Daqing · Full chronicle and history

On August 27, 2026, a villager from Yilin Village, Zhaozhou County, Daqing, Heilongjiang, posted a video reporting that while making a real-name complaint about corn drip irrigation tape issues on-site, the village party secretary issued a death threat using aggressive language to their face, while the discipline inspection officials present failed to intervene.

On August 5, 2026, an environmental blogger investigating Shixian Village in Daqing found that ditches running through farmland and woods were discharging large volumes of milky-white industrial wastewater with foam and a pungent odor, leaving surrounding vegetation yellowed; villagers reported being warned to keep quiet.

On August 5, an environmental blogger investigated a garlic slice processing factory in Shixian Village, Daqing, illegally discharging milky, pungent wastewater. The water body at the site severely deteriorated, and the victimized villagers refused to accept public interviews for fear of retaliation.

In March 2002, tens of thousands of laid-off and still-employed workers at the Daqing Oilfield took to the streets over unfair compensation for buyouts of their years of service and cuts to their medical and pension benefits. The demonstrations lasted nearly three weeks, with the crowd at one point reaching 40,000 to 50,000 people, setting a record for the scale of collective worker protests since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.