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A fire broke out at the Howard Johnson International Apartment Complex in Yingze District, Taiyuan. Although firefighters responded quickly, the failure of smoke alarms and other factors resulted in 14 deaths and 25 injuries.

On November 8, a fire broke out at the Howard Johnson International Apartment in Yingze District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, leaving many people trapped at the scene.

A netizen submission states that Taiyuan University of Technology organized faculty and students to participate in the voting for NPC deputies.

On November 4, netizens discovered that a primary school in Taiyuan, Shanxi, issued a recruitment notice seeking 'internship teachers' from the public. The requirements included a full-time bachelor's degree or higher and a teacher qualification certificate, but it explicitly stated there would be no salary and that candidates must cover their own room and board, sparking widespread mockery and criticism from netizens.

On November 4, the Academic Affairs Department of Taiyuan Institute of Technology in Shanxi issued a notice stating that in order to organize teachers and students to participate in the election of deputies to the Jiancaoping District People's Congress, classes will be suspended in batches from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM on November 6, with 11 departments voting in staggered shifts of 15 to 40 minutes each during designated time slots.

On November 4, Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention to spend 390,000 yuan on a network security gateway. The requirements include the ability to identify VPN proxies, automatically block unauthorized overseas access, and retain logs for traceability. The announcement stated that existing equipment poses a risk of being flagged by higher-level regulatory authorities.

Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention in the same batch, planning to spend 340,000 yuan to purchase internet behavior management equipment. It requires coverage of all faculty, students, and various terminals, integration with unified identity authentication, and the capability for website access control and internet behavior auditing.

In 2014, the Taiyuan Beifu Community Residents' Committee, on the grounds of preventing residents from spending blindly, borrowed demolition compensation funds for urban village renovation, agreeing on a monthly return of 1.5% and repayment of principal by the end of August 2016; after maturity, it verbally lowered the return to 1%, and residents demanded repayment multiple times, yet 1.5 million yuan of principal remains unpaid to this day. Reported by Benliu News on October 19.

A netizen uploaded a video of the campus recruitment fair at Taiyuan University of Technology. After confirming that a job seeker came from a school abroad, a staff member at the recruitment booth said that “overseas schools are no good,” and mentioned concerns about the social background of international students’ families and foreign funding, saying that the unit undertakes special national tasks and would rather not hire anyone than make a mistake. The video was subsequently taken down.

On the morning of September 29, the Taiyuan Municipal Public Security Bureau took Xuncheng Reformed Church preacher An Yankui from his home. His wife Yao Congya received a phone call from the police and was told that he had been placed under administrative detention for 15 days for "illegally organizing religious activities."

On September 25, a netizen submitted a report stating that Shanxi Taiyuan Wanbailin District Lantai Property Group Co., Ltd. has long required employees to work unpaid overtime and weekend shifts, while higher-level leaders and the boss frequently subjected employees to verbal pressure and PUA.

On the evening of September 22, a stabbing incident occurred outside the east gate of Shanxi Normal University in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. A man, suspected of a romantic dispute, slashed a female student. He was subsequently subdued by people at the scene and handed over to the police for handling.

On September 13, 2026, a netizen posted a video claiming that when freshmen at the Zhongdong Campus of Shanxi Medical University registered, they found that the loft beds with desks underneath in their dorms were not equipped with ladders, and that freshmen needed to buy a ladder costing about 200 yuan each to get into their dorms.

In October 2025, police intervened during the Sunday worship service of the Xuncheng Reformed Church in Taiyuan, and 11 people, including An Yankui, were placed under 15 days of administrative detention.

On January 13, 2024, during the curtain call for the stage play Sunrise in Taiyuan, Jin Xing took a rainbow flag handed to her from the audience, displayed it to the crowd, and then threw it aside.

In 2023, after attending a church youth camp, An Yankui was first given 15 days of administrative detention, and on the day that term expired he was given another 15 days of judicial detention over the enforcement of a fine.