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 the night of September 16, 2026, urban residents in Longxi County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, noticed what appeared to be night training by the Chinese Air Force overhead, which continuously released decoy flares. The related sounds and commotion affected the rest of nearby residents, with some residents expressing confusion as to why flares were being dropped above residential areas. Currently, the provided materials do not include any explanation from the military regarding the nature of the training, the reasons for the deployment, or the safety perimeter.
On September 16, 2026, a delivery rider in Sichuan was filmed by a netizen appearing to have fallen off their bike on a road. One of the rider's feet was visibly injured, and they subsequently suffered an emotional breakdown in the street, wailing continuously and drawing a crowd of onlookers. The footage does not specify the exact location, the severity of the injury, or the subsequent handling of the situation, nor has it been confirmed that the injury was indeed caused by a fall from the bike.
In many places of Jiangxi Province, cases have emerged where individually registered businesses that had been canceled were forcibly reinstated in tax registration by tax authorities, sparking widespread concerns among the accounting industry and netizens about the government's intensified tax collection efforts and fiscal pressure.
During a People's Congress election at a public school in Guangzhou, the administration strictly prohibited teachers from abstaining and privately designated candidates, interfering with the electoral process.
Starting September 15, Shanxi Province implemented new e-bike regulations prohibiting electric bicycles from carrying two children at the same time. This move has caused commuting difficulties for multi-child families. Furthermore, schools failed to emphasize safety during publicity campaigns, instead demanding parents not to bring disgrace to the school, triggering public controversy.
On September 14, a community in Dongying City, Shandong Province announced the implementation of the "Young-Old Service for the Elderly" project, encouraging people aged 60 to 70 to provide public services for seniors aged 70 to 90. The policy sparked heated public debate, with netizens questioning it as a disguised forced labor amid pension shortfalls.
On September 16, a group of volunteers in Dezhou, Shandong Province, wearing fluorescent reflective vests, held an outdoor night parade carrying promotional boards printed with photos of dogs to call for attention to the living conditions of stray dogs.
The Fucheng District government in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, issued an anti-gang and anti-evil notice, explicitly defining malicious wage-demanding, forging evidence, surrounding construction sites, and coercing transactions as "labor porcelain-smashing" (extortion), and announced a severe crackdown.