To President Xi Jinping—A Letter from A Political Prisoner
This letter was written during the Mid-Autumn Festival in September 2018, when I was detained in a secret base under the Shanghai Supervisory Committee. They tried to soften me up and force me to compromise. I then wrote this letter to Dr. Xi Jinping. Obviously, this letter would not reach Dr. Xi's desk, but fortunately, a security official with a clear conscience passed it on to my family in private. Thus it could be possible to be made public. I decided to make it public as I am very aware that every dictator is stereotyped to be so arrogant as to respond to the dissidents of the people.
To President Xi Jinping
—A Letter from A Political Prisoner
Your Almighty,
I am a patriotic democrat outside the party, a citizen of the People's Republic of China, a member of the people, and a political prisoner. I dare to call myself patriotic because I have devoted myself to civil justice for many years, such as providing volunteer services for rural women persecuted by public corruption through legal channels, legal aid for victims of financial fraud, etc. I also participate in planning projects related to civil-military integration to help the country alleviate the problems of ignored veterans.
Therefore, I believe that you and I have the same rich resonance with the abuse of public power and the chaos of the incessant infringements on the people's interests. In the second part of your speech, The Historical Mission of the CCP in the New Era, for the 19th National Congress, you profoundly recognized that "the whole Party should be brave enough to face the problems and dare to scrape the bones to heal the poisoned wound, eliminate all factors that damage the Party's advancement and purity, and remove all viruses that erode the healthy body of the party." I, a humble citizen, admire Dr. Xi's honesty and abhor so much of the wanton, shameless behavior made by the grassroots officials. I would willingly act as a Woodpecker for a healthier and more harmonious society and take the initiative to supervise the operation of public power.
There was an outbreak of fake vaccines in Shandong province in 2016. In June and early July of this year (2018), another scandal of fake vaccines began to spread across the country on a much larger scale, to a more hideous extent, trapping millions of children into serious health risks. As we have already known, the melamine-tainted milk powder incident that occurred eight years ago has also ended so hastily ...... And added to this the latest amendment of the Constitution, I took an indignant stand and launched the Toilet revolution, a graffiti campaign, to call for public attention to this national crisis. At present, our country is all about "maintaining stability," severely reducing the space for public opinion, imposing media control, and blocking the Internet. Hence, the only place that can be used as a traditional "social platform" for our citizens to express our social aspirations is the public toilets, where there are no sky eyes within.
I am writing to Your Almighty to state three main propositions below:
- Toilet graffiti is illegal but does not constitute a crime.
- When public power arises anomy, resistance reflects legitimacy.
- Citizens should be proud to be woodpeckers for society.
Toilet Graffiti is Illegal but Does not Constitute A Crime!
Although I have only a superficial knowledge of politics, based on my civic conscience and mission, I have carried out a graffiti campaign of Toilet Revolution in several hospitals and commercial plazas in Shanghai, causing some property damage to the hospitals and property management companies, estimated at RMB 50 per graffiti cleaning, resulting in nearly RMB 1,000 in damages. Thus, according to the Public Security Management Regulations, I should be punished by the regulations and bear the corresponding losses.
After internal discussions, the public security authorities did not charge me with Inciting Subversion of State Power under Article 105 of the Criminal Law. Instead, they recommended that I be accused of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble. I am pleased and grateful that the authorities are becoming more enlightened and civilized than my expectation. However, since the motifs in my graffiti contain the phrase "overthrowing the Communist Party", which is close to the constituent elements of Article 105 of the Criminal Law, I must state my viewpoints on that.
Deng Xiaoping pointed out in 1957, "In China, who is qualified to make a big mistake? It is the Chinese Communist Party. When mistakes are made, they have the greatest impact."
