.6%, and employees and employers who had previously contributed at the lower base must pay the difference.
2026-10-08
Zheng Zhengbang, legal representative of Zhongshan Fuhe Municipal Construction Co., Ltd., publicly reported Bank of China Zhongshan Branch in his own name, claiming that he borrowed 400 million yuan but actually paid about 350 million yuan, and raised questions about invoices, consulting fees and credit records.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a netizen revealed that the ceilings and walls of wards in the inpatient building at the Xiashan Campus of Guangdong Medical University Affiliated Hospital in Guangdong were blackened over large areas and covered with mildew. The hospital confirmed the mold problem, saying it had transferred patients to normal wards.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a netizen posted to expose an internal "improvement proposal" at a container factory in Guangdong. In response to employees using the restroom too often and slowing down production, the proposal suggested wearing adult diapers to boost output. The employee who posted said they must submit at least one proposal every month or be fined. In the comments, one person reported that after a coworker died of sudden death on the night shift, day-shift staff were required to fill out disclaimer forms, and the company made employees swear an oath that no safety accidents would occur.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a netizen uploaded a video recording the scene of junior high school students at Huoju No. 2 Middle School in Zhongshan, Guangdong, leaving school after evening self-study: the children, expressionless, lined up to have their faces scanned to exit the campus, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-06
The Financial Times reported that Beijing is pushing to move the Shenzhen APEC ministerial meeting online and plans to cancel informal closed-door exchanges.
2026-10-06
A netizen submission claimed that Zhuhai Gree Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. worked overtime for the entire 7-day National Day holiday, working every day until 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., and went back to the site on October 14 to re-adjust the equipment, averaging about 12 hours of work per day with almost no rest during the period.
2026-10-05
A netizen submission claimed that Zhongshan Chuangmeng E-Commerce Co., Ltd. has daily working hours of up to 12 hours, with unpaid overtime and no days off throughout the year.
2026-10-05
A candidate in a teacher recruitment exam in Puning, Guangdong, posted that on August 6 staff of the municipal Education Bureau persuaded him to fill out a voluntary withdrawal of employment form on the grounds that he failed the HIV physical exam. The physical exam standards revised in 2013, as specified in the recruitment announcement, do not list AIDS as a disqualifying condition, yet the Education Bureau refused to hire him based on the version revised in 2007. After refusing to sign, the candidate filed complaints with the letters and visits, human resources and social security, and discipline inspection departments, and on August 17 received a written certificate of physical exam failure and applied for administrative reconsideration; the problem remains unresolved.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a senior student at the Shanwei School of South China Normal University High School posted online, saying that the school's National Day holiday ran only from the afternoon of October 4 to the evening of October 6, and that a parents' meeting was held before students left campus on the afternoon of October 4, at which a PPT instructed parents not to agree to leave requests, and three students who had asked for leave to go out and eat were named.
2026-10-05
On October 5, to commemorate Wangwang, a stray dog brutally killed in Jieyang, Guangdong, along with her three puppies, 209 supporters crowdfunded 1,032,800 yen to air a memorial advertisement on the big screen outside the TSUTAYA Ebisubashi store in Dotonbori, Osaka, Japan. The ad, which calls for an end to animal abuse, will run until October 11.
2026-10-04
On October 4, at a mall in Guangming, Shenzhen, Guangdong, a physically disabled man wearing a delivery uniform lay sideways on a specially modified electric wheelchair to pick up and deliver food. Warm-hearted passersby and mall staff on site helped him hang and collect the meals, and the video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-04
On October 4, Heyuan Radio and Television Station posted a video claiming that 12-year-old Chen Zixi found two dinosaur egg fossils in a flower bed near his home and handed them over to a museum, praising him for knowing the law and following regulations. The video received 50,000 likes, and sarcastic comments such as "the young master has been recommended as xiaolian" and "something handed down for 15 generations in the family has been handed over" appeared in the comments section, questioning the true origin of the fossils.
2026-10
Statistics from JPMorgan at the end of October showed that multiple offshore bonds of Huafa fell by an average of 54 points, causing Huafa Shares' stock price to hit the daily limit and sparking widespread market concern over its debt crisis.
2026-10
Large numbers of job seekers who cannot find work are gathered on the streets of Guangzhou, rushing about everywhere in search of employment.
2026-10
The Guangdong government raised the lower limit of the pension insurance contribution base from 4775 to 5521 and required back payments of the difference from January to September, sparking complaints from netizens.
2026-10-01
The National Defense Mobilization Law of the People's Republic of China officially took effect on October 1, stipulating that male citizens aged 18 to 60 and female citizens aged 18 to 55 shall legally undertake national defense service duties, including supporting and safeguarding military operations, preventing and relieving the disasters of war, and assisting in maintaining social order.
2026-10
According to a Sound of Hope report, Inner Mongolia's Hulunbuir, Hunan and Guangdong successively issued plague prevention information, and the public rushed to buy medication; a Russian tour guide with Sound of Hope said that quotes for some return flights reached 20,000 yuan; officials again emphasized "preventable and controllable," leaving the public even more uneasy.
2026-10-01
A 15-year-old girl in a poor mountainous area of Guangdong was selling second-hand items on Weibo when a fraud ring induced her to download remote-control software on the pretext that her account was frozen and needed to be unfrozen. Posing as customer service, they guided her into making multiple payments with her father's phone, transferring a total of 40,000 yuan from five credit cards and Huabei, with several of the payments going to Shanghai Disneyland. Her brother posted a long account of what happened; the family makes a living by her father hauling goods, and they have since reported the case to the police.
2026-10
In October 2026, the banned blogger “Chigua Mengzhu” was invited to attend the Zhuhai Hanfu Carnival to interact with Hanfu enthusiasts offline; previously, Luo Xu had invited her to Guangzhou for a Hanfu event and covered her expenses.
2026-09-30
A blogger said that at 20:33 on September 30, traffic was flowing smoothly at the Shenzhen passage exit and the on- and off-ramp bridges, adding that this spot often saw long-lasting congestion in previous years.
2026-09-30
On September 30, the case of a 25-year-old illustrator in Foshan, Guangdong, known as "No Grapefruit," who fell to her death after being defrauded of more than 40,000 yuan, sparked discussion on Weibo. Colleagues said she was still posting commission notices at 250 yuan per piece the day before she died.
2026-09-30
On September 30, netizens exposed that Xingning No. 1 High School in Meizhou, Guangdong arranged intensive return-to-school self-study and exams during the National Day holiday, nominally two days off but actually amounting to only one day, and also exposed an internal recording of the school issuing a threatening ultimatum to students via broadcast.
2026-09-29
At a construction site in Guangdong, migrant workers were locked inside the dormitory area so that fast food could be sold to them. Large numbers of workers gathered at the gate and argued with management.
2026-09-29
A netizen working in the garment industry posted a video saying that at the Nanxin Street day-labor market in Guangzhou, people have been waiting for daily-paid jobs for several days in a row but still have no work to take, and their savings are gradually running out.
2026-09-29
On September 29, a garment industry worker posted a video titled "Unemployment Scene in Guangzhou," saying that many people at the day-labor market on Qiaonan Xinjie Street in Guangzhou had been waiting early in the morning for daily-paid work. Some had gone several days without landing a job, and their savings were gradually running out. The poster said a daily wage of 150 yuan was already considered decent, and that earning 300 yuan would mean staying up late into the night.
2026-09-29
On September 29, a netizen posted a video claiming that a construction site in Guangdong locked migrant workers inside the dormitory area to force them to buy the site's fast food. A large number of workers gathered at the gate and argued with management personnel. The netizen said a similar door-locking incident had previously occurred at a construction site in Nansha, Guangzhou.
2026-09-29
On the second day of the conflict, the Foshan MixC World mall deployed multiple security guards in full bomb-disposal equipment around Hema and the surrounding areas to maintain order. Shoppers at the scene took photos and complained that the mall looked as if it were bracing for a major threat.
2026-09-28
Bloomberg reported that after the controlling shareholder of a company in Guangzhou received a tax bill of 100 million RMB, they threatened to move the enterprise to Shanghai, eventually convincing local officials to reduce the tax amount to 5 million RMB; the report did not disclose the name of the enterprise or the basis for the adjustment.
2026-09-28
On September 28, on the opening day of Foshan MixC World in Guangdong, Hema Fresh employees and Holiland store staff reportedly got into a fierce physical altercation, suspected to be over the placement of queue barriers in front of the store, shoving and pulling at each other.
2026-09-27
During the performance at the Guangzhou Strawberry Music Festival on September 27, the audience took part in a circle-running interaction. A warning notice from the public security authorities was played at the scene, stating that this disrupted order and violated the Public Security Administration Punishments Law. The police had already collected evidence by drone aerial filming and taken away 3 audience members for investigation, sparking widespread dissatisfaction, with the crowd collectively chanting “Refund.”
2026-09-26
On September 26, a netizen in Guangdong posted a work drawing an analogy to “public toilets used to charge fees, and it was only after predecessors spoke out that the charges were abolished,” calling on workers to lawfully voice their demands for implementing the two-day weekend system. The post received over 100,000 likes, and a large number of netizens left comments supporting the two-day weekend and the eight-hour workday.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a high school senior in Guangdong posted on Xiaohongshu saying that the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays are only two days each and that make-up classes are still required, describing hair loss and menstrual irregularities, and saying classmates look like “the living dead.” A teacher in Hunan replied in the comments saying that students are collapsing all over the classroom and that the make-up classes are only meant to comfort school leaders and parents.
2026-09-25
On September 25, during the Mid-Autumn Festival gala livestream on the Greater Bay Area TV's WeChat Channel, a large number of netizens flooded the comments section, speaking out about the "Wangwang" and "Jack Latiao" incidents and calling for animal protection.
2026-09-25
On September 25, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video showing a factory rushing orders during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, with workers standing on a high-speed assembly line rapidly repeating tasks such as processing phone cases, sparking heated discussion online; some complained that the daily wage was only 150 yuan.
2026-09-24
On September 24, according to reports from merchants in multiple locations and video footage, prunes and all kinds of fruits, grapes and others in Guangzhou suffered severe unsalable inventory on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, with the market collapsing completely.
2026-07-19
Shenzhen Metro issued a notice on its official WeChat account and Weibo, announcing that starting from July 20, it will fully implement "person-bag simultaneous inspection." All passengers' carry-on luggage must be scanned, and passengers must also undergo security checks via handheld devices.
2026-09-24
On September 24, it was reported online that family members of a student held banners to demand rights outside the gate of Yangxi County No. 1 Middle School in Yangjiang, Guangdong. The incident stemmed from a student suspected of suffering from depression who jumped to their death on campus. The family accused the school of forcing the child, who was resting at home, to return to school by threatening to record their absence as truancy in their permanent file. There are reports that the teacher involved may have attempted suicide by swallowing pills; the incident is awaiting official notification.
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2026-09-24
On the afternoon of September 24, a fire broke out in a rooftop warehouse of a factory building in the Xicheng Industrial Zone, Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, with heavy flames accompanied by billowing smoke; as of that night the open flames had still not been fully extinguished, and casualties were unknown.
