2026-11-12
Multiple JD.com delivery riders have exposed on social media that the platform is forcing them to deliver charity orders with a delivery fee of 0 yuan, sparking widespread concern over the labor rights of delivery workers.
2026-11-11
On November 11, The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia's board of directors is preparing to remove company founder and CEO Jensen Huang, as he has been exposed for involvement in two extramarital affairs, with one of the individuals suspected of being a Chinese spy.
2026-11-11
On November 11, in the top-ranked lobby of the "Random Skyblock Survival" multiplayer map in NetEase's Minecraft, a large number of political criticism books appeared, documenting the June 4th crackdown, the White Paper Movement, and demands for Xi Jinping to step down.
2026-11-11
On November 11, a netizen reported that when using NetEase Youdao Dictionary to translate English foreign media reports involving Xi Jinping and the closure of the Unirule Institute of Economics, the subsequent translation was directly blocked and not displayed.
2026-11-11
On November 11, a netizen posted on social media that after being laid off, they applied for the same Ant Group outsourcing project again, only to be told that they must return the severance pay issued by the previous company before they could be hired.
2026-11-11
On November 11, a virtual musician released an AI single titled "I Don't Understand Working" on Douyin, and the comment section was flooded with requests for the artist to perform on the Spring Festival Gala.
2026-11-10
Recently, many netizens have complained that their saved Xi Jinping memes were automatically grouped together by iPhone Photos' facial recognition, sparking heated discussion.
2026-11-10
On November 10, a netizen posted that they had a dispute with a JD.com courier in the Dalian Development Zone. Six months later, during the Qingming Festival, they received funeral items ordered and sent by the courier. After reporting it to the police, the courier continued to send threatening text messages. JD.com customer service asked for understanding, citing the courier's family difficulties, and the courier was only suspended for training and continued to deliver packages.
2026-11-09
Around November 9, a netizen live-streamed the game 'Neverness to Everness' on Douyin, in which a camouflage tank drove onto city streets and fired at a building entrance. The live chat associated the scene with the 1989 June 4 tank crackdown. Afterward, the streamer's account could no longer be found by searching their nickname from the recording.
2026-11-09
On November 9, a Xiaomi SU7 owner in Meizhou, Guangdong, reported a sudden loss of power while driving in a highway tunnel. After the video was posted, it was quickly set to 'private' by the platform on the grounds that it was 'unsuitable for display,' leading netizens to suspect pressure from the car manufacturer.
2026-11-09
On November 9, 2026, a Douyin user posted a page of school rules, in which "jumping off a building" is explicitly stated to result in "expulsion from the school registry," sparking heated discussion among netizens. Some mocked, "I've already jumped off the building, why would I be afraid of you expelling me?"
2026-11-09
On November 9, a HungryPanda delivery rider in Melbourne reported to dispatch that their order had been stolen by a homeless person and that they had been spat on. The dispatcher's first reaction was to ask if the food could be retrieved, urging the rider to try to get it back, before eventually telling them to give up and complete the order. Netizens claim that failing to retrieve the food could result in a deduction from the rider's pay.
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2026-11-09
On November 9, the Beijing-based stray animal rescue organization "Adoption Shop Tech" posted on Xiaohongshu, stating that the platform requires a 10,000 yuan advertising deposit to contact potential adopters, while also facing traffic restrictions, limited private messaging, and live-streaming tips not being converted into revenue. The organization was founded in 2011 by Yale graduate Chris Barden.
2026-11-09
On November 9, a programmer posted that after passing an interview for a full-stack development position in Beijing, they were required to serve as the company's legal representative to be hired, which they ultimately refused due to the high risk.
2026-11-08
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang sent a letter to all employees on November 8, admitting to infidelity to his wife and issuing a public apology. On the same day, the Nvidia board of directors announced the formation of an independent investigation committee.
2026-11-08
On November 8, MeT, who first posted the content, responded that he had not clarified the activation conditions for the screen recording at the time, and reiterated that it was Xiaomi's system security component that performed the recording.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a blogger posted a video on Douyin documenting the search for their dog, showing two bags containing dog meat. They later posted another video claiming that Douyin had throttled their reach, while comments and bullet-screen messages from netizens called for the promotion of animal protection legislation.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a Shanghai netizen posted that a delivery rider was promoting the platform's annual membership card while delivering goods, promising a carton of eggs as a gift. After signing up for the card, the customer learned that the rider had paid for the eggs out of their own pocket to avoid being fined by the platform for failing to meet KPIs.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a netizen in Jiangsu posted a public exposure that a school was charging each student a 3 yuan "patriotic movie" viewing fee. The netizen criticized this as forced consumption and charging for patriotic education.
2026-11-07
On November 7, Bilibili creators epcdiy and Bian Liang released videos claiming that after Xiaomi's "AI Call Warning" is enabled and authorized, the phone will record about 3 seconds of screen footage during WeChat and QQ video calls, encrypt and upload it to the cloud to determine if it involves fraud, and continue recording after about 2 seconds if no risk is detected; this feature is disabled by default.
2026-11-06
Douyin launched a chat bubble decoration in its personalized store featuring a figure holding a sign. Netizens associated it with the 2022 White Paper Movement and began posting messages while imitating the gesture. After the discussion fermented, the decoration was removed.
2026-11-06
On the evening of November 6, Jiemian News reported that the Maextro V800 had announced a recall plan on October 13 due to brake pedal bracket issues, involving 3,217 vehicles. Subsequently, the report was taken down. Many media outlets questioned whether Maextro had spread rumors, and netizens are demanding the investigation results regarding the brake issues.
2026-11-06
Recently, a netizen posted that a motorcycle taxi driver with a speech disability sought help, discovering that his account had been automatically deducted approximately 200 yuan per month by "Shuidi Insurance Brokerage" without his knowledge for about five years, totaling over 10,000 yuan.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a vlogger in Beijing was charged a default fee of 340 yuan by an inspection station while registering an electric motorcycle. After discovering that the normal cost is only a few dozen yuan, the vlogger returned to question the charge. Staff claimed 280 yuan was a "comprehensive service fee," but refunded the 280 yuan via WeChat on the spot after the vlogger threatened to call 12315 to report them.
2026-11-06
On November 6, parents of students at Chonghua Middle School in Nankai District, Tianjin, reported that the school required students who had not received the self-paid HPV vaccine to get vaccinated over the weekend, or otherwise provide a certificate from a Grade A tertiary hospital stating they are unsuitable for vaccination. After parents complained, they were told this was based on a joint notice from the Municipal Health Commission and the Municipal Education Commission.
2026-11-06
On November 6, at the Baron Investment Conference, Musk recalled Tesla's efforts to build a wholly-owned factory in China, stating that Chinese officials shouted at him to his face, demanding that Tesla must form a joint venture with a Chinese company. Eventually, China amended its foreign equity ratio policy to allow for wholly-owned factories.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a netizen in Shanghai posted a video stating that 'advertising mirrors' equipped with ad screens were installed in front of the sinks in a public restroom at a shopping mall. The mirror suddenly plays commercial advertisements while someone is looking into it, sparking mockery and concerns among netizens regarding privacy and surveillance.
2026-11-05
A behavioral analysis report of the Honor HiView four-piece APK suite submitted by a netizen shows that its log component can read the list of installed apps, track usage duration, receive cloud pushes, execute debug commands, and capture network traffic, with the upload module containing a device serial number field; another module can determine whether an operation is an automated script based on operational data.
2026-11-05
A V2EX forum post on November 5 sparked discussion. Researchers conducted a reverse analysis of Xiaomi HyperOS and discovered that the SystemHelper component collects and reports app lists, usage duration, IMEI, SIM card information, and location data to China Unicom servers. They also decrypted reported data for 169 app entries from a test phone.
2026-11-05
Multiple netizens tested and found that ByteDance's AI, Doubao, can repeat negative reviews of other brands but refuses to repeat 'Huawei is not good to use,' claiming that Huawei products are recognized by users. This has sparked mockery and questioning among netizens regarding the AI's stance and censorship system.
2026-11-05
On November 5, a netizen posted that when using the China-version iPhone's Apple Intelligence to process lyrics, the system blocked it for "potentially not complying with relevant laws and regulations," and the restriction persisted even after modifications. Netizens in the comments pointed out that the reason was the phrase "in the crowd, dancing the flower dance" (在人群中共跳花之舞) contained the term "Zhonggong" (中共, CCP).
2026-11-04
On November 4, 2026, X user kiraequal performed ADB dynamic forensics and DEX reverse engineering on a locked-bootloader Xiaomi 13 Pro (HyperOS 3.0). They discovered that the system's Security Center contains a built-in anti-fraud database named 'fraud_detection_data.db', where the 'voip_record' table involves silent screen recording logs of QQ and WeChat voice and video calls.
[Follow-up · November 4, 2026] On November 4, X user KiraEqual posted after disassembling a Xiaomi 13 Pro running HyperOS 3.0, stating that the pre-installed anti-fraud component can record screens, record audio, and log network call details without triggering any authorization pop-ups. Another researcher verified that on some models, screen recording covers the entire screen, and even after turning off the protection switch, the screenshot time is still recorded.
2026-11-04
On November 4, iPhones in China enabled Apple Intelligence alongside the iOS 27.3 developer beta. The activation page indicates that to comply with Chinese regulations, the device will automatically download and update security mechanisms provided by local companies and collect anonymized security result summaries for sharing, without specifying the content or the recipients of the shared data.
2026-11-04
On November 4, the Chinese version of Apple Intelligence was released to users with the iOS 18.2 developer beta, with its AI features powered by Chinese models such as Qwen.
2026-11-04
Screenshots submitted by netizens show that when using the iPhone's cleanup tool to process photos of Xi Jinping or meme images of Mao Zedong, the system prompts: 'According to relevant laws and regulations, this image cannot be processed.' When asked what happened on June 4, 1989, Qwen replied: 'Let's change the subject.'
2026-11-04
A netizen was permanently banned from WeChat, Xiaohongshu, and Douyin after posting a taboo nickname for Xi Jinping, "getting used to the recent plain and ordinary days" (a pun on Xi Jinping's name), on their Moments.
2026-11-04
On November 4, multiple merchants posted videos stating that sales representatives from Dongpeng Beverage's "Bushuila" brand visited small supermarkets and shops across various regions, manually using new stickers to cover the image of Kylian Mbappe on the bottle labels, sparking dissatisfaction in the comments section from netizens.
2026-11-04
On November 4, the official WeChat account of Xiamen City Vocational College published an article stating that the school is launching a "Digital Yuan on Campus" campaign. It requires students to open and link digital yuan wallets and top them up. Some class meetings indicated that digital yuan will subsequently be used to fully cover payment scenarios such as cafeterias, supermarkets, and utility bills.
2026-11-04
On November 4, a blogger posted a video claiming that while riding a motorcycle on a highway at night, the phone's navigation frequently and automatically jumped to third-party ad pages like JD.com due to normal vehicle vibrations, making it difficult to close and sparking heated discussion among netizens.
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
A woman posted a video stating that she purchased a Bull power strip on Pinduoduo labeled as '100% authentic' and 'ten times compensation for fakes.' Upon receiving it, she discovered the power cord plug was not an original Bull part. The merchant admitted the cord end was from another brand, and the product page simultaneously claimed it was authentic while noting it came with a non-original cord.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen in Zhejiang posted a recruitment poster from a Mixue Bingcheng store, which explicitly stated that it only hires employees aged 16 to 22, sparking questions from netizens about whether young people are easier to manipulate and willing to accept lower wages.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen posted a video demonstrating that when using a certain domestic Android phone to dial the 120 emergency number, the screen failed to enter the call interface. Instead, it popped up 'shake-to-open' ads for Douyin Lite, Meituan, JD.com, etc. The slightest movement caused automatic redirection, making it difficult to close.
2026-11-03
On November 3, The Wall Street Journal cited research from The Accounting Review, stating that Chinese companies provide less information in their English annual reports compared to their Chinese versions. The probability of them responding to inquiries from foreign investors is only half that of domestic investors, leading to lower forecast accuracy for foreign analysts.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen posted that screenshots from the Android version of Taobao taken a few months ago contained invisible watermarks, which were visible when zoomed in. The user encountered significant trouble after sending the screenshots to others. In the comments section, some netizens claimed they had received calls from customer service demanding they delete posts after sharing Taobao shopping screenshots, while others confirmed they had also discovered the watermarks.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen posted a video stating that iQiyi densely displayed scrolling bullet-screen ads marked with advertising labels in a grid pattern on official drama playback screens. The author remarked that this was an "exclusive official watermark" and "the last time supporting official versions," which sparked mockery among netizens.
2026-11-02
Google released a report stating it had dismantled a botnet controlling over 1.3 million TV set-top boxes, noting that the backdoor was developed by Shenzhen Shizhuang Technology and used for malicious ad fraud and bandwidth rental.
2026-11-02
On November 2, a netizen posted that the China Unicom 'SystemHelper' program, pre-installed on phones from brands including Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Samsung, OnePlus, and Realme, can collect information on app installation and usage, data traffic, and device identification. This reporting can be triggered even when using a non-Unicom SIM card, and the program reportedly does not check whether the user has consented to the privacy policy.
2026-11
U.S. intelligence agencies have identified a Singaporean executive named Huang Xiaole as a female spy for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Under pressure, Jensen Huang issued an open letter to Nvidia employees admitting to the affair, and the board of directors has begun an investigation into whether she is suspected of helping the CCP.
2026-11
In Australia, a Chinese delivery worker for HungryPanda died after being attacked with a knife by a homeless person while refusing to give up the food, as the platform's policy requires delivery workers to compensate for lost or damaged meals.
2026-11-01
A screenshot of a private message circulating online shows someone asking why the AITO accident video disappeared. The other party replied that they received a call demanding the video be deleted, stating, 'The relevant departments asked me to delete it.'
2026-11-01
On November 1, a netizen posted an item on Xianyu titled "Does anyone want to know what Mbappe said?" The platform removed the item and deducted 100 'Xianqi' points, citing politically sensitive information. Three seconds later, the user's 'Xianqi' score dropped to 0, all their items were deleted, and their account was permanently restricted from posting, purchasing, commenting, and private messaging.
2026-11-01
On November 1, CCTV's Weekly Quality Report exposed the chaotic sales situation of sulfur-fumigated Angelica dahurica. During an undercover investigation, a merchant reminded the reporter that sulfur-free Angelica dahurica should be used for personal consumption, stating that sulfur-fumigated ones are "a bit bad for human consumption," but when discussing processed spiced dishes for sale, the merchant recommended sulfur-fumigated Angelica dahurica, saying it is "more fragrant."
2026-11-01
On November 1, netizens discovered that previously free mountain-access paths near the Pofengling Scenic Area in Beijing, such as "Shixiagou," were completely blocked off by blue sheet-metal fencing. Guards were stationed at the site to collect 50 RMB adult admission tickets and turn away visitors who had not purchased tickets, sparking heated discussions online.
2026-11
The Jiangxi Provincial Games were held in Pingxiang with a cost exceeding 100 million yuan. Sponsorship fees ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan were mandatorily apportioned to major banks, urban investment companies, and large taxpayers. The opening ceremony was restricted to personnel within the system, with only 700 tickets made available to the public out of a city population of 1.8 million.
2026-11-01
On November 1, multiple homeowners at the Guorui Huating residential complex in Lijiang, Yunnan, gathered at the sales office to collectively defend their rights, demanding that relevant leaders come forward. Homeowners stated that after the delivery of phases one and two, they discovered that there were only 390 actual parking spaces, despite the planned 1,080.
2026-10-31
On October 31, a developer checked a friend's Xiaomi 14 and claimed to have found pre-installed components reporting the application list to Xiaomi and China Unicom servers, and that security components contained code for encrypting and uploading approximately 3-second screen recording clips to the cloud for detection.
2026-10-31
On the evening of October 31, a Halloween event was held in Hong Kong. Meng Wanzhou appeared at the scene and waved to the public.
2026-10-31
On October 31, the WeChat official account "Hard Tech Soft Talk" published an article titled "Meng Wanzhou: From Switchboard Operator to Rotating Chairwoman, 32 Years, Relying on Systems, Not Bloodline." In the comments section, netizens used the plot from the movie "Hi, Mom"—where the factory director's son works as a broadcaster—to mock the claim.
2026-10-30
A Xiaozhou (RedNote) user posted that after resigning from a well-known listed company following nearly a year of employment, the HR manager demanded a 50/50 split of the approved one-time talent subsidy, with the repayment to be made to the company's account, threatening to return the funds to the government if the user refused.
2026-10-30
On October 30, a Meituan delivery rider posted a video of an on-site reconciliation with a merchant: for a 279-yuan order, the rider's delivery fee was only 3 yuan, while the merchant's backend showed a deduction of 35.69 yuan for delivery service fees, with the actual amount received being about 205 yuan. Netizens questioned the platform for taking cuts from both sides.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the Hong Kong branch of China Merchants Bank issued a notice stating that, effective from 4:00 PM on November 30, it will suspend bank-securities transfer services with Soochow Securities International and China Merchants Securities International until further notice, without providing reasons or a resumption date.
2026-10-29
Readers pointed out that the cover and inner pages of the 'South China Sea Marine Life Popular Science Series' published by China Agriculture Press featured illustrations of 'two-headed shrimp.' The publisher stated it is notifying all platforms to remove and recall the books in question. The book had previously been recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for the 2026 National Excellent Popular Science Book list.
2026-10-29
On October 29, netizens discovered that searching for "Mbappé" on Douyin and Bilibili only returned results from official media and media accounts, with videos from ordinary users nowhere to be found. Only by searching for "Mbap pé" or "Mbap" could videos from ordinary bloggers be found.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a Douyin influencer posted two notices from Yucai School in Pingyin County, Jinan, Shandong, dated October 27: due to loan approval failure and tight funds, June wages were delayed, and wages for May and June would be combined and paid at the end of November; social security and medical insurance for all staff would be terminated starting this month. The influencer claimed the school had not paid social security for 33 months, teachers had been legally demanding unpaid wages for two months, and many were forced to resign.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a netizen posted a video accusing the Hulunbuir Army Border Defense Force border project (Heimeng project), for which the CSCEC Sixth Division is the general contractor, of long-term wage arrears for migrant workers since construction began in 2020. The project has long been completed, but workers have repeatedly failed to receive their pay and are now speaking out online, pleading with the competent authorities to supervise the matter.
2026-10-29
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."
2026-10-29
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.
2026-10-29
Around October 29, a video on Douyin showed a child sitting at a desk with tears in their eyes while laughing uncontrollably. The parent captioned it saying they dared not tutor the child anymore, and netizens left comments expressing sympathy for the child.
2026-10-28
According to a netizen's submission, FedEx uses various means in China to cut costs and boost efficiency, including transferring employees to other positions and outsourcing its business to JD Logistics.
2026-10-28
Hong Youcheng, 32, worked in research and development at Nanjing Wandes Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. He says that after a dispute with the company over work injuries and overtime, his computer, phone and identification documents were taken away, and that in 2024 and 2026 he was twice sent to a psychiatric hospital, staying a total of about eleven months. Over the years, he repeatedly reported the matter to the police and filed lawsuits, but none were accepted.
2026-10-28
On October 28, comments supporting Mbappé appeared in the comment sections of multiple videos related to him on Douyin. Some praised him for "loving to tell the truth," while others questioned why there were only condemnations without seeing the original controversial remarks.
2026-10-28
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.
2026-10-28
On October 28, homeowners at the C&D Jiuliwan residential complex in Wuxi, Jiangsu, posted a video reporting roof cracks in stacked-unit houses, construction waste buried inside the waterproofing layer and structure, and water accumulation under the insulation layer, stating that their daily rights defense efforts have yet to resolve the issues.
2026-10-28
On October 28, a developer used AI analysis to discover that the Baidu Netdisk advertising component can access orientation data typically used for compasses. It judges user actions based on changes in phone orientation to trigger 'shake' ads upon opening. Previously, even after users upgraded to iOS 27.2 and restricted the app from reading motion data, they were still unable to prevent the redirects.
2026-10-28
Recently, multiple netizens have been selling Mbappe's "original words" as commodities on the second-hand trading platform Xianyu, sparking widespread discussion.
2026-10-27
On October 27, Shandian News exposed that multiple companies in Henan are processing chicken frames—left over after removing chicken necks and breast meat—into meat paste to supply the production of sausages, meatballs, and dumplings. Some workshops were found with sewage flowing everywhere, and some companies lacked food production licenses. The person in charge of Qixian Xinrui Food stated that the daily production capacity is at least 30 tons, with a selling price of 3,800 yuan per ton, and warned consumers to eat as little stuffed food products as possible.
2026-10-26
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.
2026-10-26
A video recently circulated on Douyin showing a shirtless, emaciated elderly person bending over to rummage through a roadside trash can. Commenters left sarcastic remarks, saying this is the older generation of farmers who handed over their grain quotas — this is what “care in old age” looks like.
2026-10-26
On October 26, a netizen said that they had been permanently banned from the Moments feature after posting "getting used to the plain and uneventful days lately" in their WeChat Moments, and that their Xiaohongshu and Douyin accounts linked to the same phone number were also successively permanently banned.
2026-10-25
A blogger posted a video saying an elderly woman scanned the QR code to charge her electric scooter and paid, but the charge wouldn't start, so she asked him for help. The blogger demonstrated on site: scanning the charging pile's QR code first pops up an ad, and clicking it redirects to a Mango TV membership promotion page; the woman mistook the ad's payment entry for the charging payment entry.
2026-10-25
In October 2026, many Xiaohongshu users posted screenshots showing Apple Maps labeled “Taiwan Province,” claiming that Apple had officially renamed “Chinese Taipei.” An RFA fact-check found that similar claims had already circulated in 2024, and that only users in mainland China see “Taiwan Province,” while users in Taiwan, the United States, Thailand and elsewhere still see “Taiwan.”
2026-10-25
On October 25, in Hengyang, Hunan, a Xiaomi SU7 was suspected of hitting a road protrusion, damaging its battery pack and bursting into fierce flames. Firefighters were dispatched to put out the fire, and no official accident report has been released yet.
