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• Twenty-two Rules for Zhejiang Businessmen

  

  The following document was reportedly found on the wall of a Zhejiang businessman’s office, and has since been circulated widely among Chinese bloggers.

  Twenty-two Rules for Businessman from Zhejiang Province

  1. Persist in watching CCTV-1 News.

  2. Don’t readily trust an agreement or a contract.

  3. You yourself must keep your word, as a promise is worth a thousand ounces of gold. But this doesn’t apply to those who always break their word.

  4. Don’t conduct business where you can afford the win yet can’t afford the loss.

  5. Don’t input too much in advance, and save enough strength for yourself.

  6. There’s nothing in the world that you can’t do, yet businessman can achieve something while refusing to do something else.

  7. Be careful when choosing a partner.

  8. Don’t have family members in your team.

  9. Don’t sleep with a woman who has a conflict of interest with you.

  10. Don’t tell the details of your business to your woman.

  11. You can bribe but don’t be a tainted witness at court

  12. Don’t commit tax evasion or tax fraud, but learn how to do legal tax avoidance.

  13. You can make use of journalists but don’t trust them.

  14. Don’t be ostentatious, unless you’re a real Mr. Big.

  15. Stand in the middle, and don’t engage in any political faction battles.

  16. Don’t care much about the gain and loss of money and interests.

  17. Don’t show off your money.

  18. The right to speak lays with the capital. But you shouldn’t let others know easily how much right to speak you hold.

  19. Learn from other people’s success and failure, gain and loss, yet you can ignore the cases outside China.

  20. Don’t employ the rules of the gang to solve business conflicts.

  21. Don’t take care of every single thing personally under the precondition of controlling the overall situation.

  22. Leave yourself a route to retreat, in case you are deserted or betrayed by friends and allies.

  

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  • December 13, 2009 3:22 PM

• Evan Villarrubia: Portrait: Mr. Fu, Our Chinese Paisano

  

  From Portrait of an LBX blog, written by Evan Villarrubia:

  We met Mr. Fu by pure happenstance in front of a little store outside his family’s colossal home in the mountain village of Fangshan, Zhejiang (浙江省芳山村). Standing near 5′4″ (1.63 meters), a little round in the middle, wearing a modest suit of Chinese clothes, and speaking in a soft, slightly raspy voice, Mr. Fu is hardly what you’d call an imposing figure. Nevertheless, he is a distinctly Chinese success whose generosity moved us and whose account is worthy of retelling.

  Mr. Fu’s story started just after the turn of the last century in distant metropolitan Wenzhou, at the opposite corner of Zhejiang province. His grandfather, then a young, poor man in the city, decided to forego the rat race and boldly moved all on his lonesome to bamboo-encrusted Fangshan, at the time completely uninhabited. Over time more Fu’s and other families moved into the area and developed the agriculture until eventually it became a Wenzhounese enclave among the mountains of Northern Zhejiang. Fast forward to the 1990’s, and in the true Wenzhou spirit nearly a hundred Fangshan’ers are living and doing business in Europe, mostly in Italy with smatterings in France and Germany. Not bad for a village of 800.

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  • November 24, 2009 10:09 AM

• ‘Rape on a Whim’? New Catchphrase Raises Ire

  

  In a court ruling by Nanxun Court in Huzhou City, Zhejiang province, a rape committed by two police associates has been ruled as 临时性的即意犯罪, or an unpremeditated crime, also translated as “temporary crime on a whim” by Jessie of chinaSMACK.

  ChinaHush provides background and details on the incident. Key’s translated China News Net report:

  October 29, 2009 China News reported two police associates, being part of the law enforcement knowingly violated the law. They raped a woman while she was drunk and passed out in a hotel. Eventually they could not escape from the moral and legal punishment. Today Zhejiang Huzou Nanxun court came to a first instance verdict. Two defendants were sentenced to three years in prison.

  Evening of June 10, 2009, two police associates, Qiu (邱) and Cai (蔡) brought Chen (陈) and Shen (沈) who just finished with their college entrance exam to dinner. During dinner, four of them drank a lot of alcohol. Chen had low tolerance, after dinner she was already passed out. In order to let her sober up, Cai drove his car and took everyone to a hotel. In the hotel room, two police associates took advantage of Chen being drunk and unconscious, unable to resist, forced sexual intercourse with her one after another. When Chen regained her consciousness, she found herself lying in bed in a hotel room, her lower body naked.

