2026-11-11
After a student died, a large number of family members gathered at the gate of the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental School to defend their rights, accusing the school of delaying notification to parents and shirking responsibility by claiming the 'child fell on their own'.
2026-11-11
A PPT from the Southeast University Medical School circulating online shows that out of 236 freshmen enrolled, only 133 remain, a dropout rate of 43.6%. In Medical Imaging, 6 out of 21 remain, and in the 5+3 integrated clinical program, 39 out of 86 students transferred out. Some students claim that in their freshman year, the class size dropped from over 30 to 14.
2026-11-11
Recently, a Douyin influencer posted a video claiming that students were not released from school until 9:50 PM, with the school gate brightly lit and crowded with people. The caption read, 'If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it.' Netizens left sarcastic comments and recalled similar experiences.
2026-11-10
Procurement documents for AI classroom patrol systems at Anhui Vocational College of Commerce and Trade and Zhengzhou Normal University in 2025 have recently sparked concern: the systems monitor student attendance rates, head-up rates, and desk-leaning rates, analyze the political leanings and sensitive words in teachers' classroom speech, and automatically trigger screenshots for evidence collection and inclusion in priority monitoring lists when thresholds are met.
2026-11-10
Around November 10, a netizen posted on Douyin recalling that a boy in the Tsinghua-Peking University elite class jumped to his death after being repeatedly reprimanded by teachers and parents following a poor performance in a monthly exam. His family wore mourning clothes and wailed at the school gates for days, sparking heated discussions among netizens.
2026-11-10
On November 10, netizens filmed that Lezhi County Senior Vocational High School in Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, allegedly installed a row of razor wire on the second floor of its teaching building to prevent students from climbing over the railings. The video has sparked sarcasm and ridicule from netizens.
2026-11-10
On November 10, a parent in Jiangsu reported that the school announced an 8:20 AM start time but did not actually implement it, claiming the notice was just a notice. Multiple students and parents in the comments section stated they had encountered similar situations, noting that some schools have 'yin-yang' (fake/hidden) class schedules.
2026-11-10
On November 10, netizens reported that a high school student at Guilin Guidian Middle School in Guangxi was disciplined by the school for privately bringing a camera to film classroom footage and uploading it to social media. The homeroom teacher notified the parents, labeling the student's behavior as a "cognitive problem," and sent a photo of the student being "educated" in the office.
2026-11-09
On November 9, 2026, a Douyin user posted a page of school rules, in which "jumping off a building" is explicitly stated to result in "expulsion from the school registry," sparking heated discussion among netizens. Some mocked, "I've already jumped off the building, why would I be afraid of you expelling me?"
2026-11-08
Recently, a set of screenshots of netizen comments has been circulating on social media. Netizens use 'music student' to refer to depressed students, 'playing the violin' to refer to self-harm, and 'singing bel canto' to refer to crying. A netizen from Hebei claimed that almost the entire high school class were 'music students,' and when a classmate self-harmed, they once thought, 'one less competitor.' Another netizen mentioned that even when hospitals identified issues, the school would not grant leave, and a netizen from Jiangsu mentioned a 'series of over a dozen jumps.'
2026-11-08
On November 8, Chinese media reported that primary and secondary schools in many parts of the country have adjusted their schedules, delaying school start times and canceling morning reading sessions. Netizens commented that canceling extended school services is the only real measure to reduce time spent at school, and netizens from many provinces stated that local school schedules have not been adjusted, with student pressure remaining excessively high.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a netizen in Jiangsu posted a public exposure that a school was charging each student a 3 yuan "patriotic movie" viewing fee. The netizen criticized this as forced consumption and charging for patriotic education.
2026-11-07
Nanjing University has been exposed for spending over 31 million yuan to install surveillance equipment in 103 classrooms. Officials claim the move aims to increase student engagement, sparking public criticism over the waste of public funds and the oversight of public power.
2026-11-07
Recently, Yongxin Middle School in Jiangxi Province forced students to participate in a track meet while running in the rain, refusing any requests for leave, while school leaders stood by under shelter. After a student posted a video of the scene on Douyin, they were warned and ordered to delete the post.
2026-11-07
On November 7, the Quanzhou Education Bureau required all teachers to sign in at the lecture hall on Saturday to collectively watch the "AI Empowering Teacher Development and 'Quan Education' Platform Application Promotion Meeting." Dormitory managers and utility workers were also required to attend, with photo documentation needed for headcount verification, and warnings that those absent would face consequences.
2026-11-07
On the morning of November 7, high school students at Chaoyang Experimental School in Shantou, Guangdong, were required to go to the playground and stand together to study as soon as the sky brightened, sparking mockery from netizens regarding the school's prison-like management.
2026-11-06
Following updates to engineering education accreditation requirements, the school demanded a retrospective audit of course and assignment records from the past three years to demonstrate corporate cooperation. As many courses lacked such cooperation, school leadership ordered teachers to fabricate materials to meet the requirements. Teachers are now facing layers of assessment pressure and are overwhelmed by the burden of filling out paperwork for documentation.
2026-11-06
Recently, Jiangyan No. 2 High School in Jiangsu adjusted its schedule to 7:20–21:20 and implemented a two-day weekend. However, students are still required to return to school for evening self-study at 18:00 on Sundays. The relevant adjustments were not posted in the school-home WeChat groups but were only communicated orally by teachers, with netizens claiming it was due to pressure from above.
2026-11-05
On November 5, The Paper reported that universities including Jiangnan University, Heilongjiang University, Wenzhou University, and Northeast Forestry University have introduced AI classroom patrol systems to monitor attendance rates and student engagement (head-up rates). Jiangnan University's system covers 462 classrooms, has analyzed over 120,000 class hours, and automatically sends alerts for abnormal classroom situations, while Southern Medical University uses AI to grade classes.
2026-11-05
Two individuals, the account owner and the video producer who previously exposed management issues at the old campus of Liaocheng No. 3 Middle School in Shandong on Douyin, were taken away by police for questioning on November 5 and ordered to stop posting any content related to the school. Previously, students had complained about excessive time spent at school and insufficient rest time.
2026-11-05
On November 5, 2026, the School of Economics and Management at Jiangxi Normal University issued a public criticism against a 2024 student for traveling abroad without authorization. The student claims this severely violates their rights to privacy and reputation.
2026-11-05
On the evening of November 5, Cao Jun, a student of Bai Baoguo, confirmed to the media that the suicide note circulating online was indeed written by Bai Baoguo himself and was released with the authorization of his family. Multiple teachers anonymously confirmed that the practice of self-funding and managing accounts through personal channels is relatively common.
2026-11-05
A netizen reported that day students at Liaocheng No. 3 High School in Shandong are dismissed at 10:30 PM, while boarding students in the second semester of their second year of high school cannot return to their dorms until 11:10 PM, and even after lying down, slogans are broadcast in the dorms via loudspeaker.
2026-11-04
Recently, universities in Jilin and other regions have required students to attend and vote in local district and county People's Congress representative elections. It is stipulated that abstention is not allowed, and leave is not granted for off-campus internships. There are people guiding students to mark circles or crosses next to candidates, and taking photos is prohibited. Students have posted online to complain.
2026-11-04
Students from the old campus of Liaocheng No. 3 High School in Shandong reported that the school requires students to arrive at 6:45 AM and leave at 10:30 PM. Freshmen and sophomores get a break once every two weeks, while seniors get a break once every three weeks. Students have fainted and been taken to the hospital by ambulance, and many suffer from mental health issues. The school administration ignores these problems, the municipal education bureau covers for them, and students' exposure posts on Douyin have been maliciously reported multiple times.
2026-11-04
On November 4, the official WeChat account of Xiamen City Vocational College published an article stating that the school is launching a "Digital Yuan on Campus" campaign. It requires students to open and link digital yuan wallets and top them up. Some class meetings indicated that digital yuan will subsequently be used to fully cover payment scenarios such as cafeterias, supermarkets, and utility bills.
2026-11-04
Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention in the same batch, planning to spend 340,000 yuan to purchase internet behavior management equipment. It requires coverage of all faculty, students, and various terminals, integration with unified identity authentication, and the capability for website access control and internet behavior auditing.
2026-11-03
Media reports indicate that Nanjing University's Xianlin Campus has implemented a smart classroom system equipped with facial detection and intelligent recognition algorithms, which tracks real-time attendance and head-up rates, sparking criticism over privacy violations.
2026-11-03
Recently, the schedule for Jinghua High School in Suining County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, showed that students begin morning reading at 7 AM and finish their studies at 9:30 PM, with only a 40-minute lunch break and a 45-minute afternoon practice session scheduled after lunch.
2026-11-02
On November 2, netizens posted an exposé revealing that Nanjing University recently implemented a "smart classroom system." The system uses classroom cameras to monitor and record attendance rates, late arrivals, and student attentiveness (head-up rates) in real-time. Some teachers have notified students that these attendance data will affect their daily grades and could even lead to the cancellation of exam eligibility, sparking questioning and anger among the students.
2026-11-02
On November 2, Funing Secondary Vocational School in Yancheng, Jiangsu, forced students to line up and run on the playground at 5:47 AM, despite dense fog and extremely low visibility. Netizens exposed the incident via video, sparking mockery.
2026-11-01
On November 1, a netizen posted a video criticizing the strict management of a 'Hengshui-style' high school in Hebei, including the confiscation of books, bans on speaking during breaks, and hairstyle regulations, calling it a 'test of obedience.' The video resonated with many netizens, but the comment section was subsequently wiped.
2026-11
Recently, students at Dongguan No. 5 High School spontaneously formed a 'Long-Haired Men's Club.' On the day of its founding, over 100 students attended the gathering, most out of curiosity. After the gathering, the initiating students were punished by the school, and comments on related content have become invisible.
2026-10-31
Recently, a netizen posted a video on Douyin of students at Hebei Dingzhou High School running in formation. Under dim streetlights, dozens of students were running in dense lines. Netizens mocked it as a prison labor camp, questioning whether the lack of sleep would affect their studies.
2026-10-31
On October 31, at a Halloween event in Qingdao, Shandong, a netizen attracted attention by wearing a cape made of exam papers, labeling it 'Flower of the Motherland'.
2026-10-30
A middle school in Shenyang committed a serious medical violation during a tuberculosis skin test screening for students, using the same needle on 78 students without changing it, which led parents to gather at the school to demand an explanation.
2026-10-30
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.
2026-10-29
The investigation team for tuberculosis screening in Kangping County issued a report, admitting that a medical worker violated operational protocols involving 78 students, and claimed that the results of the full-staff special testing showed no abnormalities.
2026-10-29
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a water and power outage due to equipment failure. As the school refused to let students leave, a large number of students gathered and climbed over the walls to leave the campus.
2026-10-29
On the evening of October 29, Longchuan County Experimental Middle School in Heyuan, Guangdong, experienced a power and water outage for several hours due to equipment failure. Students, unable to study or live normally, demanded to leave the school. Because the electric gate was malfunctioning and school leaders refused to let them out, the students gathered at the school gate, shouting in unison to be allowed to go home.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a Douyin influencer posted two notices from Yucai School in Pingyin County, Jinan, Shandong, dated October 27: due to loan approval failure and tight funds, June wages were delayed, and wages for May and June would be combined and paid at the end of November; social security and medical insurance for all staff would be terminated starting this month. The influencer claimed the school had not paid social security for 33 months, teachers had been legally demanding unpaid wages for two months, and many were forced to resign.
