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Siyang, in the north of Jiangsu Province, was once the capital city of the ancient Sishui kingdom. In 2006, it had the third lowest GDP in Jiangsu Province. In the last couple of years, they have been busy reforming and opening up, seeking business investment, and carrying out major construction everywhere. However, on October 31, 2008, I happened to go back for business, and on this familiar patch of land, I saw an extremely inharmonious sight: a bunch of “city management”¹ surrounding a middle-aged woman carrying a infant in her arms. And yet this woman had not broken any rules, nor did she set up any stall [to sell things on the street]. It was only because she had spoken a sentence of truth.

In Siyang, there is a street called Sizhong Road, where all the small takeaway food/snack stalls are gathered. Ever since I was able to remember things, I knew of this place. I am not clear whether the stalls there have licenses, or whether they got permission from the government to use that land, but it has definitely existed for a very very long time, and people in Siyang almost all know that.

On October 31st, at 4pm in the afternoon, a group of “city management” arrived at the scene, and began indiscriminately pulling all the carts [of the stalls] onto their own trucks. On the scene, those who fled, fled. Those who chased, chased. Those who looked on, looked on. It was a scene of chaos. At this time, a woman holding her baby carelessly said, “Enforcing the law like this, and you still tell everyone you enforce the law in a civilised manner?” Who knew this one sentence of truth would actually provoke the countless “city management” officials’ fists and kicks towards her? There were two “city management” members, who utterly ignored the baby in the middle-aged woman’s arms, and aimed their fists at her who was unarmed. That middle-aged woman instinctively risked her life to protect the baby with her hands. She probably did not imagine she would be subjected to the “city management’s” multiple fists without violating any of the “city management’s” rules. And she, being a full-blooded child of North Jiangsu, facing numerous “city management”, unexpectedly and fearlessly did everything she could to defend herself, and she even fought back when there was the opportunity. However, with a baby in her arms, hopelessly outnumbered, she gradually retreated. At this moment, she shouted loudly, “Are you all lawless?” One of the city managers yelled, “I am the law! I can handle things however I want!” So much arroganc and complete disregard of the establishment of rule of law and harmonious society². Bystanders said in unison: City management are a pack of mad dogs.

Seeing the situation escalate, I took out my mobile phone to call the police. Right then, something out of a movie happened: A middle-aged couple who had been there running a stand, seeing that the above middle-aged woman was close to getting hurt, came over to separate the two sides. Naturally, some physical contact occurred. At this time, the city management reacted swiftly and immediately took out a camera. Click, click, click, the camera shuttered. They told everyone, “That is evidence of you all violently resisting the law, and we’ll focus on dealing with you later!”

I was stunned that, in this day where we are building up rule of law and harmonious society, such a thing that should not happen, actually happens. “City management,” as those responsible for managing and safeguarding a city’s image, should in the service of the people, but they swung their iron fists against an unarmed baby-carrying by-standing woman, and they turned the law, a public domain, into their privately owned privileges, distorting the truth, brutally enforcing the law (actually putting it this way is also not correct. That woman should not have been the opponent of the city management in the first place, she was merely walking on the street, maybe she wanted to buy something to eat for her child). Some time ago, an ugly incident happened in Tianmen City, Hubei Province, where a man was beaten to death because he took pictures of city managers violently enforcing the law. That story was spread on the net like a wildfire. Someone online said in jest: Give me a squad of “city management”, and I’ll go liberate Taiwan. And now, a similar incident has happened closer to us, it is true.

Even after leaving the scene for some time, my heart still faintly aches. I don’t know if that woman was injured; that baby looks like it was approximately one-year-old, so maybe it already has the ability to remember things, but who knows what kind of memory today’s events will give his young mind. That old couple who tried to break up the fight, maybe their stall was their only source of income, and in trying to save a middle-aged woman they offended the “city management” and became an example of violent enforcement of the law. Later, whether their lives will be affected, I don’t dare to think of. This is not something I, as a small common person who has gone out to work, should think about.

