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Recently, a class group at Suzhou City University issued a notice requiring students to sign up by noon on November 6 to confirm whether they will participate in the district-level People's Congress election on December 8, with the class monitor responsible for consolidation. Students registered in the school's constituency who cannot attend on the day of the vote may authorize a teacher or classmate at the school to vote on their behalf.

On November 9, a large number of workers and distributors gathered in front of the Suzhou Dreame Technology Park to defend their rights. Megaphones at the scene played slogans such as "Dreame, return our blood-and-sweat money," accusing Dreame of maliciously withholding the wages of migrant workers who decorated the stores, leaving them unable to maintain their livelihoods.

On November 9, a netizen posted that they were fired the day after leaving a negative review of their factory employer on Amap, and were forced to sign a resignation letter. The companies involved are Jiangsu Hongji Metal Products Co., Ltd. and Hongji Weiye (Suzhou) Auto Parts Co., Ltd. The factory identified the account that left the review by checking employees' phones and refused to settle wages in person.

On November 2, the Suzhou Government Procurement Network announced that the "Convenient and Benefit-to-the-People" medical project of the Suzhou Health Commission Information Center, which includes anti-firewall monitoring equipment, was won by Unisplendour Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. with a total bid price of 18.58036 million yuan.

On the night of Halloween on October 31, Suzhou Shiquan Street set up checkpoints at all entrances, banning makeup and special clothing. The entire street and nearby blocks were patrolled by police every ten steps, and a truckload of SWAT police was brought in. As soon as cosers were spotted, they were surrounded and forced to take photos.

A netizen shared that two young women wearing maid costumes were questioned and turned away by police on Shiquan Street in Suzhou, indicating restrictions on Halloween costumes.

On October 20, a netizen posted that while unemployed, he helped a retired teacher take photos at the library and was pulled aside by her to hear about her retirement life; the elderly woman's pension is higher than the salaries of most young people, her husband was also rehired by an elite school in Suzhou, and she suggested the netizen go to job fairs or take the civil service exam.

On October 14, the Suzhou Government Procurement website published a correction notice; the Suzhou Health Information Center's Health and Medical Big Data Center project listed a cross-border VPN monitoring device, required to identify protocols such as Shadowsocks, V2Ray, Trojan, and WireGuard and automatically match cross-border communication behavior, while also building large-model content safety guardrails, providing a safe substitute answer function for sensitive questions.

On October 8, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi reported via Weibo that an underground surrogacy operating room was hidden inside a villa in Taicang, Jiangsu, saying he had gone undercover for nearly 4 months and that over 100 procedures were performed there every month. After the report, police questioned him about the source of his leads and stopped him from filming; when he went out to buy water, he was surrounded by several people and not allowed to leave. Local authorities said they had verified the matter at the first opportunity, while Shangguan Zhengyi questioned why health supervision personnel arrived about 100 minutes later than the police.

A Suzhou subway security inspector submitted a post stating that their hourly wage for an 8-hour early or mid-shift translates to only about 13 yuan, and if calculated based on a full 24-hour shift, the hourly wage is even less than 10 yuan.

Suzhou High School's 2025 recruitment ultimately hired 13 people, of whom 8 are PhDs and 5 are master's degree holders; 6 graduated from Tsinghua University and 4 from Peking University. The school's teachers generally take home a monthly salary of around 11,500 yuan, with annual pay ranging from 150,000 to 250,000 yuan.

On September 13, 2026, a ride-hailing driver in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, was found dead in his car. He had been deceased for two or three days before being discovered, and the police set up a cordon to handle the scene. Local peers reported that due to overcapacity, high platform commission rates, and low-priced orders such as 'fixed-price' fares, drivers are forced to drive for long hours under extreme fatigue.

On September 5, 2026, a gathering of rights defenders took place at the entrance of the Dreame Technology Industrial Park in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Multiple workers demanding unpaid wages and suppliers owed money shouted slogans demanding repayment, pursuing long-overdue project payments and labor fees.

On August 30, 2026, a group of workers at the Kunshan Jiandu Company of Jiangsu Shenkun Group, who had been subjected to unpaid wages, collectively drove multiple cement mixer trucks to block the company's main gate in a protest demanding their pay, and SWAT police rushed to the scene to handle the situation.

On August 14, 2026, Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province was hit by localized heavy rainstorms that triggered flash floods. Mud and sand surged along with the torrents into the streets, causing traffic disruptions in multiple parts of the urban area.

The case of Bian Yuye, former chairman of Jiangsu Dafeng Rural Commercial Bank, accused of embezzling more than 15.9 million yuan, opened at the Zhangjiagang court. His defense lawyer entered a not-guilty plea, and his family members were placed under residential surveillance and coerced into confessing.

On June 19, 2026, a school in Suzhou, Jiangsu issued a self-inspection questionnaire to teachers, requiring them to conduct a comprehensive self-examination and sign a pledge letter on whether their teaching and everyday speech undermined the authority of the Party Central Committee and whether they had accessed overseas networks in violation of regulations.