China Protest Tracker

(November 2022) Despite increasingly repressive rule under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), dissent in China occurs regularly and is geographically widespread, according to new analysis released today by Freedom House. The China Dissent Monitor recorded over 800 instances of dissent in China from June to November 2022, as people spoke out against stalled housing projects, labor rights violations, fraud, COVID-19 policies, and state violence, among other grievances. 

• The greatest number of recorded events, 85, took place in Hebei Province, north of Beijing, and in Henan, in central China; 61 were in Guangdong, in the south; and 58 were in Shaanxi, a relatively rural province in central China.
• Incidents were most prevalent around grievances related to stalled housing projects (211), pay and benefits (141), COVID-19 polices (75), fraud (73), school district disputes (34) and building quality (32).