On March 2nd, at the “Master of the Seas” residential project in Supsekh village, Anapa city, Russia, a Russian construction company defaulted on the wages of Chinese construction workers. The workers’ attempts to claim their unpaid wages were unsuccessful, and they were even driven out of their residential barracks by the Russian staff.
The government of Zhangshan Town, Jizhou District, Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province, had promised the villagers of Qusha Village that a new ancestral hall would be built after the old one was demolished. However, after the old ancestral hall was torn down, the Zhangshan government reneged on the agreement and dispatched government personnel on February 28 to violently prevent the villagers from building the new ancestral hall.
Chaozhou Villagers Break Through Police Blockade to Hold ‘Ying Laoye’ Event as Scheduled (March 2, 2026)”
On the evening of March 2, the 14th day of the first lunar month, in Changmei Village, Fengxi Town, Chao’an District, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, CCP police blockaded the temple gates, attempting to prevent villagers from entering the temple to carry out the deity statues for the traditional “Ying Laoye” (deity parading)* event. However, the police cordon was quickly and forcefully breached by young people, allowing the event to proceed smoothly.
Note: “Ying Laoye” (营老爷) is a traditional folk custom in the Chaoshan region where local deity statues are brought out of the temple and paraded through the streets to bless the community.
Hangzhou Foot Massage Parlor Employee Dies After Falling Down Drunk at Company Dinner; Family Suppressed While Seeking Justice (2026.02.27)
Recently, a tragedy triggered by a company dinner occurred in Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. A veteran employee who had worked at the “Zubenji” foot massage parlor for seven years fell after drinking excessively at a New Year’s Eve dinner organized by the company. Because the store failed to send the employee to the hospital in time, the employee tragically passed away. Afterwards, the company refused to take responsibility. When the family demanded an explanation, they were not only splashed with water and driven away by the store but were ultimately suppressed and arrested by the police.
According to family members and colleagues, the store involved is the “Zubenji” foot massage parlor located on Wensan West Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou. On February 16 (Lunar New Year’s Eve), the company organized a New Year’s dinner for hundreds of employees. During the event, the employee drank excessively and accidentally fell. However, as the organizer of the event, the company boss did not immediately send the injured and intoxicated employee to the hospital for treatment, but instead sent them directly back to the store. It wasn’t until they later discovered the employee had completely lost consciousness that the person in charge called 120 (emergency services). However, the optimal time for rescue had been missed, and a vibrant life was lost. The grieving and indignant family members stated that the deceased had worked diligently at the store for seven years. This was not a private gathering on the employees’ personal time, but a large-scale event organized by the company, which should have guaranteed the personal safety of every participating employee. But after the incident, the company not only tried to conceal the facts but also shirked responsibility the entire time. They never stepped forward to properly resolve the issue and showed no apology to the deceased, “treating human life as worthless.”
Faced with the company’s cold attitude of evading responsibility, the family of the deceased and some fellow townsfolk went to the Wensan West Road “Zubenji” store for three consecutive days from February 25 to 27 to seek justice. However, what awaited them was not negotiation or humanitarian comfort, but malicious retaliation from the store. To force the family to leave, the foot massage parlor resorted to extremely egregious methods: not only cutting off the electricity and water, but also forcibly blocking the restrooms inside the store, and even maliciously splashing water on the rights-defending family members.
In the early stages of the family’s rights defense, the local police arrived at the scene several times but failed to effectively intervene in the store’s extreme and bottomless expulsion tactics, leading to a continuous escalation of the conflict. The incident headed towards a more violent conclusion on February 27. On that day, facing the continuously protesting family members, the police suppressed the crowd demanding an explanation at the scene, and multiple rights-defending family members and fellow townsfolk were forcibly taken away. On the internet, videos posted by family members and colleagues were also swiftly scrubbed completely.
This tragedy not only exposes the involved company’s disregard for the lives and safety of its employees but also reflects the immense difficulties bottom-tier workers face in defending their rights when they are violated. The family not only failed to receive the compensation and apology they deserved, but instead became the targets of arrest.
Core demands: All revolved around labor conflicts (demanding unpaid wages, protesting pay cuts, secret factory relocations to evade compensation, etc.).
Homeowners (7 incidents, 14%)
Demanding homes from unfinished (rotten-tail) housing projects, protesting developers’ false advertising, and boycotting arbitrary parking fees charged by property management.
