The Wall Street Journal reported that during the BRICS summit in India, Xi Jinping temporarily canceled a dinner due to sudden indisposition, with Wang Yi attending on his behalf, sparking external speculation about his health.
On September 12, the central government approved the appointment of Li Qiang as a member of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Dalian Municipal Party Committee. On the same day, the former Dalian Municipal Party Secretary, Xiong Maoping, stepped down from his positions as Deputy Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, member of the Provincial Standing Committee, and Secretary of the Dalian Municipal Party Committee. Li Qiang previously served as the Mayor of Dalian.
Xi Jinping did not attend the important banquet on the evening of the 12th during his time in India, while Putin and others were present. Related reports did not provide an official reason for Xi's absence, only noting that he had arrived in India but did not attend the banquet, which required conversations with various parties and prolonged activity. Subsequently, rumors regarding his health spread online, with his absence from the banquet being used as one of the indicators to speculate on whether he was experiencing health issues.
On September 11, the first instance trial for the influencer Tietou's extortion case concluded, with him being sentenced to eight years in prison for multiple crimes. After the verdict was announced, comment sections on social media platforms showed polarized opinions, sparking public discussion on the boundaries and social roles of online anti-fraud activities.
On September 10, a netizen from Jiangsu posted a protest poster showing four bloggers with their mouths taped shut, protesting their permanent account bans for discussing sensitive political topics. Netizens in the comments section expressed their dissatisfaction, directly stating "We are hostages."
On August 26, an 18-year-old girl from Gansu went to Shenzhen to work to escape an arranged marriage. Her parents found her address through the local police station and hired people to forcibly take her back to Lanzhou across provinces. After Shenzhen bus drivers noticed something unusual, they called the police. The police identified the suspects and rescued the girl in Lanzhou across provinces.
On September 10, Shao Tianlan, founder and CEO of Mech-Mind, posted on his WeChat Moments, accusing Galaxy Core, a company valued at over 20 billion yuan and featured on the Spring Festival Gala, of fabricating revenue through related-party transactions to rush its IPO. He publicly questioned whether Beijing municipal leaders support such companies going public.
On September 9, according to The Information, after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) raised the listing threshold for humanoid robot companies through non-public window guidance, related companies must prove they can form sustainable revenue, are narrowing losses, or possess genuine technological innovation to go public. This policy shift is related to the financing frenzy in the primary market and the drastic stock price fluctuations after the listing of Unitree Robotics.
A 15-year-old female student at Luancheng Middle School in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, who scored 736, was repeatedly forced by the school to cut and straighten her naturally curly hair, and was harassed and denied entry. Just 7 days after enrolling, she suffered a mental breakdown and jumped to her death. Her family later protested at the school gate with a petition, and special police were stationed at the scene. After the incident was exposed, graduates and netizens revealed that the school has long had extreme regulations, such as not providing seats in the cafeteria, forcing students to eat standing up, and implementing militarized management.
On September 11, the South China Morning Post cited expert judgment to confirm that the large drone that has recently received attention is the WZ-X stealth drone. This model has a wingspan of about 52 meters and a size close to the US military's B-2 stealth bomber. It is regarded as an intercontinental high-altitude long-endurance intelligence reconnaissance drone. It was previously identified by US defense websites through satellite imagery at the Malan Air Force Test Site in Xinjiang in May 2025. Chinese officials have not commented on this.
On September 10, a user posted an article accusing domestic film and television and social platforms of double standards in reviewing homosexual content, with positive emotional content being restricted or removed, while content linking the homosexual group with negative labels can be spread normally, attracting attention.
On September 10, 2026, the Jinjiang Branch of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau lifted the bail for Liu Hu due to changes in the case. Lawyer Zhou Ze posted the decision, announcing the end of the criminal prosecution initiated in February of this year, and Liu Hu will not need to stand trial.
Netizens used Huawei tablets to test the difficulty of closing startup ads and found that whether clicking close or pressing the X, it forcefully redirects to the next ad in an endless loop.
