On September 7, the blogger "Yulie Qige" filmed a barge directly dumping a full hold of black muddy material into the Yangtze River near the Wuhan Qingshan Yangtze River Bridge. According to reports, the blogger witnessed three barges carrying out similar operations within 1.5 hours and has filed a complaint with the relevant authorities.
The Wuhan Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau determined that Guo Degang altered the performance content without authorization and distorted anti-Japanese War songs; the organizer's illegal gains were confiscated and a fine of ten times the amount, totaling more than 480,000 yuan, was imposed, and Wuhan Zhongnan Theater and the related performances were penalized.
Chen Zhuyin gave a media interview, stating that she will return to Taiwan to run for councilor, and discussed the issue of Republic of China identity and mainland household registration.
Two days before the U.S. military destroyed five oil tankers on September 8, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked tankers with ballistic missiles on two occasions. The U.S. military said the destruction of the tankers was a response to those failed attacks.
On September 7, 2026, an outdoor blogger’s aerial footage revealed that in the waters of the Qingshan Yangtze River Bridge, multiple barges dumped an entire hold of black, unidentified mud-like material directly into the Yangtze River in just over ten seconds. The person involved has reported the matter to the environmental protection authorities.
According to a BBC report on September 7, 2026, Zou Zhenhao, a massive serial drugging and rapist sentenced to life imprisonment by a UK court, may face additional charges from the British judicial authorities after prosecutors received new criminal allegations involving seven women.
Xinhua News Agency reported on September 7, 2026 that eight major state-owned financial institutions, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China, simultaneously issued capital increase announcements, planning to raise 360 billion yuan to replenish capital through the issuance of special treasury bonds and capital injections from the Ministry of Finance, among other means.
On September 7, Taiwan's International Trade Administration under the Ministry of Economic Affairs stated that it will step up penalties against operators engaged in illegal transshipment, imposing an additional fine of NT$600,000 per customs declaration for cases of false origin labeling, and that it has established a high-risk manufacturer list and asked customs to strengthen inspections.
On September 7, China's Ministry of Commerce issued a preliminary ruling finding that dichlorosilane originating in Japan was subject to dumping. From September 8, importers must pay a deposit equivalent to 80.8% to 99.2% of the import price, and the investigation is normally due to conclude by January 7, 2027.
On September 7, 2026, police in Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong, placed the homeroom teacher surnamed Tan, who was involved in the case, under criminal detention, and the case was transferred to the procuratorate; previously, police had decided in August not to file a case, but after the family applied for reconsideration, the decision was changed to filing a case on September 4.
In September 2026, social media platforms circulated claims that a girl from a subsistence-allowance (dibao) household in Ganzhou, Jiangxi traveled to Hong Kong to attend a concert and that her entire family's dibao benefits were revoked because of her cross-border spending. On September 7, the Social Affairs Administration Bureau of the Ganzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone issued a statement saying that the trip to Hong Kong for a concert did indeed trigger the dynamic monitoring alert for dibao recipients, and that the community had given her a policy reminder, but that her family's dibao benefits had not been revoked at the time. The incident sparked discussion among netizens over whether an individual's non-essential spending after receiving public assistance should affect eligibility for that assistance.
On September 7, 2026, Jin Shanwen, a former subordinate of Wang Zhaoguo and Li Jianguo, took a key post at the Working Committee of Central and State Organs and gave a lecture to 120 branch secretaries of central Party and government organs, titled "Loyalty to the Party Is Not Loyalty to Individuals," which was interpreted as Wen Jiabao arranging a chief steward for Hu Chunhua.
After The Economist published an article on September 7, 2026 pointing out that China's speech environment has fallen into a deep freeze, this article exploring cultural censorship and the boundaries of expression was deleted across the entire Chinese internet.
On September 7, 2026, a video blogger recorded aerial footage of the flooding in Zuo'an Town, Suichuan County, Jiangxi and posted it online, only to receive calls from local government departments pressuring him to immediately delete the flood videos, sparking criticism of stability maintenance over disaster reporting.
On September 7, 2026, after remarks about removing English's core-subject status sparked heated online debate, the Weibo platform marked related discussion topics such as removing English's core-subject status and education fairness disputes as sensitive words and fully blocked search results.
On September 7, 2026, a user disclosed that regional visibility adjustment restrictions had been imposed on their Xiaohongshu account, with users in specific regions unable to view their notes, and the platform's censorship mechanism was mocked by netizens as "one book, two systems."
According to information circulating online, on September 7, 2026, in preparation for Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to the United States, a Chinese school in the US state of Delaware was commissioned by relevant parties to mobilize and organize Chinese-American students to serve as a welcoming crowd of extras.
On September 7, 2026, outside the gate of Kaifeng Industrial Gas Company in Luhe County, Shanwei, Guangdong, several workers gathered and kept vigil to defend their rights and demand unpaid wages, accusing the company of long-term malicious wage arrears long after the project was completed, and calling on the competent authorities to intervene.