Chronicle TIMELINE
A chronological, causal record of the resistance, major political crises, and contemporary truth.
10.22
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·Importance III
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·United Kingdom
On October 22, the UK government released its 'Six-Monthly Report on Hong Kong', noting that the Hong Kong national security reporting hotline has received over 1.2 million reports since its establishment in 2020, that police have issued arrest warrants for 34 overseas individuals on national security charges, and reiterating that China continues to fail to fulfill its obligations under the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Dandong
According to data submitted by the South Korean Ministry of Unification to the National Assembly, the New Yalu River Bridge opened to traffic on October 15. Satellite images from October 22 identified about 280 trucks waiting for inspection at the North Korean customs facility, with an additional 6 container trucks entering North Korea from the Chinese side.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Taiwan
On October 22, Storm Media released the latest polling data for the Taipei mayoral election. DPP candidate Pao-yang Shen received 42.8% support, while incumbent Mayor Chiang Wan-an stood at 39.0%, a gap of 3.8 percentage points. There are 35 days left until the November 28 nine-in-one local elections.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On October 22, the Central University of Finance and Economics announced the winning bid for teaching equipment procurement, totaling 2.99 million yuan. The tender documents require AI classroom analysis functions to automatically count the number of students looking up, looking down, playing with mobile phones, or sleeping on their desks, and to generate classroom engagement analysis reports. The equipment includes 48-megapixel AI cameras and microphone arrays.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Jiangmen
A netizen submission claims that China Telecom's Pengjiang District branch in Jiangmen City almost every weekend runs promotional activities, with leaders forcing employees to go out and set up stalls, and that there will be no days off for the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
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·China
A blogger posted a video of interviews at a night market. The stall owners’ fields of study included environmental monitoring, auto repair, finance, preschool education, and garment patternmaking. Netizens commented that the promise of education changing one’s fate had fallen flat.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Wuhan
According to a netizen submission, Wuhan Shengjing Chain Commerce Co., Ltd. forcibly transferred employees to farther stores and cut their base salaries without consulting them, in order to pressure employees into resigning on their own.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
A Bilibili user asked about social insurance and housing fund contributions, wages, and leave in a comment under a promotional video by "Tea Factory Eldest Princess" in June this year. The user then released a video raising doubts based on the company's publicly available insurance enrollment data, but it was taken down following an infringement complaint. Several follow-up posts were locked, and the other party filed a complaint demanding that the platform take strict action, restrict uploads, or ban the account.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Chuxiong
A netizen submitted to [Niuma.ICU] claiming that the Chuxiong Power Supply Bureau of Yunnan Power Grid frequently forces overtime with no overtime pay; public holidays that are not taken automatically expire; wages of grassroots and outsourced employees have barely risen in over a decade and are often deducted; and there is a stark polarization in treatment between those with connections and everyone else.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
Recently, a Douyin blogger released an AI short film "The Human Examination Hall," depicting scenes such as students being forced to do problems while on an IV drip with a high fever, and the whole class being punished because one person failed, claiming that high-pressure education is "the slaughterhouse of the human world," with bullet-screen comments saying "it's so like it."
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Anhui
Anhui official media publicized a new policy on urban-rural resident pension insurance: after parents pay their own premiums for the current year, their children may make additional contributions on their behalf, with a maximum limit of 9,000 yuan per person per year, sparking complaints from netizens.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Liaoning
On October 22, the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee announced that Li Zhong, former vice minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, had been appointed member of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and head of its Organization Department. Li Zhong had previously called for "coverage of all who should be covered" in social security.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Sichuan
On October 22, an AITO owner in Sichuan posted a video on Douyin saying that in May this year his vehicle caught fire while driving without any collision, with flames shooting out from the passenger-side center console. The inspection report attributed the fire to "an aromatherapy bottle refracting sunlight." The owner asked in helplessness, and netizens sarcastically commented in the danmaku: "malicious fire."
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Zhengzhou
On October 22, despite cooling temperatures and rainy weather, Zhengzhou Industrial Safety Vocational College in Zhengzhou, Henan, still organized a large gathering of students on the sports field to listen to leaders' speeches. Many students got soaked and caught colds with fevers, while the leaders stood right on the stage. Some students said that last year they were also required to hand in their phones and delete related content.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Zhengzhou
On October 22, the netizen who posted the exposure video stated in the comments section that they had been asked to delete the video, adding "I'm going to disappear, brothers."
