Out of Control: China Drowns in Bloodshed, Society Like a Volcano Ready to Explode!

Out of control, bloody massacres and random revenge attacks sweep across China. Society is like a volcano, ready to explode. Has the CCP finally reached its breaking point? China rocked by explosions, people flee through black smoke, fires erupt nationwide in the year of the firehorse. What dark fate is coming? Stand tall and live a song. Calling for the overthrow of the Communist Party spreads rapidly. CIA videos become a catalyst. Xi panics as officials flee en masse. Shenzhen's streets filled with unemployed people. Sleeping rough. The economy is collapsing across the board. The bleakest scene of 2026. The demographic dividend is gone. You're watching Decoding China, where we bring you timely analysis and grounded perspectives on today's China. Out of control, bloody massacres and random revenge attacks sweep across China. Society is like a volcano, ready to explode. Has the CCP finally reached its breaking point? In recent years, China's economy has been in recession. Unemployment has skyrocketed. Social pressure has surged dramatically. Public grievances are widespread. And combined with the social injustices created by the CCP, ordinary people are filled with intense hostility. Suspected revenge on society, or Zhang Xianzhong incidents, occur frequently. On Chinese-language social media, the term Xianzhong is used sarcastically to describe violent acts directed at the public or random victims as an outlet for anger and despair. Such cases have drawn attention in connection with the recent fire in Haikou, Hainan and the major accident on the Erguang Expressway. According to a report by Nanhai Net on the evening of February 23rd, a building on Jiefang West Road in Longhua District, Haikou suddenly caught fire. Witnesses at the scene said flames were clearly visible on one side of the rooftop, with thick smoke spreading in all directions, and a strong burnt smell in the air. Videos circulating online showed several sanitation workers near the scene saying they had not been paid for more than three months. This led to public speculation that the fire might be linked to a prolonged wage dispute. Earlier, on January 25th, a serious multi-vehicle collision occurred on the Yuxue section of the G55 Erguang Expressway in Shanxi Province, involving at least 35 vehicles. Footage from the scene showed numerous passenger cars and heavy trucks overturned by the roadside, debris scattered across the ground, a white car crushed flat beneath a large truck, and some vehicles on fire with thick black smoke billowing. That evening, Shanxi traffic police issued a statement claiming the accident involved 35 motor vehicles in total, with three people injured and their conditions stable, with no life-threatening danger. However, netizens who watched the on-site videos do not believe the official report at all. CCP official media stated that it is currently winter, with frequent adverse weather such as rain, snow, and freezing conditions, implying that this chain reaction crash was related to slippery, icy roads. Netizens condemned the authorities. Since you knew the road was slippery and risky, why didn't you close it? The account Luoxiang Breaking the Curtain and Pushing Down the Wall stated that in the large-scale traffic accident on the Erguang Expressway on January 25th local time, the actual number of deaths and injuries exceeded 70 people. After the local government launched an investigation, it was discovered that some individuals, dissatisfied due to unpaid wages, had poured lubricating oil onto the highway to take revenge on society, causing the crash. Another incident frequently mentioned occurred on the evening of December 30th last year in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. Multiple netizens posted videos showing a large number of screws scattered across the road at the intersection of Yatai South Road and Yubu Road, puncturing the tires of nearly 100 cars. Many drivers said this was the only route to their workplace. After encountering a traffic jam and making a long detour, they were forced to return to the same road and ran over the screws again. Some footage showed car owners getting out of their vehicles and bending down to pick up the metal pieces from the pavement. According to a source said to be familiar with the case, the man involved had previously worked in Jiaxing but was owed more than 4,000 yuan in wages by a factory. After seeking labor arbitration through local authorities without success and being passed from one department to another, he allegedly scattered screws on multiple roads in the city in anger and was later arrested by police. His family stated that he was secretly sentenced to eight years in prison. During the trial, they were not allowed to hire a defense lawyer, nor were they permitted to enter the courtroom to attend the hearing. Because the CCP blocks information, only the tip of the iceberg can be reported by mainland media. CCP goes berserk deleting posts. Complete manual to prevent Jiang Xinjiang. Earlier this year, a mainland blogger posted the Complete Manual to Prevent Jiang Xinjiang, which was quickly deleted. The manual exposes the truth of social collapse under CCP rule and tells ordinary people the law cannot protect everyone. Xinjiang is right beside you for self-preservation only. The manual is structured with a foreword, chapters one through five, and a conclusion. In the foreword, the author says, Folks, these past two years have been tough. Everyone knows it deep down. Factories are closing, buildings are unfinished and rotting, debts are piling up. People with no way out are multiplying. In the past, we said a rabbit has its head and a debt has its master. But now it's different. Now there are people who, if