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A netizen submission exposes a notice posted on a water dispenser at a factory in Guangzhou, stating that day laborers are not allowed to use the water here, and those caught doing so will be fined.

On November 6, at the 2026 Mobile Network Conference held in Guangzhou, China Mobile showcased an "anti-fraud call" technical solution. By identifying high-risk keywords such as "transfer" and "account," the system triggers alerts and inserts anti-fraud audio. The feature requires users to manually enable it, sparking concerns over call privacy and freedom of communication.

On November 2, Elephant News reported that sanitation workers in Huadu District, Guangzhou, were required to wear smart electronic badges capable of tracking their location. The local urban environmental sanitation management office responded that the badges do not record audio or video and do not infringe on personal privacy, but are used to monitor attendance, which has sparked skepticism among netizens.

According to Chinese media reports on November 2, part-time employees at Bona Film Group cinemas in Guangzhou and Zhongshan, Guangdong, reported that their September wages were delayed and posted about demanding unpaid wages on social media; two interviewed employees confirmed that the arrears were paid on October 30.

On October 29, the Weibo topic "Mbappé-endorsed drink sees zero sales in a single day" reached number two on the trending list. Guangdong Radio and Television reported that a merchant in Guangzhou claimed the drink had zero sales for the day, while netizens in the comments section posted photos to refute the claim, stating they were still purchasing it.

On October 28, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, the Baiyun New Energy Storage Industrial Park (Phase I) project of China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co., Ltd. was in arrears for construction payments. Although the building has been topped out, the payments remain unpaid. Multiple rights defenders blocked the gate of the project department with their vehicles.

On October 24, a blogger posted a video claiming that some staff at the Canton Fair exhibition halls give Chinese visitors a cold shoulder while bowing and scraping to foreigners, and give people attitude if they don't speak English, suggesting that visitors should speak English rather than Chinese if they can.

On October 21, 8-year-old Qiqi, a student at Peixin School in Huadu District, Guangzhou, fell and hit the back of her head after being bumped by her desk mate during recess. A PE teacher carried her to the infirmary like a sack of rice, while the school doctor and homeroom teacher watched without calling 120. She was sent to the hospital about an hour later. On November 2, Jiangsu News Radio reported that the child suffered a brain hemorrhage and a fractured skull, and has been declared brain-dead. The school denies any negligence.

On October 20, blogger Shangguan Zhengyi posted on Weibo to expose that an operating room and an embryo transfer laboratory of an underground surrogacy agency were found in a courtyard by the Liuxi River in Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou. He reported the case to the police and brought officers to the scene, but police station personnel did not enter on the grounds that no one opened the door to lead the way, and they strictly verified his identity as a whistleblower.

After Shangguan Zhengyi publicly reported online, local Guangzhou authorities intervened and entered the compound in question, finding related medical devices and drugs; Shangguan Zhengyi called on the Guangzhou police to thoroughly investigate the illegal activities across the entire surrogacy chain.

On October 19, a tenant in Baiyun District, Guangzhou posted that he was fined 500 yuan because a relative visited and stayed for two days without registering residence information. He said calling to complain was useless, and several Guangdong netizens in the comments said they had encountered similar fines.

On October 19, at Haosheng Industrial Park in Nancun Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, the boss of Shunyixin Clothing suddenly disappeared on payday, leaving a large amount of goods and equipment in the workshop. The workers have no right and dare not sell them off privately, and can only face the plight of demanding unpaid wages.

On October 15, a blogger posted a video of an urban village in Guangzhou on Douyin: buildings on both sides pressed close together and the alley dim, claiming "Guangzhou's sunlight needs to be paid for." Netizens in the comments section mocked with remarks such as "So the sky was blocked, I thought the light was gone."

Guanyuan Data's Guangzhou branch, dissatisfied with the labor arbitration ruling, has sued Li Yu, a dismissed employee with late-stage stomach cancer, bringing the case into first instance. A company staff member responded that the toll that prolonged litigation takes on a seriously ill employee "is not something the company needs to consider."

On October 12, in front of Zhiyong School in Guangzhou, several duty students wearing red neckerchiefs and ceremonial sashes stood in a row, making gestures in unison and shouting together “Wear your red neckerchief or team badge” as students entered the school. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.

In the early hours of October 10, a fire broke out in a three-story residential house in Xintang Town, Guangzhou, caused by the homeowner parking and charging an electric bicycle indoors. The fire destroyed two electric vehicles and one gasoline car, but fortunately no one was injured.

Large numbers of job seekers who cannot find work are gathered on the streets of Guangzhou, rushing about everywhere in search of employment.

