On the tenth day after the disaster at the Gyirong Port border, Nepalese rescue forces successfully rescued Chinese worker Lu Haitao from a tunnel buried by a mudslide, demonstrating the scale and persistence of local rescue operations.
Chiang Wan-an said that his wife gave birth to their eldest son in the United States for work-related reasons, and therefore his son holds US nationality.
Chiang Wan-an's son registered as required and passed the selection to take part in a U.S. exchange program; the program questioned whether his U.S. citizenship meets the eligibility requirements for the exchange and whether he took a spot from a student on the waiting list.
Taekwondo athlete Lee Dong-hyun gave up his Taiwanese citizenship and took up citizenship of the People's Republic of China.
Lee Tung-hsien is reported to have suffered facial paralysis in China, undergone hospital treatment, and faced medical expenses and debt pressure, and his family is trying to help him return to Taiwan on a family dependency basis.
Chenzhou, Hunan carried out household surveys from September 5 to 25, focusing on learning about and registering the ordinary people’s daily life activities over 24 hours a day, such as working, doing housework and taking care of children.
A worker said that after completing a month of work with 12-hour shifts rotating between day and night, he resigned without another job, believing such work cannot be sustained long-term.
On September 5, 2026, a serious accident occurred during the first round of the GT3 class of the China GT Championship owns Supercar Championship at the Shanghai International Circuit. Car number s91 of the FIST Auto team, caught fire after a collision, and driver Ollie Millroy was trapped in the burning cockpit. The event organizers' rescue efforts were severely delayed, and security personnel operated the fire extinguishers incorrectly. Another competing driver, Loek Hartog, seeing this, decisivelyy owns the race and rushed into the flames to rescue Millroy. Afterwards, movie star Daniel Wu owns the organizers' emergency rescue as extremely amateurish and announced his withdrawal from the race, and several other teams also announced their withdrawal in protest.
The CCP Central Propaganda Department organized a national media seminar in Hangzhou, emphasizing that the party's theories must be implemented according to Xi Jinping's thought. At the same time, the second International Academic Seminar on Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought was also held.
In a Zhihu Q&A, a netizen revealed that Xingyu's layoff of fresh graduates was taken to the EU, and said that the student had previously gone through the labor arbitration process, reporting up the line all the way to the municipal Party secretary, and that all of them concluded the company's layoffs were not in violation and there was no subsidy fraud.
On September 5, 2026, a historical video of an earlier CCTV report showing police listing workers demanding unpaid wages as targets to be dealt with in a counter-terrorism drill resurfaced on social networks, triggering public criticism and heated debate over the stigmatization of the group of workers demanding unpaid wages.
Caixin reported on September 5, 2026 that a study published in a Lancet sub-journal points out that although the health needs of China's top 20% high-income households by ability to pay account for less than 8%, they take up over 40% to 50% of the total social medical insurance reimbursement.
On September 5, 2026, the Xilinhot City Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia announced that it would centrally collect blood samples from male residents in its jurisdiction and enter them into a DNA database, claiming that blood sample collection is directly linked to the processing of ID cards, passports and other documents.
On September 5, 2026, a mudslide and landslide suddenly hit Mingkeng Village, Gaoping Town, Suichuan County, Ji'an, Jiangxi, causing multiple houses to be severely damaged and collapse, leaving more than ten people missing and buried, with communications and roads severely obstructed.
On September 5, 2026, media reported that against the backdrop of the severe job hunt facing young people, pyramid selling gangs such as the 1040 Sunshine Project have packaged their scams as state-owned projects offering formal posts and training, specifically targeting college graduates who lack social experience.
On September 5, 2026, the BBC reported that on the ninth day after the catastrophic flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border, multiple survivors were rescued from a hydropower station tunnel. The disaster caused heavy casualties in both China and Nepal, with Tibetan officials reporting dozens dead and hundreds missing.
On September 5, 2026, a Chinese worker who had been trapped for 10 days in a tunnel at the Chushuri Hydropower Station amid flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border was successfully rescued by Nepalese military rescue personnel and airlifted by helicopter for medical treatment.
On September 5, 2026, Reuters reported that China and the US are preparing to hold an official bilateral high-level meeting specifically on artificial intelligence security in mid-September, to discuss AI cyberattacks and the sharing of security information.
On September 5, 2026, a crash and fire broke out at the China GT Shanghai round. On-site rescue personnel fled in panic, while a rival driver urgently abandoned the race to help. Afterwards, the team involved issued a statement strongly protesting the organizing committee and announced its withdrawal from the event.
On September 5, 2026, the historic Yutian Bridge in Suichuan County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province, was completely washed away and collapsed under a rare flood peak triggered by days of torrential rain from a typhoon, cutting off local transportation.
On September 5, 2026, primary and secondary school teachers in various regions posted on social media to complain about schools disguisedly forcing donations. Quotas were assigned based on senior teacher rank or permanent staff status, with requirements to post screenshots of the donations in work groups, triggering strong resentment.
On September 5, 2026, heavy rainfall caused large-scale landslides and mudslides in Guidong County, Chenzhou, Hunan. Official reports say more than 10,000 people across the county were affected, with the disaster leaving 2 dead and 1 injured.