they can't live, don't want you to live either. They don't go after the bosses who owe them money or the officials. They specifically target us ordinary folks. Why? Because we're easy to bully. And places with lots of people are their gathering spots. We call this behavior Xianjiang. The government won't tell you this. The news broadcast only reports good news and never bad. Car rammings, random knife attacks, arson. Are they not happening more and more? The author warns, Don't count on the police arriving in a few minutes. Those few minutes are the distance between life and death. Chapters one to five of the banned Manual to Prevent Jiangxianjiang teach ordinary people how to survive random violent attacks in a collapsing society. Chapter one identifies who might snap and become dangerous. Unemployed single men, sudden bankrupts or long bullied quiet people. Chapter two covers common everyday weapons they might use. Chapter three lists the most risky locations. Chapter four explains warning signs before someone explodes. Chapter five describes the worst types of indiscriminate attacks, such as car ramming crowds like bowling pins, silent stabbings or arson meant to wipe out entire families. In the conclusion, the author writes, Staying alive is more important than anything. The world has changed. When the economy is bad, people's hearts become chaotic. You can't expect everyone to stay normal. When you're out, keep your eyes open. Netizens commented enthusiastically on the topic. One person said, The blogger wasn't banned for telling the truth. He was banned because he threatened the stability of the red regime. The Communist Party today never solves ordinary people's grievances or problems. It only robs from the people and fears the people rising up. A thug regime like this that doesn't collapse is the greatest crime against the entire nation. China rocked by explosions. People flee through black smoke. Fires erupt nationwide in the year of the firehorse. What dark fate is coming? In recent days, not only have sandstorms swept across the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region and multiple provinces, but explosions and simultaneous fires have broken out in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Yunnan, and other places. In some areas, entire villages caught fire. In others, multiple mountains burned at the same time. One netizen bluntly remarked, Nationwide fires and raging sandstorms. One half burning, the other half eating dirt. On February 23rd, a truck suddenly caught fire inside the Gujiashan tunnel in Shanxi province, accompanied by three loud explosions and thick black smoke that rapidly filled the entire two-kilometer tunnel. Videos circulating online showed vehicles packed bumper to bumper as people abandoned their cars and ran toward the exits through the smoke. The official CCP statement later claimed that only the truck burned, there were no casualties, and no one was trapped, and urged the public not to spread rumors. However, many online questioned why the scene remained sealed for so long, and why videos showing chain collisions in the mass escape were repeatedly removed. The tunnel fire was not an isolated incident. On January 26th in Chongqing, a vehicle caught fire and exploded in a highway tunnel, sending multiple people to hospitals with breathing difficulties. In December 2025, a fuel tanker exploded after a rear-end collision inside a tunnel in Hubei province. Footage that briefly circulated showed severe structural damage inside the tunnel and long rows of burned-out vehicles, yet no official casualty figures were released, and related videos and discussions quickly disappeared. Meanwhile, fires broke out in multiple regions in quick succession. Forest fires spread under strong winds of force 8 to 10, with some areas reporting five separate blazes in a single day caused by illegal firecracker use. In Lianyonggang, Jiangsu province, fireworks ignited a nearby shop, killing eight people. In Xiangyang county, Hubei province, a firework store explosion left 12 dead. According to circulating videos on February 21st in the Siagong village, Hui county, Jiangjiaku city, Hubei province, the entire village caught fire. Regarding the widespread fires across the country, a netizen from Hubei raised doubts. It feels like fires are breaking out everywhere. How can it be such a coincidence? So many firecrackers on New Year's Day, but by the fifth day almost no one is setting them off anymore, right at the time when people are returning to work. Then all these huge fires. Is someone deliberately setting them? In addition, extreme weather, strong winds, wildfires, sandstorms, snowstorms, and cold waves struck across the country. A yellow sandstorm alert was issued as the storm moved from north to south, reaching even the Yangtze River region and affecting roughly half of China. Beijing experienced severe pollution and the rare blue sun phenomenon. According to a recent video report from Vision Times, famous Taiwanese fortune teller and numerologist Liao Meiran previously warned that the Bingwu year of 2026 will bring an extreme fire dominance pattern unseen in 180 years. Fire upon fire. Therefore, people must be cautious of fires, floods, mountain fires, and wind disasters. Liao Meiran also predicted that this year's hexagram is the 13th of the year Qing, heavenly fire, fellowship with men, symbolizing the interweaving of heavenly laws and awakening of civilization. This means 2026 is the year when truths are fully revealed. Whether for world leaders or major corporations, secrets long hidden in darkness may be dragged into the light and face public and moral judgment. Thus, under the energy of heavenly fire, fellowship with men, power structures will face reshaping. Liao Meiran explained that the upper