2026-10-29
On October 29, a Weibo user posted on behalf of another, stating that a student was reported during a scholarship evaluation because they had photoshopped a Christmas hat onto their social media profile picture last year.
2026-10-29
Around October 29, a video on Douyin showed a child sitting at a desk with tears in their eyes while laughing uncontrollably. The parent captioned it saying they dared not tutor the child anymore, and netizens left comments expressing sympathy for the child.
2026-10-27
Beijing Sanfan Middle School issued an internal notice on October 27 stating that a student from Class 8, Grade 3 ate a steamed bun during the mid-term Chinese mock exam on October 26, which seriously violated exam regulations. Following a grade-level review, it was decided to issue a disciplinary notice of criticism.
2026-10-26
The eighth round of inspections by the 20th CCP Central Committee has officially begun. 15 central inspection teams have been stationed at the Ministry of Education and 31 universities under central administration, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, to conduct inspections, receiving reports from the public until December 21.
2026-10-26
Recently, a college student posted on Xiaohongshu saying that the windproof cover on her electric bike parked at the school gate was stolen. After she reported it to the police, she was scolded by her academic advisor. She apologized repeatedly and said the matter had been resolved, but was still accused of "going her own way even when police handling is involved."
2026-10-26
On October 26, a notice board was set up at the gate of Jinghang Senior High School in Cangzhou, Hebei, stating that no public phone is provided to prevent students from illegally bringing mobile phones, cigarettes and alcohol, engaging in early romantic relationships, and sneaking out of school, while also restricting parents from delivering supplies and banning the handover of snacks and drinks; netizens sarcastically commented that the treatment is worse than in prison.
2026-10-25
Recent chat records from the Qian Xuesen class of the Automation Department at Harbin Engineering University show that a counselor, dissatisfied with the class's grades, told students they are not qualified to be refined and should not shower every day, demanding that they study at all times except for one cultural and sports activity per month, and said he would check the daily routines of students with low grades.
2026-10-25
On October 25, a student at Zhengzhou No. 16 Senior High School posted a video reporting that a hair dryer caught fire in the dormitory while the school was enforcing a mandatory stay on campus. The students tried to use a fire extinguisher to save themselves, only to find it damaged and unusable, and the fire alarm's volume was too low to serve as a warning.
2026-10-24
The eighth round of inspections by the 20th CCP Central Committee has officially begun, with teams stationed at the Ministry of Education and 31 centrally administered universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
2026-10-24
On October 24, netizens captured footage of parents at Shandong Experimental Middle School delivering food to students inside the school through an iron fence. Students ate inside the fence while parents kept them company outside it, and what appeared to be electric fence equipment was installed above the fence. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-24
Recently, a student at a university in Hebei asked for leave from a counselor because of his niece's birth. After being refused, he was still lectured with words like “don’t have such thoughts” and “studies come first,” and was asked in return whether his high school homeroom teacher would have approved the leave. The chat records were submitted and exposed.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a student at the Experimental Campus of Zaozhuang No. 16 Middle School in Shandong Province reported that the school requires Grade 11 students to come to school on Saturdays for "independent study." In reality, it is mostly teachers of core subjects like Chinese, Mathematics, and English giving lectures. Students who do not attend may face criticism, and homeroom teachers will pressure students, making it difficult to choose freely.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a parent at Jiangnan Experimental Primary School in Tunxi, Huangshan, Anhui held up a sign at the school gate seeking help, saying that while the child was in class on September 28, the child was repeatedly poked with a ballpoint pen by a deskmate, leaving more than 20 bruises on the limbs. The school only made the student involved reflect at home for three days; the parent demanded the student be transferred out of the class and asked the education bureau to intervene.
2026-10-23
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.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a netizen posted that the class committee of Changchun Humanities College notified students to arrive at the classroom at 6:45 for morning self-study, during which attendance would be taken and phones collected; bringing breakfast, placing water bottles on desks, sleeping, and chatting were strictly prohibited. The author said that not participating would result in deducted academic credits.
2026-10-23
On October 23, a teacher surnamed Gao at Zhuangyuanqiao Middle School in Xihua County, Zhoukou, Henan, said the school's security checks have entered a "double insurance" mode, with two additional security screening devices installed to strictly inspect students for prohibited items, prompting netizens to sarcastically remark that students are being treated like prisoners.
2026-10-22
Large numbers of students in Suqian, Jiangsu, have posted their schools' temporary closure notices, most citing repairs for a cafeteria boiler failure; commenters speculate it may be related to a student's fatal fall in the area.
2026-10-22
On October 22, the Central University of Finance and Economics announced the winning bid for teaching equipment procurement, totaling 2.99 million yuan. The tender documents require AI classroom analysis functions to automatically count the number of students looking up, looking down, playing with mobile phones, or sleeping on their desks, and to generate classroom engagement analysis reports. The equipment includes 48-megapixel AI cameras and microphone arrays.
2026-10-22
On October 22, despite cooling temperatures and rainy weather, Zhengzhou Industrial Safety Vocational College in Zhengzhou, Henan, still organized a large gathering of students on the sports field to listen to leaders' speeches. Many students got soaked and caught colds with fevers, while the leaders stood right on the stage. Some students said that last year they were also required to hand in their phones and delete related content.
2026-10-22
On October 22, the netizen who posted the exposure video stated in the comments section that they had been asked to delete the video, adding "I'm going to disappear, brothers."
2026-10-22
On October 22, a senior student at Shenyang No. 11 High School in Liaoning Province received a disciplinary demerit from the Moral Education Office for singing at school, and was publicly posted and announced to the entire school.
2026-10-22
On October 22, Wuhan Meijia Foreign Language School held a campus event. Most students wore blank expressions while clapping, and teachers kept urging them to “smile.” After the video surfaced, netizens hotly debated the students' repressed and haggard mental state.
2026-10-22
On October 22, a dormitory inspection was carried out at the Xinjin campus of Chengdu New Oriental Senior Technical School in Sichuan. An auxiliary police officer entered the dormitory to check students' belongings, take photos, and verify ID cards. A school official, "Principal Xue," said the operation was aimed at screening out "lawbreakers." After footage of the inspection was exposed, it was questioned by a number of netizens.
2026-10-22
On October 22, Zhejiang Radio and Television reported that Wang Yiqing, a sophomore at Zhejiang University of Technology, taught himself to build an AI video platform, which now has 20,000 users and more than 600,000 yuan in membership top-ups over two months. Because model names such as Seedance, MiniMax, and Sora2 appeared in the demo menu, netizens questioned whether he was running a "relay station" that resells ready-made AI services, joking, "That's seriously criminal."
2026-10-22
On October 22, a netizen posted a video showing the 6th Primary School Young Teachers Chinese Teaching Demonstration and Observation Event held at the gymnasium in Zhongwei City, Ningxia. Primary school students sat neatly in the center of the venue for the observing teachers to watch. Comments in the bullet screen criticized the rampant formalism, with one teacher saying they had not held regular classes for nearly a month in order to put on a public lesson.
2026-10-21
On October 21, Wuzhou No. 7 Middle School in Wuzhou, Guangxi responded to an incident on the evening of October 16 in which a teacher stopped senior-year students from leaving the school and shouted “I’ll drive over and kill you,” saying the teacher had been criticized and educated for improper emotional management, that the students kept provoking, and that the video circulating online had been cut off at both ends, refusing to provide the full video. The Wuzhou Municipal Education Bureau said it had clarified the course of events and would strengthen disciplinary guidance for individual students.
2026-10-21
On October 21, a Douyin blogger posted a situational short skit recreating a day in the life of high school students in the four Shanhe provinces: awakened by the broadcast at 5 a.m., taking oaths and shouting slogans, holding books for morning reading, and after self-study ended at 10:30 p.m., still having to undergo dormitory checks by the homeroom teacher, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-21
On October 21, staff from Fujian Medical University responded, saying that Li Ziqi's not doing clinical work during his PhD was a misunderstanding caused by improper wording, and that he had completed 18 months of clinical rotations.
2026-10-19
On October 19, the School of Electrical Engineering at Three Gorges University issued a notice on a themed class meeting, placing illegal use of VPNs alongside internet addiction and other issues, requiring guidance for students to obtain information through official channels and install the National Anti-Fraud Center App, and to submit class meeting records for archiving before October 28.
2026-10-17
On October 17, the China Government Procurement Network announced that the campus network monitoring and blocking service for Zhejiang Chinese Medical University was purchased for 219,000 yuan. The procurement documents require the system to identify mainstream proxy software and VPN (airport) applications, link traffic that triggers alerts to campus network accounts, devices, and access times, support blocking of non-compliant requests based on a list, and list the discovery and disposal of on-campus users accessing sensitive or non-compliant information as a core project objective.
2026-10-16
The table of contents of the PEP edition high school Chinese selective compulsory textbook (Volume 2) has been adjusted: Rousseau's "Compassion Is Human Nature" has been dropped from its original unit, replaced by Xi Jinping's speech and article on the "two integrations."
2026-10-16
On October 16, the Liangshan Prefecture investigation and handling task force announced that the county head of Leibo County was given an intra-Party warning and transferred from the county head post, the director of the county education and sports bureau received an administrative warning and was transferred out of the education system, the county party committee official in charge was admonished, and authorities apologized.
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2026-10-15
On October 15, a student in Zhejiang posted that they had not installed any circumvention software and had only used the campus network to visit the PTE test official website and the immigration bureau websites of New Zealand and Australia to apply for a visa, but was questioned by the school, which accused them of “accessing sensitive foreign-related websites.”
2026-10-15
On October 15, a netizen posted to expose that Nanjing Audit University had launched a “Dormitory Anomaly Analysis” feature in its student affairs system, matching dormitory and campus gate turnstile data with class schedules to automatically record class absences and anomalies; in serious cases, students are disciplined according to the student handbook. Students posted to question this and reported that the “Direct Feedback Box” in WeChat Work could not be opened.
2026-10-14
Recently, Rao Yi, a professor at Peking University, publicly named and criticized the editor-in-chief of the international journal Cancer Cell, a person surnamed Mao, for taking money to help publish papers, charging 2 million for a single article. Rao Yi questioned him by email; the other party denied it and demanded that the remarks be retracted, but Rao Yi refused. Netizens dug up information suggesting the person is Mao Yuntao.
2026-10-14
On October 14, according to a report by Modern Express, Li, director of the Education and Sports Bureau of Leibo County, Liangshan, Sichuan, has been transferred from his post. The county Education and Sports Bureau said the investigation is still ongoing, while the Liangshan Prefecture Education and Sports Bureau said the investigation and handling have been completed and the results will be released in accordance with regulations.
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2026-10-14
On October 14, the Silk Road College of Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical University held a student management work meeting, demanding a strict ban on students circumventing the Great Firewall to go online and on unorganized gatherings, strictly observing the bottom line of online speech and conduct, and incorporating this into the building of civilized norms.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a university teacher posted on a social platform, saying that what he teaches students is knowledge that is years behind, mocking himself as "a product of the previous industrial revolution teaching knowledge from the era of industrial Cthulhu," and feeling powerless for his students. The post received 857,000 likes and 157,000 reposts.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a popular Xiaohongshu post titled "Investigation Into Sichuan Teachers Forced Into Shame Photo Still Yields No Results" was deleted after garnering over 11,000 likes and sparking heated public discussion.
