Sayings SAYINGS

On October 23, the Luoding Market Supervision Bureau in Guangdong issued a notice soliciting clues about mafia-style and evil forces, listing professional claimant activities such as knowingly buying fake goods and deliberately nitpicking as malicious claims, and referring those suspected of mafia-style or evil activities to the police.

On October 23, the Journal of the Central Party School published a paper by scholars from Renmin University of China, proposing a substantial increase in farmers' pensions to compensate for the historical debt owed to the farming population.

On October 24, a Jiangsu netizen exposed that local authorities issued fine-based assessment targets to each village in promoting flu vaccination, with deductions of several hundred yuan for insufficient mobilization, leaving grassroots workers disheartened.

On October 23, Li Qiang presided over a State Council executive meeting, calling for building a fertility-friendly society and stabilizing the size of the newborn population; births in 2025 were only 7.92 million, a low not seen in decades.

On October 22, a place in Henan organized a convoy to go to the countryside to promote and urge payment of medical insurance; the convoy played audio urging payment through loudspeakers at village entrances and in alleys.

On October 22, a netizen from Guangdong posted that Shenzhen's "green travel" voluntary vehicle-off declaration was turned into a quota task by grassroots departments and companies, with employees required to scan a QR code to file the declaration and submit screenshots, while netizens including pregnant women expressed dissatisfaction with the forced "voluntariness."

On October 16, the Hanshan, Anhui media account "Yujian Hanshan" posted a video introducing that children can subsidize their parents' payment of urban and rural resident endowment insurance, and netizens complained "Can't I just give it to my parents directly?"

On October 20, Renmin University of China economics professor Guan Quan posted a video discussing farmers' pensions, pointing out that urban workers' seniority can be counted as deemed contributions, while farmers who paid decades of grain levies are not counted; netizens commented, "It was all fed to the dogs."

Anhui official media promotes a policy encouraging children to help parents pay into the urban-rural resident pension insurance, up to 9,000 yuan per person per year; netizens complain they can't even pay their own social insurance.

On October 22, a meeting marking the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with about 3,000 people attending. Xi Jinping stressed the Party's absolute leadership over the military and strict governance of the Party, and said that it must be prepared to withstand the major test of stormy seas.