Many people believe that resistance must be loud and violent, but true resistance is often a long-term process of staying awake, breaking through information blockades, protecting oneself, and continuously influencing others.
On September 16, Foshan Dongrong Metal Products Co., Ltd. in Shunde, Guangdong, due to long-term wage arrears of up to 9 months for employees, triggered a large number of workers to collectively protest and defend their rights.
On September 16, Guangdong Kaileli West Kitchen was reported that staff were fighting in the back kitchen and used dish soap to directly clean salad ingredients. The incident sparked netizens' doubts about food hygiene and the safety of dish soap, and the related video has now been taken down by the platform.
On September 15, Changchun Medical Vocational College implemented a strict campus lockdown, requiring students leaving the campus to obtain parental leave and a physical signature from their counselor. Students questioned whether this move was intended to restrict off-campus consumption and force them to make high-priced purchases at campus canteens and supermarkets.
On September 15, Kaifeng Yulin Furniture Co., Ltd. in Henan, due to long‑term wage arrears and being found to have attempted to secretly transfer assets, employees blocked the factory gate and intercepted vehicles, leading to a standoff between the two sides.
On September 16, European Commission President von der Leyen delivered the State of the Union address at the European Parliament, stating that the EU's trade deficit with China has reached a critical point. She announced that the EU will use all available tools to reshape its relationship with China and established the European Critical Raw Materials Board to reduce dependence on Chinese rare earths.
On September 15, Xiaohongshu released the "Community Financial Ecological Charter", prohibiting malicious bearish calls, illegal stock recommendations and other behaviors. The platform disclosed that since the beginning of the year, it has dealt with over 1.01 million violating notes, 157,000 violating accounts, and more than 4.77 million violating comments, and pledged to strengthen algorithmic self-discipline to curb extreme market sentiment.
On September 15, a netizen in Nanjing transferred travel expenses, triggering an anti-fraud warning; although he proved to auxiliary police that he was not scammed, he was still required to go to the police station for a lesson. Because he refused to go, his bank card was frozen that night by the Criminal Police Brigade of the Jiangning Branch of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau.
On September 16, Xu Huping, former director of the Nanjing Museum, was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined 200,000 yuan for accepting bribes in engineering contracts and commercial cooperation. Previously, Xu Huping had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and stripped of his benefits. This ruling did not involve the illegal allocation of cultural relics.