On September 23, in Yinan County, Linyi, Shandong, parents went to the Migpesen Kindergarten to protest against teachers abusing children. According to the parents, a three-year-old child was recently abused at the kindergarten by teachers who pinched his stomach, pulled his ears, and covered him with a quilt.
On September 25, vendors at the Xinhe Night Market (Dongchenzhuang Night Market) in Kaifeng, Henan, staged a road blockade. They used human walls and shared bicycles to set up barriers that blocked traffic, in protest against the local government’s shutdown of the night market. According to the vendors, all of their stalls had paid stall fees, and if the government shuts down the market, it should compensate them for the losses incurred.
9月24日,一名女士在福建厦门中国工商银行厦门东区支行拍视频称,她存在该银行的100万不见了,连账单都被改了。9月22日,河南南阳中国工行银行信臣路支行,一男子通过自己的浦发银行账户转款到该行后,银行工作人员死活不让他取钱,即使在已经核实了他的身份证户口本后。后来,他在别的支行只花了20分钟便取出了存款。 September 24, a woman filmed a video at the ICBC Xiamen East Branch in Fujian, claiming that the 1 million yuan she had deposited in the bank had disappeared and that even her account statements had been altered.On September 22, at the ICBC Xincheng Road Branch in Nanyang, Henan, a man transferred funds from his SPD Bank account to the branch, but the bank staff refused to let him withdraw the money, even after verifying his ID card and household registration booklet. Later, he was able to withdraw the deposit at another branch in just 20 minutes.
On September 22, at Guangshan No. 3 Senior High School in Xinyang, Henan, family members seeking accountability for a student who had died by suicide were suppressed by police, with several beaten and arrested. According to the family, the student took their own life due to “intimidation and pressure” from the school principal. The family tried to seek help online but found that information could not be posted locally; even when posting from outside the province, they could only share a few images, which were quickly deleted.
On the night of September 24 and into the early hours of September 25, at the Kejicheng Campus of Jiangxi Ganzhou Modern Technology Vocational School, hundreds of students expressed their dissatisfaction with the school’s new rule of confiscating and banning the use of mobile phones by throwing paper and trash downstairs, gathering in the corridors, and chanting slogans such as “refund our money.”
From September 18 to 22, Chinese construction workers on the MMP RKEF nickel smelting contract project in Balikpapan, Indonesia, managed by China Minmetals 19th Metallurgical Construction Company, staged consecutive strikes to protest wage arrears by Sichuan Yinsong Labour Company. According to the workers, Yinsong had previously caused its workers to return to China in June due to unpaid wages, with each of those workers ultimately shortchanged by 8,000 yuan.
On September 23, workers from Wuhan Gaosen Garment Factory in Hubei blocked Hanyang Avenue to protest the local government’s forced demolition of the factory buildings before paying them compensation.
On the evening of September 22, hundreds of senior students at Zhixin High School’s Tianhe campus in Guangzhou, Guangdong, staged a collective class boycott. They chanted slogans in the corridors to protest the school’s demand that 12th graders continue attending classes during Typhoon “Koinu” (“Huajiasa”)’s landfall. Their protest ultimately forced the school to declare a holiday. (Submission)
On September 22, in Shangchong Village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, a woman sat on the tracks of an excavator in an attempt to stop a demolition team from tearing down the supermarket she operated. Reportedly, the supermarket still had time remaining on a ten-year lease, and no compensation had been provided before the demolition. The neighboring shop, which its owner had taken over just a month earlier for 100,000 yuan, now also faces demolition.
“Over 100 Sanitation Workers Dismissed in Youyang, Chongqing for Refusing Pay Cuts (Sept. 17–22, 2025)”
Sanitation workers in Youyang, Chongqing went on strike from September 17 to 22 after being required to sign labor dispatch contracts with a new outsourcing company, which reduced their wages from 2,600 yuan to 1,800 yuan. The strike left garbage piled up across the entire county seat. Reportedly, Youyang has more than 400 sanitation workers in total, and over 100 have already been dismissed for refusing to accept the pay cut. The dismissed workers will receive compensation based on the “N+1” standard.