Tianjin · Full chronicle and history

On November 6, parents of students at Chonghua Middle School in Nankai District, Tianjin, reported that the school required students who had not received the self-paid HPV vaccine to get vaccinated over the weekend, or otherwise provide a certificate from a Grade A tertiary hospital stating they are unsuitable for vaccination. After parents complained, they were told this was based on a joint notice from the Municipal Health Commission and the Municipal Education Commission.

During Halloween on October 31, someone in Heping District, Tianjin, dressed up as US President Trump and was interrogated by police.

After the man posted photos from the Tiananmen Marathon on social media to show support for "Wangwang," his account was permanently banned the next day.

On October 25, a man wearing a T-shirt printed with cat and dog patterns took part in the Tianjin Marathon, holding both hands up in a gesture resembling a "W" to voice support for "Wangwang", the stray dog abused and killed in Jieyang, Guangdong, and after the race he posted photos of his participation.

On October 13, residents of Heping District in Tianjin posted a video saying that construction of Metro Line 8 had caused severe cracks in nearby houses. Residents quarreled and scuffled with construction workers, then stopped the work at the site, demanding a halt to construction, a safety appraisal, and negotiations on compensation, saying that no party had come forward to discuss a repair plan.

On October 13, Tianjin Xiangyu Liren School organized students for an autumn outing to Fantawild. While the students were lining up, a teacher reprimanding the students forcefully pulled one of them, causing the student to fall to the ground. After the video was exposed, it sparked heated discussion among netizens.

On October 10, according to a report by Sohu's Qianliyan, a male manager at a company in Tianjin was accused of sending obscene and explicit photos to a female subordinate. The woman's mother went to the company to show the photos to passersby and demand an explanation, and police officers arrived to handle the matter. Lawyer Zhou Zhaocheng said this constitutes sexual harassment, and the company has a duty to investigate and handle it.

Yu Min, an insider in Tianjin's supervision system, told Epoch Times that multiple cases have occurred in Tianjin in which people were arrested before the basic facts of a report were verified. Those involved are mostly cadres at the district level or below; the amounts alleged cannot be traced to any source or destination, and are in fact political retaliation. Cases have occurred in both Hedong District and Nankai District.

On September 30, the Tianjin Municipal Government issued a notice declaring all administrative regions of the city as control airspace for unmanned aerial vehicles, effective from the date of publication, while repealing the June 4 notice on flyable airspace; the original flyable zone of about 2,205 square kilometers has been entirely cancelled.

On September 24, a Bilibili uploader posted an interview video in which a Tianjin elder who has been in the antique trade for many years said it is a good thing that overseas museums preserve Chinese cultural relics, and criticized the demolition of Beijing's old city, which destroyed the ancient city.

On September 21, in Tianjin, an elderly person fell on the roadside. Passersby, worried about being scammed or falsely accused, did not step forward to help. The elderly person attempted to get up by themselves multiple times without success.

On September 11, 2026, the Douyin platform cleaned the comment section of the Tianjin University of Technology military training performance “Tank Formation” video. After the video was posted, the comment section saw multiple netizens use “June Fourth” to allude to the 1989 Tiananmen incident, sparking heated discussion. Douyin subsequently deleted all related comments, resulting in the comment section being emptied, without providing an official explanation. This action was seen as online censorship of sensitive political topics.

Divorce appointment slots for September at the Marriage Registration Office of Hebei District, Tianjin, are shown as zero, with multiple netizens reporting difficulties in making appointments and the existence of a phenomenon where acquaintances are needed to secure extra slots.

An elderly person in Tianjin had their handicrafts forcibly confiscated by law enforcement officers while selling them at a street stall, sparking public concern and condemnation over the hardships faced by ordinary people at the bottom of society.

On August 12, 2026, Tianjin's first marriage registration office set up inside a bank outlet — the Donghai Marriage and Fertility Registration Office in Hexi District — opened to the public. It introduced a "government-bank integration" model that bundles marriage registration with bank financial planning, sparking public discussion.

