Hebei Dawu Group 大午集团 Sun Dawu 孙大午

                                                                                        LI Pei   李佩

Today, I remember and pay homage to my former director at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院). Her name is LI Pei 李佩 (December 20, 1917 – January 12, 2017). In a sense, she reminded me of my grandmother who weathered many adversities. Both instilled strength in me.

LI Pei was a director of the English Department at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She founded TESL in China ie. Teaching English as a Second Language.
I remember the first time I talked to her in 1992. She phoned me at midnight in Canada from Zhongguancun in Beijing. I had been studying Japanese for six months in preparation for work in Kyoda, Japan. However, she convinced me to teach at CAS in Beijing. I began teaching master level students in Haidian District at Academia Sinica 中央硏究院. In four months, I was promoted to teach doctoral students at the science institutes of CAS  中国科学院 in Zhongguancun 中国科学院 or what was known as the Silicon Valley of China. Shenzhen is trying to make a claim to the designation "Silicon Valley of China" today.

I also had the honour of visiting her many times at the "building". It housed the cream of Chinese scientists. It was designated 13, building 14, No.15 Zhongguancun Keyuan community. Her husband had lived there, too. He was GUO Yonghuai 郭永怀 (April 04, 1909 - December 5, 1968). His field was aerodynamics. He died rather mysteriously in a plane crash during the Cultural Revolution as he approached Beijing International Airport. Guo was one of three scientists who developed China's first atomic bomb. He was awarded postumously Two bombs and One Satellite Achievement Medal in 1999.

Later, I went over to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) 中国社会科学院 in the Chaoyang District of Beijing. I taught master and doctoral level students in the afternoon. Again, I got a call from LI Pei. She wanted me to teach 300 students in CAS in the morning. Basically, I told her it was impossible because I was teaching 300 students at CASS. However, one can't say no to LI Pei whom I regarded as my friend. I bicycled across Beijing to CAS in the morning to teach an auditorium full of 300 doctoral students and back again to teach classes at CASS in the afternoon under the direction of LUO Xiwen 罗锡文 who was the foremost translator of Chinese medical classics.

One of my fondest memories was as a dinner guest of LI Pei. I was finishing up my meal and LI Pei commented on how I left some rice on my plate. Now my mother had said the same thing to me about not leaving vegetables on my plate because people were starving in China, but China was very far away to me. My director explained to me that times were tough during the Cultural Revolution and every grain of rice counted. That's how I learned the skill to pick up a single grain of rice using chopsticks with either hand--not much an accomplishment compared to the accomplishments of LI Pai and GUO Yonghuai.

D. Carlton Rossi
January 06, 2022

updated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Pei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Yonghuai

China: Xi'an residents in lockdown trade for food amid shortage

3 hours ago

Some residents under quarantine in the Chinese city of Xi'an have resorted to bartering supplies in recent days, as worries of food shortages continue.

Posts on social media show residents swapping supplies and even tech gadgets in exchange for food.

About 13 million have been confined to their homes since 23 December, and presently cannot leave to buy food.

In recent days many have taken to social media with numerous complaints.

Authorities have been providing free food to households, but some have said their supplies are running low or that they had yet to receive aid.

Videos and photos on social media site Weibo showed people exchanging cigarettes for cabbage, dishwashing liquid for apples, and sanitary pads for a small pile of vegetables.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59864266

                                             CHINA NEWS

Netizen Exposes Data Collection Function of Smart TVs Made in China

Recently, a Chinese netizen discovered that his home TV, equipped with the Android system, was secretly carrying out surveillance capabilities. In an article posted on the V2EX website, a discussion platform for designers and developers, he mentioned that a data service on his TV scans all network devices every 10 minutes, even including his neighbors’ information.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tv-spying-04272021083250.html

COVID Diary Writer Removed from Presidium of the Chinese Writers’ Association

Fang Fang, the author of the “Fang Fang’s Diary” that recorded the epidemic during the outbreak in Wuhan City, has been missing from the list of the presidium of a recent nationwide congress of the Chinese Writers’ Association (CWA).

Fang, born in Wuhan, is a member of CWA and was once on its national committee, the association’s governing body. CWA is a government affiliated organization that the Chinese Communist Party uses to control Chinese writers.

After the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan from late 2019 to early 2020, Fang wrote daily from January 25 to March 25, 2020, detailing her observations and personal reflections during the city’s closure. The diary was once an important source of information about the development of the epidemic in Wuhan, as it was closer to the truth than the official media reports.

Source: Central News Agency, December 16, 2021

https://www.cna.com.tw/news/acn/202112160295.aspx

SUN Dawu was an avid fan of Fang Fang. He tried to send volunteer medical staff to Wuhan during the crisis, but it was refused by the CCP. D. Carlton Rossi volunteered to go to Hong Kong as an administrator on behalf of Dawu Group.

Some Provinces in China Cut Government Employees Salaries

Some Chinese netizens posted on the Internet that, starting in December, civil servants in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian Provinces received notices of pay cuts of about twenty to thirty percent. Scholars believe that this phenomenon reflects the severity of China’s economic challenge, since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) puts the “officials (government employees)” in a much higher class than the normal citizens.

Source: Radio Free Asia, December 9, 2021

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/jingmao/ql2-12092021054023.html

Ten Explosions in One Week in China

Recently the Chinese media reported that ten explosions occurred in China in the period from October 21 to 27.

    October 21: Shenyang City, Liaoning Province had an explosion that impacted 2,000 households in the neighborhood. (See Chinascope briefing: A Huge Explosion in Shenyang)
    October 22: A chemical plant in the Alashan League High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Inner Mongolia, exploded in the middle of the night.
    October 24: There was an explosion on the top floor of a residential building in Dalian City, Liaoning Province.
    October 24: A lab at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jiangsu Province, had an explosion.
    October 25: An explosion occurred on the food vendor street outside the Huangdao Campus of Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qiangdao, Shandong Province. The whole street was burned out.
    October 26: An explosion occurred at Shandong Ding Ding Chemical Technology Co. in Zibo City, Shandong Province.
    October 26: An explosion occurred in a residential building in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province.
    October 26: Nine fishing boats caught on fire in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province.
    October 27: A building under construction in Tianjin City was caught on fire.
    October 27: A fire broke out at a factory building and the hotel next to it in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province.

Political commentators expressed the thought that it was abnormal to see so many explosions or even the intensified reporting on the explosions, as the Chinese Communist Party tends to filter out negative news to portray a “stable” society.

Source: Epoch Times, October 31, 2021

https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/10/31/n13342305.htm

One suspects they are cold in the North and now hungry in Xian

The Paper: Large Numbers of Human Face Pictures Are Sold in China for Low Prices

To battle the illegal use of static facial pictures, communications companies now require video responses to certain commands (like blinking) for authentication. Due to the high demand for SIM cards, some criminals are seizing the opportunity to forge people’s facial videos based on static pictures to pass the registration authentication processes. These videos are sold online in large volume for a few U.S. cents per face, which is coupled with actual personal profile information.

Source: The Paper, October 23, 2021

http://m.thepaper.cn/rss_newsDetail_15036994

                                              DAWU GROUP ARCHIVE 2002 - 2019

企业指导思想:不以盈利为目的，而以发展为目标，以共同富裕为归宿。
Corporate guiding ideology: not for profit, but for development, and for common prosperity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021130191450/http://www.dawu.com.cn/

大午中学始建于1998年，是全国最大500家私营企业之
Dawu Middle School was founded in 1998 and is one of the 500 largest private enterprises in the country

https://web.archive.org/web/20030220191018/http://www.dawu.com.cn/

首席科学家剽窃民企科研成果
Chief scientist plagiarizes scientific research results of private enterprises

https://web.archive.org/web/20190518091758/http://dawu.com.cn/

                                                           SUN DAWU BLOG ARCHIVE

孙大午：先找公正，再求公平
Sun Dawu: Find justice first, then justice...

https://web.archive.org/web/20201217144412/http://sundawu1.blog.sohu.com/326716724.html

The Spring Breeze Is Bound to Cause Ripples: A New Year Statement by The China Human Rights Lawyers Group

China Change

January 1, 2022

In 1925, the 26-year-old poet and political dissident Wen Yiduo (闻一多) wrote in his poem titled “Dead Water”:

Here is a ditch of doomed, dead water
No spring breeze can stir up even half a ripple

On August 31, in Hebei Province, a guilty verdict was handed down following the second trial of the Dawu Group executives. The head of this famed agricultural enterprise, Sun Dawu (孙大午), was sentenced to 18 years in prison on trumped up charges along with nearly all of his family members, and his conglomerate seized by the state.

https://chinachange.org/2021/12/31/the-spring-breeze-is-bound-to-cause-ripples-a-new-year-statement-by-the-china-human-rights-lawyers-group/

L’affaire Sun Dawu : codification des droits réels et microfinance en Chine

Thierry Pairault

Dans Mondes en développement 2004/4 (no 128), pages 25 à 40

"La victoire, morale certes, de Sun Dawu est claire. Pour désarmer les revendications paysannes ainsi que celles des petits entrepreneurs dont Sun Dawu se proclamait le héraut, c’est à William Pitt l’Aîné que recourent nombre de commentateurs chinois pour bien illustrer l’avancée constitutionnelle

Les commentateurs chinois citent ce propos (énoncé en 1763 lors… : "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." Si le patrimoine privé ne peut plus être violé, les paysans n’auront plus, nous enseigne-t-on, à craindre que quelque promoteur immobilier, de connivence avec les autorités, vienne leur soustraire, sans réelle compensation, une terre sur laquelle ils ont un droit d’usage. De même, les petits entrepreneurs n’auront plus à craindre que leur investissement leur soit confisqué, aussi oseront-ils investir plutôt que rechercher des havres incertains pour leurs liquidités oisives ? À supposer que les uns et les autres soient effectivement convaincus qu’ils peuvent plus assurément employer leurs liquidités dans des entreprises privées, toutes les formes d’activités microfinancières devraient connaître un développement dont le gouvernement chinois aura du mal à justifier la contention."

https://doi.org/10.3917/med.128.0025

https://www.cairn.info/revue-mondes-en-developpement-2004-4-page-25.htm

https://www.cairn.info/revue-mondes-en-developpement-2004-4.htm

The victory, moral certainly, of Sun Dawu is clear. To disarm the demands of the peasants as well as those of the small entrepreneurs of whom Sun Dawu proclaimed himself the herald, it is to William Pitt the Elder that many Chinese commentators have recourse to illustrate the constitutional advance.

Chinese commentators quote this statement (stated in 1763 when ...: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement. Is there any fear that some real estate developer, in collusion with the authorities, will take away from them, without real compensation, a land on which they have a right of use. Similarly, small entrepreneurs will no longer have to fear that their investment is confiscated from them, so will they dare to invest rather than seek uncertain havens for their idle liquidity? All forms of microfinance activity are expected to experience a development that the Chinese government will find difficult to justify restricting.

Comment (D. Carlton Rossi)

Avec l'arrestation et la condamnation de Sun Dawu, des salariés et la saisie du groupe Dawu en 2020-2021, ces deux questions posées en 2004 par Thierry Pairault ont désormais trouvé réponse concernant les paysans et les entrepreneurs. Les terres des paysans sur lesquelles ils ont un droit d'usage peuvent être confisquées sans réelle compensation et les investissements des entrepreneurs peuvent leur être confisqués sans réelle confiscation. De plus, les propriétaires et les employés peuvent être emprisonnés pour pratiquement n'importe quelle raison.

With the seizure of Dawu Group in 2020-2021 these two questions posted in 2004 by Thierry Pairault have now been answered concerning confiscation of land and investments of peasants and entrepreneurs respectively. The land of peasants on which they have a right to use can be confiscated without real compensation and investments of entrepreneurs can be confiscated from them without real compensation. In addition, owners and employees themselves can be imprisoned for long terms for practically any reason. The Chinese idiom 欲加之罪何患無辭 is applicable. It means, “He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.”

January 1, 2022

Denise Ho

Denise Ho: the Cantopop star and pro-democracy activist arrested in Hong Kong

The arrest of Cantopop star Denise Ho in a raid on reporters and prominent figures linked to the Hong Kong media outlet StandNews has shocked her many fans in the city and around the world.

The Guardian

Rhoda Kwan in Taipei

December 29, 2021

The artist, who is also a Canadian citizen, was taken from her home in Hong Kong on Wednesday for allegedly conspiring with five others to publish seditious materials in her role as a former director of the independent news provider.

In a creative industry where access to the lucrative mainland Chinese market has swayed many Cantonese artists to refrain from angering Chinese sensitivities, Ho emerged in 2014 as a voice of defiance when she joined the Umbrella Movement and demanded wider democracy with thousands of other Hongkongers.

“When I first saw the teargas fired into the peaceful crowds … I decided, regardless of all the so-called consequences, that I had to speak my mind,” she said in 2019.

The consequences for Ho’s career came long before Wednesday’s arrest. In 2014, Chinese authorities banned her from performing on the mainland. In the years that followed, brands and other celebrities shunned her, while some of her concerts in Hong Kong were cancelled.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/denise-ho-the-cantopop-star-and-pro-democracy-activist-arrested-in-hong-kong

Becoming the Song

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gu7bpEuOcI

China Warns Canada

China warns Canada it should learn lesson not to do dirty work for US

China has warned Canadian lawmakers to halt their “blatant interference” in its internal affairs

China warns Canada not to damage relations further with ‘lies’about Uyghur genocide

China warns firms not to engage in politics over Xinjiang

Trudeau leading countries ‘clinging to Cold War mentality’, warns Chinese embassy

China's ambassador warns that banning Huawei from 5G would send 'a very wrong signal'

China's ambassador warns Canada against Huawei 5G ban, saying 'Meng Wanzhou incident' should be a lesson

China’s ambassador to Canada warns against rejecting Huawei, says the two Michaels confessed to crimes

Chinese ambassador to Canada warns there is no room for compromise on Taiwan

The Chinese government is warning the City of Vancouver against forging a special relationship with the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung

Chinese officials preemptively warn Vancouver not to befriend Taiwanese cities

China warned Canada to be aware of the consequences if they help the U.S. in the case against a Huawei executive

China's ambassador warns Canada against Huawei 5G ban, saying 'Meng Wanzhou incident' should be a lesson

China’s ambassador warns Canadians to get ready for retaliation after Canada suspends extradition, limits military sales to Hong Kong over Beijing’s sweeping national security crackdown.

The Chinese ambassador to Canada warned the Trudeau government on Thursday not to grant asylum to Hong Kong residents fleeing a widely criticized national security law imposed by Beijing.

Don’t criticize China’s treatment of Hong Kong, Beijing warns Canada

China Threatens Canada After Trudeau Suspends Hong Kong Agreements: 'Just Wait and See'

China’s “Three Warfares”: People’s Liberation Army Influence Operations

Edwin S. Cochran, U.S. Department of Defense, Retired

China conducts influence operations on a global scale as part of a grand strategy that seeks China’s “rejuvenation” as a great power and the PLA is a key executor. PLA influence operations are encapsulated in the “Three Warfares” concept of media (or public opinion) warfare, psychological warfare, and legal ware.

Home > Journals and Magazines > Journals > IBPP > Vol. 20 (2020) > Iss. 3 (2020)

https://commons.erau.edu/ibpp/vol20/iss3/1/ Abstract

Spy agency warned Trudeau China's tactics becoming more 'sophisticated ... insidious'

Catharine Tunney · CBC News · Posted: Dec 07, 2021

As Canada's spy agency warns that China's efforts to distort the news and influence media outlets in Canada "have become normalized," critics are renewing calls for Ottawa to take a far tougher approach to foreign media interference.

"Chinese-language media outlets operating in Canada and members of the Chinese-Canadian community are primary targets of PRC-directed foreign influenced activities."

CSIS spokesperson John Townsend said foreign states target both mainstream media outlets — print publications, radio and television programs — and non-traditional online outlets and social media channels to pursue their goals.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-trudeau-china-media-1.6270750

Gilles Deleuze

Zhuangzi

Deleuze (吉尔斯·德勒兹) and Zhuangzi (莊周): Actualization and Counter-actualization

Margus OTT

"The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, but is still relatively little used in Sinology.
In his Difference and Repetition (published in 1968; see Deleuze 1994) he presents a rich ontology of actualization by differentiation which could be used as a machinery to be connected to other philosophical machines from the Chinese tradition, where this kind of ontology is widespread.Another important topic in Deleuze concerns different methods of counter-actualization or counter-effectuation that work against the already actualized in order to make possible new actualizations. In the present article I shall interpret passages of Zhuangzi from the perspective of these two Deleuzian topics."

Actualization from the Virtual: the Death of Zhuangzi's Wife

"Now I would like to map these two topics from Deleuze’s philosophy to the
Zhuangzi. Let us first take a story where Zhuangzi explains to Hui Shi how he overcame the sorrow for his wife’s death: When she first died, do you suppose that I was able not to feel the loss? I peered back into her beginnings; there was a time before there was a life. Not only was there no life, there was a time before there was a shape. Not only was there no shape, there was a time before there was energy."

International Zhuangzi Conference, Great Hall, Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Poet is in top row.

Counter-actualization: Making Oneself a Body without Organs, Creating Intensities, and Diversifying Them

"This kind of creative involution is perhaps best exemplified in the
Zhuangzi by the fictional story about Yan Hui, historically the favourite student of Confucius, who is “making progress”: first he says that he has forgotten rites and music, but Confucius says it is not enough. Then he says he has forgotten humaneness and righteousness, but again it is not enough. The third time Yan Hui says:“I sit and forget.”"What do you mean, ‘sit and forget’?” Confucius asked with surprise.“I slough off my limbs and trunk,”said Yan Hui,"dim my intelligence, depart from my form, leave knowledge behind, and become integrated with the Great Interpenetration. This is what I mean by ‘sit and forget."

