2022 Beijing Sitong Bridge protest

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Beijing Sitong Bridge protest
Part of the Chinese democracy movement and the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
Sitong Bridge pictured in 2012
Date	October 13, 2022
Location	Sitong Bridge, Haidian, Beijing, China 39°57′56″N 116°18′55″E / 39.96564°N 116.31517°E / 39.96564; 116.31517
Caused by	Opposition to Xi Jinping and the Chinese government's zero-COVID policy
Methods	Hanging banners, playing slogans on loudspeakers, burning tires to produce black smoke
Resulted in	Protester arrested, banners and loudspeakers removed
Lead figures
Peng Lifa
Location within central Beijing

The Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest that took place on October 13, 2022, in Haidian, Beijing, China.

The protest happened three days before the opening of 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 [zh] (Chinese: 四通桥; pinyin: Sìtōng Qiáo) in Haidian, Beijing.

The protester, Peng Lifa (彭立发; pinyin: Péng Lìfā; b. 1974),^[1] has been dubbed Bridge Man or Banner Man in reference to Tank Man.