Generation SI

New persons in the leadership of China

Generation SI

“These days, the capital of our Motherland should support the atmosphere of complete harmony”-the PRC party elite dedicated this slogan by the 18th Congress of the 82-millionth Communist Party of China. The congress will lead to power the “fifth generation” of leaders, led by 59-year-old SI Jinging. The New Times in Beijing is about how the city has changed in recent days and what awaits China

The fourth generation of Chinese leaders is preparing to free up places for "young"

On Tiananmen Square there are reinforced police outfits and dozens of people in civilian clothes. "Where can I shoot?" - asks the reporter of German television with the police officer. - "Nowhere." “We have all the papers,” the employee of the Ministry of Propaganda, accompanying them, comes to the journalists. - "Nowhere." From somewhere from the ground a person appears in a suit and makes mitigating adjustments to the regulation: “General plans can be removed. But - from afar. " The congress is guarded by 100 thousand police officers and 1.5 million warriors, treated from all over China.

No knife, no screwdriver

“They have long decided everything among themselves - whom to choose in the Politburo, whom to expel from there. What are they afraid of? - Taxi player Zhang is dissatisfied with gesture security measures. - These “red -hotels” (combatants), who were brought here from all over China, pay 50 yuan (about $ 9) per day. ”

Like the rest of the Beijing Damly, Zhang received an indication of blocking the windows on the rear doors. Those who have no such blocking in the car were banned from entering the center of the capital. Baby toy stores suspended the trade in “small arms” of metal, as well as flying objects, including balloons and radio -controlled helicopters. Knives, some types of scissors and screwdrivers disappeared from the shelves of shopping centers. And if you really need something from this assortment-present a personality certificate for entering into the database.

The Internet suddenly crawled at the speed of the snail, and the bloggers noticed: the mail in which more than two times mentioned the words “Beijing” and “Congress” (“Shibada” in Chinese) began to reach the addressee only the next day. But then users showed cunning, and in the Chinese Internet they spun references to Sparta (Sibada-this is how the name of the ancient Greek city is pronounced in Chinese): in two days-November 5 and 6-in the local search engine Sparta was requested 3 million times.

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They say that when Si managed the Fujian Province, there from year to year the famous smuggler Lai Chancin was turning transactions from which customs losses amounted to $ 10 billion

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“The authorities are waiting for provocations from all sides,” shares the information received from his brother - party official, Beijing journalist Liu. “Partically and the police received instructions: to show special attention to“ separatists-breakdowns ”from Xinjiang,“ suicide bomber monks ”from Tibet,“ compatriots who have lost blood for various reasons, ”and even to demonstrators-emologues.”

Amnesty International has reported about 130 arrested civil activists who, before the end of the congress, are placed in “black prisons” - as in China they call the closed hotels on the balance sheet of special services.

Although the result of the congress is no secret, China is watching it struck by

From the life of the walkers

Many ordinary citizens, especially in the province, believed in a party cry about "harmony" and came to seek the truth before the congress to Beijing. Like, for example, Lee Jing and Wu Gozzin, natives of Henan province. Both-HIV-infredized, became infected in the 90s, when the province authorities forcibly directed them to donate blood. In the first -aid post, in order to save, one needle was used 10–20 times - as a result, a deadly virus was picked up at least 100 thousand people, and instead of the promised investigation, the authorities promised the victims to pay a lifelong monthly benefit of € 120. In reality, only half of this amount is paid. “I am sure the money is assigned to the local officials,” says Wu to the author, standing in a long line at the door of the Beijing Bureau of Public complaints. “I hope here,” he nods to the office, “they will finally help us.” As a result, Wu and Lee fail: “They told us: contact the Bureau at the place of residence. But we have been there so many times! How much can you mock people? "

“I myself am from Yunnan, my name is Hu Fan,” a dark -skinned stranger of middle -aged comes to us. - Our officials steal pensions, and they themselves buy Honda and Toyota themselves. If they already, upstairs, figured out such a strong person as BO, then let them return the money of my elderly parents. ”