A netizen working in the garment industry posted a video saying that at the Nanxin Street day-labor market in Guangzhou, people have been waiting for daily-paid jobs for several days in a row but still have no work to take, and their savings are gradually running out.

On September 29, a garment industry worker posted a video titled "Unemployment Scene in Guangzhou," saying that many people at the day-labor market on Qiaonan Xinjie Street in Guangzhou had been waiting early in the morning for daily-paid work. Some had gone several days without landing a job, and their savings were gradually running out. The poster said a daily wage of 150 yuan was already considered decent, and that earning 300 yuan would mean staying up late into the night.

On September 29, a netizen posted a video claiming that a construction site in Guangdong locked migrant workers inside the dormitory area to force them to buy the site's fast food. A large number of workers gathered at the gate and argued with management personnel. The netizen said a similar door-locking incident had previously occurred at a construction site in Nansha, Guangzhou.

Bloomberg reported that after the controlling shareholder of a company in Guangzhou received a tax bill of 100 million RMB, they threatened to move the enterprise to Shanghai, eventually convincing local officials to reduce the tax amount to 5 million RMB; the report did not disclose the name of the enterprise or the basis for the adjustment.

During the performance at the Guangzhou Strawberry Music Festival on September 27, the audience took part in a circle-running interaction. A warning notice from the public security authorities was played at the scene, stating that this disrupted order and violated the Public Security Administration Punishments Law. The police had already collected evidence by drone aerial filming and taken away 3 audience members for investigation, sparking widespread dissatisfaction, with the crowd collectively chanting “Refund.”

On September 24, according to reports from merchants in multiple locations and video footage, prunes and all kinds of fruits, grapes and others in Guangzhou suffered severe unsalable inventory on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, with the market collapsing completely.

On the afternoon of September 24, a fire broke out in a rooftop warehouse of a factory building in the Xicheng Industrial Zone, Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, with heavy flames accompanied by billowing smoke; as of that night the open flames had still not been fully extinguished, and casualties were unknown.

On September 14, 2026, a shop in Guangzhou officially announced its closure due to business difficulties.

The Guangzhou Restaurant official flagship store cut the price of its double-yolk pure white lotus paste mooncakes from 137 yuan to 87 yuan in a single day, with the manufacturer's physical goods discounted to below 50% off, cutting off scalpers' buyback channel.

On September 17, two students at the Guangzhou College of Commerce and Business had a dispute over dormitory bed allocation. During the conflict, one student brandished a knife at the other multiple times, raising concerns about campus safety.

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.

An extreme violent incident, reportedly committed by a group, took place in Guangdong, where the attackers randomly targeted the eyes of pedestrians on the street. The incident has sparked immense local panic and raised societal concerns over retaliatory attacks against society amid current extreme social pressures.

With about 9 days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes on the market have already begun to be heavily promoted to clear inventory: 298-yuan gift boxes are sold at half price, and 98-yuan gift boxes have been marked down to 29.9 yuan. Some merchants say mooncake sales this year are expected to plunge, and suggest customers give practical gifts such as rice and cooking oil instead.

During a People's Congress election at a public school in Guangzhou, the administration strictly prohibited teachers from abstaining and privately designated candidates, interfering with the electoral process.

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.

A parent posted a video showing instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forcing students to undergo military training in a rainstorm.

On September 14, multiple workers from Guangdong Zhengye Construction, the general contractor for the New World Four Seasons Mountain and Water project in Guangzhou, Guangdong, sat on mats outside the construction site gate to demand unpaid wages. Several security personnel were present, on alert.

On September 14, a wage arrears rights defense incident occurred at the headquarters of China Construction Fourth Bureau First Company in the CNBM Building, Guangzhou, Guangdong. Multiple migrant workers, whose wage payments were in arrears, went to the building and staged a sit-in protest in the lobby, demanding that the relevant parties resolve the wage arrears issue.

Around 5:20 PM on September 14th, a knife attack occurred in a commercial area of Xiaoguwei Street, Guangzhou University Town. The Panyu police reported that the 35-year-old suspect, Li, was apprehended and the injured were not in life-threatening condition. Subsequently, self-media articles questioned the police's failure to disclose the number and gender of the injured, pointing out that leaked photos from the scene showed all victims were female and their wounds were concentrated on the face, demanding an investigation into whether the attacker selectively targeted women.

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.

According to a Caixin report, many contract teachers in Guangzhou’s Huangpu, Haizhu, Panyu and Huadu districts were dismissed by schools before their contracts expired. Due to declining birthrates, primary school enrollment in Guangzhou fell sharply by about 19.9% from 2023 to 2025, and contract teachers who had been hired in large numbers to cope with enrollment peaks now bear the brunt of layoffs.

