Recently, the Chinese Communist Party issued a notice to crack down on campus bullying, however, incidents of campus violence are on the rise. On May 22, the media reported at least three cases of campus violence, including a male student being scalded by classmates with 11 pots of boiling water.
According to a report from the Education Bureau of Long’an County in Nanning City, Guangxi Province on May 22, a student bullying incident occurred at the Longxiang School in Long’an campus.
Investigations revealed that eight students at the Longxiang School in Long’an campus, including Zhao and Meng, bullied their fellow 13-year-old male student Zhang through physical assaults and scalding, resulting in multiple injuries to Zhang’s body. Zhang is currently undergoing treatment in the hospital.
The police have taken criminal detention measures against Zhao (17 years old) and Meng (16 years old), both over 16 years old, involved in the incident, and administrative detention against the remaining 6 students under the age of 16.
Meanwhile, Longxiang School has been ordered to rectify immediately, set a deadline for reforms, and will work with the school and the families of the victimized students to further discuss the follow-up measures.
Before the above report was issued, it was exposed online that the male victim was bullied by multiple classmates and scalded with 11 pots of boiling water, causing severe burns all over his body.
The victim’s parents stated that the bullies threatened their son not to tell anyone about the incident, or they would harm him. There was a gap of 9 days between the scalding and the discovery of the injuries, during which the wounds had already become infected.
Many netizens demanded strict punishment for the perpetrators.
“What has happened to society nowadays? Scalding with 11 pots of boiling water is not just bullying, it’s intentional harm and must be severely punished.”
“What has become of minors these days? They must be held accountable by law!”
Recently, incidents of campus violence in China have been on the rise.
On May 22, Sohu Qianliyan Video leaked a case of a boy at a primary school in Xilu Town, Shantou, Guangdong Province being bullied by classmates, repeatedly strangled during recess.
Ms. Lin, the mother, said that her 6th grade son was threatened by several individuals outside the school campus, even after the teacher intervened and the other party refused to apologize.
Currently, the child is afraid to go to school, and the matter has been reported to the police.
On May 22, the trending topic “Yunnan Yanchun High School student killed by classmates” also made headlines.
According to Benliu News, on May 21, a student’s family in Yanchun County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, reported that their child attending a local high school was murdered by classmates.
Several local departments on May 22 confirmed the incident indeed occurred.
The victim’s family stated that their brother, studying at Maiba Middle School in Yanchun County, was attacked with a knife on the back of his head by classmates on the night of May 20. Despite emergency treatment at the hospital the next morning, he passed away before the school informed the parents.
They remarked, “We don’t know the reason for the attack or the number of students involved.”
In response to these incidents, mainland netizens voiced:
“Bullying often happens in junior high schools, as these perpetrators know that the law can’t touch them, they become increasingly audacious.”
“The media’s hush-hush handling of the Handan incident (so-called low-key handling, downplaying) is fueling the rise of juvenile crime, with the nation watching the Handan trial and eager to replicate it.”
In mid-March, a shocking case of a middle school student’s murder in Handan, Hebei Province shook the nation. A 13-year-old boy was killed by a classmate, whose body was buried in a vegetable greenhouse. The same month, cases of teenagers being bullied by classmates were reported in Fujian and Hunan provinces.
On May 14, the Chinese Ministry of Education issued a notice, claiming to launch the “Year of Standardized Management for Basic Education” initiative, focusing on combating campus bullying and teacher ethics lapses.
The notice included a “negative list,” strictly prohibiting 12 behaviors, with the first being “strictly prohibiting anti-Party, anti-socialist, distortion of history, and glorification of aggression.”
Historian Li Yuanhua, living in Australia, analyzed for Epoch Times, stating that the Chinese Communist Party is only concerned with whether its indoctrination in education is effective. He pointed out that the top prohibition in the list of 12 behaviors “strictly prohibiting anti-Party” has no relation to campus bullying or teacher ethics lapses.
Regarding the escalating incidents of campus bullying, Li Yuanhua emphasized that the root cause lies in the Communist Party’s destruction of traditional morals, especially teacher ethics. In traditional Chinese culture, education was based on morality. However, after the Communist Party seized power, education was used as a tool for brainwashing, leading to the comprehensive destruction of traditional culture. As a result, teachers acting against ethical standards, students bullying each other, and rampant bullying phenomena persist.