Female Official Of Impoverished Arun Qi Drives Luxury SUV

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From Mop:

Miss Chief Procurator of an impoverished county, even your husband drives a car that costs over a million? NB

Recently, the story of the chief procurator of Arun Qi [in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China] and her expensive car, complete with special licence plate was revealed on the internet. When asked about the origin of the car by the media, she boldly said: “The car is a friend’s, the plate is temporary, and the post is defamatory.” The ripples caused by her words turned into a thousand waves, and a netizen has revealed that her husband also drives a imported German luxury car, an Audi Q7, with licence plate number EA5589.

Really? Was it slanderous? Was it a “temporary” plate? Was it “borrowed”? Audi Q7s don’t come cheap, they start at around a million yuan. From what I heard, the procurator’s husband is the boss of the hospital in Yakeshi, the next county over. This is strange, isn’t it? A chief procurator in a luxury car, could it be that she’s transferred her love of expensive vehicles to her husband? Could it possibly be that a President of a hospital has such great abilities, and is so skilled? Is it right that he has his hands on that steering wheel with the logo of four rings [the Audi logo]?

Chief Procurator, if your car is borrowed, does that imply that your husband’s is too? This is too NB, that in this year there are so many rich people willing to lend their cars to Chief Procurators, Presidents of hospitals, or government officials. Nobody lends their cars to people begging in the street, or people busying themselves going about their work, or the kid next door, only to people who are Chief Procurators. Cars need to be appropriate for their drivers, but even more so, people need to be worthy of a certain car.

Perhaps when the time comes, we’ll find out that this Audi wasn’t borrowed. Then who bought it? How much did they pay? Did they use their own money? If they did, we won’t be able to say anything against it, because there are so many ways of making money, and if a couple made 1,800,000 in a year I wouldn’t be surprised. But both are public servants, they were busy serving the people, so where did they get the time to make some extra money on the side? I don’t think that they could have used their own money, that would be impossible. Could it be that they used public money?

If they did in fact use public money, how could a President of a hospital justify purchasing a million yuan luxury car, and how did his wife get hers? Was it that the hospital came into a lot of money, and since he had worked hard to earn it, that he decided to reward himself? More likely is that he is a model of governance, an influential person, and his superiors wanted to reward him, like ["CEO Monk"] Shi Yongxin. “Would you like a luxury car so you don’ t need to walk?”

I think anything’s possible. We shouldn’t bother trying to find out how the car got to China, or who paid for it, because it’s too gossipy, there are too many questions. Instead of finding answers, we’d become gossiping old women. I’m just curious, in the ads the Audi Q7 drives as fast as lightning, in muddy roads, in mountain passes, bravely driving forward; is this million yuan car as NB as they all say?

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Comments from Mop:

莫小忧:

From an unreliable source I heard… Arun Qi is very wealthy.

Anonymouse Poster 620192:

This is nothing special in a harmonious society.

juan109:

Isn’t this normal?

zhang630326:

I’m preparing to move to Arun Qi, it’s so rich. It’s up to the level of developed countries, and has even gone past that level. Arun Qi, home of entrepreneurship.

TzToM:

We’ve heard the excuse that the car is borrowed so often that we’re bleeding. Who would lend such an expensive car? There’s definitely something up.

死了都要踹:

The LZ doesn’t understand what’s going on. This is part of the plan to first make a certain section of society wealthy, so that they can help make the others wealthy.

大头扬扬:

I ask the government to explain this. After they do, then we’ll know what’s true and what isn’t.

cz半糖主义:

D ing, it looks like this Chief Procurator really knows how to borrow things. When she does, she makes sure to get a pair. This shows she’s very good at looking after her family.

爱情仍在欠费:

I’ve seen this so much I’m used to it!

中了西毒:

First making a certain section of society wealthy, then exterminating the poor, that’s how the prosperity is spread around.

中国创造㊣:

I’m from Yakeshi, and this kind of thing happens all the time.

really925:

Qie, [Capitalism With] Chinese Characteristics, there’s nothing strange about this.

taiwuchi:

I just looked it up, this car has been issued with a traffic infringement:

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http://www.zwxjj.gov.cn/list.asp?id=134

[From left to right, the columns are 1) Class of Automobile = Car 2) Licence Plate = MengEA5589, 3) The fine = 200 RMB, 4) Location = the mouth of Liberation Rd, 4) Offence = not obeying traffic signals]

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  1. dook, dook, dook, bam!

