On November 4, near the Damo Tou Motorcycle Supermarket in Fucheng District, Mianyang, Sichuan, a man held a woman hostage with a knife. Multiple police officers surrounded him with riot shields and firearms, issuing warnings. The specific situation and the outcome of the handling are pending official police reports.
On the evening of November 4, Longxi Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. in Huicheng District, Huizhou, Guangdong, required employees to collectively shout slogans wishing "General Manager Wei" a happy birthday, conditional on not working overtime that night, which sparked sarcasm from netizens.
On November 4, netizens discovered that a primary school in Taiyuan, Shanxi, issued a recruitment notice seeking 'internship teachers' from the public. The requirements included a full-time bachelor's degree or higher and a teacher qualification certificate, but it explicitly stated there would be no salary and that candidates must cover their own room and board, sparking widespread mockery and criticism from netizens.
On November 4, a netizen posted that after paying social security in Shenzhen for 20 years and just retiring, their monthly pension is only 1,989 yuan.
On November 4, the official WeChat account of Xiamen City Vocational College published an article stating that the school is launching a "Digital Yuan on Campus" campaign. It requires students to open and link digital yuan wallets and top them up. Some class meetings indicated that digital yuan will subsequently be used to fully cover payment scenarios such as cafeterias, supermarkets, and utility bills.
On November 4, the official media of the Hunan Daily Agency published an article titled 'Do We Really Need Halloween? Also Discussing Our Festival Sovereignty,' arguing that Halloween should not be simply banned. It suggests responding to the social and entertainment needs of young people and promoting the innovation of traditional festivals and the localization of foreign festivals.
On November 4, Elisabeth Lévy, founder and editor-in-chief of the French magazine 'Causeur', published an editorial titled 'Yellow Card', criticizing Real Madrid for apologizing after Kylian Mbappé called Mao Zedong a 'Chinese dictator'. She stated that the millions of victims of the Mao era have not received the same respect, and described the commercial pressure from the Chinese side as 'financial extortion'.
According to a report by The Sydney Morning Herald on November 4, at least three newsstands and one supermarket (including a China Post newsstand) in Beijing's Chaoyang District are still selling Dongpeng beverages featuring Mbappé's image. The shop owners stated they were unaware of the controversy, had received no notice to stop sales, and were only concerned about making money for the day.
On November 4, a Douyin influencer posted a video stating that a friend of over 20 years had passed away at a garment factory in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, due to long-term overwork. Chat logs show the female worker mentioned on November 19, 2025, that she was working overtime until 10 PM every day with no days off on Sundays, once saying, "I will die of sudden cardiac death sooner or later," and had been pressured by the finance department and the factory manager to return to work.
Recently, petitioners in Beijing have been visiting the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
On November 4, the Academic Affairs Department of Taiyuan Institute of Technology in Shanxi issued a notice stating that in order to organize teachers and students to participate in the election of deputies to the Jiancaoping District People's Congress, classes will be suspended in batches from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM on November 6, with 11 departments voting in staggered shifts of 15 to 40 minutes each during designated time slots.
On November 4, a netizen in Hebei posted a video showing an elderly person with limited mobility crawling on the ground in a very simple room. The video sparked concerns among netizens about their own future elderly care, with some saying they have started saving sleeping pills since the age of 52.
On November 4, a blogger posted a video claiming that while riding a motorcycle on a highway at night, the phone's navigation frequently and automatically jumped to third-party ad pages like JD.com due to normal vehicle vibrations, making it difficult to close and sparking heated discussion among netizens.
On November 4, the Douyin account of local state media "Tongling TV" posted a video criticizing influencer singer Na Yina for her high-profile promotion of her new song "Sour Oranges." Na Yina appeared in the comment section to ask the station whether they implement the eight-hour workday, two-day weekends, and triple pay for holidays. The comment was subsequently deleted.
On November 4, Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention to spend 390,000 yuan on a network security gateway. The requirements include the ability to identify VPN proxies, automatically block unauthorized overseas access, and retain logs for traceability. The announcement stated that existing equipment poses a risk of being flagged by higher-level regulatory authorities.
Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention in the same batch, planning to spend 340,000 yuan to purchase internet behavior management equipment. It requires coverage of all faculty, students, and various terminals, integration with unified identity authentication, and the capability for website access control and internet behavior auditing.
On November 4, Zhang Xue, founder of Zhang Xue Motorcycle, gave an interview at the EICMA in Milan, Italy, stating that employees receive a 100% salary increase after one year of employment, and those who have not received a raise for two consecutive years will basically be let go. The company plans to recruit 70 R&D personnel in this round of campus recruitment and has already received about 200 resumes from students at Chongqing University.
Mr. Liu stated that he did not receive valid notices for the court hearing or the judgment. His application for a retrial was rejected by the Dengzhou City Court on the grounds that service via SMS and phone call was legal. On November 4, the original trial judge responded that the retrial application had been answered and that it was inconvenient to accept an interview.
On November 4, a truck driver in Hengyang, Hunan, was ordered by security guards at the TBEA Southern Power Transmission and Transformation Industrial Park to kneel on the ground and wipe off tire marks he left while making a U-turn in front of the park gate. The company responded that this was a security regulation and not targeted at the individual, and that the person in charge has already negotiated a settlement with the driver.
On November 4, a Hupu netizen posted that the 2026 France team match highlights on the CCTV Video app had been removed, and the 2022 World Cup final highlights were also missing, though other 2022 France team match content remained.
On November 4, the Wangcheng District Court in Changsha disclosed an inheritance dispute: an adopted son demanded exclusive ownership of a 700-plus square meter ancestral home based on the tradition that 'family property is passed to sons, not daughters.' The five sisters filed a lawsuit, and after court mediation, the adopted son was awarded 70%, while each of the five sisters received 6%.
On November 4, a store in Shaanxi hung a handwritten sign in front of its shelves with words like 'Zero-dollar shopping prohibited' and 'Steal again and you are not Chinese.' The photo circulated online and sparked heated discussion among netizens.
The CCP held the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing, deliberating and adopting documents related to comprehensively strengthening Party discipline.
A tuberculosis screening at Kangping No. 1 High School in Shenyang, Liaoning, involved the reuse of needles. Discrepancies between official figures and parent-reported numbers have sparked protests.
Cheng Wanjun, former editor-in-chief of the magazine "Law and Life," was sentenced to six years in prison for commenting on Xi Jinping. After his release, he fled to Thailand and flew to Taiwan on November 3 to seek help, but was deported back to Thailand due to a lack of valid documents.
On November 3, Zhang Shengmin, Secretary of the Military Discipline Commission who was recently added to the Politburo, met with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov at Diaoyutai.
The Greenland Parliament approved a trilateral agreement with the United States by a vote of 16 to 0, allowing the U.S. military to expand its base and deploy missile defense system facilities.
As over 3,300 A-share stocks plummeted, the state-run China Fund News published an article attributing the correction to external factors such as the decline in the South Korean stock market, the drop in US tech stocks, and the midterm elections.
A suspected shell weighing 32 kilograms was found in a shipping container at a port in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, leading to the arrest of four Chinese citizens. The Chinese embassy claimed it was a liquor bottle, while local police stated it contained explosives.
The US military raided an Iranian island on November 3, intending to force Iran to sign an agreement before January.
Media reports indicate that Nanjing University's Xianlin Campus has implemented a smart classroom system equipped with facial detection and intelligent recognition algorithms, which tracks real-time attendance and head-up rates, sparking criticism over privacy violations.
At 8:50 AM on November 3, about 7,000 people were at a job fair site looking for work, but there were very few job openings, leaving a large number of people just sitting around to kill time.
Data released by Secretary-General of the National Security Council Joseph Wu shows that there are over 100 China Coast Guard vessels and warships in the Western Pacific, including off the coast of Hualien, which includes the Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group.
U.S. voters completed the midterm elections on November 3, using the re-election of members of Congress to check presidential power and demand adjustments to the government's policy direction.
Russian Defense Minister Belousov visited Beijing, and Zhang Shengmin met with him; Dong Jun did not appear to receive him.
According to a Financial Times report on November 3, citing three people familiar with the matter, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) held meetings with investment banks over the past few days, issuing informal window guidance to suspend corporate IPOs and halt large-scale share sales by existing shareholders until the market recovers.
