After the incident of a Huawei Zunjie brake pedal snapping spread, many netizens imitated Dongchedi's pedal test, violently stomping on the brake pedals of their own elderly tricycles; the pedals remained intact, and a large number of netizens used this to mock the quality of Zunjie vehicles.
During the National Day holiday, Chinese parents and students took to social media to complain that students had too much homework. Some students broke down frantically rushing to finish assignments in the early hours of the morning, questioning the point of having a holiday.
On October 8, a woman claiming to be from Yanta District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, who says she was illegally detained twice, climbed over the protective fence along the Yongding River channel in Beijing and attempted to jump into the river, saying "They just want me dead now." A person filming at the scene repeatedly tried to dissuade her.
On October 8, a Douyin user posted a video of stepping on a metal flush valve in a restroom with the caption "The toilet flush valves are all metal parts #brake pedal". Afterwards, the user's avatar and username were suspected of being wiped by the platform, and netizens joked in the comments, "Flushed the toilet and the avatar got flushed away."
On October 8, Shaanxi TV News cited a Xinhua News Agency report that Chinese scientists have successfully developed a nuclear optical clock, while commenters in the comment section complained about overtime work and low wages, saying they no longer buy into the grand narrative of technological achievements.
On October 8, a netizen interning at Haier in Beijing posted that they were dismissed by the company on the grounds of ensuring normal business operations during the Double 11 shopping festival after requesting a one-week remote internship because their father was undergoing chemotherapy. They said they had handled the entire team’s work alone before the National Day holiday and had completed all holiday tasks, and later said that HR had called their mother.
On October 8, before Dongchedi took down the video showing the fracture of the MAEXTRO V800's brake carbon plate, some netizens found that on the Douyin platform, Huawei's Pura X View wide straight-screen phone was unable to play the video, while phones from other brands played it normally.
On the 8th, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an proposed relocating Songshan Airport, saying the timing, conditions and uses are all different: Nvidia has settled in the Beitou Shilin Technology Park, the Airport MRT and the Wuyang Elevated Expressway cut the trip from Taipei to Taoyuan Airport to just 36 minutes, and Taoyuan Airport's Terminal 3 will open in 2027. Many candidates who had previously proposed relocation all lost their elections; he said he is the first incumbent mayor to raise the idea.
After a Dongchedi test video showed the MAEXTRO V800 suffering consecutive brake failures, some owners who had already taken delivery or were still awaiting delivery posted transfer notices on social media.
On October 8, lawyer Cai Yaqi posted that he will no longer accept submissions involving prisons, the judiciary, or administrative reconsideration.
On October 8, the Communist Youth League Central Committee posted a video on Douyin claiming that two netizens, while cycling past the Nujiang River Bridge Site Memorial Hall, had one person step on the other's shoulders to wipe dust off the red star on the door. The comment section was flooded with sarcastic remarks voicing demands such as two-day weekends, pay raises, and no overtime.
On October 8, Dongjing News, run by Guizhou Radio and Television, posted a video on Bilibili claiming that online reports of plague cases in Russia were false news, and that in fact an employee of a Russian plague research institute had been diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown cause. In the comment section, netizens flooded the thread with sarcasm at the official debunking routine.
On October 8, a netizen revealed that the ceilings and walls of wards in the inpatient building at the Xiashan Campus of Guangdong Medical University Affiliated Hospital in Guangdong were blackened over large areas and covered with mildew. The hospital confirmed the mold problem, saying it had transferred patients to normal wards.
The father of Lu Moumou once returned 25,000 yuan to the lover in hopes of obtaining forgiveness; after his son's conviction was overturned to not guilty, he sued to recover the money, but the court still rejected it.
On October 8, the Bazhong Business Environment and Data Bureau responded that the claim of "frequent wage delays" is untrue, and that the delay was actually caused by late settlement at China Telecom's Bazhong branch. August wages were paid in full by the end of September, and July wages are promised to be paid in mid-October.
On October 8, a netizen posted to expose an internal "improvement proposal" at a container factory in Guangdong. In response to employees using the restroom too often and slowing down production, the proposal suggested wearing adult diapers to boost output. The employee who posted said they must submit at least one proposal every month or be fined. In the comments, one person reported that after a coworker died of sudden death on the night shift, day-shift staff were required to fill out disclaimer forms, and the company made employees swear an oath that no safety accidents would occur.
