On September 23, workers from Wuhan Gaosen Garment Factory in Hubei blocked Hanyang Avenue to protest the local government’s forced demolition of the factory buildings before paying them compensation.
On the evening of September 3, in Qingshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, the local government forcibly demolished the Industrial Fourth Road Hardware and Electrical Market, deploying a large number of government personnel, police, and security guards, even though the merchants’ contracts had not expired and no compensation had been provided to them.
On August 26, at the Optics Valley Broadcasting and Television Media Building in Wuhan, Hubei, construction workers from a broadcasting project gathered to demand their wages. According to the workers, the project has not paid any wages in 2025.
On the evening of August 25, at Jindi Plaza on Tuanjie Avenue in Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, street vendors clashed violently with security guards, resulting in several people being injured and hospitalized, and attracting hundreds of onlookers. According to witnesses, the conflict arose after Jindi Plaza deployed security guards to collect a monthly stall fee of 2,000 yuan from the vendors.
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.
[Postpartum Care Center Owner in Wuhan Absconds with Funds; 600 Maternity Matrons Protest for Unpaid Wages]
On July 25, the Yuexi Postpartum Care Center in Wuhan, Hubei abruptly announced its closure, leaving over 600 maternity matrons unpaid for several months of wages and deposits. From July 26 to 29, hundreds of workers from its eighteen branches across Wuhan, Hubei and Nanchang, Jiangxi launched consecutive protests demanding payment, but their efforts have so far been in vain.
According to employees, the founder, Zheng Heng, has fled abroad with 20 million yuan.
Public records show that Yuexi Postpartum Care Center was founded in 2013 and is operated by Hubei Yuexi Health Management Co., Ltd.
In the early morning of July 28, a conflict broke out between homeowners of Fangzhou Garden and security personnel in Baibuting, Jiang’an District, Wuhan, Hubei Province. The clash occurred as residents tried to stop the construction of Metro Line 12, which was being forcibly carried out despite their objections. According to the homeowners, Fangzhou Garden was originally built in 1998 as an emergency relocation project for disaster-affected residents. The buildings are multi-story structures made of prefabricated panel-brick-concrete, and have already shown signs of subsidence and cracking. If Metro Line 12 is forced to tunnel beneath the community, it could further damage the already fragile foundations and pose a serious threat to the lives and property of the hundreds of households living there.
On the morning of July 4, residents of Hua’anli—Wuhan’s largest urban village, often referred to as the city’s own “Kowloon Walled City”—launched a protest, blocking traffic to oppose the government’s “housing voucher” compensation scheme for demolition. The protesters resisted what they called “demolition that only makes us poorer,” and at one point clashed with stability maintenance police.
In May this year, the Wuhan government officially initiated the demolition and land acquisition of Hua’anli, involving a land area of 314.37 mu. According to local residents, the compensation offered is not only low but also does not include any cash payment—instead, they are being issued housing vouchers, a policy that has drawn unanimous opposition from the community.