Dozens of construction workers on Monday (September 8) blocked the gate of the administrative committee of the Tongchuan New Materials Industrial Park in Shaanxi, demanding wages that had been withheld by Tongchuan LONGi for more than six months. At one point, they confronted the police. According to the workers, wages owed to several hundred workers amount to tens of millions of yuan in total.
[Hundreds of Delivery Riders in Changsha Block Entrance to Protest Property Ban]
On the evening of Monday, September 8, more than a hundred food delivery riders gathered at the entrance of the Mingfa Yuejiang Yuefu residential compound in Yueliangdao, Wangcheng District, Changsha, Hunan, blocking the gate to protest the property management’s ban on them riding through the compound to reach the Sasseur Outlets Golden Street for order pickups. This restriction caused their pickup time to be extended by about half an hour compared with usual. According to informed sources, the property management took this measure because stall fees had not been paid recently. In the early hours of the following day, the riders dispersed after police promised to hold a meeting that morning with subdistrict officials, Sasseur representatives, property management, and rider representatives to discuss a resolution. However, the riders stated that if they did not receive a satisfactory response by 5:30 p.m. on September 9, they would launch another protest.
Submission: Statement by Wuxi, Jiangsu Rights Defender Shen Aibin After Being Beaten by Police
“Jiangsu rights defender Shen Aibin was recently beaten by police. His attempts to seek justice through reporting the incident were unsuccessful. He recorded a video himself to expose the collusion of government and criminal forces, calling for social justice. The video was passed on through intermediaries and eventually made its way abroad, in the hope of wider publication and greater impact.”
On the evening of September 7, a group of retired veterans from Lüliang, Shanxi, who had come to Beijing to petition, were intercepted at the train station by a group of plainclothes officers immediately after getting off the train.
[Hundreds of Commuters to Beijing Block Road in Protest After Being Abandoned by Buses] On September 8, at the Baimiao checkpoint in Tongzhou, Beijing, hundreds of commuters traveling from Hebei to work in Beijing blocked the road to protest being abandoned by their buses, causing a traffic jam that left over 2,000 people stuck for several hours. According to informed sources, the incident began when an accident occurred on the highway that day. The buses, which normally take the highway, had to exit and enter Beijing through the Baimiao checkpoint instead. Because the inspection process at the checkpoint was very slow, some passengers chose to get off the bus and walk through the checkpoint before re-boarding. However, after they passed the checkpoint, the bus drivers refused to open the doors to let these passengers back on.
At around 11 p.m. on September 7, thousands of students at Weining County Secondary Vocational School in Bijie, Guizhou launched a collective protest against the school’s decision to ban students from using mobile phones. During the protest, students threw large amounts of burning paper, pillows, garbage, and other items from their dormitory buildings.
“Frequent Power and Water Outages at Guangzhou Vocational School Spark Mass Student Protest”
On Sunday evening (September 7), a student-led protest broke out at the male dormitories of Jiangnan Polytechnic Senior Technical School in Guangzhou, Guangdong. Thousands of students clashed with school staff after repeatedly suffering from frequent power and water outages, while the school still insisted on maintaining normal class schedules. The students broke through the dormitory gates, chanting “Refund our money!” across campus. Days of pent-up anger finally erupted in full force that night.
According to several students, the school engaged in false advertising during enrollment. Dormitories were promised to house six students per room but instead were overcrowded with twelve, and other facilities were outdated and poorly maintained. The immediate trigger for the protest was a series of recent blackouts. Since August 23, the school had experienced frequent power cuts, sometimes more than ten times a day. On Sunday, after enduring a full day of military training, students returned to find there was no hot water for showers, and at 9:15 p.m., the school turned off the lights, ordering them to sleep. Another power outage soon followed, shutting down the air conditioners in the sweltering dormitories. Students, unable to bear the heat, tried to go outside for relief, only to discover that the dormitory gates had been locked by school authorities.
In despair and anger, students chose to resist. They rushed out from different dormitory floors, gathering in the corridors and chanting for the school to refund their fees. At first, some expressed their dissatisfaction by throwing trash from the upper floors. The protest then escalated: some students smashed open the dormitory gates, stormed out of the building, and clashed with a teacher. Eyewitnesses reported that students armed with sticks even chased a teacher across the playground.
Later that night, following the large-scale protest, the school restored power, and students gradually dispersed. Police were called to the scene after the school reported the incident, but no students were arrested. As of now, the school has yet to issue a public response.
On September 7, in Tongyou Village, Pingtang Town, Luoding City, Guangdong, the local government, without reaching an agreement with the villagers or offering compensation, deployed a large number of personnel to forcibly seize land for the construction of the Shen-Nan High-Speed Railway.
On September 3, at Deya Senior High School in Jingyuan County, Baiyin, Gansu, a student named Song Chengcheng, who had long been subjected to bullying by dormitory roommates, was beaten to death at school after just 20 days of enrollment. After the incident, the family sought an explanation from the school but to no avail, and all related information posted online was deleted. (Compiled from submissions)
[Strike by Over a Thousand Workers at Hong Kong-Invested Appliance Factory in Shenzhen Over Unpaid Wages]
On September 5, more than a thousand workers at Shenzhen Yintu Electric Co., Ltd. went on strike to protest the company’s failure to pay wages and social insurance. That afternoon, the company reached an agreement with the workers, and the strike ended.
Subsequently, Yintu issued a statement saying that unstable overseas orders had led to financial difficulties, forcing it to delay wage payments. According to the agreement, Yintu will pay the delayed wages for July on September 15, but made no mention of the already overdue August wages or social insurance.
Public records show that Yintu Electric (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Hong Kong Yintu Industrial Co., Ltd., established in 1987, with a peak workforce of around 4,000 employees.