On October 8, Chen I-hsin, chairman of the Kuomintang's Culture and Communications Committee, pointed out that Democratic Progressive Party Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen had in the past supported the legalization of marijuana, the decriminalization of drugs, and the abolition of the death penalty, but now says the opposite, criticizing him for dodging the issues through sophistry and lacking political integrity.
Alan Macfarlane, an 84-year-old emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the UK, shared life advice on Xiaohongshu, surpassing 2.5 million followers in 17 months and resonating widely with Chinese youth.
A leaked schedule for Grade 10 extended evening self-study duty shows that parents are required to enter the classroom from 19:40 to 21:00 to maintain order, must not use electronic devices, need to record students' arrivals and departures as well as rule violations, and the parents on duty must be the students' fathers or mothers.
On October 8, TVBS's polling center in Taiwan released a poll on the Taipei mayoral race, showing Chiang Wan-an with 49% support and DPP candidate Shen Po-yang with 41%, while 55% of residents expect Chiang Wan-an to win re-election.
On October 8, a fan-support account announced that the originally planned 20-city birthday coffee events had been cancelled for special reasons, reminding fans not to organize any form of offline activities on their own.
On October 8, several contractors at the Yuanda SOHO development in Changchun, Jilin Province, staged a banner protest at the entrance of the property's marketing center, demanding payment, as the developer, Changchun Yuanda Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., still owed construction funds two years after the handover of the units.
On October 8, a netizen uploaded a video recording the scene of junior high school students at Huoju No. 2 Middle School in Zhongshan, Guangdong, leaving school after evening self-study: the children, expressionless, lined up to have their faces scanned to exit the campus, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
On October 8, in Haikou, Hainan, a 9-year-old autistic boy was kicked out of an elevator by a strange man while returning home alone after buying a drink. The child did not tell his family afterward. The family learned about it from a neighbor, and when they confronted the man, he even pulled out a knife. Fearing retaliation, the family decided not to pursue the matter further and demanded that the man move out of the residential compound.
On October 8, Global Times posted a video on Bilibili reviewing the "China connections" of several Nobel laureates, placing "Nobel Prize call answered by a Chinese student" at the top of the title and saying that the student "personally sent the adviser's phone number to the Nobel Committee," drawing teasing in comments and bullet screens.
On October 8, Reuters visited Dandong and found that most shops in the Guomenwan Trade Zone near the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge were vacant. A manager stated that the opening of the bridge had little to do with the local area.
On October 8, a Xiaohongshu user who pays flexible-employment social insurance in Hefei posted that when paying October pension insurance through Alipay, a bill popped up showing a shortfall of 8.60 yuan per month starting from January; the interface offers no option to decline the back-payment, and without paying it, next month's contribution cannot be made.
On October 8, a food delivery blogger posted a video responding to netizens' question of "why not go learn a trade," listing skills such as hairdressing, cooking, carpentry, and AI programming, and saying that among the station's 100-plus riders, you could find someone to teach each of them. In the comments section, netizens holding a first-class constructor certificate and a bachelor's degree said they too were working as delivery riders or security guards.
On October 8, Securities Times published a commentary stressing that People's Daily's "Jinxuan" series of articles should guide expectations and build consensus, and that their greater value lies in "establishing confidence."
The CCP Central Committee will convene the Fifth Plenary Session in Beijing to deliberate on topics including full and rigorous Party self-governance and responding to the economic and external situations.
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio delivered a speech in Athens, Greece, reviewing the foundational role of ancient Greek civilization in the Western world, criticizing the West's guilt over its own achievements, and calling on U.S. and European allies to strengthen defense cooperation and rebuild supply chains to meet global challenges.
Scientists Henry Kagan and Xiahe Xiansan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on understanding mirror molecules, with a prize of 1.2 million dollars.
A detention hearing was held at the federal court in Los Angeles. The defense proposed a bail package involving property and electronic monitoring, while prosecutors alleged that her asset disclosures were false and that she posed a flight risk. In the end, the judge ruled that she will remain in custody.
Trade representatives from fifteen economies, including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea, have jointly signed an agreement promoted by the U.S. that calls for the elimination of structural overcapacity and non-market policies that lead to overproduction.
U.S. President Trump announced on October 7 that the Treasury Department has automatically established tax-free investment and savings Trump Accounts for approximately 70 million eligible American children.