2026-09-24
On September 24, a netizen in Shenzhen posted that after resigning, they have spent over 30,000 yuan on self-funded social security over the past two years. Currently, the monthly medical and pension insurance payments exceed 1,500 yuan, which has become an unbearable burden. Many netizens in the comments section also shared their own financial pressure, with some even choosing to stop paying for pension insurance and only keep medical insurance.
2026-09-24
According to a netizen submission, the boss of Changlin Restaurant in Nancheng, Dongguan City, subjected an employee to extreme verbal and character insults with a vicious attitude, and subsequently fired them.
2026-09-23
A garment enterprise in Shenzhen issued a notice stating that to ensure normal operations before and after the holiday, the company has suspended leave privileges, requiring all employees to work normally and halting all leave requests.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, a shop in Guangzhou officially announced its closure due to business difficulties.
2026-09-21
On September 21, a factory on Dejin Road, Lishui Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City caught fire. Multiple plastic packaging manufacturers are gathered around the ignition point. Specific casualties and the cause of the fire are still pending official announcement.
2026-09-22
Guangdong Foshan Jinting Communication (Machinery) Co., Ltd. was exposed for defaulting on a total of 4 million yuan in wages for all employees. Multiple employees hung banners and lay on the ground at the company entrance to protest and demand unpaid wages.
2026-09-22
Students at Zhongshan Memorial Middle School in Guangdong chanted in residential buildings to protest after the school broke its holiday promise by cutting the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday down to just one day.
2026-09-21
On September 20, villagers in Shangliangkeng Village, Dapo Town, Gaozhou, Maoming, Guangdong, clashed with relevant personnel while trying to stop their crops from being forcibly cleared, resulting in one death and three injuries. On September 21, a large number of villagers went to the gate of the Dapo Town government to hang banners for rights defense, with a large number of law enforcement personnel maintaining order at the scene.
2026-09-20
On September 20, a fire broke out at the factory of Xibulang Textile Company in Xibu District, Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, with thick smoke billowing into the sky. As of September 21, the accident has resulted in 8 deaths and 1 injury, and emergency response operations are still underway.
2026-09-21
On September 21, multiple workers gathered to defend their rights at the Shenzhen JD.com headquarters project. Workers stated that the construction party and general contractor, Shanghai Baoye, unilaterally canceled their access cards and demanded they leave the site before settling payments. Consequently, the workers protested at the project department's entrance, demanding the resolution of unpaid wages and related payment issues.
2026-09-21
Xinyi People's Hospital in Maoming, Guangdong Province, was exposed for tying interns' blood donation to a two-day holiday. After relevant complaints were posted online, the head of the hospital's education department demanded in a work group that school team leaders investigate the student who posted it, threatening that if they did not come forward voluntarily, the school would be contacted directly.
2026-09-21
On September 21, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision announced that Qin Weizhong, member of the Leading Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and former mayor of Shenzhen, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-09-21
On September 21, multiple netizens in Guangdong reported that, without contacting any strangers, their mobile phones continuously received dozens of early warning text messages from the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau anti-fraud center in a short period. Officials subsequently responded that it was caused by a system malfunction.
2026-09-21
On September 21, a tenant in Shenzhen failed to register a visiting friend, resulting in the landlord being taken to a police station, detained for 12 hours, and facing a fine of 1,000 yuan. The landlord demanded the tenant share the fine.
2026-09-18
On September 18, a chemistry PhD published a video regarding the "sulfur-fumigated bamboo shoots" incident in Qingyuan, Guangdong, questioning how illegal vendors obtained regulated sulfur. He pointed out that industrial sulfur may contain impurities such as arsenic, and suggested that regulatory authorities test for arsenic levels in bamboo shoots in addition to sulfur dioxide residues to prevent contamination risks.
2026-09-19
On September 19, inside the E3 factory area of Foxconn in Longhua, Shenzhen, an employee wore a homemade cardboard wooden yoke and knelt in public, drawing crowds of onlookers who filmed the scene. Currently, the employee's specific demands and subsequent developments remain unclear.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a space under a bridge near Xingfucheng in Longhua District, Shenzhen, was sealed off with iron bars and water-filled plastic barriers. The filmer pointed out that the area was originally a shelter for the homeless from the rain, and this blockade aims to drive away the homeless population, sparking criticism from netizens over urban management methods.
2026-09-19
Late at night on September 19, residents of Poly Philharmonic Town and surrounding communities in the Zhaoqing Hi-Tech Zone gathered in front of Zhaoqing Juyuan Biochemical Co., Ltd. and Zhaoqing Changlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. to protest. Due to long-term health damage caused by exhaust pollution from nearby chemical plants, they demanded an investigation into the enterprises' illegal discharge. Local police and environmental protection departments arrived at the scene to handle the situation, and there is currently no resolution.
2026-09-20
The Guangzhou Restaurant official flagship store cut the price of its double-yolk pure white lotus paste mooncakes from 137 yuan to 87 yuan in a single day, with the manufacturer's physical goods discounted to below 50% off, cutting off scalpers' buyback channel.
2026-09-18
On September 18, multiple employees of Dongguan Shengkai Animation Technology Co., Ltd. gathered on a rooftop to demand unpaid wages spanning from May to September after management became unreachable. Fire departments at the scene laid out an inflatable rescue air cushion for emergency response.
2026-09-20
On September 20, Li Yun was officially elected as the Mayor of Shenzhen, succeeding Qin Weizhong, who had previously resigned.
2026-09-17
On September 17, citizens in Shenzhen, Guangdong reported that purchasing knives (including scissors) locally requires scanning a QR code for real-name registration and taking photos for retention, sparking concerns over escalating social control.
2026-09-17
On September 17, two students at the Guangzhou College of Commerce and Business had a dispute over dormitory bed allocation. During the conflict, one student brandished a knife at the other multiple times, raising concerns about campus safety.
2026-09-13
On September 13, in Aobei Village, Shuikou Subdistrict, Huicheng District, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, multiple villagers gathered at a construction site to stop work, protesting the highway construction project that excavated and leveled Mashan Hill within the village.
2026-09-17
On September 17, residents in Guangzhou reported that a local district, in order to suppress the case data of "two fevers," sent personnel to the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital to intercept feverish residents seeking medical treatment across districts. Additionally, parents stated that because their children sought medical treatment in another district, the community organized multiple people to visit their homes for "ideological work," forcibly demanding they return to their own district for testing.
2026-09-18
On September 18, 2024, a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed outside the Shenzhen Japanese School. On the second anniversary of the incident, local authorities have increased police presence, while the school has implemented measures such as suspending classes and banning Japanese-style school bags. Japanese residents in China remain deeply concerned about their safety.
2026-09-18
On September 18, blogger "Yulie Qige" released a video exposing a bamboo shoot processing plant in Guangdong for using sulfur to fumigate bamboo shoots. The test report shown in the video indicated a sulfur dioxide content of 4860 mg/kg. The blogger recorded the on-site processing and transfer process, and called on local regulatory authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.
2026-09-18
An extreme violent incident, reportedly committed by a group, took place in Guangdong, where the attackers randomly targeted the eyes of pedestrians on the street. The incident has sparked immense local panic and raised societal concerns over retaliatory attacks against society amid current extreme social pressures.
2026-09-11
On September 11, netizens witnessed a captive killer whale with a collapsed dorsal fin repeatedly headbutting the display tank at Chimelong Spaceship in Zhuhai. This incident has sparked widespread public concern and criticism regarding the captive environment in aquariums and the physical and mental health of the animals.
2026-09-18
On September 17, a 25-year-old artist in Foshan known as "No Grapefruit" was still posting to seek commissions in order to repay debts, promising "I will definitely treat every order seriously and ensure quality," and asking the head of her art studio to help promote her commission information; according to her family, she died in the early hours of the following day.
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
Blogger Yulie Qige posted a video on September 18 documenting his entire process of tracking down unscrupulous merchants in Qingyuan, Guangdong, who use sulfur to fumigate ma bamboo shoots. He said tests showed sulfur dioxide levels exceeded the limit by dozens or even hundreds of times, and pointed out that long-term consumption of sulfur-fumigated shoots containing arsenic and heavy metals carries a cancer risk. The Qingyuan Market Supervision Bureau subsequently issued a report confirming that individual dens had illegally used sulfur fumigation; the dens involved have been sealed off, and the distribution of the tainted bamboo shoots is being traced.
2026-09-18
With about 9 days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes on the market have already begun to be heavily promoted to clear inventory: 298-yuan gift boxes are sold at half price, and 98-yuan gift boxes have been marked down to 29.9 yuan. Some merchants say mooncake sales this year are expected to plunge, and suggest customers give practical gifts such as rice and cooking oil instead.
2026-09-18
Shenzhen Middle School currently has more than 100 PhD-holding teachers, over 150 teachers who graduated from Tsinghua University and Peking University, and more than 100 teachers who graduated from top overseas universities such as Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge; among the 21 people it plans to recruit in 2026 are a PhD in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University to serve as a high school math teacher and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge to serve as a high school physics teacher.
2026-09-17
During a People's Congress election at a public school in Guangzhou, the administration strictly prohibited teachers from abstaining and privately designated candidates, interfering with the electoral process.
2026-04
In April 2026, a physician at Southern Medical University Pearl River Hospital posted a notice in a work group chat, requiring students not to take temporary leave unless there is a death in the family. The chat record was exposed in July and trended on hot searches, sparking widespread public discussion about the high‑pressure management of the medical education system and students' rights.
2026-09-16
On September 16, Foshan Dongrong Metal Products Co., Ltd. in Shunde, Guangdong, due to long-term wage arrears of up to 9 months for employees, triggered a large number of workers to collectively protest and defend their rights.
2026-09-16
On September 16, Guangdong Kaileli West Kitchen was reported that staff were fighting in the back kitchen and used dish soap to directly clean salad ingredients. The incident sparked netizens' doubts about food hygiene and the safety of dish soap, and the related video has now been taken down by the platform.
2026-09-17
A parent posted a video showing instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forcing students to undergo military training in a rainstorm.
2026-09-13
On September 13, netizens reported that small transfers triggered AI anti-fraud warnings from Anxun Technology, leading Guangdong police to summon them to local stations for 'propaganda' sessions. Anxun Technology's official website states that its system can convert warnings into precise operational instructions and establish a dynamic control system for high-risk individuals. Multiple netizens reported being visited by police to have their phones checked, being forced to record propaganda videos, or being forcibly summoned simply for small transfers or receiving private messages.
2026-09-14
On September 14, multiple workers from Guangdong Zhengye Construction, the general contractor for the New World Four Seasons Mountain and Water project in Guangzhou, Guangdong, sat on mats outside the construction site gate to demand unpaid wages. Several security personnel were present, on alert.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Qingyuan campus of Guangdong Nanhua Business and Technical College delayed wages for migrant workers, prompting many workers to go to the school gate, hold a banner protest and demand their pay.