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.

In September 2026, a woman doing odd jobs at a factory said online that a factory in Changzhou, Guangzhou stipulates that workers who fail to reach the output quota (100 units per hour) receive an hourly wage of only 13 yuan, and that she herself completed only two to three hundred units a day.

On September 14, an indiscriminate knife attack on passersby occurred near the University City in Guangzhou. A man wearing a black mask committed the assault in the street, leaving multiple people injured.

A knife attack occurred near Gaogou Xintiandi Plaza in the University Town of Panyu District, Guangzhou, where a 35-year-old man randomly attacked young women with a small knife. Police said the injured were treated and their lives are not in danger.

On the afternoon of September 14, a revenge attack on society occurred at the GOGO New World Commercial Plaza in Guangzhou University Town, Panyu, Guangzhou, leaving multiple people with eye injuries. Guangzhou police announced that evening that they had apprehended a 35-year-old suspect surnamed Li, and that the injured were not in life-threatening condition; eyewitnesses said there may have been multiple suspects, and a warning post circulated by netizens was deleted.

Official data show that primary school enrollment in Guangzhou fell from 272,500 in 2023 to 218,300 in 2025, a decrease of 54,200 over two years, or about 19.9%.

After the stabbing incident in Guangzhou University City on September 14, netizens posted that during the emergency state at the University City campus of Guangdong University of Technology, multiple food deliveries in the centralized pickup area were stolen or even cleared out amidst the chaos, sparking heated discussion online.

On September 13, 2026, a large wage-demand slogan was painted on the exterior wall of the Beijing City Construction project site in Guangzhou. The wall displayed texts such as “Return my hard‑earned money”, “Beijing City Construction Company No.5 repeatedly subcontracted and colluded”, “People act, heaven watches”, accusing the project of serious violations and demanding the disciplinary inspection department to conduct a thorough investigation. The graffiti was carried out by unknown individuals, and no construction personnel responded on site.

On September 13, a netizen posted on Douyin saying she is a 2026 undergraduate graduate carrying 60,000 yuan in student loans, that she had been job hunting in Guangzhou for three months without success, and had finally ended up working in a factory. On September 26, she posted a comparison photo of her graduation gown and her factory uniform, saying, “Four years of undergraduate study came to nothing; now I’m a general worker in an electronics factory.”

On September 12, a netizen purchased a flight ticket from Guangzhou to Vietnam. With all procedures complete and no clear violation of laws or regulations, they were turned back by customs and denied exit.

On September 12, 2026, a netizen purchased a flight ticket from Guangzhou to Vietnam. With the ticket, passport and all other documents in order, they were still turned back at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport and denied permission to leave the country.

According to a video by Qiqi Baba dated September 11, 2026, Guangzhou has begun conducting PCR testing using mosquito-borne viruses following its ongoing mosquito eradication campaign.

Li Yu was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer on May 20. During the medical treatment period, on June 16, he was dismissed by the Guangzhou branch of Guanyuan Data on the grounds of failing to meet performance targets. On September 11, the labor arbitration ruled that the company had unlawfully terminated the contract, ordering it to pay compensation of 15,700 yuan and a medical subsidy of 94,500 yuan.

On September 7, a netizen in Guangdong posted a video of the "mosquito extermination war" in Guangzhou, with the caption "It never ends." The video's bullet comments satirized the mosquito extermination as an "extermination of people" operation. Other comments read: "Starting the 'for your own good' operation again," "This is to exterminate people," "New 731," "Human extinction plan," "Pandemic economy." #Anti-CCP Academy

On September 3, 2026, a large number of food delivery riders in Guangzhou had their order-taking accounts banned by platforms; traffic authorities and platforms jointly demanded that riders must pay off all accumulated fines for violations such as running through bridges and tunnels caught on camera before their accounts can be unblocked.

On September 2, 2026, it was reported online that a worker was electrocuted to death during renovation and demolition work at Poly Times Mall in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. Due to a dispute over compensation, the victim’s family paraded a portrait of the deceased around the mall to defend their rights.

A security team leader at Agile Garden in Panyu, Guangzhou, is suspected of having abused children over a long period since around 2020, with at least 4 known victims, the youngest only eight or nine years old, and of having filmed nearly 200 videos. He was placed in criminal detention by police this September.

Guangzhou's large-scale mosquito eradication campaign triggers public skepticism and satirical associations

On September 1, 2026, a large number of staff from electricity retail companies in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, went to China Energy Investment Corporation's Guangdong Power Co., Ltd. to protest, demanding that outstanding payments be settled. Some people lay on the ground in protest at the scene, and clashes broke out.

