Mutual resentment between Hong Kongers and mainlanders is nothing new, and has been both long-standing and widespread. Many Hong Kongers look down upon mainlanders as being crude and uncivilized, while many mainlanders in return chafe at Hong Kongers’ arrogance and sense of superiority.

Last month, a video of Hong Kongers and mainlanders arguing on the Hong Kong subway circulated online. What began as mainlanders eating on the Hong Kong subway violating the subway’s rules immediately expanded to all sorts of resentments by both sides. Controversial Peking University professor Kong Qingdong’s subsequent public rant that “many Hong Kongers are dogs” only escalated things further.

Recently…

On Sina Weibo:

@港女廚房: A group of Hong Kong netizens donated money to print a full-page advertisement in today’s Apple Daily newspaper:

Translation of the above Hong Kong advertisement:

Do you want Hong Kong to spend $1,000,000 HKD every 18 minutes raising “double negative” children? ["double negative" refers to when neither parent is from Hong Kong.]

Hong Kong people have had enough!

• Because we understand that you are victimized by poisonous milk powder, we’ve tolerated you coming to panic buy milk powder;
• Because we understand that you have no freedom, we’ve welcome you to “travel freely” to Hong Kong;
• Because we understand that your education is backwards, we’ve shared our educational resources with you;
• Because we understand that you don’t read complete [traditional] Chinese characters, we’ve used crippled [simplified] Chinese characters below:
  “When coming to Hong Kong, please respect local culture, [because] if it weren’t for Hong Kong, you would all be doomed.”

Strongly demand that the government revise the Article 24 of Basic Law!
Stop mainland “double negative” pregnant women from limitless invasion of Hong Kong!

On Sina Weibo:

@叶落孤舟: “Had Enough! Collection” Ever since Hong Kong’s “Apple Daily” newspaper printed the [locust] advertisement, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen netizens have one after another posted images in response, and soon various major cities one after another also expressed their unwillingness to be left out… Tianjin version / Chengdu version / Chongqing version / Xiamen version / American version, then a Naruto version, a time travel version, and finally a dove version!! Netizens are such geniuses!! (Images from the internet)

Translation of the above parody:

Do you want Beijing’s migrant population to continue increasing?

Beijingers won’t tolerate it anymore! [have had enough!]

• Beijing has already accommodated 20 million migrants.
• Beijing has already accepted 478 thousand children that came along.

But!
You still ruin Beijing’s culture, disturb Beijing’s order, push up Beijing property prices, have too many children who then take their gaokao collect examinations here, eat Beijing’s food and drink Beijing’s water and still curse Beijing as worthless. So please do us a favor, Go build up your hometown first, then come build up Beijing.

Strongly demand that the government revise the law!

Stop the endless influx of migrants into Beijing!

Translation of the above parody (which was written in Shanghainese dialect):

Do you want to spend 4 billion RMB every year subsidizing the migrant population?

Shanghainese can’t take it anymore! [have had enough!]

• Because you’ve come to make money, we’ve accommodated 17,566,700 migrants;
• Because you’ve come to establish a home, we’ve accepted 380,000 migrant children;
• Because you want to be filial to your parents, we’ve taken in 159,500 migrant seniors.

But!

• We have to put up with you ruining our culture;
• We have to put up with the accusations by your fellow villagers;
• We have to put up with the uncivilized behavior of your fellow villagers.

Strongly demand that the government revise the law!

Stop the endless influx of migrants into Shanghai!

Translation of the above parody:

Do you want to take out your wallet and spend another 990,000,000 yuan to foot the bill for the water company?

Guangzhou people have had enough!

• Because you wanted to speed up the city, we took out 700 million to build the BRT.
• Because you wanted to look new to welcome the Asian Games, we took out 300 million to foot the bill.
• Because you to do lighting projects, every year we have to take out 130 million.

Only except

• Some people take our money and eat, drink, and live large having us pay for it.
• Some people hold legislative hearings that then become price increasing hearings.
• Some people the moment they hear feasibility reports they begin passing the buck.