2026-09-14
September 14, Guangdong Shenzhen Jindi Center, multiple migrant workers went to the building to protest over unpaid wages. The workers said that before protesting they had completed legal procedures such as filing lawsuits and arbitration and had won, but still have not received the owed wages.
2026-09-14
On September 14, 2026, multiple workers at the Guangdong Zhuhai Hengqin International Business Center, after more than three months of wage arrears, collectively went to the company to sit in protest and defend their rights.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a wage arrears rights defense incident occurred at the headquarters of China Construction Fourth Bureau First Company in the CNBM Building, Guangzhou, Guangdong. Multiple migrant workers, whose wage payments were in arrears, went to the building and staged a sit-in protest in the lobby, demanding that the relevant parties resolve the wage arrears issue.
2026-09-16
In the comments section of a post related to an alert from Anxun Technology's AI anti-fraud system, a netizen recounted that after transferring a 28.8 yuan red packet to a feng shui master, they were asked to go to the police station to take a photo and sign.
2026-09-14
Around 5:20 PM on September 14th, a knife attack occurred in a commercial area of Xiaoguwei Street, Guangzhou University Town. The Panyu police reported that the 35-year-old suspect, Li, was apprehended and the injured were not in life-threatening condition. Subsequently, self-media articles questioned the police's failure to disclose the number and gender of the injured, pointing out that leaked photos from the scene showed all victims were female and their wounds were concentrated on the face, demanding an investigation into whether the attacker selectively targeted women.
2026-09-14
On September 14, it was reported that instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forced students to undergo military training in heavy rain. Multiple students confirmed this in the comments section and advised the uploader to delete the video to avoid trouble from the instructors.
2026-09-15
Shenzhen Middle School has released its list of 21 proposed teacher hires for 2026, all of whom hold graduate degrees, including 5 PhDs and 16 master's degree holders. Among them, several PhDs from Tsinghua University, the University of Cambridge, and Fudan University listed labor dispatch companies as their previous employers, sparking public concern over the employment patterns of high-end talent.
2026-09-05
On September 5, a netizen reported that while traveling in Shenzhen, they clarified to the anti-fraud police who came to their door for investigation that they had not been scammed, but their father still received a warning text message notifying the family. This triggered comments from multiple netizens who shared similar experiences of being harassed and having their privacy leaked.
2026-09-14
According to a Caixin report, many contract teachers in Guangzhou’s Huangpu, Haizhu, Panyu and Huadu districts were dismissed by schools before their contracts expired. Due to declining birthrates, primary school enrollment in Guangzhou fell sharply by about 19.9% from 2023 to 2025, and contract teachers who had been hired in large numbers to cope with enrollment peaks now bear the brunt of layoffs.
2026-09-15
On September 15, a medical student in an eight-year bachelor-master-doctorate joint program at Southern Medical University fell to death on campus. Online rumors indicated that both of the student's parents were critically ill in the ICU, the leave request was approved for only three days, and the student faced heavy academic, research, and work pressures. After the incident, students laid flowers at the scene to mourn.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, a 2020-cohort eight-year clinical medicine student at Southern Medical University fell to death. At the time of the incident, the Tencent Video show "The King of Land. Offer 8" was being recorded on campus, triggering public concern and discussion over the high-pressure training model and professional competition pressures faced by medical students.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On the morning of September 15, numerous netizens left comments in the review section of Southern Medical University's admissions office social media account, demanding that the school authorities respond to recent controversial incidents.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, a student suicide by falling occurred at Southern Medical University. On September 16, students on campus published posts mourning the deceased classmate.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, an official WeChat account published an article mourning the deceased and calling for the establishment of a student burden-reduction mechanism, arguing that advisor authority should have boundaries and students are not cheap labor. The article attracted attention and was subsequently taken down after publication; the author later republished the original text.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Southern Medical University released an announcement confirming the student's fall on campus and ruling out homicide. The school stated it would strengthen student mental health work, which triggered netizens' questioning of faculty ethics issues.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Wang, the advisor of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University, responded that the online rumors were untrue. Regarding key issues such as the student's parents' car accident and the duration of the leave, Wang refused to respond on the grounds of school regulations and hung up the phone when pressed about the number of leave days.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Southern Daily reported that the family members of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University denied that the advisor coerced the student, and displayed transfer records from the advisor. On the same day, China News Weekly called the advisor regarding the online rumor of "only three days of leave granted," but the advisor did not respond and hung up the phone.
[Follow-up · September 17, 2026] On September 17, a fellow lab-mate of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University publicly spoke out for the school's advisor, Teacher Wang, stating that she suffered cyberbullying and attempting to defend her.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, a machinery manufacturing plant in Shenzhen announced its relocation to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reflecting the trend of manufacturing moving overseas.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, a Shenzhen businessman dealing in TPE materials visited specialized markets and said they were almost deserted. Previously, multiple manufacturing factories had closed one after another, and not a single one had voluntarily ceased operations after making money.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, online reports reflected that the number of homeless people on the streets of Shenzhen was increasing year by year — they could not be accommodated under overpasses, in underground passages, or in unfinished buildings; to avoid the social impact, the government closed a well-known homeless encampment and drove homeless people out of densely populated areas.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, a factory job posting in Shenzhen was exposed online: a monthly salary of 3,800 to 4,500 yuan, 10 hours of work per day, and only 2 days off per month, sparking attention toward working conditions in first-tier cities.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, a woman doing odd jobs at a factory said online that a factory in Changzhou, Guangzhou stipulates that workers who fail to reach the output quota (100 units per hour) receive an hourly wage of only 13 yuan, and that she herself completed only two to three hundred units a day.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, the owner of a machining factory in Shenzhen said that after September began, orders dropped significantly and there had been basically no work for over ten days, so he decided to shut the factory, return home to farm, and sell off all the equipment.
2026-09-15
In September 2026, a Shenzhen worker posted online that he worked 7 hours that day and earned only 18 yuan, lamenting that hourly wages at domestic factories are just over ten yuan, and recalling the working conditions he previously enjoyed at a foreign-invested factory.
2026-09-14
On September 14, an indiscriminate knife attack on passersby occurred near the University City in Guangzhou. A man wearing a black mask committed the assault in the street, leaving multiple people injured.
2026-09-14
A knife attack occurred near Gaogou Xintiandi Plaza in the University Town of Panyu District, Guangzhou, where a 35-year-old man randomly attacked young women with a small knife. Police said the injured were treated and their lives are not in danger.
2026-09-14
On the afternoon of September 14, a revenge attack on society occurred at the GOGO New World Commercial Plaza in Guangzhou University Town, Panyu, Guangzhou, leaving multiple people with eye injuries. Guangzhou police announced that evening that they had apprehended a 35-year-old suspect surnamed Li, and that the injured were not in life-threatening condition; eyewitnesses said there may have been multiple suspects, and a warning post circulated by netizens was deleted.
2026-09-14
Official data show that primary school enrollment in Guangzhou fell from 272,500 in 2023 to 218,300 in 2025, a decrease of 54,200 over two years, or about 19.9%.
2026-09-14
From September 13 to 14, a 25-year-old illustrator in Foshan, "No Grapefruit," was approached by scammers under the pretext of commissioning a work. Posing as Xianyu customer service, they falsely claimed her account was frozen and that she needed to generate transaction volume to unfreeze it, inducing her to scan a QR code and use lending apps. She lost more than 40,000 yuan, including borrowed funds. She attached the police report receipt.
2026-09-14
After the stabbing incident in Guangzhou University City on September 14, netizens posted that during the emergency state at the University City campus of Guangdong University of Technology, multiple food deliveries in the centralized pickup area were stolen or even cleared out amidst the chaos, sparking heated discussion online.
2026-09-13
On September 13, 2026, a large wage-demand slogan was painted on the exterior wall of the Beijing City Construction project site in Guangzhou. The wall displayed texts such as “Return my hard‑earned money”, “Beijing City Construction Company No.5 repeatedly subcontracted and colluded”, “People act, heaven watches”, accusing the project of serious violations and demanding the disciplinary inspection department to conduct a thorough investigation. The graffiti was carried out by unknown individuals, and no construction personnel responded on site.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a senior student at Dongguan Experimental Middle School had his night snack taken by first- and second-year students after a late class dismissal. After reporting to the school, the administration posted a notice on the bulletin board, including the statements “The teacher wants you to rank in the top 100 of the grade, can you do it?”, “Your parents want you to get into a 985 university, can you meet the requirement?”, and “Don’t always expect others to satisfy you, learn to empathize.” The incident sparked heated discussion online, with netizens questioning the school’s pressure tactics. The next day, September 12, the original poster’s account was deleted.
2026-09-11
On September 11, at the Huawei Hongmeng Smart Mobility User Center store on Chuangye 2nd Road in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, several workers climbed onto the roof to conduct rights defense. After the incident, the involved store issued a statement in response, and the related on-site video was subsequently taken down from the entire network.
2026-09-13
On September 13, multiple villagers from Pengliao Village, Longtang Town, Xuwen County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, gathered at the site to protest after the Longtang town government designated their farmland as forest land and planned to plant trees on it.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a netizen posted on Douyin saying she is a 2026 undergraduate graduate carrying 60,000 yuan in student loans, that she had been job hunting in Guangzhou for three months without success, and had finally ended up working in a factory. On September 26, she posted a comparison photo of her graduation gown and her factory uniform, saying, “Four years of undergraduate study came to nothing; now I’m a general worker in an electronics factory.”
2026-09-11
The whistleblower who exposed the Jumai Group's "lymphatic meat" incident has posted a video seeking help, claiming to be pressured by the company's senior management to take down the exposé video and alleging favoritism towards the outsourced canteen. They have since sought legal aid from a lawyer.
2026-09-12
On September 12, a netizen purchased a flight ticket from Guangzhou to Vietnam. With all procedures complete and no clear violation of laws or regulations, they were turned back by customs and denied exit.
2026-09-12
On September 12, the man with an intellectual disability died in Fengshun, Meizhou, after rescue efforts failed, at the age of only 39. His family said he had been doing heavy work without pay at a scrap yard for nearly 20 years, while the boss claimed he had kindly taken him in seven or eight years ago.
2026-09-12
On September 12, 2026, a netizen purchased a flight ticket from Guangzhou to Vietnam. With the ticket, passport and all other documents in order, they were still turned back at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport and denied permission to leave the country.
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
Recently, protesters holding banners appeared at the entrance of the Shenzhen International Exchange Academy, accusing the school of withholding various subsidies for a teacher who died of illness, totaling more than 400,000 yuan.
2026-09-10
On September 10, five netizens pooled money to commission a local woman to go to the site where Wangwang was murdered in Jieyang, Guangdong, to place food, clear water, and Eustomma for worship, with the offerings placed at the corner of a weedy wall with a Wangwang pattern sticker.
2026-09-11
A video claims that many Huawei Shenzhen employees fell from great heights collectively after prolonged unpaid wage demands failed, but CCTV did not report it, and the related news spread overseas.
