Below is a chronological list of school attacks in China.
1990s
July 1995 On July 10, 1995, Dong Chi (董驰), armed with a double-barreled shotgun and garden shears, attacked staff and students at a kindergarten in Meihekou, Jilin, killing a six-year-old girl and wounding 15 other students and a teacher. Dong was shot and killed by police.
April 1996 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.
August 1998 In late August 1998, a teacher fatally stabbed two children and injured 15 others in Henan.
September 1998 On September 14, 1998, teacher and ex-soldier Lin Peiqing (林培青) wounded 23 students with kitchen knives, including eight children who were critically injured, at a primary school in Hejiang County, Sichuan during the morning Flag Raising Ceremony.
October 1999 On October 19, 1999, a drunk school police officer Liang Yongcheng (梁永成) in Longzhou County, Guangxi, shot and wounded a teacher and six students with a hunting rifle before committing suicide.
2000s
March 2001
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.
February 2002 On February 27, 2002, a 38-year-old woman, identified as Huang Qiaoying, stabbed a group of students from Baidu Primary School in Yongtai County, Fujian while walking home after classes, killing three and wounding 11; she was arrested at the scene and found not guilty due to her mental illness.
September 2002 On September 26, 2002, a bus driver from Lanzhou, Gansu, killed a teacher and wounded two others, including his ex-girlfriend, at a school with a hunting rifle. He was fatally shot by police after threatening suicide on the roof.
November 2002
Huang Hu
On November 24, 2002, Huang Hu placed rat poison in the table salt of a kindergarten in Wuchuan, Guangdong. Huang operated his own kindergarten that he had opened the previous month. His business failed quickly, and he blamed it on the kindergarten he targeted. 70 children and two teachers fell severely ill, though all of them survived. Huang was sentenced to death and executed on January 3, 2003.
Shilong stabbing On November 26, 2002, a schizophrenic man named Shi Ruoqiu (施若丘) stabbed seven children at Shilong Elementary School in Huaiji County, Guangdong. Five of the children later died from their injuries.
January 2003 On January 25, 2003, a teacher named Chen Peiquan (陈培全) fatally stabbed three students and a teacher at Yang Gan Middle School in Suixi County, Guangdong. Another three were injured. Chen had a history of mental illness and spent the previous six years in and out of mental hospitals.
March 2003 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, Guangxi, before being overpowered by the father of a child at the school. According to investigators, Xie was romantically rejected by a teacher at the school, and the teacher had arranged for him to be beaten up.
September 2003 On September 13, 2003, 25-year-old Liang Mei returned to Guangxi Teachers' College in Nanning, who had suspended her for one year for attempting suicide. There she killed one student and injured seven other classmates by stabbing them in the back.
February 2004
Between February 13 and 15, 2004, Ma Jiajue (马加爵), a biochemistry student at Yunnan University, killed four students with a hammer for accusing him of cheating in a card game.
August 2004 On August 4, 2004, 15 students and three teachers were stabbed in a kindergarten at Peking University in Beijing. One student died in the hospital. The perpetrator, Xu Heping (徐和平), was a temporary worker at the kindergarten and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He had been held at a mental hospital for four months in 1999 due to his illness, and was described as introverted and depressed.
September 2004
Suzhou daycare stabbing On September 11, 2004, 28 children were slashed after 41-year-old Yang Guozhu (杨国柱) broke into a daycare in Suzhou, Jiangsu. He was stopped by police as he was attempting to light gasoline and explosives in the building. Yang's parents had committed suicide by drinking poison in 2002. He claimed the attacks were a release of his frustration over family issues.
Ju County stabbing On September 20, 2004, a man stabbed 25 students at No. 1 Experimental Primary School in Ju County, Shandong, before taking a female student hostage and being subdued by authorities.
Guangyi Centre School stabbing On September 30, 2004, four children were killed and 16 others injured in a mass stabbing at Guangyi Centre School in Linwu County, Hunan. The perpetrator, 28-year-old Liu Hongwen (刘红文), was a teacher at the school with mental health issues. During his trial he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and found not guilty by reason of insanity.
October 2004 On October 21, 2004, Fu Hegong (付贺功) broke into a kindergarten in Beijing with the intent to rob it. After being confronted by a teacher, he raped and smothered her to death with a quilt. After a five-year-old boy was awakened by the noise, he beat the boy to death. Fu had previously committed three unrelated murders and was executed for his crimes in 2005.
November 2004 On November 25, 2004, 21-year-old Yan Yanming (闫彦明) entered Ruzhou No. 2 High School and fatally stabbed nine boys as they slept in their dormitory. He later attempted suicide and was turned over to authorities by his mother. He was executed on January 18, 2005.
December 2004 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. He scaled the school's fence, attacked students with a kitchen knife, and slashed his own throat. He and his victims all survived. After the attack Liu was placed in a mental hospital due to his severe schizophrenia.