Frankly speaking, it is to a certain extent the choice of fate, or doom rather, and the people that the Communist Party of China has achieved successive achievements in socialist revolution and construction after its victory in the new democratic process in 1949. The 69 years of hardships and storms of the CCP in power have manifested your Confidence in Path, Confident in Theory, Confident in Culture, and Confidence in Institution. With 86 million party members (in 2018), you are unshakable by any individual or group of people or any internal or external forces. Comparing the historical lessons learned from the collapse of the former Soviet regime, it is clear that the only thing that can shake the ruling position of the CCP can come from individual ambitious interest groups within, to name a few, Lin Biao in the past and Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Xu Caihou and Sun Zhengcai today.
How can I overthrow the regime with just a few doodles since I have no forces from government bureaucracy and no military juntas to support me? Our political party has totally lost its self-confidence. Regarding the content of my graffiti, the public security officials believe that public security authorities regard the motifs in my graffiti as being:
1. Suspected of insulting Your Almighty.
2. Reactionary.
3. Hurting the government as being inflammatory on foreign social platforms.
Thus, the authorities considered that my actions and results constituted the relevant constituent elements of the crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble, to wit, causing adverse social effects. Combining the above three points, I should deserve a sentence to a maximum of three years imprisonment (actually three years and six months afterward).
In response to the first point, allegedly Insulting the country's leader, namely, insulting you, Dr. Xi, in any democratic country, a citizen who verbally attacks a public figure in the political arena is not liable to criminal punishment. When Premier Wen Jiabao was struck with a shoe during a speech in the United Kingdom, he showed his outstanding leadership by pleading with the UK government not to criminalize the young man. On Nov. 3, 2013, Dr. Xi introduced himself during a visit to a villager's home in western Hunan Province, saying, "I am one of your orderlies." The fake vaccine incident is one of the great perceived disasters in the history of the Chinese Communist Party's rule, with severe consequences. Citizens have the right to hold the head of government accountable. Dr. Xi can sue me for my insulting you directly or by proxy, but how can you punish me at the hands of the Shanghai authorities?
Regarding the second point, I am Reactionary, which is ridiculous nowadays. According to Mao Zedong's socialist doctrines of social contradictions, my venting of dissatisfaction with the government in the toilet graffiti belongs to the contradiction between the government and the people, between the bureaucratic style of a specific part of the staff of state organs and the people. Thus, it is fundamentally an internal contradiction among the people. Mao Zedong pointed out that the internal contradictions of the people are not confrontational, but if they are not appropriately handled, an ominous confrontation may inevitably occur. The Chinese Communist Party had already won the so-called New Democratic Revolution 69 years ago, and there wasn't a reactionary class anymore. In the 19th National Congress speech, you pointed out that "socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing need for a better life and the unbalanced and insufficient development. " The term "reactionary" in the context of class struggle is an insult to my character.
As for the third point, "there have been many retweets and likes on foreign social platforms, causing a terrible international impact on the government." The ruling government of the Communist Party has an unshakable responsibility for many incidents, especially fake vaccines. It has caused a terrible international impact. The ruling party is the first to be held accountable, with Dr. Xi as the core. I, as a citizen, was reduced to hiding in the toilet to release my dissatisfactions, and the government should have given me an explanation, so why should I be held culpable, as I have not violated the relevant rules of the domestic Internet?
Admittedly, in terms of how I was handled by the public security authorities, there is no denying that China has made significant progress in building a democratic legal system. My toilet graffiti would not have been a crime in other countries. But if it happened to be 100 years ago, I would have been punished to death by a thousand cuts; 30 years ago, my bed-ridden parents would have been charged 1.50 RMB for a bullet; even three or five years ago, I would have been convicted of Inciting Subversion of State Power.
Nowadays, the ruling mindset of the Chinese Communist Party has become more enlightened, which is more or less a blessing for the country and for the people! However, I still want to call for the abolition of Article 105 of the Criminal Law, Inciting Subversion of State Power, and the reinterpretation of the crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble!