2026-09-11
Rumors are going viral online that Huawei boss Ren Zhengfei's entire family left their Shenzhen home in the early hours of September 11 by chauffeured car, heading for the Dapeng Peninsula in an attempt to leave the country via a private island, sparking heated discussion.
2026-09-09
On September 9, the canteen of Guangdong Jinmai Group was reported by netizens for allegedly providing suspected inferior lymph meat for a long time. Employees stated that after multiple unsuccessful reports, they decided to expose it.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the Guangdong Provincial CDC issued a marked confidential urgent notice (Guangdong CDC Transmission Prevention Letter [2026] No. 73), requiring strengthened prevention of chikungunya and dengue fever before and after the Mid‑Autumn and National Day holidays, including mandatory testing during heat, household inspections, meeting disinfection standards, and urging avoidance of excessive epidemic control that could spark public opinion.
2026-09-11
According to a video by Qiqi Baba dated September 11, 2026, Guangzhou has begun conducting PCR testing using mosquito-borne viruses following its ongoing mosquito eradication campaign.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the whistleblower in the Guangdong Jinmai Group "lymph meat" incident posted a video asking for help, saying he was pressured by company executives and asked to take the video down while the outsourced canteen was favored, accusing the company of violating his rights, saying he is seeking a lawyer's help, and receiving messages of support from many netizens.
2026-09-11
Li Yu was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer on May 20. During the medical treatment period, on June 16, he was dismissed by the Guangzhou branch of Guanyuan Data on the grounds of failing to meet performance targets. On September 11, the labor arbitration ruled that the company had unlawfully terminated the contract, ordering it to pay compensation of 15,700 yuan and a medical subsidy of 94,500 yuan.
2026-09-09
Some communities in Huizhou, Guangdong, have set up nucleic acid monitoring points due to confirmed cases of Chikungunya fever, requiring full nucleic acid testing, which has caused panic among netizens.
2026-09-09
Guangdong netizens netizens discovered that the categories in the 'Double-Day Off Shopping' mini program all show no products available, and only companies with a 'Double-Day Off Index' greater than 2 are allowed to add links, sparking discussions on the widespread lack of double-day offs for domestic companies.
2026-09-08
Heping Town in Chaoyang District, Shantou, Guangdong, was exposed by the media for producing and selling counterfeit goods; official joint law enforcement seized a large amount of counterfeit cosmetics packaging materials, equipment, and creams, and arrested the homeowner involved, Wu某某.
2026-09-01
Multiple villagers from Yongping Village, Tonghu Town, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, gathered by the riverbed and blocked the road to defend their rights, demanding that relevant departments resolve the compensation issue as land acquisition compensation payments have been long delayed.
2026-09-07
On September 7, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video of the "mosquito extermination war" in Guangzhou, with the caption "It never ends." The video's bullet comments satirized the mosquito extermination as an "extermination of people" operation. Other comments read: "Starting the 'for your own good' operation again," "This is to exterminate people," "New 731," "Human extinction plan," "Pandemic economy." #Anti-CCP Academy
2026-09-09
Around September 9, Putin and Trump spoke by phone for about an hour, discussing the mid-November APEC summit in Shenzhen and the possibility of a trilateral meeting. Putin has confirmed his attendance at APEC; a Kremlin spokesperson said Putin discussed the possibility of a trilateral meeting with Trump, while the White House has not yet confirmed whether Trump will attend.
2026-09-06
On September 6, a netizen discovered that inside the “anti-bullying mailbox” set up at Dapeng School of Shenzhen Middle School, there were two already damaged and yellowed help letters, and the mailbox was heavily covered in dust. The netizen questioned, “Is it just for show?”. The letters show that the student writing to the principal reported that a certain classmate had long engaged in bullying behaviors such as hitting people and stealing others' belongings, and asked the principal “save us”. Netizens heatedly discussed in the comment section... #FanzeiAcademy
2026-09-08
On September 8, the family was notified that a man who had been missing for 22 years was being treated in the ICU of a hospital in Fengshun, Meizhou, Guangdong. He had previously fallen into a coma and was sent to the hospital after being found by members of the public.
2026-09-07
On September 7, 2026, outside the gate of Kaifeng Industrial Gas Company in Luhe County, Shanwei, Guangdong, several workers gathered and kept vigil to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, accusing the company of long-term malicious wage arrears long after the project was completed, and calling on the competent authorities to intervene.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, a ninth-grade student at Guangdong Bowen School in Zhongshan, Guangdong, died by suicide on the first day of school. Suspecting that the student had suffered long-term school bullying, the family held up a portrait of the deceased outside the school gate in a rights defense action, prompting police to arrive and cordon off the area.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, media reported that a doctor at a health clinic in Wuchuan, Guangdong refused to treat a girl with an allergy and wrote the word 'unruly' in her medical record. The health bureau confirmed this was true but accused the parents' online rights defense of being a smear against Wuchuan.
Location: Zhanjiang, Guangdong ·
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2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, a large number of food delivery riders in Guangzhou had their order-taking accounts banned by platforms; traffic authorities and platforms jointly demanded that riders must pay off all accumulated fines for violations such as running through bridges and tunnels caught on camera before their accounts can be unblocked.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, two contract teachers who had taught for five years in the primary school division of Meixi Experimental School in Xuwen County, Zhanjiang, Guangdong were unilaterally verbally dismissed by the school, and were stopped by security guards outside the school gate when reporting for the start of the new term.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, many Shenzhen residents reported online that their monthly deductions had risen sharply after the social insurance contribution base was raised, with a number of flexible workers saying the burden was too heavy and they could only stop paying pension insurance while keeping medical insurance.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, it was reported online that a worker was electrocuted to death during renovation and demolition work at Poly Times Mall in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. Due to a dispute over compensation, the victim’s family paraded a portrait of the deceased around the mall to defend their rights.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, outside the gate of Changqi Middle School in Huazhou City, Maoming, Guangdong, a large number of parents hung banners to protest unfair zoned enrollment and the incomplete facilities of the new campus. Security personnel confiscated the banners and scuffled with the parents.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, a woman in Shenzhen called 119 to report a fire and, as instructed, uploaded a video; however, a splash ad popped up in her mobile browser, delaying her for about a minute. The incident sparked online discussion over ads appearing during emergency calls for help.
2026-09
Since September, Zhuhai Huafa has been seeking to negotiate with at least three Chinese banks, attempting to extend the maturity and lower the interest rates for all its deposits, but was rejected by the banks, which was followed by the default of its trust products.
2026-09-01
In Huazhou, Guangdong, a large number of students' parents gathered at the school gate to protest after some students were required to transfer to other campuses, and clashed with police.
2026-09
A company in Shenzhen distributed mooncakes cut into four pieces to its employees as Mid-Autumn Festival benefits, and even reminded employees not to take too many during the distribution.
2026-09
A security team leader at Agile Garden in Panyu, Guangzhou, is suspected of having abused children over a long period since around 2020, with at least 4 known victims, the youngest only eight or nine years old, and of having filmed nearly 200 videos. He was placed in criminal detention by police this September.
2026-09
In mid-September, during Xi Jinping's visit to India, overseas Chinese social media platforms were flooded with claims that Ren Zhengfei, Meng Wanzhou, and more than ten other family members had gone missing and might have fled to a small island overseas via Shenzhen's Dapeng Peninsula. Screenshots purporting to be internal Huawei conversations and videos allegedly showing armed police surrounding Huawei's Shenzhen headquarters also circulated. Huawei has not responded publicly.
2026-09
Guangzhou's large-scale mosquito eradication campaign triggers public skepticism and satirical associations
2026-09
Recently, netizens in various parts of Guangdong reported that local authorities are stepping up inspections of resident information in rental housing, sparking public skepticism about the purpose of the control.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, a large number of staff from electricity retail companies in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, went to China Energy Investment Corporation's Guangdong Power Co., Ltd. to protest, demanding that outstanding payments be settled. Some people lay on the ground in protest at the scene, and clashes broke out.
2026-09
A blogger's sampling tests found that sulfur dioxide residues in problematic bamboo shoots from Qingyuan still seriously exceeded the limits after being stored for several days. Qingyuan accounts for more than 90% of the country's moso bamboo output, and netizens lamented that China's food safety problems are impossible to fully inspect.
2026-09
At a public school in Guangzhou, teachers were banned from abstaining in the election of deputies to the People's Congress, and they were privately told explicitly to cast their votes for a designated candidate. Netizens joked that the election was nothing but a formality.
2026-09
An indiscriminate face-stabbing attack is reported to have occurred at Guangzhou University Town, with authorities blocking information, making the full details of what happened difficult to ascertain.
2026-09
A random attack in which a victim's eyes were stabbed took place at Guangzhou University Town. Related videos are circulating online, and the incident has been described as an act of violence in which the bottom rungs of society prey on one another.
2026-09
According to industry data circulating online in September 2026, over the past year Amazon's global active sellers decreased by about 600,000, and by regional share Shenzhen alone lost about 67,000 sellers.
2026-09
In 2026, Shenzhen's cross-border e-commerce sector has been hit by an unprecedented clearing-out, with veteran sellers in Bantian, Fuyong, Huanan City and elsewhere who had endured for five or six years successively clearing out their stores, cutting operations and scaling back, while some simply shut their doors.
2026-09
In Shenzhen, a father whose baby suffered permanent injuries from toxic milk powder produced in Guangdong hired a lawyer, who calculated compensation of over 2 million yuan. The company involved filed a police report claiming extortion, and the local Guangdong government arrested the father and sentenced him to several years in prison.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, a former teacher in Guangdong posted a complaint stating that their identification documents were confiscated while employed, and the school blocked them from traveling to Hong Kong to visit a sick relative under the pretext of 'non-essential travel,' preventing them from seeing their relative until after they had passed away.
2026-09
According to a submission received by the X account "Po Mu Tui Qiang" (Breaking the Wall), during a trial at the Shenzhen Luohu Court over a transfer dispute involving an extramarital affair, the defendant explained the transfers received as a response to the call of the Party and General Secretary Xi, saying that getting rich is inseparable from the Party's wise leadership, sparking discussion among spectators.
2026-09
Rumors circulate that a restaurant owner in Shenzhen exploits employees, who work 17 hours a day for a monthly salary of only 3,000–5,000 yuan; some food-service workers are calling on their peers to treat employees well.
2026-09
Online reports say a factory in Shenzhen is offering conditions of more than 12 hours of work per day at an hourly wage of 13 yuan, and telling those who can't accept it to leave, reflecting the harsh treatment at domestic factories today.
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.
2026-09
In September 2026, the boss of a cross-border e-commerce company in Shenzhen announced that the team had officially disbanded. Because it had been unable to generate profits for a long time, the company became a one-person company, and its workers joined the ranks of flexible employment.
2026-08-31
Due to a previous real-name report by a businessman surnamed Wang and related contract disputes, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court rejected Liu Xiaoqing's appeal in the second instance, upheld the original verdict, and ordered her to repay the company's debts within the scope of her unpaid capital contribution of 3.4 million yuan.