DOI: 10.4312/as.2019.7.1.315-335

https://www.academia.edu/49040560/Deleuze_and_Zhuangzi

大土豆像提着一袋土豆一样把小土豆抱在身边

China 'cleverly playing us off each other', Trudeau say, urging Western states to have a united front

Western countries should have a united front against China to prevent the Asian state from using commercial interests to play them against each other, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an interview aired on Saturday.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-china-cleverly-playing-us-off-each-other-trudeau-says-urging-western

PM Trudeau's exhortation on his birthday that Western countries should have a "united front" against China is inappropriate. Doesn't he know that "United Front" is a term which applies to CCP activities in countries like Canada where officials are co-opted? The author thinks JT knows which means his use of this term is even more inexplicable.

Charles Burton: Countering Chinese Influence Operations in Canada

September 22, 2021

The CCP’s United Front activities, coordinated through the embassy and consulates in Canada, are designed with three objectives in mind. First, the CCP seeks to influence persons who have an impact on Canada’s China policy.

https://cdainstitute.ca/charles-burton-countering-chinese-influence-operations-in-canada/

United Front Work Department getting more resources as expected

It’s the covert unit behind China’s growing global influence. And it’s getting bigger

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138196/its-mysterious-department-behind-chinas-growing

Why CSIS believes Canada is a ‘permissive target’ for China’s interference

Sam Cooper Global News

Updated June 26, 2020 3:13 pm

China uses a vast network of political, business and media operatives directed from Beijing, known as the United Front, in attempts to co-opt Chinese-Canadian communities and leaders, Mulroney and the experts interviewed by Global News said.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7075248/canada-china-interference-permissive-target/

Chinese People Think China Is Popular Overseas. Americans Disagree.

The widening perception gap between the Chinese and Western publics points to long-term divergence.

Brian Wong

November 04, 2021

First, the increasing heterogeneity of the Chinese public should render us skeptical of the view that the Chinese public are shaped wholly by homogenous forces – in a top-down manner – as envisioned by certain popular accounts. Cheng Li’s seminal work “Shanghai Middle Class: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement” which points to the rise of an eclectic, open-minded, progressive middle class is equally skeptical of American hegemony and authoritarian encroachment.

Second, Chinese public discourses concerning foreign policy are shaped by a multitude of factors – and not all of them involve, or are steered exclusively by the top-level government (i.e. the State Council and its associates). Yu Jie’s recent briefing to Chatham House highlights the role played by provincial-level authorities, state-owned enterprises, and other associated local or provincial actors in shaping Chinese foreign policy.

https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/chinese-people-think-china-is-popular-overseas-americans-disagree/

justice, righteousness

Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges

The AI “prosecutor” can file a charge with more than 97 per cent accuracy based on a verbal description of the case, according to the researchers.

Machine is so far able to identify eight common crimes such as fraud, gambling, dangerous driving and ‘picking quarrels’, researchers say

Researchers in China say they have achieved a world first by developing a machine that can charge people with crimes using artificial intelligence.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3160997/chinese-scientists-develop-ai-prosecutor-can-press-its-own

Artificial intelligence to identify "picking quarrels" provides artificial results.

《诉衷情》

当年忠贞为国愁，

何曾怕断头？

如今天下红遍，

江山靠谁守？

业未就，

身躯倦，

鬓已秋；

你我之辈，

忍将夙愿，

付与东流？

"Appealing Heartfelt Feelings"

Loyalty was a sorrow for the country back then, so why was it afraid of being cut off?
But today, it is popular, who will guard the country?
Before the karma, the body is tired, and the temples are already autumn.
You and me, will you endure your long-cherished wish and give it away?

It may be that Mao Tse-tung was China's greatest poet and calligrapher of the twentieth century. "Appealing Heartfelt Feelings" was his last poem which was written in 1975. The Chinese are particularly fond of it at this time of year because Chairman Mao's birthday is on December 26th. It was sent to Premier Zhou Enlai.

One may want to compare or contrast his poem called "Farewell to the God of Plague" to Sun Dawu's poem on the topic of the scourge of COVID-19 written in 2020. The poet will try to find it for you.

Signature of Mao Essay by poet

https://web.archive.org/web/20180903202645/https://sundawu.ca/Signature_of_Mao.html

SUN'S PRISON POEMS

2003 trial of Sun Dawu

2003年6月《囚歌》

遭囚更识一党祸，生几何，万岁歌！

为怕割舌堪压迫，狂飚落，看狱火！

从来不信传世作，天行健，地怎说？

血流成河，后人评对错！

百年沧桑谁道破？一二三，必共和。

纵然已近天命之年，仍西望长安，诘责蜀道，

惟有男儿本色！

于徐水看守所

Where is the most painful to have thoughts June 2003 "Song of the Prisoners"

The prisoner is more aware of the misfortunes of one party, and it is a long-lived song!

For fear of cutting your tongue and being oppressive, you will fall wildly and watch the fire of prison!

Never believe in handed down works, what does the earth say?

The blood flowed into a river, and later generations judged right or wrong!

Who can tell the vicissitudes of a century? One, two, three, there must be a republic.

Even though the year of fate is approaching, I still look to Chang'an to the west and condemn the Shu Road,

Only the true nature of a man!

At Xushui Detention Center

2003年6月

《人为什么要有思想》

人为什么有思想？有思想是多么痛苦！

在什么地方有思想最痛苦

在监牢里，我向你告诉：

一间小屋，中间隔开栅栏铁柱

3米×3米，角落放着一个马桶，

靠墙挤下一张床铺，

中间放一个脸盆，

我每天围着脸盆转

数数，一步，两步，三步……

我总想，拉磨的驴

它拉磨，要蒙上眼，不蒙眼，它就不转

蒙上眼，它没有思想，转啊转

它没有痛苦，因为它不会数数！

可是，人啊，睁着眼转，思想还跟着转

磨得是心，搅拌的是肉，撕裂的是灵魂

在这个时候，你才知道，思想给牢囚带来多大痛苦！

驴是上了户口的马，

人是有思想的动物。

人生的意义何在？

为思想承担痛苦！

——于徐水看守所

June 2003

Why do people have thoughts

Why do people think? How painful it is to have thoughts!

Where is the most painful thinking

In the prison, I tell you:

A small house with fences and iron posts in the middle

3m×3m, with a toilet in the corner,

Squeeze a bed against the wall,

Put a basin in the middle,

I walk around the basin every day

Count, one step, two steps, three steps...

I always want to pull the donkey

It must be blindfolded. If it is not blindfolded, it will not turn.

Blindfolded, it has no thoughts, turn and turn

It is painless, because it can't count!

But, people, keep your eyes open and your thoughts are still changing

The heart is ground, the flesh is stirred, and the soul is torn apart

Only at this time did you know how much pain the thoughts brought to prisoners!

Donkeys are horses with registered permanent residence,

Man is a thinking animal.

What is the meaning of life?

Take pain for your thoughts!

——Yu Xushui Detention Center

SUN Dawu reading his poem called Motherland to JIANG Ping

Motherland, I've got too many complaints of you

Motherland, I’ve got too many complaints of you
Don’t blame me for that.
Because your ugliness
Just stands for me.

Motherland, I’ve got too many complaints of you
Don’t blame me for that.
Because I’m a filial son to you
You can by all means torture me.

Motherland, I'v got too many complaints of you
Don’t blame me for that.
Because I know of you
So you can face off me.

Written by Sun Dawu while in prison (2003)

Legal representatives of Dawu Group in 2021 (Courtesy China Change)

Briefing on the Third Day of Dawu Trial

Dawu Legal Team, July 17, 2021

And indeed, the cruelty of Residential Surveillance in a Designated Location, which Sun Dawu described as “life was worse than death”, could hardly be expressed in words. Perhaps only Sun Dawu’s own poem, which he read in court, could show the desperate situation of “I want to commit suicide, but even if I wanted to die they will not let me” at that time:

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/19/briefing-on-the-third-day-of-dawu-trial/

There is no sun, moon and stars but dazzling lights that blind me day and night,
With two armed soldiers guarding me, six shifts a day, through long and tormentous hours.
Fate is fickle, I am but a living corpse, eyes wide open, forbidden to speak.
In unbearable suffering I hold on to faith, as I silently miss Dawu City.

From Paradise to Hell to Purgatory Rebooted

The poet was not unaware of the significance of SUN Dawu's speech at the China Agriculture University in 2003. Indeed, the poet hired a graduate student to translate the speech into English. Both versions were published on the poet's website. Although he personally did not hear the speech; nevertheless, he, Dr. LUO Xiwen (Department of Philosophy of CASS) and SUN Dawu had met leading educators at the institution in order to arrange a co-operative agreement with respect to vocational training between a proposed college of Dawu Group-Red Deer College and the university.

The high frequency of the word "xianghe" (祥和) in the speech has been emphasized by the editor of ChinaChange. It means "peacefulness”or "serenity", but carries the literal meaning of "auspicious harmony". In other words, in 2003 and much earlier, SUN Dawu had dreamed of an utopian Paradise based on the idea of "common prosperity". 1. More importantly, he was successfully implementing it. As the poet understands it "common prosperity" has also been a priority of Xi Jinping Thought--particularly in 2021. On the final day of his trial, SUN Dawu implied that inflation might impede wide-spread common prosperity for the country.

One might say that the period of opening up and reform on the macro scale and the common prosperity of Dawu Group as a private enterprise on the micro scale represented a kind of Paradise. However, the fall from grace for Dawu Group took place with the arrest of Sun Dawu and his two brothers on May 27, 2003. Arrest represented Hell. Purgatory began in prison and lasted until November 11, 2003 when all legal details were finalized. Paradise was revisited with freedom of the individual and group. It was reached in the establishment of the Private Entrepreneurial Constitutional System in 2004 which was a type of constitutional monarchy.

敢言民企老板遭抄家警方拘捕30人恐涉黑入罪 - 万维读者网 2020年8月4日

Over the years, there were many trials and tribulations faced by the Group due to property disputes of a historical nature going back to the 1950's and more recently to an intellectual property dispute resolved at the Supreme Court. The main dispute though was between Dawu Group and Xushui State Farm which is only an organ or agent of the government; so, its actual ownership is unclear. The dispute involved land. However, despite these disputes it is indisputable that common prosperity was achieved by 9000 employees of Dawu Group through a system that emphasized people rather than profit.

The year 2020 resembled the year 2003 in some respects. One similarity was the emergence of atypical pneumonia in southern China. It was classified as SARS-CoV-1 during its emergence in Guangdong Province in November 2002 and SARS-CoV-2 as it emerged in Wuhan perhaps in November of 2019. The initial government response in both cases was deceit and denial. It treated the disease as a political issue; for example, it organized neighbourhood committees as it had utilized them to control political dissent during The Cultural Revolution. People were afraid of the disease, but the government was more afraid of losing control of the people.

It is no coincidence that Sun was arrested as the disease hit Beijing in May 2003 and also after the evolved virus struck the Xinfadi market in Beijing and and then Baoding which is 150 kilometers southwest of the capital. Martial law was declared in Baoding and a wartime mechanism was imposed by the epidemic response center.

Today, the government restricts visits of lawyers to SUN Dawu on the excuse of SARS-CoV-2. However, it is more concerned how peasants, farmers, entrepreneurs and even intellectuals of China are influenced by the man considered to be the moral conscience of the nation. Incarceration merely strengthens the people's trust in The Great Noon (伟大的正午).

The re-descent into Hell of the decent SUN Dawu and Dawu Group began with two protests reflecting its relations with Xushui State Farm. Sun has characterized it as a "Freak Farm". They were known as the 6.20 and 8.4 incidents in the summer of 2020. By themselves they were not very important as they historically involved only 740 mu of land, but their influence was magnified as they are representative of land disputes throughout China.

The incidents were special, too, in that they are responses to land laws enacted in the commune era of Mao dating back to The Great Leap Forward in 1958. They haven't yet been adequately solved by any CCP government. Therefore, who is to blame for the incidents? It's almost an example of "original sin" of the Party as opposed to its propaganda which emphasizes "original sin" of the peasants. Peasants like Sun--and Sun still calls himself a peasant-- commit no sin when they set up a grain bank in 2003 at Langwuzhuang to maximize and stabilize the income of farmers nor did they commit any sin when they prevented thugs from leaving who provokingly demolished a Dawu building in the August 4th incident of 2020. Sun does admit though that he made some inappropriate comments which he regrets in the aftermath of the incidents.

As a guide to the reader it may be said by the poet that Dawu Group entered Hell around midnight on November 11, 2020. Six busloads carrying 300 submachine-gun toting police and their dogs were dispatched. One can infer that the purpose was to instill terror.

The main difference though between the 2003 and 2020 arrests was in degree. In 2003, SUN Dawu was actually lured outside of the area to the Hongyan Hotel in Xushui City through a dinner invitation from a newly appointed county-party secretary. 10. The arrest was done in the light of day by plainclothes officers. If the poet recalls correctly there were many plainclothes police and unmarked cars that arrived during the day at Dawu Group in order to mop up and about 20 employees were detained. However, in the 2020 raid, The Great Noon was arrested along with about 30 senior Dawu officials by police in full tactical gear at midnight. The actions in 2003 were intended to instill fear; although, in retrospect, SUN Dawu described it as an atmosphere of terror. 10. The actions of November 11, 2020 were intended to instill terror. There is a saying by an unknown poet that reads as follows:

"When the use of fear fails
then the abuse of terror trails"

One might compare the fear and terror used in the Dawu arrests in 2003 and 2020 by contrasting the use of fear and terror in the The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) and The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The Great Leap Forward (大跃进) was a disaster in that it caused The Great Chinese Famine (三年大饥荒) from 1959-1961 which killed between 15 and 55 million. While terror was a factor in The Great Leap Forward it would seem that fear was the dominant emotion instilled in the peasants. Generally, people died slowly of starvation. They feared death through starvation. Of course, there were many individual exceptions such as scholars who experienced terror.

However, one might say that terror was instilled in the Chinese population in the early stages of The Cultural Revolution (文化大革命) 1966-1976. The first stage of mass killings began with the Red Terror (August-December 1966). For example, it did not concentrate on poor peasants, but rather rich peasants along with four other black categories as well as "capitalist roaders" in the Party. In Qufu or the birthplace of Confucius, the graves of the Kung family were dug up by the Red Guards (红卫兵) led by TAN Houlan in order to Annihilate the Kung Family Business (歼灭孔氏家族企业) 2. The takeover of the Confucian, Dawu Group (大午集团) in 2020 is its equivalent in what might be called Cultural Revolution 2.0 with its campaign to Annihilate the Dawu Family Business (歼灭大悟家族企业).

Seven of the innocent defendants which included Sun -- who were presumed guilty until proven innocent -- were transferred to RSDL under jurisdiction of the Baoding municipal Public Security Bureau (PSB). RSDL stands for “Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location”. This means they had no fixed residence. This is unbelievable because the poet has visited SUN Dawu in his residence and listened to the words of Xi Jinping at the time of the national holiday. Now, the PSB is saying it didn't happen in Sun's residence which has remained the same.

Normally, RSDL is temporary in nature. For example, it may last three months. However, it can be extended as it was in these cases. The duration was extended several times. It appears to have lasted from November 11, 2020 to at least July 25, 2021 or the last day of the trial. "The PSB took advantage of the law with ill-intention, and nullified the human rights protection statute by designating jurisdiction." 3.

The defendants asked to be able to transfer from RSDL or Hell to a detention center because they said under RSDL they were being tortured. SUN Dawu stated "During RSDL, I once requested to be transferred to the detention center because my treatment produced misery beyond words and life was worse than death. I went on a hunger strike for three days." 4. All defendants said "life was worse than death". 6.

The defendant Ji Weilian ( 纪玮莲) said "I could see that there were once windows in the Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) room. I applied to change rooms, I was extremely agitated, and wanted to dig out the window. I wanted to open the door. I wanted air. I was interrogated too many times. My memory was declining." 5.

The RSDL was specifically constructed for the defendants of Dawu Group. They can hardly be called residences as there were no windows and no ventilation. The "formaldehyde level severely exceeded safety standards." 6. Formaldehyde is known to be a human carcinogen based on "higher risks of nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemia". 7. It is also used as an embalming fluid for the dead.

In other words, terror of the arrest was transforming into torture through RSDL for the defendants. Torture became a tactic of terror. During The Cultural Revolution the paramilitary organization called the Red Guards used torture through brutal struggle sessions. For example, on August 23, 1966, SHU Qingchu known as Lao She who was a communist party member and 20 other writers were transported to Beijing’s Temple of Confucius where a mob of 150 teenage girls beat them with bamboo sticks and theater props. 8.

The actual trial started on July 15th and lasted until July 25th 2021. It can be said that this was the eighth circle of Hell for the defendants. They were faced by those who claimed that the trial was open, but the visitors invited by those facing trial could not be seen. Each defendant was allowed only one visitor who was held in another room. SUN Dawu himself stated “All my family members had come, including our in-laws and other relatives, as well as employees, where are they? I want to know: Is this an open trial or not?” 3. Secondly, in the 2003 trial there were photographs allowed of the defendants which were published. No photos were allowed in the "open" court of 2021 to be published. Lawyers requested that judges recuse themselves on the ground that the court hearing was not truly public. The operative word there is "truly".

Canto XXIX Hell Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri

With points of thrilling pity, that I clos'd
Both ears against the volley with mine hands.

Together; such was here the torment: dire
The stench, as issuing steams from fester'd limbs. 9.

