Nvidia founder Jensen Huang brought well-known US podcast host Lex Fridman to Taiwan, visiting the computer expo and night markets in the north, and introducing Taiwan to an American audience.
An earthquake struck Nagqu in Tibet. Xi Jinping gave important instructions, and the official press release unusually listed Li Qiang alongside him, sparking speculation about the power arrangement.
A Chinese national with the online handle Xinma Chenjie, a Little Pink, filmed a video in Taiwan claiming Taiwan belongs to the People's Republic of China, prompting a blogger and netizens to call for reporting her to the National Immigration Agency in accordance with the law and demanding her deportation.
A man who identifies himself as being of the People's Republic of China livestreamed singing the Chinese Communist Party's national anthem at Tainan Station, and was countered on the spot by a Taiwanese high school student who shouted "Long live the Republic of China, long live Taiwan."
On the eve of Chiang Wan-an's campaign headquarters launch, entertainer Kevin Tsai posted a statement on Weibo bidding farewell to part of his market, saying he had never supported Taiwan independence, drawing attention from public opinion on both sides of the strait.
Li Hufu, a farmer in Qingdao, Shandong, posted a video stating that a tricycle load of over 300 catties of green onions sold for less than 40 yuan, averaging out to 12 fen per catty, which has sparked widespread concern over the difficult living conditions of elderly people in rural areas.
A family of four that moved from Taiwan to Baotou, Inner Mongolia, two years ago has posted appeals for help on Douyin and Xiaohongshu after the grandfather in the family fell ill with multiple diseases, leading to a massive financial burden and failing to receive assistance from the local Taiwan Affairs Office.
Tmall's Double 11 sales began on October 20, significantly earlier than in previous years, in an attempt to boost sales by extending the campaign period. However, platforms have changed their statistical methods to mask the downward trend in daily GMV.
On the eve of National Day, TF Family trainee Yang Bowen posted a video of cycling to Tiananmen to see the red flag, and the video was subsequently deleted.
During the National Day holiday, the Houthis extended greetings to the Chinese Communist Party, and the related news sparked discussion among netizens.
A 35-year-old job seeker stated that last month, while working a part-time job sorting fresh food, they worked for 6.5 hours, picked 150 orders totaling 250 items, earned about 100 yuan, and were treated with impatience by colleagues multiple times.
According to a Financial Times report on October 1, as of June 2026, Japanese companies operating in mainland China fell to 10118, a net decrease of 2916 companies or 22.4% compared with 2024, and a drop of nearly 30% from the 2012 peak.
On October 1, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that over recent weeks the U.S. Department of Commerce has slowed approvals of export licenses for aviation parts to China, restricting the number of parts that COMAC is allowed to import in order to prevent stockpiling, hoping to trade this for concessions on rare earths and other issues.
On October 1, the G20 trade ministers' meeting was held in Milwaukee, the United States, where they agreed to condemn the use of food trade as a tool of coercion, but failed to reach a consensus on condemning forced labor in supply chains and addressing structural industrial overcapacity. U.S. Trade Representative Greer did not name the opposing countries, while China denied overcapacity and accused the West of protectionism.
According to a Bloomberg report on October 1, Xinxin Financing Lease, led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and with shareholding by local state-owned assets, provided financing over the past year for Hongjing Technology to purchase more than 700 servers, totaling over 3 billion yuan, of which at least one deal involved 32 servers equipped with NVIDIA B300 Blackwell chips subject to U.S. export controls, most of them deployed at China Mobile's Ningxia Zhongwei data center. Xinxin subsequently revised its filing documents to delete server model information.
The National Defense Mobilization Law of the People's Republic of China officially took effect on October 1, stipulating that male citizens aged 18 to 60 and female citizens aged 18 to 55 shall legally undertake national defense service duties, including supporting and safeguarding military operations, preventing and relieving the disasters of war, and assisting in maintaining social order.
After the controversy over Kevin Tsai appearing at a Taiwan independence activist's campaign rally escalated, brands such as Leapmotor severed ties overnight and deleted all of their materials. His Weibo account with more than 30 million followers was emptied overnight, the platform imposed a full traffic throttle, and his commercial partnerships on the mainland were wiped out overnight.
Officials announced that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee will run from October 26 to 29, breaking with the usual convention that the fifth plenum focuses on the economy, with the theme being comprehensive and strict Party self-governance.
