On May 6, teachers at Tianshuo Kindergarten in Lishi District, Lüliang, Shanxi, staged a collective strike over unpaid wages. According to parents, tuition at the school runs 20,000 yuan per child per year — yet the school is not only unable to pay its staff, but has reportedly run out of money to purchase food for students’ meals.
On May 6, at an Agricultural Bank of China branch in Qianqing Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, a woman got into a confrontation with bank staff after being unable to withdraw her own savings, and smashed part of the bank’s facilities in the process. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the scene. According to witnesses online, the reason she could not access her money was that the bank had used her deposits to purchase wealth management products without her consent. Other accounts suggested that the bank had allowed her husband to withdraw the funds without her authorization.
On the evening of May 5, outside the People’s Hospital in Wenling, Taizhou, Zhejiang, a mother who had just lost her son wept as she cried out: “In the emergency room of the People’s Hospital, it was all nurses — not a single doctor. My son came in complaining of stomach pain, and they let him die. From morning until evening, there was no doctor to be found. But they sent in riot police by the dozen to haul my son’s body away by force. Everyone calls them angels in white — they’re devils who kill without drawing blood.”
On the evening of May 5, in Changsha, Hunan, street vendors chose to destroy their snack carts—their sole means of livelihood—rather than allow them to be seized by urban management officers (Chengguan).
“Guiyang Evictee Confronts CCP Official Over Decade of Dereliction (2026.04.29)”
On April 29, at a protest staged by displaced residents in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang, Guizhou, a woman angrily confronted a CCP official, accusing him of collecting a government salary for ten years while doing absolutely nothing, and now attempting to deny his past conduct. She directly charged him with “harming ordinary people” and “fraud.” The official, for his part, stood in silence throughout, refusing to utter a single word.
Guanshanhu District was formally established in 2012 and immediately launched large-scale demolition and relocation operations. To accelerate the signing process, local authorities entered into resettlement agreements with some villagers through ad hoc arrangements, with official seals affixed to the contracts. More than a decade later, however, large numbers of displaced residents have yet to receive any resettlement. Beginning in the second half of 2025, the local government not only failed to honor its commitments but issued Notices of Termination of Housing Resettlement and Compensation Agreements to affected households, voiding the contracts on the grounds of alleged irregularities in resettlement eligibility — and demanding that villagers return hundreds of thousands of yuan in compensation already paid. More than 700 households across the district have been affected, with outstanding buyback payments totaling approximately 620 million yuan. Due to the district’s strained finances, not a single yuan has been disbursed; overdue transitional subsidies have only been paid through June 2023, with no timeline given for when — or whether — the remainder will ever be paid.
On May 2, in Nangqian County, Yushu, Qinghai, a vehicle repossession crew from inland China entered a Tibetan area to seize cars. They were caught in the act by local Tibetans while towing vehicles away — and in the end, they left empty-handed and lost one of their own tow trucks in the process.
Local Tibetans raised pointed questions: ordinary people can be fined on the spot or have their licenses confiscated by traffic police for minor infractions — an missing document, obstructing a camera, or a license plate issue. Yet this inland repossession crew was operating tow trucks with no license plates at all, freely hauling away Tibetans’ vehicles without consequence.
A folk song that has been circulating widely in recent days — “Mad Dogs and E-Bikes” — mocking the CCP’s mass confiscation of electric vehicles and its pattern of targeting ordinary people. (2026.05.03)
Lately, if you’re riding an e-bike, you’d better watch out —The mad dogs on the streets are biting people left and right.And they’ve actually got a “mad dog license” to do it!Three to five of them swarm together in a pack.Damn their masters —Who dreamed up these new rulesThat target ordinary people and nobody else.Some of these mad dogs are even worse:They want your vehicle, not your life —Hauling it straight back to their own door.
On May 3, in Guanqian Street, Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, a young man cosplaying as Zhang Jue, the leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, shouted in the street:
“The Azure Sky is dead, and the Yellow Sky shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, there shall be prosperity under heaven. I am Zhang Jue, a humble Taoist. I bid the Great Han meet its end. Lord of Thunder, lend me your strength!”
“Summary of Collective Resistance Events in China (Published Records) — April 2026”
In April 2026, the Yesterday project documented 74 collective resistance events occurring across China. Labor rights actions made up a significant share of this month’s incidents, particularly around wage arrears, cuts to delivery rates, and retirement security.
I. Breakdown by Protesting Group (total: 74)
Workers and laborers of all types: 26 incidents (35.1%) — the month’s core force
Labor disputes and social security: 22 incidents (29.7%) — the primary driver of most worker actions
Including: wage arrears, withheld pension payments, lack of retirement coverage, layoffs/factory relocations without compensation, cuts to delivery rates, wage deductions, etc.
Abuse of administrative authority (urban management officers/traffic police): 6 incidents (8.1%) — including seizure of delivery riders’ electric vehicles
Forced requisition and forced demolition: 6 incidents (8.1%)
“Guangxi Wuzhou Workers Stage Back-to-Back Strike on Labor Day, Protesting Rogue Factory’s Arbitrary Fines (2026.05.01–02)”
On May 1 and 2, a group of freight drivers at Chiji Steel Co., Ltd. in Wuzhou, Guangxi, walked off the job for two consecutive days to protest the company’s longstanding practice of imposing arbitrary fines on workers.
According to workers, Chiji Steel is notorious in Wuzhou as a “rogue factory.” Its internal penalty system is harsh and lacks any transparent standards, with management frequently docking pay under various pretexts. As a result, some workers take home only a few dozen yuan after a full month of labor.
Workers also reported that due to the extreme workload and hazardous working conditions, at least three employees died on the job from overwork in March alone. The combination of relentless high-intensity labor and unreasonable penalties fueled deep resentment among workers, ultimately driving the drivers to stage a collective work stoppage during International Labor Day. They demanded an end to arbitrary fines and basic improvements to their working conditions.
By May 2, some workers indicated that their demands had been largely met, though specific details remain unclear.