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen showed a hidden app on their mother's retired phone; when attempting to force-uninstall it, the phone played the uninstall animation but then popped up a large number of ads targeting the elderly and kept redirecting — a single mis-tap would automatically download junk apps that run in the background.
2026-10-24
During the Shanghai GEEKCON contest, DJI reported the event to police on the grounds of illegal hacking instruction, resulting in participants and judges being taken away, and the event was suspended for a time.
2026-10-24
On October 24, netizens reported that sending words containing specific Chinese characters, such as 'xuexi niux', in Douyin comment sections was intercepted by the system with a violation warning.
2026-10-24
Fan Jie, President of Huawei's Pharmaceutical Team, confirmed at the Pharmaceutical Innovation and Investment Conference that Huawei has entered the pharmaceutical industry, stating that it will use AI and computing power to empower pharmaceutical companies and research institutions.
2026-10-24
On October 24, netizens reported that while comments like 'awesome' or 'math is awesome' can be posted on Douyin, 'Xi is awesome' or 'learning is awesome' fail to post due to content violations. It is suspected that the consecutive characters 'Xi is awesome' trigger the sensitive word filter related to Xi Jinping. Netizens are mocking this by splitting the characters or using phrases like 'Shaoyu is awesome' instead.
2026-10-24
On October 24, a Wenjie M7 caught fire on Shiyan Avenue in Hubei. Netizens commented that Wenjie vehicles have been catching fire frequently recently, with three burning in just one week.
2026-10-24
On October 24, X blogger Elshayib posted what he said were promotional documents from Kimi (Moonshot AI), requiring bloggers promoting K3.1 Pro to submit drafts for review first, not to label paid partnerships, and providing talking points such as the AI gap between China and the US having narrowed to one month. He refused to participate and struck back by posting screenshots of private messages.
2026-10-24
Recently, FAW-Volkswagen employees reported online that the company has delayed the payment of policy bonuses. Some netizens questioned that this money was included in the compensation package during recruitment, but there has been no clear news about its distribution to date.
2026-10-23
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.
2026-10-23
On October 23, netizens photographed the traffic signal pole previously struck by a Huawei AITO M9, which is now surrounded by barriers; the related comment section appears to have been cleaned up, with only 5 sarcastic comments left.
2026-10-23
In 2025, a Bilibili user commented that they would rather die for Huawei and for their country inside a Huawei AITO car; on October 23, 2026, the account posted a listing to sell a 2025 AITO M9, stressing that it had no accidents and no fire damage, and after being teased by netizens, changed its name and deleted the post.
2026-10-23
On October 23, netizens found that AITO Auto's official Xiaohongshu account had disabled the @ mention feature in its comment section. When users tried to @ AITO Auto, the system prompted "This user has turned off comment mentions," sparking jokes among netizens.
2026-10-22
On October 22, Sohu Auto was banned from posting by the platform for 15 days for publishing content related to an AITO vehicle explosion and fire, drawing public attention to automaker PR and speech control.
2026-10-22
On October 22, outside the Tesla store in Licheng, Putian, Fujian, a domestically produced new energy vehicle suddenly caught fire while charging and ignited surrounding vehicles.
2026-10-22
On October 22, Sohu Auto's official account was banned from posting by the platform for 15 days for publishing content related to the AITO explosion and fire accident. Netizens questioned whether the authorities were silencing those who spoke out in order to suppress attention to the accident.
2026-10-22
According to a netizen submission, Wuhan Shengjing Chain Commerce Co., Ltd. forcibly transferred employees to farther stores and cut their base salaries without consulting them, in order to pressure employees into resigning on their own.
2026-10-22
On October 22, an AITO owner in Sichuan posted a video on Douyin saying that in May this year his vehicle caught fire while driving without any collision, with flames shooting out from the passenger-side center console. The inspection report attributed the fire to "an aromatherapy bottle refracting sunlight." The owner asked in helplessness, and netizens sarcastically commented in the danmaku: "malicious fire."
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, according to Jiupai News, regarding the dispute over vehicle speed in the AITO (Wenjie) crash and fire incident in Shenmu, Shaanxi, AITO customer service responded that 139.1 km/h was verified based on backend data and that they are cooperating with relevant authorities in the investigation.
2026-10-22
According to a report by the UK's Financial Times on October 22, the liquidators of China Evergrande sent a demand letter to Harvard University, asking for the return of $2 million from a 2020 research grant, and the two sides are in negotiations. The liquidation report disclosed that Evergrande also paid the university about $156 million in 2013 and 2016, and the liquidators said they found no clear commercial rationale for these payments.
2026-10-22
A subsidiary of the Yueyang Daily Media Group in Hunan entered bankruptcy liquidation in November 2025. It negotiated the termination of labor relations with three employees but has yet to pay a total of 50,000 yuan in owed wages and severance compensation. Before the 2026 Spring Festival, the company arranged funds to repay some external debts, but employees were repeatedly told by Yueyang Daily leadership that there were no funds available.
2026-10-22
On October 22, an AITO owner reported that when contacting the "AITO User Care Center" to handle an after-sales issue, the customer service agent stopped responding during the call, giving no reply despite repeated inquiries, prompting netizens to post screenshots in mockery and sarcasm.
2026-10-22
The screenshot shows that the comment section of Jiupai News's Weibo post about the Aito collision accident in Shenmu displays a notice that the blogger has enabled comment selection.
2026-10-21
Recently in Guizhou, a Douyin blogger posted a photo of a China Unicom promotional display board claiming that a one-time payment of 699 yuan entitles one to 400 yuan in medical insurance and 699 yuan in communication fees. In the comments section, netizens posted similar medical insurance discount coupon posters from China Mobile, and pasted an anti-fraud reminder reading “pay first and get cash back later is always a scam” as satire.
2026-10-21
On October 21, Starbucks China announced that starting from the 22nd, its stores nationwide would implement a new “purchase required to be seated” rule, with relevant notice signs placed in stores, sparking discussion among netizens.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a Douyin blogger with 550,000 followers posted a video saying that the Huawei smartwatch they purchased did not support standalone video calls, so they applied for a refund and returned it within less than 10 seconds of receiving it; the merchant refused the 960 yuan refund citing a scratched screen and sent the item back, and their earlier complaint video was taken down.
2026-10-21
On October 21, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, said at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference that without safety, all intelligence, performance, design and innovation lose their meaning; multiple media outlets including Chang'an Jie Zhishi and The Beijing News republished his press release.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a netizen in Jiangsu opened the Bank of Jiangsu App and was hit with 14 consecutive pop-up ads. After screenshots were posted online, complaints about the flood of ads in banking apps erupted.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a Douyin blogger posted a video of a vendor waiting at her stall on a rainy day: a woman holding an umbrella guards a few bunches of Chinese chives, sold at 1 yuan per bunch, having made no sales since early morning; the blogger said that selling liquor, they too had only made 10 yuan.
2026-10-20
Changsha Unicom employees wearing red vests blocked an entrance to demand money, while workers at Guangxi Tianyang Nanhua Paper Industry shouted slogans at the factory gate to demand compensation.
2026-10-20
According to @clashreport, a Bulgarian court has formally approved a European arrest warrant for two German citizens. The two are suspected of setting fire to a SpaceX Starlink antenna at a facility south of Sofia on October 9 before fleeing to Serbia. If convicted, they face up to 12 years in prison.
2026-10-20
On October 20, at a press conference of the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said that some automakers follow the trend in launching new products and that testing and validation are insufficient, and that it will prevent unreasonable innovative designs and vehicle products that have not undergone sufficient research, development, testing and validation from entering the market.
2026-10-20
On October 20, outside the China Unicom office in Changsha, Hunan, multiple employees wearing red vests printed with the words “Unicom,” “Pay back the money,” and “Demand unpaid wages” gathered to defend their rights. They ate boxed meals on site and insisted on protesting, demanding that the leaders come out and resolve the issue. Commenters posted screenshots of their low pay to show support.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the "Zhangshang University" platform under Hangzhou Xinmai Technology was accused of collecting high service fees on the promise of a "guaranteed minimum sales volume," then failing to perform, delaying refunds indefinitely, and owing wages to internal employees and campus agents. Large numbers of people gathered at the company's premises to defend their rights, and victimized merchants issued a petition urging regulators to investigate severely.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a netizen in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, posted an accusation that Zhejiang Hengtong Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. unlawfully deducted wages when handling their work injury case. On October 5, they were struck on the head by an iron rod being dumped; the company determined they had operated in violation of rules and deducted 800 yuan. The employee said the iron rod was not secured and posed a hazard, and that they were transferred to another post without receiving training; they have resigned after being obstructed for insisting on filing a work injury report.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the Qiligou Liquefied Gas Station in Zhuxi County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province no longer allowed residents to fill their own gas cylinders, instead requiring unified delivery and charging an additional service fee. Many villagers gathered in front of the gas station to express their dissatisfaction, questioning that they were being forced to buy. After the incident came to light, it drew support from netizens.
2026-10-20
On October 20, while answering a question about social insurance payments, a Douyin blogger recounted how he bought an annual music membership card on a second-hand platform, actually received only one month, and the seller cancelled the account, concluding that "anything requiring payment before you enjoy it is most likely a scam"; shortly afterward, the video was deleted.
2026-10-19
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine had asked SpaceX and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to enable Starlink services inside Russia, so that Ukrainian forces could strike Russian ballistic missile launch sites. Zelensky noted that Starlink services had previously been switched off inside Russia, and that the speed at which Ukrainian forces can use them in the relevant areas is currently being throttled. He believes this is not a technical failure but a deliberate speed restriction.
2026-10-19
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright publicly stated that if Russia is able to supply and export more diesel to the market, it would benefit American consumers and the whole world.
2026-10-19
According to @clashreport, driven by global trade disruptions and rising freight rates, Russia has shipped approximately 20 million barrels of oil through Arctic waters to Asia since July, with exports up nearly 50% year-on-year and already exceeding the total for the previous quarter.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen claiming to be the actual driver of an AITO M9 posted on Autohome saying that while traveling with his young daughter in late August, the vehicle lost power twice in a single day, with one instance leaving it stopped in a highway traffic lane until traffic police handled it; after mediation through the 12315 hotline he still failed to obtain the backend driving logs, and the SD card footage from the two periods of power loss is missing, so he is demanding a written report based on real data.
2026-10-19
According to Xinnwang reports on October 19, Mr. Wang from Yantai reported that his mother, in her seventies, has been charged for a Huawei video membership since December 2022. The charges were 12 yuan for the first month and 29 yuan per month thereafter, totaling over 1,000 yuan. The elderly woman neither used nor activated the service. The family demanded a full refund; customer service increased the offer from a 1-month refund to 24 months, refusing to refund earlier charges due to the time elapsed. Huawei stated they would arrange for verification and a response.
2026-10-18
Musk announced on social media that next year he will give one share of SpaceX stock to every American child.
2026-10-18
According to a post by X user QuanLujun and a shared link, on October 18, 2026, an unusual livestream appeared on the Douyin platform, with more than 2,000 users watching the moderators' working status online, drawing netizens' attention and discussion.
2026-10-18
A video circulating on Douyin on October 18 shows a delivery rider sleeping overnight on his electric scooter in an outdoor passageway, wrapped in a quilt, with the caption: "Only the weak complain about their environment; the delivery king never picks his surroundings." In the comments section, netizens responded with sarcastic remarks such as "Even Xiangzi never lived on a rickshaw."
2026-10-17
On October 17, Economic Daily published an article explicitly criticizing Dongchedi, questioning whether it has a conflict of interest by both conducting reviews and making money from advertising.
2026-10-17
On the evening of October 17, an Aito M9 lost control at an intersection in Shenmu, Yulin, Shaanxi, crashed into a traffic light pole and caught fire; the driver failed to escape.
2026-10-17
Between 2022 and 2025, Hunan Zhonghuilu and its subsidiaries long owed workers more than 5 million yuan in labor remuneration, and have failed to pay social insurance in accordance with the law since 2021. After labor arbitration and litigation, the effective rulings have still not been carried out; the enterprises are accused of maliciously transferring assets to evade enforcement, and some workers are living in hardship.
2026-10-17
According to The Daily Telegraph, citing four sources, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk personally advised then-U.S. President Donald Trump to slow down the Starshield satellite system used by Ukraine, and Trump subsequently agreed. The restriction limited the speed of Ukrainian drones to about 160 km/h, severely undermining their ability to intercept Russian drones and missiles. Musk has now publicly blamed the White House, while Trump denies responsibility for the matter.
2026-10-17
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that European countries are developing alternatives to Starlink. Zelensky noted that Ukraine is aware that the United States can restrict the use of this system regardless of existing agreements or contracts. Despite such restrictions, Ukraine continues to use Starlink and maintains cooperation with SpaceX.
2026-10-17
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Starlink terminals are forcibly shut down when traveling above 161 km/h within Ukraine. He noted that tests showed Starlink still works normally above 180 km/h within the European Union. Zelensky called the restriction a "planned operation" and said it hinders Ukraine's use of some interceptor drones against jet aircraft.
2026-10-17
On October 17, Economic Daily published an article titled "The 'Brake Gate' Questions More Than Quality and Safety," criticizing Dongchedi for profiting from car company advertisements while conducting evaluations, combining the roles of referee and athlete, and claiming that the abuse of non-standard extreme tests will harm the ecosystem of China's automotive industry.
2026-10-17
On October 17, a netizen posted on Xiaohongshu that when applying for a bank card at the Chengyi Plaza Branch of ICBC in Jimei, Xiamen, the teller unauthorizedly opened a personal pension account for them; the money transferred in could not be withdrawn, and they were told it could only be withdrawn upon retirement.
2026-10-17
On October 17, a Douyin account sharing civil service exam prep materials posted a “daily practice question.” Netizens collectively flooded the comments with wrong answers such as “all power of the country belongs to the government” and “the highest organ of state power is the state president.” The video received 19,000 shares in total, while the comment section showed 0 comments.
2026-10-17
On October 17, in Yulin, Shaanxi, a vehicle suspected to be an Aito M9 hit a traffic light pole and quickly caught fire about two seconds after the collision; the cause of the accident and any casualties are not yet clear.
2026-10-16
According to a post by the X account ChinaSelect, Adweek magazine is featuring Starbucks as its cover story this month, and the account therefore mocked and updated the magazine's cover to protest Starbucks' decision to open stores in Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out genocide against the Uyghurs.
2026-10-16
According to netizen submissions and documents from the Pingjiang County Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, from 2022 to 2025 Zhonghuilv and its subsidiaries owed at least 127 employees over 6 million yuan in labor remuneration, and have paid no social insurance since 2021. After labor arbitration and litigation, the effective ruling has still not been carried out to date. Employees pursued rights defense through subdistrict coordination, labor inspection complaints, compulsory enforcement and other channels, and the handling of the case has exceeded the deadline by over 3 months with no feedback.
2026-10-16
According to a post by the account @ChinaSelect on October 16, 2026, inspectors from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found numerous extremely serious sanitary violations at two Chinese plants producing active pharmaceutical ingredients for combination GLP-1 drugs, including black mold on equipment and extensive insect activity on ceilings, raising concerns about the safety of US pharmaceutical companies' reliance on Chinese supply chains.
2026-10-16
Bipartisan members of the U.S. Senate have sent a letter to the Pentagon Inspector General calling for an investigation into recent restrictions on Starshield, the military version of Starlink, in Ukraine. The senators demand to determine whether the Trump administration, Pentagon officials, or SpaceX played a role, and to clarify the decision-making process and accountability behind the restrictions. The initiative was launched by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, aiming to clarify how Starlink services operate on the battlefield in Ukraine and what potential political interference may be involved.
2026-10-16
Douyin influencer “Crazy Little Yang Ge” had previously been suspended from streaming for two years over fraud, and his originally planned return on September 20 was abruptly halted by the Cyberspace Administration of China. On October 16, Little Yang Ge and his brother deregistered their original Douyin accounts, issuing statements and resuming streaming under the new IDs “Qingyang” and “Kaiyang” respectively. According to the Twitter user @GFWfrog, a large number of accounts impersonating “Qingyang” have already appeared on the Douyin platform.
2026-10-16
A blogger who exposed Qingdao's "recruitment-turned-training" trap revealed that after posting the video, he received calls from relevant departments demanding post deletion, saying it would have a bad impact on Qingdao. The blogger refused and said he was almost punished.
2026-10-16
On October 16, according to media reports, Huawei Executive Director and Terminal BG Chairman Yu Chengdong reposted MAEXTRO's statement on cooperating with a joint investigation by three departments, stating that justice may be late, but it will never be absent.
2026-10-16
A netizen whose IP address shows Malaysia posted a video claiming that downloading a fake digital wallet app from Huawei's official store resulted in 170,000 USDT being stolen, pointing to a lack of review in Huawei's app store, with scammers paying to list fake software and buying up search rankings.
2026-10-15
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the State Administration for Market Regulation announced on the evening of October 15 that they had set up a joint investigation team to investigate automobile quality.
2026-10-15
According to Twitter account @__Inty__, the White House denied reports that Ukraine's Starlink service was restricted, saying that the U.S. does not control SpaceX and was not involved in the outage, and that it is preparing to contact Musk's company. Ukrainian officials had previously contacted the White House, the CIA, and the Pentagon to ask the reason and seek restoration of the service. U.S. officials tend to conclude it was a technical malfunction, while the Ukrainian side suspects the move was a warning sent by the U.S. government.
2026-10-15
According to a report by Sound of Hope, on October 15, 2026, a netizen posted a video showing a Xiaomi car losing control while driving, crashing through three or four roadside trees one after another, with the scene being quite gruesome. The specific cause of the accident and any casualties remain to be further verified.
2026-10-15
According to a video posted by the X account @QuanLujun, a Didi ride-hailing driver in Wuhan was denied trip assignments by the platform for two consecutive hours, leading to a psychological breakdown. The incident reflects the severe survival conditions and operational difficulties currently facing bottom-tier ride-hailing drivers in China.
2026-10-15
According to reports, the Ukrainian military restored unrestricted access to SpaceX's Starshield communication system on October 15, 2026. Previously, SpaceX had imposed speed limits on Starshield network connections for mobile use within Ukraine, and this adjustment means those restrictions have been lifted.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a netizen posted to expose that the university collaborative teaching platform Duifenyi has launched a paid membership service. Ordinary members get only 3 leave requests per course; exceeding that triggers a pop-up prompting them to open VIP for unlimited leave requests. Courses at Linyi University, Hainan Tropical Ocean College and other universities use this platform.
2026-10-15
According to a report by the Financial Times on October 15, Citroën plans to launch a €15,000 all-electric 2CV in 2028, while Volkswagen will introduce the €25,000 ID.Polo; Chinese brands took about one-third of the stands at the Paris Motor Show for the first time, and AlixPartners expects them to account for 16% of European sales by 2030. Changan plans to expand production in Europe, and Chery will start production in Spain.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a blogger uploaded a video on Douyin: in a park, several elderly landscaping workers sat on mats by the roadside eating, while nearby old people were dancing square dance. The caption lamented that the gap in life among people of the same age was too great, and netizens in the comments section left messages such as "those who hand over grain to the public and those who eat grain from the public."
2026-10-14
Chinese auto media platform Dongchedi has been accused by some Chinese netizens of being a “foreign force.” It is currently unclear the specific reason, but tweets show that this accusation is related to content published by Dongchedi or its stance.
2026-10-14
According to a post by the military news account clashreport on October 14, SpaceX set a speed cap on mobile Starlink terminals, disrupting Ukrainian military operations at night. The restriction applies to the military-grade StarShield package, cutting off the connection when the terminal's speed exceeds 100 miles per hour, effectively rendering the satellite link unusable.
2026-10-14
According to reports, Musk has imposed new speed limits on Starlink, reducing satellite connection speeds to 60-70 kilometers per hour, which threatens Ukraine's ability to strike Russian targets and its efforts to intercept incoming drones.
2026-10-14
According to a Voice of Hope report, Chinese brands such as Chery, Huawei and Xiaomi have been recalled abroad over product quality problems (such as broken axles and brake failures), yet they refuse to admit fault at home. This situation has drawn criticism from Party media, but some "Little Pink" groups have instead defended these brands, even "tearing into Party media," claiming that "national brands" only rip off Chinese people.
2026-10-14
Huawei and Seres disclosed on October 14 that they had filed a civil lawsuit against a short-video blogger, accusing the blogger of using AI to fabricate false footage showing the body of an AITO vehicle collapsing, and demanding the removal of the video, a pinned apology for 90 days, and 1 million yuan in compensation. The case is set to be heard on October 23 at the Liangjiang New Area People's Court in Chongqing. The blogger's video had fewer than 3,000 views and only a few dozen followers.
2026-10-14
Dongchedi released a video pointing out that in the intensified brake pedal test of the Stelato V800, only 2 of the 14 samples were loaded to 3000 newtons, and the permanent deformation was not disclosed; bench tests cannot explain the breakage of the pedal bracket during emergency braking of the actual vehicle, and verification combining original data and whole-vehicle testing is needed.
2026-10-14
Recently, a top Weibo influencer posted that while using Didi ride-hailing, they were induced by the platform into opening a microloan, and only found out a month later; there was no obvious prompt when it was opened, screenshots were blocked on the payment page, and canceling the service required providing an ID card number and a phone number.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a netizen posted a video exposing that the Hefei BYD Phase IV factory appeared to have closed off relevant entrances and exits to prevent employees from eating outside the factory. Employees were unable to ride electric bikes in and out on their own and were forced to eat at the factory canteen. Netizens said factories in Taizhou, Xi'an, Shaoxing, Xixian and other places were the same.
2026-10-14
On October 14, workers at the CCCC Construction Group's Bailu West Tower project in Xiamen, Fujian, held banners to defend their rights due to unpaid wages. They had previously attempted to demand their wages multiple times without success. At the scene, some individuals obstructed filming and demanded the deletion of photos and videos.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a Xiaohongshu user posted that they traveled to Thailand during the National Day holiday and activated an overseas communication service. After returning home, their China Unicom number was "suspended by the carrier." Two online applications to restore the service were rejected, and the service hall told them the number would have to be cancelled if it was not restored within 24 hours. Calling 10015 to file a complaint still had no effect.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the Wikipedia account “Harmony Intelligent Mobility Official” made 27 edits across multiple unrelated articles, including Windows 10, Brezhnev, and Rommel, inserting warnings directed at Wikipedia that demanded correction of content allegedly “maliciously smearing” Harmony Intelligent Mobility products and threatened to pursue accountability. The edits were reverted by other editors, and the account was indefinitely banned for “pure vandalism.” The ban was noticed by netizens on October 20.
