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A netizen posted a note supporting two-day weekends on Xiaohongshu, which was subsequently taken down by the platform on the grounds of violating platform rules.

On September 10, a Beijing netizen posted a video challenging to find 100 jobs without two-day weekends, exposing the current situation of low-level security guards with no days off per month, 12-hour workdays, and no social security.

On September 10, the Wuhan Jiangxia District Education Bureau responded to the student milk controversy, stating that students who did not order milk were simply "just happened tobe standing while getting water cups from the back storage cabinets, denying any differential treatment, which sparked irony from netizens.

On September 10, the Second Middle School of Feixiang District, Handan, Hebei, had students hold small red flags and line up on both sides of the school gate to welcome faculty and staff into the school, leading netizens to satirize it as being like North Korean style.

Shenzhen International Exchange Academy is accused of withholding subsidy payments for a teacher who died of illness, and rights defenders held banners in protest.

On September 10, a netizen revealed that they had not activated campus network access but were reported by the school for reported for scaling the Great Firewall, and the counselor scolded them in the group chat and warned that it would leave a criminal record and affect their entire life.

On September 11, Weibo and Xiaohongshu platforms conducted large-scale deletion of posts and search blocking of search discussions related to Sun Meihua, a woman who had been missing for 26 years while searching for her relatives, and the related main posts were all set to private.

As discussions about two-day weekends heat up on the internet, the comment sections of numerous videos on Douyin themed around second-generation factory owners inheriting family businesses have been flooded with netizens questioning labor rights issues such as the five social insurance and housing fund and two-day weekends.

On September 10, Nanjing Institute of Technology included "scaling the wall" in political security during a freshman safety education class, explicitly stating in the courseware that scaling the wall itself is illegal, and requiring students to use official channels of the school library to consult materials.

On September 10, a netizen posted chat records showing that they asked a store whether it had two days off per week before shopping, and after learning it only had one day off, they stated, "I will not buy from stores that do not have two days off in the future," sparking widespread discussion.