Strongly demand the government to amend the law!

Guangzhou people are not fish that anyone can do with as they please!

Translation of the above parody:

If you’ve come,
then you’re one of us [a Shenzhen person].

Shenzhen welcomes you!

• Because we’re all people who have left home, we welcome you;
• Because this is a circle that Grandpa Deng drew for all of us [as an SEZ], we welcome you;
• Because you the driving force behind Shenzhen’s development, Shenzhen welcomes you;
• Because you are the reason behind Shenzhen’s glorious 30 years, Shenzhen welcomes you;
• Because we want to tell all the people in the world, we’ve used “ying ge li shi” [English] below:
  Welcome to “Hometown Shenzhen”.

Warmly welcome everyone struggling to make a life for themselves to Shenzhen!

May all Shenzhen people a happy new year and all your wishes come true!

Note: Shenzhen is a young city whose population is all “migrant workers” from other parts of the country.

Tianjin

Chengdu

Chongqing

Gulangyu, Xiamen

Translation of the above parody:

Do you want America to have 1 Chinese amongst 100 people to be their neighbor?

Americans have had enough!

• You have no democracy, we do, and so you come here?
• You have no freedom, we do, and so you come here?
• We have no corrupt officials, you do, and you will bring them with you!
• We have no corruption, you do, and you will bring it with you!

Strongly demand that the United States government reenact the Chinese Exclusion Act!

• You denigrate our culture, and yet you come to study our culture?
• You disparage our lifestyle, and yet you come to enjoy our lifestyle?
• You attack our export of universal values, and yet you build Confucius Institutes everywhere on United States campuses?

Think the United States isn’t good? Then go back to China!

Naruto

Time Travel

Dove

From NetEase:

Hong Kong media prints full-page anti-mainland pregnant women advertisement

February 1st, a large “Hong Kongers have had enough!” advertisement appeared in a Hong Kong newspaper, expressing a position against mainlander pregnant women going to Hong Kong, as well as making fun of mainlanders as locusts, demanding that the authorities stop the “invasion”. A Hong Kong resident says this reflects some Hong Kongers’ views, especially certain local pregnant women who have been affected, but the metaphor used is extremely impolite, and doesn’t represent the majority of Hong Kongers.

Comments on NetEase:

网易北京市网友:

“If it weren’t for Hong Kong, you would be screwed” — Arrogance like this is breathtaking.

河北沧州人 [网易北京市网友]:

They’re right in their criticisms, because when there’s always some people who believe it is good there and do everything they can to go there, how can they not develop a superiority complex? Look at the content, it’s all a kind of despising and disdain. Sigh, the belief of our country’s people is to squeeze themselves into wherever they think is good. Where’s the ambition? If you’re worth anything, then first build up your current home, and one day, they will do everything they can to come here. Then, we can post this kind of advertisement, and we’ll feel differently then.

网易广东省肇庆市网友:

If going to Hong Kong to give birth didn’t come with a Hong Kong birth certificate, I bet it would reduce the number of mainland pregnant women going to Hong Kong to give birth by 99.9%!

ddcat0228 [网易北京市网友]:

As a Chinese person, very ashamed~

风流大河蟹 [网易浙江省宁波市网友]:

Some Hong Kongers are simply dogs, support Professor Kong.

我有我感受 [网易广东省东莞市网友]:

The mentality of Hong Kongers is already nearing perverse. First, after returning [to China], the central government had sought to change the law, but it was the Hong Kongers’ Legislative Council who unanimously sought so-called democracy and freedom, to let people who didn’t have Hong Kong parents to obtain Hong Kong residency rights. Hong Kong delivery rooms are about to go bankrupt. Several years ago, the former Chief Executive even said again that Hong Kong’s birth rates keep dropping and encouraged mainlanders to compensate. Well then, now there are more and more mainlanders, where the number of mainland children being born in Hong Kong are even more than Hong Kongers. Now Hong Kongers want to blame us, saying we’re coming to steal their resources, that we’re locusts, haha, fuck, what is going on? Now you think there are too many mainlanders, right? Well, that’s because your government doesn’t know how to regulate, how is it mainlanders’ fault? Ask your Legislative Council, what’s wrong with you Hong Kong people? The power has always been in your hands, so go change the law, stop pretending.