“Yeah, wait! I was filled here immediately as a non -named one, ”a thin young man standing at a distance smiles at a distance, he refused to introduce himself. - I'm from Vansunfan, this is under Zhengzhou. I have an engineer diploma, worked at the state -owned enterprise, suddenly he was closed, people were kicked out into the street, nothing was paid. Then they found out: they opened a company in the room, where the director is the son -in -law of the secretary of the party committee of the city. Do not you think that our "world factory" is starting to stink? "

The authorities of the provinces, according to the famous lawyer Ten Biao, decided to catch all the dissatisfied with the help of scammers and special brigades of the warriors. They go around the apartments and train buses heading to Beijing. People detained on a tip are planted in “black prisons”: nothing should overshadow the “atmosphere of harmony” in which the congress takes place.

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On the site of our plant, a company was opened, where the director is the son -in -law of the secretary of the city committee. Is our "world factory" starting to stink?

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The House of People's Assembly on Tiananmen Square in Beijing is strictly guarded by the press and curious

There is no will to see

“I’m going the other day in Beijing in a taxi on Chananzze (the central prospectus of the capital, whose name is translated as“ eternal peace ”or“ eternal peace. ” - The New Tims), everything is touched by Kumach, and I drove me, at 60 years old, suddenly declares:“ The party gives me to make money for food - well, and enough. ” Provocateur. Or crazy, - entrepreneur Liu Chin from Guangzhou shares his last impressions of a trip to Beijing. “It would be better if the party saved the people from the oppression of state -owned enterprises - this carrier would have much more food.” The people in the south, stuffed with free economic zones, live better, and is more relaxed in judgments.

Another southerner, Xiao Gonjun, heads the packaging company in the Delta Zhuzzyan Delta - Pearl River. “They say, they say, to our economy, such a second-second-in-mira, no crisis does not care. Is the enemies! " Xiao says that he almost went bankrupt, miraculously saved the business, and dozens of others, such as he, went around the world. At the same time, the state did not help. “Priority is still given to state-owned enterprises, although in reality our economy is kept on private traders. If the new leaders of the country do not equalize us in rights with the state sector, everyone is the end, the growth resources are exhausted. ”

Factory gossip

“What kind of words are you saying? “Reforms”, “Hardware Update”, “Group’s struggle”. It doesn't concern me. I hardly found this work - in our village almost all men left to work in Beijing, and only I and the cousin were lucky. -38-year-old Zhao from morning to night works as a controller in a tobacco factory and terribly glad of $ 500 per month. - Everyone says that Comrade Xi (Xi Jinping) is a decent person and does not tolerate the bribes. Maybe we will heal better? "

“I know that Comrade SI is a chemist by education, his father under Mao was a deputy prime minister, and then sat for 16 years-the family was rehabilitated only after the death of the leader. They also say that SI is an active fighter with corruption, ”shares his information about the new leader of the country Gun, the head of the workshop, which works Zhao. Then, at dinner, when we find ourselves without witnesses, he suddenly continues the topic: “You are a foreigner, do not betray me? They say that when Si managed the Fujian province, there from year to year the famous smuggler Lai Chancin was turning transactions, from which customs losses amounted to $ 10 billion. When Si called to the carpet in the Central Committee, he stated that he knew nothing. The smuggling for billions of dollars, and the governor did not know anything - this is laughter! SI is an ordinary careerist. Another thing is his wife, singer Pan Liuan: he also did not dare to dream about high posts, and all China already knew her. ”

The information of the head of the tobacco workshop confirms Wen (“only without a surname”), a journalist of the Sinhua agency. He says that many retells the story with smuggling in the late 90s, and, according to Bloomberg, even then the state of the SI family was hundreds of millions of dollars: “On the other hand, SI is the only one in the top leadership of China (in the 1980s.-The New Times) lived in the United States and knew his homeland from the outside. And this is very important for understanding her real problems. ”

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The authority of the CCP is increasingly reduced. In this situation, the All -Chinese spontaneous mass action may occur

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Students listen to the speeches of the outgoing leader Hu Jintao

