March 8, 2021 – The Security Office of Sichuan International Studies University (SISU) has issued an internal circular to recruit informants to carry out ideological indoctrination on campus.
The Sichuan Foreign Studies University’s security office issued a written notice on Monday (8) that it plans to recruit three “campus security informants” in each college, which it said is based on the requirements of the higher public security authorities, whose duty is to collect and report information materials related to campus security and to maintain the political stability of the campus. The news said that previously, it is suspected that each class of the school has hidden an information officer to monitor the speech of students and teachers. This Time, the open recruitment in the school is the school’s initiative to increase the number of information officers.
The notice states that recruitment is limited to sophomores, juniors and first-year students, and emphasizes that party members, student cadres, those who know small languages and those from poor families are preferred. The honorarium and bonus will be allocated by the Chongqing Public Security Bureau.
Mr. Zheng, a local informed source, told the station that it is the information officer system that has been vigorously promoted on campuses since Xi Jinping came to power, which in effect means planting informers among students. He believes that arranging for student party members and poor students is a common tactic.
Mr. Zheng said: very simple, the security information officer, the student part-time well, is the informer. The professor who dealt with the country, in fact, many are the so-called campus security information officer reported. You see it requires party members, student cadres, in fact, is the political trial well. To poor families, from the economy has been allocated to pay and bonus la. I don’t know what kind of arrangement the school has in mind.
A person familiar with the flow of minority students pointed out that in recent years there have been more Arabic-speaking students among those who speak a small language. But she declined to comment on whether the school is increasing its surveillance of U.S. students.
Ms. Luo said: “You have to look at the language, but it depends on the language. Arabic is in demand, it should be a different language every year.
A former student of the school who studied a small language subject said that the state security to their school to recruit information officers, small language is also the object of key consideration.
He said that although the university is openly recruiting information officers, but the identity of the appointee will still be strictly confidential.
Chen Shumin, a visiting scholar from Wuhan, told the station that even student leaders did not know they were being closely monitored by the university during their studies.
Chen Shumin said: “I don’t know how it works, but I think if they are looking for information, they will look for those party members. I didn’t think about it at all, I didn’t hear about it at all, when we were at school, I didn’t know they were spying on us. I don’t know about this at all, I have a classmate who is the class president and he doesn’t know about this either.
The Security Office of Sichuan International Studies University confirmed to the station the recruitment of information officers, but must be reviewed by the Ministry of Publicity before being interviewed.
Security Office: We can’t talk to you about this. We do not accept interviews, you need to find the publicity department to contact. The publicity department agreed and called us before we could.
The teacher in charge of the selection process, Li Mou, whose cell phone has been unanswered.
Since Xi Jinping came to power, ideological controls at universities in mainland China have escalated, and authorities have also secretly deployed surveillance officers in schools to monitor teachers’ speech in the classroom and student dynamics. dozens of teaching staff, including Tang Yun, a professor at Chongqing Normal University, have lost their teaching jobs so far in 2019 after student informants denounced them. The ubiquitous surveillance has also led to professors being forced to self-censor their own speech both inside and outside the classroom.
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