凌波伊布 [网易福建省厦门市网友]:

First: “Please respect local culture.” This indeed should be the case. Just like if you went to live temporarily in someone’s home, you have to live in accordance with the host’s living habits, rather than having them accommodating you! Second: “If it weren’t for Hong Kong, you’d all be screwed.” To the person who expresses this kind of opinion, I only want to say that without people like you, our country would still slowly but steadily become strong and powerful!

网易上海市手机网友:

The problem needs both sides to work together to solve. Even if one side wins the argument, it’s useless. If there’s a problem, put it on the table and let everyone think of a solution. Mutually yelling at each other only shows that people have different positions because of different perspectives and points of view. Wouldn’t it be better to work together as one to solve the problem? Why waste time like this?!

网易广西桂林市手机网友:

Because we understand you got rich first, we’ve tolerated you coming to the mainland to invest, having us work like animals for you, and letting you curse us as “northerners”; Because we understand you lack affection [for us], we’ve chosen to use less in order to give you more help; Because we understand you don’t know where you’re from, we try to tell you who is good and who is evil; Because we understand you are very realistic, we won’t beat around the bush when telling you: “Hong Kongers, if you didn’t have us, you guys would be nothing!

网易广东省手机网友:

What does Hong Kong owe you? To say something fair, Hong Kong’s success today is mostly because of British rule! Could China have done it?

网易广东省手机网友:

I think the direction of the discussion is completely wrong. Mainlanders going to Hong Kong to have children is of course wrong. But who is wrong is definitely not the mainland, but the Hong Kong government’s inappropriate measures in response and the many profit-seeking clinics. Since Hong Kong has already provided this kind of channel, it can’t blame others for using it. What is even more wrong is this advertisement being so obvious in expanding the issue and directly pointing at all mainlanders, even using “crippled Chinese characters”, “locusts” and other attacks.

网易江苏省盐城市手机网友:

Kong Qingdong said it right, some Hong Kong people are simply dogs, simply bastards… you think you are so superior?? Ignorant… makes me laugh…

网易广西手机网友:

Who can appeal to the mainland public to boycott visiting Hong Kong? I’ll be the first to support it.

From NetEase:

Hong Kong cracks down on “double negative” pregnant women going to Hong Kong to give birth

According to a Ta Kung Pao report, Hong Kong is cracking down on “double negative” pregnant women [for whom neither parent is from Hong Kong] going to Hong Kong to give birth, launching large-scale inspections and enforcement activities, raiding “child-birthing apartments” specifically serving mainland pregnant women.

What do you think?

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From NetEase:

Philippines officials’ disaster area visit photograph Photoshopped

Summary: After last week’s Typhoon Nesat passed through the Philippines capital city of Manilla, the Philippines government posted on a social media website a photo of 3 government officials standing on the rubble of a walkway destroyed by the typhoon discussing the disaster situation. Someone noticed that the photo was Photoshopped. The Philippines government Public Ministry has already made a statement of apology regarding this matter.

Comments from NetEase:

中國有風險投胎需謹慎 [网易广东省深圳市网友]:

Much more realistic than the Photoshops of a certain country.

毛脸鸡蛋 [网易江苏省淮安市网友]:

Although the skill is good, the originality is still ours!

广州小谢 [网易湖南省益阳市网友]:

So the Philippines doesn’t have any temporary workers to be the scapegoat… Looks like they still haven’t learned the Heavenly Kingdom‘s true knowledge/tradition.

我们的党 [网易广东省江门市网友]:

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs should immediately lodge a serious protest: This is stealing our patent!

弱无气势 [网易宁夏银川市网友]:

China has already become a powerful country in the truest sense, having now begun exporting ideologies!

