城管 chengguan refers to “City Management” departments throughout China tasked with enforcing municipal laws, regulations, codes, etc. Their staff personnel have a very poor reputation amongst the Chinese public as being corrupt and violent brutes, infamous for physically bullying illegal street vendors, hawkers, and peddlers, often resulting in injuries, sometimes resulting in deaths.
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A city management officer in Wuhan who cracks down on street peddlers by day is exposed as posing as an one himself at night, supposedly as an undercover mole.19 -
Video of city management personnel fighting & jumping up and stomping on a young man's head outrage Chinese netizens. Officials claim it was a temporary worker. -
A blind beggar being beaten and tossed into a pond by 3 city management officials in Zhaotong city of Yunnan province incites online outrage and condemnations. -
Chinese netizens celebrate a city management official being rendered brain dead and then dying after a Hubei villager strikes the back of his head with a hoe. -
Chinese netizens are widely unsympathetic after a young member of China's notorious urban administration department is hacked by a street peddler with a knife. -
Photos of Guangzhou city management officials roughly handling and arrested a female street peddler in front of her 2-year-old daughter anger Chinese netizens. -
A city management department in Hefei has recruited 3 foreign students to help raise awareness for the work of China's often infamous low-level law enforcers. -
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Cement cones, spikes, and bricks have recently appeared under Guangzhou and Shenzhen overpasses possibly to discourage Chinese homeless from sleeping there. -
Chinese netizens are upset by a photo of one of China's infamous city management officials pressing a street vendor to the ground by the neck with his foot. -
Chinese netizen reactions PRC President Hu Jintao stopping to bend over and pick up a Chinese national flag that was on the ground at a G20 Summit photo shoot. -
After collectively beating a street vendor, a team of "chengguan" [city management officials] in Shenzhen flee but leave one of their own to face an angry mob. -
Days after two French foreign students became famous online for selling crepes outside Shanghai's Tongji University, a "British Fried Rice" stand has appeared. -
Chinese customers tell Benoit & Julien, French students selling crepes outside Tongji University, to flee as China's infamous city management officials show up. -
Chengdu city management officials are surrounded & condemned by pretty young women & large crowds of city residents after beating an old man selling bayberries. -
The reputation of China's widely hated "chengguan" department improves just a little bit after a video of 12 of its young members dancing becomes famous online. -
Following Shenzhen, container homes have appeared in Chengdu, China. Each unit is available for rent at 6 RMB (<1 USD) per day or for sale at 10,000 RMB each. -
Thousands of city residents in Changchun, China cornered a man wearing a police uniform after he began viciously beating an old lady he had hit with his car.
