In the past few days, the scandal of Zhang Zhanwei, secretary of the CPC Jiyuan Municipal Committee, slapping Zhai Weidong, secretary general of the municipal government, has stirred up public opinion across the mainland, with everyone from ordinary mainland netizens to official media discussing the matter. The focus of discussion is mostly on the arrogance and hubris of power. In my opinion, however, this scandal not only exposes the official authority of the “first-in-command”, but also shows the hierarchy and privileges of the CCP officialdom in front of the public’s eyes.
Zhai Weidong’s wife said in her report that on the morning of Nov. 11, Zhai Weidong was having breakfast with other city leaders in the corner of the organ’s restaurant, as usual. The “corner of the organ restaurant” she mentioned is not a real corner, but a small restaurant for the city leaders to eat. Afterwards, Zhang Zhanwei asked Zhai Weidong, “Are you the vice mayor? Do you regard yourself as a city leader? What qualifications do you have to eat here?” It can be seen that this small restaurant is exclusively for officials at the level of vice mayor or above to eat.
If anyone is surprised by this, it means he is too insightful. In mainland China, all levels of the Communist Party organs canteen in fact generally have a small restaurant dedicated to the leaders to eat, Jiyuan municipal government organs canteen is just one of them, there is nothing special.
This is not, a civil servant who has been eating in the organ canteen for more than ten years posted an article entitled “those things in the organ canteen” on the Internet, revealing some secrets.
The article said, now the organs are political organs, political organs to speak of politics, political organs of the canteen, naturally also to speak of politics.
What is the politics of the organ canteen? There is a difference between the top and bottom. Large stove in the stove small stove, this is the fine tradition handed down from the Yan’an period. What the secretary eats, what the Standing Committee eats, what the other cadres eat, that is all the rules, can not mess up the rules.
Machine canteen, although not as clear-cut as the Yan’an period, but the political rules still can not be lost. This political rules, reflected in the meals, meal times and seating.
The author said, for example, “I don’t know about other units, but the meals for the first hand of our unit are made separately. The deputy department-level cadres, of course, should enjoy the treatment of eating alone. Not only the meals are done separately, his dishes also have to grasp the Time to pot.
The leader is busy, dining time is difficult to fix, he did not eat, the office director can not eat, have to guard outside his office, looking at the leader’s work is almost finished, immediately to the head of the chef sent a WeChat: start frying! When a hand up to move the driver, the second WeChat sent to the head chef: the leader downstairs! The head chef had to look at the entrance of the cafeteria, to the leader a seat, just out of the pot of rice to the leadership, there are dishes and Soup and wine. Later, the superiors asked for a ban on alcohol on working days, it is estimated that the leadership is very uncomfortable for a period of time.”
Not only is the leadership of the meal is exclusively provided, even their tableware where they are placed are all delicate.
“Organs canteen are civil servants provide their own stainless steel tableware, wall cupboard, each person a small compartment put, small compartment on the door sticker famous words. The posting of the name can be delicate, according to the Family name strokes? That can not! Have to talk politics.
According to say, the distribution of cupboards is the office of the matter, send a deputy director can do it. You think too simple!
The office director has to ask the political department to get a plan. Political Department to be a big deal, can not be lined up wrong. First of all, those on the podium according to the seat allocation, followed by the deputy county-level cadres, deputy county-level cadres have more than a dozen it, have to check the file, look at the time they served as deputy county-level succession, the same year of service, and then look at seniority, length of service ah what, the same length of service, and then look at when to the unit. Then to the middle-level cadres assigned small grid, also have to check the file, in accordance with the ranking of the indicators to determine the level of the cupboard.
Last year, a hand of our unit retired from the second line, a new hand came, where to put his cutlery became a problem. Can not throw out the old leader’s tableware ah! Reordering? Put the old leader in second place? The old leader is not happy, the unit second in command will also have a problem. Office director and political director discussed half a day, and finally came up with a solution: buy a new cupboard, placed on the left side of the original cupboard, the first small compartment to put a handful of tableware, the rest of the small compartment is empty.”
There is another issue that is also important: washing dishes.
The author says: “Leaders are burdened with heavy responsibilities and cannot waste time on trivial things like washing dishes. In the past, the leaders of our units had buses and drivers, and their bowls were washed by the drivers. The driver of a handful of people in their fifties, still wash his dishes every day. The driver can not leave after eating, have to stay in the cafeteria, the leader finished eating, dishes a set aside, the driver hastily collected to wash, wash clean wipe dry, gently put into the leadership of the small compartment.
Once, a hand finished eating, the driver did not finish the meal, a deputy driver grabbed the bowl washed, afterwards the driver seriously criticized the deputy driver: “The leadership of the bowl is you wash? No rules!” Later, the central government strict rules of the bus, the leaders canceled the special car, there is no driver, who washed their bowls miles?
This important task fell on the female chef of the canteen.
Leaders finished eating, send the dishes to the washbasin on the case board to go, the female master cleaning before the leadership of the clean bowl put into the cupboard. A few leaders do not speak the rules, wash their own dishes. Fortunately for them, if each leader speaks the rules, the female master will mix up the leaders’ bowls.”
The author added, “Once, I arrived at the canteen a little late, the female chef told him there were no more dishes. He said, ‘Pickles will do.’ And jokingly said: ‘When I was a child, such good white rice, so much oil pickles, only in a dream to eat miles.’
But when he was eating with great interest on the pickles, a few leaders came in, and the female chef took out a small pot of dishes to share with them, with fish, meat, eggs and vegetables. The Writer thought to himself, ‘I’m just a middle-level cadre, how dare I compare myself with the leaders?'”
It is estimated that there are many stories and experiences like this that can be written by any civil servant who eats in the cafeteria of an organization.
Chinese Communist Party officials claim to be “servants of the people” and “serve the people wholeheartedly”, but they have a special dining room for meals, a special place for dishes to be placed according to rank, and special people to wash the bowls. The people’s public servants? Is it possible to serve the people wholeheartedly? If you ask me, it’s not that they serve the people wholeheartedly, it’s that the people have to serve them wholeheartedly!
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