Shanwei · Full chronicle and history

On October 5, a senior student at the Shanwei School of South China Normal University High School posted online, saying that the school's National Day holiday ran only from the afternoon of October 4 to the evening of October 6, and that a parents' meeting was held before students left campus on the afternoon of October 4, at which a PPT instructed parents not to agree to leave requests, and three students who had asked for leave to go out and eat were named.

On September 7, 2026, outside the gate of Kaifeng Industrial Gas Company in Luhe County, Shanwei, Guangdong, several workers gathered and kept vigil to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, accusing the company of long-term malicious wage arrears long after the project was completed, and calling on the competent authorities to intervene.

On August 5, employees of the CNNC 23 Lufeng Nuclear Power Project, who had long been owed wages, spoke out and raised questions in a work group of several thousand people; their DingTalk accounts were immediately deactivated, and multiple employees reported widespread wage arrears.

On July 27, 2026, affected by the outer circulation of Typhoon Hongxia, Lianping County in Heyuan and Haifeng County in Shanwei, Guangdong, were hit by sudden extremely heavy rainstorms that caused severe urban flooding; multiple townships, villages, schools and roads were inundated by floodwaters.

In May 2026, at the Gongdishan Comprehensive Market in Haifeng County, Guangdong, a 75-year-old vegetable vendor was pushed down by security personnel, suffering a muscle strain and being taken to hospital. Afterwards, the market management denied that any bullying or beating had occurred. The security staff involved have been criticized and educated, and the police have intervened.

In December 2005, a large-scale clash between police and civilians broke out in Dongzhou Village, Shanwei, Guangdong, leaving 14 dead and 50 injured; the first three pages of Yahoo China's search results contained no content related to the crackdown, while the international version of Yahoo returned 370,000 related results.