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According to the post, a student allegedly bullied a classmate repeatedly because the student’s father was a party official. The post says the bullied student’s father then brought people to the school, dragged the student out, beat the student, and used a knife to stab the student to death and slit the student’s throat. The claims could not be independently verified.

On April 26, two sanitation workers were seen crouching by a roadside in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, using an electronic scale to measure the weight of dust on the ground. A local sanitation brigade staff member said the city assesses cleanliness “by the gram”; failure to meet the standard leads to more frequent cleaning, while meeting it brings rewards.

According to the post, on April 27, a woman fell from a high floor inside Guangzhou’s Nansha Huan Yucheng Mall and struck a girl below, resulting in two deaths. The post said one of the deceased was a Guangzhou woman surnamed Su, and alleged that the fall was related to her family home being auctioned by a bank. The information could not be independently verified.

A strike and protest were reportedly held at a Suntech Solar plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu, on April 26. Footage shows employees holding signs including “I want to eat” and calling for company leaders to come out. According to the post, hundreds of police were at the scene; the crowd had not dispersed by the afternoon, after which police formed a human wall to restrict workers’ movement.

A worker who took part in the strike said the plant had repeatedly suspended work since November last year, while shuttle buses and all benefits were canceled. The worker said the company had now announced an extended holiday in an effort to force employees out, and alleged that police had hit people. The material could not be independently verified.

Recently, a teacher in Shaanxi publicly appealed to Xi Jinping, saying he hoped to borrow money from him to buy a home. The teacher said that he and relatives and friends around him had been reduced to poverty by buying homes, prompting the idea. The material could not be independently verified.

According to the post, taxi drivers in Yuechi County, Guang’an, Sichuan, staged a collective strike on April 24 to protest what was alleged to be a local government requirement that they replace or purchase new-energy vehicles. The claim could not be independently verified.

According to a report by China’s San Nong Release on April 22, township and village officials in Kailu County, Inner Mongolia, were alleged to have blocked farmers from starting spring ploughing and demanded payment for cultivation, although the farmers had previously signed land-contracted management agreements. Footage shows a deputy director of the Shuangsheng Village committee in Jianhua Township blocking a farmer and saying, “What can 110 do? If those above tell me to collect money, I collect money.” The footage also shows a township official stopping ploughing and demanding that a vehicle be impounded. When villagers went to the village committee to raise the issue, the village Party secretary and the township deputy Party secretary said, “I don’t understand the law,” and said the land contracts had been terminated. The claims could not be independently verified.

A local notice on April 23 said the township deputy Party secretary had been removed from office and the village Party secretary had received a serious Party disciplinary warning. It said work had begun to resolve the related disputes. On the same day, nearly 50,000 users posted the name “Ji Yunhao” under a video about the state of human rights in China; the material said the name belonged to the township deputy Party secretary who said, “I don’t understand the law,” during the incident.

The post reads: “Infrastructure maniac—welcome to Shenzhen to see the sea.”

On April 22, a resident of Kunshan, Jiangsu, posted that she had written an article calling for an investigation into Suzhou’s gas issues after her household gas bill doubled. She said Kunshan China Resources Gas called and asked her to delete the post, then sent four employees to her home, accompanied by community staff, to carry out repairs and provide an explanation. The post alleges that about 20 minutes later, police visited her home under the stated pretext of anti-fraud work to conduct a household inquiry. It also says her husband was later spoken to by a company executive and asked to persuade her to delete the article. She then posted an appeal asking China Resources Gas to stop troubling her and her family. The claims could not be independently verified.

According to the post, on April 18, a girl in Chengdu, Sichuan, walked alone to a bridge in rainy weather and jumped into the river. The post described it as a suicide. The account could not be independently verified.

According to the post, on April 19, owners of the stalled Qiantong Shoufu housing project gathered outside the county government in Yanshan County, Cangzhou, Hebei. The claim could not be independently verified.

According to the material, on April 20, a student at Hebei Academy of Fine Arts fell from a building while taking part in a sketching activity organised by the school, resulting in comminuted fractures throughout the body. The material says the student’s grandmother subsequently sought redress outside the school for several consecutive days. The information could not be independently verified.