Archive of content related to Lanzhou.
On October 30, a netizen posted a video claiming that a calculus teacher at Lanzhou Jiaotong University, upon seeing a student using a mobile phone during class, walked off the podium and called the student's parent on the spot, hoping for parental assistance in discipline, which sparked heated discussion among netizens.
On October 23, a netizen posted to expose that a university dormitory in Lanzhou, Gansu supplies electricity in four time slots per day, totaling 16.25 hours of power cuts, with a unified dormitory check at 21:30 pm prohibiting late returns; the class circulated a notice about students leaving evening self-study early, and warned that violators would not be considered for Party or Communist Youth League membership recommendations for the time being, and their grants would be reduced or even canceled.
Zhou Lubao, who had actively participated in public discussions and helped workers demand unpaid wages, was sentenced by a Lanzhou court to 14 years in prison for extortion. Netizens posted lamenting that the one who fought for others' wages was instead heavily punished.
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.
On September 11, the Chengguan District Court in Lanzhou delivered its first-instance verdict: migrant worker Jing Shuren was found guilty of nine counts of picking quarrels and provoking trouble for reposting posts demanding unpaid wages and debt collection, and was sentenced to 4 years; Zhou Lubao, a co-defendant, received 14 years for picking quarrels and provoking trouble and extortion. Jing Shuren was the only one of the seven defendants who had not taken a single cent. Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 7 years and 6 months; after the charge of leading an evil force was dropped and he was reclassified as an accomplice, he was still sentenced to 4 years. All seven stated in court that they would appeal.
On September 5, a netizen reported that dyed lettuce was found in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu, one of the recent vegetable safety incidents to be exposed.
On August 25, 2026, in front of an office building of a China Railway Sixth Group engineering project in Lanzhou, Gansu, multiple construction workers gathered to demand unpaid wages. On-site video sparked netizen discussion about widespread wage arrears in the construction engineering industry.
On August 6, a netizen submitted a report saying that after students reported their school for starting the semester early to the 12345 hotline and the Education Bureau, the Education Bureau leaked the students' list to the school, and school leaders pressured the students according to the list, demanding that they withdraw their complaints.
On July 14, 2026, a large area of road surface suddenly collapsed in Qilihe District, Lanzhou, Gansu. A bus traveling normally fell into the sinkhole, and shortly after the incident, the road surface was hit by another secondary collapse hazard.
The Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products applied on December 17, 2025 for a patent concerning the stable and large-scale production of the Yersinia pestis F1 antigen.
The Lanzhou procuratorate recently brought a public prosecution against Jing Shuren, accusing him of using his influence to repost Zhou Lubao's so-called false negative posts, with a sentencing recommendation of 7 years and 6 months.
Jing Shuren, a migrant worker and self-media creator in Gansu, was criminally detained by Lanzhou police in 2024 for repeatedly reposting posts by his friend Zhou Lubao that exposed companies' unpaid wages.
When Bai Yansong responded to students' questions about their future and employment pressure during a speech at a university, he rhetorically listed hypothetical scenarios such as low housing prices and being able to find a job easily. The remarks triggered widespread mockery among netizens online the following spring.