Recently, another video of reporting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials by real name has been circulating online. An official from the Market Supervision Administration of Shanxi Province posted a video online, openly reporting two leaders who were in charge of his work unit, accusing them of abusing power for personal gain and acting unlawfully. The whistleblower was retaliated against for refusing to collude with his superiors.
In the video, a man claiming to be the former head of the Price Supervision and Management Section of the Market Supervision Administration of Datong City, Shanxi Province, dressed in a uniform and showing his law enforcement credentials, publicly reported, “Hello everyone, I’m Qiao Zhizhong, and today I’m wearing this uniform to report online.”
The whistleblower disclosed that for four years, he witnessed and personally experienced the two leaders, Feng Zhiwei and Yu Xiyun, using their positions as a platform and means for personal gain, acting unlawfully, especially inaction, arbitrary actions, and flagrantly violating the supervision and inspection responsibilities of prices and laws.
“Because I refuse to participate in their corrupt practices and be their tool for profit and enforcer, I have been ostracized, defamed, and attacked at work,” Qiao Zhizhong said.
In September 2021, Qiao Zhizhong took over as the head of the Price Supervision and Management Section of Datong City Market Supervision Administration. “Feng Zhiwei and Yu Xiyun escalated their retaliation, unjustly interfering with business through their powers, unreasonably suppressing professionalism, causing irreparable losses and negative impacts on price regulation work.”
“The lack of principles and boundaries of the top leadership made me feel cold and desperate. Helplessly, in November 2022, I reported the situation to the Market Inspection Team of the Municipal Party Committee, but there was no result. Just half a month later, I was suspended from my position,” he said.
In May last year, Qiao Zhizhong separately wrote real-name whistleblower letters to the secretary of the Datong City Party Committee and the secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, despite having nearly three years of phone recordings, on-site recordings, WeChat messages, and other evidence, there has been no outcome to date. Qiao Zhizhong hopes more people will be aware of this matter and seek justice through this online reporting.
Ironically, although officials from the Datong City Market Supervision Administration have been accused of acting unlawfully, inaction, or misconduct, just last month, the department was jointly awarded the honorary title of “Efficient Organ” by the CCP National Organization Affairs Management Bureau, the Central Directly-Administered Organization Affairs Management Bureau, the Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance.
Qiao Zhizhong’s report video has attracted attention and sparked discussions among netizens.
Comments from Weibo users: “Honest people have a hard time surviving! People with independent views and a sense of social responsibility have an even harder time surviving! It’s all because the ecological environment is sick and corrupt, deeply polluted from the source.”
“Most leaders and businessmen in Shanxi collude and protect each other, with the public prosecutors and law enforcement serving their interests. I have seen and felt it clearly, but I am truly powerless. I feel ashamed of my inability. I have acquired so much knowledge, but I cannot change this reality.”
“More and more public officials are coming forward to report by real name, indicating that the normal discipline inspection channels are not working. It seems that the anti-corruption efforts still have a long way to go.”
“Inspection teams, Commission for Discipline Inspection are not heaven-sent, they are from the same group of people. After reporting, everyone knows who reported it, the collusion is absurd.”
“Therefore, inspections are meaningless. The members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s inspection team are all corrupt. I believe in one saying: if they say you have no problems, then you have no problems, even if you do have problems.”
Recently, incidents of officials at all levels of the CCP being reported by real name have frequently appeared online, with whistleblowers generally facing retaliatory attacks.
In June of this year, Wu Yongqiang, a first-grade police inspector from the Public Security Department of Shaanxi Province, posted a video online to report by real name, accusing the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, Wang Xingning, and the Deputy Director of Public Security Department, Yang Shangwei, of acting as “umbrellas” for corrupt individuals and evil forces in the province.
Similarly, in June, Su Julei, the director of the Six Daohe Town Police Station in Xinglong County, Chengde City, Hebei Province, publicly reported online, accusing Liu Wenning, the deputy county mayor, and director of the Public Security Bureau of Xinglong County, of being involved in 7 serious violations of laws and discipline, including acting as an umbrella for criminal gangs, rampant buying and selling of official positions, power-for-money transactions, authoritarian rule, and corrupt personal life.
In May, Shen Chenggang, the former deputy director of the Qixingguan Branch of the Bijie City Public Security Bureau in Guizhou Province, released a video report. He said that he was imprisoned because he refused to collude with Zhou Jiankun, former secretary of the Bijie Municipal Party Committee and vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and then faced retaliatory attacks. Cao Xuanxiang, a prosecutor at the Qixingguan District Prosecutor’s Office in Bijie City, also testified in the video that he falsely implicated Shen Chenggang because he was subjected to more than twenty days of continuous interrogation and coerced confessions by the superiors.
In summary, the trend of officials being reported by real name on various levels of the CCP is on the rise online, with whistleblowers facing backlash and retaliation.