Siyang, the city that is trying to attract outside business capital…I don’t know…if a business person visited and saw this kind of thing, would it reassure him of investing in Siyang? (Does this incident prove that Siuang’s law-enforcement ability is strong?) Or would he sigh and walk away?

I know I can’t change this situation, I only want to type out these words so people online with conscience and a sense for justice can read it and help spread the post. The power of the masses is unlimited. I believe one day city management will no longer be synonymous with hired thugs.

Comments on Tianya:

LZ, save your energy. It is just this one incident in Siyang. Trying to plead the law with government here in Suqian is simply no different from “an idiot talking about his dreams” [an unrealistic expectation]. In August, here in Sangxu town, Shuyang, the government colluded with 50 black society³ members to beat up the farmers protecting their agriculture fields. How was this matter handled??

How did they handle the incident where a crowd of over 10,000 people surrounded and beat up police at Xiuyu Middle School?

The two incidents above are the same character as what happened in Weng’an, only without getting so far.
If Zhang Xinshi did not urgently spend some hush-money, who knows whether the incident at Xiuyu Middle School would have escalated into another Weng’an.

Sometimes officials force people to rebel, and people have no chance but to rebel!!

Crows will be black~~~ [this means bad things will always be bad]
Siyang’s talented people have all left, no one will go back~~

Hello,
I am from Shuyang, and the city managers here are the same.
Are there any white crows under the sun?
The other day something like this happened here as well.
It’s not that we don’t have conscience, but if what we see in society is always like this, how do you expect us to be harmonious?
It is fucking nonsense!

There are many places that are all suffering miserably.⁴
Sigh~~~ Hope that mum is not seriously harmed.

“Harmonious” society. Sigh.

None of the “city management” are any good, only bullying the weak [cowards].

Society has contracted a disease….

“City management’s” power is apparently stronger/more than the PLA. [People's Liberation Army]

This is what society is like!! Heart breaking!

Society has once again been harmonised by “city management!”

They would even beat a middle-aged woman carrying a baby, these bastard dogs really don’t deserve a good death!!

“City management” have long had a bad reputation. What moral people would normally go work there? Only hooligans and thugs would be willing to be “city management”.

Do not be so surprised! “City management” beating people up also happened in our Dong’an County. A passer-by who took pictures using his cell phone was detained for ten days!

After seeing everyone speaking out so many just words, I feel that at least our Tianya community is a sanctuary. Only thing is, we have been saying these things for so many years, yet has it ever made a difference? No one pays attention to us. We are a bunch of intellectuals in a virtual world amusing ourselves. This is the real embodiment of our nation’s sadness.

A bunch of beasts that deserve to die. This society is hopeless. Fuck.

City managers enforce the law.
And just like that, they believe they are superior than the peddlers/vendors/hawkers.
Using force, city management only need to make one phone call and all the local ruffians and thugs will come to help.
As for the law, would we have as many connections as they do?
This is what inequality is.

Reading all the people’s responses, it seems like China’s “city management” are more numerous and worse than flies, so why don’t we use insecticide against them? One spray cleans a whole area! Best results!

The entire country’s “city management” are bandits. This is our country’s disgrace.

At my home, Dongxiang County in Jiangxi Province, the government mustered over a hundred people, and dozens of cars, and came to our town to openly take the land, beating up the people who protected their fields, and openly arresting some people, and arbitrarily sentenced them without following legal procedures. We petitioned and appealed to higher authorities for years, but the final result was superficial. A perfectly good portion of land was ruined like this and can never again be used for cultivating/planting fields again.

“City management” in our Qingdao are even more terrible. They “enforce the law” during the day and gamble at night, so do you think they would be very rational during the day? Without these people running their small businesses [selling snacks, food, merchandise, etc. on the side of the street] what would our lives be like? What would happen to these ordinary people who do not have a livelihood? Are we supposed to force them to walk a path of crime?