A short course

“Now I will explain everything to you popularly,” Professor Sun (again: “Only without a surname”), the lecturer of the Academy of Sciences of the PRC, takes a sheet of paper and sweepingly displays numbers to the hieroglyphs: “The turning point for China was actually not 1978 when Dan Xiaopin opened the country and proclaimed the“ four modernization ”, and 1989. Then, after the events on Tiananmen Square, a frightened party elite offered politically engaged elites a new “Modus Vivevedy”: everyone leaves politics - to business and fed structures, and the party takes on the role of the patron of the patron, providing at least 5-7% of economic growth per year. Business and nomenclature went hand in hand. No one had yet managed to make a fortune without a familiar party official at least at the level of the district committee. Now the middle class in China has 200 million people, of which 35–40 million are the highest middle class, people with a fortune of hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. They are still grateful to the parties for patronage and non-interference in their personal lives, they use the Internet with might and main, rest abroad, their children study abroad. ” These people, according to Professor Sun, are not the basis of civil society, as in the West, but on the contrary - a strong rear of a single -party system, its economic foundation. “But now the foundation began to pour. Someone brought the growth of the economy to a hospital bed, someone-to the grave. The air has become unsuitable for a healthy life, and water for drinking. Things are especially bad in the village. 150 million peasants were forced to go to work in cities, 40 million were not found, they returned back to poverty ... In the last five years, two poles have developed: one - 10% of the population owning almost 50% of the property, on the other - 10% from 1.7%, which hate the first. If the party does not manage to somehow level this gap in the next three to four years, the country will have a social explosion. ”

Sun soundly imprints a pencil to the table, or rather, directly on the black and white portraits of the chairman of the PRC Hu Jintao and his successor to Xi Jingin, flaunting on the opened reversal of the main party magazine Zyushi.

Social instability and protest sentiments remain inherit

Chinese bloggers: "Nothing will change in the Celestial Empire"

Chinese sites and blogs that are not controlled by the PRC (based, as a rule, in the USA) presented an unsightly picture of the Total Shmona, arranged in Beijing on the eve of the opening of the congress. Special orders relate to the Internet: hotel guests will be able to use it only by identification, indicating the series and number of the document.

“It is quite possible, in Zhunnanha (the Beisy analogue of the Kremlin. - The New Times) and are really afraid that the people, taking advantage of the congress, will raise a riot,” writes the blogger Peng Tao. - Indeed, over the past year, protest promotions unprecedented in scale were held throughout the country - in the county of Vansyan, in Shuantsiao, Beijing, Cidun, Zhongshani, Ninbo and other places. Relations between the state and society are more and more tense. The authority of the CCP is increasingly reduced. In this situation, the All -Chinese spontaneous mass action may happen. ”

But the most discussed topic is the recent publication in The New York Times on the 2.7 millionaire (in US dollars) condition of the family of the Prime Minister of the State Council of China Ven Jiabao. “Yes,” writes Tsao Chancin, a blogger living in the United States, “the Voice of America” Asian service, “a representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry called the publication of an influential American newspaper“ China’s Extremely ”, but the official Chinese side did not introduce any specific refutations of the texture set forth in the article, did not indicate what specific moments contain slander and slander, and, it seems, is not going to be filed in court". According to the author, if the lawsuit by Van’s lawyers against The New York Times will be filed, then it is very difficult to win: the newspaper does not claim that Wen Jiabao himself or his close relatives are corrupt, but only wonders how the prime minister’s family managed to accumulate such a huge fortune.

"What is the XVIII Congress of the CCP?" - The blogger Mu Chuanhen begins his post. And gives a very unsightly answer: “This is a congress, which is held by a community of privileged interest groups within the CPC. This is a congress, called up, operating on the “advanced” and “representative” character of the party, to approve the inviolability of their power and interests. ”

“In fact,” Mu Chuanhan concludes, “there will be no true democratization after the congress. Like a real struggle against corruption, despite the “serious lesson”, which, as officially stated, seemed to be removed by the party from the case, under the arrest and consequence of the former member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPC of Bo Silaya. The most probable further development of China: limited and gradually promote intra -party democracy and the participation of citizens in management. However, this does not mean at all that in reality the country will turn on the path of real democracy. ”

