After the June 4th crackdown, the situation in Chengdu was equally tense. Louisa Lim's book "The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited" points out that tens of thousands of students and members of the general public went on hunger strike in Chengdu's Tianfu Square; this hunger strike was then violently suppressed by the Armed Police. Many citizens went missing, including among their number Zhou Guocong, who was only 15 years old.

On June 6th, Zhou Guocong went missing while riding his bicycle home. A few days later, his mother, Tang Deying, was informed that he had been detained by the police for violating the curfew. It was only months later that Zhou Guocong was confirmed to have died after being beaten the police on the second day of his detention. According to Huang Qi, founder of the website 64tianwang.com, Zhou Guocong was arrested at Chengdu's Tianfu Square and then taken to the Ningxia Street police station. After refusing to write a confession, he was beaten to death by police, and his body was summarily cremated.

11 years later, Tang Deying finally obtained a photo of her son's body from the police. In the photo, Zhou Guocong was lying on a cement floor, and his face was swollen, with visible bruises and bloodstains. Over the years, Tang had been trying to gain justice for her son. She visited Beijing five times, but was sent home and even beaten, detained, and locked in an iron cage by police. It wasn't until April 2006 that the Chinese government granted Tang CN¥70,000 as a "hardship allowance". This was the first time that a family member of a June 4th victim had received a "hardship allowance" from the Chinese government. Nevertheless, Tang stated in an interview with Louisa Lim that the official action was purely in order to get her to stop petitioning. Tang said, "They haven't admitted any responsibility. I need compensation; that's what's stipulated by the law. But I also need to see those who are responsible punished."

References: [風傳媒 ("Storm Media Group")(Chinese)] (https://www.storm.mg/article/1339830?page=2); "The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited"; [BBC中文網("BBC News Chinese Edition")(Chinese)] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4960000/newsid_4960800/4960824.stm); [Lily Kuo, "The Guardian": [China’s other Tiananmens: 30 years on] (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/02/chinas-other-tiananmens-30th-anniversary-1989-protests); [大公報("Ta Kung Pao")(Chinese)] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v7pKcMcrf5dV0rz_kRRZrI5NxILKZGBv/view?usp=sharing); "Witness Reports on the Democratic Movement of China '89"