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Multiple petitioners went to the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls in Beijing to line up and register their grievances; on-site footage shows a long queue outside the reception office.

Petitioners line up to submit materials at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (commonly known as Jia-1). Staff told them not to record video, and when petitioners asked what was wrong with recording, a dispute broke out.

[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, a large number of petitioners were seen lining up at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls reception office in Beijing to register their complaints, and the scene was recorded and posted.

Recently, multiple petitioners traveled to the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1A Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Documentary footage of the event was posted by X user Cyberxinfang.

According to X user @Cyberxinfang, the number of people queuing at the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration has significantly decreased, as many petitioners in Beijing are choosing to pressure local governments by 'entering the village'.

Recently, petitioners overcame numerous difficulties to reach Beijing, arriving at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1A Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Suspected of lacking provincial-level documentation, they were unable to submit their grievances and were pushed out of the compound by security guards.

[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, according to the on-site situation posted by Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher, there were many petitioners at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, with petitioners from various regions queuing to register their complaints.

X user Cyberxinfang posted recent footage of petitioning at the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration reception office at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, and tagged #CyberPetitionBureau.

Recently, several veterans who had traveled to Beijing to petition appeared in the alley where the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration (commonly known as Jia Yi) is located on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.

Netizens have published a dictionary entry for petitioning, introducing the queuing voucher issued by the Reception Office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, to petitioners visiting the capital. Those holding the small ticket can return to their original place in line after leaving to eat or use the restroom during the overnight wait.

On September 30, netizens reported that near the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration reception office at No. 1 Jia, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, a petitioner fell to the ground sobbing.

Recently, a large number of petitioners gathered near the reception office of the National Bureau of Letters and Calls, located at No. Jia 1, Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.

On September 16, inside the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Xicheng District, Beijing, two petitioners committed suicide by drinking pesticide. It is reported that the reception office had refused to allow petitioners to check in starting this Monday, leaving a large number of petitioners with no way to resolve their grievances.

[Follow-up · September 16, 2026] On September 16, two petitioners protested by drinking pesticide in front of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Beijing.

On August 12, 2026, Li Wenzhang, Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, wrote an article in Study Times, on the one hand calling for correcting local interception and blocking, and on the other hand emphasizing a severe crackdown on troublemaking and disruption of order, as well as persistent petitioning and making a scene, resolutely achieving the goal of not letting conflicts be passed upward.

On August 3, 2026, a civil society group released a documentary compiling 361 documentary clips of petitioners traveling to Beijing, recording the real living conditions of petitioners queuing outside the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration to air their grievances before and after the new petitioning regulations took effect.

On July 15, 2026, netizens photographed the moat near the Yongdingmen Reception Division of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Beijing, where not only dense wire mesh had been installed, but sharp metal anti-climb spikes had also been affixed to the surrounding tree trunks, strictly guarding against petitioners climbing and lingering.

New regulations from the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on standardizing the registration of public visits have begun to be strictly enforced.

The National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration has officially implemented measures to further standardize the registration of public visits, stipulating that citizens visiting Beijing to petition must hold a response opinion issued by provincial-level organs, otherwise registration will be denied.

On July 1, 2026, the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration's Measures on Further Regulating the Registration of Public Visits officially took effect, explicitly requiring people to file their complaints within their local jurisdiction, and greatly tightening the registration and acceptance channels for bypass-level and repeat petitioning.

The new petition regulations that the CCP will implement from July 1 stipulate that when members of the public go to the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration and relevant central ministries and commissions to report problems, they must hold relevant written materials issued by provincial-level authorities.

The National Petition Bureau has introduced new regulations, requiring the public to cross their own level or the next higher level of agencies to petition in Beijing; they must have written or electronic documents from a provincial-level agency, otherwise registration will not be accepted.

On May 28, 2026, a netizen posted a video showing that Beijing was hit by rain, and outside the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, large numbers of petitioners were still holding umbrellas and standing in long queues in the wind and rain, waiting to submit petition materials.

Videos that surfaced in late May 2026 show that several-meter-high isolation iron fences have been installed along the south moat outside the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration; The Epoch Times says the move is intended to prevent desperate petitioners from jumping into the river, and officials have not explained it.

In early May 2026, the reception office of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration on Yongdingmen West Street, Beijing, deployed three converted PCR testing booths as "check-in machines" for petitioners to swipe their ID cards to alleviate queuing pressure, but they were abandoned shortly after being put into use.