「生意惨淡难以为继，长沙数百商户集体罢市要求降租（2026.05.20）」5月20日，湖南长沙雨花区高桥建材市场数百名商户因长期生意惨淡、经营难以为继，集体罢市停业，要求市场管理方降低租金。
Strike Demanding Rent Reduction (2026.05.20)
On May 20, hundreds of merchants at the Gaoqiao Building Materials Market in Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan, collectively shut down their stalls in protest, demanding that market management reduce rents after prolonged sluggish business left them unable to sustain their operations.
5月20日，云南大理天龙八部影视城老板欠下上百名演员三个月工资跑路，员工集体罢工。
On May 20, the owner of the Tianlong Babu Film and Television City in Dali, Yunnan allegedly fled after owing more than a hundred actors three months of unpaid wages, triggering a collective strike by employees.
5月19日，上海高院外，维权的黄浦区外滩190街坊被强拆户遭保安暴力驱逐。由于房屋被当局低价强拆，190街坊的被强拆户们此前曾多次维权。
On May 19, outside the Shanghai High Court, residents of Compound 190 on the Bund, Huangpu District — who had had their homes forcibly demolished — were violently expelled by security guards while attempting to petition for redress. The residents of Compound 190 have staged multiple previous protests after their properties were forcibly seized and demolished by authorities at below-market compensation.
「广州上百“泛华保险”投资人连日集会，多人遭抓捕（2026.05.18-19）」5月18日至19日，广东广州天河区珠江新城的泛华控股集团总部外，来自中国多地的上百名投资人连续两天集会维权，高喊“泛华还钱”等口号，要求兑付投资款。19日，多名投资人在抗议现场被便衣警察初抓走。据悉，曾被称为“亚洲保险中介第一股”的泛华控股集团，在以“内部福利”“高回报、低风险”等为诱饵，向泛华体系内保险代理人及相关投资者兜售了大量“员工持股计划”理财产品后，于2024年出现兑付危机并最终爆雷，涉及金额约90亿元人民币，受影响人数约8000人。
Hundreds of “Fanhua Insurance” Investors Rally for Consecutive Days in Guangzhou; Multiple People Arrested (2026.05.18-19)
From May 18 to 19, hundreds of investors from various parts of China gathered for two consecutive days outside the headquarters of Fanhua Holding Group in Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, to protest and defend their rights. Shouting slogans such as “Fanhua, return our money,” they demanded the redemption of their investment funds. On May 19, multiple investors were initially seized and taken away by plainclothes police at the protest site.
It is reported that Fanhua Holding Group, once dubbed “Asia’s first insurance intermediary stock,” allegedly used lures like “internal benefits” and “high returns with low risks” to sell a massive volume of “employee stock ownership plan” wealth management products to insurance agents within the Fanhua system and related investors. The company hit a redemption crisis in 2024, which ultimately led to a financial collapse. The crash involves an estimated amount of 9 billion RMB and affects approximately 8,000 people.
5月19日，上海市社保保险事业管理中心，大量维权的外来人员综和保险购买者被警察强行塞进大巴车抓走。2011年6月30日前，非上海户籍的打工者由于无法参加上海职工保险，只能购买外来人员综合保险。2025年，上海出台了综合保险转社会保险的政策，但十年综合保险只能折算两年工龄，因此引发综合保险购买者不满，已发起多次维权行动，要求按1:1转社保。公开资料显示显示，约有400万人在就业期间被缴纳了外来人员综合保险。
On May 19, at the Shanghai Social Insurance Administration Center, a large number of migrant workers enrolled in the city’s Comprehensive Insurance Scheme who were protesting were forcibly pushed onto buses and taken away by police.
Before June 30, 2011, non-Shanghai hukou workers were not allowed to participate in Shanghai’s standard employee social insurance system and could only enroll in the Comprehensive Insurance Scheme for migrant workers. In 2025, Shanghai introduced a policy allowing comprehensive insurance to be converted into standard social insurance. However, ten years of comprehensive insurance contributions can only be converted into two years of pension seniority, sparking strong dissatisfaction among participants. Since then, multiple protest actions have been launched demanding a 1:1 conversion into social insurance.
Public records show that around 4 million workers were enrolled in the migrant workers’ Comprehensive Insurance Scheme during their employment.
