Chronicle TIMELINE
A chronological, causal record of the resistance, major political crises, and contemporary truth.
09.17
·Verified
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·上海市虹口区
On September 17, 2026, the WeChat public account "Hongkou Party Building" reported that the Organization Department of the Hongkou District Committee held a department affairs meeting, presided over by Xi Tingsong, member of the Standing Committee of the District Committee and head of the Organization Department, indicating that he has taken up the new post. Xi Tingsong was born in June 1971, is of the Nakhi ethnic group, and is from Lijiang, Yunnan. He previously served as member of the Standing Committee of the Xuhui District Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 17, a netizen uploaded an AI short film to Douyin in which a young person runs desperately while carrying a basket on their back containing their parents, only to be criticized for falling behind, sparking widespread resonance and discussion among netizens about the heavy burden of family.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 2
·Taipei
On September 17, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung expressed sincere welcome and gratitude in a statement over the European Parliament's continued adoption of pro-Taiwan resolutions, stating that Taiwan will continue to deepen cooperation with the EU and like-minded partners to jointly address the hybrid threats and information manipulation posed by authoritarian states.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 3
·China
On September 17, blogger "Xueyan" confirmed in the comments section that the cross-strait sisters reunited in her video had very different backgrounds: the 90-year-old elder sister was abandoned on the mainland from a young age and became a child bride, while the 84-year-old younger sister lived in Taiwan; the two were separated for a long time for historical reasons.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
According to blogger Qiqi Baba, many people were contacted by relevant departments in their hometowns after returning to China with their passports and were asked to cancel them.
09.17
·Hearsay
·Importance II
·Sources 3
·China
Online reports claim a Chinese depositor was blocked from withdrawing money at a bank, with staff threatening to call the police. Netizens believe the bank is worried that withdrawals might trigger a bank run.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 3
·Guangzhou
A parent posted a video showing instructors at Guangzhou Donghua Vocational College forcing students to undergo military training in a rainstorm.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 3
·China
Recently a netizen posted a pop-up ad from a domestic smartphone, which was disguised as a delivery, a food delivery rider, or a call from the user's daughter to lure them into answering; whether the user hangs up or answers, they are redirected to a spam call screen.
09.17
·Hearsay
·Importance II
·Sources 3
·Yunnan
Some netizens discussed protests by tobacco farmers in Yunnan, saying that farmers were mobilized by the government to grow tobacco, with promises of considerable income, but at purchase time the tobacco leaves were only bought for a few yuan per kilogram, leaving them with just a few dozen yuan of income after working more than half a year on one mu of land.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·沙特阿拉伯
The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia has warned American citizens against traveling to the Yemen border area due to terrorist threats, after Houthi offensives have led to the capture of large areas along the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 5
·Beijing
On September 17, 2026, multiple drone users in Beijing sold off their equipment en masse on the Xianyu and Xiaohongshu platforms. Sellers generally reported that Beijing has banned drone ownership, and they shared the equipment recovery process and their experiences.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Ningbo
Blogger Qiqi Baba was separately interrogated by border inspection while departing at Ningbo Airport on September 17. He was asked about his experience transiting in Egypt last year, and said that departure management at Ningbo Airport is strict, with each accompanying person required to undergo inspection one by one.
09.17
·Hearsay
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·China
Blogger Qiqi Baba said that after new rules took effect on September 15, one of his followers was stopped and questioned at the airport, asked to provide a hotel booking, itinerary and return ticket, and warned that those holding tourist visas should delete content on their phones related to overseas work and Macau to avoid being checked.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 3
·China
A netizen said that due to employer restrictions they could not travel abroad freely, but the employer's rules stipulated they could not voluntarily resign within 5 years and could only leave by being fired. After 15 days of absenteeism, the employer initiated the procedure, and it took about 3 months to get the passport back.
09.17
·Hearsay
·Importance I
·Sources 3
·Hainan
Recently, a medical worker revealed that during a meeting at a hospital in Hainan, the hospital director asked doctors not to prescribe too much traditional Chinese medicine. Netizens said that doctors mainly prescribe Western medicine when treating patients and avoid traditional Chinese medicine.
