Children's Rights · Full chronicle and history

On October 24, a parent posted a video claiming that a disabled child weighing 22 jin was still required to buy a ticket to ride a train, that they were denied free subway rides in Shanghai and Beijing because they were told "your eyes aren't blind," and that they were also suppressed by police officers during their travels.

On October 22, progress was made in the case in which a blogger went undercover to expose the black market in child sexual exploitation; the related case has been officially filed and an investigation launched.

On October 16, the Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court handed down the first-instance verdict in the 2025 Tianshui kindergarten lead poisoning case: Li Huifang, the person actually in charge of the kindergarten, was sentenced to life in prison; Zhu Jinglin, the executive principal, was sentenced to 15 years; and the remaining 4 were sentenced to 6 to 8 years. The court found that the kindergarten's managers had instructed staff to mix toxic and harmful non-food raw materials into children's food, and that all 6 were guilty of the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food.

On October 15, Douyin blogger "Changchang Changduan" posted an undercover investigation video exposing a dark web app involving child sexual exploitation, saying it had formed a profit chain of secretly filming and sexually assaulting one's own daughter and selling the videos, with sections including paid videos and trades of date-rape drugs, and stating that the evidence had been submitted to the police in a real-name report; the video received about 212,000 likes within 12 hours of being posted.

On October 15, a netizen uploaded a Douyin screen-recording video: a baby is sitting in a foam box lined with a blanket, located beneath a soldering workbench on which a soldering iron, pliers and wire are placed. The post says the mother brought her child into the factory, and the baby did not cry or fuss, staying by her mother's side.

On September 22, a blogger posted a video of a girl named Qingyun in a classroom. The narrator, claiming to be a teacher, mentioned her grandfather's endless farm work every day, causing the girl to raise her hand to wipe away tears. Netizens in the comments section noticed her rough hands and shared their own childhood experiences of doing farm work.

On September 18, a woman in Guizhou posted a video on social media claiming that due to financial hardship and depression, she had given her daughter away for adoption. In the video, the woman expressed resentment toward raising children and confirmed in the comment section that the child had been sent away, while also revealing that she had previously had thoughts of harming the child due to stress.

Volunteer searcher Du Xiaohua posted a video report; in the case that attracted attention after reporting Sun Meihua's abuse, the “Uncle Long” who had long controlled Sun Meihua’s cohabitation has been taken by local police for investigation.

On September 10, a net blogger posted a video showing children's sitting posture correction. The footage shows a girl wearing a red scarf studying at a desk, with the back of the chair, in front of her chin, and under her feet all covered with dangerous items resembling sharp spikes, prompting netizens' criticism and mocking it as torture.

After the family applied for reconsideration, Yuncheng police on September 4 revoked the decision not to file a case and opened an investigation into the class teacher surnamed Tan on suspicion of the crime of abusing a person in care.

In Shenzhen, a father whose baby suffered permanent injuries from toxic milk powder produced in Guangdong hired a lawyer, who calculated compensation of over 2 million yuan. The company involved filed a police report claiming extortion, and the local Guangdong government arrested the father and sentenced him to several years in prison.

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.

On July 29, 2026, reports circulated online that a 13-year-old girl in Baitutan Town, Liling City, Hunan Province, was surrounded and beaten by several minors in a billiards hall, then taken to an area near a reservoir several kilometers away, where she ultimately drowned. Local police subsequently launched an investigation.

On July 6, 2026, Ma Panyan, the party involved in the "Chongqing Wushan child bride" case, posted a statement saying that she applied to the local town and village authorities for a children-in-difficulty allowance to raise her severely autistic daughter on her own, but was rejected by civil affairs staff on the grounds that she is not disabled and has a prison record.

On July 1, 2026, a child abuse incident occurred at the International Baby Kindergarten in Yongqing County, Langfang, Hebei. Surveillance footage shows teachers inside the kindergarten successively slapping, pulling the hair of, and kicking the young children. The footage was exposed on July 10.

The court found the operator liable for 70 percent of the responsibility; after deducting the 10,000 yuan previously advanced, more than 62,000 yuan in compensation is still owed. The ruling takes effect on June 23, 2026, and does not include disability compensation or subsequent medical expenses.

On June 11, 2026, the Sina Weibo platform banned and removed an interview video of gaokao students and related search topics concerning raising the statutory age of sexual consent to 18.

In late May 2026, a blogger revealed that on the Douyin platform there were violating communities using obscure code words such as "wearing a little cotton-padded jacket" to exchange and share experiences of sexually assaulting underage girls; on the 27th, Douyin responded saying it had indefinitely banned the relevant accounts and group chats.

In the early hours of April 19, a 13-year-old girl in Yanhu District, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, was alleged by her family to have been sexually assaulted by a man. The family stated that the police refused to open a case.

In November 2025, a 12-year-old girl in Quzhou County, Handan, Hebei went to work at an unlicensed plasticine workshop, putting in 8.5 hours a day; on the 13th day of work her right arm was drawn into a mixer, and she was later assessed as having a level 6 disability.

The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration issued a Q&A clarifying that age-appropriate girls should fulfill their obligations for immunization program vaccines, but completion of the HPV vaccination does not affect a child's school enrollment.