2026-10-13
On October 13, a student at Wuhan City Vocational College posted a video claiming that the 'Budao Lepao' running check-in app required by the school is filled with pop-up ads for coupons and lucky draws, and that closing them often leads to the automatic download of unrelated applications, sparking resonance and complaints from many college students in the comments section.
2026-10-13
On October 13, a parent posted a video on Douyin: a boy in a school uniform sits in the back seat of a car, dozing off with his eyes closed while holding chopsticks, his head drooping toward his lunchbox. The parent said the child is often so sleepy that he has to rush to school without eating breakfast. Commenters said that most high school students in China are not even let out of school by 9 p.m.
2026-10-12
Xiaohongshu users compared the old and new versions of the lesson "The Independence of the United States" in the ninth-grade first-semester world history textbook. The new excerpt no longer contains passages stating that the legitimate powers of government derive from the consent of the governed and that the people have the right to change or abolish a government that damages their rights. After retaining expressions such as "all men are created equal," it uses an ellipsis to connect directly to the paragraph declaring independence, and commenters joked that they were afraid students might awaken.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video claiming that New Times Elite School in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, requires students to make no sound while eating in the canteen. A large number of students ate quietly while management personnel patrolled and supervised the aisles. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-03-26
Humanities and Social Sciences Communication released a meta-analysis covering multiple controlled experiments involving 4,193 students, showing that students using ChatGPT saw a moderate improvement in grades and a rise in critical thinking scores.
2026-09-17
The University of Munich released experimental data in which 704 people practiced fraction arithmetic with an AI assistant; by prompting users to identify the source of their answers, the likelihood of directly copying the AI's answer was reduced to below one half.
2026-10-11
On October 11, according to domestic media reports, a member of the parent committee at Siji School in Jinwan District, Zhuhai, proposed in a group chat that parents take turns going to the school to supervise students' midday rest, claiming the move was intended to allow teachers to rest better.
2026-10-11
On October 11, at Xiamen Xiang'an Middle School in Xiamen, the cumbersome entry security checks and phone inspection procedures caused a large number of students to queue outside the campus for more than an hour.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the School of Intelligence at the Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) issued a statement warning that using foreign SIM cards for roaming or accessing restricted websites via VPN constitutes illegal internet connectivity that bypasses regulation.
2026-10-10
During the National Day holiday, some schools in Shandong assigned physical education check-in tasks through apps such as "Tiantian Tiaosheng" (Jump Rope Every Day). Videos of students jumping rope at scenic spots in various places and uploading the footage flooded the internet, and similar situations occurred in Zhejiang as well. The Shandong Provincial Department of Education responded that the check-ins are not a unified mandatory task of the provincial department, but are implemented independently by each school.
2026-10-10
On October 10, a person claiming to be a senior mathematics student at a 985 university posted asking for help, saying that his college entrance exam preferences had been secretly altered by his parents, causing him to fail and repeat a year; 9 cameras had been installed at home to monitor him; he was diagnosed with severe depression; he received two academic warnings for failing courses and now faces the risk of being expelled, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-10
On October 10, 2026, a netizen submitted a report claiming that a student at Huabing Middle School in Urumqi was given a major demerit by the school for eating instant noodles, drawing attention.
2026-10-10
In the comment section of a post about a student at Huabing Middle School being given a major demerit for eating instant noodles, netizens revealed that students at a middle school in the Altay Prefecture had also been given demerits for eating instant noodles.
2026-10-10
On October 10, a mother posted a video of her first-grade daughter on Douyin, saying that her daughter wakes up at 6:40 every day, does homework until 9:30, and doesn't go to sleep until 10:30, with no light left in her eyes. She said she was powerless to help. Netizens commented that it looked like working the night shift and getting used to assembly-line life in advance.
2026-10-08
Qilian County in Qinghai opened a total of 102 student dormitory rooms in two schools to accommodate visitors. Staff moved and packed students' belongings; the county later decided to write letters of thanks and distribute cultural and creative gift packages. Public reports said opinions were sought from the education department and the schools, but it was not stated whether students or parents had consented.
2026-10-08
On October 8, People’s Daily published an article about Qilian County opening student dormitories to house tourists, arguing that it is difficult to conclude from the available information alone that the local authorities bullied students for the sake of tourists, while acknowledging that further explanation is still needed regarding the protection of students’ rights. The related topic trended on Weibo, with netizens asking whether county guesthouses and government dormitories are also used to receive tourists.
2026-10-08
A recent post on X discussing French secondary school students' strike protests has sparked widespread discussion. The poster compared the daily schedule and study intensity of Chinese high school students in order to criticize French students, but a large number of Chinese netizens instead sided with the French students and used the issue to criticize China's education system. French netizens subsequently expressed their thanks to the Chinese netizens.
2026-10-08
During the National Day holiday, Chinese parents and students took to social media to complain that students had too much homework. Some students broke down frantically rushing to finish assignments in the early hours of the morning, questioning the point of having a holiday.
2026-10-08
A leaked schedule for Grade 10 extended evening self-study duty shows that parents are required to enter the classroom from 19:40 to 21:00 to maintain order, must not use electronic devices, need to record students' arrivals and departures as well as rule violations, and the parents on duty must be the students' fathers or mothers.
2026-10-07
On October 7, Rao Yi discussed Japanese scientists winning Nobel Prizes on the WeChat public account "Rao Yi on Science," criticizing academic misconduct in China, saying that many institutions engage in cover-ups and use public power to defend fraudsters, wasting state funds and betraying their responsibility to the people.
2026-10-07
On October 7, the National Day holiday ended and the new term began. A boarding middle school in Lincang, Yunnan arranged for teachers to go through students' belongings one by one at the school gate as they returned. Students could only carry transparent schoolbags, and items such as snacks were banned. One teacher on duty said she could not bear to search the bags and felt pained inside.
2026-10-05
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.
2026-10-04
After a student had an accident, the school failed to send them to the hospital in time. Once the incident drew online attention, the school obtained hospital surveillance footage to identify the student who had posted about it. School leaders barged into the student's home, threatening them with expulsion and suspension, forcibly searched the premises and confiscated their phone, and recorded a list of classmates who had reposted the content. Several students were suspended and reprimanded.
2026-10-04
A student revealed that the school collected 100 yuan per person in August for a student accident insurance policy, but had not actually taken out the insurance; emergency insurance records were only made up the day after the incident.
2026-10-03
On October 3, Qilian County in Qinghai saw hotels fully booked as more than 100,000 tourists flooded in. The county Culture and Tourism Bureau arranged for over 500 tourists to stay in the student dormitories of schools such as Qilian County Ethnic Middle School, without consulting the students in advance, and publicized the matter as an achievement, drawing questions from netizens.
2026-10-02
On October 2, a netizen revealed that after a student at Xiuyuan Middle School in Shuyang, Suqian, Jiangsu, reported to the education bureau that the school was giving only one and a half days off for the National Day holiday, the student received a phone call from someone claiming to be a teacher in the principal's office, was questioned with "if you don't want to study, then don't," and was scolded. The student's complaint information was suspected of having been handed over to the school. The school responded that it was a teacher's personal act, drawing criticism.
2026-10-02
According to a report by The Washington Post on October 2, China's Ministry of Education recently stated that it expects all schools to offer AI education before 2030, establishing an AI literacy system covering all educational stages and society as a whole.
2026-10-02
On October 2, local media coverage of the incident at Leiyang No. 1 Middle School, in which students were forced to have their heads shaved and charged fees, was hidden.
2026-10-01
A report on October 2 by the Philippine Chinese Commercial News said that the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Chinese Education Center decided to withdraw Chinese volunteer and dispatched teachers teaching in Chinese schools in the Philippines, returning home in batches starting October 1, totaling about 150 people, with the reason attributed to safety concerns among the teachers' families.
2026-10-01
On October 1, Yide Middle School and Jili College in Metro Manila separately notified parents that Chinese teachers must return to China immediately or be unexpectedly recalled by the dispatching agency; the two schools are arranging substitute classes or considering online Chinese-language courses.
2026-10-01
On October 1, a netizen posted their 33 National Day holiday exam papers on Douyin. In the comments section, students from various regions shared their own workloads, with some needing to complete 108, 121, or even as many as 168 exam papers.
2026-10-01
On October 1, local media reported on the incident of Leiyang No. 1 Middle School forcibly shaving students' heads and charging fees.
2026-09-30
A frontline English teacher using the online name "Teacher Li the Educator" posted an article claiming that Chinese cultural and ideological-political elements make up nearly 80% of the new People's Education Press (PEP) English textbook, that the protagonists have been changed from Li Lei and Han Meimei to "Fuxing" (Rejuvenation), and that because relations with a certain country have deteriorated, all material from that country has been deleted, calling for textbooks that combine Chinese and Western elements.
2026-09-30
On September 30, sophomores at Wuyuan No. 1 Middle School in Inner Mongolia launched a collective protest against illegal supplementary classes during the National Day holiday and signed a joint petition demanding that the school stop shortening the holiday.
Location: Bayannur, Inner Mongolia ·
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2026-09-30
On the morning of September 30, the family sought justice for their daughter at the main gate of Tongji University, but no school leaders or her academic advisor appeared. Her brother uploaded an account of what happened to Xiaohongshu and other platforms, where it was deleted within a short time; in the afternoon, some students uploaded the related content to GitHub to prevent post deletion.
2026-09-30
On September 30, multiple netizens posted that while the Experimental School of Hengshui Middle School in Hebei was holding a sports meet, students were required to carry a "toilet pass" when using the restroom. The pass required the name, class, gender, and the exact time of restroom use down to the minute, and had to be signed and approved by the class monitor and the homeroom teacher. Each pass was limited to one person for a single use and had to be returned to the Education Office afterward. Some netizens said such strict controls were not the first time at local schools.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a middle school student in Handan posted a long essay accusing school leaders of being keen on superficial projects, with thousands of students forced to accompany leaders in a “drill,” grades treated as achievements, holidays exploited, and free will suppressed.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a student filed a real-name report on the official website of the Linyi Municipal Education Bureau, reporting that Yishui County Third Experimental Middle School forced students to attend morning exercise training from 7 to 8 a.m. every day during the 7-day National Day holiday, with no leave permitted, in violation of Shandong Province’s standards for running primary and secondary schools. When submitting the report, the student entered the correct CAPTCHA multiple times but was still told it was wrong, and the report was repeatedly obstructed.
2026-09-30
On September 30, Chengdu University announced that the monograph and two English-language papers of Zeng of the College of Music and Dance constituted academic misconduct. She was removed from her post as Party secretary of the college, her senior professional and technical position qualification was revoked, her eligibility to apply for research projects and apply for professional title evaluations was suspended for 36 months, and the case was entered into the database of serious breaches of research integrity. The university's stationed discipline inspection and supervision group has filed a case for investigation. According to China Newsweek, the person involved is Zeng Qin.
2026-09-30
On September 30, netizens exposed that Xingning No. 1 High School in Meizhou, Guangdong arranged intensive return-to-school self-study and exams during the National Day holiday, nominally two days off but actually amounting to only one day, and also exposed an internal recording of the school issuing a threatening ultimatum to students via broadcast.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a Douyin blogger posted a video criticizing schools for oppressing students with fake two-day weekends and a score-first mentality, saying that children study with the posture of slaves. The video received more than 470,000 likes and over 20,000 comments, and many people in the comments section wished to fall sick in order to ask for leave.
