Case Details and Biography of Gansu Public-Interest Figure Jing Shuren, Arrested for Reposting on Weibo an Incident Concerning Migrant Workers Seeking Wage Payments

(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On April 2, 2026, this outlet learned the details and biography of Gansu public-interest figure Jing Shuren, who was arrested for reposting on Weibo an incident concerning migrant workers seeking wage payments. They are reported as follows:

Jing Shuren: Male, Han Chinese, from Yuntian Town, Longxi County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province; public-interest figure and self-media personality. In 2018, he conducted the “New Year, New Clothes · Enlightening Wisdom Book House” charitable donation campaign in Shangdadao Village, Yuntian Town, Longxi County, his hometown, donating winter cotton-padded clothing to more than 200 elderly villagers and more than 400 books to the village Women’s Federation. At the end of 2019, he went alone to rescue a fellow townsman who had been deceived into joining a pyramid scheme, ultimately successfully freeing him. In 2020, Jing Shuren repeatedly reported problems related to the Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway to the provincial Department of Transportation, and they were eventually properly resolved. At the same time, he was often seen working busily at sites involving helping migrant workers seek payment of wages, promoting agricultural products, accident compensation and charitable donations.

On March 16, 2024, Jing Shuren was criminally detained by Lanzhou police on suspicion of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble for reposting on Weibo an incident concerning migrant workers seeking wage payments, and has been held ever since—more than two years. This once triggered widespread attention throughout society. Merely for reposting on Weibo content related to migrant workers seeking payment of wages, a migrant worker who had never sought even half a cent in profit has already been held for more than two years, and the charge remains the same: picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

One year after the case was prosecuted to the court, his defense lawyer Zhu Xiaoding only received notice from the court at the end of March 2026 that a pretrial conference in the Jing Shuren case would be held from April 8 to 10, 2026. His defense lawyer Zhu Xiaoding wrote, “As a lawyer, as an online friend and as his friend, I am extremely grieved: such a good person, who throughout his entire life among humanity had never received a single negative review from anyone, has unexpectedly suffered this calamity.” Jing Shuren is currently detained at the Lanzhou No. 1 Detention Center.