When Public Power Arises Anomy, Resistance Reflects Legitimacy
Dear Dr. Xi, in studying the CCP Constitution, I learned that the CCP has permanently attached great importance to carrying out the line of relying on the masses and reaching out to the people to listen to their opinions, especially to listen to both smooth and contrary words; to listen humbly to the views of the public and to listen sincerely to the views of people outside the Party. For example, in June 1941, when the government of the Shaanxi-Ganjiang-Ningxia Border Region was in session, a county governor was unfortunately struck by lightning and killed. Coincidentally, a peasant's donkey was also struck by lightning and died, and the peasant cursed in the street, "O Heavens, why not put Mao Zedong to die by lightning!" The curse soon reached the ears of Mao Zedong. He instructed that the peasant should not be arrested and invited him to Mao's kiln to ask the local peasants their actual feelings about the border district government. Mao Zedong taught his staff this way, "Scolding and cursing is also a way to give opinions! The villager scolded me, showing that mistakes and problems in our work were to be checked out and corrected." Through the farmer's narrative, Mao Zedong learned that the government of the border area at that time was levying too much grain, and the people had complaints. So the Party Central Committee adopted Mr. Li Dingming's proposal of "streamlining the army and simplifying the government" and launched a campaign to reduce the levy on public food and mass production, which was welcomed by the people and overcame the difficulties of lack of troops and food.
In the Yan'an border government, the public power was obviously under the supervision of the people, and the government functioned efficiently and transparently so that government orders and public opinions were apparently matched well. Therefore, a grievance of the people could have a chance to reach Mao Zedong's ears so that effective changes could be initiated. Mao Zedong knew that public power is inherently expansive and easy to breed corrupt officials Zhang Zishan, Liu Qingshan, etc.; hence it needs to be supervised by the people. It is also easy to occur power abuse and inaction, thus squeezing the people's vital interests. Although Mao Zedong, in his later years, made a series of significant mistakes (this is also an important reason why Chinese people have doubts about the latest amendment to the constitution in 2018), the operation of the Chinese government under Mao Zedong's rule was transparent, the media is credible, officials are pro-people and clear (press: I regret that I would write so), the people are easy to express their views, and the door of the party and government is open to the people The door of the party and government is open to the people.
In the 13th topic of your speech to the 19th National Congress, with regards to "Unswervingly and comprehensively govern the party strictly, and continuously improve the party's governing ability and leadership," you said, "To strengthen the Party's self-purification ability, we must strengthen the Party's self-monitoring and mass supervision. To strengthen the constraints and supervision of power operation, let the people monitor the power so that the power runs under the sun, the power into the cage of the system. Strengthen top-down organizational supervision and improve bottom-up democratic supervision ......."
This passage fully illustrates that the Central Committee of the party, with you at its core, has deeply recognized the current pervasive circumstances of corruption in the Party and the wanton infringement of public power over the people, which has seriously hurt the feelings of the people and undermined the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China as the foundation of the ruling party. But under the state of affairs of the current one-party ruling, the so-called "self-monitoring", the left hand supervising the right hand, both being good buddies within the party, in my humble opinion, is quite challenging to achieve, the public power is still not transparent, still deviating from justice. For mass supervision, first of all, there needs to be a good space for public opinion. The key is the autonomy of the media (affairs of the state jurisdiction, such as military, diplomatic, etc., are necessary to be released by the Xinhua News Agency; meantime, matters of the society jurisdiction should give the media a specific particular space of autonomy), the press should be relatively independent, objective reporting, not subject to the constraints of the government, only through which could bring forth credibility to the public. Secondly, you should immediately reform the Internet policies and not set sensitive words only because of a scandal involving the government scandal. The masses should also dare to oversee the government without fear of its retaliation and would not receive penal lawsuits and summons just for some petty complaints against the government. Yet, on the contrary, nowadays, people are reminding one another "do not talk about politics", and dare not talk to each other except for making just eye contact when we meet on the road. Dr. Xi, will an ordinary citizen dare to "oversee" the government in our country?
