On May 26, 2026, the Sina Weibo account "Xianzi and Her Friends" of Xianzi, the feminist activist who had publicly accused CCTV host Zhu Jun of sexual harassment, was formally banned by the platform on the grounds of violating laws, regulations, and the community convention.
On May 26, 2026, the Chengdu Jinniu Public Security Bureau announced that two suspects were apprehended for illegally installing secret recording devices in the restroom of a certain influencer shop and profiting by selling videos of others' privacy; one was approved for arrest by the procuratorate, and one was released on bail pending trial.
On May 26, 2026, a Meituan delivery rider in Heilongjiang revealed that he got into an argument with a university section chief while yielding on a narrow road because he did not give way first, was verbally abused by the other party, and was subsequently fired directly by the station leadership without any investigation.
On the morning of May 26, 2026, the Lishui River in Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, suddenly rose due to a rainstorm. Four men were fishing in the river channel when they encountered danger. Two of them evacuated, while the other two were trapped and swept away by the floodwaters. After search and rescue operations, both were confirmed to have tragically died.
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.
On May 26, 2026, a student at a Shanghai university exposed online that a counselor sent a notice urging blood donation in the class group chat, and stipulated that those unwilling to donate blood must handwrite and submit a statement of no less than 500 characters within a deadline, sparking criticism that this was disguised coercion.
On May 26, 2026, Taiwan influencer "the Curator" visited Zhang Xue's motorcycle factory to call for supporting domestic products. The person in charge, Zhang Xue, responded in person, saying that buying a Yamaha does not mean being unpatriotic and that good products naturally find buyers, pushing back against moral coercion.
On May 26, 2026, rumors circulated online that swine fever had broken out in Yuantan Town, Qingyuan City, Guangdong, with hundreds of pigs in the piggery infected and some already having entered the market; the breeder who provided the tip-off was forced to leave the village and go into hiding out of safety concerns.
On the evening of May 26, 2026, following a tip, reporters conducted an undercover visit to a villa on Wuzhou Road in Linping District, Hangzhou, and found that it had illegally set up an underground test-tube baby laboratory without any medical qualifications, carrying out egg donation, embryo cultivation and transplant procedures in violation of regulations.
On May 26, 2026, online reports claimed that an employee of China Chengxin Pengyuan Credit Rating Co., Ltd. had passed away due to work. Afterwards, the company unexpectedly issued a statement calling on all employees to learn from her dedication and professionalism and to jointly pursue steady development, triggering strong public questioning.
On May 26, 2026, private entrepreneur Liu Shuhong of Xiangyang, Hubei, publicly accused the Nanzhang County government online of having unlawfully detained him and his wife for 666 days under the pretext of a restructuring, forcibly seizing enterprise assets worth over 100 million yuan registered under his name, and saddling him with enormous debts.
On May 26, 2026, an office worker in Nanning, Guangxi posted a complaint saying that their company, because performance targets had not been met, was forcing employees to accept physical punishment. The employee firmly refused this unreasonable rule and had a verbal confrontation with the supervisor on the spot.
On May 26, 2026, a truck driver posted a video reporting that after delivering goods to a logistics company in Shanghai, he was repeatedly put off by several unloaders for as long as two hours, and was told explicitly that they would only arrange unloading if he bought them cigarettes.
Kim Myeong-il stated that his case was transferred from the case-handling unit to the procuratorate on May 25, and the case files and other materials have entered the procuratorate's processing stage.
In late May 2026, on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the June Fourth incident, public security departments in Beijing, Guizhou, Zhejiang and other places placed large numbers of dissidents, independent scholars and rights lawyers — including Gao Yu, Pu Zhiqiang, Hu Jia and Chen Xi — under assigned surveillance or took them away on forced travel.
On May 25, 2026, human rights activist Dong Guangping, who had been repeatedly sentenced and imprisoned by Chinese authorities, fled China by rubber boat and arrived in South Korea seeking humanitarian protection and asylum, in order to avoid being deported again or facing political persecution.
