Cai Xia tweeted: 10:18AM – 4/12/21
“I know of a private entrepreneur who was bidding for a land site, unaware that the site had been looked at by a provincial official who was in the central government and that the bid was just a formality. The private entrepreneur was unaware that he had directly bid for the land, and then the private entrepreneur was imprisoned by the prosecutor’s office for three years, and his multi-billion dollar business was confiscated, and his mother died of shock. In the three years, the prosecutor’s office investigated all, could not be convicted, had to be released. When released, the prosecutor’s office did not even give a written formality, which is equivalent to being imprisoned for three years without leaving a trace. The private entrepreneur came to me through my high school classmate and asked me to pass the material to the CCDI. I told the CDC staff about the situation, and the response was that there were too many of these things, and he couldn’t rank this one! “—–
Seeing this tweet by Professor Cai Xia, writing about the suffering of private enterprises, I can’t help but feel a lot of emotion, causing deep inside memories of a past event that I personally experienced.
There is a distinctive feature of private enterprises in China, no matter how large their enterprises are, how many employees they employ, and how deep their “contribution” to society, they have one thing in common It is no security, no dignity protection, all kinds of persecution and ‘violent death’ waiting for you, from the rich red two harnessed by the side of a horse, Anbang insurance Wu Xiaohui, middle to Bo Xilai’s pawn Xu Ming, down to the drinking well of the peddler, all so.
This article is about such a tragic past. We only operate restaurants and rooms in the East Lake Hotel, and all the entertainment is leased to the public. The sauna contractor, Mr. Z, came from Yingkou, Liaoning Province, 30 to 40 years old, and ordinary northeastern people are not the same, he is not tall, thick eyebrows, large eyes, healthy and light, walking quickly, especially good communication will speak, eyes reveal shrewd and competent, when we disagree always by him to negotiate. They leased a large area of our hotel, about 3,000 square meters, for the sauna, and they were able to divide the work and cooperate to run the business, making it prosperous.
In mainland China, saunas are a special industry with many gray areas and even erotic and ambiguous content. Because of their large scale and luxury decoration, a wide range of services, up to the giant businessmen and senior officials chartered, down to the travel family leisure, business is unprecedented day into the gold, earning a full bowl, and even a night profit of tens of thousands.
They never delay to pay the rent on time, sometimes even a few days in advance to solve our needs. At that time, our hotel was in a particularly difficult period, due to the city government road construction gate was closed, so forced to close three years of heavy losses. Their rent was almost our only income, and the staff of the hotel and the building all depended on it, and they even took the initiative to borrow money to make ends meet when it was particularly difficult. It was this kind of mutual help that made us become friends and get along very well, and we thank them for supporting us in the most difficult times. Later learned that their shareholders broke up peacefully, Z left to expand new business somewhere, and opened a large bathing center comparable.
One or two years have passed, suddenly one evening sauna A total rush to me said, “Z total is dying, Shaanxi Province Public Security Department familiar with it? Get someone ah! “.
Overseas you do not know, the word “fishing” does not mean that people fell into the water to pick up, but the Chinese mainland context special term, refers to the public prosecution, discipline inspection and other powerful ministries It is a special term in the Chinese mainland context, referring to all kinds of people who are suddenly arrested by the powerful ministries of public prosecutors, law enforcement, discipline inspection, etc., especially those who are framed and imprisoned in the business and intellectual circles. The so-called “fishing for people” is to find various relationships and channels to get the imprisoned person out of prison first, to avoid physical abuse, and other things later. As a friend between “fishing” is an important sign of friendship.
Shocked I understand the situation as follows: the original Z total breakup with money to a place in Shaanxi (one said Baoji) investment, they have a shareholder in the partnership here specifically divided responsible for dealing with the public prosecutor taxation, etc., especially public security (it is said that there are even shares of the leadership of the X department), send money by the month, holidays plus ‘holiday money ‘Never delayed, so they can avoid all kinds of checks and sweeps, their business is booming, and thriving. He found a local public security leader to be his backer in this way, and paid a monthly tribute as insurance premium for safety, but his public security backer was so greedy that he took the insurance premium for himself and did not share it with other public security colleagues. The darkness and nastiness of Shaanxi Province is even worse, as you can imagine, the greedy swindler was denounced by his own competitors ….
Z spent no money to eliminate the disaster, after being imprisoned, ‘bribery, bribery, tax evasion, triad’ and other various charges came in a row, making him account for his crimes, undergoing torture and suffering, and soon dying. Especially the term “triad society”, which was the most popular and best used by the Chinese Communist Party’s cool officials, because as long as this charge was covered, the property could be confiscated. He was not only charged with soliciting bribes from cadres, but also with “vices” of triad society and pornography. “and no one in prison sympathy and help, sickness can not be treated depressed and die, his wife and family were separated and empty. His experience is a vivid interpretation of the classic model of a private enterprise flying into trouble, the family is broken.
When I got this “fishing” news, he had been tortured almost hopeless, and soon his friends said to do the funeral.
Great shock, great grief: thinking back to our contract negotiations, holiday parties, drinking and talking about the past, especially smiling image of mediation work vividly floating in front of our eyes, a young, vivid life was lost, no trace of disease, silent. Every time I think of what happened to him, it makes my heart tremble, it is sealed up and not touched, and even now more than ten years later, even today, writing here still feel extra heavy and heartache, anger can not be.
Of course, it is said that as a person he has such and such shortcomings, business has not noble clouds, but as a diligent and hard-working children of workers and farmers, a living life, he should have the right to be respected and born; as a small person he goes around to make a living, to the power of the flexing paint to meet, send money to send things, and even treat themselves as official slave-like groveling, and do their best to climb to think that the livelihood, even so Even so, he was not protected and was crushed, his death was too wrong and too tragic, such an ending is really unacceptable. However, what is even more tragic is that what happened to him is not just an isolated case in China today, but a common phenomenon, reflecting the tragic fate of the business class in this country and the unknowable uncertainty of no rules and no protection, any possibility will make the entrepreneur fall down and die, there is no way to escape. Mr. Jack Ma was deeply touched by this when he said in 2013 that “no Chinese entrepreneur has a good end”, and some folk say All Chinese entrepreneurs are in jail or on their way to jail’. These images aptly reflect the true picture of private enterprises under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.
As a private enterprise owner rooted in society, I often ask myself repeatedly in this regard.
- what kind of government and what kind of laws and regulations are in place to push enterprises into such a situation and put people in fire and water.
- private enterprises cannot grow without bribes, so why is there such a system designed to force good people into prostitution.
- why can’t taxpayers be allowed to operate cleanly and with their chests up and earn money in a dignified manner
- If Z is in a foreign country where the rule of law prevails, will it end up like this?
- This kind of phenomenon is everywhere in China, why?
There are more than one or two of these things around me, and I hear more, so I can’t help but often think about the question, why is this so, why ……
I asked myself over and over again, the answer gradually came out and became clearer and clearer, it is all caused by the system. If this system does not change, private enterprises can never change the status of lambs to be slaughtered. Only by changing this system ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, private enterprises will have a normal business environment, equality of personality, legal protection and safety of personal property, in order to avoid all kinds of tragedies, which is the only choice.
Friends of private enterprises; pay attention to Jack Ma, pay attention to private enterprises, and pay attention to ourselves.
Come together to move forward, take out our power, donate to change China, this is the only choice to change our destiny and protect our dignity and property.
April 16, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
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