Category: China Society

Gas Explosion in Central China Kills at Least 12

BEIJING—At least 12 people were killed and 39 seriously injured Sunday after a gas line explosion tore through a residential neighborhood in central China. Responders to the early morning blast in the city of Shiyan in Hubei province sent more than 150 people to the hospital, according to officials quoted by state media. The cause…


Southern Chinese City Halts Local Flights for 10 Days As Virus Spreads

As COVID-19 variants continue to spread in the provincial capital of Guangzhou, southern China, the adjacent city of Foshan has tightened travel restrictions. On June 12, Foshan authorities said on Chinese social media site Weibo that Foshan Shadi Airport would cancel all flights from June 13–22. Local authorities have also stopped the operations of trans-provincial…


Guangzhou’s Recent Outbreak Brings Renewed Attention to Effectiveness of CCP Vaccines

Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, a province in southern China, was reported to be severely affected by the Indian variant of the CCP virus. More than 60 percent of its residents have already been vaccinated, yet Guangzhou remains a hotbed for the virus, which has raised questions about the vaccine’s effectiveness. On June 5, seven…


Chinese Communist Changes World Views After Studying in Taiwan, Getting Arrested for Bypassing Firewall

After being arrested for using a VPN to bypass China’s Great Firewall and experiencing a lot of anxiety and mental torture, 24-year-old Chen Yuzhen (pseudonym) was finally able to flee China. In an interview with The Epoch Times, he opened his heart and shared his horrible experience. In the early morning of June 10, 2020,…


Chinese Police Beat Students to the Point of Bleeding at Protest on Chinese University Campus

Chinese students clashed with police and security guards on campus grounds at a Chinese university on June 7-8, with some students bleeding after being attacked by authorities. Undergraduate students at Nanjing Normal University in eastern Jiangsu province were protesting on campus over concerns that their academic degrees would be devalued after they learned of a…


CCP Official at Chinese University in Shanghai Stabbed to Death

A high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official at a top Chinese university in Shanghai died after being attacked by a teacher colleague, according to media reports. The Shanghai police issued a brief notice that said there was a deadly knife attack at a university on Handan Road, Yangpu district, Shanghai city, on June 7, 2:52…


British Author and Former Diplomat Predicts ‘Great Leap to Freedom’ for China

Few individuals in the world can say that they have seen Mao Zedong in person or dined with Deng Xiaoping. But Roger Garside has done both. In 1968, he captured a photograph of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square at a time when very few Westerners had access to China, and…


3-Child Policy and Raising Retirement Age Won’t Solve China’s Deficit Pension

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has changed its notorious one-child policy to allow for three children and said it will raise the retirement age to resolve the huge pension deficit and dramatic decline in births. But economists and experts say these methods can’t resolve the deficit, nor the issue of the country’s aging population. China…


3-Child Policy, Raising Retirement Age Won’t Solve China’s Pension Deficit

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has changed its notorious one-child policy to allow for three children and said it will raise the retirement age to resolve the huge pension deficit and dramatic decline in births. But economists and experts say these methods can’t resolve the deficit nor the issue of the country’s aging population. China…


Social Media Account of China’s Xiaohongshu Goes Dark After Tiananmen Anniversary Post

BEIJING—A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce site Xiaohongshu, or “Little Red Book,” was unavailable on Sunday after it issued a post on Friday, June 4, the anniversary of the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, a highly sensitive date in China. The Friday post on its account on China’s Twitter-like Weibo…