Luo, Haiwen: Why Could Chinese Officials Seek Private Gain through Power
|
|
Date: 5/28/2012 2:37:43 AM
Sender: Luo, Haiwen
|
Luo, Haiwen: Why Could Chinese Officials Seek Private Gain through Power
骆海雯（Luo，Haiwen）
Few days ago, several websites reported the result of the appointment of youth officials of the management district in Yueyang City Hunan Province. Among the 5 formally seated officials, 4 of which are relatives of the officials in the management district. This news caused sensation in local area, where people said the officials appoint people by favoritism, while I don’t think it’s a big deal, on the contrary I want to clap and cheer.
Officials are the managers of the country, so that the officials should be selected by their abilities, but in today’s Chinese officialdom, they appoint people by superior, by favoritism, by partisan, by money, by flatter, by boost and by cronyism. The superior is the boss, and the boss could appoint anyone he likes, so the superior dear not to oppose the decision made by his boss, or his own position would lose. By partisan means that you must have several buddies and assistants in the officialdom, or you cannot get power. If you have your boss as a backer, and your buddies as your assistants, you will gain the power to provide convenience to yourself or others to accumulate wealth, so that is also “by money”. Once you have money and power, you would like to have someone flattering you, that’s the so-called “by flatter”. “By boost” also means the officials like someone to fatter and boost him, so that he can be well knew and gain political capital (which reminds me the Chongqing incident). Now turns to appoint by cronyism, officialdom likes battlefield, you cannot trust anyone by your crony. Therefore, appoint by ability comes to the last. Someone would ask, what do you mean, and why do you clap and cheer for this?
Let me tell you why Quyuan jumped into the river, and why Chu kingdom perished, that’s because of too much “appoint by superior, by partisan, by money, by flatter, by boost, by cronyism” as well as too less “appoint by ability”. Could a regime like this last long? Of course not, since the tail of a rabbit cannot be long.
Luo, Haiwen
5/28/2012
|
|
| |
