On March 30, in Liwaogou Village, Menhe Town, Ganyu District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, a conflict broke out after urban management officers blocked a funeral procession for playing funeral music through a speaker. According to local residents online, in Ganyu District, playing suona horns or funeral music during burials has been banned by the government unless the family pays a fee of 2,000 yuan. Other netizens reported that similar rules exist in parts of Shandong Province. In Shangqiu, Henan, the price is 10,000 yuan.
On March 30, in Changling County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province, 200 retired workers from the Changling Stud Farm gathered at the Changling County Social Security Bureau to demand their rights, protesting that the farm had only enrolled them in the “urban-rural residents’ pension insurance” scheme — leaving them with just over 1,000 yuan per year in retirement payments and no medical insurance coverage. Changling Stud Farm was established in 1958 and is a provincial state-owned agricultural and livestock enterprise.
On March 30, in Putian, Fujian, over a thousand investors in “Golden Wharf” again gathered at the Putian municipal government to demand the return of their investments, facing off against a large number of police. Golden Wharf Group Co., Ltd., which had long attracted deposits with high interest rates, collapsed at the end of February this year.
On March 30, in Xinyi, Guangdong, days after the last protest, a heavy police presence remained stationed in Wanglong Village, Shuikou Town — the community closest to the proposed crematorium site — blocking residents from leaving.
On March 28, in Yanjiao Town, Sanhe City, Hebei, a dog meat vendor called “Dasheng Dog Meat” was found by local residents to be slaughtering pet dogs of unknown origin for sale. When residents confronted the owner, he brazenly beat a dog to death in front of the crowd, and was immediately surrounded by furious onlookers. In the end, a woman paid to buy all the remaining dogs, which were then adopted and taken home by residents at the scene.
Homeowners at the Huarun Runhong City Runzhen Yuan residential development in Guangming District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, have suffered sudden losses of roughly 200,000 yuan after the developer sharply cut prices on the newly built complex. On March 29, a group of affected homeowners staged a sit-in at the sales office, demanding that China Resources refund the difference.
On March 29, in Geping Village, Baixi Subdistrict, Xuzhou District, Yibin, Sichuan, the Chinese Communist Party dispatched over a hundred police officers and government officials into the village to seize land by force, beating and detaining protesting villagers. To install sewage pipelines for the G8517 Xin-Yi Expressway, Yibin authorities have recently deployed large numbers of police and government officials to forcibly seize land across multiple locations. Two days earlier, these same forces used violence to take land from villagers in Xinqiao Village, also in Baixi Subdistrict.
A young person dressed in a pink Mao suit and wearing an “old man” mask made repeated appearances outside multiple middle schools in Cangzhou, Hebei, between February and March 2026, chanting slogans calling on schools to implement the two-day weekend policy and end mandatory hairstyle rules — winning widespread affection among local students.
Wuhan Authorities Break Promise — 600 Residents Take to the Streets (2026.03.28)
On Saturday evening in Wuhan, Hubei, approximately 600 residents defied intense pressure and took to the streets once again, chanting slogans demanding that authorities honor their promises and withdraw the Chuneng New Energy battery factory project.
The dispute stems from the Chuneng New Energy battery project recently approved for construction at Huangjiahu. Due to its high pollution risks and the absence of any environmental impact assessment or public hearing, the project immediately sparked fierce opposition from residents of nearby communities, including Poly Shiguang Yinxiang and Liantou Lixiang Xingguang. Between March 8 and 15, hundreds of residents launched a series of sustained protests, at one point surrounding and blocking a deputy mayor. On the evening of March 15, a local official publicly promised to suspend the project and withdraw its public notice. However, this turned out to be nothing more than a stalling tactic. Authorities subsequently intensified their crackdown on activists, with police summoning and threatening multiple homeowners, forcing them into silence. What enraged residents further was that the project never stopped construction as promised.
On the evening of March 28, approximately 600 homeowners again took to the streets, marching along Xingguang Avenue in Jiangxia District, chanting slogans including “Defend our homes,” “Chuneng get out,” and “No to industrial zoning,” demanding that authorities make good on their word.
At around 11 p.m. that night, authorities deployed a large number of police to suppress the marching residents, using violence to beat protesters and detaining multiple people.
On March 27, in Xinqiao Village, Baixi Subdistrict, Xuzhou District, Yibin, Sichuan, the Chinese Communist Party dispatched over a hundred police officers and government officials into the village to seize land by force — not even sparing the families of people with disabilities.
