On May 25, villagers in Lijia Village, Gaoling Township, Wangdu County, Baoding, Hebei, stormed the Gaoling Township government building in protest after local authorities forcibly shut down their free drinking water wells and ordered them to switch to reservoir water at 1.5 yuan per cubic meter — water the villagers say is of poor quality.
Follow-up on the Luchuan May 22 Incident: On May 25, market day in Wushi Town, Luchuan County, Guangxi, traffic police were again absent from the streets, though officers carrying riot shields and batons were seen on patrol. Local netizens have identified the individual at the center of the incident as Wen Xiaotao, a resident of Shajing Village, Wushi Town, whose father has passed away and who lives alone with his mother.
“Hubei Female University Student Goes Missing; Family Blocked While Searching at Campus (2026.05.25)”
On May 25, family members of Shao Junfei, a student at Wuchang Institute of Technology in Wuhan, Hubei, went to the campus to protest the school’s failure to take initiative in searching for her, ten days after her disappearance. They were blocked by school staff. According to the family, on the evening of May 15, 2026, Shao Junfei left campus, and surveillance footage captured her on Yangsiqang Bridge at 11:37 p.m. She has not been heard from since. Local netizens have also reported that a pregnant woman went missing from the same bridge around the same time.
On May 25, over a hundred female workers at GIS (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. — a Foxconn subsidiary and major manufacturer of touch modules and display assembly for Apple products, and a key part of Foxconn’s Chengdu supply chain — staged a collective protest against the company’s repeated forced dormitory relocations, which workers say have left them physically and emotionally exhausted. According to the workers, they have been compelled to move dormitories as many as eight times in recent years, causing serious disruption to both their work and daily lives.
On May 23, workers from Miya Precision Metal Technology Co., Ltd. — an Apple accessory supplier based in Dongguan, Guangdong — staged a collective protest for a second time at the Fenggang Town government office. The company had failed to make full housing provident fund contributions for more than 500 employees, and when workers sought redress, Miya proposed repaying the shortfall in installments over six years — a plan unanimously rejected by the workforce.
On May 22, family members gathered outside Ruijing Technology Development Co., Ltd. in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, to demand accountability after the company refused to accept responsibility for the poisoning of a recent Yangzhou University graduate who was exposed to toxic substances while working at a disinfection station shortly after being hired.
On May 23, the owner of Meiguo Yunguichuan Bistro at Wuyue Plaza in Nanxun District, Huzhou, Zhejiang, smashed his own shop in protest after the mall refused to refund his deposit upon closure and blocked him from removing his belongings from the premises.
On May 23, one day after a confrontation triggered by traffic police impounding electric vehicles left three dead and four injured, no traffic police were seen conducting vehicle checks in Wushi Town, Luchuan County, Guangxi.
On May 22, some 600 workers at ROHM Electronics Dalian Co., Ltd. staged a strike and march to protest what they described as an unfair compensation package following the company’s acquisition. According to sources familiar with the matter, ROHM Electronics Dalian has been acquired by a Chinese company called “Pengcheng.”
A Mother Scraping By in Beijing on Scavenged Recyclables, Fighting for Justice for Her Son (2026.05.22)
A young mother from Liuzhou, Guangxi, has been living as a drifter in Beijing — surviving by collecting recyclable waste and washing dishes — in her quest for justice for her son, who fell to his death after being subjected to sustained school bullying. Her husband, who had been fighting alongside her to seek accountability, has been imprisoned by the authorities.
According to the mother’s account, her son Pu Yuanliu was a student at Liuzhou No. 22 Middle School. On the morning of February 19, 2025, he was extorted and threatened by classmates; that afternoon, he was beaten by a group of fellow students while teachers present looked on and did nothing. In the aftermath, his homeroom teacher refused to review the surveillance footage, concealed from the family the fact that he had been beaten by multiple students, and then required him to transfer schools or take a leave of absence. Under the cumulative weight of these blows, Pu Yuanliu’s mental state deteriorated rapidly, and he ultimately died after jumping from a building. His family did not learn until five months after his death — when they were finally allowed to view partial surveillance footage — that he had been beaten by a group of students; it was not until seven months after his death, through accounts given by students who had participated, that they discovered he had been subjected to prolonged verbal abuse, personal attacks, and physical violence by classmates. To this day, the school continues to withhold other key surveillance recordings, while local police have refused to open a formal investigation, citing a lack of evidence of any unlawful conduct.