A 14-year-old student in Jiangyou, Sichuan, was bullied, prompting thousands of citizens to take to the streets in the early hours of August 5 to protest the government's inaction. The angry crowd shouted slogans such as “Down with the Communist Party” and “Down with Xi Jinping.” (Video screenshot)
[People News] August 5, Jiangyou, Sichuan – Following the brutal bullying of a 14-year-old girl in Jiangyou City, thousands of outraged residents took to the streets from the afternoon of August 4 until the early morning of August 5 to protest the government’s inaction. The protests were violently suppressed by local police, but the demonstrators boldly shouted slogans such as “Down with the Communist Party!” and “Down with Xi Jinping!” Reports indicate that news of the Jiangyou incident has reached Beidaihe, where Xi Jinping is vacationing, and that he is reportedly furious.
On July 22, a school bullying incident occurred in Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province. A 14-year-old girl was beaten and forcibly stripped, with a video of the abuse spreading rapidly across social media. In the video, when the victim said her family would call the police, one bully responded, “Are you threatening us?” and boasted, “You think we’re scared of you? It’s not like we haven’t been locked up before.” Another added, “I’ve been in over ten times – I’m usually out in twenty minutes.” Although the video is only three minutes long, screenshots from netizens suggest the abuse lasted for four hours.
The victim’s mother is deaf and mute, and her father works away from home. Public outrage erupted after local authorities only gave the perpetrators a light reprimand under the label of “criticism and education.”
On the afternoon of August 4, large crowds of Jiangyou citizens took to the streets in protest, only to be met with police deploying tear gas for crowd control. One video posted on X (formerly Twitter) shows protesters shouting: “Xi Jinping step down! Down with the Communist Party!”
A 14-year-old student in Jiangyou, Sichuan, was bullied. Thousands of citizens took to the streets in the early hours of August 5 to protest the government's inaction, only to be violently suppressed by local police. (Online image)
Photos and footage show police violently beating protesters and transporting arrested citizens in trucks typically used for hauling pigs.
A 14-year-old student in Jiangyou, Sichuan, was bullied. Thousands of citizens took to the streets in the early hours of August 5 to protest the government's inaction. Large numbers of police beat the protesters and transported those arrested in trucks typically used to carry live pigs. (Video screenshot)
“Why are you hitting people? What right do you have to beat people? Are you even the people's police? The people’s police are beating the people!” A Weibo user mocked the police with a post titled “Jiangyou Photo Studio,” comparing them unfavorably to the "Japanese invaders" commonly demonised in CCP propaganda.
The word “Jiangyou” briefly trended on the Chinese social media platform Weibo before being swiftly censored. Users began using homophones like “soy sauce” (醬油) to refer to the city. Related videos were deleted, and even official media coverage of the incident was tightly controlled, with comment sections disabled.
Overseas Chinese netizens have circulated protest footage in solidarity:
“Go Jiangyou!”
“The people of Jiangyou are brave—well done!”
“The people are awakening. The Communist Party is a disaster for the Chinese nation!”
“Sichuan and Chongqing people have backbone—true to the spirit of the Sichuan Army!”
As of the morning of August 5, Jiangyou authorities had deployed a heavy police presence. Videos show the protest areas in front of Jiangyou’s city government completely cleared, leaving no trace of the earlier unrest. The streets are eerily silent, with some areas barricaded by metal fences, allowing only narrow passageways. The city appears under lockdown.
While Jiangyou citizens were being violently suppressed, all top CCP officials were vacationing at the secretive annual Beidaihe meeting. On August 6, commentator Du Wen posted on X that credible sources in Sichuan said Xi Jinping was enraged by the Jiangyou protests. The CCP leadership reportedly classified the incident as the “Sichuan version of the Weng'an Incident.” Jiangyou’s Party Secretary has reportedly been dismissed, and a provincial-level stability maintenance task force has been deployed to take over control in Jiangyou.
In a post on X, the account “Battlefield Observation Studio – Zhaoming” wrote: “The Communist Party can't even deliver justice in a simple bullying case. The people of Jiangyou rose up and shouted ‘Down with Xi Jinping’ and ‘Down with the Communist Party.’ The CCP will definitely suppress them with all its might. Unarmed civilians will suffer in the end, and though local officials may be disciplined afterwards, the underlying social injustice will persist. This is the reality of China today.”
Scholar Wu Zuolai proposed two responses: Appeal to the conscience of military police – reach out to the families of local officials and security forces (via postcards or personal visits), urging them to persuade their sons and daughters not to participate in violent crackdowns, lest they provoke deeper public outrage. Mutual aid among citizens – support protesters facing prison time by hiring lawyers, donating small amounts of money, and ensuring front-line activists can survive without being isolated or abandoned.
A user under the handle “Quantum Leap” wrote: “Every act of resistance by the people adds fuel to the fire of future revolution, increasing the pressure on this tightly sealed high-pressure cooker. The tipping point is drawing closer. And that tipping point is this: when the people no longer fear death, how can death be used to scare them?”
(Translated from the original Chinese report on People News [人民報].) △
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