Henan students are “forced” to donate their New Year’s Eve money, cutting leeks order originated from ……

Recently, an elementary school in Yongshun County, Hunan Province, organized students to donate money, and a dozen students were filmed by their teachers for not donating money, sent to the parents group to show the public, and asked parents to cooperate with the task must be completed. The incident sparked public concern and outrage. The reporter investigated and found that most of the leaders of the mainland school donation activities originated from the Communist Youth League Central Committee.

Henan students “forced” to donate money to cut leeks order from the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League

The reporter found that the mainland school “New Year’s money donation” activities led by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and then by the provincial and municipal youth league committees issued a document notice before the holiday, and has continued for many years.

In March this year, Linzhou City, Henan Province, the Bureau of Education and Sports and the City Charity Federation jointly issued a red-headed document “on the city-wide campaign to carry out the 2021 love birthday money donation notice”, requiring the city’s primary and secondary schools, kindergartens to carry out “birthday money donation” activities, the matter was widely questioned by public opinion.

In 2016, Linzhou City Charity Association launched a “love birthday money” donation campaign has been reported by the local media. In addition, a number of articles calling on students to donate money for the Chinese New Year under the pretext of “fighting the epidemic” have received high-profile publicity on the portals of the CPC Propaganda Department and the Central Civilization Office.

In 2016, the Communist Youth League Central School Department and other units jointly organized a national search for the “most beautiful secondary school students” and “most beautiful secondary school students,” and it was reported that one of the selected candidates from Xianning Middle School was “most beautiful” because he was enthusiastic about public welfare, actively participated in donation activities, and donated his pocket money and Chinese New Year money to official institutions.

In addition, according to the official website sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, as early as January 31, 2011, the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League and other organizations have jointly issued a notice, the official in the name of poverty alleviation and relief and other requirements of the province’s primary and secondary schools to participate in the Chinese New Year money donation activities.

In addition to the difference in the targets and the name of the fund-raising activities, the Communist Party has also extended the theme of the fund-raising activities from “Chinese New Year’s money” to “pocket money”, and requested that the fund-raising activities be carried out at the New Year, “Lei Feng Memorial Day”, “May Fourth” Youth Day, “June 1st” Children’s Day and other points.

Despite the official claim that the donation campaign upholds the principles of “no apportionment, no task, no target”, according to netizens, “the official department issued an official document, no school dares not to implement”.

In addition to the above-mentioned Guangdong Province, Henan Province, the reporter search also found that a number of provinces, including Hunan Province, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Fujian Province, Zhejiang Province, Shandong Province, Hebei Province and other provinces have reported related fund-raising activities, which also have poor cities and counties.