So horrible — “lou zhu,” why did you not keep any evidence?

Sigh, when will Chinese society change back to the old simplicity/honesty, and when will government officials put the people’s benefit as the first priority.

Everyone says sending a car full of “city management” can promptly recapture Taiwan!
If “city management” suddenly become civil servants, will they become even more arrogant and outrageous? [civil servants are "higher" than "city management".]
Everyone was born and raised by their parents, but do these “city managers” not have any elders/old people in their family, no wives and children? Do they not hurt, love, or have feelings? Are they still human? Beasts, but even beasts won’t hurt people without cause.

I feel very sad for what happened in my hometown.
Having left and now living away from my hometown, the impression I have on others is not bad. When people ask me where I am from, I always loudly reply, “from Siyang,” to let more people know that my hometown is cultivated and has high character.
I do my best to support and maintain my hometown’s dignity, but many times, there are many others from Siyang who also left and work away from home like I did but give others an impression that they are uncultivated and of low character. My heart breaks when I see them behaving like tramps. Much later, I realised, all of Siyang’s true talent had already left their hometown.

This is no different from the tyranny of the landlords in the old society [China before Communist liberation]. Revolt! Revolt!

I suggest everyone go visit Secretary Zhang’s blog, make some suggestions, and do what little you can do to help.
And yes, what is the name of Siyang District’s party secretary again, is it still “shit basin”? [not sure if he is referring to a pun of the Siyang party secretary's name or if he wants to know who the secretary is to ask why Siyang is still a "shit basin"]

I wonder if Old Hu [President Hu Jintao] knows what happens down there.

I am now wondering whether or not the Nationalist Party/KMT was really reactionary.

Why don’t we still have freedom of expression. I am also from Suqian. Originally I wanted to move my business/venture back home, but now I have to seriously consider this. A place without human rights is a place without further opportunity for development. What we want are results, not violence and concealment.

Harmonious society, letting those ignorant of the law enforce the law, that is funny.

Notes:

1 City management is an agency to crack down on unlicensed street merchants. Due to their brutal way of conduct, they are widely despised by the public. See Chinese City Management Administration and Implementation of Law on Wikipedia.

2 “Rule Of Law” and “Harmonious Society” are initiatives of the Chinese government.

3 Black society is a Chinese term very much similiar to “mafia” or “yakuza”.

4 水深火热 [shuǐ shēn huǒ rè], literally “water deep, fire hot”, an expression for extreme suffering.

Images: These images are not directly related to the original post.

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From Tianya, October 14th 2008:

Yesterday, someone reported that a pupil at the Binhe Road Primary School in Dengfeng City [in Henan province] has been standing outside the classroom to listen to lessons for over 20 days, suspecting that the teacher was punishing the student.

Yesterday afternoon at 2pm, a reporter rushed to Binhe Road Primary School. After hearing the class bell ring, the students entered the classroom one by one. However, under the classroom window for Class 1-3, a little girl carrying a backpack said goodbye to the schoolmates who talk to her. She grabbed the steel bar of the window with both hands and looked into the classroom uninterrupted. After reporter’s inquiry, the little girl is called Guo Xiaoxiao (name changed), from Wangzhuang Village nearby/of Dengfeng City, and 6-years-old this year. She used to attend class in this room but, for reasons unknown, she was kicked out of class. Not wanting to leave the school and still wanting to study, she could only stand under the window to listen to the lessons.

When Xiaoxiao’s father Guo Zhanchao arrived shortly later, seeing his daughter standing outside the window listening to class, he was unable to hold back his sobs. He told the reporter that he pedals three-wheel carts (carrying goods) for a living. Originally, he knew the Binhe Road School Headmaster Zhao. At the start of the school year, unable to find a school that would admit his child, he borrowed and gathered 500 RMB and gave it to Headmaster Zhao. Mr Zhao immediately agreed to admit Guo Xiaoxiao to the school, but later Mr Zhao delayed and delayed until the afternoon of September 10th when Mr Guo’s daughter was finally assigned to Class 1-3. But good things do not last; on September 18th, the daughter who had been attending school for only a few days said to her father while crying that the teacher would no longer let her into class, and that she could only stand outside the window to listen to lessons. Soon after, Guo Zhanchao went almost daily to the school to see the headmaster, but Headmaster Zhao only agreed to return the money and did not plan on arranging Guo Xiaoxiao to attend school.