At a public school in Guangzhou, teachers were banned from abstaining in the election of deputies to the People's Congress, and they were privately told explicitly to cast their votes for a designated candidate. Netizens joked that the election was nothing but a formality.

An indiscriminate face-stabbing attack is reported to have occurred at Guangzhou University Town, with authorities blocking information, making the full details of what happened difficult to ascertain.

A random attack in which a victim's eyes were stabbed took place at Guangzhou University Town. Related videos are circulating online, and the incident has been described as an act of violence in which the bottom rungs of society prey on one another.

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.

On August 26, 2026, the Zhongxi Garment Factory in Panyu, Guangzhou, was accused by multiple employees of maliciously withholding wages and docking half the pay of departing workers, sparking a gathering of employees at the factory site for a rights defense protest.

On August 21, 2026, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court officially ruled that Guangzhou Sport University would serve as the restructuring investor for the Evergrande Football School, and the former Evergrande Qingyuan Football School entered the substantive restructuring and takeover stage.

On the evening of August 14, 2026, urban Guangzhou in Guangdong was struck by severe convective rainstorms. The short-term heavy downpours caused serious street flooding, with water levels even submerging the benches at bus stops.

On August 13, 2026, several construction workers gathered at the entrance of the CSCEC Fourth Bureau Star River Bay project in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages. The workers reported that nearly a year after the project was completed, their wages had still not been settled.

A netizen posted on a whistleblowing platform a 1998 recruitment advertisement from a plastics company in Guangzhou, whose salaries for positions such as production manager and clerk largely overlap with those of ordinary white-collar workers today, sparking discussion about a "torn-apart thirty years" and the regression of wage levels.

On the evening of August 10, 2026, several owners of Tianyu Garden Phase I in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, held banners inside the residential compound to protest the entry of Guangzhou Mylike Medical Beauty Hospital. Prior to this, the environmental protection authorities had determined that the hospital was suspected of putting environmental protection facilities into use without acceptance inspection and had ordered rectification.

On August 5, 2026, a grassroots public servant in Guangzhou revealed online that multiple districts in Guangzhou are replicating excessive pandemic control measures in dengue fever prevention, adopting human-wave tactics, posting three-color health codes, and imposing forced quarantine on infected individuals.

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.

Some communities in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, notified residents that the community residents’ committees, together with the rental management center, are conducting door-to-door visits and information collection; rental housing inspections are also underway in Haizhu, Baiyun, Panyu, Zengcheng and other areas.

In July 2026, a Decision on Release on Bail Pending Trial from the Haizhu Branch of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau circulated online, showing that a party involved was criminally detained by police for as long as 37 days on suspicion of assisting information network criminal activities for purchasing a Hong Kong data card to log into Facebook.

Kim Myeong-il said that after being taken out of the detention center he was transported by high-speed rail and police car to Guangzhou International Airport, where prosecutors announced they would not prosecute him, and then his passport was returned and he was put on a flight to the United States.

Ma Xingrui was transferred for prosecution, and his confidant and Guangzhou Municipal Party Secretary Guo Yonghang was subsequently investigated.

In July 2026, reports circulated online that Sun Yat-sen University failed to pay full social insurance for postdoctoral researchers in accordance with regulations during the adjustment of social insurance for public institutions, leaving hundreds of postdocs with long-overdue social insurance payments, with arrears amounting to millions of yuan.

In June 2026, netizens reported that security guards at Guangzhou Huali College blocked a Xiaomi car from entering the campus; the security office confirmed that the ban had been in place for about a year. Public opinion questioned whether the school was imposing discriminatory restrictions on cars of other brands because it had jointly established a college with Huawei and signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement.

On June 28, 2026, a delivery rider was refused entry to the Aesop store at Guangzhou Taikoo Hui while making a delivery; after the incident was exposed online, the rider received messages from someone claiming to be a store employee, threatening that the police would retrieve his information and "teach you a lesson."

In late June 2026, Chuangda Bus, a privately operated public transit company in Panyu District, Guangzhou, fell into arrears on about half a year of drivers' wages, sparking a collective strike by drivers demanding unpaid pay and causing multiple bus routes connecting Panyu and Nansha to suspend service, exposing a fiscal crisis in local public transportation.

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.

On March 15, 2026, at the Guangzhou 315 Problem Car Show, several AITO (Wenjie) staff members used a huge rain tarp in front of the exhibition booth of car owners seeking redress to forcibly cover up the faulty vehicle logo and protest slogans, drawing onlookers' mockery.

Guo Yonghang has been announced to be under investigation. He worked alongside Ma Xingrui for a long time before serving as the Party Secretary of Guangzhou.