  Nanxun court considered the crime facts, taking into accounts that the two temporarily committed crime, with no prior planning, also turned themselves in willingly afterwards, and was forgiven by the victim, therefore giving lighter sentences of three years in prison. The two defendants being part of the law enforcement knowingly violated the law, but eventually ate their own bitter fruit.

  From Ellen Zhu of Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report:

  Critical Chinese Internet users soon delved into the meaning of “temporary” as used by the court. It “stands for informal and short-term behavior,” wrote one online commenter. “So is there a difference between formal and informal, long-term and short-term when it comes to the crime of rape? …What does it mean to describe a crime as temporary, fixed or permanent?” Within a few days, “temporary rape” has become one of the most debated topics on the Internet. On Tianya, one of China’s largest Web forums, one discussion of the case has drawn nearly 8,000 participants and garnered close to a million page views.

  Chinese media also weighed in with sharply worded commentaries. “The various online catchphrases all convey the same anxiety about justice. A lack of trust in the judicial system always emerges through some individual cases that go beyond common sense,” said an article in the Guangzhou-based Yangcheng Evening News (in Chinese).

  So far, the majority of the online posts and media opinions have taken a negative tone toward the court’s reasoning. People are also adding “temporary” to other words to highlight the twisted logic involved. Examples include “temporary bribery taking,” “temporary murder” and “temporary divorce, no asset separation.”

  Jessie of chinaSMACK translates opinions from legal experts:

  Lawyer Li said that the “temporary crime on a whim” is an opposite concept to a premeditated crime. Premeditated crimes cause more damage to the society. Premeditated criminals would think of a good way out, meanwhile “temporary criminals” don’t. “Temporary crime on a whim” leads to smaller harm, so the crime can be judged lighter.

  However, a judge from another court in Hangzhou has a different view. The judge, who requested anonymity, claimed in the interview that although there are premeditated crimes, not premeditated crimes, conspiracy, complicity and surrender in criminal law, there is no “temporary crime on a whim’ or “active surrender”. The “temporary crime on a whim” seems newly created.

  The judge further questioned the most confusing thing: that when two criminals successively rape the victim, it is typically gang rape.

  If the case were identified as gang rape, according to “The People’s Republic of China Criminal Law” clause 236, item 3, article 4 “where two or more people gang rape a girl,” they should be sentenced to more than a decade in prison, life imprisonment or death, which has a significant difference from their three-year term.

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  • November 6, 2009 9:22 PM

• 3,000 Villagers Protest in Eastern China

  

  The AP reports of a protest over a government land seizure in Zhejiang:

  More than 3,000 villagers in eastern China blocked a highway and clashed with police while protesting alleged official corruption in a land compensation deal, a human rights monitor and a witness said Sunday.

  Ten residents of Shipu town, in Zhejiang province, were injured in the clash with more than 300 riot police Saturday, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a faxed statement…

  The resident of Shipu, interviewed by phone, said the protesters accuse local officials of arranging a deal in which villagers were paid far less than market value for their land. He would only give his surname, Chen… “The villagers want the local authorities to address the corruption and the central government to intervene in this case, but some local officials have been preventing this information from getting to the relevant authorities,” Chen said.

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  • July 26, 2009 7:12 AM

• China Targets an Academic Culture of Cut-and-Paste

  

  The Christian Science Monitor reports on academic fraud in China:

  The latest fraud to rock Chinese academia centers on He Haibo, an associate professor of pharmacology at the prestigious Zhejiang University. He now admits to copying or making up material he submitted in eight papers to international journals and has been fired, along with the head of his research institute.

  The affair has drawn particular attention because a world-renowned expert in traditional Chinese medicine, Li Lianda, lent his name as coauthor to one of the fraudulent papers. His tenure will not be renewed when his contract expires soon, the president of Zhejiang University has said.

  “This biggest-ever academic scandal is for sure a wakeup call that the Chinese universities are facing a crisis of credibility,” editorialized the state-run “China Daily.”

  Academic fraud is not new in China; scandals have broken sporadically over the past decade, but most cases never come to light, says Fang Shimin, founder of a website for academics.