Guo Zhanchao said with tears, “I suffered my whole life because I don’t have an education, and today can only depend on pedaling a three-wheel cart to raise my family with difficulty. I just want my daughter to learn some knowledge, so she can have a happy life later.”

Mr Zhao, headmaster of Binhe Road Primary School, commented on the incident saying that he is unfairly blamed. He said Guo Zhanchao and him knew each other from before, that he did indeed receive the 500 RMB money that Guo forcefully left in his office, but he later returned the money to Guo. Regarding letting Guo Xiaoxiao’s attend school, he can only feel sorry for their family’s situation, but could not arrange for her to attend school simply because they gave him a gift. Later, he could not do anything against the exclusion of Xiaoxiao. “That was handled in accordance to the relevant regulations of the Department of Education. She is the child of a peasant who migrated to the city for work, not a pupil of this area.”

Comments on Sina:

Everyone has their own duty. The duty of a farmer is to cultivate the fields, his daughter should research how to cultivate fields. Studying is for us city dwellers, hehe.

I cried…I can’t handle seeing little children, especially little girls, suffering the most… Seeing the girl stand by the window looking inside. it was unbearable.

Do you believe that I dare smash this kind of school?!

If you let one of her in today, tomorrow there might be 10 who come. City dwellers basically now all only have one child, but rural people all have 3 or 5. One husband and wife pair from the city occupies one seat in a classroom, but a rural husband and wife pair would occupy 3-5 seats in a classroom. I ask you, do you think this is fair and rational?

Old Mao utilised the farmers’ power to conquer everything under the sky [in this context: China]. He owes the farmers the most, because he separated people into different classes. This policy continues to this day without reform. [referring to the hukou system]

Do not carelessly be sympathetic. She should go to school in the place she is supposed to go to. School is not a homeless shelter.

Peasants, peasants. Pity the lowest class of people!

The child is worth our sympathy. But how come the countryside’s other children are not standing outside the windows to listen to class, is all because of their parents.

Do you have a method of contact? I will pay to let the child go to school!
TMD, what kind of society is this!!!!

Whether or not she can go to school is not the key, the key is why kick the little girl out after letting her go to school for a period of time? and then kick her out? There is some story inside here, was it because they gave too little money!!! Is anyone thinking the same thing?

I did not have to read the content, just looking at the pictures, my tears started running down. I ask the school headmaster and the teachers: Do you even see the girl standing outside the door?

Regardless in which city in China, migrant workers are always the lowest class, the most bullied people. There is [officially] no tuition fee nationwide, but I still have to pay 500-600 RMB a semester for my child to go to school in Puning City [in Jieyang, Guangdong province]. Migrant workers just suffer bullying. This kind of teacher should have been expelled from the teaching corps long ago. This little girl is so sad. Bastard teachers, if she were your child, how would you feel?

First figure out whether the local department of education really has this kind of regulation. If it really does, then find out whether there are schools admitting children of migrant workers. This society does not pity tears. Asking for help is not as good as helping yourself.

The only thing that is a bigger failure than the Chinese football [soccer] team is the Chinese education system. What is it that makes those who have received educations have such cold hearts?

Nobody said peasants are bad. Peasants can stay home and plant fields. Why do they want to come to the cities to be migrant workers? All she needs to do to go to school is go home, no one is stripping her of her right to an education. The reason she cannot go to school is entirely a result of her parents coming to work in the city for their own personal benefits.