On May 25, 2026, the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation convened a joint conference on online market regulation, summoning 17 key e-commerce and platform companies for talks and demanding that they implement anti-involution competition and eliminate large-scale irrational subsidy promotions.
In May 2026, pork products from a production batch of a subsidiary of meat producer Shuanghui Development were found in sampling inspections to have antibiotic residues exceeding the limit by 37.5 times, triggering high public concern over meat food safety and antibiotic abuse.
On May 25, 2026, Wu Qiang, a citizen of Lianyungang, Jiangsu, posted a video accusing the authorities of sentencing him to one year in prison for 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' after he monitored water pollution. Following his release, the Lianyungang Intermediate Court placed him under residential surveillance for another six months. He also disclosed that he was subjected to torture and abuse while in custody.
On June 13, 2026, Mingde Qizhi Technology Co., Ltd. in Xi'an, Shaanxi was exposed for emptying its office area in the middle of the night and going off the grid, having accumulated arrears of 2 to 4 months' wages totaling millions of yuan owed to more than 200 employees.
According to multiple financial media reports, quasi-fixed-income products under CreditEase Wealth have blown up, and the company has launched the so-called "benign liquidation" starting May 22, 2026.
On May 25, a 24-year-old Chinese college student sprayed a capsaicin-containing spray at a man in the ATM area on the first floor of the GINZA SIX shopping mall in Tokyo's Ginza district, causing 30 people to feel unwell, 25 of whom were sent to the hospital, before fleeing the scene.
On May 25, 2026, a Shanghai food delivery rider posted an “Onboarding Commitment Letter” on social networks, exposing employment terms imposed by an outsourcing company, including forced deductions of 1,000 yuan for equipment, fines for overtime, heavy penalties for absenteeism in severe weather, and settlement at half pay for early resignation.
On May 25, 2026, it was reported online that residents in Daba Town, Guizhou, complained that a local gravel plant conducted blasting operations less than 200 meters from a residential area, causing large amounts of debris to fly into the village and threaten personal safety.
On May 25, 2026, it was reported online that an employee of Shenzhen Haorui Technology Co., Ltd. died suddenly in a dormitory after working 13 consecutive days. The family said their work-injury application was rejected by the Social Security Bureau, drawing online attention.
On May 25, 2026, a restaurant owner in Enshi, Hubei discovered on a recruitment platform that multiple 2026 fresh bachelor's degree graduates had proactively submitted applications for restaurant server positions, with expected monthly salaries of only two to three thousand yuan, sparking discussion about the employment plight of young people.
On May 24, 2026, inside the Grand Shanghai City mall in Zhengzhou, Henan, a man used a megaphone to publicly insult a gathering of ACG (anime, comic and game) youth as "traitors" and "sellouts," and was subsequently handcuffed and taken away by police who arrived at the scene.
Gong Qihuang has been relieved of his duties as president of Peking University. The official announcement made no mention of any new appointment, and he will be succeeded by Gao Song.
A major collapse accident occurred at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi. The official initial report stated 8 deaths, but after multiple revisions, the final death toll was announced as 82. The involved enterprise was exposed for severe cover-ups and illegal operations using AB blueprints.
On May 22, 2026, the securities regulator and seven other departments issued a plan to crack down on illegal cross-border securities business, and plan to impose fines totaling more than 2.2 billion yuan on Futu and Tiger; both stocks fell 30 to 40 percent before the open.
The Chinese Communist Party's securities regulator announced a crackdown on cross-border brokerages such as Futu and Tiger, accusing them of doing business with domestic residents without a license. The news sent the two companies' shares plunging 30% to 40% in pre-market trading in the US.
An “Overseas Surrogacy Agency Agreement” signed “Tian Jing” was disclosed, with handwriting said to closely resemble Jing Tian’s own, sparking surrogacy rumors.
