“Teacher Abuse Scandal at Jiangsu Kindergarten; Parents Blocked by Police During Protest (2026.05.29)”
A child abuse scandal has emerged at the Second Government-Affiliated Kindergarten in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu. A parent discovered that her child had suffered serious burns to the lips and was told by the child that a teacher had burned her with a hot glue gun. When the parent contacted the teacher, the teacher initially claimed it was an “accident” or that she had been “careless,” repeatedly deflecting responsibility. It was only after the parent reviewed surveillance footage that the deliberate nature of the injury was confirmed. On May 29, parents who gathered to protest outside the kindergarten were blocked by police and special police units.
On May 26, after the organizer of an informal rotating savings group absconded with participants’ funds in Zhanglin Village, Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian, angry victims gathered outside his home, pounding on the door in protest and hiring a drum-and-music troupe to amplify their demonstration. By May 28, the organizer had been arrested.
On May 20, the Yijiangnan Food Factory in Guangxia Village, Qingling Township, Hongshan District, Wuhan, was subjected to a violent forced demolition by local authorities. The factory’s owner was beaten while resisting, and nearby residents captured part of the incident on video.
“Villagers in Pingnan, Guangxi Protest Quarry’s Environmental Destruction; Beaten by Police in Crackdown (2026.05.27)”
A large quarry operating around the clock — blasting the mountainside and extracting groundwater on a massive scale — has caused severe geological damage in Liangliao Village, Danzhu Township, Pingnan County, Guigang, Guangxi, leaving farmland sunken and collapsed in multiple locations and rendering many homes structurally unsafe. Villagers repeatedly reported the situation to the authorities, but local officials took no action. On May 27, when residents went to the quarry to protest and seek redress, local authorities responded swiftly and in force, deploying police and special police units to “maintain stability” — and villagers were beaten in the ensuing confrontation.
From May 26 to 28, hundreds of medical staff at Huakang Hospital in Dazhou, Sichuan — formerly an army hospital — held three consecutive days of rallies to protest the hospital’s failure to pay wages and social insurance contributions, as well as its announcement of closure without any compensation plan.
On May 27, following a strike by local workers at the Sky Plaza project in Harare, Zimbabwe — a development funded by Chinese businesspeople from Fujian — a Chinese manager delivered a blunt message to the workers through an interpreter: “You don’t have the right to say no!”
On May 25, a young man known online as “Mengkaka” filmed a video outside the Shenzhen Municipal Government building and posted it to Douyin, publicly announcing his intention to run for Mayor of Shenzhen in order to speak up for society’s most vulnerable. In the video, Mengkaka described the hardships faced by people at the bottom of society, noting that many are reduced to sleeping on the streets and surviving by scavenging.
In earlier videos, Mengkaka had documented his persistence in demanding a refund after a Shenzhen hotel charged him 18 yuan for a single glass of water — a dispute he ultimately won, receiving both a refund and additional compensation. He subsequently turned his attention to the lives of homeless people on Shenzhen’s streets, regularly filming and posting videos about their conditions.
On May 27, Mengkaka’s Douyin account was banned. The platform cited a violation of the “Douyin Community Self-Discipline Convention.” It remains unclear whether he has faced any pressure or threats from the Chinese authorities.
Notably, a number of Chinese citizens have previously been suppressed — and in some cases imprisoned — for publicly announcing candidacies for People’s Congress seats or participating in independent candidate campaigns. Well-known cases include those of Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping, Li Sihua, Peng Feng, Guan Guilin, Qu Mingxue, Liu Mingxue, Yao Lifa, and Cheng Hai.
“Students at Two Guangxi Universities Sing Through the Night to Protest Prolonged Power Outage (2026.05.26–27)”
On the night of May 26 through the early hours of May 27, large numbers of students at Guangxi Sports College in Nanning and Guilin University of Aerospace Technology in Guilin staged all-night group singing protests after prolonged power outages left dormitories sweltering in temperatures of around 30°C.
“Workers at Emma Vehicle Technology’s Zhejiang Lishui Factory Strike Over Wage Theft (2026.05.26)”
On May 26, workers at Emma Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. in Qingtian County, Lishui, Zhejiang, staged a collective strike to protest the company’s withholding of wages. According to the workers, they worked shifts of up to 13 hours a day in April, yet received take-home pay of just over 5,000 yuan, with each worker shortchanged by anywhere from several hundred to over a thousand yuan.
On May 26, authorities installed barrier netting over the Yongding River near the State Bureau for Letters and Calls — known among petitioners as the “Yongding River,” though it is in fact the Yongdingmen moat, not the Yongding River as Beijingers know it — following a surge in petitioners jumping into the water.
