9月7日晚11点左右，贵州毕节威宁县中等职业学校的数千名学生发起集体抗议行动，以抵制学校禁止学生使用手机的决定。抗议期间，学生们朝宿舍楼下投掷了大量燃烧的纸张、枕头、垃圾等杂物。

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.

「广州技校频繁停水电引发大规模学生抗议」广东广州江南理工高级技工学校的男生宿舍周日（9月7日）晚爆发了一场由学生发起的抗议，上千名学生因学校频繁停电停水，仍坚持要求学生正常上课作息，冲破宿舍大门，与校方人员发生冲突，并在校园内高喊“退钱”口号。这场积压多日的怒火，最终在周日晚间全面爆发。

根据多名学生透露，学校在招生之初就存在虚假宣传的现象，宿舍并非招生承诺的6人间，而是12人间，另外，学校的其他设施也相当老旧，环境脏乱差。事件的导火索是学校近期频繁的停电，据学生透露，学校自8月23日以来一直频繁停电，有时一天甚至超过十次。周日，学生们在完成一整天的军训后，发现宿舍不仅没有热水可以洗澡，学校还在晚上9点15分准时关灯要求学生睡觉。之后，宿舍再一次停电，导致宿舍内的空调无法运行，学生们在酷热难耐中难以入睡。更令他们感到愤怒的是，当他们试图离开宿舍到户外乘凉时，发现宿舍大门已被校方上锁。

学生们在绝望和愤怒中选择了反抗。他们从宿舍的各个楼层冲出，在走廊上聚集，高喊口号，要求学校退钱。起初，一些学生向楼下投掷垃圾，以表达不满。随后，抗议活动升级，部分学生砸烂宿舍大门并冲出大楼，与一名学校老师发生冲突。据目击者透露，学生们曾手持棍棒，在操场上追赶一名老师。

当晚，在学生大规模抗议后，学校恢复了供电，学生们才陆续散去。期间，曾有警察因学校报警到达抗议现场，但没有学生因此遭到抓捕。截至目前，校方尚未对此事件作出公开回应。

“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were promised to house six students per room but instead were overcrowded with twelve, and other facilities were outdated and poorly maintained.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.

9月7日，广东罗定市苹塘镇桐油村，当地政府在未与村民达成协议，未赔偿村民的情况下，出动大量政府人员暴力强征土地，用于修建深南高铁。

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.

9月3日，甘肃白银靖远县德雅高级中学，长期遭受同寝室同学霸凌的学生宋承承，在入学20天后，在学校被同学霸凌致死。事发后，家属到学校讨要说法无果，发布到网络的相关信息亦被删除一空。（根据投稿整理）

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)

【深圳港资电器厂上千工人罢工讨薪】9月5日，广东深圳银图电器有限公司上千工人集体罢工，抗议公司拖欠工资以及社保。当天下午，公司与工人达成协议，罢工结束。随后，银图发布公告称，由于海外订单不稳，导致资金紧张，无奈推迟工资发放。根据协议，银图将在9月15日补发七月份工资，但未提及已拖欠的8月份工资及社保。公开资料显示，银图电器(深圳）有限公司隶属于香港银图实业有限公司，成立于1987年，高峰期有员工4000人。

[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.

江苏苏州吴中区永旺梦乐城内的美术书法培训机构金艺绘近日卷款跑路，数百家长9月6日在永旺梦乐城聚会，要求永旺退钱。

A fine arts and calligraphy training institution, Jin Yihui, located inside Aeon Mall in Wuzhong District, Suzhou, Jiangsu, recently absconded with funds. On September 6, hundreds of parents gathered at Aeon Mall demanding refunds.

9月3日晚，湖北武汉青山区，当地政府在商户合约未到期、未对商户作出赔偿的情况下，出动大量政府人员、警察、保安暴力强拆了工业四路五金机电市场。

On the evening of September 3, in Qingshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, the local government forcibly demolished the Industrial Fourth Road Hardware and Electrical Market, deploying a large number of government personnel, police, and security guards, even though the merchants’ contracts had not expired and no compensation had been provided to them.

