{"id":155559,"date":"2013-05-06T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=155559"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:34:19","slug":"drawing-the-news-id-do-it-all-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/05\/drawing-the-news-id-do-it-all-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing the News: I\u2019d Do It All Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s tough out there for a government official in China. Cartoonist Dashixiong (@\u5927\u5c38\u51f6\u7684\u6f2b\u753b<\/a>) gives voice to the hardships one public servant endures in order to fulfill his duty.<\/p>\n

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Maotai liquor flows freely at official banquets, and is often traded for social currency. Caixin<\/a><\/strong> reported early last year that \u201cthe brand value of Maotai is not supported by real market demand but speculation and government spending.\u201d Before leaving office, former prime minister Wen Jiabao announced a ban on using public funding for Maotai<\/a><\/strong>, which sent the prize plummeting last summer. Now, to skirt Xi Jinping\u2019s anti-corruption efforts, officials are decanting Maotai into water bottles<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Chinese officials often claim whistleblowers have \u201culterior motives<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite what should be meager salaries, public servants have been spotted driving Audis and sporting Rolex watches. A Shaanxi official lost his job last summer after he was photographed grinning at the scene of a traffic accident. Netizens found images of Yang Dacai<\/a> wearing at least 11 different luxury watches, earning him the nickname \u201cWatch Brother.\u201d After last month\u2019s earthquake<\/a>, a Sichuanese Party secretary tried perhaps too hard to avoid Yang\u2019s fate–his watch tan<\/a> gave him away.<\/p>\n

Officials have been caught red-handed with multiples of all these items; the hukou<\/em>, or household registration, is perhaps the most egregious. The hukou<\/em> system marks people as rural or urban residents. Rural migrants live illegally in China\u2019s cities, surviving without any social services. So netizens were livid this January when the \u201chouse sisters<\/a>\u201d were found owning multiple properties–under multiple hukou<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Last November, a 12-second sex tape of Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu<\/a> surfaced online, leading to jokes about the man\u2019s stamina<\/a>, as well as his removal from office. Zhao Hongxia secretly taped herself having sex with Lei and other officials as blackmail. She could now face up to 15 years in prison.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Upon learning of industrial pollution of a river in his hometown of Rui\u2019an, businessman Jin Zengmin challenged local Environmental Protection Bureau Chief Bao Zhenming to swim in the river for 20 minutes. Jin offered 200,000 yuan<\/em> (about US$32,414) if Bao took on the dare<\/a> <\/strong>[zh]. But Bao insisted that the garbage in the river came from residents, not factories.<\/p>\n

This February, investigative journalist and social activist Deng Fei<\/a><\/strong> asked his Weibo followers to take pictures of the waterways in their hometowns as they returned for the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). This lead him to the case of Weifang, Shandong Province, where industry has allegedly polluted the groundwater as far as a meter down. Just days later, the Weifang government stated that it had investigated 715 local businesses and found no water contamination at all<\/a><\/strong> [zh].<\/p>\n

Although Xi Jinping has vowed to fight corruption among both \u201ctigers and flies,\u201d private citizens calling for government officials to make their assets public knowledge have met with arbitrary arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In February, some locales announced new restrictions on information about properties sold<\/a><\/strong> [zh], ostensibly to protect the customer\u2019s privacy and trade secrets.<\/p>\n

\u201cNaked officials<\/a>\u201d move their families–and their funds–out of the country, not just for better quality of life, but also as a backup should their political fortunes change.<\/p>\n

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\nVia CDT Chinese<\/a>. Translation by Mengyu Dong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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