我是火星男孩 [网易吉林省敦化市网友]:

Of all the countries you can learn from, they had to learn from China. Although, it has to be said that this [Photoshopping] skill is much higher than certain people.

gztong [网易广东省广州市网友]:

So it seems our inferior and shameless methods still have people following them and learning, eh? Looks like only the Philippines could do something like that.

诚也 [网易瑞士网友]:

The wu mao must be so tired, searching all over the world to find a scapegoats [find others who do the same thing].

caoyh6 [网易福建省福州市网友]:

Ah?? I actually thing it was Photoshopped quite well…If it weren’t pointed out… And even if it were pointed out…I think it is still quite hard to notice…

小么个 [网易江苏省南京市网友]:

We’ve been infringed upon! It was us who first invented this!

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From ifeng:

10 beauties given the death penalty and executed over the past nearly 30 years

19-years-old (some say 23-years-old) Ren Xue from Henan Luoyang [above], young and beautiful, the younger sister to two older brothers. Her eldest brother had a relationship with the eldest daughter of a certain local mine manager surnamed Ding and met opposition by the Ding family including the Ding family’s younger daughter. Afterward, her brother disappeared without a trace, his fate unknown. Ren Xue had a relationship with a certain college student while at school, even becoming pregnant with a child, but was dumped. After a physical fight with her boyfriend, she became disfigured and her disposition became oversensitive and antisocial. Owing to her family not having any connections, Ren Xue had no job whereas the Ding family’s second daughter did despite having inferior academic scores. Photo is of the last moments of Ren Xue’s life.

Ren Xue sold her body to mine manager Ding, but mine manager Ding only arranged a waitress job for her. Afterward, mine manager Ding was reported for tax evasion, and the head of the working group that came took a fancy to Ren Xue, with intentions to have her. Mine manager Ding alternated between coercion and inducements, threatening that if she refused to submit herself, she would end up like her elder brother missing with an unknown fate, whereas if she did, she could get a good job. Yet after Ren Xue submitted, there was no good job, because mine manager Ding knew it was better to control Ren Xue by keeping her as a waitress. A furious Ren Xue, working with good friend Cao Linlin, tricked the Ding family’s second daughter out and killed her. Photo: Ren Xue taken before she was sentenced to death.

Murderer Liu Jinfeng, female, 20-years-old, with only primary school education, born 1975 in Luge Village of Tuhuai Township in Yuncheng city of Shanxi province, executed according to law 1995 in Xianyang. Liu Jinfeng was abused by her father ever since childhood, was driven out of the family by her uncle and stepfather after her mother died, and from that point on was homeless on the streets. Homeless, she was taken in but then suffered sexual assault and was then forced to have an abortion. After being arrested during an anti-prostitution sweep and serving a year in prison, she was sent back to her hometown, where her stepfather sold her for 1000 kuai to a Mr. Li in Xiling village of Qingyang county in Shaanxi province. Afterward, Mr. Li resold her to a Mr. Hu, a local despot/bully.

Hu was violent and abusive by nature, an alcoholic, always beating Liu Jinfeng when drunk. From 1992 to 1993, unable to put up with Hu’s humiliation and abuse, Liu Jinfeng sought opportunities to escape multiple times, but was caught and beaten every time. Hu even made a 5kg metal chain to lock Liu Jinfeng at home for long periods of time. At the beginning of 1994, Liu Jinfeng again attempted to escape. After being pursued several kilometers, she was recaptured by Hu who then broke her right leg and thereafter shackled her to a bed. Hu left the village for business but before he left, he entrusted his cousins, a certain Tang and Guan, with custody over Liu Jinfeng. The two of them instead took the opportunity to rape Liu Jinfeng multiple times, causing her to become pregnant.

At the end of 1994, Liu Jinfeng gave birth to a baby boy in Tang’s home. Around Spring Festival 1995, Hu returned home to spend the holidays. Hu was furious, stripped Liu Jinfeng naked, tied her hands behind her back, hung her from a tree, and viciously whipped her, even using a knife to stab her thighs and lower body calling her “adulterer”. torturing her until she was half dead. When Liu Jinfeng regained consciousness, her entire body bloody and mutilated, the pain unbearable, and discovered that her son had already been strangled to death by Hu, she instantly lost her head, mustered all of her strength, and hacked Hu to death with a sickle in his sleep before setting fire to the house. Photo is of Liu Jinfeng before facing her penalty.

