On July 14, a group of homebuyers in Shenzhen, Guangdong, who had been scammed while purchasing properties advertised as being in school districts, went to the Civic Center to defend their rights. The police told them they would be taken to meet with government officials, but instead tricked them onto a bus and transported them to a different location.

7月14日晚，在习近平口中的“千年大计”——河北雄安新区，一名市民劝阻打算收走摊贩小吃车的城管时表示，自从搬迁到雄安后，拆迁赔偿款基本都用来买了房，如今连物业费、停车费等都交不起，大家的生活非常艰难，希望城管能通融一下。这名市民还劝说城管改行，因为现在老百姓一看到穿制服的人就害怕。

On the evening of July 14, in Xiong’an New Area, Hebei Province—hailed by Xi Jinping as a “millennium plan”—a local resident tried to dissuade urban management officers who were attempting to confiscate a street vendor’s food cart. The resident explained that since being relocated to Xiong’an, the compensation money from the demolition had mostly been spent on buying a home, and now they couldn’t even afford to pay property management fees or parking fees. Life had become extremely difficult, and they hoped the officers could show some leniency. The resident also advised the officers to consider changing jobs, saying that ordinary people now feel afraid whenever they see someone in uniform.

7月14日晚，在习近平口中的“千年大计”——河北雄安新区，一名市民劝阻打算收走摊贩小吃车的城管时表示，自从搬迁到雄安后，拆迁赔偿款基本都用来买了房，如今连物业费、停车费等都交不起，大家的生活非常艰难，希望城管能通融一下。这名市民还劝说城管改行，因为现在老百姓一看到穿制服的人就害怕。

On the evening of July 14, in Xiong’an New Area, Hebei Province—hailed by Xi Jinping as a “millennium plan”—a local resident tried to dissuade urban management officers who were attempting to confiscate a street vendor’s food cart. The resident explained that since being relocated to Xiong’an, the compensation money from the demolition had mostly been spent on buying a home, and now they couldn’t even afford to pay property management fees or parking fees. Life had become extremely difficult, and they hoped the officers could show some leniency. The resident also advised the officers to consider changing jobs, saying that ordinary people now feel afraid whenever they see someone in uniform.

On July 14, in Qianxi City, Bijie, Guizhou Province, a strike by sanitation workers over unpaid wages had been ongoing for nearly a week.

On July 13, more than a dozen petitioners from Shanghai who had traveled to Beijing were intercepted and brought back to Shanghai by interceptors. They were detained inside the Putuo District Public Security Bureau, awaiting pickup by government personnel from their respective subdistrict offices.

On July 11, several street performers—some of whom were disabled—protested against urban management officers who had stopped their performances by sitting on top of a city management vehicle and lying in front of its wheels in a plaza near Dongfang Fishing Port on Changxing Island, Shanghai.

On July 10, the strike at Nuosha Garment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Fuzhou, Jiangxi had already lasted for a week. In the early hours of that day, the company owner attempted to secretly move out equipment but was caught by the workers and failed.

7月10日，广西南宁江南区，人人乐超市员工在超市门口拉横幅集会，抗议国企曲江文投及其旗下人人乐超市欠缴社保、抛弃员工。据员工透露，曲江文投为了“保壳”，将人人乐名下13家子公司以每家1元的价格转卖给了空壳公司之后，仅保障高管薪资，而普通员工则长期被拖欠工资、欠缴社保。

On July 10, in Jiangnan District of Nanning, Guangxi, employees of Renrenle Supermarket gathered with banners in front of the store to protest against the state-owned enterprise Qujiang Cultural Investment and its subsidiary Renrenle Supermarket for failing to pay social insurance and abandoning workers. According to employees, in order to “maintain its listing status,” Qujiang Cultural Investment sold 13 subsidiaries of Renrenle to shell companies for just 1 yuan each. After the transfer, only executive salaries were guaranteed, while ordinary workers faced long-term wage arrears and unpaid social insurance.

From July 12 to 14, in the Wuli Industrial Park of Lingshan County, Qinzhou, Guangxi, the boss of Qiangliang Plywood Factory, who had long delayed paying workers’ wages, was confronted by dozens of workers. After repeated failed attempts to claim their pay, the workers trapped the boss in his office and even barred him from using the restroom.

In Wangjiatai Village, Miaotou Town, Hanchuan City, Xiaogan, Hubei Province, the village party secretary, Wang Weichi, embezzled the funds that were meant to pay for villagers’ rural cooperative medical insurance. As a result, a villager who suffered a sudden stroke was turned away by the hospital due to being unable to pay for treatment. On July 13, villagers pushed the patient to the entrance of the village committee office to demand an explanation.