In the name of "serving the people", our government is accustomed to campaign-style governance. The emphasis has been on "development" and "revitalizing the economy" in recent decades. Under this glorious banner, the individual interests of the masses have given way to China's economic development, mainly in the real estate sector. Especially the personal interests of the grassroots have been brutally crushed by local public power as the inevitable price of achieving the dream of a strong nation. When social conflicts intensify to a certain extent, instead of seeking public opinion and discussing how to improve the social ills brought about by such unreasonable, unfair and unbalanced development, our government creates a "harmonious society" by unreasonably restraining the media, the Internet, the social platforms, summoning "big V" and public intellectuals, and buries these social ills under the carpet, thus through which "harmonizing" the humiliation, blood, and tears of the people to the void of history.
Now that the whole country is in a game of chess, everything revolves around the center of Stability, from the central to local governments, the public security forces and the prosecutors and the courts are working together tightly and smoothly in a box in handling specific lawsuits to force the innocent victims to find nowhere and no judicial grounds to appeal, the Sky Eyes, the grids to cover up every family ...... The meat-eaters, or the bureaucrats rather, who simply ignore the people's sufferings, close their ears and eyes to the sobbing and moaning of the relief seekers, stifle the transmission of public opinion, and finally force the people to become the Fifth Column. This is simply outright mediocre and sluggish governance. Were my behavior suspected of being illegal, a special force within the Chinese Communist Party, or even a particular clan of government echelons, could have deliberately divided the people, creating social contradictions and "class enemies" and deteriorating the situation. Such Country-splitting behavior undoubtedly constitutes treason in essence!
In 1849, Thoreau wrote in Civil Disobedience, "When the government is reduced to tyranny or so ineffective as to be intolerable, every citizen has the right to refuse allegiance to it and resist it."
Before I recount the fake vaccine incident, your Almighty, let me first demonstrate how the "tainted milk powder" or melamine-"enhanced" milk powder incident continues. The tainted milk powder incident was estimated to have injured the health of more than a million children nationwide, with most of them suffering from macrocephaly and kidney stones. According to the follow-up observations made during my spare time on the growth and development of some children over the past 10 years, the average height and intellectual development of these children generally lagged behind those of their peers. It is claimed that the government compensated more than 6 billion RMB that year. Still, according to what I learned, a child of a villager surnamed Zhang in Huaji Town, Linquan County, Fuyang City, who had kidney stones, was only compensated 2,400 RMB by the government of Fuyang at that time. Since then, no other compensation and follow-up measures such as health checkups and cognitive development checkups have been taken. This is the state's responsibility, which should take full responsibility for this matter. But apparently, the government was stonewalling the tainted milk powder incident back then. This child aforementioned is now about 10 cm shorter than his peers.
The outbreak of the fake vaccine incident, which affected more than 70% of the country's children, had been latent for years. There has never been such a severe scourge of human extermination in China in all dynasties, not even under the rule of Yin Zhou, who was infamously known as a brutal despot. Although it is true that the central government, with your almighty at its core, has dealt with several officials, shouldn't the ruling party give a sincere apology to the people? Shouldn't our government release detailed data on children? Have regular medical checkups been arranged for them? What are the preventive mechanisms for subsequent health risks? Are they held accountable for life? How can a similar crisis be avoided in the future? How should the corresponding system be reformed?
The fake vaccine incident is a severe test of the legitimacy of the CCP's rule. The Chinese Communist Party should take this as an opportunity to start a fundamental reform of the political system, separating the party and government. Thus, power can automatically go into the cage, and the people can supervise public administration without fear.
As the old saying goes, "Preventing the mouths of the people is more deadly than preventing a tempestuous river". I would like to appeal to Dr. Xi, your almighty, that our government should gradually deregulate the media in social and livelihood issues, liberalize the Internet, abolish the bans on sensitive topics on social media platforms, and return the people's freedom of speech. The current measures to "prevent the people's mouths" will quench their thirst and inevitably aggravate social conflicts, reflecting the lack of confidence in the road, theory, culture, and system. "An evil law is illegal," Martin Luther King Jr. told the U.S. government, "Those who violate unjust laws must do so openly, lovingly, and willingly. ......". As an intellectual, a member of the new social class according to your speech in the 19th National Congress, I was forced to express my indignation against the government because the public opinion space had been under control for a long time. I could not express my outrage against the government through reasonable means, so I had to do graffiti on the toilet walls. This is not me making a fool of myself; the state regime is making a fool of itself; it is the ruling party doing injustice.