The outcome of the trial was never in doubt. If ever there were a predetermined result it was in the Gaobeidian Municipal Court. For example, the Dawu Group itself was on trial. However, before the trial, government working groups took over operation of the company including company seals and financial affairs. The trial and sentence merely legalized seizure and control of the company by the government. SUN Fushuo (youngest son of SUN Dawu) has not been allowed to return to his position even when he completed his sentence on September 29, 2021. He and his family are invited to Canada as the poet's guests.

While SUN Dawu has risen from Hell he may be trapped in Purgatory for 18 years. He might get an opportunity to appeal his sentence if ever again allowed to see his lawyer. SARS-CoV-2 is used as the excuse to isolate Sun. Will Purgatory reform SUN Dawu? Perhaps, if he is allowed to read "Thirty Lectures on Socialist Thinking" by Xi Jinping which he was prevented from reading in Hell while he awaited trial.

One expects though that the real impact will be on the Chinese people. They may finally realize that the same thing could happen to any one of them. If they do not have the protection of lawyers, law, police and Party then who will protect them?

Purgatory where SUN Dawu was briefly incarcerated is called Baoding Prison or should one say the whole city of Baoding (保定) itself? The poet may have visited Baoding a hundred times for various reasons. However, he found no reason to stay for more than a few hours. It is one of the most heavily polluted cities in China.

It seems though that Baoding Prison was a little too close to Langwuzhuang or Sun's birthplace for the comfort of local authorities. They wanted to get rid of him as far away as possible from potential support. The capital of Hebei or Shijiazhuang which is hundreds of miles away was too close. They went further south to a prison in the Tangshan Guye District of Xingtai (邢台). It's almost on the southern boundary of the province of Hebei. The poet has passed through Xingtai by bus and train on his way from Anyang, Henan to Langwuzhuang Hebei, but again, it is no place to linger.

Xingtai is the most polluted city in China, so one can't imagine a Purgatory less likely to cleanse. It is a coal mining hub producing 20 million tonnes of metric coal a year and has one of the largest reactors. It meets the national standard with respect to pollution for only 38 days. On December 15, 2021 the pollution index was an unhealthy level of 183. 11.

Xingtai is reminiscent of industrialized London in the mid-nineteenth century. London is described by Charles Dickens (查尔斯·狄更斯) in Chapter One (The Chancery) of the serialized novel Bleak House (荒凉山庄).

"Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun." 14.

The pollution in Xingtai is not the only environmental problem. In the Spring, large sandstorms blow in from the Mongolian steppe. The worst sandstorm the poet ever experienced was in Linyi City when his face and larynx were literally sandblasted.

There are few who don't know -- which includes authorities -- that this super-sized Purgatory is prone to earthquakes. Xingtai, Hebei is located above the North China Seismic Belt. "The frequency and intensity of earthquakes here are second only to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau". 12. From March 8th to March 29th in 1966 the Xingtai earthquakes (邢台大地震) struck and killed 8064 people. 13. Fate will dictate whether you go out with a bang (earthquake) or a whimper (pollution) in the Purgatory of Xingtai.

SUN Dawu may take some solace in the lessons that real history provides. The Battle of Julu (鉅鹿之戰) 13. was fought at Xingtai in 207 BCE between forces of the Qin dynasty and the insurgent state of Chu. The battle provided a decisive victory for the rebels over the larger Qin army. Furthermore, it allowed for the rise of Liu Bang (劉邦) who was born into a peasant family. He reigned from 202-195 BCE as the first emperor of the Han Dynasty. 16.

In summary, there are two key 18 year periods of three phases each for Dawu Group and its founder SUN Dawu which may be broadly summarized. In period one, Dawu Group is founded. This may be equated with Paradise as barren land becomes fertile. However, Hell begins with the arrest of SUN Dawu and his brothers on May 27, 2003. It is followed by Purgatory until the official settlement on November 11, 2003 for time served.

In period two, Paradise begins for the Sun family and Dawu Group with the release of the Suns and establishment of normalcy at Dawu Group. The fruition of Paradise is the creation of the Private Entrepreneurial Constitutional System in 2004. The company continues to grow and its employees prosper. However, there were several major setbacks which included two trademark cases, African Swine Flu, seizure of apartment buildings and two land disputes in 2020. It may be said that there was a descent into Hell on November 11, 2020 in the detention of Dawu employees which included SUN Dawu and the seizure of Dawu Group. Seven employees including SUN Dawu were removed from their residences and then designated without residence. Life in “Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location” is Hell. The defendants are consigned to Purgatory in their sentences on July 28, 2021.

Sun is sentenced to 18 years in Purgatory for pleading not guilty. The verdict implies that he has learned nothing in the last two periods of 18 years. The open question though is what have the Chinese people learned from the imprisonment of SUN Dawu, the seizure of Dawu Group and their own situation within the Cultural Revolution 2.0 of fear and terror sponsored by the State. Perhaps the unintended lesson is that revolution is the solution.

D. Carlton Rossi
December 24, 2021

1. https://chinachange.org/2021/04/02/sun-dawu-a-chinese-agricultural-entrepreneurs-36-year-dream-in-the-era-of-reform-and-opening-up-part-two/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards

3. https://chinachange.org/2021/07/17/briefing-on-the-first-day-of-dawu-trial/

4. https://chinachange.org/2021/07/18/briefing-on-the-second-day-of-dawu-trial/

5. https://chinachange.org/2021/07/20/briefing-on-the-fourth-day-of-dawu-trial-i-want-to-dig-a-window/

6. https://chinachange.org/2021/08/01/briefing-on-the-eleventh-day-of-dawu-trial-10-questions-and-10-answers/

7. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/formaldehyde.html

8. https://listverse.com/2016/06/24/10-disturbing-stories-from-chinas-horrific-cultural-revolution/

9. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8789/8789-h/8789-h.htm#link29

10. https://chinachange.org/2015/07/24/what-can-you-do-in-the-face-of-terror-a-chinese-entrepreneur-responds-to-arrest-of-rights-lawyers/

11. https://aqicn.org/map/china/

12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Xingtai_earthquakes

13. https://www.163.com/dy/article/G8MBV1OJ0543RDXS.html

14. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1023/1023-h/1023-h.htm

15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Julu

16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han

The Mother and Father of Sun Dawu

Sun Kai (Father) Liu Fenglan (Mother)

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Yaxue Cao
@YaxueCao

Dec 3, 2021

了解到一点 #孙大午和大午集团的最新信息：目前大午集团还是由政府派出的工作组全面控制；出狱了的家属和高管不准再回原岗位上班；孙大午本人由保定监狱换到了邢台监狱，当局一直以疫情为由阻止律师会见。#SunDawu

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Yaxue Cao
@YaxueCao

Dec 3, 2021

Get to know the latest information of #Sun Dawu and Dawu Group: At present, Dawu Group is fully controlled by a working group sent by the government; family members and executives who have been released from prison are not allowed to return to their original posts; Sun Dawu himself has been transferred from Baoding Prison. In Xingtai Prison, the authorities have been preventing lawyers from meeting on the grounds of the epidemic. #SunDawu

Ahead of Biden’s Democracy Summit, China Says: We’re Also a Democracy

Keith Bradsher and Steven Lee Myers

Dec. 7, 2021

China’s system “has achieved process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, and the unity of people’s democracy and the will of the country,” said Xu Lin, deputy director of the Communist Party Central Committee’s propaganda department.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/china-biden-democracy-summit.html

I'm A Believer
The Monkees 1966

Yes, I saw her face, now I'm a believer
And not a trace of doubt in my mind.
Said I'm a believer
I'm a believer
I'm a believer
Said I'm a believer
I'm a believer
I said I'm a believer
I'm a believer

Lily Sui-fong Sun 孫穗芳 and Sun Dawu 孙大午

孫大午說他是一個乾淨的人我相信你呢？

阿波羅新聞網 2020-11-19
作者：胡錦成

據說孫大午辦的這個醫院，投資高達6.6億，醫院投入使用後，大午集團每年補貼醫院3000萬元+。

一個一天要倒搭十萬元的醫院，才是全國人民認定他是好人的論證依據。

這個論據很單薄，這個論據也很堅挺，你如果說他是用來收買人心，那你為什麼不來收買呢？

我們都在坐等收買呀。

https://tw.aboluowang.com/2020/1119/1524790.html

Sun Dawu said he is a clean person. I trust you?

Apollo News Network 2020-11-19
Author: Hu Jincheng

It is said that the hospital run by Sun Dawu has an investment of up to 660 million yuan. After the hospital is put into use, Dawu Group subsidizes the hospital 30 million yuan+ every year.

A hospital that costs 100,000 yuan a day is the basis for the argument that the people of the whole country believe that he is a good person.

This argument is very thin, and this argument is also very strong. If you say that it is used to buy people's hearts, then why don't you come to buy it?

We are all waiting to buy it.

En Chine, un milliardaire critique du pouvoir condamné à 18 ans de prison

Noël Célis

France 24

Publié le : 28/07/2021

Connu pour son franc-parler, Sun Dawu avait lui aussi critiqué avec véhémence les autorités pour leur gestion de la pandémie. Il s'était déjà fait remarquer en 2019 lors d'une épidémie dévastatrice de peste porcine dans le pays, à l'origine de l'abattage de millions de têtes. Il avait publié en ligne des photos de cochons morts pour alerter les médias et accusé les responsables locaux de laxisme face à la maladie.

Critique régulier des politiques rurales, Sun Dawu demande que les agriculteurs soient davantage libres de s'organiser pour protéger leurs intérêts économiques.

Signe de la sensibilité de son procès, une forte présence policière était visible aux abords du tribunal, selon une vidéo partagée par son avocat. Le procès "a violé les normes judiciaires et les droits de l'accusé n'ont pas été garantis", a estimé ce dernier dans un communiqué.

https://www.france24.com/fr/asie-pacifique/20210728-en-chine-un-milliardaire-critique-du-pouvoir-condamn%C3%A9-%C3%A0-18-ans-de-prison

Power critic in China sentenced to 18 years in prison

Noël Célis

France 24

Published on: 07/28/2021

Known for his outspokenness, Sun Dawu had also vehemently criticized the authorities for their management of the pandemic. He had already stood out in 2019 during a devastating epidemic of swine fever in the country, which caused the slaughter of millions of heads. He had posted photos of dead pigs online to alert the media and accused local officials of being lax about the disease.

A regular critic of rural policies, Sun Dawu calls for farmers to be more free to organize to protect their economic interests.

Sign of the sensitivity of his trial, a strong police presence was visible around the court, according to a video shared by his lawyer. The trial "violated judicial standards and the rights of the accused have not been guaranteed," said the latter in a statement.

Wer ist Sun Dawu?

von Konstantin Kladensky

Sun Dawu ist ein erfolgreicher chinesischer Unternehmer, der zusammen mit einigen Familienmitgliedern im November 2020 festgenommen wurde. Die Verhaftung sorgte international für Aufsehen und ist im Kontext von Suns demokratisch organisiertem Unternehmensmodell zu betrachten.

Die Grenzen demokratischer Experimente

Suns Unternehmensmodell ist ein markantes Gegenbeispiel zu der vereinfachenden Gegenüberstellung vom grundsätzlich demokratischen Westen und dem autoritär denkenden China. Anders als in der Politik ist der Kontrast in der Privatwirtschaft weniger stark ausgeprägt. Immerhin hält auch der Westen in der Privatwirtschaft, abgesehen von wenigen Ausnahmen, noch an undemokratischen Organisationsstrukturen fest. Obwohl wir demokratische Wahlen als große Errungenschaft betrachten, ist es am Arbeitsplatz selten, „zentrale betriebliche Entscheidungen“, wie die Besetzung von Führungspositionen, mit Beteiligung der Arbeiter*innenschaft zu treffen.

Eine Organisationsform wie die von Suns Firma ist mit dem System der KPCh nur schwer vereinbar. Denn durch Suns Unternehmen sammelt die Landbevölkerung Erfahrung mit einem funktionierenden demokratischen System. Anders als bei den von der KPCh kontrollierten Wahlen auf der Dorfebene werden durch die Wahlen in Suns Unternehmen Positionen mit tatsächlicher Entscheidungsgewalt besetzt. Noch dazu macht Suns Firma der KPCh das Monopol der Koordination und Mediation zwischen verschiedenen Gesellschaftsgruppen streitig. Diese subversiven Aspekte der von Sun Dawu entwickelten Organisationsstruktur erklären auch, weshalb die Behörden sofort die Kontrolle über die Firma übernahmen.

https://dasreispapier.at/2021/wer-ist-sun-dawu/

Who is Sun Dawu?

by Konstantin Kladensky

Sun Dawu is a successful Chinese entrepreneur who was arrested along with some family members in November 2020. The arrest caused a stir internationally and has to be seen in the context of Sun's democratically organized business model.

The Limits of Democratic Experimentation

Sun's corporate model is a striking counter-example to the simplistic comparison of the fundamentally democratic West and authoritarian China. In contrast to politics, the contrast in the private sector is less pronounced. After all, with a few exceptions, the West is still clinging to undemocratic organizational structures in the private sector. Although we consider democratic elections to be a great achievement, it is rare in the workplace to make “key operational decisions”, such as filling management positions, with the participation of workers.

An organizational form like that of Sun's company is difficult to reconcile with the CCP's system. Because through Sun's company, the rural population gains experience with a functioning democratic system. Unlike the CCP-controlled village-level elections, the elections in Sun's companies fill positions with actual decision-making power. In addition, Sun's company is challenging the CCP for the monopoly of coordination and mediation between different social groups. These subversive aspects of the organizational structure developed by Sun Dawu also explain why the authorities immediately took control of the company.

Chinese Billionaire Sun Dawu: Dawu Group's annual revenue exceeds $456 million, Sun Dawu has been sentenced to 18 years by the Chinese government

Rakesh Ranjan | navbharattimes.comUpdated: 29 Jul 2021

This Chinese businessman has earned a lot of wealth. But he prefers to stay away from the flamboyance. He doesn't have a big house. He has not even kept a car for himself. He has helped the people of rural areas a lot. Along with medical facilities in the villages, he has also arranged for education for the children. He had said on Twitter that he would not allow his hospital to earn money from people.

He was taken into custody after Davu had praised the lawyers amid the crackdown on the legal activists of the government. In August 2020, employees of Davu prevented a government company from demolishing a company building. After this, apart from Davu, 20 more people were taken into custody and they have also been tried and convicted.

https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/business/business-news/chinese-billionaire-sun-dawu-had-started-business-in-1985-know-how-big-is-his-business-empire/articleshow/84857623.cms

Quién es Sun Dawu, el influyente multimillonario chino condenado a 18 años de cárcel

BBC News Mundo

jueves, 29 de julio de 2021

Sun Dawu criticó abiertamente al régimen de Xi Jinping en el pasado y se ha pronunciado sobre cuestiones de derechos humanos y de políticas rurales.

El empresario fue detenido el año pasado, según reportes, junto a 20 familiares y socios comerciales, por una disputa de tierras con una granja administrada por el gobierno.

En ese momento dijo que decenas de sus empleados resultaron heridos en un incidente con la policía relacionado con la disputa, según un informe de AFP.

Se dice que Sun es cercano a algunos destacados disidentes políticos chinos y en el pasado ha criticado las políticas rurales del gobierno.

https://www.mdzol.com/bbc-mundo/2021/7/29/quien-es-sun-dawu-el-influyente-multimillonario-chino-condenado-18-anos-de-carcel-175932.html

Eighteen years in prison for the agricultural magnate who built one of China's largest companies.

BBC News Mundo

July 29, 2021

The ruling of prominent Chinese billionaire Sun Dawu is the latest in a series of sanctions against corporate bosses being carried out by Chinese authorities.

The businessman was reportedly arrested last year, along with 20 family members and business partners, over a land dispute with a government-run farm.

At the time he said dozens of his employees were injured in an incident with police related to the dispute, according to an AFP report.

Sun is said to be close to some prominent Chinese political dissidents and has been critical of the government's rural policies in the past.

Once upon a time when the author was young he attended a Sabres-Leafs hockey game in Buffalo, New York. Inside the arena there was an electronic sign which gave the temperature outside. I remember saying to my friend that I didn't care what the temperature was outside, but rather I wanted to know what the temperature was inside the arena where I was. For the most part that holds true for local weather. I want to know the local weather and temperature rather than what is happening on the east or west coast of the country. Of course, exceptions are made for extreme weather elsewhere when disaster strikes. So when I heard that snowfall in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in China hit a record level--I was interested. At one time I had worked in Liaoning Province.

I searched for the English version of China Daily newspaper on the internet. It used to be delivered everyday to my desktop wherever I was in China. I was surprised to learn that even though record levels of snow for the last 106 years had hit Shenyang that it was not a chaotic situation. Should one expect anything less while the 6th Plenum of the CCP meets to confirm the leader? One may not be able to predict a record snowfall, but one can predict that the leader's pre-eminent position will be confirmed.

The snow and cold spell hit the entire Northeast. It could spell problems for heating especially since there is a coal shortage which may in turn lead to disquietude among citizens. However, it doesn't look that way from a Xinhua picture portraying a fashionable young girl wearing a red jacket and carrying a red umbrella as she leisurely strolls through snow covered trees. She is described as one of many who "brave the snow". In another picture in Shanxi Province, the first snowfall is described as a "winter wonderland".

The above pictures provided by Getty contrast with the red umbrella picture of China Daily. They focus on the extreme weather conditions in Northeast China as the United States among other nations try to thrash out or should one say "trash out" a climate accord.

D. Carlton Rossi
November 16, 2021

Archival References to Sun Dawu in China Daily

Since I had the English version of the China Daily website open I decided to do a search of the term "Sun Dawu". It was relevant in that the first anniversary of Sun Dawu's arrest was on November 11, 2020. What was in the paper's archives? There was nothing about his arrest or conviction. There was nothing going back the last 17 years. His name was literally obliterated. The only exception was mention of his three year sentence in 2003 where he was generously referred to as a "prestigious" Chinese entrepreneur 1; although, no picture was included. The lack of images of Sun Dawu in the archives is an attempt to erase his significance.

1. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/home/2003-11/01/content_277524.htm

The year 1985 marked the establishment of Dawu Group. The year 2003 marked a watershed for the Dawu Group and China. After Sun's release in 2003 on probation, Dawu Village transformed into Dawu City which prospered for 17 years until his rearrest on a slew of trumped-up charges. The civil rights movement began with the arrest of the two Suns in Hebei Province--Sun Dawu and Sun Zhigang (death of a migrant worker). It can be said that both cases helped change the constitution. While it is a matter of debate it seems that a strong case can be made for the end of the civil rights movement with the arrest of all executives of Dawu Group on November 11, 2020. Furthermore, it marks the end of the reform and opening up era begun by Deng Xiaopeng. It also marks the end of private enterprise which has powered the economy as the Private Entrepreneurial Constitutional System instituted in 2004 by Dawu Group is superceded by Party Control.

The Chinese version of China Daily had eight hits of the "孙大午" term, but they seemed to be carefully censored and circumscribed. To illustrate the selectivity all one has to do is say that there is no mention of the arrest of Sun Dawu in 2020 or nineteen other executives and family members. There is no mention of the trial in 2021 where he pleaded not guilty to eight charges. There is no mention of Sun Dawu's eighteen year sentence and lesser sentences of the others from 15 months to 12 years. What one can read from the omissions is the supreme importance of the legal case and Sun Dawu's role as the moral conscience of China.

Another glaring omisson was Sun's role as critic of the way the government handled the African Swine Flu (ASF) crisis at the beginning of 2019. Basically speaking, Sun was saying that the lack of reporting of cases in Hebei Province was a cover-up. He also implied that the government's version defied scientific evidence which suggested that the fever spread in clusters. He asked therefore where did the fever come from when his farm was hit without any reported clusters around it? Finally, he said that the cover-up contributed to the spread of the virus because contaminated meat was transported and sold. His account was frozen on February 24, 2019 after Dawu Group reported losing 15,000 swine at the Xinda Husbandry Co. Ltd. In total, the three government cover-ups of diseases were SARS (2003), ASF (2018-2019) and SARS-CoV-2 (2019-2021).

The following analysis uses reverse chronological order. This means it begins with the most recent and goes to the earliest. This is made explicit for your understanding because the latest reported news for the name "孙大午" is more than five years ago. By newspaper standards this is almost ancient history with respect to change.

The most recent mention of Sun Dawu in the archives of the Chinese version of China Daily takes place on August 16, 2016 or five years ago. The legal case of the company's Dawu Liangye Liquor company involved intellectual property. The headline reads "五粮液商标维权大午粮液败诉引法理之争" which can be translated as "Dawuliagye loses the lawsuit of Wuliangye trademark rights protection".

Unfortunately, China Daily fails to disclose the ultimate success of the case which went on for six years. It culminated in a victory for Dawu Group on appeal at the Supreme Court. The company was award the equivalent $1,250,000 US. The headline in Xinhua news on July 21, 2019 reads 历时6年五粮液告赢九粮液分析称此次判决有导向意义. It can be translated in the following way. "It took 6 years for Wuliangye to win Jiuliangye's analysis and said the judgment has guiding significance"

http://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2019-07/31/c_1124818024.htm

The next mention of the Chinese name of Sun Dawu is somewhat earlier on December 16, 2016. It involves protection of property rights. It is now becoming clear. The general theme of the"hits" are property. The article speaks about proposals to change the constitution. It asks "Which private enterprise "unjust cases" will be rehabilitated?" One of these cases is that of Sun Dawu. However, to call the cases "unjust" may imply prejudice. In retrospect, one can see that an historical property dispute involving a mere 740 mu of land triggered the arrest of Sun Dawu and the seizure of Dawu Group on November 11, 2020.

An earlier property issue which the newspaper seizes upon involves a "feast of wealth"; namely, transfer through Internet tools outside of official channels. The date of publication is December 10, 2015. It compares attitudes and approaches with regard to property of both Sun Dawu who is a legendary, Hebei entrepreneur with the internet savvy Wu Yong who is an Hunan entrepreneur. The author uses the word "compares" because both entrepreneurs face sadness. Sun Dawu experienced "darkness and injustice" in the acquisition of a pear orchard while Wu Yong sits on a "policy volcano" concerning land transfer.

Both entrepreneurs recognize that rural land is collectively owned so the rights of farmers are restricted to contract and to operate. Both entrepreneurs are clear that the laws and regulations concerning land transfer are unclear. Their logic according to the article is based on the premise that "no illegality is legal". Therefore, the article posits that they are governed by "tragic logic" whose destiny is sadness. It is implied that the two entrepreneurs should accept the status quo of property law with respect to the constitution and rehabilitate themselves.

The next reference on March 17, 2014 is rather brief. It merely mentions how Sun Dawu along with some celebrities such as Mao Yushi, Yi Nengjing, and Deng Fei were involved in large-scale public welfare activities. They also gave speeches at the Shenzhen Furniture Fair with respect to "beautiful dreams".

Another briefly mentioned event was the China New Urbanization Summit held at Peking University on July 20-21,2013. Sun Dawu was among the elite who were invited.

On September 26, 2012, the China Economic Weekly published an article on the release from prison of Gu Chujun who was the founder of Greencool and the former chairman of Kelon Electric. It asked three pertinent questions (rather than giving answers) concerning commercial society.

Why did the "crime of falsely reporting registered capital" completed under the government's secret cooperation only punish individuals and not the relevant responsible persons of the local government?

How to protect the legal property rights of private entrepreneurs?

In the imperfect legal system environment, how to judge the legal nature of the gray area behavior?

The reporter cites the case of Sun Dawu in 2003 on the fourth page of the article without highlighting direct overlaps with the Gu case. It appears that the reader is intended to ask the relevant questions in both cases. The reference to Sun Dawu is quoted in its entirety in Chinese.

孙大午

"河北大午农牧集团有限公司原董事长，把小户农业做成巨型企业的“农业大王“。2003年5月他被指向3000多户农民借款达1.8亿多元，并被当地法院以非法吸收公众存款的罪名判有期徒刑3年、缓刑4年。同年11月，孙大午出狱后，重回大午，并在之后的几年里，设计并实施了的私企的“君主立宪制”，将企业股权、经营权、决策权三权分立，互相监督互相制衡。改革后，他选择的职位是监事长，极少参与企业的日常运营，而把最重要的精力放在了对徐水釜山文化的研究上。"

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2012-09/26/content_15784988.htm

Sun Dawu

The former chairman of Hebei Dawu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group Co., Ltd., made small-scale agriculture the "Agricultural King" of a giant enterprise. In May 2003, he was accused of borrowing more than 180 million yuan from more than 3,000 farmers, and was sentenced to three years in prison and four years of probation by the local court for illegally absorbing public deposits. In November of the same year, after Sun Dawu was released from prison, he returned to Dawu. In the following years, he designed and implemented the "constitutional monarchy" of private enterprises, which separated the three powers of enterprise equity, management power, and decision-making power, and supervised each other. Checks and balances. After the reform, he chose the position of chairman of the board of supervisors, was rarely involved in the daily operation of the company, and put the most important energy on the study of Xushui Busan culture.

To summarize, the archives of China Daily which are accessible to the public with reference to the Chinese name of 孙大午 extend from August 16, 2016 to September 16, 2012. Indirectly, one may learn of the arrest and sentence of Sun Dawu in 2003 and a summary of events in the aftermath by referring to the legal case of Gu Chujun who was arrested in 2005. The archival material of China Daily concerning Sun Dawu (孙大午) in both the English and Chinese versions is extremely limited and selective.

There are serious omisions of events in the archives. The English version made a brief reference to the arrest and sentence of Sun Dawu in 2003. Neither edition made mention of his arrest in 2020. One serious omission concerned Sun's criticism of the government's handling and reporting of the African Swine Flu epidemic in 2019. Another omission was failure to report on the success of Dawu Group's intellectual property suit at the Supreme Court level.

As a newspaper owned by the Propaganda Department of the CCP it is interested in maintaining the status quo in terms of property law. China Daily conveys that while there may be hope that the constitution will be changed to address grey areas of property law that it is better for entrepreneurs to be satisfied with the existing situation. Private entrepreneurs who wish to protect property rights are dreamers who require rehabilitation.

D. Carlton Rossi
November 17, 2021

Where Rights are Wrong and Wrongs are Right

Sun Fushuo

孙福硕

Crime/Accusation 罪名/指控：其它 Other Sentence 刑期： 1年6个月 1 year 6 months

孙大午小儿子、大午集团副总经理。孙大午案受害人。2020年11月11日凌晨，河北大午农牧集团负责人孙大午及其亲属并集团子公司法人等近30人被警方突击抓捕。其后，包括孙大午妻子刘会茹等部分公司高管，被以“非法吸收公众存款”罪名批捕，而孙大午等其他公司高管以“指定居所监视居住”的方式被采取强制措施。2021年4月22日，河北大午集团此前被“指定居所监视居住”的7位当事人家属，分别收到公安送达的逮捕通知书。2021年7月15日9时至2021年7月28日16时，大午案经历14天庭审后当庭宣判：孙福硕被判有期徒刑1年6个月；刑期至：2022年5月10日。

https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/1944

Youngest son of Sun Dawu released on September 29, 2021. Sentence was reduced by 6 months because of intimidation to change lawyers.

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Gender 性别: 女 Female
Ethnicity 民族:汉族(Han)
Date of birth 出生日期:1985-04-09
Province 所属省份:河北(Hebei Province)
City 所属城市:保定市 (Baoding)
罪名和刑期

Taken Away 最近一次被带走时间:2020-11-11
Arrested 逮捕时间:2021-04-21
Tried 庭审时间:2021-07-15
Sentenced 宣判时间:2021-07-28
Date of release 释放时间:2022-04-10
Crime 罪名:扰乱公共秩序罪 Disrupting public order
Sentence 刑期:1年 1 year 5 months

https://tenchu.org/pocd/public/pocs/1885

Crime/Accusation 罪名/指控： 扰乱公共秩序罪 Disrupting public order

Sentence 刑期： 1年 5 months

大午集团集团办秘书。2020年11月11日凌晨，河北大午农牧集团负责人孙大午及其亲属并集团子公司法人等近30人被警方突击抓捕。其后，包括孙大午妻子刘会茹等部分公司高管，被以“非法吸收公众存款”罪名批捕，而孙大午等其他公司高管以“指定居所监视居住”的方式被采取强制措施。2021年4月22日，河北大午集团此前被“指定居所监视居住”的7位当事人家属，分别收到公安送达的逮捕通知书。纪玮莲被控罪名：寻衅滋事罪、聚众冲击国家机关罪。2021年7月15日9时至2021年7月28日16时，大午案经历14天庭审后当庭宣判：纪玮莲被判有期徒刑1年5个月；刑期至2022年4月10日。

大午案于7月28日一审当庭宣判，8月12日二审立案，8月18日通知辩护律师不开庭“审理”，要求律师24日之前提交书面辩护意见，8月31日二审宣判。除孙大午的二儿子孙福硕（被法院诱导逼迫解除了辩护律师后）由一年半改判缓刑、纪玮莲（在解除了辩护律师后）略减成一年实刑之外，其他完全维持一审判决。

信息来源：https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2021/08/2021831.html

Crime/Accusation Crime/Accusation: Disrupting public order

Secretary of Dawu Group Group Office. In the early morning of November 11, 2020, nearly 30 people including Sun Dawu, head of Hebei Dawu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group, his relatives and the legal person of the group's subsidiary, were arrested by the police. Later, some company executives, including Sun Dawu’s wife Liu Huiru, were arrested on charges of "illegal absorbing public deposits", while Sun Dawu and other company executives were taken coercive measures by means of "designated residential surveillance". On April 22, 2021, the 7 family members of the Hebei Dawu Group who were previously under "residential surveillance in designated residences" received arrest notices from the police. Ji Weilian was charged with the crimes of provoking disturbances and assaulting state organs. From 9:00 on July 15, 2021 to 16:00 on July 28, 2021, the Dawu case went through a 14-day trial and the sentence was pronounced in court: Ji Weilian was sentenced to 1 year and 5 months imprisonment; the sentence is until April 10, 2022.

The Dawu case was pronounced in the first instance on July 28, and the second instance was filed on August 12, and the defense lawyer was notified on August 18 to not hold a trial. The lawyer was required to submit a written defense opinion before the 24th, and the second instance was pronounced on August 31.

Liu Huiru 刘会茹 and Sun Dawu 孙大午

大午案法律团队：大午案二审今日宣判（2021年8月31日）

在不通知律师的情况下，保定市中级法院今日在高碑店市法院对大午案二审进行了视频宣判。（极端黑色幽默的是孙大午的辩护律师彼时尚正在保定中院查阅一审时未提交给律师的大量案卷）

大午案于7月28日一审当庭宣判，8月12日二审立案，8月18日通知辩护律师不开庭“审理”，要求律师24日之前提交书面辩护意见，8月31日二审宣判。除孙大午的二儿子孙福硕（被法院诱导逼迫解除了辩护律师后）由一年半改判缓刑、纪玮莲（在解除了辩护律师后）略减成一年实刑之外，其他完全维持一审判决。

同日下午，孙大午妻子刘会茹（身体状况极度糟糕）、两个儿媳、一个侄女“非法吸收公众存款”由高碑店市法院一审当庭宣判：刘会茹被判实刑三年，两个儿媳妇、一个侄女被判定罪免罚。

大午案法律团队

2021年8月31日

The Dawu case legal team: The second instance of the Dawu case was pronounced today (August 31, 2021)

Without notifying the lawyer, the Baoding Intermediate Court today made a video verdict on the Dawu case at the Gaobeidian City Court. (It is extremely black and humorous that Sun Dawu's defense lawyer, Bi Shishang, is in the Baoding Intermediate People's Court to review a large number of case files that were not submitted to the lawyer at the first instance)

The Dawu case was pronounced in the first instance on July 28, and the second instance was filed on August 12, and the defense lawyer was notified on August 18 to not hold a trial. The lawyer was required to submit a written defense opinion before the 24th, and the second instance was pronounced on August 31. Except for Sun Dawu's second son, Sun Fushuo (after being forced by the court to dismiss his defense lawyer), his sentence was changed from one and a half years to probation, and Ji Weilian (after his defense lawyer was dismissed) was slightly reduced to one year's actual sentence.

In the afternoon of the same day, Sun Dawu’s wife Liu Huiru (in extremely bad physical condition), two daughter-in-laws, and a niece were sentenced by the Gaobeidian City Court in the first instance for “illegal absorption of public deposits”: Liu Huiru was sentenced to three years in prison, two daughters-in-law and one niece were convicted and exempt from punishment.

Dawu case legal team

August 31, 2021

2021年9月3日星期五获刑3年的大午集团案受害者刘会茹（孙大午妻子）的案情通报

（维权网信息中心报道）2021年9月3日。本网获悉获刑3年的大午集团案受害者刘会茹（孙大午妻子）的案情，现通报如下：
刘会茹：女，1953年10月13日出生，河北省人，知名民营企业家、河北大午农牧集团有限公司前董事长孙大午之妻，河北大午农牧有限公司核心创办人（之一），企业前高层管理者，挂职副监事长，中国在押维权人士。
1985年起，因承包了一片荒弃的砖窑和坟包地作为投资养殖业，后历经几年发展，随促成与其丈夫孙大午共同创建河北大午农牧集团有限公司之行为，并成为丈夫创业、经营发展以及日后对社会“行公义，好怜悯”等作为的坚实后盾；
2020年11月11日，因河北大午农牧集团有限公司孙大午等25位集团高管及亲属、亲信幕僚等被河北省高碑店市警方悉数带走，并被迅速以涉嫌“寻衅滋事、破坏生产经营罪”指定居所监视居住，其受牵连亦与两个儿媳等分别被带走、刑拘；
同年11月20日、12月14日，因其年事已高，又患高血压、糖尿病等多种疾病，且早已不参与大午集团的决策和经营，既不涉及违法犯罪，也不涉及暴力性犯罪，其代理律师随为其先后两次申请变更强制措施（即取保候审），但两次均被警方以“经审查，我局认为刘会茹有可能毁灭、伪造证据、干扰证人作证“为由遭拒；
2020年12月17日，被高碑店市警方以涉嫌“非法吸收公众存款罪”转正式逮捕；
后其案被高碑店市检察院起诉至至高碑店市法院；2021年8月31日，终被河北省高碑店市法院一审以“非法吸收公众存款罪”判处有期徒刑3年，刑期至2023年11月10日；同案另两个儿媳及一个侄女被判定罪免罚。
目前被羁押于河北省保定市看守所。

Since 1985, she contracted an abandoned brick kiln and graveyard to invest in aquaculture. After several years of development, she and her husband Sun Dawu co-founded Hebei Dawu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group Co., Ltd., and it became her husband’s business, A solid backing for business development and future actions such as "just and compassionate" to the society;

On November 11, 2020, 25 group executives, relatives, and trusted staff of Hebei Dawu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group Co., Ltd., including Sun Dawu, were taken away by the police in Gaobeidian City, Hebei Province. "The crime of disrupting production and business operations" designated residential surveillance for residential surveillance, and was implicated and taken away and detained separately from the two daughters-in-law;

On November 20 and December 14 of the same year, because of her advanced age and suffering from various diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, she had not participated in the decision-making and management of Dawu Group for a long time, and neither illegal nor criminal was involved. For violent crimes, her attorney then applied twice for him to change compulsory measures (that is, release on bail pending trial), but both times she was regarded by the police as “after review, our bureau believes that Liu Huiru may destroy, forge evidence, and interfere with witnesses’ testimony” Rejected by

On December 17, 2020, she was formally arrested by Gaobeidian police on suspicion of "illegal absorbing deposits from the public";

Later, her case was prosecuted by the Gaobeidian City Procuratorate to the Zhigaobeidian City Court; on August 31, 2021, he was finally sentenced to 3 years in prison for the crime of "illegal absorbing public deposits" by the Gaobeidian City Court of Hebei Province in the first instance. November 10, 2023; Two other daughter-in-laws and a niece in the same case were convicted and exempted from punishment.

