2026年2月份，共发布了发生在中国的群体抗争事件 43 起。由于该月是中国的农历新年月，群体抗争事件相对平时有所下降。
一、 抗争群体
- 工人群体（18起，占 42%）
- 构成：建筑工人(8起)、制造工人(8起)、环卫工人(2起)。
- 核心诉求：全部围绕劳资冲突（讨要欠薪、抗议降薪、调休安排不合理、企业搬迁拒不赔偿等）。
- 死者/患者家属（6起，占 14%）
- 严重医疗事故索赔、学生遭霸凌自杀求真相、员工聚餐酒后摔倒身亡求说法、工人自杀及反强制火化（抢尸冲突）等。
- 农民群体（5起，占 12%）
- 反抗强拆、抗议水泥厂污染环境、抗议村委私自出租集体学校、讨要被拖欠的征地补偿款等。
- 信徒群体（4起，占 9%）
- 抗议传统民俗/游神活动被禁、抗议当局强拆妈祖像及强拆祠堂。
- 投资者群体（2起，占 5%）
- 主要针对投资理财诈骗。
- 其他群体（8起，占 18%）
- 访民(2起)、学生(1起)、企业消防员(1起)、民代幼老师(1起)、退伍老兵(1起)、拆迁户(1起)、渔民(1起)。
二、 地点分布情况
- 广东 8起（深圳2起，中山、珠海、阳江、廉江、汕头、东莞各1起）；
- 陕西 7起（西安4起、咸阳3起）；
- 江苏 3起（全部发生在扬州高邮）；
- 河北 3起、山东 3起；
- 湖南(2起)、浙江(2起)、海南(2起)、云南(2起)、贵州(2起)、北京(2起)；
- 其他各1起（共7省市：上海、福建、新疆、重庆、吉林、辽宁、江西）。
三、 引发原因
- 工人讨薪与劳资冲突（19起，占 44%）：企业欠薪、降薪、消防员被裁员不赔偿、公司搬迁不赔偿、春节假期调休安排不合理等。
- 公权力与民生冲突（13起，占 30%）：强拆民房/祠堂/寺庙及渔排、拖欠拆迁和征地补偿款、民俗及游神活动被禁、退伍安置不公、政府抢尸强制火化、水泥厂污染环境等。
- 社会底线及信任危机（7起，占 16%）：医疗事故致死、学生遭老师霸凌自杀、工人跳楼自杀及员工聚餐意外身亡讨说法，以及民代幼老师老无所养、学校限制人身自由引发学生“起义”等。
- 金融与投资诈骗（2起，占 5%）：投资平台诈骗导致投资者集体上访维权等。
- 上访维权受阻（2起，占 5%）：访民在火车站等地遭到胶带绑架等暴力截访。
四、 规模大小统计
- 1-9人：3 起（占 7%）
- 10-99人：32 起（占 74%）
- 100-999人：8 起（占 19%）。（包括：山东德州学生怒砸校舍起义、广东中山环卫工人罢工、新疆合盛硅业工人罢工、西安比亚迪工人罢工、西安信徒对峙、山东菏泽裕罗电器工人罢工、湖南邵阳农民堵路、河北唐山农民占领镇政府）
五、 出动警察及暴力镇压情况
- 警察到场率：约 63%（共27起事件有警察出动）。
- 暴力驱散或抓捕：有 10起 事件明确发生了警察施暴、殴打、捆绑或抓捕维权者（占总事件的23%）。
- 镇压特征：警察的暴力抓捕行动主要集中在“讨薪维权”、“家属讨说法”和“涉及土地/强拆的维权”中（例如：东莞警察将讨薪工人拴起、威海芜湖船厂警察暴力驱逐讨薪工人、吉安樟山镇暴力阻挠建祠堂、云南富源警察进村抢尸爆发冲突等）。
（注：由于高邮是三个独立的工厂工人讨薪，所以算为三起。）
Summary of Mass Protests in China (Published Cases) (February 2026)
In February 2026, a total of 43 mass protest events were recorded in China. Due to the Lunar New Year falling in this month, the number of mass protests saw a relative decline compared to usual.
I. Protesting Groups
- Workers (18 incidents, 42%)
- Composition: Construction workers (8), manufacturing workers (8), sanitation workers (2).