2026-10-14
On October 14, an animal fable animation spread on Douyin: the cheetah arriving first doesn’t count as a win, the peacock switches to competing on who stands higher, and the swan is told to present the leader’s decision as its own opinion. Netizens in the comments section called it a “workplace documentary.”
2026-10-14
On October 14, a Xiaohongshu blogger posted that an account whose bio lists them as a senior consultant for Xiamen Haicang Stelato and Stelato Enjoyment had repeatedly left death threats in comments such as "I'll run you over and then crush you back and forth." The poster identified the account as Lin, a salesperson at the Hongmeng Zhixing Xiamen Haicang Nanhai Third Road User Center.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a Douyin blogger posted a slice-of-life video saying that a month's salary can only cover rent, utilities and food, and that he cannot stop or go home. Netizens in the comments section sighed, "Isn't this just the execution line?"
2026-10-13
In response to the scandal of its brake pedal breaking three times in a row, Huawei's Maextro publicly released a test report issued by the Testing Center of the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute, claiming that it passed a 3000-newton force test.
2026-10-13
On October 13, MAEXTRO Auto released third-party test results for the brake pedal, stating that the October 11 inspection met the QC/T 788—2018 standard, and that after the longitudinal force was tightened to 3000 newtons, the pedal showed no cracks or damage. Previously, a Dongchedi test video claimed that the pedal bracket broke during continuous emergency braking of three V800 vehicles. MAEXTRO has announced free upgrades for delivered users, with the plan expected to be finalized by the end of October and implemented starting November.
2026-10-13
According to a report by National Business Daily on October 13, Stelato V800 sales staff insist publicly that the brake pedal has no quality problems, but a text message sent to owners admits that the strength margin under extreme force needs to be improved, with upgrades expected to roll out successively starting in November; the inspection explanation will not be published through the official account, and stores will contact users one by one.
2026-10-13
After domestic media reported the case on October 13, outside observers questioned whether Hong Kong-listed Agile Living Services had serious lapses in recruitment background checks, surveillance maintenance, and complaint handling. The company released only a procedural response and did not directly address the substantive concerns.
2026-10-13
In a cave dwelling renovation project in Yulin, Shaanxi, worker Hao Zhenzhong was injured during construction. His wife has publicly sought help, saying the costs of his follow-up treatment remain unprovided for.
2026-10-13
On October 13, netizens found that the China Automotive Technology and Research Center, which issued the inspection report for the brake pedal of the Huawei Stelato V800, was also the organization that carried out the earlier controversial Li Auto i8 test in which it "sent a Chenglong truck flying," for which the organization had publicly apologized.
2026-10-13
On October 13, a student at Wuhan City Vocational College posted a video claiming that the 'Budao Lepao' running check-in app required by the school is filled with pop-up ads for coupons and lucky draws, and that closing them often leads to the automatic download of unrelated applications, sparking resonance and complaints from many college students in the comments section.
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."
2026-10-13
On October 13, a Douyin blogger posted a video filmed inside a Huawei AITO, with the screen behind the steering wheel covered in horizontal stripes and apparently glitching, captioned "Will I get roasted?", while bullet comments joked, "Post random videos and they'll track down your workplace in no time."
2026-10-12
On October 12, the official account of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee Publicity Department, "Zhejiang Xuanchuan," published an article pointing out that the main video of the Stelato V800 braking test could not be viewed on multiple platforms and that discussion posts had disappeared. It said that deleting videos and handling the matter coldly cannot resolve the controversy, that public safety concerns are reasonable and justified, called for a third party to verify the cause of the failure, and urged regulators not to remain silent.
2026-10-12
On October 12, Beijing's Chaoyang police announced that a company related to Yixin had been placed under criminal investigation, that actual controller Tang and Zhao and others had been subjected to criminal coercive measures, and that investors were asked to report to the police and register; the specific charges, the amount involved, and the number of people have not yet been disclosed.
2026-10-12
On October 12, the Guangnian Zhiwai Hotel was taken down or shown as fully booked on multiple platforms, with staff saying it had suspended receiving guests; that evening, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced it had set up an investigation working group to conduct a comprehensive review, and said that if any violations of rules or discipline are found, the relevant units and responsible persons will be dealt with seriously.
2026-10-12
On October 12, Niger's Ministry of Petroleum announced that the W8 well at Goumeri has still not been fully controlled since the blowout on September 25, constituting an "extremely serious environmental accident," and that an independent investigation backed by Algerian experts has already been launched.
2026-10-12
On October 12, the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Russian Federation announced that, because braking systems, seat belt anchorage points, cab protection and other features fail to meet safety requirements and could lead to traffic accidents and casualties, it was suspending sales in Russia of some trucks and special-purpose vehicles from JAC, Dongfeng, Foton and XCMG, and demanded that recall and rectification plans be drawn up.
2026-10-12
In June 2023, the first batch of owners who had ordered the AITO M9 posted under their real names, saying that when the battery level dropped from 20% to 19%, the vehicle automatically switched from four-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive, causing it to drift and smash up the front of the car; customer service replied "if there are no casualties, we cannot connect you with management." He also listed problems such as rusting of the main beam and detached radar, and pointed out that the legal department deleted posts and banned accounts.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video showing extensive rust, peeling coating, and irregular holes along the underside of a Huawei AITO M7 produced in December 2022, along with flaky debris on the ground; the comments section featured jokes such as "just replace the chassis."
2026-10-12
On October 12, car owner Xia Hao posted again, stating that during the civil lawsuit against Huawei, he discovered that key surveillance video had been swapped and is preparing to file further administrative litigation.
2026-10-12
On October 12, according to Cover News, an aquarium hobbyist in Shandong said that a power outage caused by a Wolde smart power strip killed all the marine fish in the tank, with losses exceeding 20,000 yuan. Customer service was only willing to send a replacement socket, saying "if you don't accept it, go sue."
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted that China Unicom had used their information to open 30 mobile SIM cards without their knowledge or authorization; after discovering this, China Unicom's Jilin Changchun branch canceled and transferred the relevant phone cards in the person's absence.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a blogger in Sichuan posted a video on Douyin documenting the daily life of local children. In the footage, a young child mixes white rice with soy sauce diluted with water from a nearly empty bottle. The video's comment section was subsequently cleared, and netizens left sarcastic comments saying, "Where in America is this?" and "They must be North Korean children."
2026-10-11
The People's Daily app published an article on October 11 about the fracture of the brake pedal bracket in the Maextro vehicle, pointing out that a car's brake pedal should never break while driving.
2026-10-11
According to audit reports from 24 provinces disclosed by Southern Weekly, 587 construction projects failed to pay work injury insurance for their employees, accounting for 1/4 of the projects audited; 91 units fraudulently obtained 310,000 yuan from the work injury insurance fund and maternity support funds; 18 projects at 4 universities double-claimed 2.1196 million yuan in research funding, and 2 universities owed enterprises 70.2501 million yuan in project payments.
2026-10-11
On October 11, the Shaanxi Yan'an Stray Animal Rescue Charity Association posted on Weibo to report "Jinxing Loves Food" for livestreaming the slaughter of stray dogs and selling dog meat on Douyin, criticizing the platform for tolerating the spread of cruel and bloody footage.
2026-10-11
On October 11, CreditEase sent an apology letter to investors in fixed-income-like products, acknowledging that the products were in substantive default. It stated that redemptions had been completely suspended since May 22, that preliminary financial due diligence found the company may be insolvent with a large debt repayment gap, and that market-based disposal efforts had yielded no results.
2026-10-11
On October 11, Stelato customer service stated that once users who have ordered a car enter the lock-in period, the deposit cannot be refunded; Stelato had previously promised free upgrades for users who have taken delivery, but as of that day the specific plan had still not been determined.
2026-10-11
On October 11, Malaysia's Road Transport Department suspended approvals and new vehicle registrations for this model and will audit vehicle production, assembly, and rear axle suppliers. In 2024, 600 units of this vehicle were recalled over rear axle problems.
2026-10-11
On the evening of October 11, Chery said the local welding strength of the rear axle trailing arms in that batch may be insufficient, with a risk of weld seam tearing, and has launched a recall of 8,878 OMODA 5 units in Malaysia, while also checking vehicles of the same batch in China and related markets.
2026-10-11
On October 11, a Douyin blogger posted a video saying that since the service industry treats its employees badly, his only revenge is not to spend the money he worked hard to earn, letting businesses go bankrupt. Netizens in the comments section shared their own money-saving tips.
2026-10-11
On October 11, a satirical video set against a bridge-construction background circulated on Douyin. Management claimed that after pay cuts, workers did not dare to speak up, while workers replied, “We never intended to do a good job in the first place — we’re letting each other down on both sides.” Netizens coined the term “问薪无愧” (feeling no guilt when asked about pay) and it became a hot topic of discussion.
2026-10-10
On October 10, four departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a draft for public comment, proposing to ban cars from being equipped with fully flush door handles, prohibiting the use of zero-gravity seats, rotating seats, or seats folded flat into a bed while driving, and requiring models already announced to submit supplementary verification materials before July 1, 2027; those with safety hazards past the deadline must halt production and issue recalls, while new models must undergo environmental adaptability verification of no less than 1 year and reliability verification of no less than 30,000 kilometers. The document is still under public comment.
2026-10-10
According to a report by The Paper, candidates taking the IELTS exam in multiple regions of China on October 10 were suddenly halted mid-test. Customer service at the British Council said it had received a short-notice instruction that IELTS test sites nationwide would cancel exams on October 10 and 11 due to technical reasons. Starting from October 11, candidates have been receiving refunds of their exam fees one after another. Lawyers say the organizers may have constituted a breach of contract.
2026-10-10
An investigation by Red Star News on October 10 found that at the FAST (China Sky Eye) in Guizhou, ordinary visitors must check their phones and take a shuttle bus to tour the facility, while visitors who purchase the in-depth science popularization experience program are allowed to register to drive into the core zone themselves. Mr. Fu said that after paying 2,688 yuan to stay at the Hotel Beyond Light Years, he brought electronic devices inside to take photographs; the hotel's operator belongs to a wholly state-owned enterprise system under the National Astronomical Observatories.
2026-10-10
A fresh graduate in Qingdao encountered the “recruitment-to-training” trap of Qingdao Maya Network Technology and Qingdao Zechen Innovation Technology while job hunting; after being persuaded to take out a training installment loan of nearly 30,000 yuan, the other party disappeared.
2026-10-10
Recently, a netizen-made parody video titled “The Wise One” has gone viral, using the melody of “Lonely Warrior” to satirize Huawei’s broken-axle controversy, account bans and gagging, the deployment of legal staff, and celebrity marketing tactics.
2026-10-10
On October 10, netizens discovered that a fur collar product page on the Taobao women's clothing store CHICYOU was labeled as using the fur from the back of a tabby cat. That evening, the store apologized, claiming that the materials supplied by the factory did not match and that the product had not yet officially gone on sale, but it avoided any mention of subsequent listing and delisting records.
2026-10-10
On October 10, a user posted a screen recording of the game Minecraft on Douyin, questioning why NetEase's chat system flags the number “64” as a violation when other players can send it normally.
2026-10-09
During emergency braking tests, the brake pedal of Huawei's Stelato V800, priced at over one million yuan, snapped multiple times in a row, drawing widespread attention online and raising questions about product quality.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Xinhua News Agency deleted the response statement from Stelato regarding the brake fracture incident that it had previously reposted, and related topics in Weibo's top 50 trending searches were also entirely cleared.
2026-10-09
Dongchedi released a video testing three new Zunjie V800 vehicles developed through Huawei-JAC cooperation; after repeated hard braking the brake pedal bracket snapped, and the video was subsequently taken down.
2026-10-09
Maextro announced that it has no problems of its own, attributing responsibility for vehicle issues to national standards, while rolling out a free upgrade plan; the announcement made no mention of a recall. Netizens pointed out that Harmony Intelligent Mobility (HIMA) has repeatedly used the free-upgrade routine before.
2026-10-09
On October 9, CATARC sent a survey questionnaire on brake pedal assembly materials to multiple carmakers, focusing on the use of non-metal materials. The move stems from the controversy over a broken pedal in a Huawei Stelato test vehicle and may be preparation for standards adjustments.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Xiangyuan Culture and Tourism announced that its actual controller, Yu Faxiang, had received a Case Filing Notice from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) over suspected violations of information disclosure laws and regulations. The company said its production and operations were normal and unaffected.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Jiaojian Shares announced that its actual controller Yu Faxiang has been placed under investigation by the CSRC for suspected violations of information disclosure laws and regulations, and that its daily production and operations are normal.
2026-10-09
A netizen submission alleges that Fujian Xinshiying E-Commerce Co., Ltd. unjustly deducted performance pay and transportation and meal subsidies, paid wages below the minimum wage standard, made social insurance and housing fund contributions at a low base, failed to pay social insurance during the probation period, arbitrarily cancelled annual leave and frequently changed compensation rules unilaterally, and threatened employees with dismissal whenever they raised objections.
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, a Weibo tech big V with 3.01 million followers revealed that the Dongchedi app was unable to properly play a review video of the Maextro V800's brake pedal, and was subsequently bombarded with a large number of spam text messages; netizens in the comments section said it was related to retaliation by Huawei fans.
2026-10-09
On October 9, netizens found that the Vancouver villa where Meng Wanzhou was placed under house arrest after her detention in 2018 is marked on Google Maps as "Meng Wanzhou's Grand Villa," with the English name Huawei's Princess Villa and the category listed as a shrine, prompting ridicule.
2026-10-09
On October 9, an uploader on Bilibili posted a lyric-adapted work titled “Breakpoint,” satirizing the breakage of the brake pedal bracket on the Huawei Stelato during a Dongchedi test. Netizens, imitating Yu Chengdong’s tone, quipped “the best lyric adaptation under 10 million.”
2026-10-09
On October 9, a video of two girls playfully acting out lines from the poem "Some People" sparked discussion on Douyin; netizens left comments mocking themselves for not daring to speak out, and the video has now been taken down.
2026-10-09
On October 9, on Huaihe Road Pedestrian Street in Hefei, Anhui, a man held up a sign in protest, bearing slogans including "Down with the unscrupulous foreign media Dongchedi," and was photographed by netizens.
2026-10-09
On October 9, reporters from The Beijing News visited and called four MAEXTRO stores in Beijing and received different explanations: some said reinforcing the pedals, some said adjusting materials, some were unaware of the upgrade content, and some directly said they did not know.
2026-10-09
On October 9, a woman posted a video saying she rented a Tesla in Dali through the Hello app and purchased the "full compensation for scratches" add-on, but when returning the car the rental shop demanded 4,200 yuan over a scratch. She and her mother were blocked for about two hours, and even after police mediation they still paid 800 yuan before being allowed to leave.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a Dongchedi test video showed that the brake pedal bracket of Huawei's Maextro V800 broke one after another during consecutive emergency braking tests, triggering netizen doubts and a wave of order cancellations, while JAC Motors' stock price hit the limit down at midday.
2026-10-08
Affected by a video showing a broken brake pedal bracket on the Huawei Stelato V800 during a test, JAC Motors shares hit the daily limit down at midday the same day, closing at 24.72 yuan, a drop of 10%.
2026-10-08
On October 8, Dongchedi released a test video showing that the brake pedal brackets of three brand-new Huawei Maextro V800 vehicles all snapped during an emergency braking test at 100 km/h.
2026-10-08
Affected by the brake pedal breakage incident involving the Maextro V800, JAC Motors' closing price fell to 24.72 yuan on October 8, with more than 6 billion yuan wiped off its market cap in a single day.
2026-10-08
On October 8, Dongchedi released a test video claiming that during a continuous emergency braking test from 100km/h to 0, the brake pedal brackets of three Zunjie V800 units priced between 766,000 and 1,016,000 yuan broke in succession, with none lasting more than 4 hard stops, contrasting with the official website's promotion of "multiple redundancy, steady as Mount Tai." There is online dispute over the force readings in the test, and the cause of the breakage remains to be verified.
2026-10-08
On October 8, foreign game streamer Horcus was invited by Douyin to take part in a Valorant exhibition match. After the room number leaked, someone slipped into the voice chat and repeatedly insulted Xi Jinping; the streamer on scene urgently called for them to be kicked. Afterwards, more than a dozen streamers had their channels banned.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a prospective car owner posted screenshots of a chat with a salesperson on Xiaohongshu, saying that after watching the brake pedal bracket fracture test, they no longer wanted the deposit or the car; the salesperson said that if the test was a deliberate smear, it could not serve as grounds for returning the car, and the final cancellation result remains unclear.
2026-10-08
After the incident of a Huawei Zunjie brake pedal snapping spread, many netizens imitated Dongchedi's pedal test, violently stomping on the brake pedals of their own elderly tricycles; the pedals remained intact, and a large number of netizens used this to mock the quality of Zunjie vehicles.
2026-10-08
On October 8, a Douyin user posted a video of stepping on a metal flush valve in a restroom with the caption "The toilet flush valves are all metal parts #brake pedal". Afterwards, the user's avatar and username were suspected of being wiped by the platform, and netizens joked in the comments, "Flushed the toilet and the avatar got flushed away."
2026-10-08
On October 8, a netizen interning at Haier in Beijing posted that they were dismissed by the company on the grounds of ensuring normal business operations during the Double 11 shopping festival after requesting a one-week remote internship because their father was undergoing chemotherapy. They said they had handled the entire team’s work alone before the National Day holiday and had completed all holiday tasks, and later said that HR had called their mother.
2026-10-08
On October 8, before Dongchedi took down the video showing the fracture of the MAEXTRO V800's brake carbon plate, some netizens found that on the Douyin platform, Huawei's Pura X View wide straight-screen phone was unable to play the video, while phones from other brands played it normally.
2026-10-07
On October 7, Taiwan's New Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted 10 business operators, alleging that since 2017 they had used the names of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and others to purchase high-speed military-grade chips from Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, altered the outer packaging to launder the origin before illegally selling them to China and Hong Kong, and profited more than NT$300 million; prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of 10 years for the principal suspect.
2026-10-07
At a New York trial on October 7, a former HSBC compliance executive testified that after HSBC decided in 2017 to end its cooperation with Huawei, Huawei attempted to modify the draft termination letter, trying to portray its unilateral withdrawal as a bilateral consensus, but HSBC refused. The HSBC witness also said that in 2016 the bank discovered that Huawei was paying US dollars to sanctioned regions such as Iran through intermediary agencies.
2026-10-07
Recently, domestic brand Wolda's smart power strip for aquariums is suspected of becoming unusable due to a power outage after its backend was hacked. Multiple fish-keeping enthusiasts posted complaints; one user said all their ornamental fish died, customer service said it needs to be mailed back for repair, while another user restored power after pressing the controller button.
2026-10-07
On October 7, a Douyin user uploaded a video in which a Winnie the Pooh doll is repeatedly slapped; all five visible comments in the comment section were clapping, thumbs-up, or "666", and a search suggestion appeared asking "what does a Winnie the Pooh plush toy symbolize".
2026-10-07
After the controversy over Kevin Tsai's attendance at Shen Boyang's campaign event escalated, Leapmotor, which had just signed a contract in September, issued a statement within hours affirming its adherence to the one-China principle, and took down the promotional content created in collaboration with Kevin Tsai.
2026-10-06
Within two days after the incident escalated, all posts on Kevin Tsai's Weibo account, which has more than 36 million followers, were cleared; Leapmotor announced it was taking down related content, Harper's Bazaar deleted promotional materials, and several programs were pulled.
2026-10-06
On October 6, in Langfang, Hebei, the Shijingyuan project of China State Construction Sixth Bureau owed migrant workers their wages. A large number of workers went to the project office to sleep on the floor and demand their unpaid wages, waiting for the wage issue to be resolved.
2026-10-06
On October 6, Nine Yuan Airlines issued a notice stating that for domestic tickets issued from 00:00 on October 10, the fuel surcharge on routes of 800 kilometers and below will rise from 40 yuan to 50 yuan, and on routes over 800 kilometers from 70 yuan to 90 yuan.
2026-10-06
On October 6, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, the rear axle along with both rear wheels detached entirely from the body of a 2023 Chery OMODA 5 while driving; fortunately, no one was injured.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a TikTok blogger uploaded a number meme video; after comments that appeared to allude to 64 showed up in the comment section, it was blocked, and neither the video nor the account could be searched.
2026-10-05
On October 5, 2026, under the strong deterrent of police filing cases for investigation and intense attention from media across the entire network, major domestic social and content platforms launched a special rectification and cleanup campaign, concentrating on banning accounts and posts involving fake AI obscene image collections of "CC Who Collects Phones," face-swap video cloud-storage download codes, and malicious doxxing. At the same time, the legal department of Zhuanzhuan, on behalf of the company and the victimized blogger, publicly issued a rights-defense notice, announcing that it had formally entrusted a well-known Beijing law firm to initiate comprehensive cross-platform civil lawsuits and criminal reports, pursuing judicial accountability against key black-market personnel who maliciously generated, first released, and resold fake image collections both within and outside China, resolutely pursuing economic compensation and criminal liability from lawbreakers, and building a legal shield for the victimized employee.
2026-10-05
Recently, multiple netizens discovered that when using a photo of Tiananmen with Douyin's "one-click video" feature, the system blocked it, prompting "The selected image does not meet the requirements, try another one."
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
After a boycott broke out over Kevin Tsai's endorsement appearance, Leapmotor and Harper's Bazaar promptly removed collaboration content related to him.
2026-10-05
On October 5, Indonesian police evacuated 75 foreign workers to the provincial police headquarters to ensure security and investigate the conflict. Media reported that they are from China. Currently, the 75 people are being questioned and having their identities verified as witnesses.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a Douyin blogger uploaded a number meme video titled "68 and Its Two Goblin Neighbors." Comments suspected of alluding to June Fourth appeared in the comment section, after which the comment section was blocked, and neither the video nor the posting account could be found.
