Recently a netizen posted a video of an Anti-Japanese War-themed live-action performance at a scenic spot in Henan: a bound woman shouted slogans such as “You can’t kill all the Chinese,” a person in a Japanese military uniform made whipping motions, and the bullet-comment section was filled with phrases like “Good hit” and “Beat her to death.”
A netizen's post claims that in Hangzhou's garment design industry it is common not to sign labor contracts with employees or pay the five social insurances and one housing fund, and that some company bosses have even threatened to blacklist former employees who raised objections within the industry.
On October 13, the Fengbang Sub-center of the Jiangqiao Town Community Health Service Center issued a notice acknowledging that the height of its service counter was inappropriate, causing inconvenience to the public, and offering its sincere apologies. It stated that renovation was launched on the evening of October 12 and would be completed within two days, along with a comprehensive inspection of all internal service facilities.
On October 13, a netizen from Zhejiang said on Xiaohongshu that she has no job and cannot afford the monthly flexible-employment medical insurance of about 500 yuan. Having stopped paying for over a year, she received an SMS urging her to complete basic medical insurance enrollment procedures, which she linked to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security’s “data finds people” enrollment campaign.
On October 13, Hengtong Industry and Trade Company in Hanjiang District, Putian, Fujian, owed wages, and dozens of its employees took turns showing up to demand payment. Some netizens in the comments section said that Putian is notorious for being hard to get money out of.
The Ministry of Finance's 2026 budget shows that central government debt interest expenditure is 873.99 billion yuan, accounting for about 19.2% of central-level expenditure.
On October 13, a reporter called the Hulunbuir Municipal Health Commission, and staff responded that there was no local plague outbreak. The plague prevention and control risk advisory issued earlier was merely routine public science education, and the related content has now been deleted to avoid public misunderstanding.
After Huang Qifan was reported, political and economic commentator Lu Shezhang claimed that his son held immense power and accumulated vast wealth in Chongqing's state-owned assets and financial sectors; former journalist Jiang Weiping wrote in an article for Radio Free Asia in 2016 that the intermediary for Chongqing Steel's iron ore imports was his son. Neither claim has public evidence or has been verified.
On October 13, the X account Wall Country Waha (@GFWfrog) posted that the South Park Chinese wiki is no longer accessible in mainland China, that it could still be opened normally three or four months ago, and that this is related to the show's mockery of the Chinese Communist Party; the post included a screenshot of a South Park episode page featuring an image of Xi Jinping.
On October 13, the X account GFWfrog (@GFWfrog) posted that the Chinese Wikipedia of The Simpsons (simpsons.fandom.com/zh) has been blocked in mainland China; the attached ITDOG speed-test screenshot showed timeouts at nodes in every province across the country.
On October 13, the X account Wall Country Waha (@GFWfrog) posted that the Family Guy wiki (familyguy.fandom.com) has been blocked in mainland China; the attached ITDOG speed-test screenshot showed that nodes in every province across the country timed out.
On October 13, at the gate of Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin, a car violently crashed into a facial-recognition turnstile, smashed it open and drove onto the campus. The identity and motive of the perpetrator are unknown.
On October 13, a Bilibili creator aggregated data on personnel from 214 government agencies and public institutions in a western county, finding 8,098 active employees and 3,609 retirees, totaling 11,707 people. 2025 fiscal documents show the county's general public budget revenue is approximately 129 million yuan, with expenditures of about 4.056 billion yuan, and subsidies from central, provincial, and municipal governments totaling about 3.545 billion yuan. The creator did not name the county to continue the series, but the document mentions the Mizhi County Public Security Bureau.
On October 13, an unemployed woman in Weihai, Shandong, publicly posted a video saying she has no source of income and can only survive by collecting scrap, that she is unable to afford social insurance fees, and calling on the social security bureau to help her find a job, promising to pay social insurance immediately once employed.
On October 13, a netizen in Hebei who claimed to work at a private enterprise with a meager income too low to afford social insurance posted a video wearing a red plastic bag, publicly calling on Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, accusing company bosses of having money but never paying social insurance for their employees, and urging leaders to investigate bosses who do not pay social insurance.
