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Li Chengpeng’s Blog: A Strange Mission A Letter to Leaders at All Levels in Shifang City

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Li Chengpeng’s Blog: A Strange Mission A Letter to Leaders at All Levels in Shifang City When I was a boy, I used to go swimming in your Duck River. At that time, the water was clear and you could see...

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When I was young, I no longer dared to go into the water. My hair smelled terrible after swimming, ducks rarely flew back, and river crabs rarely chewed the rope. Up to now, I am close to Cangsun. There are many advertisements for ecological living along the Turtle River, but all I can see is mud and sand, and the river crabs, turtle doves and wild ducks are almost extinct.

> Leaders, please ask, these rivers are no longer even inhabited by river crabs, why do you still require humans to live in harmony. This is my concern.

So I just want to talk about your mission. I once simply thought that you wanted to perish together. It is not easy to increase GDP. Later I found out that all you needed was pure water for washing your feet, and many family members had been relocated to safer urban areas. There are also the two main leaders who were parachuted in from other places. They will leave as soon as their term of office expires. Therefore, you are not here to serve, you are here to mine. Shifang is just your mining area, and the 400,000 Shifang people are your molybdenum copper ore. Of course, fortunately, you don't know that the local people actually want to keep you. They will sigh after taking a walk: It's okay to let this group of mosquitoes suck blood. When they are full, they will lie on the meat and sleep. If you drive them away, a new group of mosquitoes will not be able to bear it.

You are personally explaining your strange mission. The so-called development model is to switch the interests of 40 to 50 million people into the interests of four or five people. Condensing a fifty-year mission into a five-year term. Term rotation, change tactics and do it again.

Dear leaders, you know that these people actually don’t care. They have long been prepared to taste the periodic table of chemical elements in this life. As far as I know, when the first group of people who didn't know the truth went to the Shifang government, they cared more about you giving a reasonable explanation rather than a tough notice. But you are used to being tough. Although you and your colleagues are particularly good at making friendly explanations to foreigners on the Huangyaniao, Diaoyu Islands, and Vietnam issues. The first thing your brain reflects is free donations, high-end school buses, and giant pandas. But to your compatriots, you will immediately think of armored vehicles, riot shields, and sticks. When communicating with the outside world, you always think of sentences like "the two countries have highly consistent fundamental interests." When communicating with the outside world, you always use "regardless of the overall situation of the country and the overall plan."... I often can't figure out whether you have the same nationality as us or whether you are Japanese. Japanese.

Dear leaders who are fighting all night between GDP and Tear gas, you are already familiar with the first English abbreviation. Unfortunately, I found that you have actually started to try the last English word, Tear gas, yes, tear gas... I thought this was a very essential gap in civilization and a precursor to your illness. Therefore, I am not writing this letter to prove that your measures to maintain stability are unwise, too careless, and adrenaline-driven... To say this is to glorify you. We are all adults, and in this age where we have to pretend to be numb about everything, your adrenal glands and mine are actually only excited in bed. Isn't it? So I want to say that many of you are heading towards the opposite side of what you were decades ago because of a strange mission.

I saw some photos. A teenage child fell on the street and was ignored. There was a woman who was chased and was finally knocked to the ground by our police. Of course, the most moving and moving photos are a set of comparison photos: the former one is after the 2008 earthquake, a girl holding a piece of paper with "PLA, we love you" written on it. The latter one is a girl in white kneeling in front of a row of powerful riot shields. I don’t know if these photos were taken on site, but they accurately illustrate what happened in Shifang and other mining areas. What I am talking about is not Shifang but Shifang. I also want to write this letter to the anti-riot heroes everywhere. You beat up the people protesting against pollution in the upper reaches, and then go back to the lower reaches to drink polluted tap water. You are not the owner of the mine, why don't you raise it by three centimeters. Of course, I know it seems unintelligent to say this, because in the past, I compared this country to a community, and we were just residents whose rights as owners were not recognized. But now I find that the community is not bad, and it has completely turned into a mining area. But leaders, you should know that what you are opening is not a mine, but a life. What you are driving away is not the residents, but the hearts and minds of the people. Among countless sick sentences, the one you used this time is the most unique: "A few people with ulterior motives used flower pots and mineral water bottles to attack government agencies" vs. "In order to control the situation, the relevant departments dispatched military police armed with shields, sticks, tear gas, and explosive bombs."

As a result, flower pots and mineral water bottles have become weapons of mass destruction.

Dear leaders, I am writing this letter to learn your secrets. The last time I went to Shifang was during the May 12th earthquake. When I led a mixed rescue team to pass by, I discovered a standing cement factory behind the crumbling houses, a traveler said. That is Hanlong Group, which has built five surviving Hope Primary Schools. Although the credit should go to Ju Yandong, the diaosi supervisor who hammered the concrete pillars every day, we loved him so much that we were still in awe, and I even wrote that article. But I just heard that Hongda Group and Hanlong Group are cousins. I may not force the two to be involved together, but I am very concerned about why one saves the child from death while the other wants to put the child to death. Before and after the Wenchuan earthquake, why was it that the local government was not visible when doing good things, but clearly visible when doing bad things? Secretary and mayor of Shifang, please first make it clear that the 90 million reconstruction funds allocated to Hongda Molybdenum Copper Development. The reconstruction funds from the people of the whole country are not used to poison the people of Shifang.

Not only Shifang, but also after the 2008 earthquake, officials in the entire disaster area inexplicably have a strange mission, that is: buying luxury cars is for reconstruction, misappropriating disaster relief funds is for reconstruction, severe pollution is for reconstruction, corruption is also for reconstruction... Because of a disaster, you have received too many criminal immunity and are not approved. Judgment, more importantly, you have been spoiled, self-heroic hypnosis, and a strong sense of tragic sublimity. Sometimes even you yourself have hallucinations, and you can't figure out whether you are embezzling or rebuilding, whether it is a personal account or a project ledger, someone else's wife or your own mistress, so your decision to openly attack the people is not sudden. You are thoughtful and righteous. I think that when the smoke rose and the people were dispersed, you even thought of reporting to your superiors and petitioning for credit. Oh, you acted decisively to deal with a mass incident provoked by people with ulterior motives... This case can be promoted across the country.

Such a strange sense of mission makes the natural disasters in China never individual, just like the detonation bombs you throw out.

This country has become a huge mining area. If this continues, you will not only hollow out the earth, but also hollow out the human heart.

Finally, I am in Chengdu and will drive to Shifang. I will not besiege or instigate. I just want to see this once-familiar town and think about the colorful ducks flying in the duck river and the river crabs on the grass rope. Of course, keep in mind the famous saying of Perverted Pepper: After I became sensible, the only thing that moved me here was tear gas.

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