Dear Dr. Xi, the peasant who cursed Mao Zedong back then was not merely acquitted but was invited to Mao's kiln and ate braised pork together. This time I scolded Your Almighty and the ruling party, and I could only have a bite of braised pork every Thursday, according to the weekly recipe of the Detention Center.
Citizens Should be Proud to be Woodpeckers for Society
Dear Dr. Xi, I read a book entitled "Introduction to Mao Zedong's Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" prepared by Professor Wang Huning when assuming the Advisory Committee position. Marxian Theory Research and Construction Project, "....... The core values of socialism integrate the value requirements of the state, citizens, and society into one, reflecting the essential requirements of socialism, inheriting the excellent Chinese traditional culture, absorbing the beneficial achievements of world civilization, and embodying the spirit of the times, answering the major questions of what kind of country we want to build, what kind of society we want to build and what kind of citizens we want to cultivate". This is the first time I read the word "citizenship" from the works of an important, influential national leader and a critical exponent of Chinese Marxist doctrine.
I started this letter by getting this quote from your speech at the 19th National Congress, "...... The whole party should be brave enough to face the problems and dare to scrape the bones, eliminate all factors that damage the party's advancement and purity, and eliminate all viruses that erode the party's healthy muscle ......". Common sense tells us that, as the human body has a mechanism of action, even Guan Yu the Brave could not do with his left-hand scrape the poisoned wound on his right hand, only with the help of doctors to external forces to heal the poison. To achieve self-purification, the Chinese Communist Party is afraid that without external supervision, that is to say, without the supervision of the people, especially without the active supervision of the citizenry, its own efforts to scrape the bones and clean up the virus by its own mechanism will be unsustainable. The current anti-corruption campaign that appears in the phenomenon of anti-corruption is clear evidence of the left hand against the right hand.
It's just that Cao Cao the Tyrant killed Hua Tuo the Physician 1000 years ago, and so fatal today the Woodpecker's fate mine is!
Back to us, the citizens. The so-called citizens are the people with the core socialist values, the many individuals of the people who have the values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice, and human rights, furthermore, the public virtues of tolerance, compromise, courage (like me), optimism, friendliness, helpfulness, dedication, and sacrifice (like me), who participate in public affairs and thus have a high sense of autonomy in the Commonwealth.
Your Almighty once called yourself "one of the people's orderlies" in a villager's home. But in reality, many civil servants have long been transformed from "orderlies" to "commanders" over the people and even bandits of the people. "Public servants of the people" commandeer over the people, and "public servants" have become a joke for ordinary people at the dinner table.
You mentioned "the people" 179 times in your speech at the 19th National Congress, one of the most frequent words in the entire text. In his "De Re Publica", Cicero said, "Well, then, a commonwealth is the property of a people. But a people is not any collection of human beings brought together in any sort of way, but an assemblage of people in large numbers associated in an agreement concerning justice and a partnership for the common good. "
But the "people" in the official context is still primarily an ideological "tool" for dividing the enemy from "us", or you rather, for drawing a line between the people and the class enemy during the revolutionary struggle. To justify its ends, the revolution needed to grant the majority of the nation's supporters the connotation of justice and the highest good, to regulate and suppress individual words and deeds by giving the "people" a supreme but extremely abstract morality, and to force individual interests to be subordinated to the public will, even at the expense of individual rights and interests, to achieve their extreme ends. Therefore, it often went with violence. After the revolution's triumph, the enormous power of public will in the "people" became an ideological tool that the ruling party could hardly give up and be willing to evolve into a populist mode of government.