2026-08-30
A video has surfaced on overseas social media platform X showing a young man who identifies himself as a Hong Kong resident holding documents such as a Chinese Hong Kong and Macao Resident Identity Card. He says working on the mainland, especially in Shenzhen, has been a terrible experience, and expresses a desire to return to Hong Kong.
2026-08-27
On the evening of August 27, 2026, Guangzhou No. 89 Middle School ordered nearly 800 students to continue military training in a rainstorm and forbade them from using umbrellas. Students who felt unwell were berated by those in charge, sparking strong protests from students and parents as well as accusations online.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, it was rumored online that Dongguan city, in order to coordinate the traffic congestion when employees of Huawei's terminal headquarters get off work on Fridays, changed nearby schools from two-day weekends to one-day weekends, sparking online discussion.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, the Zhongxi Garment Factory in Panyu, Guangzhou, was accused by multiple employees of maliciously withholding wages and docking half the pay of departing workers, sparking a gathering of employees at the factory site for a rights defense protest.
2026-08-24
On August 24, Qin Weizhong resigned as Mayor of Shenzhen citing a change in his job position, and was transferred to serve as a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress.
2026-08-22
On the evening of August 22, 2026, during the livestream of the Guangdong Super League football match between Jieyang and Foshan, a large number of netizens flooded the screen in support of Wangwang, the puppy that was tortured and killed, causing Jieyang and the Guangdong Football Association to successively close the livestream comment sections.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, a student at Zhanjiang Technician College in Guangdong, China, exposed online that a student at the school had long been threatening, beating, and extorting classmates. The school was accused of covering up the behavior multiple times. The victim has reported the case to the police and taken a leave of absence.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court officially ruled that Guangzhou Sport University would serve as the restructuring investor for the Evergrande Football School, and the former Evergrande Qingyuan Football School entered the substantive restructuring and takeover stage.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong ·
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2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, Huidong Senior High School in Guangdong Province organized collective haircuts as students returned to school at the start of the term. After related videos circulated, they drew criticism and mockery from netizens over the harsh campus management.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, netizens in Shiwan, Foshan, Guangzhou Province reported that after dengue fever cases appeared locally, the economic cooperative notified businesses and workers in its jurisdiction to bring their ID cards and go collectively to the senior activity center for blood testing.
2026-08-20
A 30-year-old man surnamed Yang fell on hard times financially after losing his job in Shenzhen, nearly fasting for 20 days and developing acute kidney failure; he later suffered damage to his eyesight due to an acute nervous system illness caused by a lack of vitamin B1. The incident sparked widespread discussion.
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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2026-08-20
On the evening of August 20, 2026, the official Guangdong Fire Department account was flooded with comments by a large number of netizens during a livestream of a military-training fire safety promotion event, demanding answers on responsibility for minors purchasing petrol and committing arson and animal cruelty in public places.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, in Dongguan, Guangdong, a public welfare organization used loudspeakers to persuade and clear out unemployed people camping in tents by the roadside, offering free meals and bus tickets home, along with an escort to the station.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, it was reported online that in Shining Village, Tangpeng Town, Lianjiang City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, personnel from the Juxinyuan Mining Company were suspected of violently seizing villagers' mountain and forest land and beating villagers and minors, triggering a fierce physical clash.
2026-08-17
A netizen in Guangdong, afraid of having blood drawn, did not undergo the required chikungunya blood screening. Their residential compound access permission was subsequently revoked, leaving them unable to return home.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, a property owner in Guangdong posted to report that, out of fear of having blood drawn, he did not cooperate with the local chikungunya blood screening, and afterwards his access rights to the residential compound's entry system were revoked by the grassroots community.
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, a mainland traveler posted on a social platform revealing that they were stopped and inspected by customs upon entering from Hong Kong simply for carrying seven books, drawing attention to book inspections at border crossings.
2026-08-14
A 39-year-old programmer in Shenzhen died suddenly. The Human Resources and Social Security Bureau declined to recognize it as a work-related injury on the grounds that he had not gone to his workstation after clocking in, sparking heated online discussion.
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, the official account of Guangdong Jieyang Broadcasting was forced to close its video comment section after a large number of netizens continuously left messages in the comments asking about the progress of the dog abuse case and voicing support for the victimized dog.
2026-08-14
On the evening of August 14, 2026, urban Guangzhou in Guangdong was struck by severe convective rainstorms. The short-term heavy downpours caused serious street flooding, with water levels even submerging the benches at bus stops.
2026-08-13
On the morning of August 13, a large number of protesters gathered in front of Foshan Chaoying Experimental Middle School, and the police deployed police cars and SWAT police to block the roads and carry out a stability-maintenance clearance.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, Chaoying Experimental School in Foshan, Guangdong released an apology video featuring the players involved and a school representative through its official platform, but it sparked renewed skepticism among netizens who said it lacked sincerity.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, an employee at the Guangdong restaurant brand 'Bu Ke Zha Ji' (No Fried Chicken) collapsed after being overwhelmed by a massive volume of individual orders, sparking public concern. The authorities subsequently announced that the employee had received their final wages and resigned.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, several construction workers gathered at the entrance of the CSCEC Fourth Bureau Star River Bay project in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages. The workers reported that nearly a year after the project was completed, their wages had still not been settled.
2026-08-12
Zhang Xu, a student at Foshan Chaoying Experimental Middle School, posted a video provoking and insulting Guizhou after winning the championship in Guizhou, prompting Guizhou residents to gather in protest at the school gate on the evening of August 12.
2026-08-12
A netizen posted on a whistleblowing platform a 1998 recruitment advertisement from a plastics company in Guangzhou, whose salaries for positions such as production manager and clerk largely overlap with those of ordinary white-collar workers today, sparking discussion about a "torn-apart thirty years" and the regression of wage levels.
2026-08-12
In its second-instance ruling, the Guangdong High People's Court rejected the appeals of Zhao Bing and others, upheld the original judgment, and for the first time explicitly described Hui Jian in the ruling as an anti-fraud figure.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong ·
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2026-08-12
On August 12, a JD.com courier in Shenzhen posted about his extremely long working hours and said he was criticized by managers for damaging the company's image; he was subsequently placed on indefinite leave.
2026-08-12
On the evening of August 12, 2026, a large number of Guizhou natives living in Guangdong gathered outside the gate of Chaoying Experimental Middle School in Foshan, Guangdong, holding banners in protest. The trigger was that after the school's football team won a championship in a tournament in Guizhou, a 17-year-old player publicly posted provocative and insulting remarks about Guizhou people online.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, a JD heavy-cargo courier in Shenzhen exposed on social networks the extreme labor intensity of having only one day off in half a year, and was subsequently ordered by management to stop work indefinitely.
2026-08-12
On the evening of August 12, 2026, multiple villagers in Lincuo Village, Waisha Subdistrict, Longhu District, Shantou, Guangdong gathered in a sit-in protest, objecting to the authorities changing agricultural household registration to resident household registration without public notice, and demanding protection of collective land rights.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, internet users exposed that the command center of an off-site enforcement monitoring site in Dabu County, Meizhou, Guangdong, was suspected of deliberately unplugging the service phone line. The related exposé video was subsequently removed by the platform.
2026-08-10
On the evening of August 10, 2026, several owners of Tianyu Garden Phase I in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, held banners inside the residential compound to protest the entry of Guangzhou Mylike Medical Beauty Hospital. Prior to this, the environmental protection authorities had determined that the hospital was suspected of putting environmental protection facilities into use without acceptance inspection and had ordered rectification.
2026-08-09
On August 9, a lone-shift employee at a restaurant in Guangdong broke down and cried out under the pressure of a large volume of delivery orders; it was later reported that the employee had resigned, and that the only rectification issued was over a trash can lacking a lid.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, reports circulated online that a woman fell from a building inside the Suning Appliance Plaza in Shantou, Guangdong. Mall staff subsequently cordoned off the scene with iron railings, and 120 emergency personnel arrived at the scene to carry out treatment.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, it was reported online that at a restaurant called 'Bu Ke Fried Chicken' in Guangdong, an employee assigned to work the shift alone suffered an emotional breakdown and collapsed on the floor due to an overwhelming surge in orders and high-intensity work pressure.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a video circulating online of a beach in Shantou, Guangdong showed several men dumping several whole barrels of garbage and waste directly into the sea at night, causing large amounts of waste plastic to pile up on the beach; the related exposure video was subsequently deleted.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a netizen posted a photo showing a double-decker tram on the streets of Hong Kong covered with a public service advertisement on the theme of opposing animal abuse, accompanied by rainbow elements and slogans, in support of the dog "Wangwang," who was abused to death in Jieyang, Guangdong.
2026-08-06
On August 6, 2026, an associate professor at a private undergraduate university in Guangdong reported that the school laid him off on the grounds that there were no teaching tasks due to structural changes in college entrance exam applicants and the majors they applied for, reflecting the impact of declining enrollment on university teaching positions.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, a grassroots public servant in Guangzhou revealed online that multiple districts in Guangzhou are replicating excessive pandemic control measures in dengue fever prevention, adopting human-wave tactics, posting three-color health codes, and imposing forced quarantine on infected individuals.
2026-08-05
On August 5, employees of the CNNC 23 Lufeng Nuclear Power Project, who had long been owed wages, spoke out and raised questions in a work group of several thousand people; their DingTalk accounts were immediately deactivated, and multiple employees reported widespread wage arrears.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, Guangzhou No. 113 Middle School in Guangdong Province was exposed by students for using a voluntary pledge as cover to effectively force summer tutoring, and the school sits right next to the Tianhe District Education Bureau building, sparking accusations of regulatory dereliction.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, the comment section of Jieyang Broadcasting's official Douyin account in Guangdong was flooded by more than 10,000 netizens, who showed support by posting dense strings of question marks and animal emojis, demanding a thorough investigation into the truth of the Jieyang dog abuse case.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, a factory in Yongxing Industrial Park, Fuqing 2nd Road, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, was exposed: the boss had withheld more than six months' wages from several employees and, under the pretext of a three-day holiday, emptied the plant of equipment overnight and fled, cutting off contact.
2026-08
Some communities in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, notified residents that the community residents’ committees, together with the rental management center, are conducting door-to-door visits and information collection; rental housing inspections are also underway in Haizhu, Baiyun, Panyu, Zengcheng and other areas.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng disclosed that when his family of three planned to travel to Hong Kong at a Shenzhen checkpoint, they were stopped and placed under exit controls by border inspection on the grounds that leaving the country might endanger national security, and they received no written notice.
2026-08
In August 2026, employees of public institutions in Foshan, Guangdong reported receiving internal notices ordering them to follow the Ministry of State Security's official account, with subscriber numbers to be counted and reported up the chain of command level by level.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, a truck owner in mainland China, facing strict censorship by online platforms over the Jieyang dog abuse case, chose to spray-paint the full image of Wangwang and its puppies on the body of his own truck as a public memorial.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, at a bay beach in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, residents filmed dense piles of plastic bags and household waste floating on the sea surface. Dark brown seawater kept churning up the trash and washing it onto the beach, raising concerns about marine pollution.