5月18日，由于拿不到工资，福建泉州晋江南霞美村宇强鞋厂的数百名工人堵了工厂大门。
On May 18, hundreds of workers at the Yuqiang Shoe Factory in Nanxiamei Village, Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian, blocked the factory gates after failing to receive their wages.
5月18日，河北高碑店市烂尾楼“玫瑰园二期”的上百名业主到市政府要房并要求见市长，但他们只见到了大量特警。
On May 18, more than one hundred homeowners from the unfinished “Rose Garden Phase II” housing project in Gaobeidian, Hebei, gathered at the city government demanding the delivery of their homes and requesting a meeting with the mayor, but were met instead by a large number of special police officers.
「福建数百投资人游行，遭警察暴力镇压（2026.05.18)」福建莆田黄金码头的受害者本周一再次发起维权行动，并再度遭到警察镇压，多人被殴打及抓捕。黄金码头集团长期以高利率揽储，于2026年3月初资金链断裂爆雷，涉及资金逾百亿元。投资人虽多次维权，至今未获任何实质进展。
据一名当事人透露，5月18日上午9时许，数百名投资人在莆田市政府门口集结后，手持国旗、高呼”黄金码头诈骗”等口号，沿街游行。
当游行队伍行进至莆田学院老校区大门附近时，突然遭到大批警察拦截和驱散。现场有多人遭到殴打，三人被当场抓捕。
截至当天晚上，三名被抓投资人中已有两人获释，另一人下落不明。据其中一名获释的老人描述，她在警车上遭到警察殴打：头发被抓住拽拉，脖子被卡住，头部被肘部顶压。
“Hundreds of Investors in Fujian March in Protest, Met with Violent Police Crackdown (2026.05.18)”
Victims of the “Golden Wharf” investment scheme in Putian, Fujian, launched another protest action on Monday, only to once again face police repression. Multiple people were beaten and arrested. The Golden Wharf Group had long attracted deposits with promises of high returns before its capital chain collapsed in early March 2026, involving more than 10 billion yuan in funds. Although investors have repeatedly staged protests, no substantive progress has been made so far.
According to one participant, at around 9 a.m. on May 18, hundreds of investors gathered outside the Putian municipal government building. Holding Chinese national flags and chanting slogans such as “Golden Wharf is fraud,” they marched through the streets in protest.
When the procession reached the vicinity of the old campus gate of Putian University, it was suddenly intercepted and dispersed by a large number of police officers. Several people were beaten at the scene, and three investors were arrested on the spot.
By that evening, two of the three detained investors had reportedly been released, while the whereabouts of the third remained unknown. One elderly woman who was released said she was assaulted by police inside the police vehicle: her hair was grabbed and pulled, her neck was restrained, and her head was pinned down with an elbow.
「平安银行裁员不赔偿，员工举报银行利用员工洗钱（2026.05.14-16）」平安银行及外包公司陕西银雁科技，在项目突然取消后，为逃避赔偿，长期安排包括11名孕妇在内的75名员工待岗。员工多次维权无果后，集体举报平安银行以“多发工资给员工后再转回”的方式洗钱或者逃税。据员工透露，该操作已持续四年多，“平均每月要求约90名员工参与，每人每月转回约1万元”。
Ping An Bank Avoids Layoff Compensation, Employees Report Bank for Using Them to Launder Money (2026.05.14–16)
Ping An Bank and its outsourcing contractor, Shaanxi Yinyan Technology, have kept 75 employees — including 11 pregnant workers — in indefinite standby status following the abrupt cancellation of a project, in an apparent attempt to avoid paying legally mandated severance. After repeated attempts to seek redress through official channels came to nothing, the employees filed a collective report alleging that Ping An Bank has been laundering money or evading taxes by overpaying employees’ salaries and then requiring them to transfer the excess amounts back. According to the employees, the scheme has been running for more than four years, with an average of around 90 employees required to participate each month, each transferring back approximately 10,000 yuan per month.
5月16日，重庆璧山，浙江宝泰电子有限公司重庆分公司工人罢工，抗议公司搬迁厂区未赔偿工人。
On May 16, workers at the Chongqing branch of Zhejiang Baotai Electronics Co., Ltd. in Bishan District went on strike to protest the company’s relocation of its factory without providing compensation to employees.