Alexander Sm all, member of the European Council on International Relations, President of the Foundation named after Stefan Batoria (Poland):
“The XVIII Congress of the CCP, like everyone else, was prepared in complete secrecy. Many high -ranking functionaries did not even know the date of the event. In Beijing, they are afraid of popular unrest, because China faces huge problems. Economic success led to the monstrous growth of corruption. The mafia ties between business and the political elite are no secret to anyone, which causes popular indignation. If in the early 90s there were thousands of small local conflicts per year, now up to 200 thousand annually. Basically, people opposed local authorities or are it some strikes at enterprises, there have not been observed against central authorities yet. But China’s leadership understands that de facto has been legalized by public disagreement with the authorities. Economic growth slows down: China pays its price to the world crisis and an export -oriented economy. Labor is becoming more and more expensive, it doesn’t work out too much, because the Chinese love to put off, but do not like to spend. So the new Politburo will have to develop some new decision-making scheme-more effective and operational. ”

Alexander Lukin, vice -rector of the Russian Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry:
“China is a dictatorship without a dictator. Here decisions are made collegial. The second rule was the rejuvenation of power: a tough age restriction is valid for absolutely all government posts: 60 years - and a person retires. An exception is only for senior leaders who are replaced once every 10 years. Of course, leaders always have a temptation to remain in power. Dan Xiaopin de facto led the country until his death, although he did not occupy any official post-they came to his house to consult. Hu Jintao is at the head of the so -called “Komsomol clan”, immigrants from the Komsomol nomenclature. Another clan is the children of party leaders, the so -called “princes”, which include Xi Jinping, who replaced Hu. But the new prime minister of the State Council Lee Katsyan is also from the Komsomol members, so maybe Hu Jintao will try to remain an informal leader of this clan. But he is unlikely to have real levers to rule the country. ”

A letter of dreamers Chinese human rights organization “Power of Citizens” appealed to the delegates of the XVIII Congress of the CPC with an open letter, which, in particular, says: it is said:
“Dear delegates /... /, your party is not just a party in power, it is a monopoly political force in the country. / .../ From the moment of creation, she did not stop repeating that her historical goal was free and democratic China. / .../ 60 years after your party came to power/ .../ The future of the Chinese people is still determined by the curtains of a handful of tyrants. The country's legal system is a mockery of pure water, since officials of all levels calmly spit on their own laws. / .../ over 60 years, corruption has become absolute, penetrating into all spheres of life. Freedom of speech, printing, unions, meetings, strikes and conscience - only fantasies. / .../ The only reason why the Chinese people fell into this trap is the 60-year-old dictatorship of your party. / .../ We urge you to return the civil rights that you stole with us. The environment is unsuitable for life, we can no longer look at the blue sky, drink clean water or even breathe clean air. We are not sure that we eat safe food or drink healthy medicines. / .../ Many cannot afford to buy a room in an apartment or ordinary medical insurance. /…/ Мы пользуемся лишь теми «правами», которые дает нам государство: «право» сесть в тюрьму, «право» пропасть без вести, «право» покончить с собой. Мы мечтаем, что однажды самым крепким зданием в городе будет не мэрия, а школа. Что однажды людям не придется становиться на колени, увечить самих себя или даже совершать самоубийства, чтобы не видеть, как их дома сносят бульдозеры. /…/ Мы мечтаем, что однажды люди будут получать доступ к рабочим местам и образованию в зависимости от их навыков и достоинств. Мы мечтаем, что однажды каждый сможет свободно думать, говорить, писать и критиковать правительство без страха. /…/ Мы мечтаем, что однажды лидеры всех уровней будут избраны в результате открытых и честных выборов. /…/ Мы не только мечтаем, мы сделаем все, чтобы наши мечты сбылись. /…/ Мы готовы бороться, чтобы оставить нашим детям самый ценный подарок — свободный и демократический Китай, в котором царит верховенство закона».
Full text of the letter

Граждане Китая, у которых есть Мечта.

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