Shee is currently detained in Baoding City Detention Center, Hebei Province. /2021/09/3.html

https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2021/09/3.html

The Demolition Incidents

My readers may be familiar with a story published on my websites about three years ago. The basis of the story didn't make the national headlines in China because it was a local matter; although, it represents a rather pervasive phenomenon. Several large advertising towers along the highway belonging to Dawu Group were demolished on June 16, 2018 by government departments.

The circumstance reminded the author of his experience at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1993. He asked his doctoral students to imagine they were starting up a business in their particular field of expertise. The project was to design a poster which would advertise their business. Out of his own funds he purchased the posters which were to be used.

It was amazing the degree of enthusiasm and skills the students applied to their project. This was magnified because most of the students were in theoretical rather than applied sciences. They actually had to think about the real world and what they might do after they graduated.

Their teacher was quite proud of their achievements. He displayed their posters on the walls of three classrooms. However, he ran out of space. Therefore he also posted them on the walls of the stairwells.

The Party had them all torn down within one-half hour. It may not be called demolition, but it is definitely censorship of free speech. They asked him why the posters had been put up. He explained to them that his kindergarten teacher used the same method. And everything he learned was in kindergarten--especially social skills. They didn't quite know how to respond to that reply.

Dawu Group put up large advertising signs along the highway to direct motorists to their businesses--especially out of town travellers who wanted to find the water park. They asked permission of authorities to put up the signs and they received permission. Another hundred businesses did the same thing.

Yet, one day the government arbitrarily tore down the signs without using legal procedure. They even confiscated property in the same manner. Anyone else-- except those in authority--might regard it as vandalism if not theft. The signs were sold for their scrap steel value. Of course, the government used a third party so that they could distance themselves from illegal theft. The point is that the distinction between getting permission and not getting permission is blurred because the government can act arbitrarily and even claim legality based on vague laws. However, if the government is teaching its citizenry to act as it does rather than what it says then it may unexpectedly get exactly what it wishes.

One might say that the government's dismantlement of the billboards was predicatable based on two factors. The most important was the Xiong'an New Area 雄安新区 which was established in April 2017. Xiong'an's development is taking place under the direct oversight of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. This means private signs were sacrificed by the State in the interest of public good as interpreted by the State, part of a beatification program or for any other reason.

The second factor involves precedent. The city of Beijing had announced on December 17, 2017 that 27,000 illegal signs would be demolished. These were along the 4th Ring Road which was fininished in 2001. The author is familiar with this road because he travelled on it for 45 minutes by bicycle to CAS in Zhongguancun, Haidian District so he could teach a 3 hour class and then returned on the same road in the opposite direction to teach a 3 hour class at CASS in Chaoyang District.

The battle of 4th Ring Road, so to speak, was waged on four fronts; namely, signs, safety, beatification and demolition of homes. Tens of thousands of rural migrants and workers were kicked out of their homes and forced to move back to the countryside. One woman was thrown out of her home, thrown out of a hostel the next day and thrown out of another hostel on the third day.

The dismantlement of billboards in the Xiong'an area in 2018 was also a harbinger of things to come. Billboards are basically signs. However, symbols are much more important. Dawu SUN, Dawu Group and Dawu City are related symbols. They symbolize freedom, family enterprise, democracy, constitutionalism and moral principles. The three symbols are perceived as threats to the Communist Party because of their proximity to the the Xiong'an New Area.

Dawu City is a socialist, utopian paradise of common prosperity. It is based on goodness rather than evilness. The model encourages people to be good and it begins with the family and earlier with ancestors and rites. On the other hand, the Party's model is top down. It assumes that force is necessary because people are born evil. Of course, it may be said that evil is in the eye of the beholder.

It can be perceived that SUN Dawu is much like Confucius who searched for a ruler to serve. According to a new book called of The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin, Confucius asked seventy-two different rulers if he could serve them. Ironically, it seems, he also had seventy-two pupils who mastered his thought, but they were not rulers.

Unfortunately for Sun--China has only one ruler. China is ruled by only one thought. It is Xi Jinping Thought. It is a situation reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse-tung who wanted to preserve Chinese Communism and his own authority by imposing Mao Tse-tung Thought as the dominant ideology.

There is a difference though between Confucius and SUN Dawu with respect to the times they lived. Confucius lived in the Spring and Autumn period of the Zhou Dynasty. He was arrested only temporarily because of misidentification. However, if Confucius had lived in the Qin Dynasty he likely would have been persecuted or perhaps executed through burial along with 460 Confucian scholars. The author classifies Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Thought as "Tough Thought".

It was not enough for the Party to establish a committee at Dawu Group. It was not enough for the Party to require systematic government access to private-sector data at Dawu Group as they have required throughout China. It was not enough to hold a local meeting of the Party at Dawu Group around the time of the trial.

What was required was the arrest of more than 20 family members and company executives of Dawu Group along with the seizure of the Dawu Group Ltd. What was required was replacement of all 30 managers of the subsidiaries with officials sympathetic to the Party if not outright Party members. What was required was the conviction of SUN Dawu and others on charges of "Picking quarrels" 寻衅滋事 which the author calls "Peking quarrels" even though those quarrels were provoked by organs of the State. What was required by the Party was the Annihilation of the Dawu Group Family Enterprise reminiscent of the Annihilation of the Kong (Confucius) Family Enterprise 捣毁孔家店 in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution.

The trigger for the arrests and seizure of Dawu Group 大午集团 were the land dispute incidents of 6.21 and 8.4 against Xushui State Farm in 2020 which are known in Chinese as 2020年针对徐水国营农场的6.21和8.4土地纠纷. Three of the charges relate specifically to the 8.4 incident of August 04, 2020. The following abbreviated account is provided through the courtesy of China Change.

"The “August 4 incident” specifically refers to a series of collective rights’ protection actions by Dawu Group employees on August 4, 2020, when the Xushui District Public Security Bureau (徐水区公安局) intervened with excessive force in the land dispute between Dawu Group and a state-owned farm.

At the end of July 2020, the Dawu Group built fences and prefabricated mobile houses on the Sijiatai (四家台) lot for farming and management needs in accordance with the land contract signed with Langwuzhuang village (郎五庄).

On August 4, 2020, the state-owned farm obtained the protection of a large number of police from the Xushui District Public Security Bureau (PSB) through a mere written request without prior notice to Dawu Group, without negotiating with Dawu or taking other legal approaches. The state farm personnel unilaterally demolished Dawu's enclosure and mobile houses valued at 18,000 yuan..."

In retrospect, one can see that the demolitions began outside of the Dawu Group on the highways leading up to it. It involved the destruction of billboards or property owned by Dawu Group which were used for advertising purposes. The company had legal permission to erect those billboards. Dawu Group's staff claimed the demolition was done by government departments. The mayor actually said "Your Dawu Company must support the work of the government!" Basically, the Dawu response was as long as it complies with the law. The author seems to recall that the total loss to the Dawu Group amounted to $100,000 US and the loss to business is incalculable.

On August 04, 2020 another demolition took place at Dawu City. It was a building owned by Dawu Group. The building had been erected a few days earlier. This was done in accordance with a land contract with Langwuzhuang village (where SUN Dawu was born). However, the building was demolished without notice under a police protective umbrella. While the damage done amounted to only about $3000 US; nevertheless, the demolition was planned in advance as a provocation by an organ of the State. A civil disturbance and resistance ensued. In the immediate aftermath, Dawu Group employees were arrested. No one who was responsible for the demolition was arrested. No police were arrested. All of this resulted in the midnight arrest of the Great Noon (SUN Dawu) and executives of the company by police wielding submachine guns on November 11, 2020. In effect, the entire Dawu Group Ltd. was also seized by the State.

D. Carlton Rossi
October 18, 2021

Beijing is rapidly demolishing its own city, and 27,000 billboards are next,
Tara Francis Chan Dec 4, 2017
https://www.businessinsider.com/beijing-after-mass-evictions-comes-billboard-campaign-2017-12

Briefing on the Seventh Day of Dawu Trial
Dawu Legal Team, July 21, 2021
https://chinachange.org/2021/07/24/briefing-on-the-seventh-day-of-dawu-trial/

民营企业“大悟公司”大型广告牌被拆除（博讯2018年6月22日转载）
The large-scale billboard of the private enterprise "Dawu Company" was demolished (Reproduced by Boxun on June 22, 2018.
https://bnn.co/news/gb/china/2018/06/201806222201.shtml

Linda Jaivin, The Shortest History of China, Published by Black Inc.: Carlton Australia, 2021.

El Paso Stage

You probably regard the Western movies as a thing of the past. You'd be correct. However, you may want to view an episode of Have Gun Will Travel on a streaming platform. It stared Richard Boone as Paladin who had a gun for hire. Boone was himself a descendant of the famous Daniel Boone who had fought at The Alamo. The guest star who was the town marshall was Buddy Epsen of Beverly Hillbilly fame.

What might entice you to watch the episode is that it was written by Gene Roddenberry. He went from the Western genre to the Original Star Trek series which is now history itself. This western series though is written much better than the original Star Trek.

It is surprising how philosophical this episode is as is the whole series which lasted for six seasons. Paladin was a man who could draw a fast gun and lived by it. However, he only used it as was necessary for survival in the Wild West.

The episode distinguishes between legality and morality. It posits that morality is above legality. The town's sheriff who is legally appointed to enforce the law is neverthess an immoral man. He kills the mayor's son and also the mayor in the name of the law. He runs a gambling establishment which cheats its customers. Paladin though does not use his gun until he has to.

I'm reminded of Sun Dawu's viewpoint. He respected the law--even if it was incorrect ie. not based on reason. He was sentenced to 18 years for vague laws which were indiscriminately applied through a corrupt legal system. In his last public words upon sentencing he thanked the court.

One can't help making a comparison with Socrates who was sentenced to death because the people wanted a scapegoat for the reign of the 30 tyrants. In the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards undertook in 1966 to annihilate the Kong Family Business. In Cultural Revolution 2, the "red guards" undertook to Annihilate the Dawu Group Family Business based on the "guards" distaste of Confucian principles and rule of law. The sherrif so to speak is morally corrupt and sees white as black.

However, Sun Dawu puts morality above or ahead of legality. It was Confucian morality based on the family that had been followed by the Chinese for thousands of years. It was a morality that promoted rule of law rather than the lawlessness of rule by law. Which will prevail in terms of survival? The Qin 秦 Dynasty based on rule by law and fear lasted only 15 years from 221-206 BCE.

D. Carlton Rossi
October 12, 2021

April 15, 1961

El Paso Stage
Guest star: Buddy Epsen
4.30 [147] Have Gun - Will Travel: EL PASO STAGE
15Apr61 CBS
SE 04 Episode 30 (Season 4 Episode 30)

DIRECTED BY ROBERT BUTLER.
WRITTEN BY GENE RODDENBERRY

Chef Wang Yu serves the restaurant's signature Beijing Duck at Quan Ju De in Vancouver on Oct. 5, 2021

The Beijing Duck at Quan Ju De is legendary, and its Vancouver location does not disappoint

Alexandra Gill Vancouver
Taehoon Kim/The Globe and Mail

October 09, 2021

Quan Ju De, which opened with inauspicious fanfare in February of 2020 shortly after a jeep crashed through its front windows at 12th and Cambie, hails from venerable lineage that goes back to the Qing Dynasty. The signature is Beijing Duck at Quan Ju De. One of China’s most renowned roast duck chains, Quan Ju De serves more than two million ducks a year across four continents.

Beijing Duck

The article about the Quan Ju De restaurant has taken me back in time. I pretend not to be nostalgic, but am reminded about what Joan Baez sang in "Diamonds and Rust". She refers to Bob Dylan who as a lover pretends not to be nostagic, but then uses another word for it.

Perhaps my best, lifetime, culinary experience was back in 1995 in Beijing. It was my fourth year of teaching at the graduate level. I was a guest of the State as a designated Foreign Expert at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). I had also been employed at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In another post and in another city in the new century I taught high school students at perhaps the most prestigious, Communist Foreign Language school in China. It is the Changchun Foreign Languages School 长春外国语学校 in Jilin Province. It was founded in 1963 under Premier Zhou Enlai's supervision.

This means that today I am a rather unique type of civil rights activist. I worked on behalf of the State. I saw the State from the inside. I understood the State as few in our foreign embassy in Beijing did or do.

Bian Yi Fang

The restaurant was known as the No. 1 Peking Duck restaurant in China. Beijing was still called Peking by some back then and Beijing Duck was called Peking Duck. The host was my director whose name was Professor Luo Xiwen of the Department of Philosophy. He was the foremost translator of the medical classics which represent one-half of Chinese classics.

The restaurant was called Bian Yi Fang which is located close to Tiananmen Square. Its history dates back to the 1400's. It was like going back in time when men were men, women were women and ducks were ducks. The meal, atmosphere and comaraderie was unforgettable. I was informed how Zhou Enlai 周恩来 had conducted his "duck diplomacy" at the restaurant when his guests were Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.

Zhou Enlai 國共內戰時期周恩來

Ironically, one of my fondest tea ceremonies about a decade later was indirectly connected to Zhou Enlai. It was at the Summer Palace which is on the western outskirts of Beijing. A colleague and I decided to visit it late in the day.

His name was Gary Small. There was nothing small about Gary because he had been a Canadian engineer who had programmed Canada's robotic arm. He had also designed the anti-counterfeiting features of our plastic money and sold the patents to the Canadian government. On this inspiration, I designed the world's first gold bank note with a strip of gold foil to give the note intrinic value of trust.

I remember saying to Gary that it was rather late in the day to go to the Summer Palace, but he insisted on a visit so we took a fast cab. We saw a little of the Palace and then decided to have a cup of tea. I tried to read the tea leaves, but my future was rather cloudy. The leaves didn't tell me that I would momentarily become a prisoner.

We were the only guests in a large teahouse probably due to the late hour. It was obvious that the teahouse had seen better days. Those days were ones when Zhou Enlai had visited and entertained his guests. I believe we were seated at that same table. Subsequent research indicates that no one was allowed to sit at that table, so my memory may mislead me; although, we were the only ones there so maybe it was allowed. At any rate, we had a quick tea ceremony as we became more aware of the late hour.

We rushed to the exit gate of the Summer Palace. The Palace had closed five minutes earlier. The huge gate with its two foot threshhold was locked. In effect, we were temporary prisoners. The guards though allowed us to exit. While we took no pictures; nevertheless, it was something for the both of us to remember or forget as the case may be.

D. Carlton Rossi
October 12, 2021

2003 Trial

Selected Works of Xu Zhiyong
Freedom, justice, love

November 9, 2012

The Illegal Survival of a Private Enterprise——In Defense of Sun Dawu

We know clearly that it is difficult to defend Sun Dawu’s innocence, and the court’s conviction based on vague legal provisions cannot be counted as wrong. However, we still insist on defending Sun Dawu’s innocence. At the same time, our more important job is to try to tell people if Sun Dawu is guilty. The conviction is not his fault, it is a problem with national laws.

Providing legal assistance to Sun Dawu is not only for Mr. Sun Dawu himself, but also for many private entrepreneurs who have experienced similar experiences. In order to have a better environment for the survival and development of our private enterprises, and for the reform to continue in-depth, we are willing to make efforts to promote social change.

Legal volunteers.

Defending Sun Dawu 2003 Link

Citizens Movement Advocates Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Indicted for Subversion on Scant, Slanderous ‘Evidence’

China Change, September 25, 2021

They and their growing but loose network of citizens, who have embraced the concept of changing China for the better by putting into practice rights written on the paper, have carefully and deliberately avoided the perils of being an “organization,” precisely because there is no freedom of association in China — despite being guaranteed by the constitution — and all such attempts by dissidents were crushed with heavy-handed punishment during the 1990s and 2000s.

The citizens movement has never had an organizational structure, nor leaders and membership. Instead, this like-minded network of citizens gathered regularly in different cities across China, discussing China’s political system, people’s livelihood, human rights defense, and things they could do to be more like real citizens, rather than passive subjects.

But it has become clear from information made public by participants of the Xiamen gathering who had been interrogated and from lawyers who have met with Xu and Ding that the primary goal of the Chinese authorities was to frame this loose network of citizens as an “illegal organization,” and multiple participants of the Xiamen gathering were coerced to make false testimonies to that effect.

