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After a barbecue restaurant owner in Shandong's Heze reported a missing Yuan dynasty porcelain relic from municipal museum records, five local government departments subjected his business to fifteen retaliatory raids within two months, driving away patrons and forcing the shop to shut down.
Police in Sichuan's Junlian County repeatedly refused to file a criminal case after a local township enforcement official assaulted and raped a small-business owner in her restaurant, dismissing the crime until municipal authorities overturned the ruling following the victim's suicide attempt.
Administrators at Jiangxi's state-run Jingdezhen College deployed staff to stake out dormitories and smash door locks overnight to forcibly evict graduating female seniors to make room for incoming male freshmen, sparking intense public fury over authoritarian campus governance.
A Chinese Communist Party disciplinary secretary at Hebei's Baoding Municipal People's Hospital flaunted his watchdog rank and his wife's official post in a high school parent group chat to demand special classroom treatment for their child, sparking nationwide outrage over entrenched bureaucratic privilege.
Social affairs officials in Jiangxi's Ganzhou deployed big-data surveillance to flag a vocational student who saved odd-job wages to attend a Hong Kong concert, triggering disciplinary proceedings to strip her impoverished household of basic subsistence aid and sparking fierce domestic outcry.
The Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism slapped over 535,000 yuan in penalties on performance organizers after crosstalk star Guo Degang playfully altered a single lyric of a 1956 revolutionary war song, triggering tour cancellations and online outrage.
Education authorities in Sichuan's Liangshan Prefecture forced rural middle and primary school teachers onto a stage before a digital screen labeled 'Shame' over low class exam scores, sparking fierce domestic backlash across Chinese social media.