  2. Where can I rent a luxury car? I want to start pimpin’ out.

  3. When you’re in a reasonably high position in the government in China, it’s understood that you get a house and a car within a few years. Do people need a foreigner to tell them this? That’s why half the country studies around the clock for the government entrance exam. Everyone wants to feed off the government teat and have a job where you can’t get fired no matter how lazy you are.

    • Agreed.

      China is a meritocratian society after all.
      Even in the old imperial times, people can study to become beaurocrats and mandarines, who can then toy around with hundreds of cute concubines and eat delicious food all day, while the laobaixing is breaking its back by building the great wall to support his child to study for said exam.

      nothing has changed so far, only that the people are getting weird and unchinese western communist ideas of equality and fairness, they didnt had back then.

    • Yeap, sure sounds like the United States Federal government to me.

    • “Everyone wants to feed off the government teat and have a job where you can’t get fired no matter how lazy you are.”
      Yeap, sounds just like The United States Federal Government workers feeding off tax dollars to me

    • This post makes no sense. In one sentence you say “study around the clock” and in the next sentence you say “no matter how lazy you are.” I don’t care what language you use, logic is essential to real communication.

  4. Should we be concerned that people in China are apathetic towards this phenomenon?

  5. We all know how her and her husband found the funds to purchase those cars and it wasn’t from tiling I am sure.

    The poor bastards like that tiler are the ones missing out on better pay and safer working conditions because officials greedily siphon away any benefits before passing them down to the people who not only deserve them but earned them.

    Her husband is head of a hospital? Well we all know how dodgy hospitals are. They know you are scared for your life of having a disease and instead of being moral and just, they over charge and lie to make you spend more money. It happened to me recently and I walked out of the place with the prescription once they told me how much it would cost(which was 5 days X 3 drips at a cost of 300rmb per drip). They tried to stop me as I walked out but as I am pretty tall, the little moron receptionist didn’t try too hard. I went to a nearby hospital and saw a different doctor who prescribed a box of tablets costing 30rmb which I took for 2 days and cured me. Totally dodgy.

    China is a bronze statue with clay feet. This is just one example of something that happens all the time. China is full of hollow little people wanting to be big with money by screwing over the people who deserve it.

    When they die they will not take the money with them. Their retarded child will not have the intellectual fortitude to carry on the business/venture that afforded the luxurious lifestyle.

    What’s worse is that all this show has nothing behind it. These are not kind people, they can not be proud of the pain and hurt they cause. When I hear of an official that is executed for not having strong enough relationships, I am pretty happy. I just wish there was some system in place to reach the fuckers that are ‘above’ scrutiny.

    • 300rmb per drip alone? dude you got ripped off. Avoid “International Hospitals” for foreigners. They may have better trained doctors and equipments on a par with that in some western countries but so does the price, and they know well you are a ‘rich foreigner’ (a common prejudice in China) with no insurance LOL.

      My advice is finding a clinic where locals recommend and having a good personal relation with the docs. Consult on the doctors for any price on a prescription that you think fishy. If you are in a school teaching English or something, try the school clinic first (most schools have) because they provide much cheaper medicare for employees.

      The lesson is, always avoiding things for foreigners and getting local. Practice your Chinese since the better your language skill is the more local you can be.

    • Many Chinese doctors in Chinese hospitals are not real doctors at all. When people can’t pass the necessary certifications, they pay someone to get the position. If you’re near HK, I’d try heading out there for help. Otherwise, you’re probably better off running to a country nearby like Thailand.

  6. Everone can look up on traffic infringement of a certain car/person?!

  7. Why waste your time pointlessly complaining on the internet like a cowardly nerd when a Molotov Cocktail through her window could have struck fear into the hearts of Bolshevist oppressors across the nation?

  8. @bleah there is an online website to search traffic fines, although I also need to provide my VIN, it used to just require license plate. I don’t know if license-plate-only still works for some functionality.