9月4日，广东清远教育局，维权的学生为了打发时间，玩起了扑克牌。据维权学生的家长透露，他们25年前就住进了清远沙田村，他们的孩子之前一直与沙田村的小孩同等待遇，一起在沙田小学读书。但是，今年小升初后，沙田村的小孩都就近上了松岗中学，但他们的孩子却因为他们是外地农村户口，被分配到了50公里远的学校上学。

On September 4, at the Qingyuan Education Bureau in Guangdong, students defending their rights played poker to pass the time. According to the parents of these students, they had moved into Shatian Village in Qingyuan 25 years ago, and their children had always been treated the same as the local children of Shatian Village, studying together at Shatian Primary School. However, after this year’s transition to middle school, the children of Shatian Village were able to attend the nearby Songgang Middle School, while their children, because they hold rural household registrations from outside the area, were assigned to a school 50 kilometers away.

9月3至4日期间发生在北京街头的三起截访事件，其中两起有警察参与。

Between September 3 and 4, three incidents of petitioners being intercepted took place on the streets of Beijing, two of which involved the participation of police officers.

「南方五省大量关闭乡村学校，14校“留守儿童”被逼成维权者」九月本是中国的开学季，但在广东、广西等南方五省，许多农村地区的“留守儿童”却面临着无学可上的困境。他们不得不走上街头，为自己争取基本的受教育权利，从不谙世事的小学生，被迫成为了“维权者、上访者”。

9月2日，广东廉江横山镇下路小学下坡仔分校门口，一群孩子聚集在一起，高喊“我要上学！”，抗议学校被关闭。类似的情景，近期在广东、云南、贵州、广西、福建的十四所乡村学校门口反复上演。一些孩子甚至跟随家长前往当地政府或教育局维权，这使得他们在小学求学阶段，就不得不体验到生活的艰辛。

近年来，随着中国人口出生率持续走低，乡村小学面临生源锐减的问题。教育部门以“优化资源配置”为由，开始大规模撤并学校，将学生集中到更大但离家更远的学校。在官方的叙述中，这是一种合理的教育改革，但对于那些几乎完全由年迈老人照顾的农村留守儿童来说，他们是这一政策的牺牲品。

由于父母在外地打工，这些孩子通常由爷爷奶奶或外公外婆照看。当家门口的学校被关闭后，他们不得不步行数公里到更远的学校上学。然而，地方政府并未提供校车服务，这不仅增加了孩子们在上学路上的交通安全风险，也给年迈的接送者带来了沉重的负担。

讽刺的是，即使父母把孩子带到城市里上学，也同样面临困境。因为，在城里上学需要买房，但高昂的房价让绝大多数农民工家庭望而却步。即使能够买房，农村户口也常常让他们在城市教育体系中遭遇不公。在农村上学困难，在城市又无法立足，一些孩子很可能因此成为失学儿童。

为了孩子的受教育权，许多家长将抗议视频和文章发布到社交媒体上寻求帮助。然而，这些本应得到关注的正当诉求，却常常被迅速屏蔽或删除。这种“看不见”的困境，让许多家长更加绝望。

在撤并学校的逻辑里，孩子们往往只是统计表上的数字，学校的存续只关乎成本与效率；然而在乡村家庭的心中，那些校舍却是孩子们接受教育的唯一希望。如今，大量留守儿童被迫站在校门口高喊“我要上学”，这一幕不仅折射出教育资源分配的巨大不平衡，更揭示了在城乡鸿沟与制度壁垒之下，最脆弱的群体如何从幼年便背负起沉重的代价。