The World Health Organization says it has been in touch with Russian authorities and is tracking developments following the death of a female staff member at a plague research center in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.
Memorial events were held locally in Israel, remembering those who died in the massacre and those who were injured by means of human figures and fountains dyed red.
A Financial Times report discloses that Beijing is conducting a large-scale investigation into the offshore investments, trusts, and undeclared income of wealthy Chinese, while financial institutions are re-examining the overseas investments of high-net-worth clients.
Russian officials said that 5000 tests had been carried out on the relevant laboratory and no dangerous pathogens were found, while the World Health Organization continues to press Russia for information.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced that Russian veteran security bureaucrat Patrushev will visit China from the 8th to the 13th, holding talks with Wang Yi and others, with topics including China-Russia relations and maritime cooperation.
A graduate student who earned a degree in software from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2012 and once wrote code at a big tech firm now makes a living selling balloons on the streets of Changsha, where he was reunited with a former big-tech colleague now working as a grilled squid vendor, reflecting the widespread unemployment predicament of highly educated talent in China today.
On October 7, a parent in Shandong posted a video claiming that when their two young children heard the national anthem being played at Tiananmen Square on TV, they immediately stood up, threw down their chopsticks and saluted the television.
On October 7, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted four Taiwanese private investigators under the Personal Data Protection Act, alleging that they were commissioned by Hong Kong individuals Ku Kak-yin and Lam Hing, received about NT$360,000, and conducted 24-hour surveillance of Democratic Progressive Party legislator Shen Po-yang between September and November 2024, filming him and his wife and daughter with hidden cameras and sending the footage to the commissioning parties via Telegram; prosecutors sought a sentence of 1 year and 6 months for the principal suspect and issued arrest warrants for the two Hong Kong commissioning parties, stating that the case involved cooperating with foreign hostile forces to infringe upon the rights of Taiwanese citizens.
On October 7, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office announced that a soldier surnamed Zhou of the Army's Dongyin Area Command, starting in November 2024, photographed national security secrets from an official computer and handed them to a man surnamed Chen dispatched by the security office of a public security bureau in a certain province of China, receiving cash, gold, remittances and virtual currencies totaling more than NT$790,000, and used his mother's and his Vietnamese fiancée's accounts to transfer funds layer by layer to conceal the source of the money. Zhou has been detained and held incommunicado; prosecutors have indicted him on charges of accepting bribes, leaking state secrets and money laundering, with a citizen judge participating in the trial.
On October 7, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on relations with China by 454 votes in favor, 86 against and 110 abstentions, calling for reciprocity in trade and investment, supporting proportionate EU measures if China does not open its domestic market, while also demanding continued human rights pressure on Beijing, the unconditional release of political prisoners, and expressing concern that the Law on Promoting National Unity and Progress could further institutionalize assimilation policies.
On October 7, Taiwan's New Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted 10 business operators, alleging that since 2017 they had used the names of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and others to purchase high-speed military-grade chips from Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, altered the outer packaging to launder the origin before illegally selling them to China and Hong Kong, and profited more than NT$300 million; prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of 10 years for the principal suspect.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has filed denaturalization lawsuits in multiple district courts against 40 individuals accused of serious crimes, including two Chinese-Americans from China.
According to Maoyan Professional Edition data, the box office for the 2026 National Day holiday (October 1 to 7) was about 1.1 billion yuan, lower than the 1.118 billion yuan in the same period of 2014, setting the lowest record since 2014 and only a quarter of the 4.466 billion yuan in 2019.
On October 7, according to CBS, Zhang Wanying, suspected of surveilling Lai Ching-te's son, offered three properties worth more than $1.2 million as collateral and agreed to electronic monitoring, but a judge at the federal court in Los Angeles ruled that she posed a flight risk, citing her possession of a Chinese passport she had not surrendered, her family's financial ties in China, and inconsistent statements about her assets, and ordered that she remain in custody. Prosecutors also disclosed that another person in the same case had already traveled to China on a one-way ticket.
On October 7, Rao Yi discussed Japanese scientists winning Nobel Prizes on the WeChat public account "Rao Yi on Science," criticizing academic misconduct in China, saying that many institutions engage in cover-ups and use public power to defend fraudsters, wasting state funds and betraying their responsibility to the people.