On October 1, 2026, as the rights-defense video of "CC Who Takes Phones" trended across the entire internet, a number of authoritative mainstream media outlets, including Sina Technology, Tencent News, My Drivers (Quick Technology), and China Youth Daily, followed up with in-depth reports and special investigations. Legal scholars and senior criminal lawyers, in interviews with the media, made clear that using generative AI technology (DeepFake) to synthesize fake, indecent photos and videos of others is by no means an ordinary civil infringement of portrait rights or reputation, but a serious illegal and criminal act that crosses the bottom line of the law: a person who uses AI to generate obscene image collections and sells them across platforms for profit is already suspected of constituting the crimes of "insult," "defamation," and "profiting from disseminating obscene materials" under criminal law; combined with malicious doxxing (human flesh search box-opening) behavior, this further raises suspicion of the crime of "infringing on citizens' personal information." The legal community is calling on judicial authorities to step up the crackdown and sever the black-and-gray industrial chain that uses open-source technology to fabricate pornographic rumors for profit.
The Chinese government has issued the "National Tax Administrative Penalty Discretionary Benchmarks (2026 Edition)," which for the first time incorporates social security contributions into the unified national tax administrative penalty discretionary system, effective November 1. Netizens are concerned that rising labor costs for enterprises may lead to the shifting of social security costs onto employees, resulting in wage cuts and exacerbating deflation and employment difficulties.
China's births in 2025 totaled only 7.92 million, a decrease of 1.62 million from 9.54 million in 2024, hitting the lowest level in decades.
On October 1, Hu Xijin published a National Day article praising China's achievements. Netizens found an AI prompt left at the end of the text: "Need me to read through the whole piece again and double-check for zero omissions." Hu Xijin then edited the original post and deleted comments in the comment section.
Around 2 a.m. on October 1, on the Huaihua section of the Shanghai–Kunming Expressway in Hunan, a heavy semi-trailer tractor collided in succession with three cars, triggering a fire that killed 6 people and injured 4. The 57-year-old driver, surnamed Ren, was taken into police custody on suspicion of fatigued driving. The accident investigation and follow-up handling are ongoing.
On October 1, multiple owners of the C&D Ruiyun development in Fuzhou, Fujian, gathered in front of the sales office and along the street over suspected false advertising and products not matching the description, holding banners and shouting "C&D fraud, C&D refund our homes." Relevant personnel at the scene held up umbrellas to block the view and snatched the banners.
On October 1, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Greg Lui, owner of a San Gabriel Valley tech company, accusing him of illegally transshipping more than $300 million worth of export-controlled high-end GPU servers to China via Malaysia and Singapore between 2023 and 2024, and of falsifying documents. He faces three charges — violating export controls, smuggling, and conspiracy to commit money laundering — carrying a maximum sentence of 50 years.
October 1, the first day of the National Day holiday: large numbers of netizens who had not been given time off filed real-name reports against companies or bosses for not granting National Day leave — wearing black plastic bags over their heads and holding up the backs of their ID cards — hoping the relevant authorities would investigate.
On October 1, in the women's judo 70 kg quarterfinals at the Aichi Nagoya Asian Games, Chinese athlete Tang Jing bit the arm of Japanese athlete Rin Maeda during ground grappling. After the referees confirmed it on video replay, she was ruled to have lost by foul and was disqualified.
On October 1, Reuters cited four sources reporting that Chinese oil refiners have suspended refined oil exports to regions outside Hong Kong and Macau in October to prioritize domestic inventory. PetroChina has canceled some October export shipments, and Zhejiang Petrochemical has not scheduled any refined oil exports during the week of the National Day holiday, with uncertainty remaining over whether they will resume after the holiday.
EU Trade Commissioner Šefčovič warned during the G20 trade ministers' meeting that Chinese exports are threatening key European industries such as automobiles and steel, and that overcapacity combined with global market turmoil could endanger entire sectors within weeks or months.
On October 1, John Moolenaar, chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, issued a statement criticizing Starbucks' decision to open a store in Urumqi as morally bankrupt, demanding that it close the store immediately and saying that every cup of coffee sold links the brand to the CCP's persecution of the Uyghurs.
On October 1, according to a Yonhap News Agency report, the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court issued detention warrants for 4 Chinese nationals suspected of vandalizing a Chinese restaurant named "Xi Jinping." South Korean police may proceed with applying for an Interpol red notice and seeking criminal judicial assistance from China; if the 4 re-enter the country, they can be detained immediately.
On October 1, Reuters relayed a Financial Times report that Tencent signed a five-year lease with US cloud service provider Oracle, using approximately 100,000 advanced AI chips — which cannot be obtained domestically in China — through several of its data centers in Southeast Asia. The contract is worth about $7 billion, with an advance payment of roughly 30%, making it Tencent's largest overseas leasing agreement to date.