On September 10, news spread on social media platforms that BYD had suspended profit-sharing bonuses for the 2025 fiscal year. After an internal employee posted to confirm this, they were called in for a talk and forced to delete the post. Meanwhile, multiple employees leaked that they had not received pay raises for a long time, housing subsidies had decreased, and performance bonuses had dropped, leaving concentrated satirical satirical own comments under the company's official account.
On September 10, 2026, a conflict between urban management officers and vendors occurred near Hairui Cultural Park in Haikou City, Hainan Province, attracting a large crowd of onlookers.
On September 11, Enflame Technology, referred to by the media as the Chinese version of Nvidia, was listed on the STAR Market, closing 179.22% higher than the issuance price with a market value exceeding 170 billion. Prospectus materials show its 2025 revenue was 990 million yuan, with a net loss of 1.16 billion yuan, and the largest shareholder Tencent contributed 83.79% of the total revenue. Analysis suggests the surge was primarily driven by short-term IPO subscription funds.
Taiwan's Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office reported on September 9th that they had dismantled an organ trafficking ring composed of seven adult defendants. The group recruited victims online, planning to control them and smuggle them to mainland China for organ harvesting. Those involved have been investigated and dealt with according to law.
In September 2026, multiple high schools in Zhengzhou were exposed for implementing Saturday single day off for make-up classes and mandatory boarding since the start of the semester, with schedules from 6 AM to 11:30 PM. Unable to accept the excessively long schedule and the change from two days off to a single day off, students chose to commit suicide after only 10 days of school.
Apple's official website in mainland China has downplayed the release date of a new product scheduled for September 18th, referring to it as 'next Friday the 18th,' while the Hong Kong and Taiwan websites correctly state 'September 18th,' sparking speculation about avoiding the September 18th Incident.
On September 11, 2026, a user on the Zhihu platform posted a message mocking public figure Hu Xijin, sparking online attention.
On September 10, netizens revealed that Time Fengjun was listed as a key regulatory target, with offline performances and cultural tourism approvals blocked, related documentaries, daily materials, and merchandise facing cold treatment, and the October 6 session of the Luzhou Music Festival also canceled.
On September 9, Hefei, Anhui, introduced new safety supervision regulations for food delivery, requiring riders to go offline for 20 minutes after delivering for more than four consecutive hours, and implementing joint punishment for traffic violations. Riders generally disagree with this, pointing out that low delivery fees are the primary cause of overtime work and violations.
Wu Zhongmin, a reporter from Jiangxi Radio and Television Station, was slapped in the face by the father of the person in charge of a company involved in a dispute while interviewing at a Xiaer Baba homestay in Shenzhen. The All-China Journalists Association has spoken out in support of the reporter's right to perform their duties according to law and demanded severe punishment for the assailant.
On September 10, 2026, a scene of an elderly scavenger in Henan carrying a national flag while rummaging through a trash can attracted attention. The video's comment section was subsequently cleared, but a large number of sarcastic bullet comments remained.
The Chinese Embassy in Japan announced on September 11 that, based on the principle of reciprocal visa fees, visa fees for Japanese citizens traveling to China will be significantly increased starting from September 14. The fees for single-entry, six-month multiple-entry, and one-year multiple-entry visas will all see substantial increases, ranging from 6 to 7 times the original amount. However, the policy of visa exemption for short-term stays in China for holders of ordinary passports will not be affected for the time being.
A teacher in Wuhan posted a video exposing their August salary of only 120 yuan, received on Teacher's Day. They were deducted 1800 yuan due to being on sick leave since June after an injury and the student enrollment not meeting the required standard. Although the Wuhan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau accepted their work-related injury claim application on August 3rd, the result is pending and they have to cover their own surgical expenses. Their appeals to superiors have been fruitless.
