On March 18–19, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, the German-owned company Omoway Electronics Co., Ltd. (formerly Continental Electronics) announced the closure of its Lianyungang operations but failed to provide a specific compensation plan. Hundreds of workers blockaded company executives for two consecutive days, demanding a clear response. The company ultimately promised to deliver a compensation package exceeding the legally mandated “N+1” severance standard within ten days.
On March 20, in Yuncheng County, Heze City, Shandong Province, depositors of the Jinquan Agricultural Professional Cooperative who had gone to the county government to demand the return of their savings were suppressed by Chinese Communist Party police, and multiple people were taken away. The Jinquan Agricultural Professional Cooperative collapsed in 2025, with funds involved amounting to 60 million yuan.
“Wuxi Rights Defender Shen Aibin Subjected to Long-Term CCP Residential Surveillance (2026.03.21)”
Shen Aibin, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, served in the military for twelve years before retiring and taking up a leadership position in the urban management system. After witnessing years of illegal forced demolitions and judicial corruption in Wuxi, he chose to leave behind a stable career and became a human rights defender and citizen journalist.
The price of standing by his conscience has been severe. Since 2014, Shen Aibin has been wrongfully convicted three times, serving a total of seven years in prison. In April 2025, he walked out of Liyang Prison in broken health and penniless. Just six months later, on October 30 of the same year, he was arrested again.
The circumstances of this arrest are staggering. On October 27, Shen Aibin accompanied someone to a police station to request a summons document. Simply for citing the law and stating that “a summons notice should be given to the party concerned,” he was beaten at the direction of deputy station chief Dai Feng, suffering bilateral nasal bone fractures. Rather than holding the perpetrator accountable, police arrested the victim, Shen Aibin, on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
After thirty days of detention, Shen Aibin was released on November 30, 2025 — only to be placed under “residential surveillance” the very same day. This measure is surveillance in name but imprisonment in practice: he is not allowed to leave home, his repeated requests for medical care have been denied, multiple facial-recognition cameras have been installed outside his door, and two security agents stand watch around the clock. His family and friends have been threatened by police and ordered not to share any information about him with the outside world. All related content on WeChat and Weibo has been comprehensively censored and deleted.
Legal experts note that this residential surveillance order is a clear violation of the Criminal Procedure Law — Shen Aibin does not meet the legal conditions for arrest, and the authorities are effectively carrying out unlawful detention under the guise of a lawful measure.
On March 19, a violent forced demolition conflict erupted once again in Lane 3, Road 5, Linchun Village, Jiyang District, Sanya City, Hainan Province. Villagers gathered on rooftops and hurled bricks and stones at the Chinese Communist Party’s demolition crew in an effort to protect their properties.
According to reports, the affected residents are non-local property buyers. The local government unilaterally announced a compensation rate of 800 yuan per square meter — far below what local villagers receive — without reaching any agreement with the property owners, and proceeded to carry out the forced demolition.
March 20: CCP paramilitary police conducted raids in villages near Shuangshi Elementary School in Shuikou Town, Xinyi, Guangdong, searching for protest participants. This followed three consecutive days of demonstrations by local villagers opposing a crematorium project built immediately adjacent to their community, during which two clashes with police occurred.
In March 2026, in Shuikou Town, Xinyi City, Guangdong Province, hundreds of villagers staged three consecutive days of protests after local authorities pressed ahead with plans to build a crematorium near their village without public consent, leading to two violent clashes with police.
On March 15, teachers at Shenshui Experimental School in Sujiatun District, Shenyang, Liaoning province, went on a collective strike, gathering at the school gate to demand unpaid wages.
Shaanxi Province, Baoji City, Qishan County — Xiji Hospital. A 32-year-old man underwent surgery for kidney stones and tragically died due to an overdose of anesthesia. On March 18, his devastated family gathered outside the hospital demanding answers.
On March 17 at Shaanxi’s Xi’an Construction Engineering Group, after a scuffle between unpaid construction workers and company staff, a female worker desperately grabbed onto the legs of two men. One was the project manager, and the other was just someone trying to stop the fight.
On March 18, a violent forced demolition took place at Lane 3, Road 5, Linchun Village, Jiyang District, Sanya City, Hainan Province. According to on-site videos and villagers, CCP demolition personnel used an excavator to forcibly demolish a residential building while occupants were still inside, including an elderly paralyzed person with limited mobility.
Villagers stated that the affected households were outside buyers who had purchased property in the village. Without reaching any agreement with the homeowners, local authorities unilaterally announced a compensation rate of 800 yuan per square meter — far below what local villagers received — and proceeded with the forced demolition.
