On November 6, plainclothes officers were on duty outside the former residence of Li Keqiang in Hefei. A long-term surveillance post was set up behind a shop opposite the residence. Anyone caught taking photos was forced to delete them, and some were even taken to the police station for questioning.
On November 6, during the voting for the grassroots People's Congress representative election in Beijing, multiple netizens reported that voters received cash subsidies and daily necessities at the neighborhood committee sites.
On November 6, the European Commission preliminarily determined that ByteDance's TikTok relies too heavily on metrics like watch time to recommend content, which may harm the mental health of minors. It has requested adjustments to the recommendation mechanism, noting that a final confirmation of violations could lead to fines of up to 6% of global annual turnover. TikTok has denied the allegations.
On November 6, Reuters published an interview with Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Po-yang. Shen stated that what truly frustrates China is democracy, and even if Chiang Wan-an is elected mayor of Taipei, it proves that Taiwan can freely elect its leaders without interference from China, and that every election is a slap in the face to China.
On the evening of November 6, Jiemian News reported that the Maextro V800 had announced a recall plan on October 13 due to brake pedal bracket issues, involving 3,217 vehicles. Subsequently, the report was taken down. Many media outlets questioned whether Maextro had spread rumors, and netizens are demanding the investigation results regarding the brake issues.
On November 6, a second-year middle school student at the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Experimental School was pushed by other students in the dormitory, causing the back of their head to strike the ground. The student was diagnosed with a closed, severe craniocerebral injury and brain death, and later died due to coagulation dysfunction.
On November 6, the draft amendment to the Law on the Administration of Tax Collection was opened for public comment: if an enterprise has a large amount of unpaid taxes and has not settled tax surcharges or provided guarantees, its principal person in charge and actual controller may be restricted from leaving the country; when investigating major tax violation cases, exit restrictions may be imposed on important involved personnel during the investigation stage with the approval of provincial tax authorities.
A netizen posted on Xiaohongshu (RedNote), sharing experiences of multiple buyers relying on cheap goods from Pinduoduo to survive poverty: parents buying yoga mats to accompany their hospitalized daughter, a disabled girl living on near-expiry food, etc. The comment section sparked widespread resonance among netizens.
On November 6, a car rammed into multiple spots at the Jiehu Park night market in Yinan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province. The driver fled the scene, leaving the area in chaos.
Recently, a netizen posted that a motorcycle taxi driver with a speech disability sought help, discovering that his account had been automatically deducted approximately 200 yuan per month by "Shuidi Insurance Brokerage" without his knowledge for about five years, totaling over 10,000 yuan.
China Film Digital Cinema Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. issued a notice announcing that the anti-epidemic film "White-Clad Renegades," originally scheduled for release on November 6, 2026, has been withdrawn. The specific release date will be announced later. The Douban page has been updated to "TBD 2027," and promotional work appears to have stalled.
Following updates to engineering education accreditation requirements, the school demanded a retrospective audit of course and assignment records from the past three years to demonstrate corporate cooperation. As many courses lacked such cooperation, school leadership ordered teachers to fabricate materials to meet the requirements. Teachers are now facing layers of assessment pressure and are overwhelmed by the burden of filling out paperwork for documentation.
Netizens reported that FAW-Volkswagen has cancelled policy bonuses for 2025 and beyond. These bonuses originally accounted for 30%–40% of the total annual salary package and were included by HR during recruitment. Engineers were informed after working for over 20 months that two years of bonuses would be cancelled, resulting in a loss of over 200,000 yuan. Related discussions have been throttled on Xiaohongshu (RedNote).
Daxiang News released a video claiming that Chinese tourists' enthusiasm for visiting Japan has hit a freezing point, citing data that 1,016 flights from the mainland to Japan were cancelled in October, a cancellation rate of 27.9%. Netizens in the comments section questioned whether this was caused by reduced routes, rising ticket prices, and tightened visa policies.
Netizens reported that the collectible "White Porcelain Vase" (baici jingping) in Tencent's game "Delta Force" was renamed to "Famous Kiln Porcelain," suspected to be an attempt to evade censorship due to the homophonic similarity between "baici jingping" and "baichi jinping" (idiot Jinping).
Recently, netizens in many places posted on social media platforms that they had received calls from 12340, the national social sentiment and public opinion survey hotline, where staff asked about their satisfaction with local public security and their daily living conditions.