The video claims that Guangzhou’s 2026 Stabilization and Adjustment Fund has already spent 19 billion yuan, leaving only 4.22 billion yuan; no public reports can be found for this figure.

Staff from a Guangzhou neighborhood committee said landlords who rent out properties long-term without registering them will be penalized, with fines starting at 500 yuan.

Just forty-five days after the closing ceremony of the National Games, Guo Yonghang was removed from his posts as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CCP and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee, with the central authorities announcing he will be reassigned.

Guo Yonghang, Party Secretary of Guangzhou, accompanied the top leader in Guangzhou to attend the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games, marking the third key 'escort' mission in his political career.

According to the account, Xi Jinping attended an event in Guangzhou on November 7, 2025, and then returned to Beijing, after which he has not left Beijing for a long time.

Around April 29, 2025, an open letter signed by Lin Ying, dean of the School of Biology and Biological Engineering at South China University of Technology, and Han Shuangyan, calling for resistance to dictatorship, circulated online. The university's official website subsequently removed their personal profiles, and the authenticity of the letter remains in doubt.

In 2025, Guangzhou's land transfer revenue fell 23.6% year on year, while land transfer revenue at the municipal level dropped even more sharply, by 37.2%.

The video claims that by the end of 2025 Guangzhou's debt balance reached 745.8 billion yuan, with a limit utilization rate of 98.6%; no public reports can be found for this figure.

The video claims that Guangzhou's total statutory debt principal and interest payments in the first half of 2026 reached 64.56 billion yuan; no public report of this figure could be found.

In 2025, the Guangzhou Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau deployed 265 police officers to carry out simultaneous raids in Guangzhou, Foshan and Shenzhen, dismantling 2 gangs smuggling blood samples of pregnant women. In total, over 100,000 blood samples were illegally smuggled out of the country, generating illegal profits of more than 30 million yuan, covering 23 provinces across the country.

An AITO owner in Guangzhou produced an inspection report claiming the vehicle's brakes failed, after which Seres filed a police report and pursued legal action.

Guangzhou Metro has set up makeup removal areas for passengers to remove their Halloween costumes.

People were collectively turned away at the Guangzhou Halloween event site.

On October 22, 2024, Jin Xing posted an open letter on Weibo naming Song Shuqin, director of the approval division of the Guangzhou Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, demanding the red-headed official document rejecting the dance troupe's performance approval.

Wang Yi discussed the China-Ukraine strategic partnership and bilateral trade with Kuleba, stating that China will continue to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

To cope with the school enrollment peak caused by the "two-child" policy, Guangzhou's Huangpu District hired a cumulative total of 2,482 contract teachers outside the establishment from 2021 to 2023. These teachers have now become the first to bear the pressure of layoffs as student numbers decline.

A graduate doctor working at a hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangzhou published a post pointing out that Hongmao medicinal liquor contains a variety of toxic Chinese herbs. After the article was widely shared online, Inner Mongolia police, without any coordination with local public security, secretly arrested him across provincial lines and detained him for months. When he was released from prison, he was physically and psychologically traumatized and covered with illnesses.

Southern Weekend's New Year's address "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream" was withdrawn by the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, marking an intensification of media control.

Guangzhou media reportedly reported that Stephen Chow failed to attend full sessions during his four years as a CPPCC member and submitted no proposals.

In May 2006, Li Wei, through Huang Songyou, Yang Xiancai and others, signed a contract in the name of Sinopec with a company under Guo Cheng, buying the North Tower of Zhongcheng Plaza in Guangzhou for more than 1.3 billion yuan; the building was sealed up over debt disputes after its completion in 1996.

A man with an intellectual disability went missing in the Guangzhou and Foshan area in 2004. His family searched for him for 22 years, and only learned of his whereabouts in September 2026.

After the Sun Zhigang case, on June 20, 2003, the State Council promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Assistance for Vagrants and Beggars with No Means of Support in Urban Areas, and the Measures for Custody and Repatriation were abolished as of August 1.

In 2003, Southern Metropolis Daily's reporting on the Sun Zhigang case directly contributed to the abolition of China's custody and repatriation system.

Hubei youth Sun Zhigang was sent to a custody station in Guangzhou for not carrying a temporary residence permit and was beaten to death. The incident spread rapidly across the internet and eventually led the State Council to abolish the custody and repatriation system.

Huang Jing, the father of Yu Qiangsheng, died in Guangzhou. Officials claimed it was due to illness, but intra-party rumors suggested he suffered a mental breakdown after being reprimanded by Mao Zedong at the Nanning Conference.