2026-10-04
After Kevin Tsai attended a campaign event, Leapmotor stated that it firmly adheres to the One China principle and announced that it would take offline all content related to Kevin Tsai.
2026-10-04
On the evening of October 4, Leapmotor issued a statement clarifying that Kevin Tsai is not a brand ambassador, removed all related collaboration content, and reserved the right to pursue legal action. VOGUE China, Harper's Bazaar, and others simultaneously deleted collaboration materials, and Kevin Tsai's Weibo account was wiped.
2026-10-04
After footage of Kevin Tsai attending Shen Poyang's campaign event spread in China and sparked calls for him to be banned, Leapmotor issued a statement that night saying he was only an artist who had appeared in past collaborative content rather than a brand ambassador, that all related content had been taken down, and that it would strengthen reviews of partners' backgrounds and stances.
2026-10-04
On October 1, the Mixue Bingcheng Luoyang flagship store's opening day revenue exceeded 1 million yuan. Recruitment information showed that part-time employees for morning, afternoon, and night shifts were paid 100 to 120 yuan, which equates to an hourly wage of about 12 yuan. This sparked heated discussion after being exposed by netizens on October 4.
2026-10-04
The help-seeking video soon became unavailable. On October 4, the user posted another video bowing to the camera to express gratitude to the leaders for their help. Videos previously posted on their homepage also became unavailable, prompting netizens to question whether they had been pressured.
2026-10-04
In the late night of October 4, 2026, Leapmotor's official Weibo account stated that Kevin Tsai was only a participating artist in past collaborative content rather than a brand ambassador, took down all related promotional materials, and reserved the right to pursue legal responsibility.
2026-10-04
After the incident escalated, in the early hours of October 4 Leapmotor was the first to issue a statement setting out its position, followed by Weikang China and Bist Series China, which also released bilingual statements condemning Kevin Tsai and stating a One-China position; Harper's Bazaar removed the cover, and Mango TV took down related content.
2026-10-04
On October 4, a netizen passing by the company stumbled upon the company moving out. The boss offered an extra month's wages to keep quiet and transferred 16,000 yuan on the spot.
2026-10-03
On October 3, Zheng Jiyan, a former employee of China Telecom, released a video in which he publicly accused several senior executives of the group of allegedly embezzling 38 million yuan in government funds in the National Industrial Internet Big Data Center project, saying that his internal reports since 2023 had gone nowhere and that his labor contract was terminated in August 2026. He questioned how a core software development contract signed just 13 days before the project deadline listed a workload of 33779 person-days, that all four bidding companies were wholly owned subsidiaries of China Telecom, and said he had submitted the report through the 12388 website and was willing to provide 18 items of original evidence. As of press time, China Telecom had not responded.
2026-10-03
On October 3, China Unicom rolled out its eSIM service in a limited gray release. Users applying for eSIM eligibility online for the first time must obtain it through a lucky draw, drawing complaints from netizens.
2026-10-03
On October 3, a netizen claiming to be a master's degree employee working a four-team, three-shift rotation at Liaoning Qingyang Chemical posted a video saying that his uncle passed away at the end of September, that his request for bereavement leave from factory leaders was not approved, and publicly pleaded with the leaders to approve two days off.
2026-10-02
On October 2, residents of Matarape village in Morowali, Indonesia, blocked a road to protest dust pollution caused by Askon company's transport operations. About 40 Chinese workers arrived at the scene, some carrying wooden sticks and iron tools, and clashed with residents. The incident left 5 residents and 1 foreign national injured, 5 work vehicles damaged, and 5 excavators burned.
2026-10-02
After the incident sparked heated discussion, some netizens used Douyin's AI analysis feature to analyze the match footage. The AI's result was that the mouth accidentally touched the opponent's arm and left bite marks, which does not match the biting behavior shown in the footage.
2026-10-02
On October 2, in a short Douyin video of a conversation between a father and son, the boy said that Japanese, Korean, Indian and British food are what “Chinese food” looks like at different stages. Viewers criticized this as disrespectful in the bullet comments, and the video's comment section has now been emptied.
2026-10-01
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said on a social media platform on October 1 that, due to the U.S. military blockade and mounting economic pressure on the Iranian regime, Tehran failed to export any crude oil in September.
2026-10
When Dongchedi conducted braking distance tests on the Stelato V800, a collaboration between Huawei and JAC Motors, the brake pedal brackets of all three vehicles tested in succession broke, drawing widespread public attention and causing JAC Motors' stock price to hit the limit down.
2026-10-01
The four astronauts aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on October 1, with the flight taking about 8 hours.
2026-10
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued a document demanding an end to the phenomenon of "instant cars" in the auto industry, and will launch a one-year special rectification and improvement campaign on vehicle quality and reliability.
2026-10
Chinese state-owned trading companies purchased 8 to 10 cargoes of U.S. soybeans totaling 520,000 to 650,000 tonnes this week, with shipments expected to begin gradually from December, marking the first large-scale purchases since the Trump-Xi summit.
2026-10
China's million-yuan luxury car, the Aito V800, drew public attention after its braking system broke repeatedly during testing, prompting discussion of the quality issue between the automaker and netizens.
2026-10
A 2023 OMODA 5 suffered a severe accident while driving in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, when the rear axle trailing arm suddenly tore apart and the rear axle, together with both rear wheels, detached from the body.
2026-10-01
According to a Bloomberg report on October 1, Xinxin Financing Lease, led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and with shareholding by local state-owned assets, provided financing over the past year for Hongjing Technology to purchase more than 700 servers, totaling over 3 billion yuan, of which at least one deal involved 32 servers equipped with NVIDIA B300 Blackwell chips subject to U.S. export controls, most of them deployed at China Mobile's Ningxia Zhongwei data center. Xinxin subsequently revised its filing documents to delete server model information.
2026-10
After the controversy over Kevin Tsai appearing at a Taiwan independence activist's campaign rally escalated, brands such as Leapmotor severed ties overnight and deleted all of their materials. His Weibo account with more than 30 million followers was emptied overnight, the platform imposed a full traffic throttle, and his commercial partnerships on the mainland were wiped out overnight.
2026-10-01
On October 1, multiple owners of the C&D Ruiyun development in Fuzhou, Fujian, gathered in front of the sales office and along the street over suspected false advertising and products not matching the description, holding banners and shouting "C&D fraud, C&D refund our homes." Relevant personnel at the scene held up umbrellas to block the view and snatched the banners.
2026-10-01
On October 1, Reuters cited four sources reporting that Chinese oil refiners have suspended refined oil exports to regions outside Hong Kong and Macau in October to prioritize domestic inventory. PetroChina has canceled some October export shipments, and Zhejiang Petrochemical has not scheduled any refined oil exports during the week of the National Day holiday, with uncertainty remaining over whether they will resume after the holiday.
2026-10
China and the EU recently reached an arrangement on import quotas for Chinese hybrid vehicles, against the backdrop of EU concerns over the impact of low-priced Chinese goods on domestic industries.
2026-10-01
Recently, a netizen found a hair in their ice cream while dining at the Italian gelato shop Venchi in Shanghai's IAPM mall. The merchant agreed to a refund and paid a settlement of 1000 yuan, on the condition that a confidentiality agreement be signed; if the information is disclosed, the consumer must compensate the merchant 1 million yuan.
2026-10-01
Recently a netizen posted a video on Douyin with the five-star red flag and the national emblem as the background, captioned "If you also love this country, please shout 'dao'". After it was posted, the bullet comments were flooded with "ma ni dao", and the comment section was subsequently put under control by the platform.
2026-10
The Smart Commerce Cold-Chain Logistics Park project in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi, has long been in arrears on migrant workers' wages and project payments since 2024, and has still not paid up. Recently, a netizen exposed the matter by posting a video.
2026-10-01
On October 1, a netizen posted their 33 National Day holiday exam papers on Douyin. In the comments section, students from various regions shared their own workloads, with some needing to complete 108, 121, or even as many as 168 exam papers.
2026-10-01
On October 1, media reports said that the veteran general manager of Zhejiang Flag King Crafts & Garments Co., Ltd. stated that he has high standards for employees and would scold anyone who steps on the national flag. In the comments section, netizens focused their questions on practical benefits such as wages, two-day weekends, and social insurance.
2026-10
In August 2026, a merchant successfully registered through Kuaishou's "0-yuan store opening" program after review, but received no orders. In October, the merchant received a penalty notice, fined 2,400 yuan and docked 24 points on the grounds of "evading business qualifications (personal safety)," prompting netizens to complain about the short-video e-commerce platform.
2026-09-30
According to a Ministry of Commerce announcement on September 30, imports of beef from Brazil reached 100% of the 2026 quota of 1.106 million tons on September 29. Starting from 0:00 on October 1, an additional 55% tariff will be levied on top of the current tax rates. This safeguard measure takes effect on January 1, 2026 and lasts for three years.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a netizen saw the account of Zhejiang Taihong Wanli Technology Co., Ltd. on Douyin livestreaming the “5th Employee Talent Festival.” Employees in uniform formed squares in the factory area, marching, turning, and forming ranks in military-training style. A person in red saluted, followed by a red-dress dance and a performance with camouflage uniforms, red flags, and props.
2026-09-30
On September 30, the Kaifu District Market Supervision Bureau in Changsha announced that it had issued a "Notice of Rectification" to the Qingquange store involved, ordering an immediate suspension of operations for rectification and stating that it would continue to follow up on the progress.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a netizen posted wish-list items from the Qinqing public welfare platform under the China Youth Development Foundation: a 243-yuan schoolbag, a 298-yuan eye-protection desk lamp, a 205-yuan drawing set, and more. The video triggered netizen doubts about the pricing and procurement transparency of charity goods.
2026-09-30
A Singaporean couple joined a six-day, five-night group tour of Guizhou on September 8. On the final day of the itinerary, the tour guide took them to a jade shopping venue, where they spent 37,240 yuan on about 16 pieces of jade jewelry. One of the items, a Buddha amulet accompanied by an appraisal certificate listing it as "ink jade," was found to be serpentine when tested by the Nanyang Gemological Institute after they returned home. The couple's daughter said her mother called twice during the shopping trip to ask for money, a total of 6,500 Singapore dollars, and appeared helpless.
2026
Xiaomi's employee count decreased from 56,531 at the end of 2025 to 52,876, a reduction of 3,655 people in half a year; R&D personnel decreased by 500.
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 submission claims that the machining workshop of Weifang Ruicheng Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has long-standing dust and noise problems, that some machine tools lack safety guards, that the supply of masks and earplugs is insufficient, and that equipment lacks regular maintenance.
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 September 29, Beijing Yezhi Feng Nuohua Home Decoration Group Co., Ltd. was in arrears on wages, and multiple workers traveled from other regions to the company's headquarters to defend their rights and demand their unpaid pay.
2026-09-29
On September 29, a Douyin blogger posted a video saying that products that don’t allow reviews shouldn’t be bought and brands that don’t allow questioning shouldn’t be touched. No brand was named, but Huawei, HarmonyOS, and “far ahead” kept appearing in the bullet comments, while netizens in the comments section criticized equating not buying a certain brand with being unpatriotic as moral coercion.
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
SpaceX's new rocket entered Earth orbit for the first time on September 28, successfully placing 26 next-generation Starlink V3 broadband satellites into orbit.
2026-09-28
According to Reuters, as the list of reciprocal tariff reductions between China and the US is announced, state-owned buyers such as Sinograin and COFCO have already purchased over 12 million tons of US soybeans, while private crushing enterprises are struggling to bear the tax burden due to an additional 10% tariff.
2026-09-28
A Chengdu woman says she spent over 100,000 yuan at Tiffany on diamond jewelry; the salesperson gave the promised mooncakes to someone else, offering only about 20 yuan of loose peach cookies as compensation, which she refused. After she posted about it, the brand demanded post deletion; after she refused, her Xiaohongshu account was restricted from logging in and the original post was deleted.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a parent posted on Xiaohongshu claiming that after their child consumed Hema's MSC-certified Antarctic Silver Cod children's meals for about 8 months, tests revealed elevated blood mercury levels. After reporting this to the merchant, the supplier replied that the testing was qualified and claimed that 'children's meals' was merely a description of the product form. The parent also encountered other children with suspected elevated blood mercury levels at the hospital.
2026-09-28
On September 28, after Beijing's new drone rules were announced, DJI announced the launch of a dedicated drone managed service for the Beijing area.
2026-09-28
A bus driver with Chongqing Urban Transportation Development Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. fell ill on his way to work and died after more than 48 hours of emergency treatment. The company refused to pay compensation on the grounds that the case did not meet the criteria for work-related injury recognition.
2026-09-28
On September 28, the family of a bus driver who died of illness went to Chongqing Urban Transport Development & Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. to defend their rights. Several security guards blocked them at the company entrance, and a dispute broke out between the two sides.
2026-09-28
On September 28, at the China Railway 12 Bureau Laolongxi No. 2 Tunnel project in Anhua County, Yiyang, Hunan, wages were in arrears, and several workers drove vehicles to block the tunnel in demand of their unpaid wages.
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.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a netizen claiming to be an Apple supply chain employee posted on Xiaohongshu, saying she had suffered unfair treatment and suppression at work, and that after complaining to Apple she “received a lot of respect.” She posted a screenshot of the complaint report and thanked Apple. Apple’s official website states that suppliers retaliating against employees can, in the most serious cases, have their cooperation terminated.
2026-09-28
On September 28, Gansu market regulators released a penalty decision: from April 2023 to September 2024, Zhangjiachuan Zhongyuan Gas used gas cut-offs to force residents to buy designated gas hoses, bundling sales to 2,052 households in total, selling hoses that cost 6 yuan/meter for 50-60 yuan/meter; the 9 resident commitment letters submitted by the company were verified as having been written afterward as required, and cannot prove the absence of bundled sales.
2026-09-27
According to a submission, Lanzhou Wanli Aviation Electromechanical has arranged for no holidays during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day as part of a "100-day sprint," without paying overtime wages.
2026-09-27
A netizen submission claimed that after an employee refused to work overtime on Sunday, Shandong Zhikai Engineering Design unilaterally terminated its labor relationship with him; the date of the incident was not stated.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a Douyin influencer posted a video of a mooncake gift box, stating that their Danish boss had specifically gone to an Asian supermarket to buy mooncakes for the only Chinese employee in the company, which the influencer found very touching.
2026-09-25
On September 25, a blowout occurred at the Gumere W8 well in Niger, operated by a subsidiary of CNPC. Crude oil and natural gas sprayed more than 10 meters into the air, the integrity of two other wells on the same platform was affected, and two employees were injured and hospitalized.
2026-09-25
On September 25, a netizen from Fujian posted that after traveling to Hong Kong to purchase an iPhone on the official Apple website, they received an SMS from China Merchants Bank (CMB). The message stated that, following instructions from the police and in accordance with the Anti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law, temporary protective measures had been taken on all bank cards under their name, suspending both counter and non-counter services. The netizen claimed they only used credit cards and Alipay while in Hong Kong, with the rest being cash transactions.
2026-09-25
On September 25, a netizen said that they and an employee booked the same return flight through WeChat at the same time, with their own fare at 1357 yuan and the employee's at only 405 yuan — a difference of nearly 1,000 yuan — questioning whether WeChat flight bookings involve "big-data discrimination against returning customers."
2026-09-25
On September 25, a netizen posted an AI-generated animated video on Douyin featuring the Calabash Brothers, captioned “Living well is what matters most,” with on-screen text reading “The real state of bottom-tier wage earners.” Two frogs gave up standing guard, saying “We’re minor characters, why risk our lives,” and commenters echoed the sentiment by complaining about low pay.
2026-09-24
On September 24, Meituan's commission rates reached the top 3 on the Weibo lifestyle trending list. Multiple restaurant merchants posted screenshots of their orders: a 30.8 yuan set meal yielded an estimated income of only 6.24 yuan, a 20.8 yuan rice noodle dish only 5.75 yuan, and a 16 yuan clear soup noodle dish only 3.11 yuan, complaining that their income is too low after platform discounts, commissions, and delivery fees are layered on top of each other.
2026-09-24
On September 24, at the entrance of the Lianfa Plaza office building on Luyin Road, Honggutan District, Nanchang, Jiangxi, several migrant workers held up a banner reading "Lianfa Group owes migrant workers' wages, give us back our hard-earned money," and raised slogans saying that the rights defense would not stop until the project payment arrived in the account.
2026-09-24
On September 24, a netizen with an IP address located in Hebei shared photos of mooncakes and a red envelope given by their company — the box was empty and the red envelope was empty too, and many commenters shared similar experiences.
2026-09-23
On September 23, at the south gate of the BYD Industrial Park in Fuyang, Anhui, after a worker reportedly died in a work-related incident, multiple family members knelt at the scene to demand their rights and held up a banner reading "Worker died three days ago and no one has dealt with it," protesting the factory's three-day failure to respond.
2026-09-23
On September 23, dozens of workers at Hongxing Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Xingtai, Hebei hung banners at the factory gate to demand unpaid wages, saying the controlling listed company, Shanzi Hi-Tech, had failed to pay wages and stopped paying social insurance contributions, leading some employees to be forced to terminate their labor contracts.
2026-09-23
On September 23, the Douyin creator who posted the GTA-style AI workplace short videos said their account had been throttled.
2026-09-23
On September 23, Cai Xiaodan updated her rights-defense progress on Bilibili, saying that it had been the fifth day she stayed overnight in the company's conference room awaiting a reply; her 83-year-old grandfather felt unwell and was taken to hospital by ambulance 120, and after receiving an IV drip he returned to the company to fetch belongings but was blocked again. Her husband passed away nearly nine months ago, and the company has repeatedly called the police to demand that the family members leave.
2026-09-23
On September 23, a Douyin blogger posted a video questioning why, whenever the two-day weekend is discussed, some people counter by asking whether one would accept a higher salary in exchange for a one-day weekend, saying that based on his own experience, ordinary one-day weekend jobs often come with worse treatment. Netizens in the comments section said that the fewer rest days per month, the lower the salary, and pointed out that hourly wages should be compared instead.
2026-09-23
On September 23, a netizen posted that after the union collected membership fees of over three hundred yuan per person, the Mid-Autumn benefit was a shopping voucher of five hundred yuan given to over a thousand members, which could only be used at a very small fruit shop, and was labeled as targeted consumption. In the comments, it was said that state-owned enterprises' internal purchase vouchers are generally more than 30% more expensive than e‑commerce platforms.
2026-09-21
Recently, the Xianyu platform blocked keywords related to AI service top-ups such as ChatGPT and WorkBuddy. Subsequently, sellers began using underworld jargon like 'genius programmer Tibo' and 'Ultraman monthly pass' to evade censorship. Practical testing on September 21 showed that these slang keywords can no longer be searched for on Xianyu.
2026-09-22
A BBC Verify investigation found that Apple Maps massively blurs satellite imagery within China, covering military, government, and Xinjiang detention facilities. Apple responded that it must comply with local laws.
2026-09-22
On September 22, netizens discovered that in the 'Micro-Wish' mini-program under the China Youth Development Foundation, the prices of wish items for children in need were significantly higher than market norms: school bags at 243 yuan, eye-protection desk lamps at 298 yuan, and insulated lunch boxes at 199 yuan. The comment section was flooded with questions about whether the donations could truly reach the children.
2026-09-22
On September 22, an influencer with 3.21 million followers on Douyin, who had publicly criticized mobile pop-up ads multiple times, posted an apology video. They stated that their accounts on other platforms had all been banned, apologized to the affected brands and companies, and declared that they would no longer mention matters unrelated to themselves in the future.
2026-09-22
Xiamen Lulin Sen Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. was fined 20,000 yuan by the Xiamen Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau for failing to accurately record pesticide use over a long period, refusing to correct the issue after being ordered to do so, and being identified as having carried out false rectification.
2026-09-22
On September 22, Li Auto released an advertisement in collaboration with actor Xie Mian. Due to its striking similarities in creativity, composition, and camera movement with Volvo's 2013 ad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, it triggered netizens' accusations of plagiarism.
2026-09-22
On September 22, a student from Jiangxi (IP Jiangxi) posted a video stating that using his own insulated cup to get water from a campus drinking fountain, the machine continuously charges based on water usage, and one cup of water ultimately cost about ¥2.2. Netizens complained it is more expensive than 92 gasoline. The video received over 140,000 likes and more than 30,000 comments.
2026-09-20
A netizen posted that after commenting the word "steamed bun" under a Winnie the Pooh video on Douyin, their account was banned for 365 days on September 20. Their alternative account was also banned, and both appeals and communication with human customer service proved fruitless.
2026-09-21
On June 30, multiple children at the affiliated kindergarten of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology experienced vomiting, and parents got no answers after pressing for two months. On September 14, a safety officer at the kindergarten's canteen exposed severe hygiene issues, such as washing shoes in vegetable washing pools and scrubbing woks with mops. The kindergarten had long ignored rectifications, and regulatory authorities failed to inspect the kitchen surveillance footage.
2026-09-21
Xishan Senior High School in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, required students to purchase a "smart device kit" priced at 4,280 RMB, with a service life of only three years. Parents questioned why the price far exceeded similar products on the market, believing that the costs of building an "AI campus" were being shifted onto students.
2026-09-21
Hongtu Middle School in Datian County, Fujian Province, required students from the third grade of primary school to senior high school grade 3 to participate in social practice training every semester, charging a fee of 288 yuan. Taking leave was prohibited in principle; those needing leave had to go through layered approval by the head teacher, grade leader, and principal, which sparked dissatisfaction among parents.
2026-09-20
An undercover investigation by Hebei Television found that the Xianyu platform harbors a pornographic traffic-routing industrial chain disguised as photoshoot appointments and fitness. Customer service claimed they could provide services involving minors as young as 14, using high prices and fake medical certifications as bait to route users to private domains for transactions.
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
On September 21, at the breakfast canteen of the passenger car plant of CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. in Changchun, Jilin Province, an incident of refusing cash occurred. Netizens reported that using cash to pay at the canteen was refused. After the on-site manager called the store manager for instructions, they still explicitly refused to accept cash.
