Liangjian | A small government window, someone made 16.14 million in 8 years

By: Wei Chunlei

As the Spring Festival approaches, I see another piece of news that makes people envious.

According to a report by the Beijing News, Wang, an employee of the Liaoning Provincial Housing and Construction Department stationed at the government affairs hall, would expedite the processing for those who gave money, and would use various excuses to delay those who didn’t. Over eight years, he collected 16.14 million yuan in bribes.

Eight years, civil servants work almost 2000 days, which means an average annual income of more than 2 million yuan, and an average income of more than 8,000 yuan per working day.

I think of how I struggle to write articles and speak out, and I can’t even earn 8,000 yuan a month, and I’m still worried about someone checking my water meter; then I think of how people can earn 8,000 yuan a day just by sitting at the window, and those who give money have to be careful and smile. This strong contrast makes people dizzy.

Of course, in the current situation where corruption cases with amounts in the hundreds of millions are frequent, this is definitely not a big case. In the current situation where various news reports of ‘fighting tigers’ are overwhelming, this staff member of the Liaoning Provincial Housing and Construction Department stationed at the government affairs hall, Wang, is just a small fly.

But because of this, this matter is even more shocking. He is not a big official, nor does he have the final decision-making power, but through the position of ‘transferring and handling‘, he holds a little power, and he can take and ask for money for himself.

This is the more shocking chronic disease.

The comment article in the Beijing News said that this matter “not only exposes the distorted power view and the lack of service awareness of some departments and cadres, but also warns that corruption does not distinguish between high and low positions, and the ‘last mile’ of government affairs services cannot become a blind spot for supervision“, but is this just a matter of the staff’s power view, service awareness, and position size?

You know, this staff member of the Liaoning Provincial Housing and Construction Department stationed at the government affairs hall, Wang, has been taking and asking for money for 8 years, not one or two days.

Eight years, 2000 working days, didn’t anyone who gave money report it, didn’t any surveillance cameras capture it, didn’t colleagues and leaders see it, and didn’t the superiors find a single clue? If it weren’t for this special inspection and inspection, wouldn’t this little fly have become a fish that escaped the net?

But the reality is that the government affairs window, 8 years, 16.14 million yuan, these few words are combined into a jaw-dropping magical event.

Why did the whole system fail in this matter? This may be the biggest problem with this news, and the comment article in the Beijing News focuses on condemning individual government affairs staff for using ‘micro-power’ to engage in corruption, but only says “During this period, why the relevant regulatory departments failed to discover it in time should also be questioned“. Yes, such a core issue is only worthy of ‘also should’.

But if no changes are made from the system, even if 1000 Wangs are caught, there will still be the 10001st Wang who will stand up, and these people cannot be caught and killed.

I’ve been spending the New Year in my hometown recently, and I remembered a small matter from 20 years ago. At that time, I had just been admitted to Nanjing University, but the name on my household registration book was still the nickname and date of birth that the village cadre had filled in randomly when I was born. I went to the town’s household registration office and asked to change my name and date of birth.

But the household registration officer didn’t listen to my reasons, didn’t tell me what materials were needed to change it, and directly replied that it couldn’t be changed. Two days later, I went directly to the deputy director of the police station and told him that because the household registration officer wouldn’t change the household registration information that the village cadre had filled in randomly, I couldn’t even go to university. The deputy director took me directly to the household registration officer, and I said that it was this person who said it couldn’t be changed last time. Then the household registration officer replied with a sentence that I still remember:

Didn’t give it to you last time, won’t give it to you this time either?

Then, my household registration information was changed to be the same as my student status.

And in recent years, I have accompanied my mother several times to handle social security matters. Although the staff’s attitude is not enthusiastic, they clearly state what materials are needed and what procedures to follow, and they will handle it if the conditions are met.

Although I don’t understand the operating mechanism behind this, I don’t believe that the staff in our town are doing this out of conscience. Behind this, there must be systemic regulations, which make even the places where we have always been accustomed to taking and asking for money able to make improvements in abiding by the rules.

Therefore, the citizens of the People’s Republic of China go to the government to handle affairs, without begging and begging, without bowing and scraping, without giving gifts and money, and it is definitely not by ‘exterminating’ the small minions who violate laws and disciplines.

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