Guangxi Nanning · Full chronicle and history

On October 19, a video circulated online showing members of the Nanning Blue Sky Rescue Team in Guangxi wearing uniforms and shoulder lights, standing watch and patrolling the Yongjiang First Bridge at night and chanting the slogan "Public welfare guarding the bridge, rescue by your side." Netizens questioned whether the root cause of people jumping off the bridge should be addressed.

Yuan Jiajun, Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, led a Party and government delegation to hold symposiums in Nanning, Guangxi, and Guiyang, Guizhou, drawing outside attention to developments in local politics.

On September 27, netizens posted a video claiming that two dormitory balconies on the 7th floor of a building at Nanning Vocational and Technical University in Guangxi had no railings installed at all. The school only put up warning tape but still arranged for students to move in, sparking concerns among netizens.

A man jumped in front of a train at Nanning Station on September 7.

From September 8 to 13, 2026, governments in Kunming, Yunnan; Haikou, Hainan; Nanning, Guangxi and other places deployed chengguan and police to drive away street vendors making a living by setting up stalls, triggering clashes.

A Chinese woman was taken into a room by customs officers at Nanning Airport in Guangxi for checks on her phone, luggage, and financial records; her passport was subsequently revoked, and she was told that students at her school were banned from leaving the country because some students had overstayed in Spain.

On August 12, 2026, a large number of migrant workers in Nanning, Guangxi, whose labor remuneration had been withheld, went to the gate of the office building of Nanning Wuxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Industrial Investment Group to stage a sit-in, defending their rights and demanding unpaid wages.

On August 4, 2026, the official authorities of Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi announced that administrative penalties had been imposed on 18 netizens who posted information about local floods on the grounds of spreading disaster-related rumors, prompting netizens to satirize in the comments section that the truth about the flood was being covered up.

Victims in the dam-break disaster area in Guangxi said in interviews and videos that relief supplies were severely insufficient, that local private donations were blocked, and that videos they posted showing their monotonous three meals a day were taken down online.

Internal information from the disaster area in Hengzhou says that 17,000 people died locally; police are standing guard to prevent people from entering and banning rescue teams from entering in order to cover up the truth.

On July 10, 2026, it was reported online that during the floods in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to the Liulan Reservoir, the Gandao, Yunbiao, Jijing and other reservoirs also suffered dam breaches. Officials were accused of covering up the disaster and arresting those spreading the news on charges of “spreading rumors.”

Dam breaches and collapses occurred at the Liulan Reservoir and Yunbiao Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi. Downstream villages were washed away, and authorities subsequently issued a situation report and launched rescue operations.

A 50-meter-wide breach was washed out in the dam body of the Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, turning multiple downstream villages and towns into a sea of water and causing major casualties and property losses.

A dam breach occurred at the Liujing Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi. The reservoir was built in 1958, and over 300 million yuan had previously been invested in reinforcement; the breach occurred less than a year after the reinforcement was completed.

On July 6, 2026, a serious emergency occurred at the dam of Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, where a breach opened up. Large volumes of floodwater gushed down, inundating downstream areas. Several people were trapped and swept away by the floodwaters.

On May 26, 2026, an office worker in Nanning, Guangxi posted a complaint saying that their company, because performance targets had not been met, was forcing employees to accept physical punishment. The employee firmly refused this unreasonable rule and had a verbal confrontation with the supervisor on the spot.