Anhui University plans to build a campus network system for analyzing and controlling politically sensitive network behavior, with China Mobile winning the bid for construction at a cost of 868,000 yuan. The system aims to detect, alert, asynchronously audit, and trace politically sensitive information and activities like "wall-climbing." It is scheduled for acceptance and use by the end of 2026.
On September 11, 2026, a popular Weibo influencer posted that discussions related to the Sun Meihua abduction case were being massively deleted and suppressed. Videos posted by bloggers who participated in the rescue have also disappeared. Sun Meihua originally lived in Beijing's Second Ring Road, spoke English, and was involved in foreign trade. She was abducted to a rural area at the age of 32 and suffered for 26 years. The methods of abduction and the progress of the case investigation, which have garnered public attention, have not yet been disclosed, and the official response has raised questions.
Recently, multiple Douyin netizens exposed a malicious pop-up ad issue on certain Android phones. After accidental clicks, the ads disguise themselves as property management, delivery, or daughter's calls to lure users into answering. Whether the user clicks 'hang up' or 'answer', it redirects to an unfamiliar call interface and plays a voice, trapping them in an unclosable ad loop.
On September 9, the criminal lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Huawei and its subsidiaries officially opened in federal court. The presiding judge is Ann Donnelly, and the trial is expected to last several months. Prosecutors accuse Huawei of operating a criminal enterprise for over 20 years through theft, lies, and cover-ups, facing approximately 12 charges including racketeering, conspiracy to steal trade secrets, bank fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
On September 10, 2026, Tibet Cyber Police announced multiple cases of penalties for online comments regarding the Gyirong mudslide disaster. The netizens involved were given administrative penalties by police in Tibet, Heilongjiang, Anhui, and Guangdong, for fabricating that the mudslide was man-made or induced by an earthquake, maliciously comparing it to rescue efforts in other countries to distort the effectiveness of China's disaster relief, fabricating that all public officials had died in the line of duty, and spreading false rumors.
On September 10, 2026, netizens exposed screenshots of some university group chats showing that voluntary blood donation and bone marrow donation can be counted as bonus points for comprehensive evaluation, with bone marrow donation reaching as high as 10 points per time. Upon investigation, the scholarship or comprehensive evaluation review details of universities such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine indeed contain regulations that treat blood donation and hematopoietic stem cell donation as bonus items, sparking public controversy.
On September 10, the Beijing Qianqian Law Firm issued a document introducing the women's safety and rights platform 'Feimo'. The project originates from the German Chinese date rape case, integrating SOS one-click help, encrypted evidence preservation, scripted practice for reporting crimes, as well as legal and psychological resources. It does not collect user data and is currently in the internal testing phase.
On September 10, a netizen in Beijing filmed a challenge to find 100 jobs without weekends. In the video, a low-level security guard revealed that he did not have a single day off last month, working 12 hours a day, approximately 84 hours per week, and had no social security contributions such as the five insurances and one fund.
On September 10, 2026, at the entrance of Feixiang District No. 2 Middle School in Handan City, Hebei Province, several students were seen holding small red flags and lining the road to welcome faculty and staff entering the school. The video sparked heated discussions online, with netizens joking that the style is similar to North Korea.
Recently, protesters holding banners appeared at the entrance of the Shenzhen International Exchange Academy, accusing the school of withholding various subsidies for a teacher who died of illness, totaling more than 400,000 yuan.
On September 10, a netizen posted that they had not subscribed to the campus network but were included in the school's list of people circumventing the Great Firewall. The counselor announced and reprimanded this in the class group, warning that having a record of circumventing the Great Firewall would affect one's entire life, and required the named person to explain the situation and fill out a form.
On September 11, 2026, the Weibo and Xiaohongshu platforms carried out a concentrated cleanup of discussions related to Sun Meihua's 26-year disappearance and her suspected trafficking to Cao County, Shandong. Searching for "Sun Meihua" on Weibo now yields no relevant results; the summary page only shows unrelated old news from 2025, and all main discussion posts have been set to private. Search results on Xiaohongshu also show unrelated content.