Populism, or "collectivism" in its manifestation, is a political form in which the interests and visions of the lower and middle echelons of society (the primary source of the "people") are the source of power and the object of relief, and are waged by charismatic political leaders. The "people" have the impulse to be mobilized and generate a strong sense of participation and mission, and therefore a tremendous psychological satisfaction of making history. Populism, which has a superficial legitimacy due to the support of the "majority," seeks to block, through a systematic historical narrative, the questioning and criticism of its portrayal of its ultimate ends from those individuals with autonomous conscience, conscious citizens mainly, because it dramatically suppresses the individual's sense of autonomy. The populist government, in particular, is hardly rational, public, or autonomous. In other words, a populist government can scarcely be legitimate, reasonable, and self-sufficient in the true sense of the word. "The old man fights the kingdom; the son surely owns the kingdom." Those populists will make such a sophomoric quibble when they meet with dissidence against their hereditary leader, secretly rejoicing behind the curtain.
While populism embraces society's lower and middle classes, the elites of generations of powerful family groups in China are the planners and implementers of political movements. In their eyes, the so-called "people" are only an abstract whole, and each "person" in it is only a tool. As long as the interests of the dominant or implementing party exist, the personal interests of this individual "person" can be sacrificed at any time, regardless of whether the "person" is a farmer (those whose land or property has been forcibly expropriated), a worker (those who have been laid off), or an entrepreneur who is called "the Chinese Chives" which can be reaped by fixed period, and is labeled as "considering the overall situation" and "sacrificing the small for the big".
Populism with a dominant base of public will, once a scientific decision achieves, the state machinery begins to operate efficiently and precisely; it is expected to give rise to a "strong state" in a short time. However, once the dictatorship results in the entire system losing their minds and entering a state of blind obedience, it is easy to cause a humanitarian disaster, such as the "Great Leap Forward", "Cultural Revolution", etc. At the same time, populism is bound to suppress the individual sense of autonomy of the people; the people will be dwarfed as "subjects", as "weak people", and then the whole country will be Weakened in cohesion. In other words, it is a strong state internally but a weak state externally.
Your Almighty, if we want to realize the "China Dream", we should first transform our people from mere "subjects" to strong people with socialist core values, and then we will have a chance to create an authentic and long-lasting nation. Building an open and orderly civil society is essential for realizing the dream of a "strong nation and strong people". We expect Your Almighty to become a civic leader to promote the core socialist values, not an "orderly of the people", for I can't let you run errands for me.
Actual citizens are individual people with independent personalities and people with human dignity. For example, Yu Luoke who wrote "The Theory of Origin" before the Cultural Revolution, and Zhang Zhixin and Lin Zhao during the Cultural Revolution. They dared to fight against the highly blind populist ideology of the time and raised their golden voices amid a clamor that resounded to the clouds. Although they were all rehabilitated after the Cultural Revolution, their distinctive sense of autonomy is still not ready to be embraced by the Chinese Communist Party, both institutionally and ideologically, even today, in 2018. The political turmoil of the late 1980s had the same result. What starts out as an internal conflict between the people ends up as a struggle between the "enemy" and you, "the hostile forces outside the country will never cease to abandon its intention to destroy us".
In your speech at the 19th National Congress, you said, "We should strengthen the efforts to work with intellectuals outside the Party, do a good job with the new social class, and play an important role in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics". About this "new social class", Prof. Wang Huning has precisely defined it in the Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought and Socialist Theoretical System with Chinese Characteristics, that is, "entrepreneurs and technicians of the private sector, management and technical personnel employed in foreign-invested enterprises, self-employed persons, private enterprise owners, and employees of intermediary organizations, etc.".