From September 4, official media such as Beijing Daily carried extensive expert interpretations, claiming that the Gyirong mudslide was a chain disaster with multiple links, including an ice collapse and debris flow, with extremely strong destructive power that cut off roads, communications and power entirely. The deposit averaged 4 meters thick and reached a maximum of 16 meters; life detectors could effectively probe less than two meters, leaving survivors with little hope of survival.
On September 5 local time, a joint rescue team made up of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster rescue experts rescued 49-year-old Chinese worker Lu Haitao, from Anyang, Henan, who had been trapped for 11 days, from a 225-meter-long hydropower station tunnel in Rasuwa in northern Nepal. His condition is stable, and Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zhang Maoming subsequently went to the hospital to visit him.
Nepal police announced on September 5 that as of local time September 5, 1,344 bodies of victims had been recovered from the disaster, with another 4,898 people missing; approximately 900 workers at 12 hydropower projects across the country are missing, of whom about 500 are trapped inside tunnels.
After Chinese workers were rescued on September 5, state media outlets such as Chengdu Economic Daily and Tibet Daily reported with headlines like "Chinese and South Korean experts and the Nepalese army have been working hard." Red Star News, when citing local reporters, added a statement about Chinese tunnel experts participating in the rescue. However, reports from the Nepalese military and foreign media only mentioned the Nepalese military and South Korean experts, sparking questions about China grabbing credit.
According to a program on Luther Society, officials last updated the casualty figures for the Nepal earthquake on September 5, reporting 43 dead and 519 missing, totaling 562, and have not released any specific casualty updates since then.
Reports claim that on September 5, 2026, after fresh graduates laid off by Changzhou Xingyu Co., Ltd. filed complaints with overseas institutions, the local labor department and officials reversed their position and ruled that the company's layoffs were illegal while avoiding accountability for subsidy fraud; related discussions on Zhihu were deleted.
On September 5, 2026, multiple departments in Yuzhong County, Gansu issued a joint report on the results of the investigation into online claims that lettuce was being dyed, confirming that 6 vendors in the county had illegally used the food additive malachite green (guolv) to dye lettuce during purchasing, and that cases had been filed for investigation and punishment across the board.
On September 5, 2026, a gathering of rights defenders took place at the entrance of the Dreame Technology Industrial Park in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Multiple workers demanding unpaid wages and suppliers owed money shouted slogans demanding repayment, pursuing long-overdue project payments and labor fees.
On September 5, 2026, several migrant workers in Guangxi hung banners outside the gate of the Southwest Company of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Bureau and blocked the entrance with vehicles to demand unpaid wages; after rights defenders posted videos online, they were intimidated and threatened with charges such as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
On September 5, 2026, because the school cafeteria owed suppliers as much as 730,000 yuan in unpaid food bills, several suppliers gathered outside the gate of Changmao Garden School in Haikou, Hainan, holding banners to defend their rights and demand payment of the money owed.
On September 5, 2026, Fudan University distinguished professor Zhang Weiwei spoke at the Asia-Pacific Media Forum, criticizing the US court's ruling that it is legal for AI companies to infringe as a thuggish practice devoid of cultural depth, and arguing that Shenzhen should lead in setting standards.
On September 5, 2026, Tang Jiafeng, a famous postgraduate entrance exam math tutor, publicly declared that English is merely a tool, calling for an end to English's status as a core course in basic education and an end to the worship of foreign things, sparking fierce public controversy over education reform.
On September 5, 2026, media reported that the state-owned enterprise Zijin Mining miswrote 'People's Government' as 'Renminbi Government' in its disclosed semi-annual report. This typo triggered widespread mockery from netizens regarding the government's profit above everything.
On September 5, 2026, a young job seeker posted on Xiaohongshu imitating the sentence structure of the Xinhua News Agency: "Don't let low wages crush the happiness of the vast number of young people." After it resonated with a massive number of netizens who followed up with joking replies, the post was fully blocked and taken down by the platform.
On September 5, 2026, multiple animal protection activists in London, UK held marches and rallies at Trafalgar Square and other locations, protesting and speaking out for Wangwang, a stray dog tortured to death in Jieyang, Guangdong, China, and calling on China to enact anti-animal-abuse laws.
On September 5, a netizen reported that dyed lettuce was found in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu, one of the recent vegetable safety incidents to be exposed.
On September 5, Chinese Communist Party official media announced that Xiao Fugui, a police officer at the Gyirong port border inspection station, was driving to the port on the morning of August 30 when he spotted danger, did not reach the port and thus narrowly escaped death, and he filmed footage of the disaster; official media also promoted his remarks as one of the first team members to reach the core disaster area, tightly holding the five-star red flag.
On September 5, a video of a Dreame Technology supplier visiting their office to demand payment circulated online. A man identified as a supplier stood on a desk shouting that relevant funds had been delayed for a year, and his family member was seriously ill in the ICU and urgently needed money.
On September 5, a netizen posted a video tagged "University of Science and Technology Beijing" and "school promotional video," showing that under the city's drone no-fly restrictions, the school used an aerial work platform to lift a photographer into the air to capture overhead campus shots. The comment section was filled with jokes about "ancient filming methods."