2026-09-29
On September 29, the Beijing Institute of Technology announced that faculty member Pei Yi had seriously violated professional conduct standards for teachers, revoking his qualification as a graduate supervisor and terminating his employment. Pei Yi had previously sparked controversy over remarks made in class discussing feminism and noting that all members of the Politburo Standing Committee are male.
2026-09-29
On September 29, 2026, The Beijing News learned from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University that Wang Gang, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Plant Protection, has officially left his post. The Human Resources Office confirmed that his departure is directly related to the retraction of a Nature paper, and the university is negotiating with him over the return of talent subsidies and other payments.
2026-09-29
On September 29, Xiangtan Radio and Television in Hunan released a video showing that the first class of the new term at Xiangtan University of Technology required students to write the national anthem from memory, with not a single wrong character allowed and all punctuation marks required to be correct. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-09-29
On September 29, a first-year PhD student at Xi’an Jiaotong University posted that after applying to leave campus and go home from the evening of September 30 to the evening of October 7, the student’s advisor demanded that they find another cooperating advisor as soon as possible and removed them from the group chat, citing “incompatible research philosophies.” The leave request was not approved; anyone who leaves will bear the consequences, and the student was also required to clock in at the shared workspace on time.
2026-09-29
On September 27, the WeChat public account “Wang Jiu’s Notebook” published news that Yantai Sino-English School in Shandong issued 94 exam papers for a 10-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday; on September 29, it received a letter demanding post deletion from the school bearing an official seal.
2026-09-29
According to a September 29 report by the Chinese edition of The New York Times, China will include Jane Eyre in the ninth-grade Chinese "whole-book reading" list this autumn, and ninth-graders across the country are required to read it in full. State media said it helps foster a positive outlook on life and understand equality and an independent personality in love.
2026-09-28
On September 28, at Leiyang No. 1 Middle School in Hunan Province, the first-year senior high grade lured students into classrooms, locked the doors, and collectively forced haircuts and imposed charges on the grounds that their hairstyles were non-compliant, triggering panic; some students climbed over the wall to escape.
2026-09-28
Fujian Changle First Middle School arranged supplementary classes during the statutory Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, giving only 1 day off for the Mid-Autumn Festival and only 2 days off for National Day.
2026-09-28
Recently, netizen "Tony's Diary" published a short video revealing how some unscrupulous teachers treat students as "hostages" with differential treatment. Parents, fearing their children will be targeted, dare not complain, and must also shoulder extra tutoring tasks while teachers rely on putting pressure on students to achieve results and secure promotions. The video sparked widespread discussion among netizens, with a parent in Heilongjiang stating they had given a teacher a 1,000 yuan cash envelope, and a Guangdong parent saying their child was targeted but they dared not speak up.
2026-09-28
At 18:00 on September 28, in the indoor gymnasium of Xianyang Caihong High School, a student braced his hand against the wall while retrieving a ball and punched through the hollow tile wall. Broken tiles cut an artery, causing severe bleeding. Classmates went for help but the school clinic was already closed, so they could only keep pressing on the wound to stop the bleeding.
2026-09-26
A 2024 paper by Wang Ertao's team published in Nature: the corresponding author acknowledged issues such as data anomalies and image duplication and applied for retraction; the team said it had reported the matter to its institution and launched an investigation, and the authors said that repeated experiments support the main conclusions.
2026-09-26
On September 26, Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu, set up a dedicated "children's infusion study area" equipped with desks and chairs in the pediatric infusion zone, drawing public attention.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a Hubei netizen posted that freshmen at a certain university (suspected to be Wuchang University of Technology) were not given a Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, but were instead gathered to attend a gratitude education-themed class meeting, where calculation tables showing 'how much you owe your parents for growing up' were displayed on site.
2026-09-26
When asked about the specific university, the student who made the disclosure claimed that saying it would lead to being invited for 'tea' (police interrogation). Subsequently, the student publicly begged for mercy in the comments section, stating that if the school demanded the video be deleted, they would do so immediately, and repeatedly expressed gratitude to the school and teachers.
2026-09-26
On September 26, a high school senior in Guangdong posted on Xiaohongshu saying that the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays are only two days each and that make-up classes are still required, describing hair loss and menstrual irregularities, and saying classmates look like “the living dead.” A teacher in Hunan replied in the comments saying that students are collapsing all over the classroom and that the make-up classes are only meant to comfort school leaders and parents.
2026-09-25
On September 25, during a physics teacher's demonstration of electromagnetic induction at Jilin Changchun City Wenli High School, a student said 'so awesome' twice, and was kicked by the teacher and had the desk flipped.
2026-08-21
Hundreds of former students of the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School gathered at the school for three consecutive days, demanding the return of deposits that had been withheld for a long time, during which conflicts broke out with the school.
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A netizen shared a video of two elderly people fighting over cardboard boxes, sparking sighs in the comments section about social involution. Some netizens pointed out that given the involution and food safety issues in China, many people might not even live long enough to reach the age of fighting over cardboard boxes.
2026-09-24
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.
Location: Yangjiang City, Guangdong ·
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2026-09-23
Ministry of Education spokesperson and Vice Minister Wang Guangyan announced that China has built the world's largest and highest-quality education system, with 270 million people having received higher education.
2026-09-23
Anyue Middle School in Ziyang, Sichuan, gave students only one day off for the Mid-Autumn Festival, sparking a collective protest in which students shouted from their dormitory building; student representatives gave speeches at the school gate, after which the school changed the holiday to three days.
2026-09-23
Academic fraud-exposing blogger Geng Tongxue released a video pointing out that a rice immunity research paper, with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University professor Wang Gang as co-first author, has problems including duplicated data, anomalous values, and repeated images; the corresponding author is Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Wang Ertao.
2026-09-23
On September 23, an instructor at the Vocational Education Center in Wuqiang County, Hengshui, Hebei used an electric baton to punish students, and several students were burned by electric shocks. The homeroom teacher said they were aware of the incident but did not know the details. The school evaded questions about the origin of the electric baton and whether the instructor involved was still on campus, saying that the police had already intervened.
2026-09-23
On September 23, students at Anyue Middle School in Ziyang, Sichuan, held a collective protest after their Mid-Autumn Festival holiday was compressed; the school restored the three-day holiday on the 24th.
2026-09-22
A student in Jiangxi said that drinking water directly from the campus dispenser costs about 2 yuan; netizens calculated that this comes to about 7 yuan per liter and questioned the price.
2026-09-22
Parents in multiple regions across the country report that schools are enforcing strict campus behavioral codes, including requiring students to walk in straight lines and make right-angle turns, as well as facing criticism or point deductions for observing nature during breaks or having poor sitting postures.
2026-09-22
Students at Zhongshan Memorial Middle School in Guangdong chanted in residential buildings to protest after the school broke its holiday promise by cutting the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday down to just one day.
2026-09-22
On September 22, a student from Jiangxi (IP Jiangxi) posted a video stating that using his own insulated cup to get water from a campus drinking fountain, the machine continuously charges based on water usage, and one cup of water ultimately cost about ¥2.2. Netizens complained it is more expensive than 92 gasoline. The video received over 140,000 likes and more than 30,000 comments.
2026-09-20
On September 20, inside a classroom at Qiqihar No. 3 Middle School in Heilongjiang Province, students wrote messages such as "not a single penny of corruption spared" and "not a single regular class taught" on their desks or walls, protesting the school's teaching quality and integrity issues.
2026-09-21
Hongtu Middle School in Datian County, Fujian Province, required students from the third grade of primary school to senior high school grade 3 to participate in social practice training every semester, charging a fee of 288 yuan. Taking leave was prohibited in principle; those needing leave had to go through layered approval by the head teacher, grade leader, and principal, which sparked dissatisfaction among parents.
2026-09-19
Universities such as Sichuan University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics have stipulated that consumer-related bad habits such as smoking, alcoholism, and internet addiction will be listed as grounds for canceling tuition waiver eligibility. This regulation has re-attracted online attention due to the recent controversy over relief eligibility triggered by a girl from a low-income family in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, who traveled to Hong Kong to attend a concert.
2026-09-21
Xinyi People's Hospital in Maoming, Guangdong Province, was exposed for tying interns' blood donation to a two-day holiday. After relevant complaints were posted online, the head of the hospital's education department demanded in a work group that school team leaders investigate the student who posted it, threatening that if they did not come forward voluntarily, the school would be contacted directly.
2026-09-21
The Ministry of Education released the "Management Measures for Primary and Secondary School Leadership Personnel," stipulating that having taught in rural and weak schools for more than 3 years will be a priority condition for the selection of school leaders, and encouraging leaders of quality urban schools to exchange, take up posts, and study in rural schools.
2026-09-21
Hunan University of Science and Technology has set up on-campus stations to compulsorily require incoming freshmen to get crew cuts, sparking strong public criticism and sarcasm regarding campus management practices.
2026-09-20
On September 20, Hebei Software Institute of Technology conducted high-intensity obedience training during military training, requiring students to crawl on their knees through obstacles on a large scale, with colored smoke released at the scene, triggering criticism from netizens over enslavement-style education.
2026-09-20
During military training at Hebei Software Institute, a large number of students were seen kneeling and crawling through colored smoke, sparking mockery from netizens.
2026-09-17
On September 17, a student in Shaanxi wearing a school uniform was seen reciting chemistry experimental procedures in a mechanical, expressionless manner while exiting an elevator. The parent posted the video with the caption, 'The gap between children is widened invisibly,' sparking widespread discussion and criticism among netizens regarding high-pressure educational models and students' mental states.
2026-09-17
On September 17, students at Hainan Commercial School reported extreme military training intensity, including 6 laps of frog jumps, 500 squats, and long-distance running daily, which continued even in the rain. Multiple students suffered leg injuries and were unable to walk after training, and some students chose to drop out as a result.
2026-09-19
On September 19, an intern at Luoping County People's Hospital exposed that they were not given a holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival and was threatened in a group chat by a leader surnamed Luo, who said he would make them "die."
2026-09-17
Zhu Yuejun, a PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine who once studied under Wang Zhenyi, failed to receive his degree due to academic disagreements. Since 1993, he has been practicing medicine in his hometown of Wugang, Hunan, and currently lives in financial distress relying on minimum living allowances. His experience has sparked discussions on academic authorities suppressing dissent.
2026-09-17
A high school student posted a tearful complaint about the school's extremely compressed holiday schedule, stating that students are released at 3:20 PM on Saturday and must return by 3:00 PM on Sunday. After accounting for sleep and homework, students have almost no personal time.
2026-09-16
On September 16, during military training at Hubei Enshi University, instructors required multiple students to brave heavy rain and enter muddy pits to conduct simulated military mud combat and wrestling confrontation, triggering widespread public skepticism about the necessity of military training and student health and safety.
2026-04
In April 2026, a physician at Southern Medical University Pearl River Hospital posted a notice in a work group chat, requiring students not to take temporary leave unless there is a death in the family. The chat record was exposed in July and trended on hot searches, sparking widespread public discussion about the high‑pressure management of the medical education system and students' rights.
2026-09-16
On September 16, to comply with the implementation of the "Shanxi Provincial Electric Bicycle Management Regulations," multiple schools in Yongji City, Shanxi Province, required students to bring the helmets used for riding electric bicycles into classrooms and mark them with their class and name. Helmet usage was incorporated into students' daily behavior evaluations and growth records, triggering netizens' doubts about insufficient campus space and over-management.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Changchun Medical Vocational College implemented a strict campus lockdown, requiring students leaving the campus to obtain parental leave and a physical signature from their counselor. Students questioned whether this move was intended to restrict off-campus consumption and force them to make high-priced purchases at campus canteens and supermarkets.
