Lao Hu is a media person. In the Chinese system, I am also a public official. Therefore, I am under various management, such as if I want to declare my personal property to the organization, I need to have the permit proof of my unit when I go abroad, and my passport should be handed over to the newspaper for management, etc. I remember one time in Guangxi Friendship Pass , there was a one-day trip to Vietnam in the local area. My fellow travelers took their ID card and went there, but I was stopped because I was on the supervision list.
Lao Hu does not have a penny deposit abroad, nor does he have any overseas assets such as stocks. The only child completed all education in China, worked as a volunteer in a Confucius Institute in the United States for one year, and then returned to China. Among the current officials I directly know, there is currently only one official at the bureau level who works in a foreign bank in Hong Kong and settles in a foreign-funded bank. That child is very outstanding. He ranked in the 30th place in the college entrance examination in Beijing that year and went to Peking University. Some people's children have studied abroad, but they all return to China after graduation. I don’t know where the so-called “many officials’ children live in the United States” comes from? How did this rumor spread?
In fact, in addition to some rich people, going abroad has also become a trend in previous years due to the large participation of middle-class Chinese urban families, including giving birth to children in the United States and obtaining American nationality. For example, some of the young people I know do this. They are very ordinary families and go to the United States to have children through intermediaries. One of my childhood friends sold the house left by the old man to send her daughter to study in the United States. After her daughter returned to China, she married a staff member in the advertising industry. Later, the daughter went to the United States through an agency and gave birth to an American child, and then took her back to her country to live. I directly or indirectly understand four or five such ordinary families, and they all belong to similar situations. Ordinary families live quite ordinary, but they just need to get American citizenship for their children. I think they will most likely regret it in the future. Because the child has American nationality, but does not have the conditions to live in the United States, there will be a lot of trouble for him to enter school in China and to make a living in the United States when he grows up.
Lao Hu fills out his personal matter report at the beginning of every year, the main content is real estate and income from the past year. This kind of filling out report started about ten years ago, and I don’t remember it very clearly. After filling in the first, no one will take care of it, but after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it became stricter and became a major matter for public officials. Moreover, there is a 10% sampling rate every year, which means checking whether the property content you fill out is consistent with the actual situation. Once there is any error, it will be troublesome. In the first few years after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, an example of deliberately missing the property was found. It was found out and severely criticized. I was inspected at the meeting and was rumored to have "crying bitterly", which had a serious negative impact on my individuals. About a few years ago, I heard of examples of people missing out, but the missing out was not a house, but a garage. In everyone's impression, this is more like an unintentional omission. In the past two or three years, I have heard of people missing out, but the missing out is personal insurance or a small stock. In recent years, whenever I am about to fill out my personal matter report, the conference and conference emphasized that no content should be missed. As long as it is legal property, there will be no problems if it is filled in. Missing reports is the source of trouble and the consequences are very serious.
In my opinion, it is too difficult to deliberately conceal property today. It means an unbearable risk to the concealer, and many people around me have been spot checked. Some people say, please make the property of these people public. Anyone can go up to check it if they build a website. Lao Hu firmly opposed this proposition. In most countries in the world, public officials, including middle and senior public officials, declare their personal property to specific regulatory agencies, not to the public. Public officials also need to have privacy. Declaring personal property is an effective means to prevent corruption, rather than a process of showing privacy to the society. China's current declaration system is already very strong, enough to ensure the transparency of the personal property of public officials to the organization. Some of those who advocate that public officials should reveal their property online are not aware of the situation and follow the crowd, while others deliberately incite populist emotions to try to mess up public opinion.
Most of the people in the system that Lao Hu knew had a stable life, and the leading cadres would be treated accordingly after reaching a certain level. Such days are also worthy of envy. At the same time, this is not what people usually call the "rich" group. The vast majority of rich people in China are in a well-documented private economy, and every successful private enterprise will create a group of rich people in the true sense. In addition, small and medium-sized private enterprises, including those with only a few people, have also contributed a group of wealthy people as a whole. Of course, private enterprises have many risks and losses. Those losers can be said to have sacrificed and laid the groundwork for those successful people, just like many "leeks" in the stock market have made relatively fewer "reapers".
Among the public officials, including state-owned enterprise leaders and officials, a few people illegally make money and become secret "rich people". But these people will be tied with a time bomb for life and may explode at any time. I think they are a few borers of the system and cannot be displayed as representatives of a large number of hard-working public officials in the system.
Today is the weekend, and Lao Hu was enjoying the cold air in a large museum while writing this post. Around me, visitors were wearing masks, and I was happy for the recovery of my normal life in Beijing.
(Author: Hu Xijin )