Tao Jing, a naturally beautiful Yunnan girl. As a result of carrying drugs for her boyfriend, she was sentenced to death in 1991, at only 20-years-old, becoming the youngest female to be executed in over 50 years. This image is a photo of Tao Jing after being arrested. From the image, relevant personnel can be clearly seen inspecting the items carried by Tao Jing.

Tao Jing in court.

Tao Jing in court.

Tao Jing in court.

Tao Jing being escorted to the execution grounds.

Tao Jing eating her very last meal.

Tao Jing after being executed by shooting.

Feng Cuiqiong, executed by shooting at the same time as Tao Jing, also from Yunnan, also 21-years-old, also for drug trafficking.

Feng Cuiqiong, executed by shooting at the same time as Tao Jing, also from Yunnan, also 21-years-old, also for drug trafficking.

Feng Cuiqiong, executed by shooting at the same time as Tao Jing, also from Yunnan, also 21-years-old, also for drug trafficking.

1986, Song Dan was born to an average rural family in Nanyang township of Ruichang city of Jiangxi province. When she was 13-years-old, she was raped multiple times by a Nanyang Middle School teacher surnamed Song, and not long after again seduced multiple times into sexual relations by her uncle-in-law. Although these two offenders were respectively sentenced to 9 years and 8 years of imprisonment, they caused Song Dan great psychological damage. After she grew up, her parents’ reckless and unreasonable method of upbringing with scolding and hitting further deepened her resentment and rebellion.

Song Dan, drifting in society, became addicted to the internet, making a large amount of internet friends, learned to smoke, drink, and staying out all night without returning home. One morning around National Day holiday in 2005, after just turning 18-years-old, Song Dan was taken to the execution grounds. It was because she plotted, kidnapped, and murdered her boyfriend that Song Dan was sentenced to death by the Jiangxi Jiujiang Intermediate People’s Court. What more, this girl claimed she only trying to get money to go see her idol, Liu Xiang.

He Yuqiong, executed for trafficking women.

Lai Xiangjian, executed by shooting in the early 90s, allegedly for killing her own husband with the man she was having an affair with, dying only in her 20s.

Lai Xiangjian, executed by shooting in the early 90s, allegedly for killing her own husband with the man she was having an affair with, dying only in her 20s. Image is of Lai Xiangjian during sentencing.

Lai Xiangjian, executed by shooting in the early 90s, allegedly for killing her own husband with the man she was having an affair with, dying only in her 20s. Image is of Lai Xiangjian during sentencing.

Liu Yiping, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport ticketing agent, executed after being convicted of embezzling 550,000, the illicit gains recovered. While in prison before her execution, she corresponded with her husband many times, and wrote over 10,000 words down in a diary, expressing her remorse for her crime. She was executed by shooting at 23 years of age.

Liu Yiping saved everything she had embezzled, not spending a single cent, therefore not causing any irreversible economic losses, yet was still sentenced to death. Because it was a high point in cracking down on economic crimes, she was made an example of.

22-year-old Dong Ying was a member of Qingdao Shinan District sub-district office and had an extreme greed for money. She colluded with Zhang Hongwei and Gu Tao to trick Yang Qian, the daughter of Qingdao Zhanshan police officer Yang Bucong, into going to Nanjing under the guise of studying abroad. There, they injected her with anesthesia but upon seeing that she did not die, Dong Ying went out to buy more anesthetics to inject her with, but ultimately the alive and well Yang Qian had to be smothered to death, robbed of 61,000 yuan.

Afterward, under the guise of treating them to a meal to discuss going abroad to visit [their daughter], the three murdered Yang Bucong and wife Xu Chunmei. This resulted in a shocking “entire family murdered” case. When the court sentenced Zhong Hongwei, Dong Ying, and Gu Tao to death for murder, robbery, and illegal trafficking of guns and ammunition, female criminal Dong Ying collapsed to the ground.