Comments on Mop:

I always thought compulsory education was real…[I was] “very foolish, very naive“…

The people suffering the most in China are actually not the migrant workers,
but their children.
This damn system system of China’s…sigh, there is nothing left for me to say…

Beginning from when we are small, we have heard, seen, and been told that socialism is good. But after growing up, we have no idea where socialism is good!!

In China, the education system has never been fair and just, there is not much reason to be so angry.
Just live numbly in this country.
Talk about human rights are all lies.

Americans say we don’t have human rights. Do we still need to refute it?

People always say that the foreigners look down on us Chinese, but now even Chinese look down on their own people, so how can others respect us?

If it were me, standing outside like that while the other students were inside attending class, I do not know how I would feel. Such a little child, and letting her suffer how unfair this society is, it is too pitiful.

Comments on Tianya:

What were the parents thinking? Why did they bring her into this world, to let her suffer, and her young soul suffer mutilation.

Seeing the child’s longing, I can’t stop the tears from flowing down my face. What kind of society is this, that would let such little child suffer such unfairness and discrimination? Where is the “harmony?” [China's government repeatedly emphasizes a "harmonious" society for China.]

It reminds me of the phrase “Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter!”

I don’t know whether I am qualified to talk about education here. I am not an expert, I am just a normal student at a no-name university, so my view on education may not be mature. It may even be extreme, so please don’t laugh at me, and if I am wrong, I hope everyone can be tolerant.

When we were in primary school, teacher told the students to keep their hands behind their back, their heads held high, and their chest out. We did a we were told and listened to the teacher. Not making mistakes was what makes a good child, so whatever the teacher said, that is what we did; whatever the teacher taught, that is what we learned. If our grades were not bad, and if we tested into a good junior high or a good high school, then we would be deeply grateful to the teacher. When I got to university, in the midst of different events and activities, I finally realised I did not know how to do anything, that I had to think on my own, and it was very difficult to have my own ideas. It was then that I realized that we have already lost our creativity. Who should be blamed? I think the teachers are innocent, and the blame lies on the whole society’s education system.

Look at our graduating students. All of them are the same, there is no personality. When I say personality is not about dressing fashionably or or behaving weird, but about the ways they think about problems, a type of attitude about life. Today’s students are all premature, their way of handling things appears to be smooth and mature. In reality, it is not, because these were all copied from others and not what they came to understand themselves. This can also be called education and learning with Chinese characteristics.

Everyone says China is a strong manufacturing country, but it is not strong country in research and development. I think it is definitely not a problem of technology, but to a great extent it is because our education methods have imprisoned our thinking, and restricted our development. What we students are most skilled at is not thinking but learning, learning other people’s methods. Normally when we are working, we wait for other people to teach, and then become like masters after we have learned. I think China will never become strong relying on these methods.

Maybe what I say is not all fair and sound, but the actual situation is basically like that. Someone said that one’s thinking determines one’s life, that is to say, whatever level of thinking you reach will determine what your life will be like. I really approve of this kind of of saying. Indeed, the type of education a person, a society, and a country receives will directly relate to that country’s rise and fall, success and failure.

Now that society has become like this, who should we blame? The people’s living standard has risen somewhat, but whose standard has risen the most? While we have gained something on the materialistic level, have we not also lost something at the same time? These things, who should we blame?

What would you do? Do you let this one girl go to this school or should the rules be followed because there are reasons for the rules? – Fauna

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The author of the following text is the party secretary of the city of Suqian, Zhang Xinshi. The following translation is of the article on his blog on Sohu, from October 17th, 07:14. The original article probably first appeared on his government blog on October 11th.

Every morning in Suqian [city in Jiangsu province], the roads leading from the surrounding countryside to the city are filled with an army of motorcycles and bicycles carrying our migrant worker brothers rushing into the city to their work sites, where they have short-term and odd jobs building skyscrapers and factories. At dusk they return home like a tidal wave. At traffic intersections, I have had several brief conversations with them. Question: How much do you earn for a day’s hard work? Answer: 70-80RMB. What kind of work? Woodwork, which is not as much as bricklaying (currently, the skills for woodwork are low, it’s only hammering), which is 120-130RMB a day. The bosses on the construction sites often complain. Nowadays migrant workers are harder and harder to find. They can only be found if you pay them in cash each day!

