{"id":194071,"date":"2016-05-19T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T19:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=194071"},"modified":"2016-05-19T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:03:59","slug":"mintrue-not-carry-story-missing-earthquake-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2016\/05\/mintrue-not-carry-story-missing-earthquake-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Minitrue: Delete Story on Earthquake Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source.<\/em><\/p>\n No website may carry the Caijing story “Of 65.2 Billion Yuan\u00a0in Wenchuan Earthquake Donations, 80% Went to Government Coffers; Where 50.1 Billion Went Is Unclear.” If you have already republished the article, please remove it immediately. (May 12, 2016) [Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Caijing last week reported that 76.8% of relief donations, or approximately 65.2 billion yuan (US$9.9 billion) made for the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake went directly to the government. The report cited data from\u00a0Tsinghua University, which showed allocation details for only 23.16% of the total money donated, leaving about \u00a050.1 billion yuan\u00a0<\/em>(US$7.6 billion) unaccounted for.\u00a0Searches for the Caijing article yield no results from caijing.com.cn, and re-posted links show that the article has been successfully harmonized<\/a>; CDT Chinese has stored the full-text of the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lack of transparency regarding\u00a0the allocation of relief donations in China has long been an issue. In the immediate aftermath of\u00a0the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, an anonymous construction engineer wrote a reflective essay including the note<\/a>, “In 2003 a northern province received 59 million in disaster relief funds from the central government. The provincial government kept 47 million for itself, sending 11 million to the city.”<\/p>\n In 2011,\u00a0public trust in charitable donation was\u00a0substantially shaken after\u00a0a scandal beginning with\u00a0Guo Meimei’s claims to be a Red Cross Society of China<\/a>\u00a0employee. Public anger prompted investigations into the organization,\u00a0which\u00a0revealed the misappropriation of donated\u00a0funds intended to go to victims<\/a> of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. A recently passed charity law, while controversial in its entirety, does attempt to assuage the\u00a0widespread public distrust<\/a> that has led to a substantial downfall in charitable giving nationwide.<\/p>\n <\/a>Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source. See\u00a0CDT\u2019s collection of Directives from the Ministry of Truth<\/a>\u00a0since 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. No website may carry the Caijing story “Of 65.2 Billion Yuan\u00a0in Wenchuan Earthquake Donations, 80% Went to Government Coffers; Where 50.1 Billion Went Is Unclear.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":177549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,14744,14745,14746,100,5,4202],"tags":[7715,8272,53,850,15456,14922],"class_list":["post-194071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-2008-sichuan-earthquake","tag-caijing","tag-censorship","tag-charity","tag-directives-from-the-ministry-of-truth","tag-donations","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n