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On the evening of September 30, Pang Donglai founder Yu Donglai announced on his personal social media account that from March 2027, employees and management will work five days a week, seven hours a day, 35 hours in total, extending two-day weekends to ordinary employees.
On August 31, 2026, it was reported online that dozens of depositors of Henan village and town banks traveled to Xuchang to demand their deposits; immediately after exiting the station they were surrounded by unidentified men in black, taken to the headquarters of Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank, and had their personal freedom illegally restricted.
On August 31, dozens of depositors from village and town banks in Henan traveled to Xuchang to demand their bank card savings. Immediately after exiting Xuchang Railway Station, they were surrounded by multiple unidentified men in black, forcibly taken to the headquarters of Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank, and illegally detained until late at night.
On August 12, 2026, affected by heavy rainfall, a wall in the underground parking garage of Yuhuwan Linxi Community in Xuchang, Henan suddenly collapsed, and a large amount of accumulated water and mud surged in, completely flooding the garage.
On August 7, 2026, Pang Dong Lai founder Yu Donglai announced that the Xuchang Life Plaza store, which has been in operation for 24 years and earns annual profits of over 100 million yuan, falls below the baseline of fairness because of its historical lease, and will officially close and exit after the lease expires in December 2026.
A man in Xuchang, Henan went to a police station to obtain a certificate of no criminal record, but the system showed that he had been sentenced to re-education through labor by a court in 2010, while he had in fact been working in Suzhou, Jiangsu at the time and had never been subjected to re-education through labor.
In 2022, several village and town banks in Henan collapsed. The cause was collusion between major shareholders inside and outside the banks and the fabrication of loans, making it a pure fraud case.