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https://chinachange.org/2021/09/25/civil-rights-activists-xu-zhiyong-and-ding-jiaxi-indicted-for-subversion-on-scant-slanderous-evidence/

孙大午：充分放权、敢担责任！

2020-08-15 大午传承

记得小时候学过《诗经》里的一首诗，一个新嫁娘，一进婆家的院子，发现猪在院子里到处跑。这个新嫁娘就说：“怎么能让猪满院子跑呢，赶紧把猪都圈起来。”别人都笑她，说她还没进门就开始管事了。

我想，这个新娘是人没到位，思想已经到位了，虽然刚进门，还没有正式拜堂，可是她的心已经进了这个家了，开始站在主妇的角度来处理事情。这就是主人翁意识的体现。

只有敢担责任的人，才会争权要权，才会恰当地使用权力。这里说的“争权”不是篡权，篡权是采取不正当的手段，将权力从有权者手中夺过来，争权不是这样的，争权争的是一种责任。

传统文化里有“位卑未敢忘忧国”、“天下兴亡，匹夫有责”的说法，那些志向高洁的人，即使地位卑微，生活窘迫，也一样心忧天下、希望为国家出力。在企业也一样，一个职位不高、挣钱不多的员工，如果能够为整个集团操心，就是很有前途的人。哪怕他做的事很小，但他立志高远，这就了不起。如果企业向这样的员工充分放权，他就敢打主意，敢担责任，为企业多做贡献。

孙大午：充分放权、敢担责任！
企业放权了，员工敢不敢用权是很关键的，因为用权就要担责任，担责任就有风险，就有可能因为决策失误而受到批评。正确的做法是自己要敢用权，即使事情做错了，被领导批评了，也有足够的心理承受力，并自我完善，把权力行使得越来越好，这是很不容易的。集团原来有个干部，自己做主花了八千多块钱买了一张办公桌，被领导说了两句，结果他甩手就走了，连招呼都不打。这样的人，你给他多大权力，他也用不好。

大午集团的充分放权是成功的。一是因为企业敢于放权，二就是有一批员工敢于用权，敢担责任，又能自我完善。我希望我们企业的干部员工都能主动争权要权，多拿主意。

集团有个不成文的规定，当下级向上级请示工作时，如果下级没拿出自己的意见，上级不会表态。这实际上也是在鼓励下级自己做主，敢担责任，而且处在第一线的人，他的处理意见常常是最佳的意见、最优的决策。以服务为例，第一线的人最清楚该不该赠送客人果盘，该不该给客人免单。

如果我们的员工都敢担责任，把企业当成自己的家，就是放权给他们，他们也舍不得随意给别人免单，他们会想办法把问题处理好。为什么说是想办法，而不是按照规章制度处理问题？因为服务不是机械性的，而是灵活多变的，某些具体事务的处理，很难靠明确的条文来规范，更多的是凭借人的经验和领悟。

过去很多有名的餐饮老店，都是师傅带徒弟，师傅用言传身教的办法，把自己在工作中的直接经验和感悟传给徒弟，让徒弟学会怎么为客人服务。

企业放权之后，有可能出现两个问题，一是员工不敢担责任；二是放权以后，员工因为心向企业，导致过于重视企业的利益，过于精打细算，比领导还刻板，不肯给予客人优惠。

第一个问题，员工不敢担责任，表现就是事不关己，高高挂起，多一事不如少一事，我少工作就少犯错误，不拿主意就不担责任。这是员工没有主人翁意识的体现。

第二个问题，员工敢担责任，可是他比经理、厂长把得还死。比如说菜里有根头发，他也舍不得给客人换一份，甚至和客人争吵。在咱们的企业里，这种现象并不少见，比如有的单位刚刚出台了优惠政策，或者产品降价了，有的业务员认为，反正客户也不知道，就还按原价售给客户，这种做法很不好。既然出台了优惠政策，就一定要落实到位，让客户享受到这种优惠，这才是我们企业的经营之道。

我想，当我们的服务员向客人赠送果盘甚至免单时，一定是在某一项服务上出了问题，可是他们通过赠果盘、免单，挽回了服务不到位的影响，企业的收益是最大的。如果有一个该免单的没有免，这一个人可能影响十个客户。如果真有不该免单的免了，客人也不会白吃你的，就是客人真的白吃一顿，又能有多大的损失呢？让客人感觉在咱们的企业里吃了亏，绝不是明智的做法。相反，只有大气一些，让客人得到更多实惠，我们的路才会越走越宽。

来源：https://twgreatdaily.com/zh-cn/gCzS8HMBLq-Ct6CZMJrj.html

Sun Dawu: Fully delegate power and dare to take responsibility!

2020-08-15 Dawu Heritage

I had to learn a poem from the "Book of Songs" when I was young. When a newly married woman entered the yard of her husband's house, she found pigs running around in the yard. The newlyweds said: "How can you let pigs run around the yard? Get all the pigs in a circle." Everyone laughed at her, saying that she had started to take care of her affairs before she even entered the door.

I think this bride is not in place, and the thoughts are in place. Although she has just entered the door and has not yet formally visited the house, her heart has already entered the house, and she has begun to deal with things from the perspective of a housewife. This is the manifestation of the sense of ownership.

Only those who dare to bear the responsibility will fight for power and use power appropriately. The "struggle for power" mentioned here is not usurpation of power. Usurpation of power is to take improper means to seize power from those in power. This is not the case when fighting for power is a kind of responsibility.

There are sayings in traditional culture that "the humble position does not dare to forget about the country" and "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of everyone." Those with noble ambitions, even if they are humble and live in distress, still worry about the world and hope to contribute to the country. The same is true in the enterprise. An employee with a low position and low income can be a promising person if he can worry about the entire group. Even if what he does is small, he is determined to be lofty, which is remarkable. If the enterprise fully delegates power to such employees, he will dare to make ideas, dare to take responsibility, and make more contributions to the enterprise.

Sun Dawu: Fully delegate power and dare to take responsibility!
When an enterprise is decentralized, it is very important for employees to dare to use power, because when using power, one must bear responsibility, and when assuming responsibility, there is a risk that they may be criticized for making mistakes in decision-making. The correct approach is to dare to use power. Even if things are done wrong and criticized by the leader, they have enough psychological endurance and self-improvement to make power better and better. This is not easy. There used to be a cadre in the group who bought a desk for more than 8,000 yuan. The leader said a few words, but he waved his hand and left without even saying hello. Such a person, how much power you give him, he can't use it well.

Dawu Group's full decentralization is successful. One is because the company dares to delegate power, and the other is that there are a group of employees who dare to use power, assume responsibility, and improve themselves. I hope that the cadres and employees of our company can take the initiative to fight for power and make more decisions.

The group has an unwritten rule that when subordinates ask their superiors for instructions, if the subordinates do not give their opinions, the superiors will not make a statement. In fact, this is also to encourage the subordinates to make the decision on their own, dare to take the responsibility, and those who are on the front line, their handling opinions are often the best opinions and the best decisions. Take service as an example. People on the front line know best whether they should give guests a fruit plate or give them a free order.

If our employees dare to take the responsibility and treat the company as their own home, it means to delegate power to them. They are also reluctant to give others free bills. They will find a way to deal with the problem. Why is it to find a way instead of dealing with the problem in accordance with the rules and regulations? Because the service is not mechanical, but flexible, it is difficult to regulate the handling of certain specific affairs by clear provisions, and it is more dependent on human experience and understanding.

In the past, many well-known catering establishments used their masters to lead their apprentices. The masters used words and deeds to teach their apprentices, so that they could learn how to serve their guests.

After the decentralization of the enterprise, there may be two problems. One is that employees dare not take responsibility; the other is that after the decentralization, employees pay too much attention to the interests of the enterprise because of their attachment to the enterprise. .

The first problem is that employees don’t dare to take responsibility. The performance is that it’s nothing to do with them. This is a manifestation of employees' lack of ownership.

The second question is that employees dare to take responsibility, but he is more deadly than the manager and the factory director. For example, if there is a hair in the dish, he is reluctant to change one to the customer, and even argue with the customer. In our companies, this phenomenon is not uncommon. For example, some units have just introduced preferential policies, or the prices of products have been reduced, and some salespersons believe that anyway, customers don’t know, so they sell them to customers at the original price. The practice is very bad. Now that the preferential policy has been introduced, it must be put in place so that customers can enjoy this preferential treatment. This is the way our company operates.

I think that when our waiter presents a fruit plate or even a free order to the customer, there must be a problem with a certain service, but they have restored the impact of the lack of service through the gift plate and free order, and the company's profit is the largest of. If there is no waiver that should be waived, this person may affect ten customers. If there are really waivers that shouldn’t be waived, the guests won’t eat you for nothing, that is, how much loss can the guests have if they eat for nothing? It is by no means wise to make customers feel that they have suffered a loss in our enterprise. On the contrary, only with more atmosphere and more benefits for customers, our road will become wider and wider.

Source: https://twgreatdaily.com/zh-cn/gCzS8HMBLq-Ct6CZMJrj.html

The poet is reminded of Odysseus's return home as he confronts the suitors.

无限 Infinity 沙漏 Sandglass

From Infinity to Time as Measured by a Sandglass

The Mandate of Heaven was a compact between the people of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BCE-256 BCE) and the supreme god. It conferred legitimacy on the Zhou ruler. The ruler was bound to uphold harmony and honor within the empire. The Zhou was the longest lasting dynasty at 790 years.

The Han Dynasty (202 BCE-220 BCE) was the second longest imperial dynasty at 422 years. The Four Seas (四海) concept was a pre-Han Dynasty belief which was held since at least the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty. However, the Han Dynasty defined it more clearly and expanded upon the concept. The seas included the East China Sea, South China Sea, Lake Balkash as the West Sea and Lake Baikal as the North Sea.

Today, China's offshore Four Seas are the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China. It was announced on November 28, 2011 that military exercises were held near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, East Sea, in the north Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. The exercises continue to the present time.

The most disputed area with respect to legal rights pertains to the South China Sea. On September 25, 2017, China announced a claim called the Four Sha” (四沙 meaning four sand). It extends sovereignty and maritime jurisdiction to the island groups called Dongsha, Xisha, Nansha, and Zhongsha.

The poet is reminded of the "X" symbol in the middle of the ruler on the Selden Map. It resembles infinity. The symbol is employed by the poet on both the Northwest Rectangle (Silk Road trade routes) and expanded Illustration D (includes Maritime Trade Routes) to define the extent of Chinese territory based in part on the old and modified concept of Four Seas during the Han Dynasty. The horizontal infinity symbol represents an unlimited period of time.

With respect to the human time span one might consider the period from the Zhou to the Qing Dynasty which is exceedingly long. However, if the infinity symbol is turned so that it becomes vertical it resembles a sandglass or hour glass. It measures short periods of time. For example, the shift for a Chinese sailor during the Ming Dynasty as measured by a sandglass was two and a half hours or one tenth of the day. Therefore, the shift from what had been the Nine Dash Line to a shifting sands Four Sha claim seems to be equivalent to that of a sandglass with respect to time. It is short and rather fleeting compared to the longer 2957 year period from Zhou to Qing which involved both the Mandate of Heaven compact and the Four Seas concept.

However, the Chinese government and Communist Party is officially atheist. They have connected the Four Seas which are adjacent to China. Since the South China Sea links the Pacific and Indian Oceans it then becomes part of the One Belt One Road plan which is an expanded view of Xi Jinping Thought. One Belt One Road has been renamed the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) which is intended to join China with more than 100 countries through railroad, shipping and energy projects.

The BRI may be regarded as a grandiose scheme. Historically speaking, how have grandiose schemes fared in Chinese history? Qin Shi Huangdi (秦始皇) was the first emperor of a united China. In the North, he built the precursor of the Great Wall to defend the Qin state from the Xiongnu and in the South he built the Lingqu canal to transport supplies to the army. He was unable to secure an elixir of life from the island of Zhifu which has since joined the mainland by sand and soil of the sea's floor. His Plan B was to build a tomb and 35 to 60 kilometer square necropolis for the afterlife. The Qin Dynasty (秦朝) was one of the shortest since it lasted only fourteen years from 221 BCE-206 BCE.

Then there was the Yongle Emperor (永樂帝) who was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He reigned from 1402 CE-1424 CE. He called for a massive reconstruction of the Grand Canal. He also continued the building of the Ming Great Wall as a defensive measure and to protect his tomb. The Forbidden City of the new capital of Beijing took years to build at great expense. The inauguration took place on February 2, 1421. On May 09, 1421 the Forbidden City was struck by lightning. The fire burned down the Hall of Great Harmony, Central Harmony and Preserving Harmony. The Emperor lost the Mandate of Heaven.

Before the fire, the emperor had sponsored ZHENG He's sixth expedition of nine-masted treasure ships which sailed on March 03, 1421. The main purpose of the Treasure Fleet was to display Chinese might in order to secure tribute as early as 1409. A fleet of smaller vessels had sailed down the Sungari and Amur Rivers to Telin (特林) where the poet argues the Peng is located and the boundary of the Empire. The expenditures of the construction projects and the Treasure Fleet as well as ill-fated military expeditions left the empire in poor financial straits.

The main problem with the grandiose Belt and Road Initiative (involving the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road) is that there is no clear idea of its cost, timeline or extent.The cost estimates vary from $1 trillion to $8 trillion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies said in 2018 that China's trillion dollar infrastucture promise may not be met for several years. The main danger to the program seems to be inflated expections--especially if $8 trillion promises are touted as they have been by commentaries in the Hong Kong Economic Journal and mirrored by the Asian Development Bank. One might say that inflated promises of spending encourage countries to curry favour with China in order to secure funding. Is currying favour not the equivalent of paying tribute?

The China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has taken part in BRI projects. It is said to be "the fulcrum of China’s BRI ambitions". Five of its entities have been placed on The Entity List of The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The BIS placed restrictions on the companies which enabled the People's Republic of China to reclaim and militarize disputed outposts in the South China Sea.

D. Carlton Rossi
2020年10月26日

https://web.archive.org/web/20210122201442/http://sundawu.ca/Sun_Dawu.html

Illustration D

The Selden Map is provided courtesy of the Bodleian Library for educational purposes only

The poet is revisiting an image revealed to him on February 11, 2017 in order to make a descriptive comment on it. The image is superimposed on The Selden Map of the seventeenth century. It may surprise the reader to realize that he/she is viewing a poem. It is a poem of D. Carlton Rossi. It is a poem in the style of Poetic Analytic Imagery or to be specific Poetic Analytics of Imagery through Streams of Consciousness and Unconsciousness.

In this case, the poem is called Illustration D because the poet actually did not want to name it more specifically or for that matter describe it. He wanted the onlooker to see it without interpretation much as one would look at a painting in an art gallery or without commentary as one would read a poem.

An exception is made to the rule at this time because on The Selden Map he is now contrasting an unnamed poem involving a sandglass with a new poem involving the infinity sign. In other words, a rectangle is divided by an X into four parts. The infinity sign is horizontal and the sandglass sign is vertical stressing two different concepts of time and space. These signs are within Illustration D.

The viewer may appreciate the beauty of the geometric form evidenced in the illustration. Basically, it shows the Mandate of Heaven in the Middle Kingdom around 1619; that is, the relation of heaven, man and earth. More practically, it shows maritime trade routes complimenting older Silk Trade Routes on land. The emphasis though is on Beijing rather than Xian which was highlighted in an image poem called North-West Rectangle.

A brief description of Illustration D follows. The most important vertical line goes through the middle of the horizontal infinity symbol and the vertical sandglass sign. It also goes upward through a large yellow square. In the center of the large square is the smaller square. At its bottom is Beijing and within it is the Forbidden City and within it is the Temple of Heaven and within it is the Observatory near which sacrifices were made.

The small square is superinposed on another image. It is an outline of the Emperor dressed in Ming Dynasty style attire . As far as the poet knows he is the only one who has seen this hidden image. It is an image of the Emperor blowing the wind. Beijing is located in the Cap of the Emperor. It may be imagined that the Emperor is protected by the wall around the Forbidden City and one can see the Great Wall which protects China at the top of the Cap.

The line then continues north or upwards through the smaller infinity sign in the middle of the ruler. It progresses onward to the North Circumpolar Rectangle or Polar Quadrilateral. At the top of the large yellow square is the yellow rectangle (NCR). At the top of the square and rectangle is the center of the compass. It represents the location of Draconis A (an ancient Pole Star).

At the top, left-hand corner of the large square the poet has identified the Yanran Inscription within an horizontal rectangle. It marks a major victory of the Han over the Xiongnu Confederacy in 89 CE. The line then goes through the point at the center of the compass. It then goes eastward to the middle of the vertical rectangle representing the void. In other words, the importance of a major victory is contrasted with the unimportance of nothingness.

A poetic interpretation of The Selden Map through geometric form is relevant today. It defines the historical boundaries of modern China. Generally speaking, the Four Seas of the Han Dynasty mark the North, South, West and East boundaries of the Empire as defined in Illustration D and as explained in the poet's thesis called The Selden Poems. This illustration may or may not provide historical justification for China's claim to some or all of the South China Sea through either force or discourse based on the harmony of heaven, mankind and earth as a moral or legal imperative. However, it acts as an historical reference and guide for all parties.

The map itself is named after John Selden who wrote the draft for Mare Clausum or the closed sea in 1618 and the final version in 1635. He attempted to prove that the sea was "in practice virtually as capable of appropriation as terrestial territory." In the area of the South China Sea it contrasts to the Dutch East India Company's claim to an open sea enforced in 1619 with their seizure of the Javanese city of Jayakarta. The doctrine of the open sea was promulgated by Hugo Grotius in his Mare Liberum (1609) with respect to the Dutch involvement in the West Indies.

Illustration E

The poem called Illustration E is a refinement of Illustration D. The compass rose is now circled in yellow as if if it were the Sun. This acts as a counterpart to the square below. It suggests the circle could be theoretically squared.

One may also conjecture that the small yellow circle within the compass represents Draconis 11 while the small circle at the bottom of the yellow square represents Draconis 10. These small circles are the Pole Star and its binary companion respectively. The poet contends there were actually two Pole Stars. They rotate around a common barycenter.

D. Carlton Rossi
2020年10月25日

https://web.archive.org/web/20201210191822/http://www.sundawu.ca/Sun_Dawu.html

National Microbiology Institute

The Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) was set up as a global network of connected professionals working to rapidly detect, identify, assess, prevent and mitigate threats to human health. GPHIN is managed by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR), which was created in July 2000. The network was disbanded in May 2019.