As discussions about implementing two-day weekends increase on the internet, the comment sections of many videos on the Douyin platform themed around second-generation factory owners inheriting family businesses have been targeted by a large number of netizens asking about basic labor rights such as social security, the eight-hour workday, and two-day weekends.
The Security Department of Nanjing Engineering Institute, during a freshman safety education course, categorized circumventing the Great Firewall as a matter of political security and stated that it is illegal in itself, requiring students not to use circumvention tools and to use official library channels for researching information.
On September 10, a netizen specifically asked an online store's customer service whether they implemented a two-day weekend. After learning it was a single-day off system, they explicitly stated they would no longer purchase products from stores that do not have two-day weekends. This statement sparked heated discussion and support among netizens, reflecting public dissatisfaction with long-term overtime and single-day off systems.
On September 10, five netizens pooled money to commission a local woman to go to the site where Wangwang was murdered in Jieyang, Guangdong, to place food, clear water, and Eustomma for worship, with the offerings placed at the corner of a weedy wall with a Wangwang pattern sticker.
In early September 2026, a netizen in Shandong reported that their mother suffered a sudden, critical acute myocardial infarction. While panicking, the father, who suffers from cerebral infarction, used an Honor phone to call the 120 emergency hotline. Due to accidentally triggering the system's default full-screen commercial ad 'Magic Pictorial' by swiping up on the lock screen, and because the close button was hidden and he could not quickly return to the dial pad, the golden window for medical rescue was delayed, and the mother unfortunately passed away. After the incident was exposed, it sparked strong condemnation across the internet regarding mobile phone advertisements blocking life-saving channels and flaws in age-friendly designs. [Follow-up · September 11, 2026] On the evening of September 11, the party involved in the Honor 'Magic Pictorial' incident posted a clarification and apology, stating that the father's failure to connect the emergency call during his cerebral infarction episode was a misunderstanding and had nothing to do with the Honor phone. Honor expressed condolences for the death of the party's mother, but accused the false post of causing brand damage, stating that "out of humanitarian care, no further action will be pursued," which triggered netizens' doubts about the embedding of 'Magic Pictorial' and the official attitude. [Follow-up · September 12, 2026] On September 12, the Weibo account of the involved party, Mr. Zhang, showed that it had been deactivated, all content on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) was cleared, and only the report by Jiemian News was retained.
On September 10, the WeChat official account 'Shuangxiugou' released an announcement confirming that its mini-program was removed from the platform due to 'relevant laws, regulations, and policies,' sparking concern over the protection of rights and interests regarding two-day weekends.
On September 11, 2026, the US AI giant Anthropic released a long-form investigative report detailing how Chinese AI companies such as Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, while distilling own models from US models like Claude, allegedly sent real internal prompts and sensitive data of users from the People's Liberation Army, police, and state-owned enterprises to US AI platforms, sparking strong concern over model distillation security and data leakage.
On September 10, it was revealed that the Cybersecurity and Informatization Office of a university in Gansu monitored students' VPN use via the campus network, not only listing the names of students who bypassed the firewall, but also precisely recording the duration of their access to foreign social media.
Cameras were installed in the men's restroom of an office building in the Sany Heavy Truck Park in Changsha, Hunan, and the matter was exposed by netizens' submissions.
On September 9th, multiple students at Xinhua Primary School in Hechuan District, Chongqing, experienced nosebleeds. Parents suspect formaldehyde exceeding standards, while the school claims compliance and some parents were asked to delete posts.
After a netizen posted content supporting two-day weekends on Xiaohongshu, it received a large number of likes before being taken down by the platform for violating rules.
At the 25th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the 9/11 attacks held in New York, victims' families took turns reading the names of nearly 3,000 victims and observed moments of silence at key times. This year's ceremony marked the first time a seventh moment of silence was added to commemorate those who have died from 9/11-related illnesses over the years. Many American political leaders and people from all walks of life attended the memorial event.