On August 18, 2026, the Hangzhou investigation and handling team issued a report confirming that Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Binjiang District, Hangzhou, has been criminally detained by the police in accordance with the law on suspicion of forced indecent assault.
On August 17, 2026, after the resume of Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Binjiang District in Hangzhou, was taken down, a former investigative journalist wrote an article revealing the unwritten rules of the real estate circle, in which drinking gatherings are used to court officials and harm women. The article quickly went viral online.
From August 12, 2026, it was widely reported online that Zhao Haifeng, a China Merchants Shekou executive in Zhejiang, and Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Hangzhou's Binjiang District, allegedly committed sexual assault and seriously injured a woman at a business drinking gathering; the official's résumé was taken down.