On the evening of May 22, 2026, a major gas explosion occurred at the Liushenyu Coal Mine of the Tongzhou Group in Qinyuan County, Changzhi, Shanxi, leaving 82 dead, 2 missing and 128 injured. It is the most serious coal mine safety disaster in China in nearly 17 years.
In May 2026, Li Hua, founder of Futu Securities, was fined over $270 million for "illegally facilitating cross-border investments." Futu stated that only 17% of its client assets originated from accounts in mainland China.
As of May 22, 2026, the combined net financing of urban investment bonds in Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai and Fujian exceeded 150 billion yuan, accounting for 72% of the national total net financing.
On May 22, 2026, eight departments including the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) jointly issued a plan announcing a two-year campaign to completely ban illegal cross-border securities and futures activities. The plan specifically named Futu Securities, Tiger Brokers, and Longbridge Securities for illegal operations, proposing to confiscate illegal gains and impose fines.
On May 22, 2026, the Luchuan County Public Security Bureau in Guangxi announced that a knife attack had occurred locally, leaving 2 civilians and 5 police officers handling the case injured; the suspect was caught at the scene. Online reports said onlookers at the scene had cheered.
On May 22, 2026, the Henan Blue Sky Rescue team issued a notice stating that three teams from Yichuan, Yiyang, and Song County had traveled to Changde, Hunan to carry out rescue work and posted videos without completing the filing and approval procedures, and ordered all personnel to withdraw and issued internal written warnings.
On May 22, 2026, a truck driver in Ankang, Shaanxi carried two foreign tourists, including the well-known American podcast host Friedman, and because he worried that their identities were those of spies, he recorded video throughout the journey as a precaution; after the video was reported by the media, it sparked heated discussion.
As Futu rebounded and swung intraday, attracting retail investors to buy the dip, the options monitoring system captured extreme put sweeps on Futu and Taige at 9:57 a.m.
The European Central Bank has released a working paper showing that AI investors collectively coordinate redemptions and divestments during model interactions, even when economic fundamentals are strong.
On May 21, 2026, Chinese judicial authorities carried out the death sentence against Xu Yao, the perpetrator who poisoned Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi. Yoozoo Games subsequently issued a statement on May 26 confirming the news.
On the evening of May 21, 2026, it was reported online that a grade-11 student at No. 6 Middle School in Lengshuijiang, Hunan, was violently thrown, stomped on, and crushed by his homeroom teacher on the podium in front of everyone, and humiliated, because he was playing on his phone during self-study. After evening self-study ended, the student went home and jumped to his death.
On May 21, 2026, Chinese Human Rights Defenders released a special research report pointing out that millions of secondary vocational students in China face forced internships every year, involving excessive working hours, withheld pay, and abuse of child labor, which has led to the abnormal deaths of multiple interns.
On May 21, 2026, regarding the incident where over 700 mu of shepherd's purse crops were swarmed, stolen, and looted by surrounding villagers, a farmer in Neihuang, Henan, formally submitted a criminal case application to the local police, demanding that the crime of intentional destruction of property be investigated and compensation for losses be made.
On May 21, 2026, the organizer of a Pokémon and Animal Crossing offline player gathering originally scheduled to be held on the 24th in Beijing posted a statement saying that the planned entertainment event was forced to be announced as canceled after being reported over allegations that the IP contained ideological problems.
On May 21, 2026, inside a milk tea shop in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, a woman returned to verbally abuse staff and repeatedly threw straws at a young male employee because two straws were left out of her order; after police intervened, she was given 5 days of administrative detention and a fine of 500 yuan.
Taiwanese prosecutors and investigators raided and detained three people, marking Taiwan's first law enforcement action against AI chip smuggling.
U.S. Acting Secretary of the Navy高雄 announced on May 19 that the MQ-25A Stingray drone received Milestone C approval and entered the low-rate initial production phase.
On May 19, 2026, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and several other international human rights organizations jointly wrote to the European Parliament delegation about to visit China, urging lawmakers to place human rights at the core, publicly demand the release of detained human rights defenders, and pay attention to the rights of ethnic minorities.