This is change. I remember ten years ago, Suqian’s bricklayers daily wage went from 10-20 RMB to 70-80RMB, increasing step by step, the demand for them expanding every year. Last summer the most needed supply for our city was “commercial concrete” and “industrial steel”.

Suqian’s thriving investment demand drives demand for labour. The migrant workers unanimously agree that Suqian’s major construction have brought many opportunities for hard-earned money, hoping it can go on this way.

Currently, migrant workers’ salaries make up over 60% of their individual income. From January to September this year, the average disposable income of our city’s migrant workers have increased by 19%. The 200 million migrant workers of the country constitute the main body of China’s working class. They work in the factories and cities under the most bitter and tiring conditions. If a factory closes, they can, under such economic depression, only roll together their bedclothes and go home, without any unemployment benefits, without pension insurance, and maybe without any kind of compensation. We have seen in the reports on TV and in the press how in some developed regions the traditional textile, clothing, footwear and other small businesses grew bigger due to increased capital, but they had to suddenly close down due to sinking exports. Migrant workers would rather staye in the old, broken houses, eat “mantou” and pickled vegetables than go home. Those who are young and with some labour skills have the chance to find a new job, but those who are older and without any skills fall into dire straits.

Earlier, people planned to raise China’s manpower cost, to push forward the restructuring of the economy and the technical upgrading of the enterprises, and to raise the qualification and know-how of the labour force. However, the pressure of inflation and the recession of the world economy led to a shrinking production and also decreased employment opportunities. That is a problem we cannot avoid diligently taking measures to deal with. In developed countries, an unemployment rate of 5% is enough to cause political instability and economic system collapse. Maybe the unemployment rates of the migrant workers in China are hidden in the statistics, or even not recorded, but if they suddenly lose their income, go home but have no farm land (inherited from the previous generation) or do not know how to farm, their lives will encounter big problems. We can’t expect China’s labour force to suddenly increase their character/skills/abilities immensely, because the majority among them are first-generation workers, and a relatively large number of peasants with low educational level. They are only able to do crude and simple labour, but this kind of work still needs people to do, and the important thing is not to lose this kind of job opportunities.

Fortunately, thanks to the major economic development of Suqian, the demand for labour thrives, often evidenced by a shortage of supply. Let us imagine the day, where the roads entering and leaving Suqian city were missing the heavy morning and evening traffic. That would mean a large number of migrant worker brothers who could earn about a hundred RMB everyday have fallen into difficulty. Consumption will also fall, which will also affect production. The economy will certainly slide downwards. That is what we are not willing to see.

As a late-developing region, Suqian’s industrial economy must maintain rapid development, its real estate must steadily develop, its commerce must be promoted, and there cannot be wild fluctuations, all to create even more job opportunities. We the government are willing to give up part of the profits to maintain the necessary speed.

The following comments are taken from Sohu. Many comments were posted as anonymous “Sohu” users.

2008-10-17 09:51
You must have had a slip of the tongue. So the government has a lot of benefits [profit?],are you businessmen?

2008-10-17 11:42
These people are farting. When migrant workers move to the cities, the education problems of their children remain unsolved. The person talking about this problem was born by a pig.

2008-10-17 11:51
The government will give up the profits for the ordinary people? You still have face to say something so ludicrous, I guess blogger’s mother is a dog [as her Chinese zodiac]. I strongly despise these incapable of human speech beasts [incapable of speaking sensibly]!

2008-10-17 11:59
Talking nonsense/crazy talk.

2008-10-17 12:58
Damn, nowadays where it is hard for a student to even find a job, and migrant workers can earn 70-80 a day? Where is this? There is such a good thing? There are 200 million migrant workers in the whole country, but how many people are in this place you mentioned [meaning, how many people are actually making 70-80 RMB a day]?

