In the north of Jiangxi Lakes, workers seek wages: someone takes five children to the door, someone strikes the floor waiting for the salary

[Focus China September 9, 2026 news] In recent days, there has been a series of reports of construction and engineering project workers who have been charged with salary failure in China. One worker in Jiangxi is said to have taken five children to the company's offices to ask for salary after a long period of unclear wages; other workers in Hubei En Zhejiang Prefecture have defended their rights in front of the project-related enterprises due to engineering funds and wage problems.

The information currently disclosed in the two incidents points to the construction system with a background of large state-owned enterprises. Since the site information mainly comes from the video and text published by the parties or netizens, the specific amount of salary, labor relationship, the level of construction contract and corporate responsibilities are still to be further clarified by the local labor supervision department and the enterprises involved.

* Jiangxi workers bring 5 children to the door for pay*

Video of payroll.A man came to the office of a company in Jiangxi with several children, according to relevant network information, the man was a worker, because the wage problem has not been solved for a long time, and eventually went to the company with five children to seek wages.

Live video (Telegram mirror image)It is possible to check out the above paychecks.

The information will refer the enterprises concerned to China Chemical Southern Construction and Investment Co., Ltd. related construction system, and said that the absence of pay has been more than a year.China Chemical Construction Investment LimitedThe company belongs to China Chemical Engineering Group.

To date, public information is insufficient to independently identify the subject of the worker’s specific employment contract, the total amount of deferred wages and the total package, subcontracts and labor relations of the related items.

One important reason for the attention of the incident is that the payers brought several minor children to the scene. Whether the ultimate responsibility belongs to the general contractor, subcontractor or labor company, this picture reflects first and foremost the real pressure caused by the delay in pay cannot be settled on the family life of ordinary workers.

Northern Lake Construction Workers to Build Land Protection Rights

Similar scenes occur in the north.

North Korean salary video.It has been shown that in a green building material related project in Hubei-Nanjing County, workers are placed in front of the door of the relevant site, waiting for the problem of wages to be solved in a staying way.

Live video (Telegram mirror image)You can see pictures of workers placing salaries in project-related locations directly.

The information linked the project to China-Tianxing Shipping Co., Ltd. and said workers had previously received a salary promise to settle before students started school, but did not receive the relevant amounts after the expiration.The Hubei Daily previously on the construction of a green building material base projectAt the time, public information showed that the project construction was linked to China's construction system.

Further verification is still to be carried out, including:

• what level of enterprise is the employer who actually delayed wages;
• the employee's relationship with the general contract, subcontracts and labor companies;
• the number and specific amount involved in the delay;
• whether the enterprise has actually promised a specific payment date;
• whether local people's companies, housing and other departments have intervened in the process.

*Why large engineering projects still have wage searches

In the field of construction engineering in China, there is a wide range of general contracts, professional subcontracts, labor subcontracts, etc. Once the payment, settlement or subcontracting links of the project have a problem, the most end workers are often first subjected to the pressure of cash flow.

But from the point of view of legal responsibility, the complexity of the financing chain of engineering projects cannot be a legitimate reason for delaying labor remuneration.

Since 2020, China has implemented the Regulation on Guaranteeing the Payment of Farmers' Wages, which establishes salary special accounts, real-name management, salary guarantee funds and other systems in the field of construction, and its policy objective is to reduce the problem of the long-term payment of farmers' wages.

If the recent exposures in Jiangxi and Hubei were eventually confirmed, it would be worth asking not only “when the wages are paid”, but also why these wage guarantees that have been in operation for years did not work before the issue developed to publicly ask workers for wages.

The family subsistence is behind the wage

The most striking detail of the incident in Jiangxi was the appearance of the mercenary with five children on the scene.

For workers who rely on wages to maintain their daily lives, the long-term inability to obtain the corresponding remuneration for their already paid labor can affect not only personal income, but can also directly spread to housing, children’s education and basic family life.

The choice of workers on the ground in the Hubei incident also shows that ordinary workers may turn to a more open and sustained way of defending rights after conventional communication is not able to quickly solve the problem.

The payment of wages ultimately needs to rely on labor contracts, salary records, project settlement documents and regulatory authorities investigation to determine responsibility.

Therefore, in further investigations, whether the enterprises concerned acknowledge the existence of wages, who is the actual employer, whether the local labor supervision department has filed a case, and when the wages are ultimately paid, are more important questions than online debate.

If the enterprise belongs to the large state-owned construction system, its internal project management, subcontractual supervision and the mechanism for guaranteeing the wages of farmers and workers have been truly implemented, it is also necessary to make a clear explanation to the public.

* China will continue to pay attention to whether relevant enterprises and local authorities respond to the above incidents.