    @rest
    A married couple composed of a sr. government official and the boss of a hospital driving luxury cars should totally be driving relatively nice vehicles. Those are high positions in private industry and government, what is the surprise or disbelief that they should have earned (or pilfered) enough money to buy some nice cars? It’s not like they’re rockin around in maybachs, bentleys, rolls, etc – it’s just a touareg and a q7, big fuckin deal.

    I find it amusing when people who will likely make absolutely nothing of their own lives hate on people who have, automatically asuming it’s 100% ill-gotten. It’s quite sad, really.

    • What’s sad is the the 100s of millions of Chinese who dont have access to clean drinking water.

      What’s sad is the 12 hour days a skilled worker (like the Beijing tiler) has to put in for a pittance.

      What’s sad is intelligent graduates living cheek to jowl like ‘ant people’.

      Meanwhile Lord and Lady Inner Mongolia swan around in huge SUVs, paid for thru corruption.

      China has many great points, but many bad ones too. Pointing that out isnt ‘sad’ – merely a function of looking at life critically.

      love and kisses, zammo xxx

    • Rick in China,

      “I find it amusing when people who will likely make absolutely nothing of their own lives hate on people who have, automatically asuming it’s 100% ill-gotten. It’s quite sad, really.”

      The salary for even the highest level civil-servant, in the largest cities like Beijing and Shanghai, is at most between 10 and 20 thousand rmb per month, but is more likely less than 10. Can they offord that car on that salary?

      Besides, if everything was on the up and up, why’d they lie about it? Isn’t that the main point?

      Between those two things isn’t it a logical assuption that it is ill-gotten? Isn’t it ridiculous to see someone with a low salary, driving a really expensive car, in a position where it is easy to be corrupt, denying they are driving an expensive car, and then not assume their money IS ill-gotten?

  9. you know,in this country,there’s no poor guan,but impoverished min.

  10. wow! it’s clear that officials in china are really pretty bad people. why do people there tolerate this? i understand they are mongoloids, but even so, there are limits!

    http://bit.ly/4MxsLc

  11. Cars are more expensive in China, I know, but the base model Audi Q7 costs a bit less than 340,000 yuan when converted from what they sell it for here in the U.S.

    Just FYI.

  12. The reason the Chinese let it all go is because if its made illegal to cheat, their economy would instantly implode.

    • Not at all.

      An equitable society and a successful economy are not mutually exclusive. Look at Scandinavia, or even the UK – no one starves here and the tap water is clean and delicious.. lol.

      Keep naming and shaming these bloated panjandrums. And put some sugar in their SUV gas tank while your at it :)

    • 1. It already is illegal to cheat. The problem is enforcement. Enron and Madoff cheated, for a long time, until they were caught. Some never get caught at all. The same is true in China and in many ways, the most maddening aspect is how obvious the cheating can be in China without anything happening.

      2. Apart from those who “let it all go” because they’re directly and consistently benefiting from “cheating”, the vast majority of Chinese people let it go not so much because they want to but because they genuinely feel powerless to stop or change it. That’s the sardonic resignation you see in the translated comments above.

      What do you think could be done? Any suggestions for how to improve upon, if not fix, this problem of corruption? What can the people do beyond what they’re already doing, exposing these stories, keeping corruption stories well-known, trying to harness the amplification of public opinion the internet offers to pressure the government? What can they do to guarantee that they’ll survive to see the fruits of their efforts?

      • In China, sometimes its not a matter of corruption but just “political stupidity”.

        When you drive a luxurious car as an official of an improverished car; what do you think the ppl will think of you? Even if you did not cheat to buy it, many ppl out of their emotions will not believe you. And when ppl dont believe you, you fuck up your job as an official.

        I am sure in alot of the western countries, officials cheat and get flithy rich and never caught. Take Richard Nixon for example, who would have thought of him as being corrupted at the time if not for “deep throat”. Hence, an advice to all these “Communist” officials, if you are going to accept bribes, dont fcken be so obvious. You guys got so much advantage to your western counterparts (like hiring chengguans to beat up human rights activists), and you guys still fail at covering up your tracks. Are communist members fucken stupid of what?

        PS: I am not supporting “corruption”, in fact, i think if God will, he should sent a thunderbolt onto every single of these jackasses.

