To unblock! Many college students in mainland China burst into protest

Reporter : Chen Han / Editor : Wang Ziqi / Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television

Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/09/25/a102949426.html / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA 

September is the opening season of mainland universities. However, the strict control and closed management measures adopted by most universities have brought more and more students on the verge of emotional outburst. The recent incidents of several university students collectively "shouting the buildings" in their dormitories to protest, have become the epitome of the emotional crisis in Chinese universities, and have also become a hot spot of online public opinion.

On September 20, students from Xi'an International Studies University collectively "shout the building" on the dormitory balcony for nearly half an hour. The students protested that the closure of the school led to price increases in the cafeteria and inconvenience to life. The closure measures were unfair, only targeted at students, and teachers and other staff were still released. This incident rushed to the fourth place on the Weibo hot search list the next day, and was dubbed by netizens as the "Western Foreign Affairs Incident".

Former Shaanxi TV reporter Ma Xiaoming said, "As far as I know, there is no such control over teachers and other members of society who enter and leave at will, only students. I heard that the epidemics in Yunnan and Xinjiang have been more frequent. Xi'an has not heard of such aspects. If it still needs to be controlled in this way, it will be abnormal and it will cause social concern. It has caused many inconveniences to students’ lives, such as eating, shopping, purchasing daily necessities, and I heard that there are also problems with bathing."

The student dormitory of Hefei University of Technology, the collective shouting incident that broke out in the evening of 21 September, also squeezed into the Weibo hot search list.

The students also posted propaganda posters with the words "See the abyss in the sky" and "Saved from hopelessness". They protested that only one day off on November this year, the school adopted a double closed standard, and the leave process was cumbersome, and prices were getting higher and higher.

Similar problems exist in many other universities.

A student at the Wuming campus of Nanning Normal University said, "I really want to be trapped crazy." The students of Guangdong Medical University protested against the school’s money-trapping in various ways, "extremely expensive water and electricity bills", and even wrote on the wall "the five major appeals are indispensable".

In the evening of  23 September in Guangzhou Institute of Technology, some students also shouted in the dormitory to unblock the building. Moreover, many students said that the school trash became mountains, the stench was unpleasant, and the rats ran around.

Teacher Gu from a certain university in Liaoning said, "They are all closed. Now all colleges and universities are closed. But this thing depends on how the school does it. Some schools do more rigidly and students do not give up anything. The school also takes this opportunity to change prices and food The price is very high, and there is no extracurricular activities for the students, so the students are completely circled here. The students must have opinions."

On Sina Weibo, the label "Should colleges and universities be closed for management?" was read by 70 million people.

According to a survey conducted by China News Weekly, 93% of the interviewees did not understand why they only restricted students after the restrictions on other personnel were released. Some students also feel tired from repeated health checks.

The Internet broke the news that the CCP believed that the students in Xi'an and Hefei were instigated by "foreign forces" and that the Xi'an University of Foreign Studies incident had risen to the political level.

Although this news has not been confirmed, the CCP has always been nervous about the emotional crisis of the student group.

A netizen said, "If Xi'an's shouting buildings can be characterized as being agitated by foreign forces because they are reported by foreign media, then it will be absolutely amazing!"

Some netizens asked, why the Chinese Communist Party officially said that there is no virus, and the whole country still locks up college students on campuses in shouting buildings?

Zhao Zhongyuan, a Beijing-based doctor in Canada: "Social control is carried out in the name of epidemic prevention, not for epidemic prevention. This shows that its society is extremely unstable. They have this sense of crisis. It has been covering up, and the epidemic has never stopped. For the sake of political achievements, local officials will not reflect on it. The epidemic is not like what they advertised. It has never been interrupted in mainland China."

A message that received 14,000 likes wrote, "Others eat, drink and play with codes, and college students go to jail with codes."

Another message, which received 62,000 likes, reads, "It is reasonable to ask that all of our college students will accept it. Such blind closure will only increase the psychological problems of students, and some students will take risks to leave school in another way, which is even more unsafe."

At the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, it was reported that students had "smuggled" by boat from the institute.

Under the pressure of the students' public opinion, the Chinese Communist Party's official media pushed the responsibility to the school, alleging that most schools had misunderstood the previous requirements of the Chinese Ministry of Education.