09.17
·Hearsay
·Importance I
·Sources 3
·China
A netizen recently posted that their mother suffered a sudden myocardial infarction, and when their father dialed the emergency number, an advertisement popped up on his Honor phone with no close button nearby, causing the mother to miss the optimal window for emergency treatment.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 15, Xiaohongshu released the "Community Financial Ecological Charter", prohibiting malicious bearish calls, illegal stock recommendations and other behaviors. The platform disclosed that since the beginning of the year, it has dealt with over 1.01 million violating notes, 157,000 violating accounts, and more than 4.77 million violating comments, and pledged to strengthen algorithmic self-discipline to curb extreme market sentiment.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Nanjing
On September 15, a netizen in Nanjing transferred travel expenses, triggering an anti-fraud warning; although he proved to auxiliary police that he was not scammed, he was still required to go to the police station for a lesson. Because he refused to go, his bank card was frozen that night by the Criminal Police Brigade of the Jiangning Branch of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Nanjing
On September 16, Xu Huping, former director of the Nanjing Museum, was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined 200,000 yuan for accepting bribes in engineering contracts and commercial cooperation. Previously, Xu Huping had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and stripped of his benefits. This ruling did not involve the illegal allocation of cultural relics.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Berlin
On September 15, German Chancellor Merz criticized China at the Berlin Entrepreneurs' Conference, stating that through state intervention, overcapacity, and export subsidies, China has driven the EU's trade deficit with China to over 300 billion euros. EU leaders plan to discuss in October whether to deploy trade defense instruments.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Changchun
On September 16, during Jilin University's 80th anniversary celebrations, first-year students were locked inside the central stadium for training, and the gates were closed prohibiting students from leaving to eat, causing them to be exposed to high temperatures, with some students feeling unwell. Students questioned that the school's action was to prevent freshmen from colliding with leaders or alumni vehicles.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 16, Ningde Times' stock price fell for two consecutive days, the decline widened to 5%, breaking below the 300 yuan threshold, down 35% from the May 7 peak, hitting a near‑year low, with total market value approaching 1.4 trillion yuan.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Hengzhou City
On September 5, netizens reported that nearly two months after the floods in Hengzhou, Guangxi, some elderly residents under the Five Guarantees system and impoverished households are still sleeping on damp floors because their beds were washed away and they received no aid. Volunteers have now launched a survey and fundraising campaign to buy folding beds, sparking public questioning of disaster relief distribution and government support capabilities.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Maoxian
On the morning of September 16, a landslide occurred at Dingziba in Shidaguan Village, Diexi Town, Mao County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, blocking traffic on the K2029+200 segment of National Highway 213. The Mao County Emergency Management Bureau said that because of early warning and control, no casualties occurred.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Shanghai
On September 15, military media "Navy News" disclosed satellite images showing that Shanghai Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard is building a vessel suspected to be the world's first unmanned submarine mother ship, which features a dock, lift cradle and hangar, and is estimated to be able to carry about four large unmanned submarines.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Dalian
On September 15, netizens discovered an anti‑abuse poster commemorating the stray dog “Wangwang” from Jieyang, Guangdong on the wall of a hotpot restaurant in Dalian, sparking attention.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
On September 15, Hongmeng Smart Mobility announced that the definition, marketing and service of the Wenjie product would be taken over by Seres, with Huawei only providing empowerment. The news sparked concerns of car dealers selling off, and Seres' stock closed down 5.09% that day, after having turned from profit to loss in the first half of the year.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 16, netizens reported that Xiaohongshu updated its Dandelion platform rules, classifying doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other medical workers as a sector-wide prohibited collaboration group, banning them from undertaking commercial posts for any industry, which sparked public skepticism.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Hebei
Affected by low-price competition and high commission fees on e‑commerce platforms, merchants in the Hebei industrial belt have independently built a B2B platform “Hebei Involution Net”, featuring factory direct supply with no commissions, aiming to bypass intermediate platforms and connect directly with purchasers, scheduled to launch on October 1.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shanghai
An employee of the milk tea shop “Yidian Dian” discovered a foreign object in the black tea, reported it to quality control and was instructed to remove it and continue using it. The employee later applied for arbitration due to an irregular labor contract, and the company sent someone to his grandparents’ home to threaten them in order to force him to give up defending his rights.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Wenzhou
On September 15, Apple released the official version of iOS 17, which includes a new alarm feature that supports compensatory leave (tiaoxiu). Wenzhou state media "Temperature News" called this an "epic update," sparking widespread ridicule from netizens who accused Apple of compromising with China's compensatory leave system and keeping pace with the regression of the times.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·China
It was reported on September 15 that Beijing planned to seek an extension of the US-China trade truce until the end of Trump's term ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting on September 24. However, due to China's failure to fully fulfill its rare earth export commitments, the US side was only willing to renew it for 6 months and demanded that China ease its rare earth restrictions on Japan.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·London, United Kingdom
On September 14, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released an investigative report, pointing out that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's London branch, under directives from headquarters, tied commercial business to national strategy, provided financing to sensitive enterprises, and bypassed compliance procedures to assist Huawei in transferring huge sums of money, reflecting the operational logic of Chinese state-owned banks where profit serves political objectives.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 15, a netizen discovered a sign on the street supporting the Wangwang incident and calling for anti-animal abuse legislation. The sign included messages such as "Please stop animal abuse" and "Being a minor is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for animal cruelty." After the netizen posted photos of the sign to Xiaohongshu (RedNote), the post was throttled by the platform.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Seoul
On August 4, a Chinese man in his 20s was arrested for illegally filming women at a cafe in Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Police investigation revealed that he had illegally filmed a total of 27 women across various locations in Seoul. On September 9, the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office indicted the man without detention on charges of violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes.