2026-08
After the girl sought help online, a public welfare organization involving Tencent employees placed her to work at a café on Shenzhen's Penguin Island; the hired kidnappers subsequently staked out near the café multiple times and disguised themselves as customers to case the place.
2026-07-31
The CCP Central Committee approved Tang Yifeng's appointment as a member and standing committee member of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee. Nanfang Daily and Xinhua News Agency subsequently relayed the news.
2026-07-31
On July 31, 2026, it was reported online that an animal protection publicity board was placed outside a restaurant in Shenzhen, Guangdong, publicly speaking out for the puppy "Wangwang" that was abused to death in Jieyang, Guangdong, and calling on people to oppose animal abuse.
2026-07-28
On July 28, 2026, Ban Yue Tan, a journal of the CCP Central Propaganda Department, released a video calling for vigilance against a suppressive view of public opinion. The comment section was instantly flooded with tens of thousands of netizens who spammed protests over the Jieyang dog abuse incident and called for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be dispatched; the account immediately turned on comment selection.
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, Typhoon Hongxia caused severe urban flooding in Puning, Chaoshan, and other areas in Guangdong, resulting in a serious disaster.
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, netizens found that the Xiaohongshu platform had imposed a complete search block on keywords such as the Jieyang dog abuse and the Wangwang dog, leaving the public unable to search for content on this animal cruelty case that has drawn widespread social attention and rights defense efforts.
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, affected by the outer circulation of Typhoon Hongxia, Lianping County in Heyuan and Haifeng County in Shanwei, Guangdong, were hit by sudden extremely heavy rainstorms that caused severe urban flooding; multiple townships, villages, schools and roads were inundated by floodwaters.
2026-07-26
In the early hours of July 26, 2026, Typhoon Hongxia made landfall in Huizhou, Guangdong, with maximum sustained winds of force 14 at its center. Shenzhen experienced windy and rainy weather, with maximum wind speeds reaching force 14.
2026-07-26
On July 26, 2026, the Hengjiang Reservoir in Liangtian Township, Jieyang, Guangdong, discharged water, causing extensive flooding in downstream villages and streets.
2026-07-25
Affected by Typhoon "Noul," the first floor of a woman's home in Huizhou, Guangdong, was flooded, with water levels reaching over one meter deep.
2026-07-25
Affected by Typhoon Noul, a construction cradle used for exterior wall work on a high-rise building in Shenzhen, Guangdong, was trapped in mid-air with two workers inside.
2026-07-25
On the afternoon of July 25, 2026, a high-altitude cradle at the Gemdale property in Dongguan went out of control during typhoon weather, leaving 4 workers trapped in mid-air.
2026-07-23
On August 11, 2026, the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government issued an inspection report disclosing that fixed-asset investment across the province fell 11.4% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, with real estate development investment down 21.6% and investment in Foshan plunging by 42.8%.
2026-07-21
On the second day after the new Shenzhen Metro security check regulations took effect, someone at Bihaiwan Station rushed the card reader and knocked a security officer down, causing severe queues at the security checkpoint.
2026-07-21
On July 21, 2026, shortly after a public service advertisement against animal abuse, placed on a shopping mall's big screen by a Shenzhen pet hospital, went live, the mall and the hospital received pressure calls from the local public security authorities and were forced to take the content down immediately.
2026-07-20
Starting July 20, Shenzhen Metro will upgrade random inspections to a “check every bag, check every person” policy, requiring all passengers to undergo luggage X‑ray and personal security screening, with queues exceeding 20 minutes during the morning and evening peaks.
2026-07-20
From July 20, 2026, Shenzhen Metro implemented full-coverage entry security checks with simultaneous body and bag screening for all passengers due to heightened security for a major international conference, causing hundred-meter-long queues at multiple major transfer stations during the morning rush and triggering passengers forcing their way through gates and clashes.
2026-07-20
On August 10, 2026, foreign media reported that Shenzhen significantly tightened metro security checks in preparation for an international summit, scanning and searching passengers' belongings one by one, causing morning rush-hour queues lasting up to half an hour. It was criticized as an expensive, formalistic "security performance."
2026-07-20
On July 20, 2026, dozens of owners at Hongrongyuan Jiayufu in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, took to the streets in a collective protest march over housing quality issues and downgraded planning commitments, shouting slogans to defend their rights against the developer and relevant authorities.
2026-07-19
On July 19, 2026, a public service message calling on all sectors of society to pay attention to animal abuse was broadcast on a large screen in Times Square, New York, USA, speaking out for Wangwang, a stray dog abused to death in Jieyang, Guangdong.
Location: New York, United States ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-07-17
Wang Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department, has been announced to be under investigation.
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, Wang Qiang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department, voluntarily surrendered.
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, the underside of a pedestrian overpass in Dongguan, Guangdong, was physically sealed off with iron railings. Reports online said the move was intended to prevent homeless people from sleeping under the bridge, drawing public criticism of the practice of excluding vulnerable groups.
2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, a violent armed assault occurred in Henggang Sub-district, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong. A man beat passers-by on the street with a stick. The police officers who arrived at the scene were accused of cowering, doing nothing but filming, and even being chased by the attacker, causing an uproar of public opinion.
2026-07-13
A fire broke out at the Sansheng EPE Pearl Cotton Factory on Wuyang Sansheng Road in Chaozhou, Guangdong. Chaozhou fire authorities reported that there were no casualties for the time being.
Location: Chaozhou, Guangdong ·
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2026-07-12
Reports from outside China suggest that Liu Guozhou, director of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, was suspended and taken into control around July 12. There has been no official announcement to confirm these circumstances.
2026-07-11
On July 11, 2026, reports circulated online that Sansande Steel Industry Co., Ltd. in Foshan, Guangdong, was imposing strict compliance tests and prison-style management on its current employees, sparking discussion about labor rights and dignity in the workplace.
2026-07-10
Workers at Shenzhen Born Optical went on strike on July 10 to protest the company's implementation of a disguised pay cut through a five-day, eight-hour work week policy.
2026-07-09
On July 9, 2026, food delivery platforms adjusted same-city crowdsourced rules in Shenzhen and other places, abolishing the self-dispatch toggle and implementing forced order assignment; riders who refuse orders face ranking demotion or forced offline penalties, triggering strong dissatisfaction among riders.
2026-07-05
Unpaid wages occurred at a headquarters building project constructed by China Construction Seventh Engineering Division in Futian, Shenzhen, and workers blocked the project gates to defend their rights.
2026-07-04
In July 2026, a Decision on Release on Bail Pending Trial from the Haizhu Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau circulated online, showing that a party involved was criminally detained by police for as long as 37 days on suspicion of assisting information network criminal activities for purchasing a Hong Kong data card to log into Facebook.
2026-07-03
Kim Myeong-il said that after being taken out of the detention center he was transported by high-speed rail and police car to Guangzhou International Airport, where prosecutors announced they would not prosecute him, and then his passport was returned and he was put on a flight to the United States.
2026-07-02
On July 2, 2026, a bamboo raft in the waters off Houjiang, Nan'ao County, Shantou, Guangdong was capsized after being struck by an iron vessel, killing one person, and the vessel responsible fled the scene. Recently, the family took to the internet to report that no case had been filed long after the incident and that dock surveillance footage had been overwritten, publicly seeking help to defend their rights.
2026-07
Ma Xingrui was transferred for prosecution, and his confidant and Guangzhou Municipal Party Secretary Guo Yonghang was subsequently investigated.
2026-07-01
Du Ling, former vice chairperson of the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions, is under investigation. This follows closely after the leadership reshuffle at the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, indicating that the trade union system is being purged.
2026-07
Shenzhen's housing vacancy rate has reached 60%, and many migrant workers live in harsh group rental houses, reflecting the difficulty of survival for the lower class.
2026-07
The central authorities dispatched Hu Fan to the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Organization Department to take over the work of the organization department.
2026-07
In July 2026, reports circulated online that Sun Yat-sen University failed to pay full social insurance for postdoctoral researchers in accordance with regulations during the adjustment of social insurance for public institutions, leaving hundreds of postdocs with long-overdue social insurance payments, with arrears amounting to millions of yuan.
2026-07
In July 2026, an official document circulating online revealed that in many places in Guangdong, during the "630 Poverty Relief and Aid Day" campaign, in addition to requiring people inside the system, targets were assigned at every level to mobilize and even coercively force non-public enterprises within their jurisdictions to make large donations.
2026-06-30
From June 26 to 30, 2026, villagers of Lincuo Village, Waisha Street, Longhu District, Shantou, Guangdong gathered for several consecutive days to defend their rights, protesting that the village committee sold off collective land without the villagers' consent, and demanding the restoration of household registration status that had been altered to non-agricultural without authorization.
2026-06-28
On June 28, 2026, four minors under the age of 14 in Pingpu Village, Xinheng Town, Jiedong District, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, used wire to strangle and wooden sticks to beat a stray mother dog 'Wangwang' and her three puppies, then poured flammable liquid and set them on fire to burn them alive, subsequently uploading the video of the torture and killing to the internet. On June 30, local officials reported that the involved individuals had not reached the criminal responsibility age, and had been sent to special schools for corrective education. This outcome has sparked strong public questioning regarding the 'too low cost of breaking the law,' and has prompted overseas and domestic Chinese people to initiate global animal protection support actions such as screen projection and mourning, calling for China to establish anti-animal cruelty laws.
2026-06-28
In June 2026, netizens reported that security guards at Guangzhou Huali College blocked a Xiaomi car from entering the campus; the security office confirmed that the ban had been in place for about a year. Public opinion questioned whether the school was imposing discriminatory restrictions on cars of other brands because it had jointly established a college with Huawei and signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement.
2026-06-28
On June 28, 2026, a delivery rider was refused entry to the Aesop store at Guangzhou Taikoo Hui while making a delivery; after the incident was exposed online, the rider received messages from someone claiming to be a store employee, threatening that the police would retrieve his information and "teach you a lesson."
2026-06-28
On June 28, 2026, several youths in Xinheng Town, Jieyang, Guangdong, looped wire around a female dog and dragged her while beating her violently with sticks, then beat an entire litter of puppies to death, and poured flammable liquid over the mother dog, burning her alive. The cruel act sparked outrage across the internet.
2026-06-26
Villagers of Lincuo Village, Longhu District, Shantou, had their agricultural household registrations arbitrarily converted to non-agricultural household registrations. After sitting-in for rights defense for a month, they escalated their actions, with hundreds occupying the village committee and engaging in physical clashes with the police.
2026-06-22
Dai Beifang, former chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office. After retirement, she served as the president of the Shenzhen Charity Federation.
2026-06-19
In the Dijingwan community in Qingyuan, Guangdong, residents dismissed the old property management company due to long-term inaction. The former management refused to leave and blocked the new property company from entering, triggering a conflict that left one person injured. Police arrived at the scene to calm the situation.
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.