2026-09-19
On September 19, the Beijing Municipal Market Regulation Bureau announced that it has launched investigations into four online hotel and travel platforms—Fliggy, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. On the same day, the China Hotel Association pointed out that these platforms are involved in issues such as high commissions, forced bundling, and data opacity, and called on them to make their search ranking and commission rate rules public.
2026-09-18
On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice requiring platforms to clean up negative information inconsistent with official corporate statements, and categorized behaviors such as parodying corporate logos, products, and entrepreneurs' portraits as false and misleading handling scopes, demanding platforms to implement whole-process audits and strict handling of enterprise-related information.
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.
2026-09-20
An undercover investigation by Hebei Economic Television found that in Xianyu's pornographic traffic-generation industry chain, some customer service agents claim they can provide minors, with the youngest being only 14 years old, at prices reaching 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
2026-09-20
To pass Walmart's social responsibility audit, Guangxi Wuzhou Tianmijia Bee Industry required employees to memorize false statements to cover up long-term mandatory overtime without days off, wage withholding, illegal employment practices, and lack of fire safety facilities, while also carrying out hasty temporary renovations to cope with the inspection.
2026-09-20
The company's statement claimed that there were no temporary workers in the workshop, and that during the audit process it asked temporary workers to leave the site to avoid the auditors; in fact the workshop had temporary workers, a large number of dispatched labor workers, summer workers, and vocational school interns.
2026-09-20
The company had never conducted fire drills; had it not been for Walmart's audit, the emergency lights and exit signs in the workshop would not have been powered on, and the smoke alarms, emergency alarms, and emergency lights in other areas were only installed two days before the audit.
2026-09-20
An undercover investigation by Hebei Economic TV found that some accounts on Xianyu post photos of women under the guise of ordinary services such as "on-site model photo shoots," "home fitness," and "swimming lessons," and use coded phrases like "on-site" and "chubao bookable" to steer users toward private transactions on WeChat, WeCom, and other platforms.
2026-09-20
After paying a 99 yuan "intention deposit" during an undercover investigation, a reporter from Hebei Economic TV gained entry to group chats in various places, where women's profiles and prices for different services were posted on a rolling feed.
2026-09-20
An undercover investigation by Hebei Economic Television found that customer service operators in Xianyu's pornography traffic-generation industry chain use fake medical certifications as bait, claiming they "support accompanying you to a Grade 3A hospital for verification."
2026-09-20
It was reported on September 20 that some districts in Hangzhou plan to reduce the distance between tobacco retail stores from 60 meters to 30 meters, with the regulation proposed to take effect on October 20.
2026-09-18
On September 18, media reports indicated that the crowdfunding platform Shuizhichou increased its platform service fee from 6% to 8% starting August 15. Patient families reported that hefty service fees and channel fees were deducted upon withdrawal. Shuizhichou customer service responded that the price hike was intended to provide higher quality services, which triggered public skepticism regarding its commercial nature versus its charitable positioning.
2026-09-17
On September 17, a netizen in Hangzhou posted that after purchasing Hema shopping cards, police took protective payment-stopping measures, resulting in all of their bank cards being restricted. Even after the party involved cooperated with the police for verification, the account remained unfrozen, causing difficulties in daily life. Bank staff suggested switching to WeChat or Alipay balances, stating that using cards directly makes them prone to being frozen.
2026-09-14
On September 14, families of multiple victims in Lishui, Zhejiang, held portraits of the deceased and went to the headquarters of Lishui Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. to conduct rights defense. The family members stated that their father was killed after being struck by a bus while performing road work. Nearly three months after the incident, the bus company has yet to provide a clear response, prompting the family to visit the company to demand accountability.
2026-09-19
On September 19, a Bilibili blogger posted a video claiming that Lucky Cup staff earn a monthly salary of 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, with no days off each month and 15 hours of work per day, equivalent to an hourly wage of about 8.89 yuan, lower than the price of a 9-yuan drink in the store, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-09-19
Great Wall Fund announced on September 19 that the fund has risen nearly 23% since its inception, but its net asset value fell below 50 million yuan for 50 consecutive business days, triggering contract termination; just over a year after its establishment, it entered liquidation and redemptions were suspended.
2026-09-19
From September 18 to 19, several netizens in the comments section described similar experiences, involving late-night service suspensions, customer service claiming they had no authority to handle the issue, and delays of two months without resolution, affecting China Mobile and China Unicom users.
2026-09-19
On September 19, a netizen uploaded a Douyin video in which a girl squats in a shabby room eating noodles cooked by her grandmother, with the noodle basin placed on the floor. Bullet comments flooded the screen with phrases like "It's just wrong," lamenting the contrast between poverty-alleviation propaganda and reality.
2026-09-18
On September 18, the Apple iPhone 18 Pro officially went on sale. Previously, Apple's official Chinese website had marked the release date as 'next Friday the 18th' instead of 'September 18,' which was accused of being an attempt to avoid the anniversary of the September 18 Incident. On the day of release, the comment sections of relevant media reports saw a large number of boycotting remarks such as 'never forget national humiliation' and 'firmly refuse to buy.'
2026-09-18
SpaceX's Starship launched successfully and entered Earth orbit for the first time, deploying 26 Starlink satellites, sparking controversy in Chinese state media and online opinion over whether the orbital insertion succeeded.
2026-09-18
On Sep 18, developers revealed that Zhipu's AI programming tool, ZCode, uploaded users' entire workspace code to servers without clear notice. Zhipu subsequently apologized and admitted the feature was enabled by default. On the same day, related skeptical posts were complained and deleted by Meizhou Direction Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd., triggering public opinion suppression over the controversy.
2026-09-18
In September 2026, Huawei and Seres suddenly cut ties with the AITO brand. AITO owners worry about their in-car systems, build quality, and a sharp drop in used-car value; used-car dealers have suspended taking in AITO models, triggering a series of disputes including after-sales rights defense.
2026-09-18
According to veteran media figure Guo Jun on the Elite Forum program, Ren Zhengfei is suspected of being drawn into the Zhang Youxia case and is under investigation, because Huawei, deeply involved in defense buildup under the military-civil fusion policy, has considerable overlap with Zhang Youxia, former Minister of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, in weapons and equipment procurement.
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
A screenshot circulating online purporting to show Anna Yao, daughter of Ren Zhengfei, threatening netizens on Xiaohongshu has sparked heated debate. After comparing details such as the author tag color scheme, account name format, and IP location changes, it was judged to be highly likely a photoshopped forgery. Huawei has issued no official response.
2026-09-18
Brother Yu Longxing Tianxia, a netizen who was threatened by Annabel Yao, responded that neither underworld nor lawful channels will change his original intention of seeking the truth, and said he will report his safety every day. On September 18 he posted that he is still alive, while his related posts from June are being deleted one after another.
2026-09-18
An AITO owner says staff snatched his phone and deleted album photos while he was filming the battery at an after-sales service center; another owner questions the after-sales center for forcibly denying warranty coverage on the grounds that the screen was deliberately punctured, and got no result after demanding to see evidence of deliberate puncture marks.
2026-09-18
An Aito owner said that while driving with smart driving on the Gansu-Shaanxi Expressway in heavy rain, the wipers suddenly stopped working and the washer fluid spray failed; the system demanded manual takeover. After turning on the hazard lights, pulling over, and forcing a power-off restart, it returned to normal.
2026-09-18
Seres outsourced workers say their hourly wage is 21 to 22 yuan, and with overtime every day their monthly income is only 5,000 to 6,000 yuan, claiming that the factory's advertised monthly salary of 7,000–8,000 yuan and good benefits are a scam.
2026-09-18
An AITO owner posted fault records, saying the vehicle's air conditioning compressor had been replaced multiple times, and that after-sales service only provided some of the fault records, refusing to print earlier ones.
2026-09-16
On September 16, multiple BYD Changfeng-affiliated 4S dealerships in Guiyang, Guizhou (including Changfeng Wangchao, Qianxindi Haiyang, etc.) were exposed as having closed overnight. Employees were owed months of back pay, and suppliers and staff staged rights defense actions on-site; numerous car owners are facing dilemmas such as being unable to register their vehicles, hindered delivery, and unfulfilled after-sales service packages.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Wall Street Journal reported that China's blueberry industry, driven by illegal propagation of foreign protected varieties and bank credit, achieved a surge in production, leading to overcapacity and price wars. A breeding company’s investigation found that a nursery in Yunnan was obtaining cuttings of protected varieties through illegal channels.
2026-09-17
On September 17, it was reported that Huawei AITO has withdrawn from the Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance and Huawei retail stores. Related claims suggest that Seres will take full control of AITO, possibly due to chaotic operational conditions at AITO and internal changes within Huawei. The source did not provide official statements from Huawei or Seres, only stating that this adjustment has already occurred and describing it as a sudden withdrawal by Huawei from the relevant business system.
2026-09-17
Zhang Liang's family traveled by car from Hebei to the company to negotiate matters concerning his work-related death; the company promised to give a reply after discussion but repeatedly delayed.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Changchun Medical Vocational College implemented a strict campus lockdown, requiring students leaving the campus to obtain parental leave and a physical signature from their counselor. Students questioned whether this move was intended to restrict off-campus consumption and force them to make high-priced purchases at campus canteens and supermarkets.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Kaifeng Yulin Furniture Co., Ltd. in Henan, due to long‑term wage arrears and being found to have attempted to secretly transfer assets, employees blocked the factory gate and intercepted vehicles, leading to a standoff between the two sides.
2026-09-17
The police report receipt shown in the video indicates that Zhuanzhuan recycler and Bilibili blogger "CC Who Buys Phones" filed a report with the public security authorities at 18:14 on September 17, 2026, and the police have registered the case. On September 30, she posted a video making the matter public.
2026-09-17
On September 17, 2026, facing the continuing spread of AI deepfake pornographic image collections, face-swap videos, and malicious doxxing attacks, the blogger "CC Who Buys Phones," accompanied by the professional legal team of his employer Zhuanzhuan, formally went to the local public security bureau to file a report and defend his rights. At the scene, the legal team assisted the blogger in submitting to the investigating officers a complete set of notarized electronic evidence gathered from across the internet, covering Telegram black-market groups, posts on X, doxxing threads on forums, fake AI porn image file packages, and a large volume of harassing communications. After several hours of intensive recorded statements and evidence collection by the investigating officers, the public security bureau formally completed the case acceptance registration at 18:14 that day and issued a Case Acceptance Receipt in accordance with the law, opening an investigation into a series of criminal leads involving suspected defamation, insult, and infringement of citizens' personal information.
2026-09-17
On September 17, netizens found that when Douyin and the Doubao AI analyzed a video of “an elderly person from across the Taiwan Strait reuniting,” they not only misidentified the people involved but also forcibly drew a political interpretation based on their wrong conclusions, claiming that “Taiwan is part of China,” drawing mockery from netizens.
2026-09-17
On September 17, Cai Xiaodan, widow of engineer Zhang Liang, and her family were invited to negotiate with Beijing Fanghong Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tsinghua Tongfang. The company promised twice to provide a written response by the end of the workday on September 21, but as of September 23, it has failed to do so, nor has it provided the requested materials such as work records, attendance sheets, and payroll records.
2026-09-17
On September 17, a netizen uploaded an AI short film to Douyin in which a young person runs desperately while carrying a basket on their back containing their parents, only to be criticized for falling behind, sparking widespread resonance and discussion among netizens about the heavy burden of family.
2026-09-17
Recently a netizen posted a pop-up ad from a domestic smartphone, which was disguised as a delivery, a food delivery rider, or a call from the user's daughter to lure them into answering; whether the user hangs up or answers, they are redirected to a spam call screen.
2026-09-17
A netizen recently posted that their mother suffered a sudden myocardial infarction, and when their father dialed the emergency number, an advertisement popped up on his Honor phone with no close button nearby, causing the mother to miss the optimal window for emergency treatment.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Hongmeng Smart Mobility announced that the definition, marketing and service of the Wenjie product would be taken over by Seres, with Huawei only providing empowerment. The news sparked concerns of car dealers selling off, and Seres' stock closed down 5.09% that day, after having turned from profit to loss in the first half of the year.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Apple released the official version of iOS 17, which includes a new alarm feature that supports compensatory leave (tiaoxiu). Wenzhou state media "Temperature News" called this an "epic update," sparking widespread ridicule from netizens who accused Apple of compromising with China's compensatory leave system and keeping pace with the regression of the times.
2026-09-14
On September 14, customers at the Huanle Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan, protested over restrictions on the use of stored-value cards. Chairman Wang Haizhou appeared on-site, promising that the company's assets were sufficient to cover its debts and pledging to announce a solution by November 6.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Reuters reported that China's vehicle manufacturing profit margin has fallen to 1.5%, a ten-year low. Despite a 9.13% increase in revenue in the first half of the year, GAC Group reported a net loss of 4.467 billion yuan. On September 14, GAC announced plans to acquire equity in a joint-venture automaker under FAW Group; market speculation suggests the target may be FAW Toyota, aiming to promote the integration of northern and southern Toyota operations.
2026-09-16
Prosecutors presented internal emails, flight records, and surveillance footage, accusing Huawei employee Adam Zhong of attempting to obtain T-Mobile test robot parts and take photos.
Location: New York, United States ·
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2026-09-16
According to the employee involved, a BYD department manager had promised to revise the system that determines performance based on rankings, but the new version only changed its name, and then proposed a plan to deduct part of everyone's performance pay to reward a few people.
2026-09-16
An employee at an 'Yi Dian Dian' milk tea shop discovered stones in the black tea used for making milk tea. After reporting it to quality control according to protocol, no action was taken; quality control stated, 'It's fine to just pick out the foreign object and continue using it.'
2026-09-16
On September 16, 2026, the topic “A Little Threatens Employees” topped the Weibo trending searches.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a netizen revealed that Changchun Pharmaceutical Vocational College suddenly implemented strict campus lockdown management. Students requesting leave must have their parents send a WeChat message, print a paper leave slip, and obtain the counselor's signature for approval. Rumors circulated that the lockdown is intended to force students to stay on campus and spend money. The school has not responded.
2026-09-13
On September 13th, during freshman registration at the Zhongdu Campus of Shanxi Medical University, it was discovered that the loft beds with desks underneath were not equipped with climbing ladders. Freshmen are required to purchase them themselves at a price of 200 yuan each, sparking questions from students and parents about profiteering. Older students reported that previous cohorts also did not have ladders.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a BYD employee posted on Maimai questioning the company's excessive cost reduction, revealing that body parts were switched from stainless steel to carbon steel, the material inspection department was dissolved and all materials exempted from inspection, and the review process was artificially rushed. Several self‑identified internal employees echoed in the comments and disclosed more quality control loopholes.
2026-09-15
The Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development reported that the China Institute of Building Standard Design and Research Co., Ltd. issued five inspection reports for ductile iron manhole covers with fabricated data without conducting load-bearing tests. Surveillance verification confirmed that the pressure testing machine involved was not turned on during the relevant dates. The commission fined the institute 62,500 yuan and suspended its municipal engineering material testing business for one year.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger filmed and showed an elderly person's phone, finding the home screen densely packed with 17 pages of various download‑inducing app icons, reflecting the online trap issues faced by the elderly.
2026-09-15
On September 15, netizens created a “Domestic Android Ad Nesting Simulator” webpage, turning fake close buttons, layered pop‑ups and fake downloads—common mobile ad tricks—into an interactive experience. Tests by other netizens showed that even after enduring 12 layers of ad tricks, the page could not be truly closed, repeatedly leading to inducement and mistaken downloads.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a video from a class in a primary school in Jiangxia District, Wuhan showed students who had not subscribed to student milk being gathered in the back rows of the classroom to take water cups and drink. The Education Bureau responded on September 10, stating it was a misunderstanding by parents and emphasizing voluntary subscription. The incident sparked widespread public questioning of the administrative promotion targets for student milk and the underlying profit chain.
2026-09-15
A digital blogger released a video exposing the 'quick apps' and popup ad ecosystem on Android phones, pointing out that some manufacturers and software use fake close buttons, disguise system interfaces, and induce jumps, causing elderly users unfamiliar with the operation to fall into an endless loop of 'popup‑mis‑tap‑jump'.
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
The blogger demonstrates in the video that "Quick Apps" can be pulled up directly by ads without going through the full download and installation process required by regular apps, and that clicking or even trying to close an ad can trigger the automatic download of other software.
2026-09-15
The blogger mentions in the video that some rogue software will “size people up and treat them differently,” showing different content to different users; once elderly users enter a loop of pop-ups, redirects, and downloads, they can hardly get out of it completely.
2026-09-15
The blogger shows in the video that the ad alliance offers multiple ad formats such as splash, interstitial, floating, and rewarded video, supporting the quick app popup ad ecosystem.
2026-09-15
To investigate illegal propagation, foreign breeding companies hired private investigators who posed as growers to purchase blueberry seedlings at nurseries, then conducted DNA testing on the seedlings to gather evidence.
2026-09-15
In a Wall Street Journal report, a Yunnan nursery employee admitted that he had obtained protected L25 blueberry variety cuttings from a Driscoll's farm through connections for propagation.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a netizen discovered an elderly woman struggling with persistent pop-up ads on her domestic smartphone, which prevented her from operating the device or contacting her family. The netizen then stepped in to help her close the ads.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a Huawei exclusive store in Zhejiang Province forced two on‑the‑job employees to perform compulsory deep‑squat punishments, requiring them to squat continuously in place for dozens of times. Passersby on the scene witnessed and recorded the whole incident on their phones; the video later spread on social platforms, sparking netizens’ doubts and criticism of the company’s labor practices. The store has not issued any public response.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a Douyin user uploaded a mash‑up video tagged with “cannibalism”, “capital”, and “the poor”, showing the harsh lives of impoverished groups in China through multiple scenes. The video received about 101,000 likes and 16,000 shares on the platform. Afterwards, the platform reviewed the comment section, deleting many comments; by the deadline only five comments remained visible. The incident reflects the platform’s strict censorship of sensitive content.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, the Douyin platform cleaned the comment section of the Tianjin University of Technology military training performance “Tank Formation” video. After the video was posted, the comment section saw multiple netizens use “June Fourth” to allude to the 1989 Tiananmen incident, sparking heated discussion. Douyin subsequently deleted all related comments, resulting in the comment section being emptied, without providing an official explanation. This action was seen as online censorship of sensitive political topics.
2026-09-14
According to an ICIJ investigation based on 4.8 million confidential documents, ICBC's London branch, at the behest of its Beijing headquarters, provided financing for Belt and Road projects and opened accounts for the daughter of Azerbaijan's dictator, Russian oligarchs, and companies linked to Belarus's military-industrial complex.
Location: London, United Kingdom ·
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2026-09-14
According to an ICIJ investigation, days after Meng Wanzhou was indicted by the United States in February 2019, ICBC's London branch urgently convened nine employees on a Saturday, bypassing internal compliance procedures to remit more than $1.3 billion in Huawei deposits back to China; compliance officers raised risk warnings, but the Beijing headquarters insisted on proceeding with the transaction.
Location: London, United Kingdom ·
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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, 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.
2026-09-13
In January 2026, reports emerged that a domestic smartphone brand automatically installed apps of unknown origin in the background when the user was over 65; on September 13, a blogger showed an elderly user's phone desktop densely packed with ad apps spanning 17 pages, and in the video the elderly person was forced to install bundled apps within seconds.
2026-09-13
In September 2026, a 26-year-old female video blogger said the company unilaterally demanded changes to her agreed working hours. After she refused, her boss threatened to fire her, and managers also warned that her wages for the month would be less than 1,000 yuan. She said her account balance was under 3,000 yuan and she could see no hope.
2026-09-12
Recently, a Douyin netizen shared a pop-up advertisement on an Android phone. After accidentally touching it, the ad disguised itself as a call from property management, a delivery person, or one's daughter to induce the user to answer. Whether hung up or answered, it would redirect to a spam call interface and play audio in a loop, making it difficult to close.
2026-09-11
On September 11, a blogger released a video exposing Douyin's traffic monetization and censorship mechanisms, claiming that attacking the US can earn 15 yuan per 10,000 views. Conversely, videos debunking false foreign information are restricted and offer no revenue. The blogger questioned why related content from a certain "Global Times" video was forcibly removed.
2026-09-10
On September 10, Shao Tianlan, founder and CEO of Mech-Mind, posted on his WeChat Moments, accusing Galaxy Core, a company valued at over 20 billion yuan and featured on the Spring Festival Gala, of fabricating revenue through related-party transactions to rush its IPO. He publicly questioned whether Beijing municipal leaders support such companies going public.
2026-09-12
Chinese authorities blocked Meta's acquisition of AI company Manus for about $2 billion and imposed exit bans on two of Manus's founders, seen as a case of China's extraterritorial regulations being enforced in practice.
2026-09-12
On September 12, the Weibo account of Mr. Zhang, the party involved in Honor's "Magic Pictorial" incident, showed as deleted, and all content on Xiaohongshu was cleared, leaving only a report by Jiemian News.
2026-09-12
Netizens used Huawei tablets to test the difficulty of closing startup ads and found that whether clicking close or pressing the X, it forcefully redirects to the next ad in an endless loop.
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.
2026-09-10
On September 10, news spread on social media platforms that BYD had suspended profit-sharing bonuses for the 2025 fiscal year. After an internal employee posted to confirm this, they were called in for a talk and forced to delete the post. Meanwhile, multiple employees leaked that they had not received pay raises for a long time, housing subsidies had decreased, and performance bonuses had dropped, leaving concentrated satirical satirical own comments under the company's official account.
2026-09-11
Apple's official website in mainland China has downplayed the release date of a new product scheduled for September 18th, referring to it as 'next Friday the 18th,' while the Hong Kong and Taiwan websites correctly state 'September 18th,' sparking speculation about avoiding the September 18th Incident.
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, multiple Douyin netizens exposed a malicious pop-up ad issue on certain Android phones. After accidental clicks, the ads disguise themselves as property management, delivery, or daughter's calls to lure users into answering. Whether the user clicks 'hang up' or 'answer', it redirects to an unfamiliar call interface and plays a voice, trapping them in an unclosable ad loop.
