[1] On April 1, 1996, Wang Xiangjun (王湘军), who was described as a mental patient, broke into two schools in Yizhang County, Hunan, stabbing seven students to death and injuring five others.
[4] On September 14, 1998, teacher and ex-soldier Lin Peiqing (林培青) wounded 23 students, including eight children who were critically injured, at a primary school in Hejiang county of Sichuan province during the morning Flag Raising Ceremony.
[4] On October 19, 1999, a drunk school guard Liang Yongcheng (梁永成) in Longzhou County shot a teacher and six students with a hunting rifle before committing suicide.
[5][6] On March 6, 2001, a man named Li Chuicai (李垂才) allegedly broke into a third-grade classroom in Wanzai County, Jiangxi and ignited explosives, leveling the school and killing himself, 41 others, and injuring 27.
[10] On November 26, 2002, a schizophrenic man named Shi Ruoqiu (施若丘) stabbed seven children at Shilong Elementary School in Huaiji County, Guangdong.
[12] On March 7, 2003, 24-year-old Xie Zhongcai (谢忠材) injured four teachers and four children with a knife at a kindergarten in Beihai, before being overpowered by the father of a child at the school.
[24] On December 3, 2004, 12 students were stabbed by 30-year-old Liu Zhigang (刘志刚) at Central Primary School in Mingcheng Town, Panshi, Jilin.
[25] On April 2, 2005, a man surnamed Meng broke into a classroom at Nansan Middle School in Zhanjiang and stabbed eight students with a kitchen knife.
[26] On October 12, 2005, 33-year-old Liu Shibing (刘世斌) a former mental patient, opened fire with six homemade guns at Niutoushan Primary School in Liudong Town, Guangde, Anhui.
[31] On May 24, 2006, Yang Xinlong (杨新龙) murdered a neighbor in Luoying, Henan, and proceeded to take 19 elementary school students hostage, killing one before being subdued by police.
[33] On June 13, 2007, 42-year-old Qianxiao Su (苏千小) broke into Chiling Primary School in Longtang, Guangdong, and killed a nine-year-old boy with a kitchen knife and seriously wounded three others.
[35] On September 13, 2007, a mentally ill 28-year-old man threw five girls and one boy out of a window on the third floor of a primary school in Hengyang, Hunan, killing one.
[32] On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生)[38] 41, murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping,[39] Fujian province;[40] The attack was widely reported in Chinese media (called 南平实验小学重大凶杀案),[38] sparking fears of copycat crimes.
On April 13, a mentally ill man went on a stabbing rampage at Xizhen Primary School in Xichang, southern Guangxi, killing an eight-year-old boy and an 80-year-old woman passerby.
[41] On April 28, just a few hours after the execution of Zheng Minsheng in neighboring Fujian Province,[42] in Leizhou,[43] Guangdong another knife-wielding man named Chen Kangbing, 33 (陈康炳)[44] attacked Leicheng First Primary School, and wounded 16 students and a teacher.
[48] On April 30, Wang Yonglai (王永来) used a hammer to inflict head injuries to preschool children in Weifang,[39] Shandong, then used gasoline to commit suicide by self-immolation.
In September 2011, a young girl and three adults taking their children to nursery school were killed in Gongyi,[57] Henan by 30-year-old Wang Hongbin (王宏斌) with an axe.
The suspect, Wu Yechang, aged 25, was caught on-site by police officers, who rushed to the nursery after receiving emergency calls.
[61] On September 25, 2012, a 20-year-old man surnamed Zhang broke into a girls' dormitory in the Henan Vocational and Technical College, killing three students and wounding another.
[65] A knife-wielding attacker killed two relatives and then slashed 11 people, including six children, outside a school in China's commercial hub of Shanghai.
[78] On March 18, 2015, a student stabbed three of his classmates, two boys and a girl, at Shouchang Middle School in Jiande City, Hangzhou; their injuries were not life-threatening.
[79][80] On February 29, 45-year-old Li Sijun injured ten schoolchildren (six boys and four girls) at Yangfan Primary School (扬帆小学) by stabbing them with a knife before escaping and committing suicide.
[84] On November 25, at around 11:40 a.m. 58-year-old Lei Mingyue (雷明跃) entered an after-school care center in Hantai District and attacked students lining up for lunch with an axe.
The driver ignited gasoline, which he had bought earlier, while the bus was travelling through a tunnel in Weihai that is home to many South Korean businesses.
Police determined that the fire started on the floor of the bus next to the driver's seat, where the cap to a cigarette lighter and gasoline residue were found.
[87] On June 15, 2017, a bombing at a kindergarten in Feng County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, east China, killed at least eight people and injured 65 others.
[95] On September 2, 2019, a 40-year-old attacker surnamed Yu killed eight students and injured two others at an elementary school in Chaoyangpo, Enshi City, Hubei, on the first day of the new semester.
[96] More than 50 people, almost all of them young children, were hospitalized in southwest China on Tuesday after a man broke into a kindergarten and sprayed them with sodium hydroxide as "revenge on society.
[104] At 5:00 p.m. on April 19, 2023, a mentally unstable student allegedly stabbed seven people at the Qingdao Campus of Shandong University of Science and Technology with a knife, killing one.
[105] On May 14, 2023, a sophomore of the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China allegedly stabbed two of his neighbours to death and severely injured his mother by beating her into a coma.