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On June 30, multiple children at the affiliated kindergarten of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology experienced vomiting, and parents got no answers after pressing for two months. On September 14, a safety officer at the kindergarten's canteen exposed severe hygiene issues, such as washing shoes in vegetable washing pools and scrubbing woks with mops. The kindergarten had long ignored rectifications, and regulatory authorities failed to inspect the kitchen surveillance footage.

On September 21, a fifth-grade female student at Mingtian School in Shenxian, Liaocheng, Shandong Province, died on campus. Family members questioned the school for delaying medical treatment, concealing her condition, and obstructing access to surveillance footage. A large crowd gathered at the school gate to defend their rights, and police and SWAT police were dispatched to maintain order.

Chongqing University of Technology issued an announcement stating that Li resigned in July 2025 and is no longer a teacher at the school. It also explained the police's decision not to file a case and the procuratorate's review.

On September 19, CCTV CNR's 'Kandan Observation' column released a video criticizing regulatory authorities for their slow response in handling food safety issues such as cabbages dipped in formaldehyde and bamboo shoots smoked with sulfur, questioning why regulatory authorities struggle to detect problems that media and bloggers can easily uncover.

On September 17, residents in Guangzhou reported that a local district, in order to suppress the case data of "two fevers," sent personnel to the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital to intercept feverish residents seeking medical treatment across districts. Additionally, parents stated that because their children sought medical treatment in another district, the community organized multiple people to visit their homes for "ideological work," forcibly demanding they return to their own district for testing.

On September 12, a first‑grade middle school girl in Beitian Town, Yuci District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province was surrounded, verbally abused, slapped and kicked by several students while going to a market. The video shows the victim being beaten by many people, with no one intervening. The school said it was a minor dispute among students; the education bureau and the police station expressed a passive attitude toward the bullying nature and the injuries. The victim is currently hospitalized for observation, and the police have intervened.

Teacher Wang, a kindergarten health teacher and cafeteria safety officer, revealed on September 14 that cafeteria ingredients were taken and used privately.

Teacher Wang, a campus health teacher and cafeteria safety officer at the kindergarten, stated on September 14 that the vegetable washing sinks were soaked with 84 disinfectant for anti-mosquito nets, and were also used for washing hair and scrubbing shoes.

Wang, a health teacher and cafeteria safety officer at the kindergarten, stated on September 14 that the cooking wok was used to scrub sewer covers and mops.

On September 11, 2026, a popular Weibo influencer posted that discussions related to the Sun Meihua abduction case were being massively deleted and suppressed. Videos posted by bloggers who participated in the rescue have also disappeared. Sun Meihua originally lived in Beijing's Second Ring Road, spoke English, and was involved in foreign trade. She was abducted to a rural area at the age of 32 and suffered for 26 years. The methods of abduction and the progress of the case investigation, which have garnered public attention, have not yet been disclosed, and the official response has raised questions.

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.

On September 5, 2026, a serious accident occurred during the first round of the GT3 class of the China GT Championship owns Supercar Championship at the Shanghai International Circuit. Car number s91 of the FIST Auto team, caught fire after a collision, and driver Ollie Millroy was trapped in the burning cockpit. The event organizers' rescue efforts were severely delayed, and security personnel operated the fire extinguishers incorrectly. Another competing driver, Loek Hartog, seeing this, decisivelyy owns the race and rushed into the flames to rescue Millroy. Afterwards, movie star Daniel Wu owns the organizers' emergency rescue as extremely amateurish and announced his withdrawal from the race, and several other teams also announced their withdrawal in protest.

According to a post by X account Luo Xiang, the contributor who reported on the Three Gorges Dam collapse has gone missing. The whistleblower's final submission included an 'internal use' employee information registration form, which detailed personal political affiliation, family background, overseas connections, contact methods, internet usage habits, assets, and requirements for fingerprint and voiceprint collection.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has warned that Moonshot AI's project, Kimi K3, may be stealing U.S. AI models through "distillation" techniques and could potentially use overseas nodes to hijack access to NVIDIA servers. The U.S. government has added Kimi K3 to the Entity List for sanctions.