Recently, Jiangyan No. 2 High School in Jiangsu adjusted its schedule to 7:20–21:20 and implemented a two-day weekend. However, students are still required to return to school for evening self-study at 18:00 on Sundays. The relevant adjustments were not posted in the school-home WeChat groups but were only communicated orally by teachers, with netizens claiming it was due to pressure from above.
A netizen submission states that Taiyuan University of Technology organized faculty and students to participate in the voting for NPC deputies.
Recently, an online store selling LGBTQ+ themed brooches, bracelets, and other accessories had its products repeatedly removed by the platform for being 'politically sensitive.' In a clearance notice, the owner stated that the repeated removals were too exhausting and that they were preparing to close the shop.
At the Bu Ming Bai Festival held in Tokyo, the Bu Ming Bai Podcast invited Professor Xu Chenggang to discuss the institutional logic behind China's economic growth and recession, as well as how ordinary people can cope, using his book 'The Institutional Genes' as a starting point.
On November 6, a netizen in Linquan County, Fuyang, Anhui, posted a video showing local staff using suona performances and a "pay for medical insurance and get free phone credit" promotional policy to attract people to enroll in medical insurance. Netizens joked that it was like "baiting a fishing spot."
On November 6, in a classroom at Anning Huaqing Middle School in Kunming, Yunnan, a biology teacher required the entire class to balance their open textbooks on their heads while taking a dictation test, claiming it was to prevent cheating. This has been criticized as suspected disguised corporal punishment.
On November 6, a netizen in Henan posted multiple videos alleging that China Chemical Engineering Third Construction Co., Ltd. is in arrears and refusing to pay workers' wages at the Baotou Xinte Silicon project in Inner Mongolia; the netizen discovered they had been blocked after sending messages demanding payment to the company's official account.
Petitioners line up to submit materials at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (commonly known as Jia-1). Staff told them not to record video, and when petitioners asked what was wrong with recording, a dispute broke out. [Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, a large number of petitioners were seen lining up at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls reception office in Beijing to register their complaints, and the scene was recorded and posted.
On November 6, Xi Jinping cast his vote for the 18th district people's congress representative election at the Huai Ren Tang polling station in Xicheng District, Beijing.
On November 6, a food delivery rider in Nanjing, Jiangsu, suspected of dying suddenly while sitting on his electric scooter at a traffic light. Passersby stepped forward to check on him and provide assistance, but rescue personnel arrived and were unable to resuscitate him. The body has been removed.
On November 6, a driver from Xi'an Xigao Bus Co., Ltd. posted a video stating that the company had not paid wages for half a year and had stopped paying medical insurance. He said he had no money for food and announced he would no longer drive, receiving support from many netizens.
On November 6, another employee of Xigao Bus posted that they discovered their medical insurance had been suspended while seeking medical treatment. The company had returned multiple employees to third-party labor agencies without prior notice, leaving the employee and their colleagues unable to work normally, and they are calling for relevant departments to intervene.
On November 6, a vlogger in Beijing was charged a default fee of 340 yuan by an inspection station while registering an electric motorcycle. After discovering that the normal cost is only a few dozen yuan, the vlogger returned to question the charge. Staff claimed 280 yuan was a "comprehensive service fee," but refunded the 280 yuan via WeChat on the spot after the vlogger threatened to call 12315 to report them.
On November 6, Beijing held elections for district and township-level People's Congress representatives. A voter posted a photo of their Haidian District ballot, showing they had written in the name of Taiwan's DPP legislator Shen Po-yang in the 'write-in' candidate section. Shen was previously included on the list of die-hard Taiwan independence separatists and was placed under investigation by the Chongqing Public Security Bureau in October 2025.
On November 6, parents of students at Chonghua Middle School in Nankai District, Tianjin, reported that the school required students who had not received the self-paid HPV vaccine to get vaccinated over the weekend, or otherwise provide a certificate from a Grade A tertiary hospital stating they are unsuitable for vaccination. After parents complained, they were told this was based on a joint notice from the Municipal Health Commission and the Municipal Education Commission.
Around November 6, the official media outlet "Changge Toutiao" released a video showing a patriotic program at a local school sports meet opening ceremony, where students held signs for various provinces and responded "Here!" when "Taiwan" was called out. Netizens in the comments section sarcastically remarked, "How is this not a way of winning?"