Liu Yu and Wang X, both living in Pukou, were classmates throughout primary and middle school but lost touch after graduating. In 1998, a chance encounter sparked a romantic relationship between Liu Yu and Wang. In November 1999, Wang went to Jinhua in Zhejiang province for work, and the two began exchanging letters to keep in touch. Missing Wang, Liu Yu even went to Jinhua alone to see Wang, and Wang was extremely moved. However, Liu Yu felt a sliver of distress and a lot of pressure because she was only a middle school graduate while Wang was aggressively and ambitiously preparing to apply for college, and Wang’s mother demanded that she earn a college diploma or not be allowed to enter their family.

Liu Yu searched for work everywhere but failed due to her low educational qualifications, adding to her “sense of crisis”. At the same time, she also felt the relationship between Wang and her was not as strong as before, and gradually developed a pessimistic outlook. As a result, Liu Yu purchased sleeping pills and a fruit knife, preparing to commit suicide, but upon thinking of Wang whom she deeply loved and being reluctant to part with him, she instead asked Wang to meet her at a hotel. After they met that night, Liu Yu secretly placed 40 tablets of sleeping pills into the coffee she had prepared for Wang to drink. After Wang feel asleep, the idea of dying together with Wang suddenly came to Liu Yu. So, she put on her clothes, retrieved the knife from her bag, aimed it at Wang, and stabbed him. After killing her boyfriend, Liu Yu again went out to buy sleeping pills, planning to commit suicide, but was arrested by the police.

Comments from ifeng:

湖北省鄂州市网友 ezzhb:

Since ancient times, beautiful women have been ill-fated, because of their beauty, but even more because of an unequal society. It is mine manager Ding and the head of the working group who truly deserve to die. One weak woman, how is she supposed to protect herself? So sad, such a pity!

河北省保定市网友 枫叶晚情:

Instead of executing major criminals and evildoers, only the weak and small and executed. This is the shamelessness of China’s laws/legal system.

四川省网友 当沧桑不以泪洒:

Don’t be too emotional, China cannot wantonly abolish the death penalty. China’s high courts are like this, those who shouldn’t be executed are, while those who should aren’t. Executed and not executed, the decision is always correct.

上海市浦东新区网友 hhsm333:

Apart from the drug trafficker, as well as the adulterer who murdered her husband, the rest should not have been executed, and even blameless/innocent of committing a crime. The first few should have been overturned/exonerated, and given compensation by the state.

北京市网友 手机用户:

What kind of law/legal system is this? A lot of these are all different degrees of justifiable self-defense. In China, that’s worthy of the death penalty?

上海市网友 手机用户:

These members of the state machine who shoot people in the back of the head, I wonder if they’re able to sleep at night? Taking the lives of these young people, some of whom are innocent and only guilty of minor forgivable crimes, I wonder if they’re able to find peace in their lives?

河南省平顶山市网友 流泪中国:

The editor was too careless with the images, even posting obviously PS‘d photographs. One should investigate clearly the details of a case before making conclusions, not just post some things found on the internet. The description of Ren Xue’s case in the article simply has never been heard of before!

河南省驻马店市网友 woaiwc88:

Fake, the photo of Tao Jing supposedly in 1991 being executed, I noticed that the shoulder straps of the police behind her are those after the change in uniforms. However in 1991, the uniforms had not yet been changed, such a deception to the masses, and the fourth photo is even more PS‘d photograph. Those with a discerning eye can tell with just one look.

辽宁省鞍山市网友 中国大龙:

An individual’s sadness, a society’s sadness.

北京市网友 手机用户:

It doesn’t matter how big the crime, those with money will not suffer the consequences. Those without money, however, will be shot even for the smallest crime. This is what China is like.

四川省成都市网友 手机用户:

Women commit crimes are always because of a man who deserves to die! None of these women deserved to die!