2026-09-17
On September 17, Peking University issued the "Implementation Measures for Fulfilling the Requirement of Tightening Our Belts," strictly controlling expenditures on meetings, business travel, and asset procurement, explicitly prohibiting holding meetings at 21 scenic spots including Huangshan and Jiuzhaigou. Recently, Beijing Forestry University, Anhui Jianzhu University, and several other universities have also successively issued detailed rules to curtail administrative extravagance.
2026-09-17
A parent posted a video showing instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forcing students to undergo military training in a rainstorm.
2026-09-16
On September 16, during Jilin University's 80th anniversary celebrations, first-year students were locked inside the central stadium for training, and the gates were closed prohibiting students from leaving to eat, causing them to be exposed to high temperatures, with some students feeling unwell. Students questioned that the school's action was to prevent freshmen from colliding with leaders or alumni vehicles.
2026-09-14
On September 14, academic anti-fraud blogger "Geng Tongxue" published a video publicly questioning two first-authored papers by Zhang Yaohua, a researcher at Peking University Third Hospital and recipient of the Overseas Outstanding Youth grant, pointing out multiple data anomalies, fixed constant conversions, and image duplications.
2026-09-16
On the evening of September 16, after dining at the cafeteria, students at Zhizhi Middle School in Dongdaihe New District, Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, suffered collective vomiting and diarrhea. According to the receiving hospital, more than 80 students sought medical treatment. Official notices stated that the incident was acute gastroenteritis caused by improper cooking and food handling in the cafeteria. Some parents revealed that the principal said only 7 yuan of the meal fee would be refunded. Several parents went to the school to protest, but school officials did not come forward to respond.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a netizen revealed that Changchun Pharmaceutical Vocational College suddenly implemented strict campus lockdown management. Students requesting leave must have their parents send a WeChat message, print a paper leave slip, and obtain the counselor's signature for approval. Rumors circulated that the lockdown is intended to force students to stay on campus and spend money. The school has not responded.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a parent shared that their 10-year-old child tested positive for severe depression symptoms, sparking discussion among netizens about the excessive psychological pressure on children in China.
2026-09-14
After the closure of Yucai School in Pingyin County, Jinan City, Shandong Province, a teacher posted a complaint about the school owing wages and social security contributions, and suspected that their personal items in the office had been rummaged through. On-site footage shows items scattered across the classroom, with desks and books discarded at will.
2026-09-14
On September 14, it was reported that instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forced students to undergo military training in heavy rain. Multiple students confirmed this in the comments section and advised the uploader to delete the video to avoid trouble from the instructors.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a video from a class in a primary school in Jiangxia District, Wuhan showed students who had not subscribed to student milk being gathered in the back rows of the classroom to take water cups and drink. The Education Bureau responded on September 10, stating it was a misunderstanding by parents and emphasizing voluntary subscription. The incident sparked widespread public questioning of the administrative promotion targets for student milk and the underlying profit chain.
2026-09-15
On September 15, a medical student in an eight-year bachelor-master-doctorate joint program at Southern Medical University fell to death on campus. Online rumors indicated that both of the student's parents were critically ill in the ICU, the leave request was approved for only three days, and the student faced heavy academic, research, and work pressures. After the incident, students laid flowers at the scene to mourn.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, a 2020-cohort eight-year clinical medicine student at Southern Medical University fell to death. At the time of the incident, the Tencent Video show "The King of Land. Offer 8" was being recorded on campus, triggering public concern and discussion over the high-pressure training model and professional competition pressures faced by medical students.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On the morning of September 15, numerous netizens left comments in the review section of Southern Medical University's admissions office social media account, demanding that the school authorities respond to recent controversial incidents.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, a student suicide by falling occurred at Southern Medical University. On September 16, students on campus published posts mourning the deceased classmate.
[Follow-up · September 15, 2026] On September 15, an official WeChat account published an article mourning the deceased and calling for the establishment of a student burden-reduction mechanism, arguing that advisor authority should have boundaries and students are not cheap labor. The article attracted attention and was subsequently taken down after publication; the author later republished the original text.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Southern Medical University released an announcement confirming the student's fall on campus and ruling out homicide. The school stated it would strengthen student mental health work, which triggered netizens' questioning of faculty ethics issues.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Wang, the advisor of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University, responded that the online rumors were untrue. Regarding key issues such as the student's parents' car accident and the duration of the leave, Wang refused to respond on the grounds of school regulations and hung up the phone when pressed about the number of leave days.
[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, Southern Daily reported that the family members of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University denied that the advisor coerced the student, and displayed transfer records from the advisor. On the same day, China News Weekly called the advisor regarding the online rumor of "only three days of leave granted," but the advisor did not respond and hung up the phone.
[Follow-up · September 17, 2026] On September 17, a fellow lab-mate of the student who fell to death at Southern Medical University publicly spoke out for the school's advisor, Teacher Wang, stating that she suffered cyberbullying and attempting to defend her.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a high school student uploaded a video on a social platform showing the school’s teaching building stairwell sealed off by dense fences. The video quickly spread among students, and students from other schools also began sharing similar footage. Netizens commented that the teaching building resembled a prison, leading to heated discussion. So far, no school or education authority has responded.
2026-09-12
On September 12, 2026, Hebi Foreign Language Middle School in Henan Province forced students to stay after school for extra classes on weekends and holidays, claiming they were ‘voluntary’. Dissatisfied with the school's closed management, students in uniform gathered at the school gate, and several high school students climbed the iron fence to climb out of the campus. The on‑site video spread online and was soon blocked and removed by the platform.
Location: Hebi own content archive., Henan ·
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2026-09-14
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Education compiled by Yicai, among full-time primary and secondary school teachers nationwide, 5,910 hold a doctoral degree and 855,634 hold a master's degree, totaling more than 860,000; on September 14, the topic "Over 860,000 Master's and Doctoral Degree Holders Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools" trended on Weibo's hot search.
2026-09-14
On September 14, Student Geng stated in a questioning video that there are 4 duplicated images across different plates in two first-author papers by Zhang Yaohua.
2026-09-14
On September 14, Student Geng stated in a questioning video that among Zhang Yaohua's two first-author papers, another two sets of data differ by 10000 item by item.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a senior student disclosed on an online forum that a class group at his university posted a “Student Information Collection” document, requiring students to fill in their ID numbers, detailed home addresses, and parents' workplaces and submit them to the new class advisor. The student and his classmates expressed concerns about the public form, saying the information would be visible to the entire class, and ultimately none of the classmates filled in that section. The incident has sparked controversy over personal data protection in higher education.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a senior student at Dongguan Experimental Middle School had his night snack taken by first- and second-year students after a late class dismissal. After reporting to the school, the administration posted a notice on the bulletin board, including the statements “The teacher wants you to rank in the top 100 of the grade, can you do it?”, “Your parents want you to get into a 985 university, can you meet the requirement?”, and “Don’t always expect others to satisfy you, learn to empathize.” The incident sparked heated discussion online, with netizens questioning the school’s pressure tactics. The next day, September 12, the original poster’s account was deleted.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, a netizen posted on a social platform stating that when using the university learning software “Zhidao”, even after closing the app and clearing the background, after turning on VPN a prompt “VPN environment detected, please adjust network” still appears. The netizen worries this prompt could be monitored by the school and affect credits or graduation. Zhidao belongs to Zhihui Tree Net, and its privacy policy effective from July 1, 2025 states that the platform will collect device identifiers and IP in the background, and may provide abnormal learning behavior data to the school after school authorization.
2026-09-11
On September 11, netizens exposed the extremely primitive accommodation and bathing environments at the junior high department of Hepu No. 4 Middle School in Beihai, Guangxi. Dozens of students are crowded into a single large dormitory, relying only on a few ceiling fans during the sultry summer. The washing and bathing facilities are old and damp. The so-called improvement in conditions consisted only of installing a door in the bathhouse, sparking public concern.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger who claimed to have attended Hengshui No.2 Middle School in Hebei posted a video exposing high‑pressure control and serious human‑rights violations within the school. She said teachers often beat and verbally abuse students, causing sternum or clavicle fractures; a sophomore girl, after being insulted, cut her wrist in the dormitory; and a female student, seeking protection, developed a relationship with a male teacher, whose homeroom teacher was later taken away on suspicion of rape.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger who claimed to be a graduate of Hengshui No. 2 High School posted a video saying that a second-year high school girl suffered a psychological breakdown after being verbally abused by her homeroom teacher and slit her wrists in the dormitory, committing suicide.
2026-09-13
On September 13, a blogger who claimed to be a graduate of Hengshui No. 2 High School posted a video saying that under high-pressure controls, some female students, in order to seek so-called protection, developed intimate relationships with male teachers who hold managerial power.
2026-09-13
On September 13, 2026, a netizen posted a video claiming that when freshmen at the Zhongdong Campus of Shanxi Medical University registered, they found that the loft beds with desks underneath in their dorms were not equipped with ladders, and that freshmen needed to buy a ladder costing about 200 yuan each to get into their dorms.
2026-09-11
On September 11, netizens released the ninth-grade first-semester "Morality and Rule of Law" textbook compiled by the Ministry of Education, which requires students to arm their minds with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It also quotes "A household with a thousand mouths is led by one person" and emphasizes the maintenance of Xi Jinping's core position, sparking public attention.
2026-09-09
On September 9, Fujian Longyan Zijinshan Experimental School installed security gates and X-ray baggage scanners at the school entrance. Students returning to school must undergo manual pat-downs and baggage screening, which has sparked public ridicule and criticism.
2026-09-12
Recently, some netizens have used AI technology to create and publish a video reflecting the current survival status of Chinese students, sparking external attention and discussion regarding the situation and educational pressure of the student group.
2026-09-10
A 15-year-old female student at Luancheng Middle School in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, who scored 736, was repeatedly forced by the school to cut and straighten her naturally curly hair, and was harassed and denied entry. Just 7 days after enrolling, she suffered a mental breakdown and jumped to her death. Her family later protested at the school gate with a petition, and special police were stationed at the scene. After the incident was exposed, graduates and netizens revealed that the school has long had extreme regulations, such as not providing seats in the cafeteria, forcing students to eat standing up, and implementing militarized management.
2026-09-12
Affected by the decline in the birth population and the concentration of population in urban areas, the number of primary schools in China has rapidly decreased. Data from the Ministry of Education shows that the number of regular primary schools nationwide has decreased by about 29,700 in five years. Many places have begun to revitalize and utilize idle rural primary and secondary school buildings, converting them into facilities such as elderly care service centers, highlighting the background of accelerating low birth rates and aging population.
2026-09-10
On September 10, 2026, netizens exposed screenshots of some university group chats showing that voluntary blood donation and bone marrow donation can be counted as bonus points for comprehensive evaluation, with bone marrow donation reaching as high as 10 points per time. Upon investigation, the scholarship or comprehensive evaluation review details of universities such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine indeed contain regulations that treat blood donation and hematopoietic stem cell donation as bonus items, sparking public controversy.
2026-09-07
18-year-old freshman Fang Yuxiang lost both legs in a car accident; on September 7, he entered Hubei University with a score of 586, and completed movements sitting on a small stool during military training.