Investors (7 incidents, 14%)
Primarily targeting financial wealth management fraud/absconding, and the collapse of gold and jewelry platforms (such as the Shenzhen Shuibei incident).
Farmers (6 incidents, 12%)
Resisting forced land requisition and occupation by the government or village bullies, demanding massive grain payments in arrears for years, and opposing forced cremations.
Families of the Deceased/Patients (5 incidents, 10%)
Seeking the truth behind bizarre campus deaths and fatal bullying incidents, as well as demanding compensation for severe medical malpractice.
Other Groups (8 incidents, 16%)
Students (2), street vendors (2), netizens (1), religious believers (1), bank depositors (1), and community/substitute/kindergarten teachers (1).
II. Geographic Distribution
Guangdong: 8 incidents (all concentrated in Shenzhen, dominated by the jewelry platform collapse and labor strikes);
Worker Unpaid Wages and Labor Conflicts (17 incidents, 34%): Enterprises absconding with unpaid wages, pay cuts, uncompensated factory closures/relocations, forced monopolies on workers’ food, etc.
Public Power and Livelihood Conflicts (9 incidents, 18%): Chengguan (urban management) violently confiscating vendors’ equipment, government/village bullies forcibly requisitioning and occupying land, owing farmers tens of millions in grain payments, forced demolition of self-funded village temples, and the forced implementation of cremation policies.
Real Estate Chaos and Unfinished Buildings (8 incidents, 16%): Unfinished farmer resettlement housing and commercial housing, developers’ false advertising, arbitrary property fees, and illegal constructions.
Social Bottom-Line and Trust Crisis (8 incidents, 16%): Schools covering up the truth of student deaths, fatal campus bullying, hospitals’ severe misdiagnoses and refusal to take responsibility, schools illegally canceling holidays and forcing students to stay on campus.
Financial and Investment Collapse (7 incidents, 14%): Default and absconding in private wealth management, the multi-billion yuan fraud collapse of the Shenzhen Shuibei gold and jewelry platform, etc.
Bank Depositors’ Rights Defense (1 incident, 2%): Postal Savings Bank branches defrauding depositors by converting “deposits into insurance.”
IV. Scale of Protests
1-9 people: 6 incidents (12%)
10-99 people: 28 incidents (56%)
100-999 people: 11 incidents (22%)
1,000-9,999 people: 5 incidents (10%). (Including: the strike of thousands of workers at Markor Home Furnishings in Tianjin, thousands of farmers protesting forced cremation in Yunnan, a gathering of over a thousand netizens in Ningbo, a thousand students charging out of the school gates in Guigang, Guangxi, and protests by thousands of investors in Shenzhen).
V. Police Deployment and Violent Suppression
Police Presence Rate: As high as 68% (Police were deployed to maintain stability in a total of 34 incidents).
Violent Dispersal or Arrests: In 17 incidents, police explicitly used violence, beatings, or arrested rights defenders (accounting for 34% of total incidents).
Characteristics of Suppression/Stability Maintenance: Violent police arrests were highly concentrated in “Investor/Homeowner Rights Defense” and “Farmer Land-Related Rights Defense” (e.g., the Shenzhen Shuibei conflicts, Changsha homeowners blocking roads in Hunan, and farmer gatherings in Inner Mongolia). In contrast, in incidents solely involving construction workers demanding unpaid wages, although police frequently arrived to maintain order, they rarely directly arrested the protesting workers.
(Note: If the same event occurred on two different dates, it is counted as two separate incidents.)
February 27, workers at Shenzhen Oulutong Electronics Co., Ltd. in Guangdong went on a collective strike to protest the company’s relocation of its factory without offering compensation.
February 27 — To demand the payment of long-overdue land requisition compensation, more than a hundred villagers from Yangneiguan Village, Linxi Town, Yutian County, Tangshan, Hebei, briefly “occupied” the Linxi Town government building.
February 26, Shenyang North Railway Station, Liaoning — A woman who had been petitioning was intercepted just after stepping off the platform. She was forced to the ground and bound with clear tape by interception personnel.
February 26, Dongguan, Guangdong — Construction workers who went to demand unpaid wages at the Dongguan Construction Changying Factory Building Project were restrained by police.