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.
On March 25, in Qingyuan, Guangdong, construction workers demanding unpaid wages blocked the entrance of the Hanqinghuafu residential compound in Qingcheng District.
On March 27, at Shanghai Railway Station, two mothers who had been holding up signs for days in the station plaza searching for their missing children were driven away by security guards. In China, the number of missing children ranges from tens of thousands to 200,000 per year. Despite surveillance cameras everywhere, the chances of a missing child being found are extremely low. However, if you dare to criticize Xi Jinping, the police will move heaven and earth to hunt you down.
On March 26, in Yacheng Town, Sanya, Hainan, an 80-year-old man who had been standing on an excavator to defend his land was handcuffed behind his back and taken away by police.
On March 25, in Baogu’lu Village, Tianyi Town, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, dozens of villagers blocked the entrance of the Anxin Digital Seedling Factory to demand overdue land rental payments. The Chinese Communist Party dispatched 200 police officers to suppress the villagers.
On the evening of March 25, in Yuechi County, Sichuan, residents who had blocked roads to protest a property management company’s mandatory parking fees clashed with police.
From March 17 to 19, 2026, hundreds of villagers in Shuikou Town, Xinyi City, Guangdong Province took to the streets for three consecutive days, demanding that authorities scrap a crematorium project situated near their village. They clashed violently with police on two separate occasions. In the days that followed, authorities deployed large numbers of riot police into the villages in an attempt to suppress dissent by force. Yet on March 25, the villagers refused to be intimidated and took to the streets once more to defend their homes.
Although the protest was once again met with violent crackdown, and the crematorium project now appears all but inevitable, the villagers of Xinyi have shown remarkable courage and solidarity in the face of overwhelming pressure. Under authoritarian rule, such resistance may rarely prevail — yet resistance is human nature. Where there is oppression, there will always be defiance. The cries of Xinyi’s villagers today may not change the fate of their village, but they have made visible to the world that in this land, there are still those who stand — with their own flesh and blood — to defend the most basic human dignity.
Quan Shixin (2026.03.25): “Do you know what lies behind all this glittering prosperity? It is built on the blood, sweat, and bones of ordinary people. If I say that Beijing’s prosperity today is just like the Great Wall built by the First Emperor of Qin — it is built upon countless buried bones.”
Quan Shixin, a Chinese human rights defender, was sentenced twice for criticizing the Communist Party. During her second imprisonment, the CCP demolished her only home.
Thousands of Wuhan Residents Resist Collectively, Tearing Down Toll Barriers Across Six Residential Communities (2026.03.24)
On the night of March 24, 2026, a large-scale collective act of resistance shook the city of Wuhan. In Zuoling New Town, located in the East Lake High-Tech Development Zone of Hubei Province, thousands of residents spontaneously gathered and proceeded to dismantle toll gate barriers at six residential communities one after another, putting an end to the property management company’s plan to impose mandatory parking fees.
Background
Zuoling New Town is the largest resettlement community in Wuhan’s East Lake High-Tech Zone. Residents began moving in from 2014 onward, and the community now has a permanent population of nearly 100,000, including approximately 40,000 villagers relocated from the original Zuoling Subdistrict. In the more than ten years since the community was established, residents had never been charged for parking.
Around the 2026 New Year, the property management company suddenly brought in a third-party firm and announced it would charge residents a monthly parking fee of 30 yuan, installing toll barriers at the entrances and exits of each community. The news immediately sparked a fierce backlash among residents.
Several residents stated that, given the resettlement nature of the land and the fact that they already pay property management fees, they are entitled to free parking. What further angered residents was that the property company had neither convened an owners’ assembly nor sought residents’ input before implementing the charges. Some residents also worried that if the fees were successfully introduced this time, costs could rise year after year going forward.
Escalating Conflict
Since the mandatory fee policy took effect, sporadic resistance had been ongoing — incidents of toll barriers being damaged, dismantled, or rammed by vehicles were reported across multiple communities. Starting March 19, elderly residents of Baihu Community were the first to launch a coordinated collective action: after being blocked from entering the community, they staged a sit-in protest at the gate, leading to multiple direct confrontations with fee collectors.
In the days that followed, the spirit of resistance continued to spread. Residents notified one another and called for collective action. During this period, one homeowner drew on Articles 275 and 278 of the Civil Code and other relevant provisions to write an article explaining the procedural and property-rights legal issues with the new charges, urging neighbors to stand together and defend their rights. The article circulated widely throughout the community.
Thousands Forcibly Dismantle Barriers Across Six Communities
By the evening of March 24, the situation escalated further. The resistance was ignited first in Baihu Community — after a brief standoff with the fee collectors, some elderly residents forcibly tore down all the toll barriers in that community. News spread quickly, and the elderly residents’ actions drew support from other homeowners. Thousands of villagers left their homes and joined the effort.
The wave of resistance then swept through Yuquan Community, Zuoling Community No. 4, No. 3, No. 2, and No. 1 in swift succession, with toll barriers at each location demolished one by one. By the time the night’s action was over, every single toll barrier across all six communities had been completely removed. This collective act of resistance — sparked first by the elderly and rapidly engulfing the entire community — ended in a total victory for the residents. Whether they can hold onto this outcome, however, remains to be seen.