2026-09-11
In September 2026, multiple high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for implementing Saturday single day off for make-up classes and mandatory boarding since the start of the semester, with schedules from 6 AM to 11:30 PM. Unable to accept the excessively long schedule and the change from two days off to a single day off, students chose to commit suicide after only 10 days of school.
2026-09-11
After the start of the school year in September 2026, many high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for forcing all students to board. The daily schedule lasts from 6:00 AM to 11:30 PM. In addition to regular classes, morning reading and evening self-study sessions are arranged. Some schools have compressed meal times and require students to enter the classroom early for study.
2026-09-11
Just 10 days after the start of the fall semester in September 2026, a high school student in Zhengzhou committed suicide, unable to cope with the heavy psychological burden caused by the school's decision to replace the two-day weekend with a one-day weekend for remedial classes.
2026-09-11
In September 2026, students at several high schools in Zhengzhou collectively exposed on social media their schools’ forced extra classes and excessively long schedules, and filed online joint petitions to the Henan Provincial Department of Education and the mayor’s hotline, protesting the schools’ illegal deprivation of their statutory right to rest.
2026-09-11
On September 11, a Douyin influencer released an AI scenario short film titled "High School Daily Life in the Four Provinces of Rivers and Mountains," featuring details such as waking up at 5 a.m., washing hair in freezing water that turns to ice, noise level meters checking morning reading volume, and point deductions for failing to fold quilts properly. Many netizens in the comment section shared similar personal experiences.
2026-09-09
On September 9, AI designer Mihrolla released a surrealist video, using metaphor to showcase the academic burden and ideological constraints in Chinese education.
2026-09-09
On September 9, the financial account Gelonghui Tuji Tianxia released data stating that the number of primary schools in China has decreased by approximately 86% over 45 years.
2026-09-08
Students at Jingyeyuan School in Jinan, Shandong Province, were filmed marching in highly organized square formations on their way to the cafeteria, sparking public criticism of the school's management model.
2026-09-09
The new edition of the Grade 5 first-semester 'Morality and Rule of Law' textbook, revised according to the 2022 curriculum standards, has been released, covering political indoctrination such as the history of the CPC, socialist propaganda, and the core status of Xi Jinping.
2026-09-09
A student at Kangning Road School in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, was forced to stand as punishment and deprived of their seat by their homeroom teacher because they had not completed the school-assigned task of ordering milk.
2026-09-08
Due to over-enrollment, Jingdezhen College organized personnel late at night to forcibly break down doors and pry locks to compel a senior female student to move to a dormitory with poor environment, and threatened her with party membership and civil service exams.
2026-09-10
In a September 2026 program, Fox Man recalled that after he developed new energy and air conditioning patents in the 1990s, teachers from several top Chinese universities approached him, asking him to apply for funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission in the name of the patents, with the individual to receive half of the money once approved; he refused.
2026-09-08
Henan University of Economics and Law has implemented a mandatory facial recognition and location-based clock-in attendance system, and stipulates that leave of absence requests require parental cooperation, sparking widespread questioning and dissatisfaction among students regarding the excessive administrative and prison-like management of universities.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a netizen posted photos of a revised edition of the fifth-grade first-semester elementary school textbook “Morality and the Rule of Law,” updated in line with the 2022 version of the curriculum standards. Its four units revolve around the history of the Chinese Communist Party, socialist construction, reform and opening up, and the “New Era,” containing statements such as “Only socialism can save China,” and explicitly stating that Xi Jinping has established “the core position of the Party Central Committee and the core position of the whole Party.”
2026-09-09
Yangxin County Fourth Experimental Primary School in Shandong Province released a list of disciplinary violations, including behaviors such as walking and talking simultaneously and playing with paper airplanes, which were subject to notification and point deductions, sparking heated discussions among netizens.
Location: Yangxin County, Shandong ·
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2026-09-09
On September 9, a netizen shared a video of security checks upon students' return to Zijinshan Experimental School in Longyan, Fujian, where security gates, X-ray baggage scanners and other equipment had been installed at the school entrance, sparking discussion over whether the school's security checks were too strict.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a Douyin user posted a video in which a seventh-grade boy complains that going to school every day is just deceiving himself, saying he arrives at school at 7:30 in the morning and is dismissed at 6 in the afternoon. After imitating self-encouragement, he shouts “I’m going crazy.” Commenters wrote that his life as a beast of burden has just begun.
2026-09-07
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2026-09-08
According to the student who posted the message, when Jingdezhen University ordered fourth-year female students to move dormitories, it gave each of them only 30 yuan as compensation, deposited into their bank cards, while the new dormitories were dirty and cluttered and had reduced space.
2026-09-06
On September 6, 2026, an ideological and political theory teacher at Xiamen City Vocational College issued a notice strictly forbidding students from sitting in the last three rows, and claimed to use 360-degree panoramic surveillance to strictly check students' head-up rate, sparking ridicule over formalism in ideological and political courses at universities.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, primary and secondary school teachers in various regions posted on social media to complain about schools disguisedly forcing donations. Quotas were assigned based on senior teacher rank or permanent staff status, with requirements to post screenshots of the donations in work groups, triggering strong resentment.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, Tang Jiafeng, a famous postgraduate entrance exam math tutor, publicly declared that English is merely a tool, calling for an end to English's status as a core course in basic education and an end to the worship of foreign things, sparking fierce public controversy over education reform.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, a netizen's submission reported that multiple universities required students in every class to follow the state security (MSS) WeChat official account, with class monitors verifying and tallying the number of followers one by one and reporting it upward.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, a college student revealed that the school required students to report and document their travel history during the summer break to designated provinces and overseas, using a publicly editable online form to collect the information, sparking controversy over infringement of personal privacy.
2026-09-04
On September 4, 2026, several students at Henan Vocational College of Art reported that the school issued a sudden notice on the eve of the new term, ordering sophomores to transfer to a secondary vocational program. Students questioned whether the school was using the name of work-study alternation as a pretext to covertly arrange for them to work in factories.
2026-09-03
A plan by Zizhuang Primary School in Yongchuan, Chongqing, to charge students a tray-cleaning fee of 45 yuan per semester has sparked controversy. On September 3, 2026, the Yongchuan District Education Commission announced that the charge was non-compliant and ordered the school to stop it immediately.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, a parent exposed the schedule of the high school division of Haikou City No. 4 Middle School, which shows that the school forces students to collectively watch a half-hour broadcast of Xinwen Lianbo during the evening self-study period, sparking public discussion.
2026-09-01
On the day school started, the Xiangyang Public Security account in Hubei posted a video claiming that police made a surprise inspection of Xiangyang High-tech Foreign Language School and searched through students’ personal belongings.
2026-09-01
In Huazhou, Guangdong, a large number of students' parents gathered at the school gate to protest after some students were required to transfer to other campuses, and clashed with police.
2026-09
Police told Enxu that Li Zheng was being detained on suspicion of organized crime; the report also stated that Li Zheng's network of schools was still registering companies and promoting new schools.
2026-09
Over 1,000 students at Xiapu No. 1 Middle School in Fujian staged a collective protest demanding the cancellation of evening self-study before the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday; students said the school threatened them with disciplinary punishment and set up checkpoints to stop them, and their demands were not met.
2026-09
Beijing No. 18 Middle School recently replaced its principal with one from Shandong along with a number of teachers, sparking dissatisfaction over their poor Mandarin, low teaching quality, and an open letter from the principal criticizing students; subsequently, the principal was exposed as allegedly having a prior rape record, leading to collective student protests.
2026-09
A parent publicly opposed command-style education for first-grade primary school students, arguing that children should be treated with equality and respect.
2026-09
According to Ministry of Education data disclosed by Yicai, the number of primary school students in China in 2025 fell by more than 4.06 million compared with 2024, ordinary primary schools decreased by 8,000, an average of nearly 22 closing every day; over the past 5 years the total number of ordinary primary schools has fallen by 30,000.
2026-09
Middle school students in many places report conflicts in canteen dining times and insufficient food, leading to long-term hunger among students; parents call on schools to increase meal preparations.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, some kindergartens in Hong Kong had young children perform Chinese-style marching drills to raise the flag at their opening ceremonies, and the Education Bureau disclosed that it had held 40 flag-raising workshops for more than 1,000 kindergarten teachers across Hong Kong to strengthen patriotic identity.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, the new autumn edition of the fifth-grade primary school textbook Morality and Rule of Law was put into use. Unit 1 was changed from daily life to "Without the Chinese Communist Party There Would Be No New China," with party history and political ideology content substantially increased.
2026-09
Recently, a number of universities, including Beijing Forestry University, Anhui University of Architecture, and Shanxi Vocational College of Finance and Trade, successively introduced detailed rules for living within their means, stipulating measures such as banning flowers at meetings, prohibiting the distribution of souvenirs, and purchasing low-cost air tickets for travel, in order to cut administrative extravagance.
2026-09
A student at Tengzhou Experimental Middle School in Shandong Province was forced to stand as a punishment for feeling unwell, and was violently beaten by a teacher and had their head pressed against glass until it shattered.
2026-09
Nanchong No. 1 Middle School in Sichuan recently implemented 'passion education' and 'meticulous management,' establishing detailed assessment standards for morning reading, sitting posture, and running exercises.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, at the gate of Hekou Experimental Primary School in Dongying, Shandong, a parent brought their daughter — who was left disabled and confined to a wheelchair after jumping from a building due to corporal punishment — to the school to defend her rights, protesting the school's long-term evasion of responsibility; police arrived to maintain order.
2026-09
Students in the dormitories at the Zhongdu campus of Shanxi Medical University have upper bunks with no ladders. Parents have to buy a ladder from a shop off campus for about 200 yuan and bring it into the school to install it, and the university only allows parents to enter campus on the day of registration. Netizens question whether the school is working with merchants to fleece parents.
2026-09
A high school student tearfully complained that school ends at 3:20 pm on Saturday and he must be back before 3:00 pm on Sunday — by the time he gets home, finishes his homework and sleeps, it's basically time to return to school again; meanwhile, the wall next to a public phone at a middle school has been carved full of the words "go home" by students.
2026-09
A teacher at Tongling No. 1 High School in Anhui, Anhui Province, posted a complaint saying that in addition to regular teaching they must constantly take part in teaching-research activities, write study reflections, work on papers and research projects, and set exam questions, saying: "Why can't work just be teaching? I'm so miserable, I want to escape all of this."
2026-08-28
Hong Kong's Education Bureau announced a series of student mainland exchange programs themed on the "90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March" for the new school year, arranging for students to visit relevant memorial sites and participate in themed activities.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the Hong Kong Education Bureau sent a circular to all primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong, launching a student mainland exchange program for the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, organizing students to visit Zunyi and other places to enhance their sense of identity.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the handling of 31 cases of scientific misconduct, revoking the involved projects and recovering funds from individuals including Wang Ping of Tongji University, Chen Quan of Nankai University, Su Jiacan of Shanghai University, and Kuang Dongming of Sun Yat-sen University.
2026-08-27
On the evening of August 27, 2026, Guangzhou No. 89 Middle School ordered nearly 800 students to continue military training in a rainstorm and forbade them from using umbrellas. Students who felt unwell were berated by those in charge, sparking strong protests from students and parents as well as accusations online.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, it was rumored online that Dongguan city, in order to coordinate the traffic congestion when employees of Huawei's terminal headquarters get off work on Fridays, changed nearby schools from two-day weekends to one-day weekends, sparking online discussion.
