Sayings SAYINGS

On October 25, a Zhejiang rapper, 'Yongxuan Dadi MulaSakee', demanded to check his girlfriend's phone, leading to a dispute. When police intervened, he shoved them, resulting in him being struck on the head with a police baton and requiring 13 stitches. He later livestreamed showing his blood-stained clothes, claiming he would hold the police accountable for violent law enforcement. The police have not yet issued a statement.

On October 23, netizens revealed that Changchun University of Humanities requires students to arrive in the classroom at 6:45 for morning self-study, with roll call, confiscation of phones, and a ban on bringing breakfast and water cups; non-participation will result in deducted credits, sparking complaints.

On October 23, netizens exposed that dormitories at a university in Lanzhou, Gansu were supplied with electricity in four time slots a day, with power cut off for a total of 16.25 hours, those who left evening self-study early were publicly named, and students who violated the rules were threatened with the cancellation of recommendations for Party and Communist Youth League membership and a reduction in their grants.

On October 24, parents at Shandong Experimental Middle School in Jinan, Shandong delivered food to students through an iron fence fitted with what appeared to be an electric fence. Students ate inside the fence while parents kept company outside, and the video sparked heated discussion among netizens.

On October 25, students at Zhengzhou No. 16 Senior High School in Henan posted a video reporting that a hair dryer caught fire in the dormitory during a forced stay on campus, that the fire extinguishers were damaged and unusable for self-rescue, and that the fire alarm's volume was too low to serve as a warning.

An in-depth Financial Times report on October 21 pointed out that China's population decline, deflation, weak consumption and slumping property and stock markets closely resemble the situation in Japan before its bubble burst, with new housing starts down 78% from their peak, risking a repeat of Japan's long-term stagnation.

A traffic accident victim in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang seeks help: the vehicle that caused the accident fled the scene, police did not retrieve surveillance footage, and the community refused to issue the certificate required for surgery.

Beijing's Jiujingzhuang serves as a concentration camp for detaining petitioners who travel to Beijing. After the July 1 new petitioning regulations, more petitioners voluntarily enter the camp to pressure local jurisdictions, while during sensitive periods they are forcibly detained.

On October 24, Nikkei Asia reported that, hit by competition from Chinese automakers, Volkswagen's century-old plant in Osnabrück, Germany, plans to stop producing cars in 2027 and switch to manufacturing air defense equipment in order to save about 1,200 jobs.

From September to October, the official websites of Xinjiang Agricultural Vocational and Technical University, Inner Mongolia University, Linzhou Construction Vocational and Technical College, the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Guangxi University, and other universities successively published anti-circumvention propaganda articles under the same title, claiming that circumventing the Great Firewall is not freedom but a high-risk illegal operation, and demanding that students obtain information only from official state media such as CCTV.