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On November 7, a teacher surnamed Xie at the Yangchun Ziyong After-school Care Center in Guangdong choked a student while snatching an item from them. The parent used a children's smartwatch to record the incident, but the teacher snatched the watch and forcibly deleted the video. The parent then used a mobile phone to record a second video as evidence.
On September 24, it was reported online that family members of a student held banners to demand rights outside the gate of Yangxi County No. 1 Middle School in Yangjiang, Guangdong. The incident stemmed from a student suspected of suffering from depression who jumped to their death on campus. The family accused the school of forcing the child, who was resting at home, to return to school by threatening to record their absence as truancy in their permanent file. There are reports that the teacher involved may have attempted suicide by swallowing pills; the incident is awaiting official notification.
Sanitation workers in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, went on a collective strike starting June 1 due to six months of unpaid wages, leaving garbage scattered all over the town.