2026-06-15
In late June 2026, Chuangda Bus, a privately operated public transit company in Panyu District, Guangzhou, fell into arrears on about half a year of drivers' wages, sparking a collective strike by drivers demanding unpaid pay and causing multiple bus routes connecting Panyu and Nansha to suspend service, exposing a fiscal crisis in local public transportation.
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong ·
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Verification: Developing ·
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2026-06-13
On June 13, 2026, Jiafeng Electronics Factory in Dongguan, Guangdong was reported to have had its person in charge go missing and flee, while a large number of factory workers who were owed pay gathered collectively in front of the factory gate, holding banners to defend their rights.
2026-06-11
Hu Fan, a former subordinate of Li Keqiang, has been transferred to Guangdong as the head of the Provincial Party Organization Department, hollowing out the personnel authority of Guangdong Provincial Party Secretary Huang Kunming.
2026-06-11
On June 12, 2026, a wage arrears incident occurred at Huaying Electronics Co., Ltd. in Dongguan, Guangdong. Large numbers of workers gathered collectively at the factory gate to defend their rights, demanding that the company pay the withheld wages in full.
2026-06-08
Rumors claim that during geological survey drilling operations in the ancient town area of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, underground toxic gas leaked out; residents in the surrounding area were not evacuated in time and subsequently fell into comas and were poisoned one after another. Dozens of people were rushed to hospital by ambulance, and some in critical condition were admitted to intensive care units.
2026-06-01
Sanitation workers in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, went on a collective strike starting June 1 due to six months of unpaid wages, leaving garbage scattered all over the town.
Location: Yangjiang City, Guangdong ·
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Verification: Verified ·
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2026-05-31
Reports circulating online say that the exterior wall of an underground garage in a residential compound in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province collapsed during a rainstorm, causing rainwater to flow back in. Hundreds of private cars in the garage were flooded and damaged, and some owners were summoned and pressured by the local police station after seeking rights defense from the property management and posting videos of the scene online.
Location: Zhongshan, Guangdong ·
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2026-05-27
On the evening of May 27, 2026, strict new dormitory phone control rules introduced by Guangzhou Information Technology Vocational School triggered a strong student backlash, with multiple students collectively shouting from the dormitory buildings to protest the mandatory management enforced by the school's student affairs office.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, a dump truck caught fire violently on the westbound Xinwu section of the Nanping Expressway in Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, and the blaze spread to an adjacent bus. Thick billowing smoke filled the scene, multiple vehicles took emergency evasive action, and emergency and fire departments rushed to the site to put out the fire.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong ·
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2026-05-26
On May 26, 2026, rumors circulated online that swine fever had broken out in Yuantan Town, Qingyuan City, Guangdong, with hundreds of pigs in the piggery infected and some already having entered the market; the breeder who provided the tip-off was forced to leave the village and go into hiding out of safety concerns.
2026-05-25
On May 25, 2026, it was reported online that an employee of Shenzhen Haorui Technology Co., Ltd. died suddenly in a dormitory after working 13 consecutive days. The family said their work-injury application was rejected by the Social Security Bureau, drawing online attention.
2026-05-10
A netizen in Guangdong posted that after discovering a middle-aged driver playing a Japanese song in his car, he suspected the driver was a Japanese spy based on his appearance and behavior.
2026-05
Ms. Wu, a housekeeping and cleaning worker in Guangdong, says the platform takes a 20 yuan commission per hour; after deducting the cost of supplies and commuting, her actual income is about 20 yuan per hour, and she has no social insurance or housing fund.
2026-05
In May 2026, at the Gongdishan Comprehensive Market in Haifeng County, Guangdong, a 75-year-old vegetable vendor was pushed down by security personnel, suffering a muscle strain and being taken to hospital. Afterwards, the market management denied that any bullying or beating had occurred. The security staff involved have been criticized and educated, and the police have intervened.
2026-04-25
On April 25, 2026, the blogger went to the Zhaoxin Hui office building in the core business district of Shenzhen for an on-site visit. The building has a grand exterior with 61 floors, but the blogger found that floors 21 to 60 were almost entirely vacant, and most floors were still in shell condition, with only the ground floor and the 61st floor finished. In the video, the blogger questioned why a skyscraper built with huge investment is largely idle, implying that the developer may have issues with cash flow or project progress.
2026-04-28
Shenzhen has seen another food delivery rider collapse unconscious from overwork on his electric scooter, sparking public discussion about the living conditions of riders.
2026-04-28
A video of a food delivery rider in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, carrying a child on his back while making deliveries has drawn online attention, with netizens leaving comments lamenting the hardships of life and expressing dissatisfaction with official "lying flat" remarks.
2026-04-24
A welder in Guangdong collapsed on the spot from overwork after working 16 consecutive hours, drawing netizens' attention to the survival pressures faced by底层 laborers.
2026-03-22
Shenzhen Municipal Party Secretary Meng Fanli has been replaced by Jin Lei, as the big boss's stronghold in Shenzhen undergoes a personnel reshuffle.
2026-03-15
On March 15, 2026, at the Guangzhou 315 Problem Car Show, several AITO (Wenjie) staff members used a huge rain tarp in front of the exhibition booth of car owners seeking redress to forcibly cover up the faulty vehicle logo and protest slogans, drawing onlookers' mockery.
2026-03
Guo Yonghang has been announced to be under investigation. He worked alongside Ma Xingrui for a long time before serving as the Party Secretary of Guangzhou.
2026-03
Jin Lei, formerly head of the Organization Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, went south to take charge of Shenzhen, becoming Secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee.
2026-03
Overseas social media platforms once reported that Jin Lei, the Party Secretary of Shenzhen, is Xi Jinping's "cousin" and has been selected as his successor.
2026
The video claims that Guangzhou’s 2026 Stabilization and Adjustment Fund has already spent 19 billion yuan, leaving only 4.22 billion yuan; no public reports can be found for this figure.
2026
In 2026, the special revenue of the projects corresponding to Shenzhen municipal special bonds was budgeted at 8.91 billion yuan, an increase of 5 billion yuan over the previous year.
2026
Staff from a Guangzhou neighborhood committee said landlords who rent out properties long-term without registering them will be penalized, with fines starting at 500 yuan.
2026
A fried chicken shop in Shenzhen saw a surge in late-night orders, with only one employee on site working continuously, at one point kneeling on the ground before convulsing and collapsing; afterwards the employee was physically fine and has since left the job.
2026
The Shenzhen Longhua District Federation of Trade Unions said that employees at a fried chicken restaurant broke down and developed respiratory alkalosis due to an excessive number of orders, and warned that related symptoms may occur frequently in high-temperature environments.
2025-12-29
The Huizhou Intermediate People's Court handed down a first-instance verdict to Zhao Bing and more than ten defendants; principal offender Zhao Bing was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional injury, and the remaining defendants received various sentences.
Location: Huizhou, Guangdong ·
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2025-12-24
Just forty-five days after the closing ceremony of the National Games, Guo Yonghang was removed from his posts as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CCP and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee, with the central authorities announcing he will be reassigned.
2025-11-09
Guo Yonghang, Party Secretary of Guangzhou, accompanied the top leader in Guangzhou to attend the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games, marking the third key 'escort' mission in his political career.
2025-11-07
According to the account, Xi Jinping attended an event in Guangzhou on November 7, 2025, and then returned to Beijing, after which he has not left Beijing for a long time.
2025-11-04
On November 4, according to CCTV, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province announced the first-instance verdict in the Bai family criminal gang case: Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi were sentenced to death; Li Fushou and Li Zhide received death sentences with a reprieve; Guo Jianzheng, Pan Xian, and three others received life imprisonment; Li Longhua, Luo Wending, and six others received fixed-term sentences ranging from three to twenty years.
2025-08-10
On August 10, a netizen in Guangdong filmed a female sanitation worker pausing during her break to watch retired people her own age singing and dancing in a square, her expression full of envy and helplessness at the vast income gap.
2025-05-31
On May 31, 2025, Yu Chengdong stated at the Shenzhen Future Automobile Pioneers Conference that Huawei has strict quality standards, and not a single vehicle that fails to meet the standards can leave the factory; the cars of some automakers, by Huawei's standards, cannot be shipped at all.
2025-04-29
Around April 29, 2025, an open letter signed by Lin Ying, dean of the School of Biology and Biological Engineering at South China University of Technology, and Han Shuangyan, calling for resistance to dictatorship, circulated online. The university's official website subsequently removed their personal profiles, and the authenticity of the letter remains in doubt.
2025
Official data shows that in 2025, nearly 160,000 people nationwide were disciplined for issues such as "inaction, arbitrary actions, and fraud," a year-on-year increase of 16%.
2025
In 2025, Guangzhou's land transfer revenue fell 23.6% year on year, while land transfer revenue at the municipal level dropped even more sharply, by 37.2%.
2025
The video claims that by the end of 2025 Guangzhou's debt balance reached 745.8 billion yuan, with a limit utilization rate of 98.6%; no public reports can be found for this figure.
2025
The video claims that Guangzhou's total statutory debt principal and interest payments in the first half of 2026 reached 64.56 billion yuan; no public report of this figure could be found.
2025
The Chinese man who stabbed a 10-year-old Japanese boy outside the Japanese School of Shenzhen on September 18, 2024, causing the boy's death the following day, was executed in 2025. To this day, it remains unclear whether the case specifically targeted Japanese people.
2025
By the end of 2025, Shenzhen's debt balance had reached 449.2 billion yuan.
2025
In 2025, the Guangzhou Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau deployed 265 police officers to carry out simultaneous raids in Guangzhou, Foshan and Shenzhen, dismantling 2 gangs smuggling blood samples of pregnant women. In total, over 100,000 blood samples were illegally smuggled out of the country, generating illegal profits of more than 30 million yuan, covering 23 provinces across the country.
2024-11-11
On November 11, 2024, a malicious vehicle-ramming attack against citizens occurred on an internal road of the Zhuhai Sports Center in Zhuhai, Guangdong. Official reports said 35 people were killed and 43 injured, and the 62-year-old suspect, Fan, was subdued at the scene.
2024-11-10
Hui Jian was hijacked and taken away in Daya Bay, Huizhou by Cao Dong, Zhao Bing and others impersonating police officers; his phone was handed over to others, and he was forced to delete a WeChat official account article.
2024-11
An AITO owner in Guangzhou produced an inspection report claiming the vehicle's brakes failed, after which Seres filed a police report and pursued legal action.
2024-10-31
Guangzhou Metro has set up makeup removal areas for passengers to remove their Halloween costumes.
2024-10-31
People were collectively turned away at the Guangzhou Halloween event site.
2024-10-31
Zhuhai Fuhuali issued a notice stating that, due to requirements from relevant departments, the performance scheduled for Halloween night has been cancelled.
2024-10-22
On October 22, 2024, Jin Xing posted an open letter on Weibo naming Song Shuqin, director of the approval division of the Guangzhou Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, demanding the red-headed official document rejecting the dance troupe's performance approval.
