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On November 10, officials reported that the government service hall in Xi'an Fengdong New City was forcibly demolished by an excavator. The report did not specify the reasons or motives, prompting numerous netizens in the comment sections of related news videos to question the motives and wonder if it involved a debt dispute.

On November 5, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi relayed the investigation feedback from Taicang authorities: the doctors in the underground surrogacy operating room were retirees, the nurses were freelancers, and the anesthesiologist was from a private medical institution who obtained anesthesia drugs through fraudulent prescriptions. When asked for the names of the involved institutions, Taicang authorities stated it was inconvenient to disclose them.

The police station's case acceptance receipt stated intentional injury, but no forensic injury assessment was commissioned, and the investigation was terminated in less than a month on the grounds of no illegal facts.

On October 27, searches for Mbappé on the official Weibo accounts of Dior, Hublot and Oakley all showed no content; but Oakley's US official website still keeps his feature page, and Dior's English official website still carries the 2026 summer ad video featuring him.

On October 26, cartoon graffiti of Xi Jinping appeared on a restroom wall at a high school in Huangzhuang, Beijing; the school subsequently forced the restroom locked and carried out renovations.

On October 25, police determined that Ma, the village party secretary of Luoyi Village, Luliang County, had threatened the personal safety of others and fined him 600 yuan. However, the penalty notice listed his workplace as "none"; the town government confirmed that he concurrently serves as the village secretary and village director.

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.

In the early hours of October 18, a female guest checked into the Milo River View High-Altitude Hotel in Hubei and discovered a staircase leading to an equipment room hidden behind a painting in her room. The hotel front desk claimed the stairs led to a room housing water heaters, promised a full refund of the room fee, and requested that the guest delete her related posts.

According to Twitter account @GFWfrog, regarding the recent lead contamination incident in Tianshui, Gansu, local officials offered the explanation that the cause of the contamination was painting paint being poured into vegetables. The claim was described as covering one's ears while stealing a bell, intended to find a scapegoat to cover up the truth of the contamination, provoking public dissatisfaction and questioning.

On October 15, 115 days after the joint investigation team of four departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation was established, a report was issued stating that formamide was not detected in 368 batches of infant diapers from 180 brands sampled, nor in 210 blood samples stored by the Shandong Provincial Public Health Clinical Center. It was concluded that the center's earlier testing had involved such problems as selectively choosing data points and deleting raw data. The Shandong Provincial Health Commission has taken action against the relevant medical institutions and personnel, but did not disclose the specific targets or measures.

On October 13, a reporter called the Hulunbuir Municipal Health Commission, and staff responded that there was no local plague outbreak. The plague prevention and control risk advisory issued earlier was merely routine public science education, and the related content has now been deleted to avoid public misunderstanding.

On October 12, "Formamide Diapers Investigation, 3-Month Progress Bar 0" trended on Weibo's social chart. Poster News pointed out that on June 22, four departments including the State Administration for Market Regulation formed a joint investigation team and promised to release information promptly; more than three months later, no progress has been disclosed. Some parents said they have weaned their children off diapers, and netizens sarcastically remarked, "This time it's not leading, it's life without parole."

Peking University News subsequently published a report on Steinmeier's visit, detailing his activities such as playing table tennis with students and faculty and receiving a signed racket, but made no mention of his speech quoting Cai Yuanpei's principle of 'freedom of thought and inclusiveness.'

The author points out that in the first half of the year, Chinese cultural relics went missing within the system on a severe scale, and no results have been found or any relics recovered.

In Yangjiang Town, Qionghai, Hainan, a propaganda cadre's claim that he paid out of pocket for tree seedlings to win over a holdout household was exposed as false by the person involved; the town government issued a notice on September 3, 2026 acknowledging discrepancies between the account and the facts and publicly apologizing.

A payroll list for permanent staff at Dongguan Furong Temple for September 2026, exposed by netizens, shows that 22 out of 29 permanent staff members earn over 10,000 yuan, with the abbot alone receiving nearly 18,000 yuan. The total for the entire list is nearly 320,000 yuan.

After Lin applied for criminal reconsideration, the Junlian County Public Security Bureau's reconsideration decision on August 10 still maintained the refusal to file a case.

News regarding the collision of vessels in the South China Sea resulting in the deaths of two military personnel was allegedly not made public until nearly a year after the incident, with the disclosure occurring in August 2026.

After the family filed a police report, police in Yuncheng, Shandong, declined to open a case against the homeroom teacher surnamed Tan on August 9 on the grounds that no criminal facts existed.

On August 5, 2026, the special task force of Yanta District, Xi'an issued a report on the incident of a merchant falling from a building at the Saige Shopping Center, determining that the 11.54 million yuan in liquidated damages claimed by the mall was excessive, and that the two parties had reached a settlement. The report's emphasis that the deceased suffered from depression prompted public skepticism.

