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There is actually a lot of unrest in China, most just never gets reported.
It's not a new phenomena either, back in their imperial days they had a lot of local rebellions and revolts, and they similarly didn't even record them unless they surpassed a threshold.
But they have a lot of incidents of villages throwing out their government officials, or hounding them during the party congress, or so I read, although that was around 2011 when I read that incidentally.
The sad part is that thanks to technology it is very easy for China to crack down people exercising basic human rights. That's probably why nothing major has happened in a long time.
There were the white banner protests a few years ago. Technologies like mass surveillance and face recognition were used to track protesters down and quietly vanish them, though. Videos of the protests got shared on the western internet but it didn‘t really go viral. We didn‘t see videos of mass arrest or anything.
That‘s because the arrests were spread out through days and weeks in hundreds of different operations. The Chinese regime is aware how powerful these images would be. So they use their surveillance state to do the dirty work quietly. People still protest. Major things happen but we barely hear about them because the arrests and killings don‘t happen in the public anymore.
High-tech simply obscures their cruelty.
Yeah, from what I've heard, China has much more localized government and policies than people in the West think, and local government catches flak from people regularly.
So they have a system where towns are appointed a mayor who gets changed out every 5 years. The mayor is then graded on things like education, economy, popularity, and how many veggies the village ate.
The purpose of this is to prevent local fiefdoms from developing and to quickly identify and remove underperforming leaders.
This has the effect of people appealing to the provincial government to either keep or remove candidates who are exceptionally good or bad.