2024-09-18
On September 18, a Japanese schoolboy studying at a Japanese school in Shenzhen, Guangdong, was attacked and injured on his way to school. Hiroshi Moriya, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, stated at a press conference that the Japanese side has requested local authorities to take measures to prevent such incidents from happening again and to provide detailed information.
2024-09
After a Japanese boy was attacked in Shenzhen, some netizens posted celebratory remarks online such as "Well killed, Japanese brats aren't human," saying that the mothers picking up their children from school should be killed as well.
2024-07-24
Wang Yi discussed the China-Ukraine strategic partnership and bilateral trade with Kuleba, stating that China will continue to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
2024-06-27
On June 27, a man in Guangdong posted a video saying that his family had transferred 10,000 yuan to another account with the same name, after which police came to his door to check on the pretext of anti-fraud.
2024-06
The fall of Wu Aicun, former director of the Zhuhai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), who had been involved in capital operations such as the Gree equity transfer, marked the beginning of the total collapse of the leadership in the Zhuhai state-owned assets system.
2024-04
CITIC Real Estate has listed its 40% stake in Shenzhen Spark Xingteng Real Estate Co., Ltd. for transfer at a reserve price of one cent.
2024
The report cited data showing that Foshan's economic growth rate in 2024 was 0.2%; the local government plans to transform Foshan into a robotics industry hub.
2023-09-28
China Evergrande announced that Xu Jiayin is subject to compulsory measures by law due to suspected violations of laws and crimes.
2023-03-14
The 2023 315 Gala exposed chaotic practices at multiple pickled vegetable companies, including Waisha Jingui Fruit and Vegetable Pickling Factory in Longhu District of Shantou, Yulei Foods, and Mutongyuan Foods, such as working barefoot, smoking, spitting, and picking dropped pickles back up to pack them into boxes.
2023
Since 2023, civil servants in Shenzhen have gone through at least two rounds of pay cuts, with ordinary section members seeing their annual income reduced by about 100,000 yuan.
2023
To cope with the school enrollment peak caused by the "two-child" policy, Guangzhou's Huangpu District hired a cumulative total of 2,482 contract teachers outside the establishment from 2021 to 2023. These teachers have now become the first to bear the pressure of layoffs as student numbers decline.
2021-09-25
Meng Wanzhou landed at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport on a Chinese government chartered flight; on the same day, two Canadian citizens, Michael, who had been detained by China, were released and boarded a flight back to Toronto.
2020
Huacheng Group will transfer all equity of Shenzhen Xinghai Investment to Shenzhen Chenyao Investment.
2019-12
Zhuhai State-owned Assets transferred its 15% stake in Gree Electric to Hillhouse Capital for 41.66 billion yuan, and Dong Mingzhu and the management team established absolute control over the listed company through various interest arrangements.
2019
Before the new labor law took effect, Huawei forced nearly 7,000 employees who had completed eight years of service to voluntarily resign and compete for their positions again, with their previous years of service wiped to zero, raising questions about the company's employment practices.
2019
When Huawei employee Li Hongyuan left the company in 2018, he negotiated a severance package of 330,000 yuan. Shortly after the money arrived, he was criminally detained by Shenzhen police, with the charges changing from embezzlement and leaking trade secrets to extortion. Because Li had kept recordings of the negotiations and public pressure mounted, he was released without charge after 251 days in detention and received state compensation of 107,522 yuan paid by the government.
2018-10-22
Xi Jinping traveled south to Guangdong for an inspection, with his motorcade entering the Gree headquarters in Zhuhai. His remarks during the visit regarding manufacturing innovation and self-reliance effectively provided a political endorsement for Gree's subsequent state-owned mixed-ownership reform and its 'chip-making' initiative.
2018
Guo Yonghang, former member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee during Ma Xingrui's tenure in Shenzhen, has left Shenzhen to serve as Secretary of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee.
2018-01
A graduate doctor working at a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangzhou published a post pointing out that Hongmao medicinal liquor contains a variety of toxic Chinese herbs. After the article was widely shared online, Inner Mongolia police, without any coordination with local public security, secretly arrested him across provincial lines and detained him for months. When he was released from prison, he was physically and psychologically traumatized and covered with illnesses.
2017
CITIC Real Estate Chairman Hu Donghai succeeds Wang Jianyu as Chairman of Shenzhen Xinghuo Xinteng Real Estate Co., Ltd.
2017
The first batch of 678 auxiliary police officers recruited in Shenzhen are reported to all hold bachelor's degrees or higher.
2017
In 2017, Huawei carried out a mass purge of employees over the age of 34, an action widely regarded as the origin of today's phrase "the anxiety of programmers over 35."
2016-12-30
In 2016, Shentong Express went public in Shenzhen. Previously, Alibaba founder Jack Ma had invested in Shentong, pushing it to leverage the growth of online shopping to expand its courier business.
2016-12
Shenzhen Xinqiao Industrial, under Huacheng Group, acquired full equity in the Shenzhen Yuemeng Industrial Zone Project.
2016
Wang Zhanjiang founded Shenzhen Huasheng Investment Co., Ltd., and within less than four weeks the company cooperated with CITIC Real Estate and others to establish Shenzhen Xinghuo Xinteng Real Estate Co., Ltd., obtaining a credit endorsement for the Shenzhen old city renovation project.
2015-11
Ma Xingrui met with Xu Jiayin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Evergrande Group, hoping that Evergrande would increase its investment in Shenzhen. Shenzhen expressed its support.
2015-07
Ma Xingrui met with CITIC Group Chairman Chang Zhenming, CITIC Bank Chairman Li Qingping, and others to discuss issues such as Shenzhen's subway financing, fund custody, housing construction, and Qianhai development.
2015-03
Ma Xingrui was transferred from Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of its Political and Legal Affairs Commission to become Shenzhen Municipal Party Secretary.
2015
In 2015, Shen Haixiong was appointed as a Standing Committee member of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Deputy Head of the Publicity Department.
2014-10
On the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the birth of Xi Zhongxun, Xi Yuanping published a reminiscence article titled “Beautiful Woodlands” in the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, recounting the love story with his wife Zhang Lanlan and accompanied by a photo of the two together; the article was subsequently reported to have been ordered deleted across the entire network.
2013-01-14
On January 14, 2013, the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Guangdong Provincial Committee deliberated and approved the list of members of the 11th Provincial CPPCC Committee, with Stephen Chow among them; on January 22 he did not check in in person, and his secretary collected the attendance badge on his behalf.
2013-01
Southern Weekend's New Year's address "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream" was withdrawn by the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, marking an intensification of media control.
2013
Guangzhou media reportedly reported that Stephen Chow failed to attend full sessions during his four years as a CPPCC member and submitted no proposals.
2012
Bloomberg disclosed changes in the asset of the property above Shenzhen Dongmen Old Street subway station based on business registration information.
2011-11
When the project building was nearing completion and about to start collecting rent, Shenzhen Metro Group transferred its entire 60% share to Yuanwei Enterprises.
2011
Shenzhen Metro Group completely transferred up to 60% of the state-owned shares in the Dongmen Old Street overhead property project to Yuanwei Industry, turning the project into private property for the elite.
2008-03
From July 2007 to March 2008, Huawei employees died by suicide one after another: on July 18, 2007, Shenzhen employee Zhang Rui hanged himself; on August 11, an employee at the Changchun office fell from a building; on February 26, 2008, Chengdu office employee Li Dongbing jumped from a building; and on March 6, an employee at the Shenzhen headquarters jumped from a building. These deaths were linked to intense work pressure.
2006-05
In May 2006, Li Wei, through Huang Songyou, Yang Xiancai and others, signed a contract in the name of Sinopec with a company under Guo Cheng, buying the North Tower of Zhongcheng Plaza in Guangzhou for more than 1.3 billion yuan; the building was sealed up over debt disputes after its completion in 1996.
2005-12-06
In December 2005, a large-scale clash between police and civilians broke out in Dongzhou Village, Shanwei, Guangdong, leaving 14 dead and 50 injured; the first three pages of Yahoo China's search results contained no content related to the crackdown, while the international version of Yahoo returned 370,000 related results.
2005-11
Li Na made a self-criticism to national team head coach Jiang Hongwei and took part in a week-long corporate employee outward-bound training arranged by the national team in Jiangmen.
2005
Yuanwei Industrial, controlled by Qi Qiaoqiao and Deng Jiagui, and Shenzhen Metro Group jointly established Shenzhen Metro Yuanwei Commercial Development Co., Ltd., getting involved in Shenzhen Metro's above-ground property development.
2004
When the air rights property project above Shenzhen Dongmen Old Street subway station was established, Shenzhen Metro Group held 60% equity, and Yuanwei Industrial held 40%.
2004
The Shenzhen Municipal Government hired the Shenzhen branch of China Development Bank as its financial advisor, and during the relevant period, the Shenzhen branch of China Development Bank signed a 30 billion yuan credit line with the Shenzhen Municipal Government.
2004
A man with an intellectual disability went missing in the Guangzhou and Foshan area in 2004. His family searched for him for 22 years, and only learned of his whereabouts in September 2026.
2003-06-20
After the Sun Zhigang case, on June 20, 2003, the State Council promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Assistance for Vagrants and Beggars with No Means of Support in Urban Areas, and the Measures for Custody and Repatriation were abolished as of August 1.
2003-04-25
In 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily's reporting on the Sun Zhigang case directly contributed to the abolition of China's custody and repatriation system.
2003-03-20
Hubei youth Sun Zhigang was sent to a custody station in Guangzhou for not carrying a temporary residence permit and was beaten to death. The incident spread rapidly across the internet and eventually led the State Council to abolish the custody and repatriation system.
2003-01
Yu Xiaoping was transferred from the head office to serve as the president of the China Development Bank Shenzhen Branch. He ruled locally for seven years, leading massive and enormous policy-backed loans for projects such as the Shenzhen Metro.
2002-04-27
Liu Xiaoqing and her boyfriend flew from Beijing to Shenzhen and attempted to take a boat to France via Hong Kong, but they were intercepted by border control officers at the Shenzhen airport ferry terminal who had been notified in advance, causing their escape plan to fail.
1996-12
Li Wei registered her residence in Huilai, Guangdong, and obtained a Shenzhen ID card on December 25. Related reports alleged that Zheng Shaodong, director of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, was involved in handling the case.
1993-08
Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng set up a film production base in Shenzhen, and simultaneously serve as directors of a Hong Kong investment company together with Guangdong elite family member Ye Xinlong.
1988
When Huawei was first founded, Ren Zhengfei required all staff to keep mattresses under their desks so they could sleep at the company and work directly when tasks were urgent. This is the origin of "mattress culture."
1958-02-10
Huang Jing, the father of Yu Qiangsheng, died in Guangzhou. Officials claimed it was due to illness, but intra-party rumors suggested he suffered a mental breakdown after being reprimanded by Mao Zedong at the Nanning Conference.
1920
In 1920, Chen Qiongming proposed "Cantonese governing Canton" in Guangdong, advocating relatively thorough local self-governance, and later forming a confederation or federation, believing that independence must come first and sovereignty must first return to the people.