天津市网友 手机用户:

Shot for embezzling 550,000? Then what about those who are now embezzling hundreds of millions, how come we don’t see anything happening to them?

东省东莞市网友 手机用户:

How come Guo Meimei isn’t amongst them? Didn’t she embezzle as well?

北京市网友 BFENG12003:

How many souls who died unjustly are watching China? In China, when can we truly give the weak the chance to avoid being wronged?

What do you think?

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From NetEase:

First [Wenzhou] train rear-end collision accident victim compensation amount is 500,000 yuan

According to the Wenzhou municipal Party committee, and the latest information from the city government, there has been progress in the discussions concerning compensation for victims of the Yong-Wen Line Exceptionally Serious Railway Accident. Through the initial agreement between the local post-disaster handling “5+1″ [5 government representatives + 1 Railway Ministry representative] service group and the family members of victim Lin Yan, a compensation amount of 500,000 yuan was reached. Lin Yan is from Fuzhou of Fujian province. This the first compensation discussion to have achieved an initial agreement in this accident.

Separately, according to identification documents, clothing and other distinguishing characteristics, the remains of the 39 victims have all been claimed, but at still waiting for DNA identification for confirmation.

From NetEase:

Compensation scheme introduced, first to sign agreement may be rewarded

As it is understood, according to the Railway Ministry’s relevant regulations, the compensation standard is set at 172,000 yuan as the base amount plus 200,000 yuan insurance settlement for a total of 372,000 yuan. This base amount is set and will not change. When transportation expenses, burial expenses, and old age financial support is added for the families of the victims, the total amount rises to no more than 450,000 yuan, and those who accept negotiations and sign agreements within a short time after the incident may, as appropriate, be given [an additional] several tens of thousands of yuan as a reward. The above expenses apart from the reward will be paid by the government of the victim’s household registration, with the rest paid by the Railway Ministry, to be paid in cash or charge card, principally with charge cards, with the entire negotiation to respect the deceased as the number one principle.

Comments from NetEase:

0663972090 [网易广东省东莞市网友]:

MLGB! Reward? Disgusting!

网易火星手机网友:

The first to sign even gets a reward??!! Beasts!

wenliyuanxinping [网易福建省厦门市网友]:

Life is impossible now. Take the subway, and the escalator collapses. Ride the train, and you get rear-ended. Take the bus, get barbequed. Drink some water, and there are worms in the Nongfu spring. Eat some meat, and Bajie is more expensive than Xuanzang [pork is more expensive than meat that can make you immortal]. Watch basketball, and Yao Ming retires. Watch football, and even Laos gets two goals against us. Set up a stall on the street, and black society [organized crime, hoodlums] have become the chengguan. Make a donation, and the money is used to buy Maseratis.

网易安徽省合肥市网友:

Fucking just like fucking forced eviction & demolitions!

网易火星手机网友:

How much for the foreigners?

8642480985 [网易上海市网友]:

The people just died, are still on the road to heaven, and before giving them an explanation, you pressure the families to discuss compensation, how can you bring yourselves to do such a thing!!!

抓紧移民 [网易上海市网友]:

This is what the GCD‘s officials are like!!! Fucking fuck!!!

网易上海市网友:

Compensation and reward: Even in death people are not equal. What the hell is this!?

皮特竹 [网易上海市徐汇区网友]:

Life is cheap like this, dying of dubious causes and then rushing people to first take the money. Is it because they’re planning to close the case once the money is taken?! This is blatant disregard of humanity!

jsmj2008 [网易福建省泉州市网友]:

After compensating, they’ll then increase prices again, and earn back that money. The pitiful ones are the dead, having been test subjects for this group of inhuman bastards.

网易浙江省宁波市网友:

Using the word “reward” with disaster compensation is a bit offensive, as if dealing with residents facing demolition [offering money to residents to sell their property to allow for demolition and redevelopment].

8806830256 [网易上海市网友]:

Very characteristic. [Joking about "Chinese characteristics".]