April 2005 On April 2, 2005, a man surnamed Meng broke into a classroom at Nansan Middle School in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and inuring eight students with a kitchen knife. After a standoff with police, he attempted suicide by jumping off the building, but survived. Meng was a carpenter who had been recently fired from his job.
July 2005 On July 7, 2005, 38-year-old Feng Liying, a woman with a history of mental illness, attacked a group of children who were playing in front of their school after classes with a knife. Three were injured and a fourth escaped by entering the school. The woman was arrested and sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
October 2005 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. Eighteen people were wounded (sixteen students and two adults). Liu fled the scene, but was arrested on October 14 in Beijing. At the time of the crime, he was unemployed and unmarried, and had a history of both criminal activity and mental disorders. Two years prior, he had burnt down his mother's home after she refused to give him money to buy cigarettes. Previous to the shooting, he had expressed jealousy towards people who had children, allegedly saying, "I have no kids of my own, so I will get rid of other people's kids".
May 2006
Shiguan kindergarten attack
On May 8, 2006, 18-year-old Bai Ningyang (白宁阳) entered a classroom of a kindergarten in Shiguan Village, Gongyi, Henan. He forced the teacher and children to the back of the room at knifepoint, locked the door and poured gasoline on the floor, setting the room alight before escaping. 12 died and five others were seriously injured. According to locals, the teacher of the class had previously rejected his romantic advances. Bai was sentenced to death in December 2007.
On May 19, 2006, a 30-year-old woman from Hubei suspected of having mental illness stormed into a classroom of the Hekou Elementary School with a knife in Taihu, Anhui. Five students were injured, all of them non-fatally. The woman was arrested at the scene and sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. Hours previous to the attack she had injured her niece in her house.
Luoying hostage taking On May 24, 2006, after a dispute with neighbors, 35-year-old Yang Xinlong (杨新龙) murdered his aunt with a kitchen knife in Luoying village in Dengzhou, Henan, before setting her house on fire. He then injured another neighbor, fled, and chased after his cousin, who ran into Luoying Primary School. Yang scaled the wall into the school and took 19 elementary school students hostage, blocking a classroom door with a table. During the event, he killed a 10-year-old girl and injuring a male student before being shot in the wrist by a sniper and was subdued by police.
May 2007 On May 15, 2007, 17-year-old Wu Jianguo (吴建国) stabbed six of his classmates with a knife at a middle school in Maoming, Guangdong, killing two.
June 2007
Longtang stabbing On June 13, 2007, 42-year-old Su Qianxiao (苏千小) broke into Chiling Primary School in Longtang, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and killed a nine-year-old boy with a kitchen knife and seriously wounded three others.
Fuzhou stabbing On June 20, 2007, four students were injured, one critically, when a young man broke into a school in Fuzhou, Fujian, and began attacking them with a knife.
July 2007 In July 2007, a mentally ill man attacked 18 children with a wrench at a school in Foshan, Guangdong. He entered a classroom and began striking the children on their heads. He fled the scene on a motorcycle and attempted suicide.
September 2007 On September 9, 2007, 49-year-old Chen Zhengwei, a worker at Kunming No. 1 Middle School, stormed into the campus with a rented vehicle, hitting and injuring six people before stopping and attempting suicide by pouring gasoline on himself and drinking it. He was arrested at the scene and was later sentenced to life imprisonment.
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.
February 2008 On February 25, 2008, Chen Wenzhen (陈文真) broke into Leizhou No. 2 Middle School in Leizhou, Guangdong, and fatally stabbed two students and injured four others, after which he stabbed himself in the abdomen and jumped from the fifth floor, killing himself. The perpetrator was described as a "mentally disturbed" young man.
March 2009 On March 2, 2009, 40-year-old Xu Ximei hacked two preschoolers to death with a kitchen knife at a primary school in Mazhan, Guangdong. A grandmother and three others at the school were also injured. Xu was reportedly mentally disabled.
June 2009 On June 22, 2009, 66-year-old Li Shengguang poisoned the food of Lu Zhikun, the wife of the director of the Wenda Kindergarten, located in Huangshi, Hubei. However, the poisoned food mixed with that of the students, causing the death of one of them and leaving 20 others in the hospital. Li was arrested the following day.
2010s
March 2010
On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生) 41, murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping, Fujian; The attack was widely reported in Chinese media (called 南平实验小学重大凶杀案), sparking fears of copycat crimes. Following a quick trial, Zheng Minsheng was executed about one month later on April 28. Media reported a history of mental health issues, but police stated that Zheng had no history of mental illness, contradicting earlier reports. Zheng said that he performed the attack after being turned down by a girl and suffering "unfair treatment" from the girl's wealthy family.
April 2010
Xizhen stabbing