Yunfei Ran
1. Mayor in Zhejiang fired for spending public funds on massages; local governors object to termination. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-03-12/080317391284.shtml Bureaucrats shielding one another, nowadays, has become a state of transparency; frankly speaking, concerning these governors innocent of basic politics, what they are doing everyday is nothing but laying down coffins for the current regime, and overusing the little rationality kept by the current regime. Furthermore, many governors are presumptuous and aggressive, with an awareness of bureaucracy deep enough to take people as trivial as crap; consequently the conflicts between the regime and common people will get more and severer. Wasting of the money of tax payer such as misusing of public funds is an open fact now; yet some governors are actually expressing a grievance, including the previous event in which Gongcheng Liu covering up Jiaxiang Lin. All these things are what extremely irritate the people. If the government authority allows its governors to talk nonsense, it thus means they are taking advantage of the little-left credence that government possesses to pay for their own interest. This behavior equaling to kidnap and overuse the credibility of the government is something greatly impairing the rationality and legality of the regime, as well as, undeniably, something trampling on the public will.
2, National Industrial and Commercial Association claiming half profit of the real estate exploitation flowing in government in 9 cities, http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-03-06/024015263210s.shtml Regarding the price of real estate stays high, there are many reasons, but the salient one is the collusion between government and land-agent and the resulting distortion of the estate market. The largest beneficiary of high price real estate is the government who monopolizes many factors including land, the second largest is land-agent, and ultimately all of costs are paid by consumers. I perceive the jeopardy induced by malformation of the real estate market will gradually unfold and come to be clear in the prevailing economic crisis. Under insubstantial supervision, the government, who monopolizes everything, being player as well as referee, competing with the people for profit, will undoubtedly bring about disastrous effect to the society. Many complain the price is too high, but the government will still sustain the running of real estate locally, alleging it for local fiscal revenue. It is actually the room created for rent-seeking for many governors, the main factor of official-merchant collusion. All in all, malformation of the real estate will continue fermenting, and will produce great negative impact on China’s economy.
3, NPC members from Shandong attacking the bureaucracy (official standard) in university, bolstering professors in charge of university //www.china.com.cn/news/txt/200903/07/content_17393432.htm Bad performance of education, corruption in colleges and universities with rampant bureaucracy has far already constituted a ruined state hard to clear up. The current school authorities take hold of too many interests, harming drastically those of teachers and students. A section chief in charge of scientific research, for instance, can be a least achieved tutor of Ph.D student, and can also be an official in school taking charge of a great amount of research fund and leading recklessly in research of garbage; this type of official being popular in school is one salient feature of our disappointing education. Flooding bureaucracy in universities, along with massive production of garbage published papers, relates to government’s intentional purchase of the schools in late 1990’s, but is rather more deeply relevant to the Party ruling schools and partied or “partinized” education in China. Generally speaking, without resolving the problem of how the Communist Party should retract its talons from schools, without reforming in education system, only bolstering managerial alteration will not succeed in checking the rampant bureaucracy in universities, which seems impossible. But I still appreciate the advocacy of professor managing the university by some representatives.
4, Briefing of People’s Political Consultative Conference (PPCC) showing absence are more of those committees in economics and literature and arts, http://news.dayoo.com/china/200903/11/53868_5452744.htm Some friends and media misunderstand this piece of news as that there were 301 committees refusing to participate in PPCC, activity similar to cheating as reckoned by them. Personally I think this is a one-side perception originated by them hoping for a reform in PPCC and NPC. Problems in NPC and PPCC have been so for quite a long time: first, Party members and governors are too many, almost becoming the majority; second, there has been no fair and transparent process of voting for representatives and committees, what has been done so far is more like rubber stamp that has little and substantive help to the people’s interest; third, both PPCC and NPC are temporary meeting without any full time members, nor, as a result, is there a long-run investigation of in-depth in some field, therefore no decent and rational proposal could be put forward, unlikely to enhance the people’s livelihood as a result. The only “benefit” the two conferences bring about is fooling the people and squandering the money from tax payers as inappropriate subsidies for government. These absent committees are not as clear and brave as imagined by us, hardly could they voluntarily reject to cooperate with the current authority.
5, governmental prodigality of medical care at public expense larger than recreational activities using public funds, http://zhouqiren.blog.sohu.com/35251320.html As a matter of fact, all people are tax payers, hence a national health care security should be something every single person could benefit from, but the government escapes the duty unnoticed, not responsible for the people without competitiveness, rendering them never beneficial of any welfare from medical care. But on the other hand, they have enjoyed intensely the privilege in medical welfare by dividing the people into various grades, making the practical benefit flooding everywhere brought about by “official standard”. For the time being, many ordinary people could not afford for medical care, as opposed to the fact that every year many governors squander the money in medical care at public expense; the huge contrast or inequity from both sides, further explicates the increasing gap and conflicts within our society. Therefore, I offer my high recommendation for this article authored by Qireng Zhou, so as to prove to all of us how governmental wasting of money from tax payers is astonishingly everywhere.
6, the supreme vice president of court: first check negative news when starting to work, http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-03-10/115517376335.shtml I’d love to see our governors act like this vice president, rushing for negative news before working in order to explore the situation of the people. Of course, I think governors should embrace an attitude of solving the problems, instead of trying to closing down the news concerning people’s will. Otherwise, they might look into the negative news, with the will to kill it in the cradle, instead of actually get down to coping with the problem; in this case, rushing for negative news per se will also be a piece of “negative news”. It’s righteous to look at the negative news, but what’s more important is to have a just and legal system of institutions addressing people’s will, which could count on some single governor’s good will.
7, the first representative conference of Chinese Alliance of Grievance held in Hong Kong, http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/fayanl/archives/284359.aspx There are laws we don’t follow, there are petitioners put into jail; not only are petitioners willing to swarm into Bei Jing, but also inclined to safeguard their rights outside the border. People able to defend their rights overseas are those of capability and with tunnels, and people like them all complain about their limited room for help domestically, thus, clutching at straws, they choose to ask for help outside, in the hope of drawing government’s attention. Having had tried to petition for years, but encountered many insults, the relatives in the event of Fu Qing explosion in Fu Jian Province had to demonstrate in front of Chinese Embassy in Japan via the assistance of their friends in Japan. But the Chinese Embassy expressed such an extreme apathy that even the Japanese police felt incredible. The Alliance of Grievance in Hong Kong came to being under such condition, and this representative conference was carried out during the period of “harmonious” two conferences, manifesting the extent to which impairment of the people’s interest has become too grave to be ignored. Its own people, whose interest get impaired, could not defend their rights domestically, instead can only do it in the places like Hong Kong and Japan; this must greatly embody the so-called superiority of socialism chanted loudly and hollowly by the authority.
Xu Chang, March 16, 2009
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