China Railway Logo photoshops by Chinese netizens:

The image at the top of this article and the image below are some Photoshops circulating on Sina Weibo making fun of China Railways. The top image was posted by @品牌研究中心, while this one below was posted by @苏囧.

Railway Ministry spokesperson Wang Yongping takes plane instead of train:

We mentioned Wang Yongping in an earlier report, as the government official who became infamous for his responses to reporters at a press conference following the Wenzhou high-speed train accident.

@go佳佳佳: We’re on the same flight as Wang Yongping. He’s sitting in first class. Already changed into slippers, and is reading the newspaper. Dears, should I charge over and interview him????

@想做薛定谔的猫: Confirmed, Railway Ministry spokesperson Wang Yongping is taking a flight back to Beijing; first class. Why not take today’s hurriedly restored train service to Shanghai and then take the high-speed train he says is “very technologically advanced and very confident in” back to Beijing? As a news spokesperson and for the Railway Ministry’s public image, shouldn’t you practice what you preach?

In fact, one of Wang Yongping’s responses (“whether you believe or not, I believe”) suggesting that it doesn’t matter if the press or people believe his explanations because all that matters is that he believes it has become a new Chinese internet meme.

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From Tianya:

Too fake, my county’s propaganda photo (Huili government website has already publicized an apology)

Today I had nothing to do so I decided to visit my county government’s website. The front page news item was about the high standard repair of the public road that passes through the rural country but upon clicking and seeing the photo, I spit out half a liter of blood!

This kind of image even I who can’t be any more amateur than I am can tell it is PSed, and they even thought it was a good idea to put it on the home page, even putting it as the topmost/first item! Perhaps it is because they don’t think anyone will look at their home page!

Comments from Tianya:

此人被封上百ID:

The number of people in the government who can do actual work are too few, they don’t even have anyone who can PS.

耳朵在左边:

Boss, if you couldn’t find someone who knows how to PS, you could’ve asked me!

my1389955:

Let me ask everyone something,
is there actually an intelligence requirement for the public servants exam?
I’m really baffled~~~

年度最佳的我:

Ghosts! They don’t even have a shadow!
Ghosts! They don’t even have a shadow!
Ghosts! They don’t even have a shadow!
Ghosts! They don’t even have a shadow!

西北雄鹰:

This fully illustrates the conflict between the masses’ increasing intelligence and the government officials continuously declining morality.

瞌小C:

= = … The person who made this photo is about to meet misfortune…

chukuangdao:

Truly fucking fake, they don’t even have the time to go out [and visit the site], or are they afraid of getting beaten to death by people if they were to appear in public?

milan23:

Just as expected it has been harmonized, the government website can’t be opened/loaded.

江上渔楼岗京:

The government leaders originally thought no one would really look at the website, so they just thought they could just make do with PSing a photo, never imagining that the masses’ eyes are so sharp.

markboy2003:

Do you still need to ask? One look and you know a temporary worker was responsible…

Such poor quality, tomorrow he’ll be fired. After all, he’s just a temporary worker.

[Embarrassing mistakes made by companies or the government in China are often blamed on mysterious "temporary" workers.]

j00170:

Ding the post until it is famous so it’ll get on CCTV news! Haha

Original Source Photos

Here are the original photos of the local Huili county [in Sichuan Province] government leaders inspecting the newly paved road:

The Photoshops

In addition to uniformly ridiculing the poorly Photoshopped government photo, Chinese netizens began creating their own Photoshops which started simple by highlighting the government officials’ apparently floatation/levitation but then became increasingly ridiculous…

More Photoshops

Below is a larger collection of Photoshops making fun of the “floating government officials” found throughout the Chinese internet on popular discussion forums such as Tianya and Mop as well as microblog services like Sina Weibo. For many, you will have to pay attention to the titles and captions to understand the joke. Some you will recognize from recent Chinese internet news stories such as the recent flooding in Beijing, the Wuhan matchmaking event for the rich, and Guo Meimei or old ones like the Stories of Hotel Rooms in China. Others may be a bit more obscure.

Better Photoshopping skills. Personals @ chinaSMACK.

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