From September 11 to 13, more than one hundred employees from the 18 branches of the Jin Haolai supermarket chain in Gongyi, Henan, staged a three-day protest at the city government and other locations, demanding payment of wages that had been in arrears for four months. Founded in 2003, Jin Haolai Supermarket declared bankruptcy on September 11, leaving not only unpaid wages for employees but also outstanding payments to suppliers and balances owed to membership card holders.
On September 11, in Deqing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang, two auxiliary police officers checked the tenant’s ID three times in the same rental apartment, which angered the tenant and eventually led to the officers being driven away.
On September 12, medical staff at Xindu District Central Hospital in Xingtai, Hebei, went on strike to protest against unpaid wages and social insurance. Reportedly, the hospital has only paid salaries up to November 2024 and has only contributed to social insurance up to January 2024. Public records show that Xindu District Central Hospital in Xingtai is a Grade II Class A public general hospital, formerly known as Xingtai County Central Hospital.
“Mass Food Poisoning Incidents in Guangdong and Shandong: Authorities Delete Posts, Shut Down Groups, Deploy Police, Prioritizing Stability”
In recent days, two schools in Lufeng, Guangdong, and Jining, Shandong, have consecutively reported mass student food poisoning incidents. Instead of fully treating the affected students, the schools and Chinese authorities focused their efforts on silencing information and preventing parents from seeking justice.
On September 12, a mass food poisoning outbreak occurred at Chaoyang (Yucai) School in Yanzhou District, Jining, Shandong. Hundreds of students suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, and even shock after consuming food provided by the school, and were rushed to hospitals for emergency treatment. The school’s first reaction was not to prioritize saving the students but to conceal the truth and stop parents from spreading the news. At the same time, poisoned students sent to hospitals were left in the corridors unattended. Meanwhile, the local government deleted related online information and deployed large numbers of police to hospitals, schools, and other locations to prevent parents from taking action.
A day earlier, on September 11, another mass food poisoning incident took place at Huamei Experimental School in Lufeng, Shanwei, Guangdong. Nearly one hundred elementary students suffered from vomiting and diarrhea after eating school-provided meals and were hospitalized for treatment. Anxious parents began discussing in WeChat groups how to appeal to the government, but the groups were forcibly disbanded.
Under the Chinese Communist Party’s logic of “stability above all else,” the lives and health of the people are consistently relegated to secondary importance—one of the main reasons why such incidents continue to occur repeatedly.
On September 10 and 11, in Bianyong Village, Zhenwen Town, Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, villagers clashed for two consecutive days with government personnel who entered the village to seize land.
On September 12, in Renshou County, Meishan, Sichuan, hundreds of homeowners of Sunac Future City launched a protest, demanding that the developer terminate their contracts and refund their payments. However, they were suppressed by a large number of police officers, with many homeowners beaten, dragged, and arrested. The Renshou Sunac Future City (Legoland) project was originally scheduled for delivery by the end of 2023, but remains unfinished to this day, affecting 7,000 homeowners who have previously staged multiple protests.
From September 7 to 11, sanitation workers in Zaoqiang County, Hengshui, Hebei, went on a collective strike after being owed nine months of wages, leaving the streets of Zaoqiang town surrounded by garbage.
From September 9 to 10, homeowners of Evergrande Central Plaza in Huaihua, Hunan, staged a two-day “bottle-banging protest,” sitting in front of places such as the Huaihua municipal government and striking the ground with plastic water bottles to demand compensation for apartments that were delivered as bare shells instead of fully decorated. On September 11, local government departments announced that compensation payments for the project’s unfinished interiors would begin to be issued in batches starting September 12.
On September 10, although ten days had passed since the start of the school term, more than ten left-behind children at Didong Village Primary School in Zhenwen Town, Wuchuan, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, still had no books to read because the school remained closed.