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  • March 23, 2009 9:00 PM

• Documentary: China’s New Faces Marrying into Her Family

  

  This documentary film investigates a Chinese tradition’s change in Zhejiang province – men from other provinces marrying into women’s families in Zhejiang. Beside longing for love, young people in Zhejiang think realistically to pursue a win-win situation: a woman wants new hope and energy to safeguard her family’s future, in the meantime a man doesn’t have to worry about the housing pressure while developing his career. The film concludes that such a phenomenon is the result of the One-child Policy, the fast growing economy in Zhejiang, and the strong sense of lineage continuity. From Youtube:

  The one-child policy has left some families with only one daughter. Feeling the need to carry on their family lineage, women now look for men who are willing to marry into their families so that their children could take up the mother’s surname. Meanwhile, men from other provinces are finding it hard to make ends meet in the cities, not to mention supporting a family. Because of this, some men are willing to do what it takes for a better life. With supply and demand in place, matchmaking agencies dedicated to this type of marriage are a thriving business.

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  • March 11, 2009 7:16 PM

• “Dubai-style” Office Stokes Anger in China

  

  From Reuters:

  An overly luxurious government building in east China some are saying would be more appropriate in Dubai is stoking public anger about waste and corruption in times of economic crisis, Chinese media said on Wednesday.

  The compound in Changxing county in Zhejiang, one of China’s richest provinces, had an “unimaginably spectacular” night view with colored lights shining on the surrounding fountains and an artificial lake, said a report on government website china.com.cn.

  “When I first saw it I thought I was looking at the Atlantis the Palm Hotel of Dubai,” the site quoted a comment posted by an Internet user as saying.

  The four buildings and attached facilities cost hundreds of millions of yuan and were being criticized as “an extremely typical extravagance and waste of money,” the report said.

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  • December 24, 2008 10:48 AM

• China Officials ‘Defect In Paris’

  

  From BBC News:

  Two Chinese officials have failed to return from trips to France, prompting speculation that they were seeking to evade possible corruption allegations.

  Xin Weiming, a Shanghai district chief, left a note for colleagues saying he was visiting friends in Paris.

  Zhejiang province official Yang Xianghong said he was staying in France to receive medical treatment.

  Hundreds of Chinese officials are said to have fled abroad in recent years to escape allegations of corruption.

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  • October 23, 2008 7:55 PM

• Zhejiang Province: A Free-Market Success Story

  

  Yasheng Huang, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written a piece in BusinessWeek that uses Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces as economic models to explain why China needs to encourage entrepreneurship if it really wants to spread its wealth around:

  Jiangsu and Zhejiang represent two contrasting development models in China, a phenomenon first noted in 1986 by Professor Fei Xiaotong, China’s most prominent sociologist. The Zhejiang model is characterized by a heavy reliance on private initiatives, a noninterventionist government style in the management of firms, and a supportive credit policy stance toward private companies. Probably the most famous product of the Zhejiang model is Wenzhou, a city in southern Zhejiang province that today accounts for a disproportionate share of rich entrepreneurs, asset owners, and China’s manufacturing prowess.

  Although Wenzhou and Zhejiang represent the triumph of laissez-faire, broad-based, entrepreneurial capitalism, many outside analysts fail to appreciate why China should adopt free-market economics rather than retaining state-owned monopolies and state interventionism. Western observers and many inside the Chinese government focus on a narrow set of economic indicators. Specifically, they track economic performance by GDP data. In terms of GDP performance, the differences between Zhejiang’s economy and the more statist economies of Jiangsu and Shanghai seem to be minor. Zhejiang outperformed these two regions in GDP performance but not by a large margin. …

  … Entrepreneurship not only contributes to GDP growth but also to the income growth of average people. Statism, while maybe effective in producing impressive GDP numbers, does not make income grow that much. Between 1999 and 2004, Shanghai experienced a massive construction boom and exploding GDP growth, but an average Shanghai resident actually lost relative to the rest of the country. In Zhejiang, GDP also grew quickly but so did the income of average Zhejiang residents.

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  • October 20, 2008 2:11 PM

• Vice Mayor Arrested on Bribery Charge in East China

  

  Xinhua reports that a vice mayor of Shaoxing, in east China’s Zhejiang Province, has been arrested for bribery during the sale of farm land for development.