09.16
·Official claim
·Importance II
·Sources 3
·Hangzhou
On September 12, surveillance footage from the Bao Pizza Binhe Square store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, showed an employee sprinkling suspected dandruff and appearing to spit on food waiting to be served, raising food safety concerns.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
On September 14, official media reported that the National Health Commission is revising the Blood Donation Law, proposing to raise the upper age limit for blood donation from 55 to 65 years and shorten the donation interval from 6 months to 3 months, sparking widespread online discussion and jokes.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On September 15, netizens revealed that tenants in Beijing must report new residents, and the police station is jointly conducting night checks of the floating population. Beijing police require landlords to implement “register upon arrival, deregister upon departure,” and punish landlords who fail to update information in time, while encouraging the public to report.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On September 15, a WeChat PR employee responded to privacy controversies surrounding the AI assistant "Xiaowei," denying that it peeks at chat logs, but admitting that recommendations are made based on user interaction data. Earlier updates to WeChat's privacy policy showed that using Xiaowei collects user input and information viewed within the scenario.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Jinan
On September 15, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province delivered a first-instance verdict, sentencing Bi Jingquan to 14 years in prison and a fine of 5 million yuan for accepting bribes totaling over 57.42 million yuan between 1995 and 2025 by abusing his official positions. Bi Jingquan previously served as Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council and Director of the State Food and Drug Administration.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Guangdong
On September 13, netizens reported that small transfers triggered AI anti-fraud warnings from Anxun Technology, leading Guangdong police to summon them to local stations for 'propaganda' sessions. Anxun Technology's official website states that its system can convert warnings into precise operational instructions and establish a dynamic control system for high-risk individuals. Multiple netizens reported being visited by police to have their phones checked, being forced to record propaganda videos, or being forcibly summoned simply for small transfers or receiving private messages.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Zhumadian
On September 14, customers at the Huanle Aijia Supermarket in Zhumadian, Henan, protested over restrictions on the use of stored-value cards. Chairman Wang Haizhou appeared on-site, promising that the company's assets were sufficient to cover its debts and pledging to announce a solution by November 6.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Hangzhou
On September 7, netizens reported on social media that the application process for fresh graduate subsidies in Hangzhou has been obstructed, affecting their job hunting and resignation plans. The comment section sparked discussions on how subsidy policies lead companies to suppress wages and include subsidies as part of employee benefits. Some netizens believe that the cancellation of subsidies might force companies to improve working hour systems, while others call for fighting for both subsidies and the right to a two-day weekend.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
On September 15, Reuters reported that China's vehicle manufacturing profit margin has fallen to 1.5%, a ten-year low. Despite a 9.13% increase in revenue in the first half of the year, GAC Group reported a net loss of 4.467 billion yuan. On September 14, GAC announced plans to acquire equity in a joint-venture automaker under FAW Group; market speculation suggests the target may be FAW Toyota, aiming to promote the integration of northern and southern Toyota operations.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
During the Beijing Xiangshan Forum on September 15, US scholar David Finkelstein pointed out that US policy toward Taiwan is constrained by Congress, while former Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai claimed that China acts according to law. Finkelstein quipped that the National People's Congress of China has stricter discipline, to which Fudan scholar Wu Xinbo responded that China is more united and warned the US side to be careful.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Hohhot
On September 12, Inner Mongolia University of Technology held a special job fair for central and state-owned enterprises, attracting a large number of students. The crowded scene reflects the current severe employment situation.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On September 15, the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum opened in Beijing. According to sources familiar with Japan-China relations, researchers from the National Institute for Defense Studies of the Japanese Ministry of Defense and Japanese military attachés in China were not invited, while former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who left office 16 years ago, was invited to attend.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On Sep 13, an interview featuring Zhao Hong, a professor at Peking University Law School, sparked heated debate after she stated that drug use is a form of self-harm and that cyberbullying reflects inadequate legal popularization. On Sep 15, netizens dug up multiple violent crime cases from the 1990s caused by drug use, questioning whether her remarks were detached from reality.
09.16
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·United States
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill with 262 votes in favor and 159 against, authorizing the imposition of tariffs on countries that are top purchasers of Russian energy. These countries could face tariffs of up to 100 percent. The bill was introduced by the Republican Party, with 58 Democratic representatives supporting it and 7 Republican representatives voting against it. After passing, the bill was sent to the White House and still requires the President's signature. The relevant measures affect countries that purchase Russian energy, such as China and India.
09.16
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Hong Kong
At 11:00 AM on September 16, 2026, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced the first five-year plan in Hong Kong's history at the Legislative Council. The plan consists of 7 parts and 28 chapters, totaling over 60,000 words, and proposes 22 major indicators, 5 of which are binding. The plan covers targets such as land supply in the Northern Metropolis, innovation activities, industrial development, students, and tourists, requiring relevant indicators to be completed as scheduled.