On October 13, a man blind in one eye posted a video saying that officials refused to recognize him as disabled on the grounds that his other eye works fine; he was directly rejected by employers when job hunting, and even a physical exam for running a three-wheeler to make a living was blocked. He lamented that he can neither be a disabled person nor a normal person.
On October 13, the Qingfu Town Government of Gao County told China Newsweek that police are investigating the case of female street vendor Ms. Hu, who took her own life after receiving a bad review. The Gao County Public Security Bureau said it responded at the first instance and is handling the matter jointly.
On October 13, Jingmen police responded that the gun involved was an air rifle and the case is still under investigation; earlier, a man had called the police to turn himself in, claiming he had mistaken the elderly person for prey and shot at them.
On October 13, a student at Wuhan City Vocational College posted a video claiming that the 'Budao Lepao' running check-in app required by the school is filled with pop-up ads for coupons and lucky draws, and that closing them often leads to the automatic download of unrelated applications, sparking resonance and complaints from many college students in the comments section.
According to a China News Service report on October 13, a coffee shop in Shanghai was visited by chengguan (urban management) officers who came to explain the law because its sign was written entirely in English.
On October 13, Tianjin Xiangyu Liren School organized students for an autumn outing to Fantawild. While the students were lining up, a teacher reprimanding the students forcefully pulled one of them, causing the student to fall to the ground. After the video was exposed, it sparked heated discussion among netizens.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' regular press conference on October 13, spokesperson Mao Ning, answering an AFP reporter's question about the downward revision of the mainland's growth forecast, suggested consulting the competent authorities, and said she is full of confidence in the economic outlook.
On October 13, a discussion appeared on Weibo suggesting lowering the minimum social insurance contribution base. Bloggers reported that flexible workers face heavy contribution burdens — in Shanghai, paying pension and medical insurance at the minimum base comes to 2,263.80 yuan per month in total. Netizens sarcastically commented on the income gap between those inside and outside the system.
According to a report by Polar Day Studio on October 13, a Chengdu branch of an overseas advertising company failed to hire anyone for a month because job seekers refused a one-day weekend. It then switched to a two-day weekend; the interviewed HR worker said that after the change, more than a dozen people came for interviews each month.
According to a report by Polar Day Studio, an HR staffer at an internet company in Hangzhou said that over 80% of candidates who received job offers in the e-commerce livestreaming department refused to join because of one-day weekends; the department subsequently added 1 to 3 rest days per month, switching to an arrangement similar to the big-and-small week system.
According to a report by Jizhou Studio, some young people who already have jobs call themselves "two-day weekend heroes," post their resumes on job platforms, and send rejection letters to companies that do not offer two-day weekends, saying they are looking for a company with a two-day weekend and that the other party did not make it into the shortlist.
Guanyuan Data's Guangzhou branch, dissatisfied with the labor arbitration ruling, has sued Li Yu, a dismissed employee with late-stage stomach cancer, bringing the case into first instance. A company staff member responded that the toll that prolonged litigation takes on a seriously ill employee "is not something the company needs to consider."
On October 13, Autohome confirmed with Maextro customer service that, in addition to the V800, the S800 Dazang Daguan edition can also receive a free upgrade of the brake pedal bracket. Owners need to proactively contact customer service or register at a user center; the plan is expected to be finalized by the end of October and rolled out starting in November. Previously, Maextro had responded that its braking system is developed and verified to standards higher than the national standard, to which netizens sarcastically replied, "If it's already above the testing standard, why replace it at all?"
On October 13, a netizen posted an inquiry about wage arrears at companies in Beijing's Haidian District. Commenters said some companies had withheld wages for as long as two years, while others were several months in arrears or had even imposed collective pay cuts.
On October 13, a netizen uploaded to Douyin a video of a person squatting beside a roadside trash can eating. The comments section posted a screenshot of an interview bearing the CCTV logo saying "Right now I am nothing but happiness, just happiness" along with memes, satirizing the contrast between official happiness propaganda and reality.