- Core demands: All centered around labor-capital conflicts (demanding unpaid wages, protesting pay cuts, unreasonable shift/leave arrangements, company relocation evading compensation, etc.).
- Families of the Deceased/Patients (6 incidents, 14%)
- Seeking compensation for severe medical malpractice, seeking truth for a student’s suicide due to bullying, demanding accountability for an employee’s accidental death after a company drinking gathering, worker suicides, and resisting forced cremation (corpse-snatching conflicts), etc.
- Farmers (5 incidents, 12%)
- Resisting forced demolition, protesting environmental pollution by a cement plant, protesting the village committee’s unauthorized leasing of a collective school, demanding long-overdue land requisition compensation, etc.
- Religious Believers (4 incidents, 9%)
- Protesting the ban on traditional folk/deity-parading (Youshen) activities, protesting the authorities’ forced demolition of Mazu statues and ancestral halls.
- Investors (2 incidents, 5%)
- Mainly targeting financial investment fraud.
- Other Groups (8 incidents, 18%)
- Petitioners (2), students (1), corporate firefighters (1), community/substitute teachers (Min-Dai-You teachers) (1), military veterans (1), evictees (1), fishermen (1).
II. Location Distribution
- Guangdong: 8 incidents (Shenzhen 2; Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Yangjiang, Lianjiang, Shantou, and Dongguan 1 each);
- Shaanxi: 7 incidents (Xi’an 4, Xianyang 3);
- Jiangsu: 3 incidents (all occurred in Gaoyou, Yangzhou);
- Hebei: 3 incidents; Shandong: 3 incidents;
- Hunan (2), Zhejiang (2), Hainan (2), Yunnan (2), Guizhou (2), Beijing (2);
- 1 incident each in 7 other provinces/municipalities (Shanghai, Fujian, Xinjiang, Chongqing, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangxi).
III. Triggers and Causes
- Worker Wage Arrears and Labor Conflicts (19 incidents, 44%): Unpaid wages, pay cuts, laid-off firefighters denied compensation, uncompensated company relocations, unreasonable Spring Festival leave arrangements, etc.
- Conflicts between Public Power and Livelihood (13 incidents, 30%): Forced demolition of civilian homes/ancestral halls/temples and fishing rafts, defaulted demolition and land requisition compensation, bans on folk and deity-parading activities, unfair veteran resettlement, government corpse-snatching for forced cremation, cement plant pollution, etc.
- Social Bottom Line and Trust Crises (7 incidents, 16%): Fatal medical malpractice, student suicide due to teacher bullying, worker jumping to death, demanding accountability for an employee’s accidental death at a gathering, lack of pension for community/substitute teachers, and a student “uprising” triggered by a school restricting personal freedom, etc.
- Financial and Investment Fraud (2 incidents, 5%): Investment platform scams leading to collective petitioning by investors.
- Blocked Petitioning/Rights Defense (2 incidents, 5%): Petitioners being violently intercepted, such as being bound with duct tape at train stations.
IV. Scale and Size Statistics
- 1-9 people: 3 incidents (7%)
- 10-99 people: 32 incidents (74%)
- 100-999 people: 8 incidents (19%). (Including: Uprising by students smashing school buildings in Dezhou, Shandong; strike by sanitation workers in Zhongshan, Guangdong; strike by workers at Hoshine Silicon in Xinjiang; strike by BYD workers in Xi’an; standoff by religious believers in Xi’an; strike by workers at Yura Corporation in Heze, Shandong; farmers blocking roads in Shaoyang, Hunan; farmers occupying the town government in Tangshan, Hebei).
V. Police Deployment and Violent Suppression
- Police Presence Rate: Approx. 63% (police were deployed in 27 incidents).
- Violent Dispersal or Arrests: In 10 incidents, clear violence, beatings, binding, or arrests of protesters by police occurred (accounting for 23% of total incidents).
- Suppression Characteristics: Violent police arrests were mainly concentrated in “wage-demand protests,” “families demanding accountability,” and “land/forced demolition protests” (e.g., police in Dongguan tying up wage-demanding workers; police violently expelling wage-demanding workers at Wuhu Shipyard in Weihai; violent obstruction of ancestral hall construction in Zhangshan Town, Ji’an; clashes triggered by police entering a village to snatch a corpse in Fuyuan, Yunnan).
(Note: Because the Gaoyou event involved workers from three independent factories demanding unpaid wages, it is counted as three incidents.)