On November 9, netizens filmed multiple people sleeping on bedding inside cramped stalls of a public toilet in Yangquan, Shanxi. The video sparked heated discussion, with netizens stating that they would be driven away outside and have nowhere else to stay.
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 5, Chinese media reported that a primary school in Shanxi was recruiting intern teachers. The requirements stated that there would be no salary and that room and board must be self-funded, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
On November 4, the People's Court of Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province, delivered a first-instance verdict: Zhang Mouguo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crimes of rape and molestation of a child, and Zhang Moulin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for rape. Both defendants stated in court that they would not appeal. Bu, a female master's degree holder who had been missing for over a decade due to mental illness, was sexually assaulted by two fellow villagers after being found.
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 October 2026, a 2024 video by Dongchedi analyzing the Wenjie M7 accident in Yuncheng, Shanxi, was dug up by netizens. The host had pointed out at the time that the fuel tank was positioned far forward and could be crushed and catch fire after sliding under and colliding with a truck, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
From October 22 to 23, the Foreign Languages Department of Jinzhong University of Technology held a themed group day activity against circumventing the Great Firewall. Students of the English 2503 branch studied the legal risks of VPNs, accelerators, and proxy plugins, and pledged not to install, use, or spread circumvention software. The school classified accessing overseas websites as a risk of exposure to harmful information, and published an article about it on its official website on October 26.
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.
Netizen Cyberxinfang said that last year he received petition materials from Yanhu District, Yuncheng, Shanxi. The petitioner alleged that local gangsters colluded with government officials in the long-term gang rape of her granddaughter, and that she was threatened with lifetime imprisonment if she petitioned again. She has since gone missing, and he is now publicly soliciting information about the case.