2026-09-09
On September 9, the criminal lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Huawei and its subsidiaries officially opened in federal court. The presiding judge is Ann Donnelly, and the trial is expected to last several months. Prosecutors accuse Huawei of operating a criminal enterprise for over 20 years through theft, lies, and cover-ups, facing approximately 12 charges including racketeering, conspiracy to steal trade secrets, bank fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
2026-09-11
As discussions about implementing two-day weekends increase on the internet, the comment sections of many videos on the Douyin platform themed around second-generation factory owners inheriting family businesses have been targeted by a large number of netizens asking about basic labor rights such as social security, the eight-hour workday, and two-day weekends.
2026-09-11
In early September 2026, a netizen in Shandong reported that their mother suffered a sudden, critical acute myocardial infarction. While panicking, the father, who suffers from cerebral infarction, used an Honor phone to call the 120 emergency hotline. Due to accidentally triggering the system's default full-screen commercial ad 'Magic Pictorial' by swiping up on the lock screen, and because the close button was hidden and he could not quickly return to the dial pad, the golden window for medical rescue was delayed, and the mother unfortunately passed away. After the incident was exposed, it sparked strong condemnation across the internet regarding mobile phone advertisements blocking life-saving channels and flaws in age-friendly designs.
[Follow-up · September 11, 2026] On the evening of September 11, the party involved in the Honor 'Magic Pictorial' incident posted a clarification and apology, stating that the father's failure to connect the emergency call during his cerebral infarction episode was a misunderstanding and had nothing to do with the Honor phone. Honor expressed condolences for the death of the party's mother, but accused the false post of causing brand damage, stating that "out of humanitarian care, no further action will be pursued," which triggered netizens' doubts about the embedding of 'Magic Pictorial' and the official attitude.
[Follow-up · September 12, 2026] On September 12, the Weibo account of the involved party, Mr. Zhang, showed that it had been deactivated, all content on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) was cleared, and only the report by Jiemian News was retained.
2026-09-10
Apple's press conference on September 10 announced that Intelligence supports multiple languages, but noted it is unavailable in mainland China, stating its release depends on regulatory approval.
2026-09-09
The Serious Fraud Investigation Office of India intends to conduct a detailed investigation into Xiaomi's Indian business, focusing on verifying its shareholding structure, fund flows, and compliance with Indian government investment regulations.
2026-09-10
A dry bulk carrier named Ocean Melody at Qingdao Beihai Shipyard caught fire during repairs. The blaze was extinguished after about three hours. There were 42 people on board; 12 were safely evacuated, officials said 25 missing persons showed no signs of life, and 5 were injured and taken to hospital. The vessel, built in 2006, is 190 m long with a deadweight of about 55,000 tonnes. At the time of the incident it was registered under Liberia, but the owner is Hui Li Shipping Co., Ltd., and the ship management company is Shanghai Yuyang Kunpeng Ship Management Co., Ltd. The ship arrived at Beihai Shipyard for repairs on August 31; it had previously been detained in Australia for fire safety defects such as emergency fire pumps, CO₂ system remote valves, and engine room fire dampers, and the issues were rectified.
2026-09-10
According to courtroom records cited by the Luther Society program, the Huawei RICO case trial entered its second day. Huawei's lawyers made excuses from multiple angles, and the judge interrupted them several times, demanding that they stick to the point.
2026-09-10
In September 2026, after a fire broke out on a race car at the China GT Shanghai round and the driver was trapped in the flames for 70 seconds amid a delayed rescue, actor Daniel Wu publicly slammed the organizers' actions as shameful and announced his withdrawal from races in China.
2026-09-09
A tech blogger exposed an email invitation for a Huawei product promotion that required concealing the paid sponsorship relationship, sparking industry doubts about commercial transparency and Huawei's marketing tactics.
2026-09-09
Apple held a product launch event on September 9, unveiling a foldable smartphone for the first time. The event was hosted by John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook as chief executive earlier this month, marking his first product launch since taking the role.
2026-09-07
Star Union Shares personnel punishment controversy: The person in charge of human resources was dismissed after being dismissed as a director in the past, and the position was questioned.
2026-09-08
On September 8, Huawei began its criminal trial in the Eastern District Federal Court in New York, facing multiple charges including racketeering, bank and telecommunications fraud, money laundering, and violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran. Huawei pleaded not guilty to all charges and said the case was politically motivated.
2026-09-08
In the first half of 2026, China's domestic auto sales were only 9.92 million units, a year-on-year decline of 21.1%, a drop larger than the 16.6% recorded during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020.
2026-09-08
In 2026, China's vehicle manufacturing profit margin fell to 1.5%. Total profits in the first half dropped to 39.4 billion yuan from 137 billion yuan in the same period of 2021, a decline of over 70%, on par with the level during the 2008 financial crisis.
2026-09-08
According to a September 2026 video by Toronto Fang Lian citing a Wall Street Journal report, as of 2019 Huawei had received a cumulative total of about 550 billion yuan ($75 billion) in state subsidies; the video's author also said Huawei's publicly disclosed subsidies currently total more than 800 billion yuan.
2026-09-08
Under the impact of domestically produced electric vehicles, joint-venture brands' sales in the Chinese domestic market fell 44.1% in July 2026.
2026-09-08
In 2026, Huawei's Legal Department launched a mass reporting campaign against Douyin videos featuring bamboo cicada toys mocking Yu Chengdong. The related content was deleted, and the poster's avatar was replaced with a "Xuanwu avatar."
2026-09-08
In the comments section of an avoid-this-place post on Xiaohongshu on September 8, a netizen pointed out that Holiland had employees work for more than 20 hours in a row on Valentine's Day, calling on others to avoid it.
2026-09-08
In the comments section of an avoid-this-store post on Xiaohongshu on September 8, a netizen pointed out that the store employees of milk tea brands such as Yidiandian, Chabaidao, Shuyi, Mixue Ice Cream & Tea, and Lelecha all get only four days off per month, and called on people to avoid them.
2026-09-07
On September 7, Taiwan's International Trade Administration under the Ministry of Economic Affairs stated that it will step up penalties against operators engaged in illegal transshipment, imposing an additional fine of NT$600,000 per customs declaration for cases of false origin labeling, and that it has established a high-risk manufacturer list and asked customs to strengthen inspections.
2026-09-05
On September 5, a Douyin account released an AI short film titled 'Millennium Illusion', which uses a fictional magical world to satirize various social issues in China, attracting widespread attention and discussion among netizens.
2026-09-06
On September 6, the NetEase News app published an article discussing class solidification and the survival pressure on young people, which was subsequently deleted across the entire internet, sparking widespread discussion about economic downturn and deflation.
2026-09-06
On September 6, 2026, an investigative report by The New York Times revealed that Inspur Group, a Chinese company under U.S. sanctions, purchased tens of billions of dollars' worth of advanced-process chips and evaded export controls by renaming its Silicon Valley subsidiary and using a transshipment network in Southeast Asia.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, media reported that against the backdrop of the severe job hunt facing young people, pyramid selling gangs such as the 1040 Sunshine Project have packaged their scams as state-owned projects offering formal posts and training, specifically targeting college graduates who lack social experience.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, primary and secondary school teachers in various regions posted on social media to complain about schools disguisedly forcing donations. Quotas were assigned based on senior teacher rank or permanent staff status, with requirements to post screenshots of the donations in work groups, triggering strong resentment.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, several migrant workers in Guangxi hung banners outside the gate of the Southwest Company of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Bureau and blocked the entrance with vehicles to demand unpaid wages; after rights defenders posted videos online, they were intimidated and threatened with charges such as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, outside the gates of Zhongjian Road and Bridge Group in Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, a group of workers gathered to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, accusing the company involved of failing to honor its payment agreement and of misappropriating the wages it refused to pay.
2026-09-04
On September 4, a netizen captured footage of a blind person using a domestic smartphone when a pop-up ad covered the screen. Because he relies on the screen reader accessibility feature, he could not close the ad through normal means, and the phone repeatedly played a prompt sound.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, Taiwan's Executive Yuan added NT$145.7 billion to the defense budget, planning to procure more than 40,000 drones and over 100 unmanned vessels, and to fully promote non-red supply chains to reduce dependence on Chinese components.
2026-09-03
Surviving workers at a Nepali hydropower project said that before the flood arrived, workers noticed something abnormal and demanded to evacuate the tunnel, but were stopped by the Chinese supervisor. The supervisor said they should go out first to check, then fled on his own and never returned, leaving a large number of workers trapped in the tunnel.
2026-09-03
On September 3, the Luding County government announced regulations setting the distance between tobacco retail outlets at 10 meters in both the old town and the new town, with total caps of 98 and 63 outlets respectively. The regulations take effect 30 days after publication.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, after a short video reviewing pandemic-prevention scenes from the Shanghai outbreak was posted on Douyin, the comment section saw a large number of netizens collectively posting photos of A4 blank sheets in response to memories of that year.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, an AITO car owner posted a video revealing that while filming the old battery during a faulty power battery replacement at a 4S dealership, after-sales staff snatched his phone twice and forcibly unlocked his photo album to delete the photos.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, a prospective AITO car owner disclosed that after he posted a video on Douyin complaining about delayed delivery of his new car, the brand managed to obtain his employer's information and contacted his supervisor to pressure him into deleting the post.
2026-09-03
A plan by Zizhuang Primary School in Yongchuan, Chongqing, to charge students a tray-cleaning fee of 45 yuan per semester has sparked controversy. On September 3, 2026, the Yongchuan District Education Commission announced that the charge was non-compliant and ordered the school to stop it immediately.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, surviving workers at Nepal's Trishuli 3A hydropower station told the media that before the flash flood arrived on August 26, workers had requested evacuation, but the Chinese national in charge ordered them to stay and keep working while he left first, leaving multiple workers trapped in the tunnel.
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.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, projects related to the Central Hospital of Xicheng District in Luohe, Henan Province, were in arrears on wages owed to migrant workers. Several workers held up banners at the hospital entrance in rights defense, protesting the malicious withholding of wages.
2026-09
The report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission notes that China is Iran's most important economic lifeline, providing revenue by purchasing Iranian oil and supplying components for its war machines.
2026-09-01
Volkswagen China announced that it had immediately launched a special investigation, and stated that the principle of respecting workers' lawful rights and interests equally applies to the supply chain system.
2026-09
The video reflects a phenomenon in some Chinese schools where students are forced to order milk and cafeteria meals. If they do not order, students may be forced to stand as punishment or be banned from eating in the classroom, even if they bring their own food, which must then be eaten off-campus. This move is pointed out as a way for schools to covertly increase the financial burden on parents.
2026-09
The day after the accident, Wu Yanzu publicly criticized GT China for delaying the release of the red flag, the rescue system's failure, and said the organizers did not acknowledge the mistake or take responsibility.
2026-09
Rodríguez, representative of Venezuela's transitional government, signed the oil deal; Defense Minister González López publicly stated that the military supports the deal.
2026-09
BYD announced the recall of more than 180,000 related vehicles because fiber blocks on the brake pedals of some cars may crack and come loose, causing the brake lights to stay on.
2026-09
Guizhou's Tongtian River Rafting Scenic Area was exposed for setting up three tiers of half-drift packages priced at 398 yuan, 1288 yuan, and 1988 yuan, with the scenic area's verified account promoting the related business.
2026-09
Catering enterprise Xibei is rumored to face bankruptcy due to a broken capital chain. Instead of reflecting on the pre-made meal issue, its founder Jia Guolong reportedly plans to sue Luo Yonghao, who previously exposed the problems, triggering public discussion about the company shirking responsibility and potentially evading debts.
2026-09
Rumors online claim that Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou fled the country by sea. The news has been out for six or seven days, yet neither Ren Zhengfei nor Meng Wanzhou has appeared in public, and Huawei has not issued a denial, sparking speculation outside the company.
2026-09
Workers at the CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. Green Building Materials EPC Base in Jianshi County, Enshi, Hubei, slept on the ground in front of the company gate to collectively demand unpaid wages after experiencing long-term wage arrears and multiple broken promises by the employer.
2026-09
Middle school students in many places report conflicts in canteen dining times and insufficient food, leading to long-term hunger among students; parents call on schools to increase meal preparations.
2026-09
A worker at Langfang Normal University died on his way home from work during construction. His family repeatedly defended their rights at the school gate, while school leaders were accused of turning a blind eye.
2026-09
In early September 2026, the Wuyuan County Smart Commerce Cold-Chain Logistics Park project forcibly launched Phase II construction while payments remained outstanding, triggering gatherings of migrant workers to defend their rights; at the scene, elderly people knelt on the ground pleading for help.
2026-09
Reports online claim that Yao Anna, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, threatened a netizen while replying on Xiaohongshu, saying that a single phone call could kill their entire family, sparking public outrage. Some netizens suspect that her account has been taken over by state security personnel.
2026-09
According to Chinese media reports, Huawei and Seres will adjust their cooperation model for intelligent selected vehicles. Huawei will adopt an asset-light model in the future, with responsibilities for products, marketing, sales and services shifting from being led by Huawei to being led by Seres, while Huawei provides support and technology.
2026-09
Financial data for the first half of the year released by Seres shows that the company went from a profit of 2.941 billion yuan to a loss of 1.717 billion yuan, turning from profit to loss.
2026-09
In September, the founders — a married couple — of Qianye Jewelry, a gold and jewelry brand with more than 200 self-operated stores nationwide, went missing. The Beijing headquarters was left deserted, product listings in stores on multiple e-commerce platforms were emptied or taken down, employees were owed unpaid wages, and the rights-defense group already had more than 60 members.
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
As of reports on September 20, the distance between tobacco retail outlets in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, has been reduced from 50 meters to 20 meters.
2026-09
In September 2026, a digital repair blogger transplanted and tested the memory chip of a Huawei Pura 70 Pro, finding it was actually manufactured by Samsung, raising questions about the labeling. The original test video subsequently disappeared and the account was switched to private.
2026-09
Students in the dormitories at the Zhongdu campus of Shanxi Medical University have upper bunks with no ladders. Parents have to buy a ladder from a shop off campus for about 200 yuan and bring it into the school to install it, and the university only allows parents to enter campus on the day of registration. Netizens question whether the school is working with merchants to fleece parents.
2026-09
Ford and Geely reached a cooperation deal to establish a joint venture in Spain, with Ford holding 66% and Geely holding 34%, using Ford's local plant to produce models for the European market.
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
Before this incident came to light, a netizen had posted a video showing that the built-in ads on Honor phones seriously affect daily use: pop-up ads frequently appear when the phone is unlocked and when switching interfaces, often accompanied by problems such as "shake-to-jump" and "hard-to-locate the close button."
2026-09
In late September, a flight attendant died suddenly on an Air China flight from Beijing to London. The captain requested to return for medical treatment three times, but was refused by the company. Netizens reported the incident, criticizing the company for only caring about occupational health checks for resigned employees while ignoring the lives of current staff.
2026-08-31
NetEase's NetEase Cloud Music did not launch a HarmonyOS trial beta version until August 31, 2026; prior to that it had been described by media as absent from the HarmonyOS platform for more than 900 days, and netizens contrasted this with the way NetEase UU Remote quickly adapted to Apple's new products.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, family members of Chinese crew members missing after the cargo ship Ocean Winner sank in the Bay of Bengal spoke out publicly under their real names online, questioning whether the vessel was an old second-hand ship and whether it had illegally loaded iron ore without testing its moisture content after rain, and demanding an investigation into the truth.
2026-08-27
On August 27, a netizen posted a video claiming that a Haier factory required workers to work for 8.5 consecutive hours without eating, drinking, or using the restroom. A worker was questioned by management for going to the toilet, leading to a heated argument; the video was subsequently taken down.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, media reported that smart door locks used in an apartment in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, would continuously display commercial advertisements before tenants could unlock the door, and would lock them out if rent was overdue, triggering strong dissatisfaction among tenants regarding personal privacy and user experience.
2026-08-24
On August 24, media reports revealed that a chain pest control company in Xiamen had long used the highly toxic pesticide dichlorvos to disinfect dozens of restaurants. Internal employees stated they would never dine at these establishments.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, The Beijing News published an investigative report revealing that a disinfection and pest control company in Xiamen had long-term filled mineral water bottles with the highly toxic pesticide dichlorvos, tearing off the labels to evade inspection, and carried out pest control operations in violation of regulations for dozens of chain restaurants, with the work directly contacting tableware and food ingredients.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, in response to the incident in Hebei, China, where cabbage was dipped in a formaldehyde solution, South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it was verifying with the Chinese side whether the cabbage in question had been exported to South Korea, and that it would conduct up to three formaldehyde tests on imported Chinese cabbage.
2026-08-22
Recently, a Douyin user posted a photo of themselves as a child wearing a Winnie the Pooh costume with a caption. The post received about 12,000 likes and 25,000 shares, but no comments were displayed in the comment section, suggesting possible censorship.
2026-08-21
The US Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement agreement with TikTok and ByteDance to resolve a civil lawsuit regarding children's privacy protection.
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2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance agreed to pay a $400 million civil fine to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Location: Washington, United States ·
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2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, multiple users reported that, without their knowledge, their participation in a Baidu Netdisk sharing campaign led the operator to file personal income tax labor compensation declarations of 89.1 yuan on their behalf, raising questions about tax compliance.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, a netizen in Xinjiang revealed that the Second Construction Zone of the general contracting project of the China Communications First Highway Engineering Group's Bazhou project has been withholding workers' wages since 2025, and that when workers went to demand their unpaid wages, they were blocked by checkpoints set up by the project side.
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2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, workers at Beiteer Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. in Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu exposed that the factory had maliciously withheld wages year after year, and some workers owed wages were forced to defend their rights through extreme means yet still could not recover the arrears.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, a horse ranch instructor in Qilian County, Qinghai, who had been placed under administrative detention for 13 days for molesting a female tourist, was found to have returned to work at the original ranch. The ranch said he was allowed to keep working because his wages had been paid in advance.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, netizens reported that when selling Chai Jing's book Seeing on the Xianyu platform, they were blocked by the system; sending the book title directly was intercepted with a prompt about improper information, and both buyer and seller had to rely on coded language to complete the transaction.
2026-08-20
Xu Jiayin, former chairman of Evergrande Group, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and his two sons, Xu Zhijian and Xu Tenghe, were also sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
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 August 20, 2026, several construction workers in Xi'an, Shaanxi reported that the Xi'an branch of Hebei Construction Group had maliciously withheld workers' wages for as long as 6 years. The workers used megaphones in the company's office area to protest and demand their unpaid wages.
2026-08-18
Xiaomi announced its 2026 interim results: net profit of 14.2 billion yuan in the first half of the year, and net cash flow from operating activities of 2.05 billion yuan; the report also disclosed that revenue in the second quarter exceeded 100 billion yuan.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, a commercial dispute over graphics card buyback prices began to fully degenerate into mass personal attacks and gender-based insults. On Tieba, Hupu, NGA and the comment section of Bilibili, some extreme netizens completely ignored the blogger's explanation about the time difference, instead directing their fire at CC's female identity, her appearance and figure, and her image at work wearing black-framed glasses and work clothes, referring to her with the highly mocking and obscene nickname "the mysterious glasses woman." Some rumor-mongers even maliciously drew vulgar comics and memes with obvious sexual innuendo and disparaging intent based on video screenshots, which spread virally in major digital hardware discussion groups, showing online violence sliding toward vulgar pranks and personal humiliation.
2026-08-17
A mainland Douyin user left a comment asking whether Xi Jinping was an emperor, a dictator, and a traitor to the Han people. Subsequently, that user's account as well as the blogger's account with 161,000 followers were banned by the platform.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, tech media exposed macOS system code showing that Apple has established an independent content security filtering mechanism for the Chinese mainland market, with user editing restricted and security updates required.
2026-08-17
On August 17, MacRumors reported that content safety prompts related to the mainland China version of Apple Intelligence writing tools were discovered in the macOS 26.7 system code, indicating it may have an independent content censorship mechanism.
2026-08-16
On August 16, 2026, "Shou Shouji de CC" officially released a graphics card recycling video, previously recorded in July, on mainstream video platforms including Bilibili. Upon its release, the video caused a sensation in the hardware and digital community, with views exceeding one million in a single day. However, due to a sharp surge in spot prices in the graphics card market in mid-August, the recycling prices shown in the video were severely "inverted" compared to the current market rates. Numerous netizens flooded the comments and bullet screens, accusing the blogger and the platform of "unscrupulous recycling" and "maliciously suppressing prices for novices." Facing the overwhelming backlash, CC posted a long pinned update that evening to clarify, explaining that the video was recorded in early July and only edited and uploaded in mid-August. There was a time lag of over a month and significant market volatility during this period, and the quotes were calculated according to the system rules at that time, not by intentional price suppression.
2026-08-14
On August 14, 2026, media reported that, in response to China's stringent AI algorithm regulatory thresholds, Apple separately trained a large language model for the Chinese market and connected it to local model services.
2026-08-14
In August 2026, a petroleum operations camp in Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, was stormed by local protesters. Chinese employees of PetroChina were forced to squat down and subjected to humiliating questioning, after which Mongolian police opened an investigation.
2026-08-13
"CC Who Collects Phones" (the mysterious woman in glasses), a Zhuanzhuan second-hand platform employee who became an internet celebrity through an ad, was hit by a fabricated sex rumor. She reported the case to the police to defend her rights but did not receive widespread sympathy from public opinion. The incident sparked discussion about the rights and obligations of influencer employees and their companies, as well as how public relations should be handled.
2026-08-11
A young man who plays the violin posted videos on Douyin recording his life after switching careers to food delivery. After the videos went viral, the account was banned from publishing content.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, Bloomberg reported that Manus, an AI startup founded by a Chinese team, announced it has officially separated from Meta and resumed independent operations, after Chinese regulators stepped in to halt Meta's acquisition of the company.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a counselor at Sichuan Southwest Medical University pushed the academic affairs office's mini-program in a class group chat to purchase brand-new textbooks, explicitly forbidding the purchase of second-hand textbooks or e-books, and even said that if students were unwilling to spend money on textbooks, they might as well take a leave of absence or drop out.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a counselor at Southwest Medical University in Sichuan notified students that everyone was required to purchase brand-new textbooks through a school-designated mini-program, with second-hand books strictly banned, sparking online protests and exposure by students.