  Xie Weixing, Shaoxing City vice-mayor, allegedly accepted bribes in exchange for approving a housing project when he held the post of party secretary of the city’s Xinchang County, police said, without giving the amount of the money.

  Xie, 53, was arrested by the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department on Sunday, police said. He was promoted to be Shaoxing vice-mayor in 2003.

  He played a key role in ensuring the Xinchang-based Fengdao Group, a leading local company, won the bid for a nearly 90,000-square-meter block of farming land, according to the People’s Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province.

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  • September 9, 2008 2:13 PM

• Hundreds Of Migrant Workers Attack Police Station In China

  

  From AP:

  Hundreds of migrant workers angry over mistreatment of a fellow worker surrounded a police station in eastern China and smashed cars and motorbikes, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Monday.

  The three days of rioting began Thursday in Kanmen town in coastal Zhejiang province, according to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

  The deputy director of the public security bureau in Yuhuan county, which oversees Kanmen, played down the incident. Wen Zhengui also denied that anyone had been killed in the violence, responding to a question from a reporter about rumors that two people had died.

  “It’s definitely a rumor, it’s fake,” Wen Zhengui said in a news release posted on the county’s website. It said 23 people were detained.

  Read also Migrant workers protest, riot for 3 days in E. China by Chris Buckley.

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  • July 14, 2008 4:31 AM

• Cargo Ship Collapses Bridge

  

  The Shanghai Daily reports:

  China’s maritime search and rescue authority said yesterday a cargo vessel hit a bridge under construction near the eastern seaport of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, leaving four crew members missing.

  Sixteen of the 20 crew on board had been rescued by 7am. But rescuers were still searching for the four missing. Officials speculated that the missing crew members might have been trapped in the cabin by the 3,000-ton collapsed section. 

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  • March 27, 2008 3:54 PM

• Slideshow: Those Who Remain in Rural Zhejiang

  

  A photographer from Haining City in Zhejiang presents his works of the countryside areas in Zhejiang on fengniao.com. Most of the photos were taken during Labor Day, National Day and Spring Festival in 2006 and 2007. Through these photos, we see that most of the younger generation in the rural areas have flocked to the cities. What’s left are old people, women and children. In some of the photos, we can see old people still work very hard to make a living, instead of being taken care of by their children like those in the cities. However, even though the younger generation who become migrant workers also work hard in the cities, many of them still don’t get paid or get paid late from the employers.

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  • February 18, 2008 1:48 PM

• Most Oppose Zhejiang’s Plan to Build New Yuanmingyuan Palace – China Youth Daily

  

  Zhejiang has a town that is famous as a movie-making location. Now some want to build something much grander than just films – a replica of the destroyed Yuanmingyuan Palace. Translated by CDT from China Youth Daily:

  Hengdian (横店) is Asia’s largest filming location. There is Guangzhou Street, Hong Kong Street, Qin Palace, and other historical or scenic replications, all for filming purposes. “Why not build a Yuanmingyuan?” some local Hengdianese asked.

  And that’s the plan underway, to reproduce the grandeur and royal elegance of the old Summer Palace that has been sleeping in ruins since its destruction when the eight allied powers descended upon Beijing a century ago.

  That would cost 20 billion yuan, on a plot of land totaling 6,165 mu. The project is projected to be completed by 2013, if it gets going next year as planned. And soon, it attracted plenty of naysayers, more than 60% on a portal survey.

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  • December 26, 2007 10:13 AM

• Slideshow: Migrants’ Children

  

  A Fengniao photographer recently posted this striking series of photos depicting the lives of migrant workers’ children. The following is his account of what he saw, translated by CDT:
  
  

  It took me almost two years to take these pictures of the migrants’ children (from August 2005 till now; in Haining city of Zhejiang Province). I just happened to run into these workers with their kids. That first day, I saw a group of migrant workers digging and loading earth while their children played around under the hot sun. I was shocked that their lives were so different from those who live in the cities: pregnant women working with dirt; infants laid in the shade on the bare ground; two- and three-year-olds playing without pants on, all of them were dirty-faced.

  
  

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  • November 18, 2007 9:35 PM

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