2026-08-26
On August 26, Leibo County in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan held the 2026 autumn education administration meeting, proposing that teachers scoring below 30 in primary school and below 15 in junior high must collectively take a "shame photo" to motivate teaching performance through humiliating means.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, at the autumn education administration meeting in Leibo County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan, primary and junior high school teachers whose end-of-term average scores were relatively low were required to go up on stage together and take a group photo in front of a large screen bearing the two characters meaning "shame", sparking strong condemnation of the public humiliation of teachers.
Location: Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan ·
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2026-08-26
After the Leibo County education administration meeting ended on August 26, the principal responsible official of the county government made a temporary proposal to take a group photo together with relevant leaders, low-scoring subject teachers, and principals; the county leaders set the two characters "shame" as the backdrop for the photo, seriously damaging the professional dignity of teachers.
Location: Leibo County, Liangshan Prefecture ·
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2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, a student at Guizhou Aviation Vocational and Technical College raised questions about off-campus arrangements in an internship group chat. An instructor threatened the student that they would not receive a diploma if they did not participate, and the student was subsequently forcibly removed from the group chat by an administrator.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, students at No. 17 Middle School in Yiyang, Hunan Province, posted a video exposing the dirty, run-down and dilapidated conditions of their dormitories. The school subsequently responded by saying these were conditions from previous years and demanded that students delete the exposé video.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, a freshman at Zhejiang University with a leg injury was filmed leaning on crutches as he insisted on taking part in military training. The video prompted netizens to question the compulsory nature of university military training and its inhumane rules.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, Aite Qidi Yulongwan Kindergarten in Laiyang, Shandong issued a report stating that family members of 3 students forcibly entered the teaching area and beat the kindergarten director and teachers, causing injuries, and that the kindergarten is cooperating in pursuing legal responsibility against the attackers.
Location: Yantai, Shandong ·
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2026-08-23
On August 23, 2026, a netizen posted to expose Fuzhou Institute of Technology's high-pressure management, which forces morning check-ins and confiscates phones, and also instructs the student union and students to report and manipulate comments on social platforms regarding negative content about the school.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, students at the Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, gathered in protest at the school gate over the cumbersome deposit refund process and abnormal student status information, climbed over the iron gate into the campus shouting "refund our money," and multiple police cars arrived at the scene.
2026-08-22
On August 22, 2026, several students at the Sino-German School of Shanxi University of Finance and Economics posted online to protest, accusing the school of breaking its "3+1" promise of studying in Germany upon enrollment by forcibly shortening the overseas semester to less than half a year and obstructing the paperwork.
2026-08-20
On August 20, a self-described teacher, Zhang Zhengjie, issued an open letter accusing Zhou Yingchun, Party secretary and principal of Chongqing No. 8 Middle School, of having police take him away from his home in the middle of the night on charges of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, after he reported violations such as illegal admissions, the setting up of key classes, and hyping up college admission rates; the police later terminated the investigation on the grounds that no illegal acts had been found. The letter also relays students' experiences of having only a two-week summer vacation and frequent weekly tests, and calls for an end to illegal make-up classes.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, Rongcheng No. 3 Middle School in Weihai, Shandong was reported by students to the oversight authorities, revealing that the school planned to organize Grade 11 students to return early on August 20 for make-up classes and take measures to evade inspections.
2026-08-13
On August 13, 2026, blogger Geng tongxue (Student Geng) released a video publicly accusing, under his real name, a paper published by a Zhejiang University research team in Nature Cell Biology of multiple instances of data fabrication and academic misconduct.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, a Beijing Film Academy graduate using the name "Shang Mengmeng" posted an account saying that after she had long complained about secondhand smoke on campus and wore protective gear to protect herself, she was pinned to the ground in the street by six school staff members while walking off campus, who tore off her gas mask and seized her phone.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, the student rights organization 611Study reported that Fengcheng Senior High School in Laiwu, Jinan, required senior-year students to return to school early on August 20 for extra classes and to attend 57 hours of classes per week. The local education department has formally accepted the report of this violation.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a student rights platform revealed that Maxiangbo Senior High School in Danyang, Jiangsu Province, was covertly violating regulations during the summer vacation by requiring enrolled students to participate uniformly in a so-called “summer camp” for centralized make-up classes.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a student rights platform revealed that teachers at Hechang Middle School in Lüliang, Shanxi, forcibly searched the WeChat and Douyin private messages and personal photo albums of several female students on the pretext of investigating a conflict; the school subsequently acknowledged that this was indeed inappropriate.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a counselor at Sichuan Southwest Medical University pushed the academic affairs office's mini-program in a class group chat to purchase brand-new textbooks, explicitly forbidding the purchase of second-hand textbooks or e-books, and even said that if students were unwilling to spend money on textbooks, they might as well take a leave of absence or drop out.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, the principal of a martial arts school in Jiyuan, Henan, posted a night patrol video on social media. Late at night, he entered the dormitory with a flashlight, forcibly lifted the bedding of students in bed, checked their undergarments, and filmed and published the footage. After drawing criticism for violating privacy, he took it down.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, Fengming Senior High School in Tongxiang City, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, was exposed by students for illegally organizing the Grade 11 Excellence Class to start the new term early and hold centralized remedial classes during the summer vacation.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, a counselor at Southwest Medical University in Sichuan notified students that everyone was required to purchase brand-new textbooks through a school-designated mini-program, with second-hand books strictly banned, sparking online protests and exposure by students.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a student at Yangling Experimental School in Xianyang, Shaanxi submitted a report stating that the school notified students to return nearly a month early for extra classes, that it has long-running high-intensity morning and evening self-study sessions, and that it charges about 500 yuan per month in after-school service fees as well as miscellaneous fees to be borne by students themselves.
2026-08-09
On August 9, 2026, a student rights-defense platform received a submission stating that Quanzhou No. 9 Middle School in Fujian, during the summer vacation, illegally issued a notice requiring students to return to school early, ending their holiday ahead of schedule to resume classes.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a student rights defense organization revealed that Yingshan High School in Sichuan Province illegally held supplementary classes and charged students fees during the summer vacation, while publicly claiming to offer free after-school care. During this period, students were forced to stay on campus at noon, and the quality of the cafeteria food was poor.
2026-08-06
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.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, an academic fraud-exposing blogger posted a video revealing that the team of Zou Jietao, vice president of Hainan Medical University and a doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, mass-fabricated experimental data in multiple papers published in top international journals through simple multiplication and division, shaking the academic community.
2026-08-05
On August 5, Rushi Academy in Xinchang, Zhejiang, was accused of confiscating students' identification documents and subjecting them to beatings and corporal punishment. The founder was revealed to be a former leader of a pyramid scheme, and local authorities have established a joint investigation team to collect evidence.
2026-08-05
On August 5, students at Xinjiang Agricultural University organized materials to report that the school compels students to perform high-temperature, heavy manual labor during the summer vacation at tomato plants and similar facilities, working shifts of up to 12 hours, while confiscating their mobile phones and providing poor accommodation conditions.
2026-08-05
On August 5, 2026, Guangzhou No. 113 Middle School in Guangdong Province was exposed by students for using a voluntary pledge as cover to effectively force summer tutoring, and the school sits right next to the Tianhe District Education Bureau building, sparking accusations of regulatory dereliction.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, while students at the Development Zone Campus of Qinhuangdao Normal University of Science and Technology in Hebei Province were forced to stay on campus during the summer for centralized classes and internships, a student suddenly went into shock and fell into a coma in the dormitory and was carried away for emergency treatment by paramedics.
2026-08-03
Corresponding author Wang Ertao acknowledged on PubPeer that the source data contained duplicate values and anomalies, and that some images were duplicated. He proactively contacted the editorial office of Nature to apply for retraction, stating that the problematic data was generated by first author Wang Gang, and that original records could not be found for some of the data. The retraction process is scheduled to be completed in August 2026.
2026-08-02
In August 2026, the international academic journal Nature published an observation article on the abnormally high number of corresponding authors on Chinese papers, triggering a collective outcry among young Chinese academics on the Chinese internet against supervisors seizing authorship rights and the unwritten rules of academic exploitation.
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, students at Jimei Middle School in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, submitted reports through an online platform, reporting that the school engaged in illegal operations such as unauthorized summer tutoring, arbitrary differentiated fees based on grades, and compulsory weekend labor.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, Peicheng Senior High School in Pei County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province posted a notice at the elevator entrance of the teaching building, explicitly prohibiting all students from taking the elevator up and down the building, raising questions about the rights of disabled students and formalism on campus.
2026-07-30
On July 30, 2026, Nature and Nature Cancer simultaneously retracted two papers involving academic misconduct from Tongji University and Nankai University. Tongji's corresponding author Wang Ping was removed from the position of dean and demoted, while first author Jin Jiali was dismissed; Nankai's corresponding author Chen Quan was removed from the position of dean and demoted, and first author Zheng had their employment terminated.
2026-07-28
On July 28, 2026, satirical cartoonist Zhu Senlin posted a satirical cartoon titled "After Winning the Award" on the Douyin platform, attacking academic utilitarianism and the phenomenon of grabbing research achievements. After resonating with netizens and sparking heated discussion, the work was quickly deleted by the platform.
2026-07-25
In July 2026, netizens found that the new edition of the PEP Chinese textbook for 9th grade added an article by Xi Jinping, replacing classic texts such as Liang Qichao's "Dedication and Harmony with Others," prompting concern about ideological infiltration in basic education.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, images circulating online showed that Anbo Foreign Language School in Hebi, Henan, had installed sealed iron railings inside the teaching building for its senior year students and welded the corridors shut, sparking widespread criticism from netizens over prison-style campus management and a psychological crisis among students.
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2026-07-23
On July 23, 2026, Science and Retraction Watch jointly disclosed that a 6-year-old girl died in March 2025 after undergoing a gene editing trial at Xinhua Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and the paper published by the team afterward made no mention of this.
2026-07-22
In late July 2026, a doctoral student at a university in Chongqing publicly accused their supervisor under their real name on social platforms of long-term personal humiliation and appropriation of research achievements, revealing chat records in which the supervisor said the student was like an ant, sparking public attention to supervisor-student relationships in higher education.
2026-07-21
From July 21, 2026, Qizhen School in Zhangjiakou, Hebei was exposed for forcing senior year students to attend a fully closed summer tutoring program six days a week, sparking student protests over severe lack of rest.
2026-07-10
First-year high school students at Anlu No. 1 High School in Hubei Province staged a collective strike to protest the school's decision to cut their original 20-day summer vacation down to just 5 days. Chanting slogans such as "Against centralization, advocate equality" and "Return our 20-day summer vacation," they ultimately forced the school administration to compromise and restore the long break.
2026-07-07
On July 7, a senior student at Hubei Normal University was restrained by security department personnel and injured. The injury was assessed as a secondary minor injury, and the student's finger is still unable to bend normally.
2026-07-02
A college student in Xi'an came to the front of Saige Mall, calling to "give the victim justice and give society fairness."
2026-07
The Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, has been exposed for coaches mistreating students and withholding students' deposits over a long period. After the incident came to light, hundreds of students gathered in protest for three consecutive days, demanding the return of their deposits.
2026-07
The Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Education released the 2025 national education statistics bulletin, showing that the number of kindergartens nationwide fell by 24,100 in one year, a drop of 8.45%, while enrollment fell by 3.58 million children.