2026-08-10
Related reports predict that this rocket debris will impact the Moon at around 2:35 AM US Eastern Time, potentially forming an impact crater about 30 meters in diameter.
2026-08-10
Recently, the Douyin account "Positive Energy" posted a video singing songs praising the Chinese Communist Party. Because the bullet comment "hao ni ma" was blocked by the platform, netizens flipped it into "ma ni hao" and collectively flooded the screen to bypass censorship.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, reports circulated online that the Yaogang Cold Storage and Xinglong Cold Storage in Bozhou, Anhui had been hit by a scandal; the cold storage operators were accused of unauthorizedly hauling away and reselling large batches of medicinal herbs stored by merchants, prompting a large number of affected merchants to arrive on site to defend their rights and call the police.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a consumer in Chengdu, Sichuan reported that a gold bar bought at a China Construction Bank branch was found to actually be made of copper when it was sent to a gold shop for processing. The person involved immediately called the police, and the police have intervened in the investigation.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, US media reported that Apple has tested memory chips from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) on iPhones and MacBooks, and has held preliminary negotiations with CXMT on procurement, planning to use them in some devices sold in China while seeking the White House's approval.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a student rights defense organization revealed that Yingshan High School in Sichuan Province illegally held supplementary classes and charged students fees during the summer vacation, while publicly claiming to offer free after-school care. During this period, students were forced to stay on campus at noon, and the quality of the cafeteria food was poor.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, after a Douyin creator posted a short video satirizing, in a humorous way, schools' hypocritical procedures for handling campus bullying, the account was immediately hit by the platform with a ban on publishing content.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, under continued media questioning, the pharmaceutical company involved confirmed that a boy in a gene-editing trial at Shanghai Children's Medical Center died in August 2025 from a serious adverse reaction, after the parties involved had concealed the information and not made it public.
2026-08-05
On August 5, the wife of Zhang Liang, a Beijing Fanghong engineer who died suddenly after 140 consecutive days of overtime, spoke out, saying the company's department required family members to sign a pledge not to post the evidence they had gathered online before it would cooperate with the application for work-related death determination.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, a Douyin user posted a photo of a red packet featuring a Winnie the Pooh cartoon design. Although the video was not taken down directly, the platform completely disabled the comment section, prohibiting any comments.
2026-08-04
The House Select Committee on the CCP released a report stating that US subsidiaries of China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom remain embedded in US internet infrastructure and are linked to nearly 109,000 suspicious routing anomaly events.
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2026-08-04
HIMA issued a statement saying it had monitored more than 56,000 pieces of information related to Zhuzhiliao, with 171 actual complaints and 144 items taken down by the platform, sparking further public attention and a surge in traffic.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, the State Post Bureau issued an official notice stating that, because a series of production safety accidents had occurred at franchise-operated enterprises and safety hazards repeatedly persisted, the headquarters of STO Express was formally placed under investigation for failing to implement unified safety responsibilities.
2026-08-04
On the evening of August 4, 2026, Huawei's HarmonyOS Smart Mobility issued an official announcement denying the complete removal of the Bamboo Cicada toy from e-commerce platforms, and disclosed that it had monitored more than 56,000 pieces of related online information across the internet and filed complaints over 171 pieces of infringing content.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, a popular-science video on a Chinese social platform explaining the U.S. presidential term system triggered widespread associations among netizens after mentioning breaking term limits and lifelong rule, flooding the screen with danmaku, which were subsequently comprehensively cleaned up by the platform.
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.
2026-08-03
On August 3, 2026, Seres Group, which works closely with Huawei, released its vehicle production and sales data for July 2026. Its vehicle sales fell sharply, with a year-on-year decline of more than 50%, drawing market attention to the new energy vehicle cooperation model.
2026-08-02
A member of the public livestreamed the scene of a warehouse explosion and fire in Qingdao on Douyin, but the livestream was banned less than a minute after it started.
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, "Is taking down the Yu Chengdong parody video making a fuss over nothing?" trended on Weibo's hot search. State media published an article defending Huawei's takedown complaint, drawing public backlash and prompting questions about the platform's hegemonic control over speech.
2026-08
Companies such as “Gangganghao Film and Television” obtain real people's likeness authorizations through AI digital artist contracts and AI live-action short drama actor recruitment, and charge authorization fees by the number of short dramas or by time.
2026-08
Continental Aerospace Technology Company, a mainland aviation technology firm under China's state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), has agreed to pay more than $11.77 million to settle a False Claims Act case in which it was accused of improperly applying for US Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for small and medium-sized enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2026-08
Master Kong reported instant noodle business revenue of over 13.7 billion yuan, up 2% year on year; Uni-President reported food business revenue of over 5.6 billion yuan, up 4.7% year on year.
2026-08
A bank employee listed their portrait on the "Xinzhua" platform and had it bought by advertising companies seven times within three days, earning 500 yuan per license and nearly 2,500 yuan after the platform's cut.
2026-08
According to a blogger's statistics, China's auto sales in August 2026 were about 100 million fewer than in the same period of 2021, wiping out all the gains of the five years, and have now declined for the 9th consecutive month. Auto consumption is collapsing at an accelerating pace, reflecting weak domestic demand.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, after a popular science video on Douyin about animals in harsh environments — where the strong migrate and the weak stop reproducing — went viral, its comment section was completely wiped by the platform after it was accused of using animals as an allegory for low birth rates and emigration.
2026-08
To prepare for the Walmart audit on September 9, 2026, the factory launched a major cleaning and renovation push in mid-August, canceling rest days and working continuous overtime purely for show.
2026-08
In August 2026, it was reported online that a netizen, after searching on Douyin for phrases containing the word "poison," received a call from local police officers asking whether they were involved with drugs and was asked to go to the police station to cooperate in making a statement.
2026-08
The doorstep collection video it released in August drew accusations of lowballing because it quoted 13500 yuan for an RTX5090 and 6000 yuan for an RTX5080. She explained that the video was filmed in July and published in August, and that graphics card prices rose during that period, causing a gap between her quotes and market prices; after that, pornographic comics and other cyberbullying content began appearing in the comments section from August 18.
2026-07-30
According to Nikkei Asia, SpaceX reviews its suppliers and requires that relevant projects not assign Chinese nationals, that products not use parts made by Chinese companies, and that factory equipment not use certain Chinese brands.
2026-07-30
Senators from both U.S. parties have sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, asking Apple to stop purchasing chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies, and to explain its cooperation with the two companies by August 21.
2026-07-29
Multiple netizens reported that a large number of videos related to Zhuzhiliao on Douyin have been subject to abnormal handling, with some works throttled or unable to be displayed, and the avatars of some Zhuzhiliao accounts turned gray.
2026-07-27
On July 27, a netizen filmed an elderly man in front of them on a bus repeatedly struggling with intrusive pop-up ads while trying to use an Android app. Despite repeatedly clicking close, he could not open it, sparking heated discussions and mockery among netizens.
2026-07-25
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has found that Ctrip abused its dominant position in the hotel booking market, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a fine totaling approximately 5.179 billion yuan.
2026-07-24
A Chinese electric vehicle owner drove from Zhengzhou to Paris. Shortly after the vehicle crossed the border into Kazakhstan, it was remotely locked by the manufacturer and could no longer be driven.
2026-07-15
On July 15, an AITO car owner posted a video claiming that the vehicle was unresponsive after pressing the SOS button, with the screen prompting "Cannot make call due to overdue fees." The owner stated that the vehicle was recently purchased and had been sent for repair, and there was no issue with data expiration.
2026-07-15
On July 15, 2026, an AITO owner posted a video revealing that when the vehicle was in danger, pressing the SOS button failed to connect to the backend emergency call, and the in-car screen displayed a notice that the account was in arrears and calls could not be made, questioning whether the vehicle has serious safety hazards.
2026-07-15
In July 2026, Zhang Liang's wife, Cai Xiaodan, spoke out once again, stating that her husband died suddenly due to continuous overtime work. After the family reported the incident, the relevant departments referred the issue back to the company in question for self-handling.
2026-07-14
Trump said the United States and Iraq will reach many trade deals, mainly involving US companies in oil extraction, and create jobs for both countries.
2026-07-14
A Douyin user posted an AI-generated video simulating Xi Jinping's daughter Xi Mingze delivering a TV speech, sparking heated discussion online.
2026-07-10
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing it of poaching more than 400 former Apple employees and of recruiting hardware executives and employees who brought along confidential materials on unreleased products.
2026-07-10
On July 10, 2026, media reported that Xiaomi has been laying off staff in batches since March in divisions such as smartphones and automobiles, with the initial ratio reportedly reaching 30%. Xiaomi responded that there is no large-scale layoff and that it is merely a normal business adjustment.
2026-07-10
On July 10, 2026, the well-known tech reviewer 'Shou Shouji de CC' (an employee of the Zhuanzhuan platform) was invited to the home of game streamer Wang Haoyu to record a video on door-to-door recycling of graphics cards and digital products. During the on-site inspection, the reviewer provided a recycling valuation of 13,500 yuan for the unreleased test version of the RTX 5090 D graphics card, and 6,000 yuan for the RTX 5080. These recycling prices were calculated based on the platform's internal subsidy coupon deduction rules and the manufacturer's suggested market price at the time. However, because a fair market price for high-end consumer graphics cards had not yet been established at that time, and the market price subsequently soared, this interim valuation laid the groundwork for the 'malicious price suppression' allegations that would later ignite the entire internet.
2026-07-09
In July 2026, the gender-irony viral term “Sanshuai,” a satirical coinage by male netizens, and related deconstruction topics were jointly censored, blocked, and banned from search on mainstream domestic social platforms including Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Weibo.
2026-07-08
The U.S. Treasury Department has revoked a temporary license previously issued to Iran that authorized it to produce, transport, and sell oil.
2026-07-02
Police stated that the Yanpeng case is being processed, and Xi'an Saige Mall is still in operation; relevant media reports were pointed out to have low readership or could not be viewed.
2026-07-01
Merchant Yan Peng died in the incident at Xi'an Saige Mall; netizens reported that the mall cleaned the scene afterward and continued business.
2026-07-01
Xi'an Saige Shopping Mall fined merchant Yan Peng 11.45 million RMB on the grounds of illegally splitting and selling shopping vouchers, and withheld and froze the merchant's payment for goods.
2026-07
The Irish Data Protection Commission will decide whether to impose new sanctions on TikTok, following a court order requiring it to reconsider its directive to suspend TikTok's data transfers to China.
2026-07
The Wall Street Journal reported that last summer, Ding Xuexiang received a closed-door briefing from Huawei on AI, in which Huawei claimed it could achieve Chinese autonomy in key AI fields within three years. Ding was leading the effort to consolidate resources in the chip industry at the time and warned that those who refused to use domestic chips were traitors.
2026-07
On the evening of July 26, Zhao Haifeng, general manager of the Zhejiang branch of China Merchants Shekou, and the general manager of C&D Real Estate's Hangzhou company, among others, committed forcible indecent assault against a female subordinate who had organized the gathering while moving on to another KTV venue, causing second-degree minor injuries. The two were subsequently placed under criminal detention and dismissed from their posts.
2026-07-01
Alibaba is accused of failing to prevent merchants on its platform from conducting approximately 80,000 transactions involving the export of illegal drugs, equipment, and other items to the United States between January 2016 and December 2024.
2026-07
In late July 2026, four tech giants released their Q2 earnings reports, with combined cash capital expenditures of $165.05 billion, up 827% year-on-year, accounting for 96% of the $171.7 billion in operating cash flow over the same period; among them, the comparable free cash flow of Alphabet and Amazon was negative.
2026-07
In July 2026, a compliance notice on product promotion and ad traffic placement issued by a third party on the Douyin platform showed that sensitive words such as "black slaves," "civilians," "paupers," "refugees," and "business wars" are prohibited in commercial promotional materials.
2026-07
Data monitored by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows that in July, both retail sales and manufacturer wholesale volumes in the national passenger car market plunged 18% year-on-year, while retail sales shrank 28% month-on-month.
2026-07
In July 2026, it was reported online that an AITO M8 owner in Shanghai complained that the vehicle's location could still be viewed after permissions were revoked; a WeChat group chat shows Yu Chengdong issuing a stern directive demanding an immediate fix and the dismissal of employees who delayed the resolution.
2026-06-29
On June 29, 2026, rights-defense users who had reported that the Juxiaohua and Yikoudai platforms withheld loan funds and triggered a blow-up revealed that Henan's Daxiang News had been instructed by its superiors to stop following up on the story; previously, report videos published by Henan's Metropolitan Report and Shandong's Life Help had also been deleted and taken down across the entire web.
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.
2026-06-25
In late June 2026, the "Juxiaohua" and "Yikoudai" platforms operated by Liaoning Orange Digital Technology collapsed. After a large number of borrowers repaid their loans, the platforms maliciously withheld the funds and failed to forward them to the lending financial institutions, leaving dozens of overdue loans on the borrowers' records and subjecting them to intensive debt collection.
2026-06-24
Tests by Hungary's environmental authority show that the groundwater aluminum concentration at Enjie's Debrecen plant exceeds the limit by more than 13,000 times, with arsenic, lead and other metals also exceeding limits; on June 24 the plant had all operations suspended for violating its environmental permit, and the Debrecen city government has filed criminal charges.
2026-06-23
The National Audit Office of China released an audit work report revealing that between 2023 and 2025, the Bank of China used employee capital contributions to "make up numbers" and packaged private equity funds as public funds, evading a cumulative 2.367 billion yuan in taxes.
2026-06-18
Goldman Sachs released a research report stating that gold would continue to fall due to interest rate hikes, but SEC filings from the same period show it secretly increased its holdings in gold ETFs.
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.
2026-06-17
On June 17, Judge Donnelly of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that prosecutors may use the four-page statement of facts signed by Meng Wanzhou under the deferred prosecution agreement in the Huawei trial; Huawei objected on the grounds that the company had not signed it and that Meng Wanzhou could not be cross-examined.
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2026-06-16
On the afternoon of June 16, a Xiaomi vehicle disintegrated into two parts on the spot and burst into flames within seconds, sparking public doubts about the quality of domestic automobiles.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, several Douyin video creators reported that the image-and-text videos they had made advocating a two-day weekend and an eight-hour workday were subjected to platform throttling, set to be visible only to themselves, or taken down outright after being published.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, a tech blogger posted a video exposing that an enterprise-grade mechanical hard drive he purchased from JD.com's self-operated section, which was promised to be brand new and unopened, was found upon disassembly to have internal firmware and a production date from a ten-year-old drive.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, the R&F New City real estate project in Kaifeng, Henan, drove a worker to death by withholding construction wages. The deceased's family hung banners near the project site and knelt holding a portrait of the deceased, defending their rights to demand justice.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, a pinned video on the Douyin account of the official livestream room of well-known sports brand PEAK exposed the company's arrears of Olympic sponsorship fees, and an operations employee publicly stated in the comments section that the company had owed them wages for a year.
2026-06-15
On June 15, 2026, a finance blogger on the Douyin platform was muted and banned for 30 days by the platform for posting a debate video discussing Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and reflecting on the drawbacks of centralized planned economy.
2026-06-15
Jin Ze's girlfriend Li Zifeng posted his chat records from before his death on Douyin, saying that Jin Ze suffered a myocardial infarction due to high-intensity work, and that he was powerless when subjected to a casting couch by iQiyi vice president Liu Tao.
2026-06-13
On June 13, 2026, it was reported that netizens found that when searching for the satirical code word "Ready Player One" referring to the national leader on the second-hand trading platform Xianyu, the search results had been cleared and could no longer be displayed.
2026-06-13
On June 13, during a live broadcast at the Yancheng Proving Ground, the Xiaomi YU7 GT, with Lei Jun participating, completed 50 consecutive braking tests from 100 km/h to a standstill. The first stop was 33.69 meters, and the 50th was 34.28 meters, with no significant performance degradation. The video was later dug up by netizens for comparison with Maextro (Zunjie) tests.
2026-06-11
The international human rights organization "Safeguard Defenders" has released its latest investigation report, revealing that multiple Chinese companies are openly posting commercial advertisements on the short-video platform Douyin, promoting anti-suicide soft-padded living and interrogation facilities custom-built for "retention" facilities under the state supervision system.
2026-06-09
On June 9, 2026, The New York Times reported that Chinese companies are openly hawking wigs and other goods made by North Korean laborers on social media, and disclosed that the workers are toiling long hours under intense conditions, allegedly in violation of UN sanctions resolutions against North Korea.
2026-06-09
Short video platform Douyin, cooperating with Chinese regulators' campaign against illegal cross-border stock trading, took down and dealt with more than 1,500 short videos involving guidance and tutorials on applying for Hong Kong bank cards, opening Hong Kong securities accounts, and other cross-border investment instruction.
2026-06-09
The New York Times reports that a large number of short videos have emerged on Chinese short-video platforms Douyin and Xiaohongshu in which Chinese companies promote North Korean-made goods and advertise cheap North Korean labor; such economic and trade cooperation is suspected of violating United Nations Security Council sanctions prohibiting the establishment of joint venture entities with North Korea.
2026-06-08
The China Passenger Car Market Information Joint Branch released May market data: national passenger car retail sales totaled 1.51 million units, a sharp year-on-year decline of 22.1%, setting a record of eight consecutive months of year-on-year decline and reflecting the continued weakness of domestic consumer demand.
2026-06-05
On June 5, Meta launched a multi-billion-dollar equity offering, intensifying the liquidity drainage effect on the market.
2026-06
An audit report revealed that Bank of China used methods such as gathering people through employees to package private equity funds as public funds, evading approximately 2.367 billion yuan in taxes over a period of more than two years.
2026-06
Audits explicitly named ICBC, CCB, Bank of Communications, CITIC, and other banks for tech-finance that fails to live up to its name, stating that 126 provincial branches retroactively labeled 64.22 billion yuan in loans as tech loans after the fact.
2026-06
Media reports revealed that two depositors at Jilin Fuyu Huimin Village Bank had a total of 18 million yuan in deposits misappropriated due to employees forging signatures for loss reports, triggering a situation where depositors have no way to seek rights defense.
2026-06
Apple has raised prices on several products, attributing the increases to tight supply of memory chips.
2026-06
The video claims that in June 2026 another 4 new energy vehicle companies, including IM Motors, showed a clear decline, and that some IM Motors dealers took payments from customers and then left.
2026-06
On June 16, 2026, an anti-counterfeiting blogger released an authoritative third-party national standard test report confirming that a Decathlon jacket purchased through Pinduoduo's 10 Billion Subsidy channel was counterfeit, and disclosed the source of the fake goods.
2026-06
In June 2026, the "World" trademark applied for by Huawei was approved in the publication by the Trademark Office of the National Intellectual Property Administration and registered under Class 12 related to automobiles, sparking controversy over whether generic terms can be registered as trademarks.
2026-06
Blogger Shiju Insight posted an article this June stating that many vocational schools recruit students under the banner of 'order classes' and guaranteed placement in state-owned enterprises. In reality, many of the recommended positions are merely basic labor dispatch or service roles, with some returning students complaining that the so-called 'guaranteed employment' is actually 'guaranteed employment as a cleaner'.
2026-05-28
On May 28, 2026, Shuanghui Development issued an apology statement regarding lincomycin levels in pork hind leg meat from its subsidiary Wangkui Shuanghui Beidahuang Food exceeding the limit by 37.5 times, stating that a special task force has been set up to conduct a comprehensive investigation.
2026-05-27
In late May 2026, a "pink wood ear" product at Hema Fresh sparked public controversy over vulgarity because its label used a female silhouette and sexually suggestive copy; Hema subsequently issued a public apology, announced that all products involved would be removed from shelves, and launched an internal review and rectification.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, several on-duty employees of BYD direct-sales stores posted videos online to defend their rights, accusing the company of suddenly converting direct-sales stores to independent dealerships without any communication or placement, hauling away display vehicles and equipment overnight and abandoning the employees.
2026-05-26
In the first quarter of 2026, Xiaomi's revenue was 99.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 10.9%; adjusted net profit was 6.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year drop of 43.1%, effectively being halved.
2026-05-26
Bloomberg reported on May 26, 2026 that Xiaomi Group's profit in the first quarter of 2026 fell sharply, driven by manufacturing costs pushed up by surging global DRAM and flash memory prices as well as heavy investment in new businesses such as automobiles.
2026-05-26
In late May 2026, a blogger revealed that on the Douyin platform there were violating communities using obscure code words such as "wearing a little cotton-padded jacket" to exchange and share experiences of sexually assaulting underage girls; on the 27th, Douyin responded saying it had indefinitely banned the relevant accounts and group chats.
2026-05-26
On May 26, 2026, online reports claimed that an employee of China Chengxin Pengyuan Credit Rating Co., Ltd. had passed away due to work. Afterwards, the company unexpectedly issued a statement calling on all employees to learn from her dedication and professionalism and to jointly pursue steady development, triggering strong public questioning.
2026-05-25
According to multiple financial media reports, quasi-fixed-income products under CreditEase Wealth have blown up, and the company has launched the so-called "benign liquidation" starting May 22, 2026.
2026-05-22
A major collapse accident occurred at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi. The official initial report stated 8 deaths, but after multiple revisions, the final death toll was announced as 82. The involved enterprise was exposed for severe cover-ups and illegal operations using AB blueprints.
2026-05-10
From May 10 to 15, 2026, the Shandong Provincial Drug Administration inspected Line 103 of the lyophilized powder injection workshop at Shandong Huatai Pharmaceutical, concluded that there was 1 serious defect and that the results were non-compliant, and decided to suspend production of amiodarone hydrochloride injection.
2026-05-08
The Zhengzhou Teresa Teng Digital Technology Music Center opened, featuring a holographic projection of Teresa Teng singing her new song "Going Home," which prompted the Teresa Teng Cultural and Educational Foundation to issue a public statement saying it was unauthorized.
2026-05-07
A Mr. Fan in Jilin discovered that 88 liters of gasoline had been pumped into his 75-liter fuel tank at a PetroChina gas station. Gas station staff subsequently visited his home and attempted to settle the matter privately with 10,000 yuan in cash, which was refused.
