On June 13, a 10th-grade student at Pingchao High School in Pingchao Town, Nantong, Jiangsu, died by suicide by jumping from a building after reportedly being verbally abused by a teacher. The school publicly claimed it was an accidental fall. On June 14 and 15, the student’s family gathered outside the school seeking an explanation. On the 15th, the family was suppressed by the police, and several members, including the student’s parents, were detained. That night, the student’s grandparents and some local residents went to the town government to protest and demand the release of the parents, but their efforts were unsuccessful.
On June 16, 200 employees of the Blue Horizon Hotel in Dongying, Shandong, gathered at Dongying Century Plaza to demand their unpaid wages and social security contributions. Blue Horizon Group had declared bankruptcy at the end of 2024.
From June 15 to 16, after two days of resistance by villagers, multiple homes in Zhongwei Village, Zhao Village, and Yuliuzhuang Village in Pingxiang County, Xingtai, Hebei, as well as Beizhangma Village in Neiqiu County, were ultimately demolished by the local government.
On June 10, during the setup period of the SNEC 2025 PV and Energy Storage Exhibition in Shanghai, a conflict broke out between workers demanding unpaid wages and personnel from Shenzhen Jiejia Weichuang Company, Guangdong.
From June 11 to 12, due to extremely low wages, hundreds of sanitation workers in Xichang, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, went on strike for two consecutive days and gathered at Yuecheng Square in Xichang, demanding higher pay from the local government. Due to limited information, it remains unclear whether the strike achieved its intended outcome.
A 12-year-old girl tragically died while receiving an IV infusion at Shuyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Jiangsu. Her body was taken away by the hospital under the pretext of surgery and was secretly cremated without the family’s consent. On June 14, her family went to the hospital seeking an explanation, but they were all taken away by the police. As of midday on the 15th, their whereabouts remain unknown.
Follow-up on the forced demolition in Zhongwei Village, Pingxiang County, Hebei: On June 14, more relatives of the homeowners, along with some villagers, joined the protest and have been taking turns guarding the main building, which has not yet been demolished. As a result, the forced demolition operation by the Pingxiang County authorities has been temporarily halted. Meanwhile, hundreds of netizens, upon hearing the news, gathered at the demolition site to show support for the homeowners.
On June 13, outside the Education Bureau of Linzhang County in Handan, Hebei Province, a group of protesting parents joined forces to stop a police vehicle and successfully rescued a fellow demonstrator who had been taken away by the police.
These parents are from rural households whose children attend New Century School in Linzhang County. The protest was triggered by a sudden announcement from the school requiring all students with rural household registration to return to their hometowns for schooling—prompting strong dissatisfaction among the parents. On that day, they gathered with banners in front of the Linzhang County Education Bureau, demanding an explanation.
The parents said they had spent a significant amount of money to enroll their children in New Century School so that they could receive a better education in the county seat. With graduation approaching, the sudden order to send their children back to village schools was something they simply could not accept.
From June 12 to 13, multiple homes in Zhongwei Village and other villages in Pingxiang County, Xingtai, Hebei Province, were forcibly demolished under the direction of local government officials. Despite villagers’ desperate resistance, their houses could not be saved.
Huawei Programmer Violently Dismissed After Filing Complaint Against Supervisor:
On June 13, at Huawei’s campus in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a programmer was reportedly retaliated against by management and forcibly dismissed without any compensation after filing a complaint about internal transfer deception involving the supervisor and project lead of the Datacom PTN adaptation development team. He was ultimately escorted out of the campus by security guards.
“A Huawei programmer, a top graduate from a 985 university in Wuhan with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, shared: “I’ve been working at Huawei for three years. After I filed a complaint against the supervisor and PL of the Datacom PTN adaptation development team for internal transfer deception (search ‘internal transfer deception’ on Huawei’s internal forums for more), I was retaliated against today and forcibly terminated.
In the afternoon, I was called to a meeting room in another building, supposedly to communicate the outcome of a three-level department investigation into the transfer issue. I disagreed with the result and was planning to post a real-name complaint on the internal site. As I was leaving, the supervisor suddenly entered and told me to either resign voluntarily or have Huawei unilaterally terminate my contract—with no compensation. I was stunned. When I tried to log into the internal platform to post my complaint, I discovered all my permissions had been revoked, including access to WeLink. I couldn’t even get into my own office building.
Later, security violently forced me out of my workstation, and my belongings were removed by the supervisor. Since it was past 6 PM, I asked to bike home, but they wouldn’t let me retrieve my bike. A group surrounded me, saying they’d escort me out of the Xicun Huawei campus and claimed they had called the police because I was “disrupting office order.” I was scared—I didn’t understand why they were restricting my movement and controlling my belongings after work hours. So I called the police myself. It was only when I saw the officers arrive that I felt safe.
The retaliation came because I had reported the supervisor and the internal transfer liaison to second-level leadership. The complaint detailed how, during an internal transfer in March last year, they lured me into the PTN department with a promised Java position. But after transferring, I found out there was no Java role. I had full phone recording evidence of the internal transfer communication. I posted about it and reported to second-level leadership. Even with clear evidence, fourth- and third-level departments covered for the fifth-level supervisor. Then, today, they suddenly and unilaterally terminated my contract.”