Curiously, an exact date is not given in public records. To me this is not an oversight, but rather a deliberate omission to obfuscate an issue of timing.

PHAC would have us believe that the network slowly wound down over the years until it just ceased to exist in the manner in which old soldiers just fade away. It also tried to give the impression that a domestic agenda superceded an international one. However, global pandemics almost by definition become domestic agendas.

What the author would like to know is if PHAC became aware in May 2019 of the emergence of a coronavirus in Wuhan? Through a multilingual GPHIN System which was developed in collaboration with the National Research Council Canada (NRC)--under the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development--it was undertaking text analytics of Chinese news. Did PHAC through GPHIN detect the emergence of a coronvirus in Wuhan which led to the dismantlement of the system. Did this ultimately lead to the removal of Dr. Qiu Xiangguo and her husband Cheng Keding and up to 15 students for "administrative matters" from the National Microbiology Institute in Winnipeg Canada on July 5, 2019?

Dr. Qiu had close ties with the Level 4 lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan. "She sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth [Ebol], and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military"1. She also sent them Nipah viruses.

D. Carlton Rossi
October 05, 2021

1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-sent-deadly-viruses-to-wuhan-lab-months-before-rcmp-asked-to-investigate

WHO scientist wants closer look at Wuhan lab that moved days before COVID-19 outbreak

New York Post

By Natalie O'Neill

August 13, 2021 4:46pm Updated

A Wuhan lab that was quietly moved by Chinese officials in December 2019 — drawing scrutiny from a World Health Organization scientist — operated under a mild safety level protocol where workers weren’t necessarily required to wear masks, officials said in reports.

At least one employee of the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention facility — different than the city’s much-discussed Wuhan Institute of Virology — tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies due to “a family cluster transmission,” though it’s unclear when the tests were conducted, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a World Health Organization report.

The lab, where Chinese scientists research mild human diseases with bats, was moved near the seafood market where the first COVID-19 cases were found just days before the outbreak, WHO investigators said.

The revelation comes as Dr. Ben Embarek, the Danish head of a WHO-led team of investigators that probe the viruses’ origins, said in an interview this week that more information is needed about the lab’s move.

“It’s interesting that the lab relocated on the 2nd of December 2019: That’s the period where it all started,” Embarek, a food safety and animal diseases expert, said in a documentary that aired on the Danish television channel TV2.

“We know that when you move a lab, it disturbs everything…That entire procedure is always a disruptive element in the daily work routine of a lab,” he said.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/13/who-scientist-eyes-on-wuhan-lab-that-moved-before-pandemic/

The Wuhan CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) was a separate lab from the Wuhan Virology Institute. They were both located closely together in a less populous area. The Wuhan CDC was a level 2 lab with lower security level than the level 4 biohazard lab of the Wuhan Virology Institute which handled the most dangerous viruses.

Why was the Wuhan CDC Level 2 Institute moved on December 2, 2019? There is some circumstantial evidence in terms of satellite surveillance of hospital parking lots that there was something unusual going on as early as mid-November with respect to attendance and/or admittance at the hospitals. This may have been due to what became known as COVID-19.

Why was the Wuhan CDC Level 2 Institute moved to its present location in Wuhan. The answer is that it is closer to the Wet Market. One may assume that both purchases and sales of live animals were done at the market.

It is difficult to undertand though why the CDC Level 2 Institute was moved to a high density location in terms of population rather than to a more remote area. It couldn't be solely because of close proximity to a Wet Market for sake of convenience. One may conjecture that it was where there were more medical facilities with isolation units to handle an outbreak of COVID-19 which had already begun.

Would the relationship between the Wuhan CDC Level 2 Institute and the Wuhan Virology Institute have necessitated a move? This is a distinct possibility if the move was intended to curtail or cut-off the spread of a virus from a Level 2 to a Level 4 facility. One may assume that safety procedures at the Level 4 facility were were intensified even if procedures at the Level 2 facility may have been temporarily compromised in a potentially unplanned and quick move to downtown Wuhan. It may be also that the Level 2 facility was designated as the sole institution to contact with the Wet Market.

D. Carlton Rossi
September 14, 2021

The Shattered ‘Paradise’ of Agricultural Mogul Sun Dawu

August 31, 2021

Leo Timm

Though a CCP member and professed socialist, Sun believed in the capacity of the Chinese people to work for themselves. The backwardness and poverty of the countryside, he frequently argued, had little to do with the inability of China’s farmers to turn profits, but stemmed from the preponderance of crushing government regulations and taxes.

Speaking with the Chinese-language Epoch Times, Wang lamented that the Party saw people like Sun, “who have ideals and create prosperity for the people,” as enemies. “These people are society’s conscience, and they are hard to find. It is they who lead society forward.” But the CCP “is practicing totalitarianism, it is going backward, so any force that stops this backsliding will be increasingly suppressed and destroyed.”

For Cao, the Dawu Group’s accomplishments show “what a private citizen and a private company can do for the country, for a place, and for the people with a little freedom and policy support from the government. But I’m afraid, politically, that’s exactly where the CCP now sees danger,” Cao, the editor of China Change, wrote.

Sun had said in his numerous speeches that China’s countryside had no shortage of talent, labor, capital, or markets; only a lack of freedom.

https://truthusa.us/china-news/the-shattered-paradise-of-agricultural-mogul-sun-dawu/

One reason Dawu Group was successful was that it stressed self-suffiency. The concept of self-sufficiency matches Xi Jinping's goal for the country. One problem with the Dawu Group model may have been that it was too self-sufficient in that it did not rely enough on government. For example, it may have been "out of sync" with government regulations in some areas. Sun Dawu has conceded as much.

As a result, a dispute arose in the summer of 2020 between Dawu Group and a state-owned organ known as Xushui State Farm. At other times it is referred to as Baoding State Farm so the author is not exactly sure who the owners are. To use a bodily reference, Xushui State Farm might be considered to be the equivalent of a vestigial organ such as an earlobe.

The local regulatory, administrative issues assumed national, political importance on the 100th anniversary of the CCP. In fact, it was reported at one point that prosecutors wished to hold the criminal trial of Dawu Group's employees on July 1, 2021 in Baoding or when the Chinese Communist Party was celebrating at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Were they just trying to curry favour with the leader at the expense of national issues such as alleviation and elimination of poverty, redistribution of weath and achievement of common prosperity?

Mao Tse-tung introduced the concept of "common prosperity" in 1953. In 1958, he visited Xushui District, Hebei Province to better understand the situation of the peasants and to promote the Great Leap Forward. Today, it seems that more understanding of the state-organ known as Xushui State Farm and Dawu Group is required by the national leadership if it wishes to promote "common prosperity" in the rural areas of China. Is "common prosperity" furthered with the imprisonment of Dawu Group executives and with the local government takeover of a thriving agricultural enterprise which serves the people? Dawu Group is not only now "run" by the local government, but is being "run down" by it. Is this the model of "common prosperity" for the rural areas of China? The peasants, farmers and migrants might think differently. It may be time for another visit to Xushui District by the national leadership if it wishes to follow in the steps of Mao Tse-tung.

D. Carlton Rossi
September 1, 2021

The Dawu Magic Bus

https://孙大午.cn THE CCP'S ILLEGAL FRAME OF SUN DAWU IS UNPOPULAR

https://孙大午.com THE CCP'S ILLEGAL FRAME OF SUN DAWU IS UNPOPULAR

Common Prosperity (共同富裕)

Sun Dawu 孙大午 said that the combination of traditional Confucianism, modern rule of law, and socialist common prosperity ideas is the corporate culture of Dawu Group (大午集团).

孙大午说，传统的儒家思想、现代的法治思想、社会主义共同富裕思想，这三者的结合是大午集团的企业文化。

COMMON PROSPERITY (共同富裕) Link

Xiamen, Fujian Province

The Arrests of Sun Dawu (孙大午)

In 2003, the arrest of SUN Dawu, his two brothers and a few others along with the author who was detained on house arrest made international headlines. The world found out what happened and why in a small village in rural China. On November 11, 2003, Sun Dawu abandoned his appeal to the charges of illegal fundraising and his probation began. To some degree it's been repeated, but most things have now changed whether they are of subtle or substantial nature.

Recently, Sun Dawu and his brothers were detained on November 11, 2020. The seventeen year anniversary to the day is no coincidence and taints any notion of impartiality. However, today, it is now much more personal. His wife was detained, his two sons were detained, his daughter-in-laws were detained and his oldest grandson was detained. It is basically an insult to and assault of the Confucian family whose very existence is threatened by the Communist Party of China.

To put it bluntly, it is an extreme form of hostage diplomacy. While in prison awaiting trial in 2003 there were threats made to Sun Dawu to admit guilt about illegal deposit taking. He agreed to be silent in court. However, at trial he was presented with Dawu Group's "IOU" which was identified as a "voucher of deposit" for illegal fundraising. He responded by saying "I typed an IOU, not a deposit slip. Are you illiterate?

Needless to say the prosecutor went bananas. The Chief Prosecutor said "Sun Dawu! You are still talking! You must know that your wife is at large, your two brothers are still in the detention center, and there are two more than 80-year-olds in your family..." That declaration by the Chief Prosecutor should have ended the trial at that very moment thereby freeing Sun on a mistrial, but it didn't.

The manner in which the arrests were conducted in 2003 and 2020 are very telling. Their unusual nature speaks volumes. On May 27, 2003, Sun Dawu was invited as a ruse to a dinner party held by the newly appointed county party secretary in Xushui County. It was held at the Hongyan Hotel. Deceptively, he was arrested as a dinner guest. This deception is one of the most egregious insults and acts of perfidy to a guest with regard to Chinese custom and Confucian values.

Sun Dawu's name means the Great Noon. Traditionally, Noon is the start of the day for Chinese. However, police forces chose the end of the day or midnight for their special operations police action. This procedure is highly unusual with respect to the detention of the family for what might be civil charges concerning property issues. Civil charges can transform into criminal charges with uncommon ease when the CCP controls the courts through "rule by law".

Inexplicibly, Xushui County police forces or the local ones did not conduct the arrests of the family. The arrests were undertaken by the Public Security Bureau of Hebei Gaobeidian City (高碑店河北). One must speculatively assume that the decision to use this bureau was at the provincial level. One might also assume that if there is a trial the Sun family will not be judged by their peers but rather outsiders. Finally, it might be guessed that the local public security bureau might anticipate strong local support for Sun Dawu as was forthcoming in 2003 so they have moved the potential venue of trial.

The force used by the police was tantamount to a break-in by a police-state. Three hundred police arrived in six buses to arrest sleeping family members. To the midnight break-in the police brought their dogs to intimidate. They brought their submachine guns as an expression of over-whelming force. They brought terror to instill fear in those who support rule of law and human rights.

D. Carlton Rossi
2020年10月30日

Fearful Symmetry

The author is rather surprised at the continuing naivety of government authorities in Canada. They talk about hostage diplomacy with regard to a link between the Spavor-Kovrig cases and that of the Meng Wanzhou case. It seems however that they learned nothing from the earlier Garratt case in terms of hostage diplomacy of Canadian citizens by Chinese authorities which directly involved Chinese-Korean relations. It should be noted that Kovrig was an expert of the Korean Peninsula while Spavor was a businessman in North Korea. Both were arrested in China.

To support his view the author quotes from his April 03, 2019 paper called "The absurdity of the Liberal Government's China Policy and Strategy as it pertains to Canola". One needs to put the present into perspective by examining the past. On June 28, 2014, SU Bin--who was a permanent resident of Canada--was arrested for cyberespionage against Amercian military contractors with the theft of hundreds of thousands of files. Kevin Garratt who is a Canadian was arrested in China on August 4, 2014 in a tit-for-tat response and later charged with espionage. There was no foundation for the charges against Garratt. One might even call them absurd. Garratt didn't report to CSIS, but rather to God. He was held as a bargaining chip.

More fundamentally, though, Canadian authorities have not understood the phenomenon of "hostage diplomacy" as it has been applied internally and domestically in China. For example, the author is aware of a personal story of a Renmin University student at Tiananmen Square in 1989. He was one of the 1,000,000 students who were involved in the demonstration known as the June 4 Fourth Incident in China (六四事件). The national movement was called the 89 Democracy Movement (八九民运). The student caught the attention of Chinese authorities who limited his influence by stealing his sandals. As a result, he had to visit the infirmary of the hospital to get treatment for his blistered feet. They wanted to detain him on the second floor, but he climbed down the outside of the building to secure his freedom. The police couldn't find him; so, they arrested his father at his village thousands of miles away in the countryside. This forced the student to give himself up to police. The above example is a domestic case of hostage diplomacy. His father had nothing to do with his son's behavior; but, nevertheless, he was arrested so that they could target his son.

There was an instance of hostage diplomacy in the May 27, 2003 arrest of Sun Dawu (孙大午). The government's main target was Sun Dawu both because of his public statements at Beijing universities and because of his application of innovative financing in the grey area which competed against monopolistic banking concerns. Basically, authorities arrested his two brothers as hostages to bend Sun Dawu's will. Furthermore, they tried to arrest his wife, but she escaped in the trunk of a car.

A similar kind of situation transpired on November 11, 2020. Again, the target was Sun Dawu. This time all his family was arrested who were involved in the private, family business called Dawu Group making his grandchildren legal orphans. His lawyers continue to have concerns about the threat of gang charges being levied which could mean the legal seizure of his business. Virtual extortion may go hand-in-hand with virtual kidnapping.

Let's also not forget possible charges involving "foreign forces" which were first expressed around Tomb Sweeping Day on April 4, 2021. This charge might actually involve the author. Imagine, a poet as a foreign force! All the poet can say to the charge is "Vergiß die alten Freunde nicht" from the title of a poem by Leonard Cohen.

It is of significance that Sun Dawu's wife Liu Huiru and daughters-in-law Zhang Yuan and Ma Xiaochen were charged with “illegally absorbing deposits from the public” in a separate case. The defence argues the following. "The case was returned by the Gaobeidian People’s Prosecutorate to Gaobeidian Public Security Bureau for supplementary investigation. That’s the only charge against these women, and their so-called “criminal offense” involves nothing but providing personal bank accounts to Dawu Group, which is not a crime at all. What the Gaobeidian Prosecutorate is doing is holding these women as de facto “hostages” as a way to dismiss the defense lawyers’ motion against bringing separate charges against them." 1.

The Dawu Group was actually founded by Sun Dawu's wife. The year was 1985. It grew from a few chickens and pigs to an agricultural enterprise. However, the enterprise suffered a devastating blow some eighteen years later when its management led by Sun Dawu and his two brothers were arrested in 2003 on charges of illegal fund-raising.

It is commonly known that Sun Dawu was released on October 30, 2003 when he returned home at the time of his father's birthday (Sun Kai). However, what has been forgotten is that his probation formally began on November 11, 2003 when he dropped his appeal to the charges of illegal fundraising.

November 11th therefore takes on special meaning because that was the anniversary of the day on which Sun Dawu and his family were arrested in a massive sweep of Dawu Group. The date is informally known as 被捕11112020. It is no coincidence that Sun Dawu was arrested on November 11, 2020 or the anniversary to the day on which his probation began on November 11,2003. It is a political statement which is intended to convey that Sun Dawu learned nothing with respect to illegal fund-raising as well as the other charges. Nothing could be further from the truth; for example, he designed the Private Entrepreneurial Constitutional System in 2004.

The sentence of Sun Dawu was announced on July 28, 2021 or in the eighteenth year since his arrest in 2003. How many years did Sun Dawu get on the various charges? The length of the sentence appears to have been politically predetermined in advance. He received 18 years or, unofficially, one year for every year since his probation began after the trial in 2003. Sun Fushuo (孙福硕), Sun Dawu's younger son, said it plainly during the trial: “We all know that, no matter how outstanding the lawyers who defended us are, it will not change the rulings against us.” 2. which suggested a kind of pre-determination with regard to both verdicts and sentences.

If prosecutors unofficially lumped together sentences on eight charges to meet a predetermined length in Sun Dawu's case then it potentially jeopardizes the rights of appeal for Sun Dawu. The eighteen year periods from 1985 to 2003, 2003 to 2021 and 2021 to 2039 may be called Triple Unhappiness (三重不幸). It is shared by farmers, peasants and migrants.

D. Carlton Rossi
2021年8月13日

1. https://chinachange.org/2021/07/17/briefing-on-the-first-day-of-dawu-trial/

2. https://chinachange.org/2021/08/01/briefing-on-the-eleventh-day-of-dawu-trial-10-questions-and-10-answers/

For the first time, the poet is putting together his Chinese poems. Neither the word "Chinese" nor the word "poem" is defined. The pages are finished.

Chinese Poems 中国诗歌 Link

Collage of Dawu Group legal team from China Change

Sun Dawu’s Closing Court Statement

Sun Dawu, July 28, 2021, in Gaobeidian Court, Baoding City, Hebei Province

Is it dangerous for private enterprises to grow large? Are state-owned enterprises not dangerous if they become bigger? How can such theories stand? State-owned enterprises are the foundation of communism, and the management system of state-owned enterprises is not as efficient as that of private enterprises. Chairman Xi’s speech was in affirmation of private enterprises, he was affirming Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour. I truly hope that the Dawu Group system will show Chairman Xi that socialism can work in practice, and it’s something that can be tested by everyone. Not the testing of the Public Security Bureau, but rather, something that can be tested by every consumer. We can withstand the test of time. By blurring ownership while validating the right of use, we turned a family business into an enterprise, and made that enterprise a cause. We have turned an enterprise into a breathing living society. I believe that to us, this ordeal too is part of the process towards betterment. We will not harbor grievances.

