In Jiangyou, Sichuan, thousands of citizens stood up today for a young girl who had been bullied. In the video, a young man is seen being arrested on the spot by an enraged police officer after trying to protect an elderly person who was arguing with stability maintenance officials. In every similar large-scale protest, there are countless heroes who stand up against injustice done to others. They are arrested, sentenced, and yet receive little attention. Most of them will never be known to the world. The “Yesterday” channel will soon release a documentary titled The Jiangyou Incident.
On August 3, due to poor business and the inability to afford high rents, merchants at the Dajia Street Clothing Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei, staged a collective shutdown, demanding that the market management lower the rent.
On August 1, workers at Zhongguangdian Communication Technology Co., Ltd. in Heyuan, Guangdong, staged a collective strike to protest against the company’s relocation without compensation and unpaid wages. According to the workers, the company had already moved to Jiangxi in April this year. In order to avoid paying compensation, the boss kept one production line for those unwilling to relocate. The delayed wages were intended to force them to resign voluntarily.
On the evening of August 3, hundreds of tenants in Mianyang, Sichuan, continued their third day of protest against arbitrary community charges. The tenants collectively tore down the community’s installed parking toll gates, marking an initial victory in their resistance against forced parking fees.
On August 1, near the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Beijing, interceptors abducted an elderly petitioner in broad daylight on the street.
From August 1 to 2, hundreds of tenants living in the Shiqiaopu Community of Puming Subdistrict, High-Tech Zone, Mianyang, Sichuan, held demonstrations for two consecutive days, blocking roads to protest the community’s forced enclosure and imposition of parking fees.
On Thursday, July 31, around 200 villagers in Wujizhen, Hengdong County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, gathered at the construction site of a large waste treatment facility in Wuliping Village to protest against the local government’s decision to push forward with the project despite public opposition. According to the villagers, Wuliping Village hosts a major vegetable base that supplies about 80% of the county’s vegetables. The proposed site is located just a few hundred meters upstream from the Mishui River, a designated water source protection area. They warn that if the waste facility is built, it could cause severe contamination to the county’s water supply and food safety.
On August 1, a petitioner from Changsha, Hunan—known as “Hanhans Mama”—was abducted near the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration in Yongdingmen, Beijing by more than ten interception agents. She was forced into a vehicle, and her whereabouts remain unknown.
Hanhans Mama began petitioning after her young daughter died in 2010 due to a medical accident at the Hunan Changsha Children’s Hospital. She has been seeking justice for 14 years. Authorities at all levels in Yongxiang Community, Gaoqiao Subdistrict, Yuhua District, Changsha, have continuously suppressed her efforts. Over the years, she has been repeatedly followed, beaten, and detained by interception personnel, and was at one point sentenced to prison by the local court.
On August 1, workers at the Fengyuan Shoe Factory in Daoxian County, Yongzhou, Hunan Province went on strike over low wages. According to the workers, their salary for July 2025 was only 1,500 yuan.
[Guangxi Villagers Block Toll Station, Confront Police Over Illegal Fees]
On August 1, villagers in Jiulong Town, Qinzhou City, Guangxi, launched a protest by blocking the Jiulong toll station on National Highway G325. They accused the local government of illegally continuing to charge tolls past the expiration date and of blocking village roads. The protest escalated into a standoff with a large number of police officers.
That evening, under mounting pressure, the local authorities removed the concrete barriers that had been used to block the village road.
According to villagers, the Jiulong toll station’s authorized charging period expired in 2024, and it should have been dismantled according to regulations. However, the local government, motivated by profit, continued to enforce toll collection and even blocked alternate village routes with concrete barricades to prevent locals from bypassing the station.
China officially abolished tolls on national highways in 2009, but since last year, many local governments have resumed toll collection under the pretext of “maintenance and operations.”
On April 12 of this year, villagers had already staged a similar protest at the Jiulong toll station, forcing it to temporarily suspend toll collection. However, the tolls resumed just two days later.