trigram is qian, heaven, and the lower is li, fire, meaning leaders must abandon their lofty attitudes and empathize with the people. If decision makers cling to dictatorial thinking, they are highly likely to be overthrown. Stand tall and live a song. Calling for the overthrow of the Communist Party spreads rapidly. Lunar New Year 2026 opened with scenes that left many Chinese people unable to resist thinking of the word omen. On the first day of the holiday, Beijing was hit by a rare massive sandstorm. Peak winds reportedly reached force 14, powerful enough to rip roofs off buildings near Tiananmen. Soon after in Shanxi, a flagpole flying the red flag was snapped in half. On social media, some users posted a pointed line. If something can't stand, it should have fallen long ago. Even more unsettling, a large dragon boat at Beijing's Summer Palace was overturned by the gale into Kunming Lake, an incident some people recalled had last happened on the eve of Empress Dowager Cixi's death at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Against that backdrop, a song that went viral on the overseas platform X on February 23rd quickly became the center of attention. It had a driving beat and blunt, unvarnished lyrics. The line, overthrow the Communist Party, Chinese people must live standing up, struck directly at the mood of many who are simmering with resentment. The song paints a bleak picture. Follow the Communist Party and you walk straight into a crematorium. Children's tomorrow is buried. Truth is sealed off. Dignity is stolen. The chorus keeps firing questions. What do we want? Truth, a future, freedom, and how should we live standing up? It then repeats the call to overthrow the Communist Party to pursue a new life, to have dignity and decency. This song did not come out of nowhere. It is tied to a text titled Letter to the People Nationwide, which is said to have originated from within the CCP, from an anti-Xi faction. The document circulated widely after reports that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli had been brought down. The letter argues this is not a routine anti-corruption campaign, but a bloody purge carried out by Xi Jinping against the old guard military camp, the so-called Red Second Generation, and even the conscience of the entire armed forces. That linkage between the song and the document is precisely what gave it such resonance. The song became a gathering point for many strands of public anger, from frustration over information control and censorship, to economic anxiety, to a growing sense of a future slipping out of reach. Its message, truth, future, freedom, is repeated like a slogan meant to fuse scattered grievances into a single rallying cry. Most striking is the letter's direct warning to the military. Today they seize Zhang Youxia, tomorrow it will be your turn. The text calls on soldiers to rise up for self-preservation, calls on workers and farmers to take to the streets, and explicitly calls to overthrow the Communist Party. When a regime is seen as pushing authoritarian rule to the extreme, such language signals a dangerous accumulation of pressure inside society. A volcano can stay silent for a long time, but when the pressure is high enough, the night before an eruption is often when the surface looks the calmest. CIA videos become a catalyst. Xi panics as officials flee en masse. On February 23, 2026, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issued the Notice on Launching Partywide Study and Education on Establishing and Practicing the Correct View of Political Achievements. The directive requires the entire system, from the county and bureau levels upward, especially top leaders, to conduct inspections, self-criticisms, and trace the so-called root causes in party spirit behind deviations in their performance outlook. With the two sessions approaching, Beijing has chosen to launch a nationwide loyalty review rather than send signals about economic stabilization, revealing that the priority of power has shifted from growth to control. U.S.-based current affairs commentator Li Muyang pointed out that the very issues the notice demands to be investigated, image projects, blind investment promotion, and debt-driven expansion in violation of regulations, have long been the standard operating methods of CCP officialdom. In other words, by this standard, almost no official is clean. This is not administrative rectification, but the creation of a political pretext under which anyone can be taken down. On February 24th, according to Xinhua News Agency, the book Selected Excerpts of Xi Jinping's Discourses on Establishing and Practicing the Correct View of Political Achievements was published. On the same day, the central leading group for party building held a special meeting chaired by Kai Qi, with Li Xi in attendance and delivering remarks. One controls the general office, the central security apparatus, and ideology. The other heads, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, with the power of life and death within the party. With both the surveillance apparatus and the purge mechanism activated simultaneously, this study campaign ceases to be ideological education and becomes a political order, forcing the entire bureaucracy back into line. At the same time, the economic trajectory is moving in the opposite direction from the usual pre-two sessions propaganda. Foreign capital continues to withdraw from China, the property market keeps falling, local government debt is piling up, and in many places, civil servants are owed wages. The announcement of another LPR cut shows that the People's Bank of China is still injecting liquidity to rescue an economy already in critical condition. Under such circumstances, the entire system would normally be mobilized to protect the economy. Yet