On August 7, Tianjin Party Secretary Chen Min'er went to community elderly care homes and hospitals for an on-site inspection, appearing two days earlier than other Politburo members.

A grassroots medical worker posted online that after booking flights and a hotel, they received a notice from their workplace stating that the hospital prohibits all active staff from traveling abroad, affecting both personnel with and without formal staffing status.

A netizen in Tianjin claimed that when their family member applied for a passport, they were required to provide their WeChat ID, confirm whether their family was aware of the application, and list phone numbers for multiple relatives. Staff stated that the result would be known in about two weeks, with a 50% approval rate.

On August 5, a netizen in Tianjin reported that when family members applied for passports, they were required to register their WeChat names and phone numbers of multiple relatives, and were told by staff that the approval rate for applications was only 50%.

On August 4, a netizen in Tianjin distributed flyers related to the Wangwang case in public places such as malls and subways, calling on citizens to pay attention to animal protection issues and participate in a petition.

On August 4, 2026, residents in Tianjin distributed flyers related to the abuse of Wangwang, a small dog in Jieyang, Guangdong, in public places such as shopping malls and subways, calling on citizens to pay attention to animal protection issues and participate in a legislative petition.

Stephen Chow held roadshows in five cities — Tianjin, Changsha, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Shenzhen — and the videos say that in each city large crowds turned out shouting "Sing Ye".

A project constructed by China Railway Fourth Engineering Bureau in Tianjin Binhai New Area has experienced unpaid wages, and workers blocked the entrance to demand their unpaid wages on July 28.

网传2026年7月28日前后，天津滨海新区部分海滩与沿海区域被设铁栅栏、高墙封闭，引发网民对公共资源封闭化的质疑；该说法查无公开媒体报道，官方未回应。

On July 28, 2026, the Tianjin Qingshan Green Energy Intelligent Manufacturing Production and Research Base project, due to long-term unpaid wages for frontline workers, triggered a collective work stoppage and strike by all construction workers, who held banners on site to defend their rights and protest.

Netizens filmed footage of the national flag hanging upside down at the Tianjin Wandaful International Building.

Fang Xinghai stated at the Summer Davos that U.S. restrictions on capital inflows into China have instead stimulated China's private equity and venture capital.

A serious incident of wage arrears occurred at the Shengshi Lanwan residential project in Jinghai District, Tianjin. Multiple construction workers, who have been owed four months of salary, held up rights defense banners at the site, demanding that the contractor pay their wages in full.

The Jinnan Branch of the Tianjin Public Security Bureau released an announcement to recruit 70 auxiliary police officers. Among them, a position recruiting 10 people received 3079 applications, resulting in a competition ratio of about 307 to 1.

The video claims that Tianjin's general government debt has reached 730% of GDP, and calls Tianjin the region with the highest per capita debt in the country; no official or media source can be found for this figure.

On October 29, 2024, the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sun Zhigang to death for accepting more than 813 million yuan in bribes, with a two-year reprieve and life imprisonment.

A Tianjin court delivered the first-instance verdict for the nine prosecutors involved in the Yanbian case. Xu Xuezhe, the head of the special investigation team, and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for intentional injury or extracting confessions by torture.

Nine Yanbian prosecutors suspected of torturing Liu Xiyong to death were put on public trial at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court. Liu Fangfei attended the hearing holding a portrait of her late husband.

The first-instance trial of Sun Zhengcai's bribery case opened at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on April 12, 2018; online posts claim that evidence footage played in court showed Zhang Jun as one of those who offered bribes, a claim not seen in any public reports.

In January 2018, Tianjin Binhai New Area switched its GDP statistical basis from registered to local, revising its 2016 GDP from 1,000.231 billion yuan to 665.4 billion yuan, a drop of about one third; the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics said this had no impact on the city's overall GDP.

The program claimed that after the Chinese Communist Party took power, in order to coordinate propaganda and win over celebrities in the arts and literary circles, it invited the quyi performer Luo Yusheng, who was then performing in Nanjing, to return to Tianjin; no public reports were found to verify this claim.

On September 15, 1942, Wen Jiabao was born into a scholarly family in Yixingbu, Tianjin.