  13. HI I AM BACK GIRLS!!!!!
    i think it is no fucking problem borrowing cars from other dudes. last month i BORROWED MY FRIEND`S WIFE and its all cool. THE THING IS DONT STEAL!!!!
    BORROWING= LEGAL
    STEALING+ ILLEGAL

    am i not right??????????????????????

  14. If this guy was a “HAN”, i don’t think this post would be here. Most HANS expect the minorities to remain poor and stick out their noses whenever they see one doing fine. It’s a shame that ppl don’t mind their business anymore. Go judge ur “Chenguans” first!!

  15. She’s such a country bumpkin for driving a SUV. The rage now for city folks is e-bikes. Yes, e-bikes outselling cars. It’s a lot less expensive, rechargeable, easy to park, and inexpensive to repair.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403411.html?hpid=sec-world

  16. this is none of your business. Keep out of it. There are probably a bazillion people with the same issue it’s no big deal.

    • It’s everybody’s business what civil servants do and where they get their cash. You against the open government laws that the US has that allow the public to know what their civil servants are up to? China has nothing like that and this kind of exposure is one of the only ways to change that. If they defamed or libeled her then let her sue.

    • American,

      Why do you care about our business then? There are prob bazillion people that is commenting on this issue alrdy?

  17. It is no accident that peasants in the countryside have pictures of Chairman Mao on their walls.

    If you want to know the future, study the present and the past.

    China is on schedule for a “rectification” and it won’t be pretty.

    • For those expats in China, make sure you keep a wad of USD at home to bribe you’re way out of the country when the shit hits the fan. For those with US citizenship, the US might be nice enough to park an aircraft carrier off the coast and helicopter out of the expats and friends, just like at the end of Vietnam.

    • “Pretty” is like “beauty” in the eye of the beholder, but you seem unaware that the Mao personality cult thing is way past prime. The local tatoo shop near my home (near Chongqing) recently gave up advertizing Mao tattoos, then went out of business entirely. Now that space sells knock-off sneakers. Mao is dead everywhere except Nepal, and that is truly a “rectified” country for it. In China’s long history, Mao himself was brief blip. But like so many of the founding emperors of long-standing dynasties, he did help bring on the current era of prosperity, which, if you have studied the past, seems likely to last several hundred years. In this sense the “rectification” of which you speak is already upon China, and the world at large. My advice, hang on and enjoy the ride. If it ain’t pretty enough for you, pee your pants and go home crying. There’s a lot of future left in this cycle.

  18. don’t you be dissin my mongolian kin. she and her husband have every right to be driving a luxury car and living the good life in china. after all, we were the original ruling class of china. its good to be king/queen

  19. HI I AM BACK
    why nobody ever gives me a positive remark? am i that boring? hehe i ont care , just joking
    i think this website is cool and we can have a lot of fun commenting. SPECIALLY TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE NEVER OF OUR BUSINESSES
    am i not right?

  20. It certainly is not illegal to have a luxury car in an improverished place when you are an official. It is not wrong.

    It is just stupid. When you are a normal person with a luxury car in an improverished place, you are asking to be robbed. When you are a rich person with a luxury car in an improverished place, you are asking to be lynched.

  21. opps it should not be “rich person” but “official”.

  22. What’s up with the Audis?
    When I was in Beijing I saw the same model of Audi everywhere… On the way to the airport I saw 5+ of them on the side of the road lined up

    • A black Audi A6 is the preferred car of government officials and military in Beijing. One reason I guess is because when they go to their friends’ extravagant weddings, they can all drive their cars in the motorcade and look the same. Also, creativity and individuality still is not the strong suit of many Chinese people, which is why so many people get the same car in the same color.

      • Chinese people? Read Germans! Look at the standard color palats of ANY luxury brand German car, or for that matter the VW. Basically, all you get is black or white, with some slight tonal differences that amount to “charcoal black” or “egg shell white.” It’s the same all over the world. German cars come in boring colors. You want style (and apparently few people do) go with the Italians!

    • It’s also the car that lots of people want for their wedding processions. The bigger your convoy of rented Audis, the more face you get, shenmede

  23. Could we please make pusan playa a mdoerator, or could we at least give him a section in chinasmack called “What Pusan playa thinks” and its jsut a section to him dedicating his rants. it would be give this place more hits!

