Huaihua · Full chronicle and history

Around 2 a.m. on October 1, on the Huaihua section of the Shanghai–Kunming Expressway in Hunan, a heavy semi-trailer tractor collided in succession with three cars, triggering a fire that killed 6 people and injured 4. The 57-year-old driver, surnamed Ren, was taken into police custody on suspicion of fatigued driving. The accident investigation and follow-up handling are ongoing.

On October 1, the Seventh Detachment of the Hunan Highway Police reported a four-vehicle collision on the Huaihua section of the Shanghai–Kunming Expressway, while also calling on the public not to spread photos, videos, and related false information from the scene, on the grounds of avoiding secondary harm to the families of the deceased.

Local government in Zhijiang, Hunan, dispatched administrative staff and police into a residential compound in an attempt to demolish facilities deemed excessively tall while refusing compensation, triggering on-site protests by owners, and the two sides at one point came into conflict.

On September 15, a netizen uploaded a video repeatedly poking the damaged ceiling at Phase II of Yuelu Qingcheng in Huaihua, Hunan with a wooden stick, with dust and debris falling one after another, calling it a tofu-dreg project, more fragile than tofu.

On August 22, 2026, a vicious knife attack occurred at the Wanjia Grand Hotel in Huaihua, Hunan. A man, suspected of acting over a relationship dispute, stabbed two people to death before killing himself.

According to a report dated April 12, 2020 republished on the Yueyang County government website, Huaihua Hongling Qingcheng Real Estate Co., Ltd., the construction unit of the Yuelu Qingcheng project, was entered into the serious misconduct record for refusing to implement relevant rectification or work suspension notices.