2026-05
A female master's student in Shanghai said that after a one-month internship without signing a formal agreement, her personal information was registered by the company as the person in charge of finance, the person in charge of tax, and a company executive who must bear legal responsibility.
2026-04-27
China's National Development and Reform Commission's Foreign Investment Security Review Office, in accordance with regulations, banned foreign investment in AI startup Manus, requiring the relevant parties to withdraw the acquisition deal.
2026-04-03
Cai Xiaodan, wife of Zhang Liang, filed a real-name report with the relevant departments over the company's attempt to shirk responsibility for the work-related death determination.
2026-04
In April 2026, Justin Sun sued World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family is involved, accusing it of illegally freezing the WLFI tokens he held and stripping him of his voting rights.
2026-04
In April 2026, Starbucks completed a transaction with Boyu Capital, with 60% of the equity in its China retail business held by funds managed by Boyu, while Starbucks retains 40%. According to Reuters, Boyu's co-founders include a grandson of Jiang Zemin.
2026-03-30
The global commercial organization World Data Organization (WDO) held its inaugural conference in Beijing, drawing high-profile state media promotion, though it has been pointed out as essentially a shady shell company lacking international legal basis.
2026-03-24
In 2025, Xiaomi released its highest-ever annual report since going public, with total annual revenue reaching 457.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25%; adjusted net profit was 39.2 billion yuan, up 43.8% year-on-year. Revenue from the automotive business exceeded 100 billion yuan, with a profit of 900 million yuan.
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.
2026-03-05
On March 5, Ms. Zhou from Zhangjiakou, Hebei, stated that a Meituan agent demanded her Hunan restaurant offer large discount coupons at the merchant's own expense. After she refused because each order resulted in a loss, the agent replied, "We have plenty of ways to deal with you."
2026-02-24
On February 24, Xiaomi's legal department announced that, in the lawsuit against the self-media account "AutoReport Auto Industry & Economics" for infringement, the company received the court's first-instance judgment, and the account was ordered to pay 5 million yuan in compensation.
2026-02-11
On February 11, a Didi driver displayed an order: the passenger paid 83 yuan, but the driver's app showed the passenger paid 62.89 yuan. The platform then took a 29% cut, leaving the driver with 44.66 yuan, resulting in a total commission of 50%.
2026-02
Chinese drone manufacturer DJI filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court, seeking removal from the regulatory list of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
2026-01-20
On January 20, 2026, the Office of the Central Special Mechanism for Combating Formalism and Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots Level, together with the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, announced: from 2022 to 2024, 34 above-designated-size industrial enterprises in Shuangjiang County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, cumulatively falsified their reported output value by 3.5 billion yuan.
2026
Meta has locked down a nuclear power portfolio with a scale cap of 6.6 gigawatts, covering power purchase agreements with operating nuclear plants and forward orders for small modular reactors.
2026
Since 2026, Xiaomi has spent 11.7 billion Hong Kong dollars to repurchase shares, with an average repurchase price of 30.9 Hong Kong dollars per share.
2026
Xiaomi's disclosed capital expenditure plan shows that total spending for the full year of 2026 will exceed 40 billion yuan, with approximately 18.2 billion yuan already spent in the first half of the year.
2026
According to Caicai magazine, Xiaomi Home has closed more than 2,000 stores within half a year.
2025-12
In December 2025, China Petroleum Daily announced its annual "Top Ten Outstanding Cases" in international communication, in which PetroChina's Niger company was selected for "breaking the deadlock with 'technology + communication' and setting a new green benchmark for China-Africa energy cooperation."
2025-11-26
The fire at Wing Fook Yuen in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on November 26, 2025 killed more than 100 people; the exterior protective netting is suspected to have been produced by two Shandong companies, whose test reports cannot be found on the testing agency's official website, and outsiders question whether the materials were substandard.
2025-11-24
On November 24, a Xiaomi SU7 driving in Nanyang, Henan Province lost control and crashed into a roadside tree. The vehicle was severely damaged; the power did not automatically cut off after the collision, and none of the four door locks could unlock normally. Netizens worried that the doors could not be opened after a power failure.
2025-11-16
Recently, a blogger on Douyin used official reports as source material to expose insiders and connected personnel at China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network who illegally issued SIM cards and became the hidden hands behind telecom fraud. The video was reported and taken down by the carriers on the grounds of reputation infringement.
2025-11-09
On Nov 9, a delivery courier publicly called out Liu Qiangdong, criticizing JD Delivery's "0.01-yuan treat" promotional event. The event forced merchants to bear the costs and drastically lowered courier delivery fees, causing courier earnings per order to drop far below normal levels, which triggered strong backlash from both merchants and couriers.
2025-10-14
Seres has sued a user who published an AI-fabricated video, claiming one million yuan in damages.
2025-10
An AITO M9 caught fire rapidly after striking a traffic pole in Shenmu, Yulin, Shaanxi, and the driver in the car died at the scene.
2025-10
AITO User Service issued a notice stating that the vehicle speed at the time of the incident was 139.1 kilometers per hour, that the vehicle was in manual driving mode, and that it characterized the battery explosion and fire as false information.
2025-09
AITO has filed a report with the public security authorities over relevant online remarks, saying that those spreading rumors may bear criminal liability.
2025-08-06
On August 3, 2025, China Automotive Research Institute stated that the test outline was drafted by Li Auto and was a simulated test for a specific scenario; on August 6, Li Auto, China Automotive Research Institute, and Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor issued a joint statement, in which China Automotive Research Institute apologized for not explaining the purpose of the Chenglong truck promptly and clearly.
2025-08-04
On August 4, China's Cyberspace Administration announced the investigation and handling of a batch of so-called accounts that maliciously bad-mouthed companies, and HarmonyOS Smart Life (Hongmeng Zhixing) subsequently issued a statement in response to the relevant complaints.
2025-08
In August 2025, a subject in the high-dose group of Huida Gene's HG302 Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene editing clinical trial died from a severe immune reaction triggered by AAV, and the incident was not disclosed until about a year later.
2025-08-01
On August 1, a truck blogger posted a video questioning whether Li Auto's promotional video was faked, saying a truck's frame can bear over a hundred tons of cargo, and that a family sedan ramming a big truck is a huge joke, warning consumers not to be misled.
2025-07-30
At the Li Auto i8 launch event on July 30, Li Auto released a video claiming that when the Li Auto i8 collided with an eight-ton truck, the truck's four wheels flew up and the cab separated.
2025-07-29
On July 29, 2025, Li Auto released a video of a head-on collision test between its i8 and a Chenglong truck. In the footage, all four wheels of the truck leave the ground and the cab tips over, raising questions about the safety of Chenglong trucks.
2025-07
Seres filed a lawsuit against a Zhihu user over a reputation rights dispute and is seeking one million yuan in compensation.
2025-06
An AITO M9 in Wenling, Zhejiang caught fire from its undercarriage, and AITO user services responded by saying not to believe or spread rumors.
2025-02-26
On February 26, due to a rise in Xiaomi's stock price, Lei Jun briefly became the richest person in China, but he urgently denied the report, calling it fake news.
2025-02-18
A U.S. senator disclosed in Congress that in 2025, parties involved in China's dumping of toxic waste into Zambia's main river contaminated the drinking water of millions of local people, and were accused of forcing local parties to sign confidentiality agreements to cover up the incident.
2025-02
In February 2025, data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange showed that the net inflow of foreign direct investment into China in 2024 was only about $4.5 billion, the lowest since 1991 and just 2% of the 2021 peak of $344.1 billion.
2025
xAI has sued Apple and OpenAI, accusing the two of squeezing out competitors in app distribution on the App Store.
2025-01
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries a lunar lander toward the Moon.
2025
Xiaomi placed 800 million shares to institutions at HKD 53.25 per share, raising approximately HKD 42.5 billion.
2025
In 2025, five departments in Hubei Province issued a document proposing that by 2028 the coverage rate of the student milk drinking program in basic education schools should reach more than 85%, and the awareness and acceptance rate among students and parents should reach more than 90%; at the same time, it stipulated that promotion should follow principles such as government guidance and parental voluntariness.
2024-09-28
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Cao Xingxin, former Vice General Manager of China Unicom who long served in the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, was subjected to disciplinary review and investigation, and later sentenced to 12 years in prison.
2024-08
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a settlement order against Wu Zheng, finding that during his tenure at Edison Max he concealed related-party transactions and used a listed company's money to pay off his own debts.
2024-08
Dong Mingzhu, dubbed the "female version of Old Xi", has been intensively relinquishing power since August 2024, stepping down from at least six positions within two years, including at Chengdu Medical Equipment and Lingbianjie Company.
2024-07-26
A netizen submitted a report claiming that Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT system has a built-in website blocking function based on online detection, consistent with the blocking in Huawei phones' stock browser, and that every URL a user visits is uploaded to Huawei.
2024-05-31
On May 31, 2024, the AITO New M7 Ultra was launched, upgraded with a 192-line LiDAR and several additional features; the N7 Ultra mentioned in the video is actually the M7 Ultra.
2024-05-31
On May 31, 2024, the AITO New M7 Ultra was launched, starting at 289,800 yuan, upgraded with a flagship 192-line LiDAR with a maximum detection range of 250 meters.
2024-05-05
On May 5, 2024, a Chinese-made T-59G tank in Chittagong, Bangladesh, suffered a barrel explosion during firing training after a round jammed. The loader was killed, and the commander and gunner were burned. A State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense investigation team submitted a report on May 7, attributing the accident to Bangladesh's use of non-Chinese standard ammunition and recommending a suspension of the use of such ammunition. The accident was not made public.
2024-05
Outside an ONVO store in Zhengzhou, AITO owners unfurled banners claiming they waited 100 days for their cars and that after 60 days of driving the vehicle had already become an old model, while also criticizing after-sales service and the car-buying experience.
2024-04
An Aito M9 caught fire after a collision in Yuncheng, killing three people. The vehicle involved was not recalled, and related reports were taken down.
2024-04
In April 2024, Apple said that China's Cyberspace Administration requested, on the grounds of "national security," that it remove Threads from the Chinese App Store. The platform where Fan Yun's team published the relevant video was Threads.
2024-02
Former Party Committee Secretary and President of China Merchants Bank, Tian Huiyu, sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
2023-12-26
On December 26, 2023, Yu Chengdong unveiled the Aito M9 at Huawei's Winter Full-Scenario Launch Event, claiming it would redefine "the best smart flagship SUV under 10 million yuan."
2023-11
While Fujian Zhangzhou consumer Ying Jie was waiting for his Mate60 to arrive, the store required him to buy accessories worth more than 200 yuan as a bundle.
2023-11
After the salesperson said there would be no model refresh in the near future, Beijing car owner Xiao Tang purchased the AITO M7 four-wheel-drive intelligent driving edition in November 2023, at a landed price of nearly 300,000 yuan, and waited nearly four months for delivery.
2023-05-15
Beijing's cultural law enforcement authorities determined that the actor House seriously insulted the people's armed forces during a performance, confiscating Xiaoguo Culture's illegal gains and imposing a total fine of more than 14.67 million yuan; Xiaoguo Culture subsequently announced an indefinite suspension of all offline performances nationwide.
2023-05
In May 2023, after the Ant Group's IPO was halted and Ma Yun had been out of the public eye for a long time, he was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo's Tokyo College, and thereafter lived in Japan for an extended period, being seen as a representative figure of the wave of Chinese entrepreneurs moving to Japan.
2023-04
Bank of China used its subordinate financial institutions and employee contributions to create public-like holder structures for 11 private equity funds in order to exploit tax incentives meant for public funds.
2023-03-22
The U.S. SEC has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Justin Sun, the TRON Foundation, and affiliated companies, accusing them of manipulating TRX trading volume, selling unregistered securities, and failing to disclose compensation for celebrity endorsements.
2023
The Huawei Nova11 SE went on sale at a starting price of 1999 yuan; the video claims that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 6000 4G chip it carries had previously been used in the OPPO360, which sells for about 700 yuan.
2023
Yu Chengdong released the Aito M9, calling it the best SUV under 10 million yuan.
2023
Meta defined 2023 as the year of efficiency, with revenue growing 16%, operating margin rebounding from 25% to 35%, free cash flow recovering to $43 billion, and stock price returning to $353.
2023
According to reports, Mr. Wu from Zhuzhou, Hunan, was promised a free mobile phone by a salesperson after staying on a network plan for three years. A few days later, he received a text message confirming a successful loan application. The contract showed a new consumer loan of 1,950 yuan under his name, to be repaid in 36 installments.
2022-04
In April 2022, Douyin banned the account of influencer "Russian Nana" (Na Yina) on the grounds of "abusing platform props" and "impersonating a fake persona." CCTV.com previously published a commentary on this.
2022-03-15
The 2022 315 Gala first exposed production chaos at multiple pickled vegetable companies in Huarong and Junshan, Hunan, with workers stepping barefoot into the pickled greens and cigarette butts thrown about; the brands involved issued urgent apologies and terminated cooperation.
2022-01-27
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revoked the Section 214 operating authorization of China Unicom Americas Operations Co., Ltd.
2022
Meta's ad unit price fell by 16%, capital expenditure rose due to Metaverse investment, and free cash flow dropped from $38.4 billion to $18.4 billion, with the stock price falling to approximately $120.
2022
Meta repurchased 160 million shares for approximately $28 billion, but the buyback failed to offset the impact of declining cash flow and rising discount rates on intrinsic value.
2022
After Sun Yuchen took over the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, he was accused of handling platform users' assets through rule adjustments, targeted liquidations, and account bans.
2021-09-24
Meng Wanzhou signed a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and signed a four-page statement of facts, admitting to making false statements to HSBC in Hong Kong in 2013.
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2021-09
On September 10, 2021, Blackstone terminated its acquisition of SOHO China; on December 17, Jianhua Land, a SOHO subsidiary, was ordered by Beijing tax authorities to pay back taxes and a fine for underpaid taxes, totaling 709 million yuan.
2021-09
In September 2021, Meng Wanzhou flew from Vancouver back to China; on the same day, two Canadians detained by China were also released and left, with both sides seen as a prisoner swap.
2021-07-02
Two days after Didi listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced the launch of a network security review of the company; its app was subsequently forced off shelves, and it was ultimately delisted in June 2022 and hit with a massive fine.
2021-03-14
Former national football team captain Fan Zhiyi mocked the Chinese men's basketball team's defeat on the show, triggering a strong backlash from the sports world; the second half of the program, originally scheduled to air, was ultimately cut and never broadcast.
2021
Meta's fundamentals remained strong in 2021, and it conducted $44.8 billion in stock buybacks; the video states that buybacks provide buyer depth but do not guarantee that prices will not be repriced.
2020-12
A U.S. security research institute found that Huawei is developing a facial recognition system for Uyghurs that can automatically report to the authorities, drawing international attention; French football star Griezmann subsequently announced the termination of his endorsement deal with Huawei.
2020-09-29
Between 2008 and 2016, 15 JPMorgan traders systematically spoofed the precious metals markets, resulting in $920 million in fines from U.S. regulators and criminal charges against three traders.
2020-09
In September 2020, Meng Wanzhou signed a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. prosecutors and a four-page statement of facts; on December 2 of the same year, the court formally dropped the personal charges against her, and she was no longer a defendant.
2020-04-12
According to a report dated April 12, 2020 republished on the Yueyang County government website, Huaihua Hongling Qingcheng Real Estate Co., Ltd., the construction unit of the Yuelu Qingcheng project, was entered into the serious misconduct record for refusing to implement relevant rectification or work suspension notices.
2020-03
During the fork dispute in the Steem community, Justin Sun, together with Binance, Huobi, and Poloniex, used exchange-custodied Steem tokens to vote, overthrowing the community-elected witnesses.
2020-02-13
The US Department of Justice filed a third superseding indictment, increasing the charges against Huawei to sixteen and applying the RICO Act, typically used to combat organized crime, against Huawei for the first time.
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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.
2019-08
A Wall Street Journal investigative report in August 2019 found that authorities in Uganda and Zambia used Huawei cameras and communications equipment to monitor the opposition and dissidents, and that Huawei technicians personally helped crack the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp and locate movements to aid arrests.
2019-05-15
On May 15, 2019 (US Eastern Time), the US Department of Commerce added Huawei and 70 subsidiaries to the Entity List; HiSilicon president He Tingbo subsequently sent an internal letter saying that the "backup" had "become primary."
2019-03
Huawei released the P30 Pro, claiming it could capture clear photos of the moon. Reviewer Wang Yuekun questioned whether the photos were generated by an AI algorithm. Wang Yuekun was subsequently fired by his employer, Afou Technology (Fview), sparking public controversy over Huawei's public relations and its way of responding.
2019-01-28
The previously sealed indictment has been officially unsealed, and the US government has publicly announced a lawsuit against Huawei.
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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.
2019
According to a 2019 report by The New York Times, Huawei's Safe City system in Ecuador was used by the local government to monitor the opposition and journalists.
2019
According to a 2019 report by the Danish newspaper Copenhagen Times, the Chinese embassy forcibly demanded that the Danish government deploy a Huawei 5G system in the Faroe Islands, threatening to abolish the China-Denmark free trade agreement.
2018-12-10
Days after Meng Wanzhou's arrest, Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were taken away in Beijing and Dandong, respectively, by state security (MSS) on charges of endangering national security.
2018-12-01
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver, Canada. On the same day, the CCP arrested two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, on charges of espionage.
2018-12
According to a report by Caixin, in the very month that Li Hongyuan was detained, 5 employees were arrested for demanding severance pay from Huawei, one of whom was arrested by Thai police while traveling in Thailand and later handed over.
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.
2018-08-22
The Justice Department of the Trump administration filed a sealed indictment against Huawei in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging the company with multiple offenses.
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2018-04
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issued a warning to Zhao Wei and her husband, fined them 300,000 yuan each, and imposed a 5-year securities market ban.
2018
In 2018, Gao Xiaosong posted on Weibo that he had officially joined Harvard University as a researcher. Netizens searched Harvard's website and found that his English title was Associate, raising questions about him exaggerating his credentials.
2017-03
China Newsweek published an article titled 'The Truth of Huawei's 34-year-old Employees' on page 6 of the 7th edition on March 23, 2017, revealing the event of Huawei centrally clearing out employees over 34 years old in 2017.
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."
2016-09-08
In 2016, a Ministry of Finance investigation found that 72 of 93 automakers were suspected of defrauding subsidies, with the case rate reaching as high as 80%.
2016-07
After Roast Season 1, hosted by Zhou Jie, drew about 30 million views within three days of going online, it suddenly disappeared from the platform; eight months later it was relaunched after its offensive angle was revised.
2013
In 2013, while Iran was under international sanctions, Huawei smuggled equipment through Xintong, a shell company in Iran, whose employees used Huawei email addresses and ID badges. Meng Wanzhou later confessed to this matter in exchange for an agreement not to be prosecuted.
2011
In 2011, at the Xiaomi smartphone launch event, Lei Jun imitated Steve Jobs by wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans, and canvas shoes, and concluded with 'One more thing,' sporting a posture and outfit highly similar to Jobs.
2010-08-02
Geely completed the acquisition of Volvo for $1.8 billion, with local state-owned capital from Daqing and Jiading, Shanghai, participating in the funding and securing commitments for industrial bases.
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
On April 28, 2006, 24-year-old graduate student Hu Xinyu, during a critical Huawei project push, worked until 3 a.m. every day for a long stretch, going home only 4 times in 30 days. He collapsed at the office, was diagnosed with acute meningitis, and died 10 days after being hospitalized. Huawei subsequently hired internet commenters to post articles and published pieces such as "Heaven Rewards Diligence" to promote a culture of struggle, suppressing the incident.
2005
The entrepreneur circle initiated by Duan Yongji was officially named the Taishan Club in 2005. Its members include many core private entrepreneurs in China, and they hold regular closed-door discussions on policy trends and the macroeconomy.
2004-08-31
On August 31, 2004, Du Shicheng presided over a special meeting of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee to study land for housing for Sinopec experts and employees; through the coordination of Vice Mayor Luo Yongming, a total of 1000 mu of land was secured across the Qingdao Economic Development Zone, Huangdao District, and Jiaonan City.
2004-06-05
A group of China's top entrepreneurs established the Alxa SEE Ecological Association in Alxa. During the founding conference, they engaged in fierce discussions over organizational bylaws, election methods, and other issues, ultimately tearing up the pre-arranged list and establishing a rule-based operating model.
2004-03
In March 2004, Chen Tonghai, then General Manager of Sinopec Group, convened a meeting of Taishan Petroleum executives to discuss the restructuring of Taishan Real Estate. Taishan Petroleum insiders claimed that the withdrawal was actually manipulated by Chen Tonghai.
2004
After a communications trade show in Chicago closed in 2004, Fujitsu staff found an Asian man holding a Chinese passport issued a few weeks earlier photographing equipment at the booth with a camera; he was stopped by security, and the camera's memory card contained photos of equipment from Fujitsu and other companies.
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2004
In 2004, China Development Bank provided Huawei with over 80 billion RMB in loans, raising the figure to 240 billion yuan in 2009, and was seen as an important channel through which Huawei received state support.
2003
Chen Jin's team ground off the markings on purchased Motorola chips and reprinted them as "Hanxin No. 1", announced it in February 2003, defrauding about 110 million yuan in research funding (over 60 million yuan received), and was exposed in early 2006.
2003
In the summer of 2003, Jiang Peizhen, the boss of Golden Throat, paid $300,000 and a jersey to have Ronaldo take a photo with her while wearing a jersey printed with the Golden Throat logo. Subsequently, Golden Throat used his image for television advertising for four years, while Ronaldo himself was completely unaware of it.
2001-07
In July 2001, three former Huawei employees who had left the company to start their own business were detained by police 2,000 kilometers away, and were subsequently sentenced to two to three years in prison each.
1995-02-23
Illegal short selling and a bull-bear battle broke out in the treasury bond futures market; Wanguo Securities was hit and forced into liquidation; the exchange subsequently declared the last eight minutes of trading void, and treasury bond futures were shut down that May.