2008-10-17 14:04
I haven’t figured out what the LZ meant by government profits? What profits does the government want? They are not a commercial organisation? Why do they have profits???

2008-10-17 15:13
Why bother? He only wants to bullshit some political achievements. If I remember correctly, the writer is Suqian’s party secretary.

2008-10-17 15:37
Even this kind of stupid talk he can say out loud. His skin really is too thick [originally, "facial skin" is too thick].

2008-10-17 18:00
He talked a bit about superficial things, but didn’t dare to talk about the nature of the problem. But again, for someone in his position to say anything at all can be regarded as not bad. “Jia you!”

2008-10-17 20:18
Isn’t the ZF the people’s ZF? Since my childhood that was what was written in the political books. If it is like this, how come “the government is willing to give up part of the profits”?

2008-10-17 22:06
The government has to cut ties with the real estate companies. Being a local official means first to secure every citizen’s basic needs (food, medical care, housing etc.). As the government you are not a businessman. Carry out your own responsibilities, that is your vocation.

2008-10-18 10:23
Maybe the blogger is defending the new subsidy policy for the rescue of the real-estate market!!!

2008-10-18 10:39
Talking half the day and it is again about the rescue of the real-estate market, even though flying the flat for the migrant farmers. He doesn’t think: Can those migrant workers afford the houses they built with their own hands?

2008-10-18 10:55
It is not easy that someone speaks the truth, but he is still scolded? Those running a small shop or a company are allowed to make profits, but you won’t allow those running the government to have their own profits? Then you come run the government. Do you really believe that running the government is for only to serve the people without need of capital?

2008-10-18 11:40
Do not stand there and pretend to be good. The Chinese Communist Party can pretend the best, their words are sweeter to the ear than songs. If you really have a heart then show us the practical action you talked about, and only then will us ordinary people admire you. Just talking is useless.

2008-10-18 21:37
There are unemployed citizens everywhere in the city… Can’t you see them???

The comments on blog.suqian.gov.cn are mostly constructive and approving:

The situation described in the beginning of the text is very true, “At dusk they return home like a tidal wave”. Often early evening is the most likely period for traffic accidents. The responsible organs shall please increase traffic regulation and control at these times to safeguard the safe flow of the traffic!

Secretary Zhang’s good policies about commerce and real-estates easily reminds one of the collusion between business and bureaucracy. Commerce in general has to be adjusted by the market, human intervention will cause the opposite, especially the government which has had close ties to the entrepreneurs.

A party secretary who cares about the people.

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From Sohu:

In the afternoon of the 25th [September], at 4:45pm, a woman driver driving past the main entrance of a 恒大华府 [hengdahuafu?] had a minor accident with a BMW. Witnesses said that the BMW driver immediately called a Porsche SUV, and a quarrel raised between the three of them. Trying to get back her car key from the Porsche driver, the woman was crushed to death after been dragged by the Porsche 20 metres.

According to the eyewitnesses, on that day around 4:45pm a red BMW and a Santana had a minor accident at the main entrance of the 恒大华府 [hengdahuafu?], the left-rear wheel of the BMW was damaged. The BMW driver got out of the car to dispute with the young woman driving the Santana and demanded compensation. The woman refused and demanded the matter to be resolved by the traffic police. The BMW driver took his mobile and called over a black Porsche SUV. “The driver was young, about 20-year-old, and speaks Putonghua [Mandarin]“, a witness reported. The Porsche driver took the key for the Santana from the woman during the dispute and immediately started his own car to leave.

“She pulled at the door of the Porsche and ran along”, a witnessing cleaner said. She saw the young woman firmly grab the door of the slow-driving Porsche not allowing the other party to leave and cried, “Why have you taken my car key?” The other party did not answer but accelerated. After being dragged for 20 metres, the woman was hit by the rear wheel of the Porsche at the head and the chest, dying at the scene. The two drivers ran away. The surrounding bystanders took photos of the scene, noted the number plates of the hit-and-run cars and informed the police.

