On November 11, the Douyin account of Shandong News reported that a car hit pedestrians near a subway station in California, USA, resulting in 3 deaths. In the comment section, a large number of Chinese netizens listed domestic malicious incidents to mock the official media for only reporting good news and ignoring the bad.
On November 11, a large number of shops along the street near the Ganzhou Bus Station in Jiangxi closed their doors. Grid workers patrolled, knocked on doors, and repeatedly used loudspeakers to demand that the merchants resume normal business operations.
On November 9, a netizen posted that they were fired the day after leaving a negative review of their factory employer on Amap, and were forced to sign a resignation letter. The companies involved are Jiangsu Hongji Metal Products Co., Ltd. and Hongji Weiye (Suzhou) Auto Parts Co., Ltd. The factory identified the account that left the review by checking employees' phones and refused to settle wages in person.
On November 6, a car rammed into multiple spots at the Jiehu Park night market in Yinan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province. The driver fled the scene, leaving the area in chaos.
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.
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.
A serious car-ramming incident occurred on Jiefang Avenue in Wuhan, resulting in multiple casualties. Related information was subsequently censored online by the Cyberspace Administration of China.
On October 29, netizens posted a video claiming that the comment section of a promotional video for Huawei's AITO car was flooded with suspected bot accounts. Multiple accounts with different avatars and nicknames all posted the same photo of a "hand wearing a green bracelet" on their homepages. Netizens in the comment section mocked this as "the passing of the winning army."
On October 29, a Wenjie car rear-ended a truck in Harbin. The front of the vehicle slid under the truck's cargo bed, the windshield was shattered, and the front part of the roof was severely deformed.
On October 28, a Weibo auto influencer posted a discussion regarding an AITO M9 owner's claim of automatic emergency braking on a highway. The influencer questioned why the battery level displayed 0% and compared it with other models, subsequently receiving an infringement complaint notice, leading to the post being taken down.
Before the National Day holiday, Li Auto held its autumn strategy meeting. Wang Xing, founder of Meituan and a director of Li Auto, suggested that involution in the automotive industry might last for three to five years, and advised making cost reduction and efficiency improvement the core strategy to prepare for a long-term response.
After 36Kr reported on Li Auto's autumn strategic meeting and Wang Xing's suggestions on cost reduction and efficiency improvement on October 28, the article was deleted.
According to a Nikkei Asia report on October 24, against the backdrop of intensifying competition among Chinese automakers and Europe's expanding armaments, Volkswagen's 125-year-old plant in Osnabrück, Germany, plans to halt car production in the summer of 2027 and shift to producing air-defense equipment and parts. In cooperation with Rafael, it aims to retain about 1,200 of its 1,800 jobs. Stickers opposing the conversion to military production have appeared near the plant.
On October 23, car influencer "Racing Frappuccino" publicly apologized to MAEXTRO on Xiaohongshu (RedNote), saying he would pay 300,000 yuan as determined by the court; the content involved included "Squatting Realm Private Gathering" and a video imitating anime characters to disparage the MAEXTRO S800.
Before Lei Jun publicly emphasized vehicle safety, a large number of Xiaomi car owners reported suspected faults in the vehicles' intelligent brake boosters, with problems such as brake pedals that could not be pressed down.