Maria Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Jinniu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, has delayed salaries and social security payments for seven months, and attempted to transfer hospital equipment out of the facility. On June 12, all doctors and nurses launched a collective action to demand their wages and stopped the hospital management from removing the equipment.
“Shijiazhuang, Hebei: Over a Thousand Students Launch ‘June 12 Uprising’ to Protest Delayed Summer Break (2025.06.12)”
More than a thousand students at Hebei International Studies University gathered on campus Friday night to protest the school’s decision to delay the summer holiday.
According to multiple students, the university had originally planned to begin summer break at the end of June. However, due to upcoming performances by the Art Department for visiting foreign guests in July, the administration recently announced that the entire school’s vacation would be postponed until mid-July. The sudden notice sparked widespread discontent among students, many of whom took to social media to voice their anger. Some even speculated that the real reason behind the delay was to help campus shops earn more profit.
On the night of June 12, the protests escalated as over a thousand students gathered on the school’s athletic field, chanting slogans demanding the university stick to the original holiday schedule. Videos from the scene show students shouting “Let us go on break!” led by a peer holding a megaphone. At one point, school officials appeared and spoke with the students, but gave no indication that the delayed holiday plan would be reversed.
In the aftermath, students dubbed the protest the “June 12 Uprising” and nicknamed the student leading the chants “Thermos Hero.” They also called on more classmates to join the movement and remain steadfast until the administration agrees to revise the vacation schedule.
On June 12, at the Wuhan Education Bureau in Hubei Province, citizens protesting for their rights were forcibly dragged onto buses and taken away by stability maintenance police. The protest was triggered by the recent decision of local authorities to reassign the household registration (hukou) and school enrollment status of residents from Xingfuwan Community and surrounding neighborhoods in Chenjiaji Subdistrict—formerly under Jiang’an District—to the newly established Yangtze River New District, sparking strong public dissatisfaction.
“Explanation: The administrative re-zoning of Wuhan’s Yangtze River New District has reassigned the hukou and student enrollment status of residents from residential buildings around Xingfuwan in Chenjiaji, which originally belonged to Jiang’an District. This has caused public discontent, as these properties were sold with the promise that they would fall under Jiang’an District for both hukou and school district purposes. Petitioners were dragged away at the Wuhan Education Bureau.”
From June 6 to 11, due to poor business, merchants at the Central China Building Materials Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, went on strike for several days, demanding lower rent from the market management.
On June 11, dozens of employees gathered at Nezha Auto’s new headquarters in Minhang District, Shanghai, to demand unpaid wages and social insurance. Faced with the protesting workers, Nezha Auto’s chairman, Fang Yunzhu, kept dodging the issue and refused to pay. That evening, he left the headquarters under police escort. In fact, ever since the new headquarters opened on June 3, employees have been coming here to demand their unpaid wages.
On June 10, in Dongguan, Guangdong, workers at Henghui Eyewear Co., Ltd. launched a protest after going unpaid for several months. They staged a collective hunger strike on the rooftop of the factory building to demand their wages. However, by that evening, the workers had still not been paid.
In Yugan County, Shangrao, Jiangxi, homeowners in the Blue City Mingyue Jiangnan residential complex have been unable to obtain property deeds because the developer used the project as collateral for construction debts. On May 10, when the homeowners went to the county government to seek assistance, they were met with a police crackdown, during which several people were beaten and arrested.
On June 6 and 10, in Datuan Village, Shichongkou Town, Xinhua County, Loudi, Hunan, Yuan Xichun, the head of the Shichongkou Town Police Station, led police forces twice to suppress villagers defending their rights — even a 98-year-old woman was not spared. Since 2024, villagers of Datuan have been protesting against the local government’s forced land seizure under the pretext of a resettlement project, which in reality is for marble mining. Several villagers have been arrested during the ongoing resistance.