Insiders said that the name of the deceased is Tian, 28-years-old. At present, the hit-and-run driver has been detained by the Chongqing police. The case is being investigated.

Comments on Sohu: (over 22,500)

If this kind of person is not executed [or literally: killed], there will be no hope for this society. If such a reckless criminal is not executed, where in this society will there still be justice! If this evil criminal is not executed, where is hope for the people to live on! Execution! Execution! Execution!

The only way out for the relatives of the killed woman is to invite Bin Laden’s followers to China and kill the owner of the BMW. Otherwise, the Chinese judges will receive the money of the BMW driver and neglect/cheat on the matter of ordinary people. If you don’t believe, just wait and see!!!

Chongqing has so quickly become the gathering place of the black society. If there are lots of corrupt officials, there will be lots of bandits and their evil-doing. In the end, the incident will be unresolved. In China, there is not one bit of hope. Law is apparently only made for the poor and ordinary people.

Having money means to be able to act as one pleases. Even capable of buying officials. There is no doubt that the Porsche driver is the offspring of a high functionary, nothing will happen to him! In the end it will be unresolved, the officials will cover it up. Society is not too dark/corrupt! The courts and the police are opened for wealthy people. Where would they get their money otherwise!

This kind of things happen too often! You can read this sort of stuff N times on the Internet. There is no outcome following the crime / Where are the results of the investigation??? None??? Having money allows them to prevent any outcome!!!! That is how arrogant the rich are! There is no law in their eyes! Having money means the laws obey them! You don’t believe??? That is how the society is now!

Shocking! Furious! Why do people hate the rich? Because of this.

Shit, too many of the wealthy in China are despicable. Sooner or later the people will explode. Wait for it.

Regardless how much everyone complains, it’s useless. The important thing is to watch how the government handles it. Could you be so “niu” [cocky, self-assured, arrogant, contemptuous] without any “guanxi” [connections]? In Nantong a traffic policeman jumped a red light, killed one and severely injured another one. The government paid 400,000 and sorted it out. None of the news or media dared to report on it. It there is any Internet expert who wants to report on it, I can provide support. It is in Tongzhou City, on Century Avenue at the Provincial Road No. 325 crossing.

Sorrowful! Speechless… Anyone know the hotline number of the prime minister, please tell me, thank you!!!

The rich in the society are so terrible, they free themselves with money when they break the law, that’s why they are so daring.

Comments on Liba:

Motherfucking, does having money mean once can act with utter disregard for human life?

Oh, I want to repeat…
Today’s China is only suitable for…
1. Bureaucrats, who have special privileges
2. Shameless gangsters
…to survive.

That Santana woman was also stupid, did she think she was a stuntwoman, trying to match strength with a car!
If the key is gone, just get a new one… and the money for repairing the BMW would be saved…

This person belongs to group 1.
The only person who can trump him belongs to group 2,
They can both kill each other.

Driving a car and getting into minor accidents is a very common thing. At worst, just get out and give a phone call to the insurance company.
What do the two parties have to quarrel about? Also, not to be harsh, some Chongqing women are very overbearing, can set up people on fire…We were not at the scene, don’t know the exact course of events, but certainly both sides were at each other’s throats, nobody is stepping back…
Because that BMW guy was also foolish, he destroyed his own friend because of a woman…
None of three people are worth it…

Certainly, the deceased who hung onto the car had some responsibility as well.

Trying to reason with rich people, that’s a result of drinking too much Sanlu.

Haven’t you noticed? When this kind of thing happens, it often involves BMW drivers.

Are people’s lives so worthless?
These two are either rich or powerful, there will certainly be no death sentence, they won’t spend much time inside [a jail] before coming out soon, just pave their way out with money!

Waiting for the results [of the investigation], not holding much hope.

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