After five years of labour distress, Xiao Five was locked up in Guangzhou prison.

After 14 September, the “Television East of Chiapas” stopped updating. On 30 September, Feng Hui, a network called “Sixie Five”, an operator with long-standing concerns about the rights of Chinese workers, was reported to have been detained by the Guangzhou police. On 7 October, new information further secured his whereabouts: he is currently detained in the Jae-soo prison in Guangzhou, where he had already met with a lawyer.

This is not a web account that suddenly breaks into the political arena. Over the past five years, the team has consistently documented the situation of out-of-home riders, migrant workers, office white collars and workers in new forms of employment. The hot-temperature lists, competitive restrictions, overtime work, occupational injuries and old age difficulties constitute the main elements of their long-term writing.

First it disappeared a 100,000-word labor record, then the person who wrote it.

On 31 December 2025, the team completed the case of the Employment Rights and Interests in 2025, which was completed in more than 100,000 words, and for the fifth consecutive year, it has recorded annual records of workers in various sectors of China. The information publicly indicates that the long article was subsequently deleted.

By 14 September this year, the social accounts of Xiao5 had been suspended. After a search by friends, it was reported that he had been detained at the end of September. The Jasuke district detention centre is now the most recent place that can be identified by the outside world.

The official public information and policy documents “Guarantees of the rights of workers in new forms of employment” are being introduced, while a civil advocate who has long documented similar labour problems is in detention. This combination of the two sets itself at the threshold of China's labour governance: “how to improve the use of labour” can be discussed, but space is rapidly tightened when civil forces form a continuous, independent network of records and bring together different business, industry and policy issues into social reality.

The fifth record is not an abstract “labour issue”, but how rights are consumed on a daily basis

He had opposed the platform's “run-bill incentive” to encourage riders to continue working at extreme temperatures, arguing that the bonus was no substitute for safety and security; The expansion of competitive agreements from executive and core technical positions to general sales, customer service and even grass-roots workers has also been criticized, leaving former workers under corporate control.

These topics are not in themselves mysterious. The right to rest, safety at work, protection against occupational injury and restrictions on competition are all based on the existing legal policy. The real sensitivity is that people continue to link isolated cases into a picture of who bears the risk, who earns the profits, where the supervision is not working, and why workers lack the capacity to organize negotiations.

This is also the political significance of independent labour records. It has allowed the official macro-statement “continuous improvement of workers' rights” to collide with the actual cost to the riders, workers and white collars on a daily basis.

When the recorder enters the prison, society loses more than a public sign

To date, the public information has not given what specific charges Feng Wie is suspected of. What really deserves to be answered by the case-handling authorities is why he was detained, what measures of constraint were taken, what the legal basis of the case was, and whether his right to a regular lawyer to meet and defend himself was guaranteed.

The fact that it has occurred need not be blurred: a person who has recorded a labour interest for five years in a row is being detained by Guangzhou police and is currently in detention; His annual labour records, which he had completed, had previously been deleted.

The social governance of Xi Jinping is increasingly based on a basic logic: issues can be defined and addressed by the party system, but independent social forces cannot form their own record of continuity, organizational relations and public interpretation. That is why the five small cases are far more significant than a self-meritored media account. It points to whether Chinese workers can have a voice that is not monopolized by the Government and the business, and whether those who record the reality of their labour must pay the price of freedom for such a record.