Veteran labour activist Meng Han returned home on 7 October (his 55th birthday) after spending 38 days in detention in Guangzhou on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”

Prominent anti-discrimination activist Cheng Yuan, and his two colleagues, Liu Dazhi and Wu Gejianxiong, have been held incommunicado at the Hunan Provincial State Security Department Detention Centre in Changsha for two months now.

As China’s pension crisis looms larger, the central government in Beijing is increasing its pressure on state-owned enterprises to transfer ten percent of their equity to the national social security fund.

There have been at least six collective protests so far this year by professional footballers in China who are owed millions of yuan in back pay.

China’s urban unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points last month to stand at 5.3 percent at the end of July.

There have been at least eight strikes and protests by sanitation workers in cities across China since 1 May this year, accounting for ten percent of all service sector incidents recorded on CLB’s Strike Map.

The Ministry of Emergency Management has issued a “statistical analysis” of major accidents in China that pinpoints August as being the most dangerous month of the year. 

The revelation in the Beijing News last week that a vocational college in northern China had sent its students to intern over the summer at a local amusement park has highlighted once again the long-standing exploitation of interns in China.