  24. Why is this a surprise? Maybe the guy has money, maybe he is a good businessman. It’s not wrong to have money. Maybe he is a corrupt official, in China this is nothing new. If he is corrupt nothing will happen because the Chinese government will not eat their own, to do so would be admitting a mistake, the government won’t ever admit that.

  25. Its hilarious and insane to see small time county officials can dip into the public’s cookie jar and sneak in with a German luxury marque. I hate to think there are more of these incidents elsewhere and may expensive cars be the norm.

    Its widely held anecdote some corrupt local officials have mistresses, good cars and taking hours for lunch breaks. Nothing can be done to them as they have connections, They are like Zhu Zhigui 朱子贵.

  26. why all the fuss … they are in the communist party .. hehe china!!!

  27. Number 1 .. hahahaha ,i can’t use facebook, Hi5, youtube … i can’t even make an international call directly ….

  28. Why don’t they drive a Chinese made car?

    Think about it.

    Also – All money in China is ill-gotten. Guanxi is corruption.

  29. What he drives is not Audi, but loneliness…

  30. I was born in a military-run hospital near Shijiazhuang and lived in a barrack with my parents until three years old. Most of doctors and nurses in those hospitals were responsible. Some state-run hospitals were not bad either in the city I was living in (Hebei province). The only time in the last ten so years I got a drip was in 2009 summer when I was visiting my parents (where medicare is much cheaper). Removing two wisdom teeth cost me about 550rmb in the third-tier city:

    A ‘normal’ wisdom teeth – 50rmb
    A blocking teeth – 350rmb
    three day drips – 3x50rmb=150rmb

    and a clinic doctor who my mom knows well came to our home to give me drips for free so hospital room fees were saved (I bought drips with prescription from a hospital pharmacy). My wife nursed me in the first two days, learned how to give a drip and in the third day we decided not to bother the doctor again so she gave me the drip by herself. My wife told me puncturing her husband was actually pretty fun. LOL

  31. I agree that the CCP is definitely going to and is doing what it can to control threats to its power. In fact, I wouldn’t expect anyone with power to do otherwise. My original response was to Judith, whose comment I felt unnecessarily singled out and tarnished “the Chinese” as all being enthusiastically complicit in corruption and “cheating”. There’s more resentment and prejudice than constructive criticism in there, and I wanted to steer the conversation towards “let’s talk about what we little people can actually do to help improve this situation”. Being against it is the right first step. What’s next?

  32. My wife told me puncturing her husband was actually pretty fun. LOL

    …and vice versa I hope!

  33. And as a bonus, they’ll hang a HUGE picture of him on the gate of the Forbidden City.

  34. The next step is for the government to come to a serious realization: If they want to have a chance at being one of the top countries in the world… They need to put a serious halt towards growing corruption. There is just no way around it. They still have time now. However, if they wait then… The corrupt will become an asset, as they are all invested to heavily and they have their hands in too many things. The economic fall out would be catastrophic.

    Actually, corruption hurts the government itself. I have an interesting feeling though. I believe that at some point, the transition will happen. I don’t believe any government that wants a shot at being top 3, can have too much corruption.

    When that realization does happen, it will be the government vs. the corrupt. Which would be hell, because corruption is so thick. The financial corrupt in China have many rights in their favor and they are all extremely wealthy. Taking them down mean suffering huge losses, but it would hurt the system to a point that it couldn’t recover. But, if they keep waiting and doing nothing… sigh…

    My friend works in the government. He hates corruption. (So, NOT everyone in the government is corrupt) But, it is not so easy to just say… let’s stop it today. In fact, there would be a huge wave of detractors to stop him. Also, there is a domino effect that would bring down a lot of people in key positions.

    The government would have to place spies/probes within each department and level of government. They would have to wait for several years and just collect information and names about the corrupt. Just keep compiling for years. Cut the ties of the triads to government as well. During this time, they can find replacements and develop a system of checks and balances.

    A direct approach would just cause people to go into hiding. But, that is my logical interpretation on stopping corruption in China

  35. As for the people, the internet is good for China. I think it is healthy for Chinese to point out this story. Keep sharing and talking. Information can consciousness moves the people.

  36. Sorry… Meant to say:

    Taking them down means suffering huge losses, but it wouldn’t hurt the system to a point that it couldn’t recover.

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