According to a Financial Times report on November 3, citing people familiar with the matter, Nvidia has requested that global data center and cloud service partners allocate at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese customers to reduce reliance on the Chinese market.
On November 3, The Wall Street Journal reported that among approximately 3,500 leaked A7 transactions, Chouzhou Bank appeared most frequently as the receiving bank. In February 2025, a Kyrgyz front company ordered 40,000 kilograms of molybdenum trioxide from a Chinese supplier, with a payment of about $1.5 million wired to an account at the bank. Both the Biden and Trump administrations had internally flagged the bank but did not impose sanctions. Chouzhou Bank stated it has launched an internal investigation, while China opposes unilateral U.S. sanctions.
A netizen posted that their roommate needed to submit political vetting materials for their parents to apply for CCP membership, with one section requiring them to fill in their parents' performance during the 'June 4th turmoil'. The roommate, not understanding what this meant, asked Doubao (a product under ByteDance) and received the reply: 'I cannot answer this question.'
The official website of Wenzhou University of Technology has made public similar correspondence materials, requiring the village committee, neighborhood committee, or sub-district office where parents reside to provide political vetting materials. The attached form lists columns for 'whether there are any issues or conclusions regarding the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 turmoil, or Falun Gong'.
On November 3, over 3,300 A-share stocks fell, with semiconductors and optical modules suffering heavy losses. The STAR 50 index has retreated about 49% from its July high.
On November 3, Cheng Wanjun, former editor-in-chief of "Law and Life" magazine, flew from Thailand to Taiwan Taoyuan Airport to seek short-term humanitarian protection and transit to a third country. He is currently restricted to the airport holding lounge. He stated that although the UNHCR in Thailand classified him as a high-risk case, his personal safety could not be guaranteed.
On November 3, dozens of workers at Fujian Jinjiang Shuangchang Shoe Materials Co., Ltd. climbed to the top of the factory area to protest collectively due to unpaid wages, demanding that the company pay their overdue salaries.
Multiple workers at Jiangyang Cable in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, staged a collective protest after 2,000 yuan was deducted from their wages for both September and October, leaving them with only 2,500 yuan in hand. Workers stated that they even had to pay out of pocket to cover their mortgage payments. [Follow-up · November 2026] Workers at Jiangyang Cable in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, protested against wage deductions. Online chat logs indicate that workers had 2,000 yuan deducted from their pay for two consecutive months (September and October), leaving them with only 2,500 yuan in take-home pay, with no prior consultation with the workers.
On November 3, a netizen in Yancheng, Jiangsu, posted a video claiming that the FAW Yancheng branch had defaulted on employee wages and laid off staff. Employees gathered at the factory gate to defend their rights, with multiple police cars and SWAT police vehicles present at the scene. The netizen who posted the video stated that they were owed two months' wages and that the company had laid off employees during a leave period without prior notice.
According to reports by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on November 3, a suspected artillery shell was discovered inside a commercial freight shipping container in Papua New Guinea. Local police confirmed it was an unexploded 130mm Chinese Type 59 artillery shell, containing chemical explosives and a fuse. The Chinese Embassy in Port Moresby had previously claimed the object was a shell-shaped wine bottle.
On November 3, Xi Jinping attended the farewell ceremony for the remains of Liu Yandong at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.
On November 3, the student posted a video stating that 119 days after the incident, the school stopped paying for rehabilitation costs, refusing to even cover a 14.5 yuan registration fee. The student also claimed that surveillance footage was initially reported as lost but later recovered, and that the two individuals involved have yet to face any substantive disciplinary action.
On the evening of November 3, Bruno Retailleau, chairman of the French Republican Party and presidential candidate, was asked on a BFMTV program whether Mao Zedong was a dictator. He replied "of course" twice, stated that Mao caused the deaths of tens of millions, and equated communism with Nazism as two forms of totalitarianism.
On November 3, Google released an investigation report stating that Shenzhen Shizhuang Technology exploited certification testing vulnerabilities to pre-install backdoors in TV boxes before they left the factory, selling device access rights to black and gray industry syndicates. Over 1.3 million devices worldwide were remotely controlled to click ads and install malware. Google has severed the control servers and terminated its certification partnership.