what we see instead is a campaign to protect loyalty. On February 12th, 2026, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency released a new video calling on Chinese military officers with a conscience to choose a path that could save others and save themselves. From 2025 through early 2026, the CIA had already issued a series of Chinese-language recruitment videos aimed directly at those with access to information inside the system. These videos not only appeared, but spread widely across international platforms. The CIA has achieved significant success in recruiting CCP officials and new external sources. Two of the videos garnered between 15 and 20 million views on YouTube. Because of their strong impact, a third recruitment video released in January quickly reached an astonishing 62 million views. These four videos targeting CCP officials and the military have clearly created shockwaves inside the party and the armed forces. Following Xi Jinping's removal of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, which had already shaken military morale, the psychological impact became a catalyst breaking the final line of defense for those seeking a way out. As passive observation and risk avoidance spread within the system and external messages began offering an alternative, the foundation of loyalty was eroding from within. Under these conditions, the study on the correct view of political achievements is no longer about work style or governance, but a nationwide forced alignment. It is precisely this convergence of internal instability and external pressure that appears to have driven Xi Jinping into a state of acute anxiety, prompting the high-profile launch of this coercive campaign. Shenzhen's streets filled with unemployed people, sleeping rough, the economy is collapsing across the board, the bleakest scene of 2026, the demographic dividend is gone. Shenzhen is no longer the Shenzhen of a few years ago. Those over the age of 36 might as well leave, they can leave now. The city's economy is in a severe downturn. Restaurants that once required long lines on weekends now offer meals at half price, yet there are barely any customers inside. In Nanshan's coastal city, once known as a gold mine, entire rows of shops have their metal shutters pulled down with transfer notices pasted across the glass. Walking along the street, the only sound is the wind passing through dark storefronts. Some former shop owners stand in front of their old premises and say that in the past, people rushed overnight to secure a lease, while now the for rent signs hang for months without a single inquiry. This time the most obvious change upon returning to Shenzhen is that the demographic dividend has disappeared. 30 years ago when factories got off work, crowds poured out in waves and restaurants stayed full until midnight. Now even finding an open place to eat at night is difficult. The streets are often nearly empty, a stark contrast to the past when people had to push their way through the crowds. In Longgang, standing on the pedestrian overpass near the Sanhe labor market and looking down, rows of people can be seen lying on the steps using cardboard or thin mats as bedding. They are day laborers who cannot afford a 15 yuan dorm bed. Some carry suitcases with them searching for work during the day, returning to sleep under the bridge at night. A longtime migrant worker said the scene reminds him of 1991 when he first arrived in Shenzhen and also slept at railway stations. The difference is that back then, as long as one was willing to work, there was always a job. Now people walk everywhere and still find nothing. Many factories in Bao'an and Longhua have shut down. From the outside, they look intact, but inside the signboards have been removed, the yards are overgrown with weeds, and the workshop doors are locked. Commercial complexes across from Foxconn, once packed with workers at shift change and with restaurants full, are now completely empty, impossible to sell and impossible to rent out. Owners who bought these properties with loans must continue paying bank interest and management fees while having no rental income. The job market has become suffocating. Hundreds of applicants compete for a single clerical position. Many fresh graduates earn just a few thousand yuan a month, most of which goes to rent. Even jobs once considered easy ways to make a living, ride hailing, food delivery, or street vending, have become fiercely competitive. A ride of more than 30 kilometers for just over 30 yuan, approximately 4 US dollars, which drivers used to ignore, is now accepted within seconds. Some say openly that staying in the city is no longer sustainable and that returning home brings less pressure. After the new year, the number of people coming back has clearly dropped and apartments near subway stations remain vacant for weeks. Landlords say that in the past, tenants would ask to renew their leases before the contract expired. Now, even after reducing the rent by several hundred yuan, there are few inquiries. Shenzhen is a microcosm of China's economy. A city this developed now sees businesses collapsing and countless people sleeping overnight in plazas and under bridges, a scene that reflects a form of economic breakdown under the Chinese Communist Party's rule. Some say this shows that without foreign capital and without Hong Kong, Shenzhen would be nothing. Without the United States and the United Kingdom, Hong Kong would be nothing and that all of this is the result of policies that have undermined Hong Kong. Others say that the so-called reform and opening up of the CCP is embodied in Shenzhen and that the city's decline today is the inevitable outcome of the CCP's economic model. To stay up to date with Decoding China, thank you for watching.