In your speech at the 19th National Congress, you open your arms to this new social class that has emerged along with the development of the market economy. Still, the call of this class for freedom, democracy, equality (equal rights rather than equal wealth), justice, and other contractual and civil-rights consciousness will become stronger and stronger, and the "people-oriented (populist)" and collectivist thinking that has been solidified throughout the ruling party system for many years will, to a certain extent, form an institutional and ideological barrier to their demands of emancipating their individual consciousness. This emerging social class has now developed into and formed the backbone of our society and is playing a vital role in pointing the future direction of China.
Over the years, the corruption problem, the grassroots government's reckless manipulation of power, judicial injustice, and the high frequency of mass incidents have clearly shown us that without effective supervision of public power, without recognition of our citizenship, and without adequate protection of civil rights at the constitutional and legal levels, this new social class is bound to emerge with more people like me who are brave enough to express their demands for civil disobedience.
Your Almighty, I hereby call on the Communist Party of China to promptly respond to the new social situation and clarify the rights and duties of public power in the three spheres of the state, the society, and the private domain in the form of a constitution and laws so as to open more social space to the actual concrete people, that is, the citizenry, and to clarify the identity and the rights of citizens so that we can carry out our responsibilities and duties of supervision over public power according to the Constitution and the laws. Only in this way the great Communist Party of China could be able to build up a natural immune system. We, the citizens, can act as woodpeckers to extinguish the "moths" that try to seek rent within so that the operation of public administration can be transparent and corruption can be fundamentally eliminated. Within the social sphere, citizen groups could have a more expansive space for participation, allowing more opportunities for personal success as well as more efficient mobilization and concentration of a large number of social forces and resources to participate in the construction and operation of public facilities and social service functions, such as the problematic education, health care, housing, and other livelihood protection functions mentioned in your speeches. The current "Guo Jin Min Tui" policy, which means the state sector advances and the private retreats in the social domain, produces rent-seeking and corruption in public administration.
In your speech at the 19th Congress, you have clearly touched on some of the areas mentioned above, "...... There are still some shortcomings in our work, and we also face many difficulties and challenges. ...... There are still many drawbacks to people's livelihood ...... The masses are also facing many difficulties in employment, education, medical care, housing and pensions, social civilization still needs to be improved, and social conflicts and problems are intertwined and overlapping ......". There is a saying that "Caesar's to Caesar, God's to God". The greater the autonomy space given to civil society, the higher the operational effectiveness of the government will be.
This new social class has emerged as a group of outspoken and socially responsible citizens. However, when socialism with Chinese characteristics has run into a new era, the top echelons of our Communist Party of China still cling to populist concepts and methods and still carry a class struggle mindset, branding this part of socially conscientious people as class enemies. Don't be silly! These people are also the distinguished models of China's contemporary citizens, such as Mr. Wang Gongquan a well-known entrepreneur, Mr. Xu Zhiyong a Ph.D. of Laws, Mr. Ding Jiaxi a prominent lawyer, and Mr. Xin Lijian a private educator. They are my mentors and confidants in life, and I am fortunate to be one of them today.
People like us are people with true individuality and human dignity and people who respect other persons' individuality and human dignity. People like us are not born to be "subjects", but citizens with social sentiments.
A responsible and tolerant ruling party should give this emergent group of citizens sufficient space to perch in. We are all "woodpeckers" with actual "positive energy" and shoulder a great responsibility for the nation and society.
The Conclusion
Your Almighty, the peasant who scolded Mao Zedong back then was warmly received by Mao Zedong and entertained a state banquet of braised pork together. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and I, a woodpecker, have been entertained jail meals only for sounding a few indignities against Your Mighty.
Public power is not yet in the cage, but I, a woodpecker, am already in the cage.
Your Humble Citizen,
Harvey Xiaolong JI
Some Secret Base of the peasant who scolded Mao Zedong back then was warmly received by Mao Zedong and ate braised pork. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and I, a woodpecker, have been eating jail food after sounding a few indignities.
Public power is not yet in the cage, but I, a woodpecker, am already in the cage.
Chinese citizen: Ji Xiaolong
Some Secret Base of Shanghai Supervisory Committee
Mid-Autumn Festival, September 2018
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