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The Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest in China during the prelude to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the morning of October 13, 2022, a protester demonstrated against CCP general secretary Xi Jinping's cult of personality, dictatorship, human rights violations, strengthening of censorship, seeking of leadership for life, and implementation of the zero-COVID policy by hanging banners and burning tires on Sitong Bridge (Chinese: 四通桥) in Haidian District, Beijing.

The protester, Peng Lifa (彭立发; b. 1974), has been dubbed Bridge Man or Banner Man in reference to Tank Man.
“We want food, not PCR tests. We want freedom, not lockdowns. We want respect, not lies. We want reform, not a Cultural Revolution. We want a vote, not a leader. We want to be citizens, not slaves,” said one banner, while a second called for a boycott of schools, strikes and the removal of Xi.

Such a rare protest at a time of extreme political sensitivity caught attention. On Friday morning a Weibo hashtag “I saw it”, where people referenced the incident without referring to it, had been viewed more than 180,000 times before it too was deleted, and some posters had their accounts suspended for violating Weibo rules and regulations.