The Poetry Society of China, which is affiliated with the China Writers’ Association (CWA), recently broke into a scandal and issued a statement alleging that Qi Ren, former deputy secretary general of the CWA, had been involved in the case and that the wife of Gideon Maga, secretary of the CWA, was also involved. However, Qi Ren said in a statement that the scandal was purely a rumor and that he was doing fine, and that he would report Huang Nubo, president of the Poetry Society of China, for bribery.
The official website of the Poetry Society of China announced on December 6 that Qi Ren, who served as deputy secretary-general and treasurer of the society from 1994 to 2012, took advantage of his position to set up two companies whose legal representatives and shareholders are Qi Ren’s wife, mother-in-law and ex-wife. And the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (NPC), a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Writers’ Association and wife of Vice Chairman Gideon Marga, Qian Ying is also included.
The notice also states that, according to the only files and financial documents available to the Society, Qi Ren has fraudulently received nearly 400,000 yuan (RMB) in compensation and expenses, transferred and embezzled nearly 5 million yuan, concealed income from the “Poetry Miles” campaign, and misappropriated benefits from the Poetry Society of China between 1998 and 2011.
The notice concludes that the above-mentioned actions involve embezzlement, and the Society of Authors’ Guild Secretaries reported the case to a branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau’s Economic Crime Investigation Detachment on November 4, and the case was formally established as a criminal case on December 2.
Qi people on the evening of the 6th issued a “solemn statement” that the Institute “Notice” is purely rumor and slander, he is all normal, no public security departments to find out about his situation. “The reason why Mr. Huang is going to publish the Notice on the official website, may be related to his report that Mr. Huang is a breach of trust executor, can not serve as poetry society president.” He also said that he will report the historical facts of Huang’s bribery and acceptance of bribes.
Cheng Budao, vice president of the Poetry Society, told Hong Kong media that the conflict between Qi Ren and Huang Nubo began in 2015. After Huang Nubo became president, he set up a third-party company to review the society’s finances, “sorting out the chaotic systems and record-keeping in the past, and found that about 5 million yuan was unaccounted for.” Cheng Budao said he had reported the incident to the police.
The 64-year-old Huang Nubo graduated from Peking University with a degree in Chinese studies and served as director of the Central Propaganda Department before going into the real estate business and becoming chairman of the Zhongkun Group. He has been on the list of those who have lost their credibility for more than 10 times, and is known as “the old rogue.”
Under the Communist Party’s rule, the literary and artistic community has been plagued by chaos and corruption, including cooperation with the business community in the name of the Association, holding events to raise money, and awarding prizes for underhanded operations and benefit exchanges.
Zhao Changqing, former vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison after being accused of taking nearly 25 million in bribes to gain benefits from cooperation on various projects. Du Jun, former deputy secretary general of the China Artists Association, was sentenced to six years in prison for taking 1.3 million in bribes, and Liu Dawei, former chairman of the China Association of Fine Arts, was also implicated in the incident.
Gao Gaoxin, a special commentator for Radio Free Asia, wrote an article on September 14, exposing the fact that the so-called “mass organizations” under the Chinese Communist Party, such as the CCWA, are actually “managed by the Office of the Central Organization Establishment Committee,” meaning that they, like the CPC and government organs, are funded by the state treasury.
In addition, the GaoXin article specifically cites an article by Yan Yanwen, a writer within the CCP system and former deputy director of the editorial department of Poetry, which exposes the huge financial waste of the CWA, one of the “group organizations”.
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