On November 6, a netizen in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, posted a video of the unfinished Dongfudian Xincun project, stating that the project was originally marketed as providing wedding homes for older youth, but it has remained unfinished for 16 years. Many buildings are still in a rough state with exposed brick walls and no doors or windows installed.
On November 6, the government of Youxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, released a report on the county and township-level People's Congress election work conference. It acknowledged issues such as voter registration omissions and insufficient analysis of electoral districts in some townships, requiring a re-examination of voter registration and the inclusion of those missed. It also demanded that candidates pass a 'political, quality, and structural' joint review and that election publicity strictly control public opinion.
On the morning of November 6, lawyer Fan Chen was attending a court hearing at the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court in Hebei Province when the presiding judge, surnamed Zhong, demanded he put away his water cup. Fan Chen questioned the legal basis for this demand and refused to hand over the cup. The presiding judge then called in bailiffs and announced an adjournment, with the date for the resumed hearing to be notified later.
On November 6, netizens filmed sanitation workers in Shenzhen, who were participating in city appearance maintenance for the APEC meeting, lacking proper rest and dining facilities. They were seen squatting on the roadside at noon eating cold meals and pickles they brought themselves, and sleeping in green belts at night. Netizens are calling for the improvement of rest stations and hot meal support.
On November 6, at the Baron Investment Conference, Musk recalled Tesla's efforts to build a wholly-owned factory in China, stating that Chinese officials shouted at him to his face, demanding that Tesla must form a joint venture with a Chinese company. Eventually, China amended its foreign equity ratio policy to allow for wholly-owned factories.
On November 6, the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences established the School of Obscure Studies in Beijing to research over a dozen ancient ethnic scripts, including Old Turkic, Tangut, Khitan, and Jurchen, as well as oracle bone inscriptions and bamboo/silk manuscripts. The university stated that this would provide academic support for the long-term stability of border regions, and Vice Dean Zhao Rui described it as a concrete measure to implement the discourse of Xi Jinping.
On November 6, the National Alliance for Obscure Studies was launched simultaneously, with over 80 institutions already joined. The conference specifically established a Frontier Governance Forum, and Zheng Dui, Director-General of the China Tibetology Research Center, stated that they would participate in the alliance's work based on the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era.
On November 6, petitioners in Beijing queued at the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing, to submit their case filing materials.
On November 6, Canadian MP Jenny Kwan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Carney and the Foreign Minister, urging them to raise the Joshua Wong case with the Chinese side during He Lifeng's visit to Canada from November 8 to 9, and to consider sanctioning officials who violate human rights in Hong Kong.
On November 6, the Haidian District of Beijing held elections for district-level People's Congress representatives. In the Beijing Language and Culture University constituency, 11,723 out of 11,745 registered voters cast their ballots, a turnout rate of 99.8%; in the four constituencies of Tsinghua Garden Subdistrict, 45,415 people voted, with an average turnout rate of 99.02%, electing 8 district People's Congress representatives.
On November 6, the Jinghong Special Education School in Yunnan Province issued a tender for a campus security system. The requirements include analyzing student emotions, plotting emotion curves, providing automatic alerts for sudden emotional changes, recording student movement trajectories, and supporting facial recognition search. The budget is approximately 590,000 yuan, with the bid opening scheduled for November 27.
On November 6, multiple villagers in Xiangling Village, Lianjiang City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, gathered to defend their rights and block mining operations, alleging that Leixing Stone Industry Co., Ltd. was involved in illegal cross-border mountain excavation.
On November 6, a netizen in Shanghai posted a video stating that 'advertising mirrors' equipped with ad screens were installed in front of the sinks in a public restroom at a shopping mall. The mirror suddenly plays commercial advertisements while someone is looking into it, sparking mockery and concerns among netizens regarding privacy and surveillance.
A Reuters exclusive report states that about 600,000 NVIDIA H200 AI chips are stored in Hong Kong waiting to be shipped into mainland China, with prices surging due to Beijing's delayed approval for large-scale imports.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate has formally initiated a public prosecution against Ma Xingrui for suspected duty-related crimes.
Affected by the midterm election results, the 10-year US Treasury yield has fallen to around 4.9%.
The US Dollar Index fell to 101.39, a one-month low.
Spot gold price rises back to $4,047/oz.