2026-06-29
A 10-year-old boy in Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong, lingered at the school gate on June 29 and failed to enter the school twice, then drowned. After reviewing surveillance footage, his family claimed that he was beaten by his homeroom teacher, surnamed Tan, on 10 of the 12 class days before his death, and at least 8 times in the final week.
2026-06-29
In June 2026, Zhizhi Middle School in Hengshui, Hebei was exposed for enforcing strict hairstyle inspections, forbidding students from entering the school with any hairstyle other than a buzz cut; after a student filmed a video disclosing this, the school's teachers sent private messages intimidating the student in the name of the Cyberspace Administration of China, demanding that the post be deleted within a time limit.
2026-06-28
On June 28, 2026, a college student posted that after casually saying in a WeChat group chat with friends that they wanted to jump off a building, they were soon precisely located by several police officers, taken away from their dormitory for investigation, and their parents were also warned not to speak out of turn.
2026-06-25
On June 25, 2026, Jinghua Yuan Middle School in Chenzhou, Hunan lined up confiscated student phones on the steps and had teachers smash and destroy them with hammers in front of all the school's teachers and students, sparking widespread controversy over the school's harsh management approach.
2026-06-20
The Taierzhuang Music Festival in Zaozhuang, Shandong withheld and delayed the part-time wages of college students, leading a large number of students to gather for rights defense. Videos of the rights defense were removed across the entire internet.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, a student at the Animation School of Jilin University of the Arts posted a plea for help, saying that she had suffered long-term bullying from her dormitory head, class monitor and others, which led to depression, and that her report to the school yielded no results, while the suspected bullies were developed as probationary Party members and awarded scholarships.
2026-06-12
On June 12, 2026, it was reported online that a student at Shaanxi Electromechanical Vocational and Technical College was publicly criticized by the school administration and given a disciplinary penalty for voluntarily giving up joining the Communist Youth League.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, a mother in Luotian County, Huanggang, Hubei, posted a video saying her child died at Luotian Siyuan School. Because the school gave no direct response afterward and shirked responsibility, the family went to the school to gather, defend their rights, and demand the truth.
2026-06
Blogger Shiju Insight posted in June this year that some university technician classes failed to recruit enough students and in the end had to hold classes together with ordinary classes starting from junior high school graduates; the teachers' lecturing pace was extremely slow and the content extremely shallow, and high-end skills training turned into a big pot of stew for just killing time.
2026-06-01
A university teacher submitted a post arguing that engineering education accreditation, while wearing a non-governmental mask, is actually an administrative directive that reduces engineering universities to formalistic administrative performances, resulting in the 'high schoolization of universities'.
2026-05-27
On the evening of May 27, 2026, strict new dormitory phone control rules introduced by Guangzhou Information Technology Vocational School triggered a strong student backlash, with multiple students collectively shouting from the dormitory buildings to protest the mandatory management enforced by the school's student affairs office.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, the academic fraud-exposing blogger "Geng Tongxue" publicly accused journal papers published by National Outstanding Young Scholar (Jieqing) scholars at Central South University and Tongji University of containing duplicated, fabricated data, and revealed that he had previously received a call from a middleman demanding money to settle the matter privately and take the video down.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, a college graduate in Henan posted to report that during graduation season their counselor repeatedly urged students in a group chat to sign, warning that online-signed employment agreements would be directly tied to internship and thesis grades and the issuance of graduation certificates, in order to apply pressure.
2026-05-26
On May 26, 2026, a student at a Shanghai university exposed online that a counselor sent a notice urging blood donation in the class group chat, and stipulated that those unwilling to donate blood must handwrite and submit a statement of no less than 500 characters within a deadline, sparking criticism that this was disguised coercion.
2026-05-21
On the evening of May 21, 2026, it was reported online that a grade-11 student at No. 6 Middle School in Lengshuijiang, Hunan, was violently thrown, stomped on, and crushed by his homeroom teacher on the podium in front of everyone, and humiliated, because he was playing on his phone during self-study. After evening self-study ended, the student went home and jumped to his death.
2026-05-21
On May 21, 2026, Chinese Human Rights Defenders released a special research report pointing out that millions of secondary vocational students in China face forced internships every year, involving excessive working hours, withheld pay, and abuse of child labor, which has led to the abnormal deaths of multiple interns.
2026-05-05
A blogger filed a real-name report alleging that data fabrication was suspected in a paper published in 2020 by Professor Kang Tiebang, deputy director of the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; Sun Yat-sen University responded that an investigation has been launched.
2026-05
In May 2026, it was reported online that Wenshang County No. 1 Middle School in Jining, Shandong Province sparked collective student protests over long-term cuts to holidays; large numbers of high school students gathered on campus and held banners reading "Fight for national sovereignty abroad, remove national traitors at home" to express their dissatisfaction.
2026-05
Jiangxi Normal University requires students to submit an application for all private international travel. This policy has been in effect for half a year, and specific implementation details have not been made public.
2026-04-29
Beijing Huangzhuang Vocational High School was relocated by the school authorities to a smaller campus lacking basic facilities such as a cafeteria and a sports field, sparking a collective protest in which students confronted school staff in the corridors and at the school gate.
2026-03-18
The raw data of a 2025 Nature paper published by a Distinguished Young Scholar and Vice Dean at Beihang University has been exposed for serious fabrication. Multiple sets of parallel experimental data show identical values down to the first decimal place and the ones digit. Beihang University has replied via email confirming an investigation.
2026-03-14
On March 14, a county-seat hospital in Jiangsu Province was photographed setting up a study area in the children's infusion zone, requiring young patients to complete their homework while receiving IV drips.
2026-02-27
The Ministry of Education issued a document mentioning that Shanghai is implementing the "Construction Standards for Ideological and Political Courses in Universities," requiring private universities to establish the awareness that "the School of Marxism is the primary school" and "ideological and political courses are the primary courses," and to fulfill their primary responsibility for the construction of ideological and political courses. Public data shows that the number of Schools of Marxism in universities nationwide has expanded 18-fold over twelve years (2012 to 2024).
2026-01-12
On January 12, procurement documents released by Henan Medical University showed that the school spent 550,000 yuan to build a student comprehensive profiling analysis platform. The platform conducts non-intrusive collection and intelligent analysis of students' daily behavior, academics, mental health, and financial aid information, and includes functions such as dynamic tracking of key students and four-level grid management.
2025-11
In November 2025, a 20-year-old college student in Shanghai attempted to withdraw medical subsidies and funds deposited by their mother at a bank, only to be unreasonably reported to the police and restricted by the bank, resulting in the funds being indirectly withheld.
2025-11-01
Students at Leiyang No. 1 Middle School in Leiyang, Hunan Province shouted from the building in a collective protest against the school forcing students to "voluntarily" come to school for self-study, occupying their rest time to hold a school sports meet, leaving only one day of monthly leave.
2025-10-20
On October 20, 2025, the School of Business Administration of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics issued the "Notice on Carrying Out Tuition Reduction and Waiver Work for Undergraduate Students in the 2025-2026 Academic Year," which likewise listed smokers, heavy drinkers, and those addicted to the internet and other consumption-type bad habits as circumstances for canceling tuition waiver eligibility.
2025-05-15
On May 15, a female student at Beijing University of Technology Gengdan Institute went to the infirmary for a medical note due to menstrual cramps, but was asked by the on-duty staff to pull down her pants to prove her physical condition. Afterward, the school administration released a statement on Douyin, insisting that the on-duty staff's workflow complied with regulations and accusing the related videos circulating online of being distorted.
2025-02-04
On February 4, 2025, in response to Beihang University student Geng publicly blasting his Russian Academy of Engineering academician status for lacking research achievements, Ding Zhifeng brought company executives to Beihang to talk with Geng in person, triggering a confrontation and debate.
2025
Data from the Ministry of Education shows that fresh graduates in 2025 will reach 12.22 million, with more than half entering the flexible employment sector.
2025
In 2025, five departments in Hubei Province issued a document proposing that by 2028 the coverage rate of the student milk drinking program in basic education schools should reach more than 85%, and the awareness and acceptance rate among students and parents should reach more than 90%; at the same time, it stipulated that promotion should follow principles such as government guidance and parental voluntariness.
2024-11-08
In early November 2024, hundreds of thousands of college students in Zhengzhou, Henan rode shared bikes at night into Kaifeng, triggering large-scale gatherings. Universities in Henan and many other places subsequently locked down their campuses and barred students from going out, while traffic police in both cities imposed a full closure of the Zhengkai Avenue.
2024-10
A school group notice requires all student clubs to refrain from holding team-building or recreational activities on campus between October 31 and November 3, and instructs groups to contact their faculty advisors separately.
2024-09
Online reports claim that China has begun implanting chips into student school uniforms for location tracking and surveillance.
2024-08-29
After public attention and police intervention in the investigation, Enxu was allowed to leave the school; 12 days later, the school was closed. The local education bureau said the reasons for its intervention included violations of business scope, overcharging training fees, and providing boarding services.
2024-06-13
Netizens submitted records of extreme point deductions at Hengshui No.2 High School, showing that students were frequently penalized for everyday details such as holding books incorrectly, using the restroom at night, not lying down properly while sleeping, and even laughing or combing hair.
2021-08-25
China introduced a policy prohibiting public schools from cooperating with private schools in running schools, and as a result Hengshui No. 2 High School's cooperation with the relevant private schools has come to an end.
2021-07-24
The General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Easing the Burden of Homework and Off-Campus Tutoring on Students in Compulsory Education, delivering a devastating blow to the tutoring industry.
2021
After Hengshui No. 2 High School ended its cooperation, the relevant private schools lost brand and educational resource support, saw their student numbers decline, and fell into financial crisis.
2017
Han Shihui purchased about 468 mu of land in Hengshui, Hebei, invested about 2 billion yuan, and partnered with Hengshui No. 2 High School to found a private school with a capacity of about 20,000 students.
2010
Henan examinee Li Mengmeng scored 565, 13 points above the first-tier cutoff, but her paper application form never entered the admission process and was forgotten in the admissions office.
2006
Starting in 2006, rural western China was the first to waive tuition and fees; in 2007 this was extended to all rural areas, and in 2008 free education was achieved in both urban and rural areas. The Two Exemptions and One Subsidy policy covered 150 million rural students, bringing to an end the system of paying fees during the compulsory education stage.
2005-03-16
On March 16, 2005, the Tsinghua Network Center blocked access from off-campus, and the Shuimu Tsinghua BBS was converted into an on-campus-only system, leaving 82.3% of its former off-campus users unable to log in; on April 14 the servers were taken over by the university, and on April 19 the station affairs committee resigned en masse.
2003
Chen Jin's team ground off the markings on purchased Motorola chips and reprinted them as "Hanxin No. 1", announced it in February 2003, defrauding about 110 million yuan in research funding (over 60 million yuan received), and was exposed in early 2006.
1999
In 1999, the number of university students enrolled in China surged from 1.08 million to 1.6 million, as higher education began its transition toward mass enrollment.
1975
Baozi entered the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University as a worker‑peasant‑soldier student to study.
1950
The author's uncle scored excellently on exams at Shanghai No. 5 Middle School in the 1950s, but because his father was a fugitive landlord he could not attend university and was assigned to an agricultural university in the northwest; that school was located in a famine-stricken area where people starved to death. After he returned to Shanghai, his household registration had already been transferred out so he could not re-register there, and he ultimately returned to his hometown in Zhejiang to farm and live out his days.