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Fengjie County, Chongqing
On October 22, Fengjie Primary School in Fengjie County, Chongqing, issued an autumn break notice stating that, in accordance with a meeting of the county education commission, teachers are not to take time off during the autumn break and must carry out teaching training and in-school club activities, with the county education commission supervising the implementation.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenyang
On October 22, a senior student at Shenyang No. 11 High School in Liaoning Province received a disciplinary demerit from the Moral Education Office for singing at school, and was publicly posted and announced to the entire school.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenzhen
A netizen posted real photos of Shenzhen on Douyin; three hours later, sharing was restricted and the post was taken down, with a notice saying it was under review, and the account was immediately permanently banned, suspected to be triggered by the words "Xijiu" and "1988" in the photo.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Wuhan
On October 22, Wuhan Meijia Foreign Language School held a campus event. Most students wore blank expressions while clapping, and teachers kept urging them to “smile.” After the video surfaced, netizens hotly debated the students' repressed and haggard mental state.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenzhen
On October 22, a netizen in Guangdong posted that during Shenzhen's "green travel" voluntary no-drive declaration period, some grassroots departments and enterprises had turned the voluntary program into quota targets, with managers requiring employees to scan a QR code to declare and submit screenshots, and those failing to meet the targets would be held accountable, sparking dissatisfaction among netizens.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Anhui
On October 22, a worker at a food processing factory whose IP location showed Anhui posted a video. The footage showed workers portioning yellow peach pulp into plastic cups with their bare hands, preparing to make yellow peach jelly. The video received 621,000 reposts and 12,000 comments within 5 hours.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Chengdu
On October 22, a dormitory inspection was carried out at the Xinjin campus of Chengdu New Oriental Senior Technical School in Sichuan. An auxiliary police officer entered the dormitory to check students' belongings, take photos, and verify ID cards. A school official, "Principal Xue," said the operation was aimed at screening out "lawbreakers." After footage of the inspection was exposed, it was questioned by a number of netizens.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Baoding
On October 22, Tai'an Electric Power Installation Co., Ltd. in Baoding, Hebei was accused of owing wages to multiple workers totaling 280,000 yuan, with arrears spanning five or six years; the workers unfurled banners in front of the company to defend their rights.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Rong County
On October 22, several workers in Rong County, Sichuan, took to the streets holding signs reading “Where is justice? Give us back our hard-earned money” to defend their rights, accusing Rong County Xinding Ceramics Co., Ltd. of withholding payments. They said three bosses had long refused to answer calls or reply on WeChat, and pleaded with the relevant authorities to intervene.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenmu
On October 22, according to Jiupai News, regarding the dispute over vehicle speed in the AITO (Wenjie) crash and fire incident in Shenmu, Shaanxi, AITO customer service responded that 139.1 km/h was verified based on backend data and that they are cooperating with relevant authorities in the investigation.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenmu
On October 22, Shenmu traffic management personnel told The Beijing News that the struck traffic light pole did not break; the wiring inside the pole was burned and short-circuited, the pole body changed color from burning and is being repainted, and the accident investigation is still ongoing.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On October 22, a netizen posted that their house was washed away in a flood, and that their homestead had been reallocated in the post-disaster reconstruction plan and designated as a public parking lot, making it impossible to rebuild on the original site. The comment section sparked heated discussion.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Henan
On October 22, a locale in Henan organized a vehicle convoy to go down to the countryside to promote and urge payment of medical insurance; the convoy played payment reminder audio through loudspeakers at village entrances and in the alleys.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On the evening of October 22, in the women's team final of the 2026 Table Tennis Asian Championships, the Chinese team dropped two straight matches after leading 2-1 and ultimately fell 2-3 to Japan to finish as runners-up, with Japan's Hashimoto Honoka defeating Chen Yi and Wang Yidi in succession to claim both of her points.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Jiangsu
On October 22, a netizen in Jiangsu posted that after making a shopping transfer, they were required by anti-fraud personnel to report to the Fangqian Police Station in the early morning. Shortly after leaving, they discovered all their bank cards had been frozen for 15 days. A text message stated that a protective stop-payment had been applied due to a transfer to an account involved in fraud, and they needed to apply for removal at the public security organ.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Hangzhou
On October 22, Zhejiang Radio and Television reported that Wang Yiqing, a sophomore at Zhejiang University of Technology, taught himself to build an AI video platform, which now has 20,000 users and more than 600,000 yuan in membership top-ups over two months. Because model names such as Seedance, MiniMax, and Sora2 appeared in the demo menu, netizens questioned whether he was running a "relay station" that resells ready-made AI services, joking, "That's seriously criminal."
