Siyuan College in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, banned off-campus businesses from delivering takeout in the name of the Epidemic, causing them to struggle to make ends meet and sparking protests. (Video screenshot)
Some schools continue to be closed to the public even though the university has started its school year. Siyuan College in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, has banned off-campus businesses from delivering Food in the name of the epidemic, making it difficult for them to make ends meet and sparking protests.
Li Hui (a pseudonym), a merchant on Siyuan Commercial Street behind the college, told the Epoch Times how it happened.
On March 9, off-campus merchants delivering takeout were all banned. “That day suddenly strictly prohibited sealed, how a degree of sealing it, all the campus into the door, the front door, the small east door, the big east door, the south door all stood full of security guards, if a business delivery, he will scare part-Time away.”
“If a part-time worker delivers a meal on the road and is met by a security patrol, the security guard will check the meal you are holding is off-campus and will take your meal away and throw it away. So after that day all the meals suddenly can’t be delivered.” Li Hui said.
A businessman sent out a free meal delivery notice in his fan group that day in protest, preparing more than 30 boxed meals for distribution at the school’s east gate.
Many students went to the door to receive meals, but security guards came to forcefully stop them, threatening to intimidate students, and some students who got meals were put back to the door.
Li Hui said that at this point a restaurant owner holding a business license and business permit to the school to prove that they are operating legally. “Tell everyone that we are a dual-license compliant business, why not allow students to order take-out, why students can crowded at the school entrance to take delivery, but can not take take-out.”
This boss in the video said in the video, during the epidemic, if there is any request they can match the mask, and even vaccination, but do not cut off their livelihood, this is their last.
Li Hui revealed that the owner’s action caused solidarity from nearby businesses, and more than twenty people protested together at the scene. Due to the blockage of security guards, only half of the free meals were delivered.
It is understood that the source of Siyuan Commercial Street restaurant depends entirely on the students of the college, last year’s epidemic has led to the collapse of half of the business, and now only a hundred or so are still hanging on, almost rely on students to order take-out for a living.
Li Hui said: “Because the business is also more anxious, no dine-in and no take-out, we may not have this livelihood, looking for the office of the commercial street, the deputy director of the office took us to communicate with the school leadership three times, and then the result is that during the epidemic let us wait, from the time we just started school has always been this way, we have no choice. “
The biggest demand of the merchants is that they want the school to give a clear answer, if they have not been allowed to send take-away business outside the school, then they will consider other ways of Life, not here to die.
How do the students of the college feel about this?
Liu Fang (a pseudonym), a freshman student, complained to the Epoch Times that the school’s cafeteria embraces, and even takes advantage of, price hikes, poor quality of food, and untimely delivery of the cafeteria’s take-out, so students are often unable to grab a meal.
Liu Fang said, “School ends at 11:40, then the first class of the afternoon at 1:30, you have to get to the classroom early, the dinner queue, I have not eaten in the dining hall since November last year, there are too many people, squeeze can not squeeze in.”
“Students hope that both takeaways are available, students are able to multiple choice, and this closed school really does not make any sense, like teachers and staff can just go in and out, why can’t we students go out, we are all people ah, why can others go out, we can’t go out.”
Liu Fang said they finished class at 11:40 p.m. and continued at 1:30 p.m. Classes continued at 1:30 p.m. It was very tight to go to the cafeteria and line up for dinner, so many students ordered food in the cafeteria beforehand and had them delivered to the dormitory building at the designated time.
“School takeaway simply do not look at your notes, for example, you note 11:40, you order Soup ah, noodles ah and so on, he simply can not send, either like we ordered about 10:00, he sent us about 10:30, takeaway outside our dormitory put more than an hour, noodles with soup type simply can not eat, all dry, or is more than an hour overtime The delivery is not available at all.”
Liu Fang’s roommate once ordered take-out, waiting for half an hour did not deliver, to the canteen business phone, not answer the phone, there is no way to run to the canteen to ask, the other side told her immediately delivered, go back and so on, the roommate returned to the dormitory to continue to wait for 20 minutes also no movement, finally had no choice to run to the canteen to simply eat some meals, back to the meal delivery, the roommate asked for a refund, said half a day before giving a refund.
Liu Fang also revealed that the canteen meals often eat worms, the quality of food is very poor, students eat just to fill their stomachs, it is not good to talk about delicious and not delicious, at the same time, meal prices have risen.
Siyuan College canteen food often can eat worms. (provided by the interviewer)
Siyuan College canteen food can often eat worms. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
“Each dish up a couple of dollars, I just started school to eat not so expensive, there is a called lemon fish, the other day I see are up to fourteen dollars eight, anyway, rice is getting less and less. Like we eat rice noodles, a chopstick can be fished out of the kind.”
The students pointed out that the school canteen a window, the lessee are with the school leadership or teachers have some relationship with people, people from outside to rent a window should be very difficult, only the relationship is easy to rent the stall.
The students speculate that the school authorities prevented the takeaway of off-campus businesses mainly for the benefit of the cafeteria, monopoly operations.
Xi’an Siyuan College is a private ordinary undergraduate college. The school was established in 1998, formerly as the training center of Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Mechanical Engineering. In 2012, Xi’an Jiaotong University established a counterpart relationship with the college.
The school has 12 secondary colleges and more than 70 undergraduate and higher vocational specialties. The campus covers an area of nearly 1,600 mu, with a building area of nearly 400,000 square meters, and more than 17,000 full-time students enrolled.
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