On October 1, while discussing his relationship with Xi Jinping at the Valdai Forum, Putin stated that although they do not share a common language, they once communicated alone without an interpreter while waiting to meet with Modi in India, and could understand each other after saying just a single word.
A report on October 2 by the Philippine Chinese Commercial News said that the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Chinese Education Center decided to withdraw Chinese volunteer and dispatched teachers teaching in Chinese schools in the Philippines, returning home in batches starting October 1, totaling about 150 people, with the reason attributed to safety concerns among the teachers' families.
On October 1, members of the Tibetan Youth Congress protested in front of the Chinese Embassy in India, chanting "Free Tibet" and demanding the repeal of the "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" implemented this July, the closure of boarding schools, and the release of Tibetan political prisoners. They were blocked by Indian police and briefly detained.
On October 1, the International Service for Human Rights announced that during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Hong Kong activists Carmen Lau and Anna Kwok spoke to the Human Rights Council about the transnational repression they experienced and retaliatory actions in which their family members were implicated.
On October 1, a Taiwanese coast guard vessel drove off a Chinese fishing boat with a water cannon. Videos of the incident subsequently circulated on Chinese social media platforms, prompting netizens to question why the China Coast Guard had not responded.
On October 1, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council stated that multiple incidents of impersonating Guan Jianzhong, the Taiwan distributor of the documentary "Immortal," to send threatening messages externally have systematic characteristics, and the cases are temporarily classified as transnational repression; judicial authorities are still investigating the identities of those behind the scenes.
On October 1, China's "Jinsha" refused to weigh anchor in the Pratas waters despite three broadcasts by Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration vessel Yunlin, and had its bridge sprayed with a water cannon for 90 seconds; it lost power while weighing anchor and departing, the Coast Guard provided hot food and assisted with towing, and the next day it was towed back by a Chinese work vessel. All personnel on board were safe.
Starting October 1, multiple media outlets including Sina Technology, Tencent News, Gamersky, and Kuai Technology reported that “CC Who Collects Phones” was smeared with a pornographic rumor and called the police. The reports said her video “Smeared With a Pornographic Rumor for 2 Months, I Called the Police” surpassed 3.21 million views and received 14,000 comments. According to the video she posted, the company’s legal department has assisted in collecting evidence.
The Kuomintang camp dug up an early article by Shen Boyang discussing harm-reduction policies abroad and launched an attack under the label of “community drug supply.” Chiang Wan-an repeatedly questioned him in public, his Facebook post drew more than 400,000 comments, blue-camp legislators fired a collective volley, and propaganda vehicles were sent out onto the streets.
An article written 12 years ago by DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang has been unearthed, in which he advocated for providing drugs and clean needles to drug users. He responded that the core of the article was drug addiction treatment, noting that methadone replacement therapy is already an existing service in Taipei, and told his critics to read more literature, leading to accusations of inconsistency.
After the National Day holiday, many netizens reported on social media that their companies had closed down or their bosses had fled. Some factories were emptied out during the holiday, leaving workers with months of unpaid wages and nowhere to seek payment. Netizens claim that the National Day holiday is a peak period for bosses to flee, as doing so allows them to avoid settling wage payments.
Netizens found that large numbers of different accounts on Xiaohongshu were posting notes with nearly identical copy and photos, packaging the same photo as different users' real experiences to gain traffic, sparking doubts about online public opinion being artificially manipulated.
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said it will use big data to identify people who have not paid social insurance, prompting netizen concerns that social insurance payments may become compulsory.
According to a report by Sound of Hope, the Stelato brake scandal at Huawei continues to escalate. People's Daily, Zhejiang Propaganda, Hu Xijin and other official media and state media commentators have successively published articles questioning Huawei, criticizing "quick-built cars" and correcting new quality productive forces. The Party media's rare collective criticism of Huawei has sparked outside speculation about Ren Zhengfei's situation.
According to a Sound of Hope report, Inner Mongolia's Hulunbuir, Hunan and Guangdong successively issued plague prevention information, and the public rushed to buy medication; a Russian tour guide with Sound of Hope said that quotes for some return flights reached 20,000 yuan; officials again emphasized "preventable and controllable," leaving the public even more uneasy.
China and the EU recently reached an arrangement on import quotas for Chinese hybrid vehicles, against the backdrop of EU concerns over the impact of low-priced Chinese goods on domestic industries.
The owner of the "Hu Ermei Copper-Pot Potato" stall jumped into a river and took her own life after a customer posted a negative review, sparking widespread attention and controversy over cyberbullying.
Following a small aircraft collision at the CITIC Tower in Beijing this June that resulted in casualties, Beijing announced a citywide ban on the flight and sale of drones effective November 15.