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Chengguan

Chengguan are an urban management force installed in almost every city on mainland China. They mostly clamp down on illegal street vendors but also enforce rules on city sanitation, landscaping and parking. Chengguan officers have been increasingly criticised after some of them used bullying tactics that have resulted in injuries and sometimes death.

Chengguan

Death of sugar cane seller reignites debate on reforming chengguan

30 Sep 2013

Contradictory statements about a sugar cane seller’s death have added fuel to an ongoing debate about excessive violence by chengguan, members of an official force tasked with enforcing municipal...

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Taiwanese celebrity Annie Yi adopts executed hawker’s son as godson

26 Sep 2013

Outspoken Taiwanese singer, actress and writer Annie Yi said she had adopted a Shenyang hawker’s son as her godson and promised to financially support his future education, one day after the boy’s...

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Shenyang hawker hoped for justice ahead of execution for double killing

26 Sep 2013

A street hawker who was executed yesterday for stabbing two urban management officers to death in 2009 after they beat him was still hoping for vindication during his last hours, according to his...

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Street hawker at heart of controversial chengguan homicide case executed

25 Sep 2013

A street hawker at the centre of a highly controversial double homicide case that gripped the nation was executed today, a court in the northeastern city of Shenyang said, ending a relentless four...

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Chengguan beat graduate in Nanjing for filming house demolition

9 Aug 2013

A university graduate in Nanjing was beaten by local urban management officers or "chengguan" for attempting to video them demolishing a house, in the latest in a series of violent attacks by...

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Heat foils Wuhan man’s plan to fake chengguan beating death

5 Aug 2013

A Chinese vendor’s plan to fake his own death at the hands of social enforcers failed when he could not play dead long enough in scorching heat, state media reported on Monday.

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Opinion

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Watermelon farmer died of 'malformed' vascular hemorrhage, says Hunan police

The Hunan watermelon farmer - who was brutally attacked by an urban management officer - died of brain hemorrhage induced by external force, local police said citing an autopsy report.

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Chengguan violence escalates with police beating

A policeman has been beaten up in Qinghai province by a group of men, sparking outrage in the latest episode of violence by the notorious urban management force or "chengguan".

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Chengguan blamed for beating another vendor

In the latest incident, four or five chengguan allegedly bashed a hawker over the head with their walkie-talkies and even bricks - then refused to take him to hospital even though his head was...

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Could the recent spate of tragedies involving chengguan violence trigger a crackdown by Beijing?

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CRIME

Six face charges of 'intentional injury' in death of watermelon vendor

Six urban management officers were sent to a detention centre in Chenzhou city for causing "intentional injury" to the street vendor Deng Zhengjia, 56, who died as a result of his injuries, Xinhua...

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Six urban enforcers held over Hunan watermelon seller death

Six Chinese local government employees involved in a dispute that saw a roadside watermelon seller die have been detained, state media reported on Friday as outrage over power abuses mounted.

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