Customers of Henan’s rural banks are continuing to seek access to their bank deposits, which have been frozen since April of last year. They are also searching for ways to let the outside world hear them voice their frustrations. On April 2, hundreds of Chinese deposit-holders gathered on a busy overpass in Zhengzhou city, Henan…

Thousands of high school students in China’s central Henan Province have been isolated since early October in makeshift quarantine facilities, such as schools, amid a recent wave of COVID-19 in the province. Multiple counties in Henan, including Bo’ai county, Yucheng county, and Yanling county, have locked down their residents and high school students, although they…

Chinese police beat protestors who cannot withdraw from banks. Billions of dollars are stuck, a massive amount has vanished, and authorities are not giving an answer. What is behind the chaos over the weekend? And why are the protestors asking foreign media and the U.S. embassy to pay attention? Click the “Save” button below the…

PINGDINGSHAN, China—On the edges of an old and depleted mine on the rugged outskirts of Pingdingshan in central China’s Henan province, workers sift through dunes of low-grade coal, looking to extract every last calorie of energy from the city’s crumbling seams. But despite an unexpected energy crunch that left authorities scrambling to guarantee coal supplies…

After more than a month since a devastating July flooding in China’s central Henan Province, residents are struggling to get displacement subsidies of a maximum of $162 per person. Heavy rainfall poured down from July 17 to July 20 in Henan. Floods affected half of Weihui city’s 600,000 residents, and displaced about one-third of the…

As people throughout in China’s Henan provinces begin to clean up after the disastrous floods, civilian rescue teams are being turned away from offering help. Coordinators and members of the teams say that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are impeding rescue efforts and endangering civilian lives. The CCP municipal Secretary of Weihui City, Nie Changming,…

It has been four agonizing days for Lu’s mother, whose 18-year-old daughter is now missing after devastating floods swept through central China’s Henan Province. Lu Yanghan, who is about five feet and four inches tall, was sheltering in their second-floor home in Cuimiao Town when she was washed away by the floods, said Lu’s mother…