因被关闭而引发抗议的学校：

广东高州深镇镇仙人洞村仙人洞小学

广东廉江和寮镇塘拱村小学

广东廉江横山镇下路小学下坡仔分校

广东廉江青平镇黄竹江小学

广东廉江新民镇义路塘小学

广东罗定罗平镇横垌小学

云南昭通威信县扎西镇黄家坪小学

云南昭通彝良县洛旺苗族乡树草坪村树草小学

云南昭通镇雄罗坎镇大水井小学

贵州毕节大方县瓢井镇回龙小学

贵州望谟麻山镇牛场小学

广西梧州龙圩区新地镇思现分校

福建省三明市尤溪县中仙乡文井村

“Mass Closures of Rural Schools in Five Southern Provinces Force ‘Left-Behind Children’ to Become Petitioners” September is normally the start of the new school term in China. But in rural areas across Guangdong and four other southern provinces, many “left-behind children” now face the predicament of having no school to attend. They have been forced onto the streets to demand their basic right to education—young primary school students, once innocent and carefree, are now compelled to become “petitioners” and “rights defenders.” On September 2, at the gate of the Xiapozi branch of Xialu Primary School in Hengshan Town, Lianjiang, Guangdong, a group of children gathered and shouted “I want to go to school!” in protest at the school’s closure. Similar scenes have recently been repeated outside fourteen rural schools in Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Fujian. Some children have even followed their parents to local government or education bureaus to seek redress, experiencing hardship at an age when they should only be focused on learning. In recent years, as China’s birth rate has continued to decline, rural primary schools have faced a severe drop in enrollment. Under the banner of “optimizing resource allocation,” education authorities have carried out large-scale school mergers, transferring students to bigger but more distant schools. Officially, this is framed as a reasonable educational reform. But for rural left-behind children—most of whom are raised by elderly grandparents while their parents work far away—it has made them the victims of policy. With neighborhood schools shuttered, these children must now walk several kilometers to reach more distant schools. Local governments have not provided school bus services, which not only heightens traffic safety risks for the children but also places a heavy burden on their elderly caretakers. Ironically, even if migrant workers bring their children to the cities, they face another set of challenges. Urban schooling usually requires home ownership, yet soaring housing prices put this out of reach for most rural families. Even when parents manage to buy property, their rural household registration often exposes their children to discrimination in the urban education system. Difficulties in accessing education in the countryside, coupled with barriers in the cities, mean that some children risk dropping out altogether. To defend their children’s right to education, many parents have posted protest videos and articles on social media seeking help. Yet these legitimate appeals, which deserve public attention, are often swiftly censored or deleted. This “invisible” struggle has left many parents in despair. In the logic of school mergers, children are reduced to mere numbers in a spreadsheet; the survival of a school is measured only in terms of cost and efficiency. But for rural families, those classrooms are the sole hope for their children’s education. Today, with large numbers of left-behind children standing at school gates shouting “I want to go to school,” the scene not only reveals the deep imbalance in educational resources, but also shows how, beneath the urban-rural divide and systemic barriers, the most vulnerable are forced to bear heavy costs from early childhood.

Schools closed and triggering protests include: •Xianrendong Primary School, Xianrendong Village, Shenzhen Town, Gaozhou, Guangdong •Tanggong Village Primary School, Heliao Town, Lianjiang, Guangdong •Xiapozi Branch, Xialu Primary School, Hengshan Town, Lianjiang, Guangdong •Huangzhujian Primary School, Qingping Town, Lianjiang, Guangdong •Yilutang Primary School, Xinmin Town, Lianjiang, Guangdong •Hengdong Primary School, Luoping Town, Luoding, Guangdong •Huangjiaping Primary School, Zhaxi Town, Weixin County, Zhaotong, Yunnan •Shucao Primary School, Shucaoping Village, Luowang Miao Township, Yiliang County, Zhaotong, Yunnan •Dashuijing Primary School, Luokan Town, Zhenxiong County, Zhaotong, Yunnan •Huilong Primary School, Piaojing Town, Dafang County, Bijie, Guizhou •Niuchang Primary School, Mashan Town, Wangmo, Guizhou •Sixian Branch, Xindi Town, Longxu District, Wuzhou, Guangxi •Wenjing Village Primary School, Zhongxian Township, Youxi County, Sanming, Fujian