On October 13, a netizen in Xinjiang posted a video from a construction site wearing a hard hat, saying that because his boss owes him wages he has no ability to pay social insurance, that he is making a living hauling bricks, promising to pay the arrears as soon as he receives his wages, and calling on the relevant parties to stop pressing him.
On October 13, a netizen in Henan who claimed to have been unemployed for many years released an exaggeratedly styled cross-dressing video, publicly calling on Li Zhong, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, and jokingly requesting that he arrange a job "serving the people" so as to pay social insurance contributions, sparking heated discussion among netizens in the comments section.
On October 13, a netizen in Anhui posted a video mocking how relevant departments can use big data to precisely locate individuals who have not paid their social security, yet show low efficiency in cases of missing persons and telecom fraud. The netizen also mentioned being forced to receive three doses of vaccines under the pretext of health, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
On October 13, a Douyin blogger posted a video filmed inside a Huawei AITO, with the screen behind the steering wheel covered in horizontal stripes and apparently glitching, captioned "Will I get roasted?", while bullet comments joked, "Post random videos and they'll track down your workplace in no time."
On October 13, a parent posted a video on Douyin: a boy in a school uniform sits in the back seat of a car, dozing off with his eyes closed while holding chopsticks, his head drooping toward his lunchbox. The parent said the child is often so sleepy that he has to rush to school without eating breakfast. Commenters said that most high school students in China are not even let out of school by 9 p.m.
Yuan Jiajun, Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, led a Party and government delegation to hold symposiums in Nanning, Guangxi, and Guiyang, Guizhou, drawing outside attention to developments in local politics.
North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea at around 9:20 a.m. local time, flying more than 900 kilometers, and both Japan and South Korea expressed protest and concern.
Overseas, Breaking Point Weekly exclusively revealed the "Notice on Ensuring Security and Stability Maintenance During the Period of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee" issued by the Office of the CCP Central Committee Leading Group for Maintaining Political Security and Social Stability, listing 18 security and stability maintenance measures.
Xi Jinping published an article in Qiushi magazine, sharply criticizing opportunistic phenomena such as "jumping ship" within the Party, and demanding that observation and inaction during leadership transitions be prevented.
China's maritime authorities issued a navigation warning, conducting live-fire exercises in multiple sea areas and designating no-sail zones starting October 12, with the activities lasting until the 20th; Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said it has grasped the situation and is closely monitoring it.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics will be awarded to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford in recognition of their contributions to the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.
The Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Wang Shourui, former standing committee member of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, is suspected of serious disciplinary and legal violations. He voluntarily reported his problems to the organization and is undergoing review and investigation.
China's Foreign Ministry issued a statement imposing sanctions on Paraguay's Minister of Communications and Technology Villalba, who supports Taiwan's diplomatic relations, and Belize's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Fonseca.
The U.S. Under Secretary of State and Japan's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs held the second U.S.-Japan Free and Open Indo-Pacific Dialogue in Tokyo, coordinating on security and economic assistance.
Since October 12, the Chinese military has conducted live-fire shooting and military exercises in at least five sea areas, including the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.
Because the Luchin Expressway construction project included no drainage system, the road has been flooded for a long time; villagers' collective rights defense led to a clash when large numbers of police and riot personnel arrived on the scene.
A Chinese exchange student in Taiwan filmed President Lai Ching-te's speech at National Taiwan University at close range and posted a video on Douyin containing pro-unification and implied threatening content, sparking public attention and reports from citizens.
The Chinese Communist Party's People's Bank of China issued the document "Policy Stance on the RMB Exchange Rate," reiterating that China has neither the need nor the intention to gain a trade advantage through exchange rate depreciation, and will never engage in competitive devaluation.
The National Health and Health Conference was convened again after ten years, with all seven members of the Standing Committee of the 20th Party Congress in attendance, drawing outside attention to the movements of the Politburo Standing Committee.
A mainland male student named Wang, currently on an exchange program at National Taiwan University, sparked outrage among Taiwanese netizens after posting a photo on Douyin where he used forced perspective to make a pinching gesture at Lai Ching-te.