X account Luo Xiang posted a video submitted by a netizen showing that some disaster victims in the Hengzhou area of Guangxi staged a protest due to dissatisfaction with post-disaster resettlement. The video footage shows smoke filling the air in the night.

At the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Philadelphia, mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu, both born in Guangdong and Guangxi, China, were awarded the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics." Both studied at Peking University before pursuing further studies and teaching abroad.

A joint assessment by the UK AI Safety Institute and the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) indicates that the performance of China's AI model Kimi K3, particularly in stability and success rates, is significantly lower than leading frontier AI models in the US, and it also performs poorly in developing exploit code.

The Hunan Library issued an announcement on its official WeChat account stating that due to recent incidents where readers used public Wi-Fi to circumvent the Great Firewall and access prohibited overseas websites, posing serious cybersecurity risks, it has temporarily shut down its wireless network for rectification and exposed the mobile phone numbers of some readers.

On the eve of the World Cup final, giant screens in New York's Times Square scrolled images of 'Wangwang,' a mother dog who was a victim of a dog abuse case in China, along with her puppies, aiming to draw international attention to animal abuse in China.

The Wall Street Journal reported that last summer, Ding Xuexiang received a closed-door briefing from Huawei on AI, in which Huawei claimed it could achieve Chinese autonomy in key AI fields within three years. Ding was leading the effort to consolidate resources in the chip industry at the time and warned that those who refused to use domestic chips were traitors.

CCTV reported on a live-streaming scam conducted under the guise of rescuing stray cats and dogs. The criminal gang defrauded over 1,500 kind-hearted individuals of more than 2.5 million yuan through false information and intentional animal abuse. The mastermind, surnamed Li, was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for fraud and fined 200,000 yuan.

US CIA Director Ratcliffe publicly stated that China develops technology through theft, replication, and state subsidies, which is its "success" model. He believes the US is more competitive in the AI field due to its systemic advantages, as individual creativity is restricted by the party-state under the CCP system.

On June 28, 2026, four minors under the age of 14 in Pingpu Village, Xinheng Town, Jiedong District, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, used wire to strangle and wooden sticks to beat a stray mother dog 'Wangwang' and her three puppies, then poured flammable liquid and set them on fire to burn them alive, subsequently uploading the video of the torture and killing to the internet. On June 30, local officials reported that the involved individuals had not reached the criminal responsibility age, and had been sent to special schools for corrective education. This outcome has sparked strong public questioning regarding the 'too low cost of breaking the law,' and has prompted overseas and domestic Chinese people to initiate global animal protection support actions such as screen projection and mourning, calling for China to establish anti-animal cruelty laws.

The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence publicly stated that coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was funded by the United States, and this research is now widely regarded as the source of the accidental laboratory leak and the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Li had previously issued an apology letter to Liao admitting to having non-consensual sexual behavior, and later sued Liao for defamation and sought compensation. The lawsuit was dismissed by the court in June 2026.

A major collapse accident occurred at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi. The official initial report stated 8 deaths, but after multiple revisions, the final death toll was announced as 82. The involved enterprise was exposed for severe cover-ups and illegal operations using AB blueprints.

On January 11, an 8-meter-tall Marilyn Monroe statue inside the Central Avenue tourism and culture shopping center in Dalian, Liaoning, was quietly removed. Netizens posted comparison photos of the scene on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) and Douyin, and mall staff claimed they only noticed it when they arrived for work that day.

Li, a former master's supervisor at Chongqing University of Technology, was accused of sexually assaulting public welfare advocate Liao in June 2025. After an investigation, the Wansheng Economic and Technological Development Zone Public Security Bureau concluded there was no criminal fact and decided not to file a case. The procuratorate also did not support the application for case-filing supervision.

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.