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On October 20, a man posted a video claiming his 31 million yuan deposit had been frozen by a bank for nearly three weeks, that he sold three luxury cars to keep his company running, and that the bank demanded he delete the video before returning his ID.

A student at a university in Hebei was denied leave by his counselor because of his niece's birth, only to be lectured with "Don't have such thoughts" and "Studies come first," and was mocked for "turning university into high school."

On October 22, all three major A-share indexes closed lower, with nearly 5,000 stocks across the market falling; the ChiNext Index has retraced 41.17% cumulatively since its June 25 high over about four months.

On October 22, Yicai reported that in the first three quarters of 2026, national urban and rural residential electricity consumption fell 0.3% year on year, the first negative growth in the same period in nearly a decade.

A parent in Inner Mongolia posted a video of a child fast asleep in a plastic bucket in a potato field, and netizens sarcastically commented, "Why doesn't he go watch the flag-raising?"

On Oct 23, the boss of Burì Shoe Industry Co., Ltd. in Jinjiang, Fujian, is suspected of fleeing over unpaid wages; a large number of workers gather to demand their pay, police arrive to maintain order, and many netizens say they have not been paid for months.

On October 23, due to the stock market's continuous decline, an investor bought a funeral wreath online, intending to place it around the neck of the bronze bull at the entrance of the Shanghai Stock Exchange; payment has not yet been made because security at the entrance was tightened.

On October 20, the Dominican Ministry of Labor released inspection results: of 101 Chinese-funded shops, 91 fired employees before they had worked three months to evade vacation and severance pay obligations, while another 24 were ordered to close over safety hazards.

On October 23, netizens photographed the traffic signal pole previously struck by a Huawei Aito M9, now surrounded by barriers, while the related comment section appeared to have been cleaned up, leaving only 5 sarcastic comments.

Economist Yao Yang says that about 100 million people in China actually pay income tax, that an annual income of 100,000 already places one in the top 10% of taxpayers by income, and that the net wealth of the bottom 10% is negative.