June 9, 2014, Yulin restaurants cover up the word "dog" in their signboards.

The Yulin Lychee Dog Meat Festival in Guangxi, which has continued to generate online buzz in recent years, has finally made the local community feel great pressure. In addition to an official briefing emphasizing that the so-called "summer solstice lychee dog meat festival" is only the expression of individual merchants and folk, and has never been organized by the government, in order to avoid stimulating dog lovers, some local catering merchants have been asked to cover up or even replace their signboards to avoid the word "dog" and other words from appearing.

2014

On June 21, 2014, several dog lovers clashed with local diners at a dog meat restaurant near Jiangbin Xinmin Road in Yulin, Guangxi province, resulting in one diner bleeding from the mouth. Both sides of the conflict were quickly taken away by police.