On August 5, a netizen in Huaxian County, Anyang, Henan, discovered that the names of all recipients in the subsidy payment table published by the local Talent and Employment Service Center had been blurred, raising public doubts about fake oversight.

On August 5, it was reported that cargo owners at Haikou Xiuying Port had misdeclared tens of tons of hazardous chemicals as daily necessities, and employees who reported the matter were suppressed; the Haikou municipal joint investigation team subsequently announced that it had opened a case for verification.

The CCTV report described the disaster as a mudslide on the Nepalese side, broadcast no footage from the scene, and did not mention specific casualty or missing-person figures.

In August 2026, Heilongjiang Province drew attention for failing to publish birth rates, death rates, and natural growth rates in its statistical bulletins on national economic and social development for three consecutive years, making it the only province in the country to withhold these indicators.

On August 1, the area around Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Guangxi was enclosed by tall blue sheet-metal barriers, with tents set up on site, personnel stationed there, and uniformed officers patrolling. Netizens questioned whether the move was meant to cover up the stench of dead fish in the reservoir, and said that some people were banned from livestreaming.

The investigative report published by Southern Weekly, "Guangxi Liulan Reservoir Station Chief Talks About the 24 Hours Before the Breach," revealed that the reservoir's renovation cost billions yet was still a tofu-dreg project, the sluice gates were damaged, and of 54 staff on the payroll only 2 to 3 understood reservoirs; it was deleted across the entire internet within 24 hours of going online.

After police accepted the case of Lin being raped on June 30, the Yunlian County Public Security Bureau decided on July 16 not to file a case on the grounds that "no criminal facts had occurred."

On July 10, 2026, it was reported online that during the floods in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to the Liulan Reservoir, the Gandao, Yunbiao, Jijing and other reservoirs also suffered dam breaches. Officials were accused of covering up the disaster and arresting those spreading the news on charges of “spreading rumors.”

After the case was accepted, it remained unhandled for a long time; Lin attempted suicide by slashing his or her wrist shortly afterward, and his or her lawyer says Lin was subsequently diagnosed with severe depression by a hospital.

On June 25, 2026, media reported progress in the case of a 13-year-old girl in Yuncheng, Shanxi, who was raped and whose case police had previously refused to file; amid continued online exposure and attention, the criminal suspect involved has been formally placed under criminal detention by police.

A netizen claiming that their cousin works in the kindergarten's kitchen said that the auntie in question earns less than 2,000 yuan a month, does not know what lead is, and has nothing to do with the supply chain or procurement, and that the authorities urgently need someone to take the blame.

In June 2026 it was exposed online that officers from a police station in Taizhou, Zhejiang, led by two deputy directors, collectively solicited opposite-sex hostesses at a KTV and were caught on the spot by the discipline inspection commission; for two years after the incident the authorities made no public announcement, imposing only minor internal punishments of removal from office while all of them retained their public-sector posts.

On December 25, 2011, the State Council investigation team released its report on the Yongwen line accident, confirming 40 deaths and 172 injuries; prior to this, pits had been dug at the accident site to bury the locomotive, sparking public questioning.

In the early morning of July 24, 2011, at the site of the Wenzhou train crash, bulldozers crushed fragments of the derailed carriages and dug pits to bury them on the spot, triggering a fierce public reaction. The Ministry of Railways later acknowledged that it had buried the locomotive.

Eight days after Du Shicheng's incident, his relative Du Xishan resigned from all positions at Qingdao Golden Coast Hotel Co., Ltd.

On April 28, 2006, 24-year-old graduate student Hu Xinyu, during a critical Huawei project push, worked until 3 a.m. every day for a long stretch, going home only 4 times in 30 days. He collapsed at the office, was diagnosed with acute meningitis, and died 10 days after being hospitalized. Huawei subsequently hired internet commenters to post articles and published pieces such as "Heaven Rewards Diligence" to promote a culture of struggle, suppressing the incident.

On August 31, 2004, Du Shicheng presided over a special meeting of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee to study land for housing for Sinopec experts and employees; through the coordination of Vice Mayor Luo Yongming, a total of 1000 mu of land was secured across the Qingdao Economic Development Zone, Huangdao District, and Jiaonan City.

On April 20, 2003, the CCP Central Committee decided to remove Zhang Wenkang, Party Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and Meng Xuenong, Deputy Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, from their posts. On the same day, Beijing's case figures were revised upward from 37 to 339 and changed to daily releases; Meng Xuenong subsequently resigned as mayor, and Zhang Wenkang was removed as Minister of Health on April 26.

On April 4, 2003, military doctor Jiang Yanyong learned that Health Minister Zhang Wenkang had claimed there were only 12 SARS cases in Beijing. He then told the real case numbers from military hospitals to CCTV and Phoenix TV, and the information was relayed out by foreign journalists.

On April 3, 2003, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang told a press conference in Beijing that Beijing had only 12 SARS cases and 3 deaths, and said it was safe whether or not you wore a mask; the next day, Jiang Yanyong disclosed higher figures from military hospitals.