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
According to a report by the UK's Financial Times on October 22, the liquidators of China Evergrande sent a demand letter to Harvard University, asking for the return of $2 million from a 2020 research grant, and the two sides are in negotiations. The liquidation report disclosed that Evergrande also paid the university about $156 million in 2013 and 2016, and the liquidators said they found no clear commercial rationale for these payments.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On October 22, in the imaging-reading assessment of The Exciting Offer 8, medical student Li Ziqi answered with a blind guess of craniopharyngioma. Her clinical experience and the promotion of her record of ten SCI papers were called into question, and the topic trended online.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·陕西省汉中市宁强县
On October 22, a hornet attack occurred during a 're-walking the Long March' hiking event organized by Ningqiang Tianjin Senior High School in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, at the Hanyuan Forest Park. Dozens of teachers and students were sent to the hospital for treatment, with some reportedly admitted to the intensive care unit.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On October 22, a blogger posted a video on Douyin claiming that a 73-year-old stone carving worker earns 200 yuan a day, works amid clouds of dust without wearing a dust mask, with the caption “I don’t mind that he’s old, he doesn’t mind that I pay so little,” sparking heated discussion among netizens.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Zhongwei, Ningxia
On October 22, a netizen posted a video showing the 6th Primary School Young Teachers Chinese Teaching Demonstration and Observation Event held at the gymnasium in Zhongwei City, Ningxia. Primary school students sat neatly in the center of the venue for the observing teachers to watch. Comments in the bullet screen criticized the rampant formalism, with one teacher saying they had not held regular classes for nearly a month in order to put on a public lesson.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Yueyang
A subsidiary of the Yueyang Daily Media Group in Hunan entered bankruptcy liquidation in November 2025. It negotiated the termination of labor relations with three employees but has yet to pay a total of 50,000 yuan in owed wages and severance compensation. Before the 2026 Spring Festival, the company arranged funds to repay some external debts, but employees were repeatedly told by Yueyang Daily leadership that there were no funds available.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Wuxi, Jiangsu
On October 22, the Mechanical Retired Party Branch of Jiangnan University organized a party lecture on cybersecurity at the Jiangyin campus. Branch Secretary Huang Zhengming listed "unauthorized circumvention of the Great Firewall" alongside phishing emails, data leaks, and the spread of online rumors as warning cases. Xu Junping stated that cybersecurity education has been incorporated into the "Three Meetings and One Lesson" and themed party day activities.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Shanghai
A netizen living in Shanghai shared a bay-window bed in a partitioned rental room, with a monthly rent of 500 yuan and a 2-yuan fee per use of the bathroom; in the same room, the large bed rents for 2,300 yuan a month and the small bed for 300 yuan, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·China
On October 22, an AITO owner reported that when contacting the "AITO User Care Center" to handle an after-sales issue, the customer service agent stopped responding during the call, giving no reply despite repeated inquiries, prompting netizens to post screenshots in mockery and sarcasm.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·China
The screenshot shows that the comment section of Jiupai News's Weibo post about the Aito collision accident in Shenmu displays a notice that the blogger has enabled comment selection.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·China
On October 22, a netizen posted a call for the state to see the suffering of the people and abolish labor dispatch and labor outsourcing, calling it the enslavement of the poor. In the comments section, netizens sarcastically pointed out that state-owned enterprises and central enterprises are the biggest users of outsourcing.
10.22
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Chengdu
On October 22, rapper "Yongxuan Dadi MulaSakee" accused Ma Degao (online name "Chengdu Sexy Grandpa") of unlawful detention and extortion during a livestream and on online platforms; Ma Degao struck back in a post, saying he had been caring for him and helping him quit drugs over the past month, while also exposing Sakee's drug-related penalty record.
10.21
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·俄罗斯圣彼得堡
After Special Envoy Witkoff held separate meetings with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine agreed on October 21 to hold technical-level talks among Washington, Moscow and Kyiv.
10.21
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·New Taipei
Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a suspect who allegedly, at China's instigation, plotted to ram a vehicle into an entertainer, while Taiwan's foreign ministry and the Mainland Affairs Council issued statements condemning cross-border repression.
10.21
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Beijing
A meeting marking the 90th anniversary of the Long March was held. Footage broadcast by CCTV showed several senior military officers absent from the rostrum, sparking outside speculation about developments at the top of the military.
10.21
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
In the video, multiple netizens and audio recordings reflect the severe economic pressures they currently face, including middle-aged unemployment, heavy debts, mortgages they can no longer sustain, and factory closures.
10.21
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Washington, United States
President Trump, taking questions in the White House East Room, said that he had proposed to Putin the release of detained American citizen Hubbard, that Putin agreed to it, and that Hubbard was already on a flight back home.
10.21
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Russia
Russia released on October 21 Stephen Hubbard, a retired American teacher who had been detained for more than four years on charges of serving as a mercenary for the Ukrainian armed forces.
10.21
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·波斯湾
Over the past 24 hours, two oil tankers were successively struck by unidentified projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, sparking fires but causing no casualties.