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.”
On June 11 and 12, workers from Zaoyuan Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd. in Changge City, Henan, staged a sit-in outside the Changge municipal government for two consecutive days to demand their wages.
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.
