Typhoon Hongxia Causes Severe Urban Flooding in Puning and Chaoshan, Guangdong
On July 27, 2026, Typhoon Hongxia caused severe urban flooding in Puning, Chaoshan, and other areas in Guangdong, resulting in a serious disaster.
On July 27, 2026, Typhoon Hongxia caused severe urban flooding in Puning, Chaoshan, and other areas in Guangdong, resulting in a serious disaster.
Residents of Victoria Bay in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao discovered that land planned for a kindergarten and a community hospital had been mortgaged and auctioned off as industrial land. Since July 27, they have been gathering outside the residential complex, demanding that higher-level authorities intervene and investigate.
Newly appointed Guizhou Provincial Party Standing Committee member, Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Acting Director of the Provincial Supervision Commission, Li Rui, presided over his first collective study session of the theoretical study center group since taking office. The study content did not mention the "Two Establishes."
Wang Maoliang, former Executive Deputy Minister of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department and former Party Secretary of Hubei Radio and Television Station, is under investigation by the Hubei Provincial Supervision Commission for suspected serious duty violations.
Xinhua News Agency reported that Huang Siming, former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Helan Mountain Eastern Foothills Wine Industry Park in Ningxia, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the discipline inspection commission.
The U.S. military continues to suspend strikes on Iran; Iran says it will also pause if the U.S. does, while mediators work to broker a temporary ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has set off for Washington, where he will hold his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Trump since the outbreak of the conflict.
In a media interview, Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto stated explicitly that if a conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, the Philippines will be unable to remain neutral, and noted that such a conflict would pose a major threat to Philippine citizens and to the security of the Bashi Channel.
The official WeChat account of Peking University quietly deleted the response regarding encouraging students to have overseas experience from an interview with Deng Yu.
During a rights defense gathering by property owners at Victoria Bay, police set up human walls and privacy screens; that evening, some owners were cleared by police and taken away.
Lu Kewen posted that, excluding rural elderly, China's pensions are higher than those in Japan, South Korea, and France when calculated by the ratio of national income, and argued that this situation puts excessive pressure on public finance and will inevitably lead to comprehensive cuts in the future.
A fire broke out at the Dongfang Lingxiu residential complex in Lianyungang. A mother and son who had taken refuge outside a window fell to their deaths when firefighters sprayed water hoses at it, sparking public controversy.
A bipartisan delegation of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has returned to the United States after concluding its first visit to China since 2019, saying that some meetings could not be arranged.
The U.S. State Department released a 100-page report accusing the Cuban communist government of carrying out espionage and subversive activities against the United States for nearly 70 years.
A group of construction workers in Beijing, who have been owed wages for over 7 months, blocked the CREC headquarters building on July 27.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) released good news claiming that profits of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 18.7% year-on-year in the first half of the year, but actual performance showed severe industrial divergence, with the majority of profits swallowed by a few upstream industries.
Netizens filmed a 75-year-old man in Anhui hauling cement to make a living; he can only earn 112 yuan after unloading all 280 bags in one load.
On July 27, 2026, Beijing Zion Church pastor Kim Myeong-il, after arriving in the United States, gave an exclusive interview, disclosing that the authorities handling the case had characterized the believers' voluntary offerings, support for pastors, and theological training as fraud and illegal business operations involving over 10 million yuan.
On July 27, 2026, the Associated Press revealed that the US government plans to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to restart dozens of projects worldwide aimed at countering China's influence, covering upgrades to Caribbean undersea cables, port security, and involvement in the Dalai Lama's reincarnation issue.
The photovoltaic industry association released the General Rules for the Cost Accounting Model of the Photovoltaic Industry, which stipulates that the full cost of polysilicon material is 43 yuan per kilogram; the State Administration for Market Regulation subsequently carried out compliance guidance and required enterprises to implement it.
On July 27, 2026, regarding the death of a 6-year-old girl at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital after receiving experimental gene-editing treatment, staff from the Yangpu District Health Commission of Shanghai told media that relevant departments had stepped in to investigate.
On July 27, 2026, netizens found that the Xiaohongshu platform had imposed a complete search block on keywords such as the Jieyang dog abuse and the Wangwang dog, leaving the public unable to search for content on this animal cruelty case that has drawn widespread social attention and rights defense efforts.
On July 27, 2026, a netizen in Ningbo, Zhejiang posted that their real name was rejected by the Taobao system as a recipient because it matched the platform's politically sensitive word database, leaving them unable to normally claim government consumption subsidies.
On July 27, 2026, affected by the outer circulation of Typhoon Hongxia, Lianping County in Heyuan and Haifeng County in Shanwei, Guangdong, were hit by sudden extremely heavy rainstorms that caused severe urban flooding; multiple townships, villages, schools and roads were inundated by floodwaters.
On July 27, 2026, well-known online blogger Lu Kewen pointed out that China's finances can hardly sustain current pension expenditures and predicted that they would inevitably be cut across the board in the future; shortly after the remarks were published, they were taken down and deleted by the platform.
On July 27, 2026, the Acheng District Government Service Center in Harbin, Heilongjiang was exposed for setting up an extremely low, seatless Ding Yizhen-style window. After the story gained traction online, staff from the department involved privately messaged a self-media blogger, admitting it was true and requesting that the video be taken down.
On July 27, 2026, Pyongyang, North Korea held commemorative events marking the 73rd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un attended the performance, and a documentary on the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's entry into the war was screened, highlighting the warming political alliance between China and North Korea.
On the evening of July 27, 2026, a cross-Taiwan promotional campaign launched by Taiwanese civilians arrived at Kaohsiung's Liuhe Night Market, where participants spontaneously handed out flyers to passersby and tourists, telling across the strait the story of Wangwang, a stray dog in Jieyang, Guangdong, who was tortured and killed, and calling for animal protection.
On July 28, 2026, Jiang Dong, head of Xiaohongshu's in-house media intelligence team, publicly posted a detailed account of how the company unilaterally terminated his labor contract with only 8 days left before his stock options expired, and how he filed for arbitration and litigation, openly questioning the company's option management mechanism.
In late July 2026, after the results of Henan Province's Three Supports and One Assistance recruitment exam were released, regular gaps of unusually high scores appeared in multiple test areas such as Anyang and Jiyuan, with the first-place scorer leading the second-place scorer by as many as 20 points, triggering strong suspicion among the vast number of examinees of leaked exam questions and fraud.
On July 27, 2026, CXMT, China's largest memory chip manufacturer, was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, raising 57.9 billion yuan in its IPO, the largest IPO in China in over 15 years.
On July 27, a netizen filmed an elderly man in front of them on a bus repeatedly struggling with intrusive pop-up ads while trying to use an Android app. Despite repeatedly clicking close, he could not open it, sparking heated discussions and mockery among netizens.