The question is, what will happen from now on? I can take on all the guilt, but I ask you to let my senior management go. Acquit them. I will bear the fault in exchange for their release without prosecution, and do so without making it public. Do you think I am unaware of what you are slapping me with? You want to make a case against me for being a mafia leader, for collusion with foreign forces. But do you really understand what my thoughts are? Do you even know what I am doing?

excerpt

https://chinachange.org/2021/08/03/sun-dawus-closing-court-statement/

孙大午法庭最后陈述

民营企业做大了是危险吗？国营企业做大了就不危险吗？这个理论能成立吗？国营企业是共产主义的基础，国营企业的管理体制没有民营企业的效率之高。习主席讲话是肯定民营企业的啊，是肯定邓小平南巡的啊。我真的希望大午集团的实践能让习主席知道，社会主义的实践是能够走得通的，是能够经得住所有人的检验的，不是公安局能检验，是每个顾客都可以检验，我们能经得住历史的检验，虚化所有权、夯实使用权，把家业变成企业、把企业变成事业，我们把企业变成了不死的社会。我认为对我们来说，这次仍然是我们正能量的修行过程，我们不会有怨气的。

问题是到了这个地步了，这件事怎么走下去。我可以承担全部的罪责，但你们把我的高管放了，把他们无罪释放。有错我来承担，能不能不予起诉、能不能不予公开。你们扣在我身上的东西，我不清楚吗？涉黑涉恶，勾结境外势力，可是你们了解我的想法吗？你们知道我在做什么吗？

孙大午，2021年7月28日，于河北省保定市高碑店法庭

https://chinachangechinese.org/2021/08/02/%e5%ad%99%e5%a4%a7%e5%8d%88%e6%b3%95%e5%ba%ad%e6%9c%80%e5%90%8e%e9%99%88%e8%bf%b0/

Response to a Journalist’s Query Regarding the Sun Dawu Verdict

Yaxue Cao, July 28, 2021

On a fundamental level, China has no private enterprises because there is no rule of law to protect private property, and there are always some parts of the private enterprises that are not private — by design, like the land Dawu uses and the hot spring resort it developed with the blessing of the local government. The CCP has never seen private enterprises as sovereign entities and it can take them over anytime under the guise of implementing the law. That’s precisely what we have seen in the Dawu case.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/28/response-to-a-journalists-inquiry-regarding-the-sun-dawu-verdict/

The author has often said that the word "private" has no meaning in China under the present system. The government wants to know everything in order to exercise control. The term Private Entrepreneurial Constitutional System (PECS) of Dawu Group has become a misnomer as of November 11, 2020. That was the date of the detainment of 30 employeees of Dawu Group on multiple charges. November 11th was the date that the government effectively seized control of Dawu Group pretending to protect it.

It is easy though to be a critic and more difficult to offer constructive criticism. With this in mind the author recalls asking Sun Dawu a question. To put a date on it is difficult, but it can roughly be dated based on the period when Dawu Group had 24 subsidiaries--it has around 30 now. The question was something like "Why doesn't Dawu Group establish a joint venture on a 50-50 basis with a State Owned Enterprise (SOE)?" The intent of the question was to explore a way the Dawu Group could co-operate rather than potentially compete with the SOE's as well as smooth relations with governments in China.

One might consider a new 50-50 joint venture outside China in the field of agriculture. Both companies would invest equally in a facility or endeavour in a foreign country. One impediment to "private" companies in China such as Dawu Group is that state-owned organs" at the commune level (as opposed to SOE's) do not make such an investment for either profit or principles. The SOE could potentially earn much more than just match the rate of inflation in co-operation with a well-run "private" enterprise. Of course, the joint-venture would be subject to the laws of the foreign country. The author is familiar with one SOE which may have an interest.

1. dwnews

The Trial of the Century

Sun Dawu was released from RSDL after 9 months along with six other co-accused. Two defendants under RSDL had irregularly been refused bail which contributed to their suffering even though the law allowed release. Furthermore, it is believed by the author that 3 months is the maximum time an accused can legally be held in RSDL. It seems this law is circumvented by detaining suspects for an extended period of time before an arrest is made. This circumstance may further erode protective rights of citizens during detainment.

Immediately, upon release, Sun Dawu was taken to the hospital of Dawu Group for observation and treatment for a brief stay of undetermined length; altlhough, it could probably be measured in hours. It is perhaps the best regional hospital and he was examined on the 15th floor. The status of his mental and physical health was unknown publically, but Sun Dawu has said at trial that the circustances of RSDL were tortuous. One could speculate that he was at least debilitated and disoriented.

It is therefore uncertain but probable that he was not totally competent to defend himself at trial. The trial itself was legally public, but de facto secret. One might liken it to a three ring circus ie. all blow and show. Whether or not the trial was intentionally designed to weaken and disorient the defense lawyers and defendants is not known, but that was its effect. Remember that there were 20 defendants who were tried and sentenced in a matter of just fourteen days with hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence submitted. Yet, disclosure of recorded sessions which the defendants demanded to be presented were disallowed by the judge.

One of the few pictures of the trial that escaped the censors was that of an ambulance at the court exit on the final day. It may have been for Sun Dawu, another defendant or defense lawyer. A defense lawyer had complained about the court hours which sometime exceeded fourteen hours and broke labour laws. One might even construe the length of hours and format of proceeding to be tortuous in themselves. Whomever the ambulance was for it is certain that an ambulance ushered in the trial and an ambulance was present at the conclusion of the trial which is rather an infamous and dubious legacy.

D. Carlton Rossi
August 1, 2021

1. 孙大午再出庭拒认9罪此前庭审混乱爆激烈冲突[图]
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2021-07-16 08:13:02
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https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60251616/孙大午

https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60251616/孙大午再出庭拒认9罪此前庭审混乱爆激烈

Western Qing Palace near Baoding, Hebei Photographer: D. Carlton Rossi

Executives of Dawu Group 大午集团

Seven Victims of Terror and Torture in Residential

Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL)

Sun Dawu 孙大午 and D. Carlton Rossi

Supervisor Sun Dawu was charged with illegal absorption of public deposits, provocation and nuisance, illegal mining, gathering a crowd to storm state organs, illegal occupation of agricultural land, forced trading, disrupting production and operation, and obstructing public service.

With regard to all the evidence in this charge, including audio and video evidence, Sun Dawu provided the following cross-examination opinion: “The Public Security Bureau has used many despicable means to willfully create a wrongful case. The video recording of the scene is the only meaningful evidence, and the rest is not worth refuting. But if they again place me under Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), they will get the same confessions from me, or even worse — they will get whatever they want to get.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/26/briefing-on-the-ninth-day-of-dawu-trial/

Sentence: Sun Dawu (孙大午): 18 years fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine of 3.11 million yuan

Ji Weilian (纪玮莲)

Ji Weilian, secretary of the group office, was charged with the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, the crime of gathering a crowd to storm state organs.

During the trial, several defendants questioned the failure of the judicial authorities to uphold their promises, at the same time filing another application for bail pending trial.

Ji Weilian pointed out: “I don’t understand it: the RSDL room as well as the detention center all have 360-degree rotating cameras. They can clearly observe my physical and mental condition. Why can’t I be granted bail?”

Another defendant in the Dawu case is Ji Weilian (纪玮莲). A former assistant to Sun Dawu (孙大午), she was also placed under RSDL. Ji suffers from severe depression. After being taken into custody, she has been vomiting dozens of times a day. She is extremely weak and on the verge of mental breakdown.

Ji Weilian 纪玮莲

The defendant Ji Weilian (纪玮莲), who previously was also placed under RSDL and suffers from severe depression, said that she could understand how false interrogation transcripts could be created during residential surveillance. This is because — “Mr. Dawu said that during the RSDL period, life was worse than death. But if you ask me, I say words pale in comparison to reality. During the pre-trial meetings, the lawyers proposed to go back to the RSDL site for on-site inspection. I really didn’t want to go, because I trembled even when I thought about that environment.”

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/19/briefing-on-the-third-day-of-dawu-trial/

Ji Weilian 纪玮莲 is on the right side at the Huangdi Room

The defendant Ji Weilian (纪玮莲, female) said: I could see that there were once windows in the RSDL room. I applied to change rooms, I was extremely agitated, and wanted to dig out the window. I wanted to open the door. I wanted air. I was interrogated too many times. My memory was declining. The case handlers tried to help me recall the details, but I couldn’t recall them. Everything written in the transcripts was prompted by the case handlers, as evidenced by the interrogation video recording. I had hoped to be taken out of the room to be interrogated, because then I could have a breath of fresh air. When a female member of the custodial caretaking staff came into my residential surveillance room she fainted within 5 minutes. During my final two days of detention, the doctor gave me an oxygen bag, which I had kept on requesting but they they had not given it to me. (Crying.) Why did they seal off the windows that had been there, why? I will keep asking, and waiting, for an answer.

Sentence: Ji Weilian (纪玮莲): 1 year and 5 months fixed-term imprisonment

Sun Meng, the chairman of the board, was charged with the crimes of unlawful absorption of public deposits, unlawful occupation of agricultural land, illegal mining, forced trading, and fraud.

Sun Meng (孙萌): “They recommended other companies to me to take over Dawu Group!” Sun Dawu’s eldest son and chairman of Dawu Group, Sun Meng, said: “After I was placed under RSDL, an official came and said that Dawu Group needed someone to operate it and recommended several companies to me to take over the group. I said that those companies were not even in the same industry, how could they take over Dawu? From the perspective of the long-term development of the company, my father should be granted bail. As a result, the official was very angry and slammed the door as he left.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/18/briefing-on-the-second-day-of-dawu-trial/

孙萌 SUN Meng on left

Sun Meng’s defense lawyer [Tong Zongjin, 仝宗锦] pointed out that, with the aforementioned opinion, the defense lawyer was not trying to act like the second prosecutor, nor did he wish an innocent man to be charged with a crime; the defense lawyer was simply stating that “the case-handling agencies have not applied the law equally, fairly and justly.” As such, it is entirely possible that this important witness was given certain promises or instructions to make inconsistent statements in order to turn himself [or herself] from a suspect to the prosecutors’ witness. The prosecutors’ evidence presentation did not exclude such reasonable doubt of the defense lawyer.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/26/briefing-on-the-ninth-day-of-dawu-trial/

Sentence: Sun Meng (孙萌, Sun Dawu’s older son): 12 years fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine of 1.9 million yuan

Sun Dawu's second son, Sun Fushuo 孙福硕 , said: “I don’t know what forced confession made under duress means, but after I was arrested, they handcuffed me to the interrogation chair for more than 30 hours, until my legs were swollen. They all knew what they were doing. The police interrogators made it clear: Don’t think we can’t make you submit; we can place you under RSDL. I knew that RSDL was terrible, and I was scared. The subsequent interrogation transcripts were made under such duress.”

By book, Residential Surveillance in Designated Locations is a relatively minor form of criminal detention measure, but the experience of the defendants in the Dawu case made clear that under RSDL “death is better than life”. Given that these places are without humane living conditions, that female relatives are held as de facto “hostages”, and that investigators used threats and deception for their aims, RSDL has in fact become “illegal detention”. The defendants’ confessions obtained under such circumstances is of course illegal evidence and should be excluded in accordance with the law.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/18/briefing-on-the-second-day-of-dawu-trial/

Sentence: Sun Fushuo (孙福硕, Sun Dawu’s younger son): 1 year and 6 months fixed-term imprisonment

Released from prison on September 29, 2021

Liu Ping 刘平 and Sun Erwu 孙二午

Liu Ping (刘平) was General Manager of Dawu Group. She was arrested on her visit to Hainan Island where Dawu Group has a subsidiary. She has been with the company for more than two decades. She is one of the seven detained under terror and torture in RSDP.

So far, of the 28 detained, it’s said that three have since been released and seven have been placed under “residential surveillance at a designated place.” They are: Sun Dawu (the Director of the Supervisory Board), Sun Meng (孙萌, Chairman of the Board of Directors), Sun Erwu (孙二午) and Sun Zhihua (孙志华), Liu Ping, Jin Fengyu (靳凤羽, deputy General Manager of the Group), and Ji Weilian (纪玮莲, secretary of the Group’s general office). The 18 others have been formally arrested.

https://chinachange.org/2021/04/02/sun-dawu-a-chinese-agricultural-entrepreneurs-36-year-dream-in-the-era-of-reform-and-opening-up-part-two/

Sentence: Liu Ping (刘平): 3 years and 6 months fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine of 950,000 yuan

Sun Erwu 孙二午大午集团 Dawu Group

Sun Erwu (孙二午, or 孙德华 Sun Dehua) also expressed disbelief at the charge: “So we were spending money to buy a crime! We bought a crime with 400,000 yuan! I just want to ask: isn’t it true that we gave the restaurant owner a street-front location? If Dawu were to eliminate competition, why would we help relocate the restaurant to a street-front location?”

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/26/briefing-on-the-ninth-day-of-dawu-trial/

Sun Erwu believed that all the witness testimonies of the incident were false. The village Party Secretary Yang Xueming was in charge of this matter. Only after he viewed the live video of the scene, said Sun Erwu, did he realize the seriousness of the incident. He did not arrange for anyone to block the warehouse, and no one had informed him about it afterwards. He should not be held responsible.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/26/briefing-on-the-eighth-day-of-dawu-trial/

Sentence : 12 years fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine of 510,000 yuan

Sun Zhihua 大午集团 Dawu Group

Sun Zhihua, the deputy supervisor, was charged with the crimes of unlawful absorption of public deposits, illegal mining, unlawful mining, unlawful impact on state organs, unlawful occupation of agricultural land, forced trading, disrupting production and operation, and obstructing public service.

Sentence:  Sun Zhihua (孙志华 or Sun Sanwu who is Sun Dawu’s younger brother): 9 years fixed-term imprisonment, and a fine of 550,000 yuan

The seventh individual held under RSDL was Jin Fengyu.
Sentence:  Jin Fengyu (靳凤羽): 1 year and 7 months fixed-term imprisonment, suspended for 2 years. No Photo available.

Released from prison on August 1, 2021

Source list for 7 sentences and punishments for other defendants:  https://chinachange.org/2021/07/28/statement-of-the-dawu-legal-team-on-the-verdict-and-sentences-in-the-dawu-case/

Note: Readers may wonder why Sun Dawu's brothers have two names. It appears to the author the second set of names is ancestral. Sun Dawu is the oldest son or in other words the first son. Sun Erwu is the second son. Sun Sanwu is the youngest or third son.

There is no sun, moon and stars but dazzling lights that blind me day and night,

With two armored soldiers guarding me, six shifts a day, through long and tormentous hours.

Fate is fickle, I am but a living corpse forbidden to speak with eyes wide open.

In unbearable suffering I hold on to faith, as I silently miss Dawu City.”

Poem written by Sun Dawu in prison. No pictures have been available of Sun Dawu since his arrest on November 11, 2020.

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/19/briefing-on-the-third-day-of-dawu-trial/

Nomad 2002

Nomad MK-15c Tan Ru 谭儒 Stardate 3541.9

谭儒使命是消毒生命

Tan Ru's Mission is to Sterilize Life

It is difficult to say anything new about the old, original Star Trek (星际迷航) series because the viewpoints of Trekkies have become canonical. Yet, it may be worthwhile to re-examine an episode of the series called The Changeling (变形金刚) which aired on September 29, 1967. That date happens to be close to the 2518th Anniversary of the Birth of Confucius (孔子) on September 28th. While the series purports to be science fiction; nevertheless, it may reflect more of what was going on in the present at that time.

On the macro scale, the United States was involved in a proxy war with China and Russia in Vietnam; so, it might be regarded as a conflict between democratic and communistic systems or more simply as powers wishing to extend their influence through imperialism. In China, the Cultural Revolution (文化大革命) had begun which was designed by Mao to replace the four olds (which didn't include Mao himself) with a new order of Communism. It was based on Mao Thought (毛泽东思想) of which Xi Thought (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), today, bears an uncanny resemblance which is not coincidental. Thought is not theory which can be proven scientifically as correct or incorrect as in Deng Theory (邓小平理论), but has more nebulous characteristics (模糊特征) with various interpretations and is of a purported higher order.

An event was presaged by the People's Daily editorial on June 1, 1966 about the Four Olds (四旧). It was fulfilled through one of the notable occurences in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution beginning on November 07th which involved the activities of the young Red Guards (红卫兵) led by Tan Houlan (谭厚兰).
The campaign was called "Annihilate the Kong Family Business" (消灭孔氏家族企业). In the offensive the Guards dug up and dynamited corpses of the family of Confucius and set them on fire. They also unburied and burned 100,000 Confucian texts.

It was part of an offensive against the so-called capitalist-roaders (走资派). Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) was regarded as one of the capitalist-roaders. He was attacked verbally and physically by the Red Guards. 15 Of course, after the Gang of Four (四人帮) who were charged with treason, Deng Xiaoping led China through a series of far-reaching economic, market reforms. Today, the pendulum has swung away from reform or should one stress that the pendulum has been sharpened?

Red Guard Rampage at Kong Family Cemetary led by Tan Houlan

It was basically an assault on "rule of law" (法律规定), the family, Ruism (儒) or Confucianism itself . However, one can't easily destroy traditions going back thousands of years which are the essence of what it means to be Chinese by a single act of madness or through symbolic gestures. Communism has little to do with tradition or what it means to be Chinese, but more to do with "The business of revolution" (革命事业) to quote Sang Ye and Geremie R. Barmé 6.

The campaign to dig up Confucian texts and the bones of the first three generations and the last three generations of Confucius' family and set them on fire reminds the author in an inverse way of instructions given by Emperor Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) or first emperor of the Qin Dynasty which was one of the most short-lived and brutal dynasties. He ordered Confucian scholars to be buried and their books burned. One might say that Qin represented "rule by law" (依法治国). He may have been the first practitioner of "Tough Thought" (强硬想法) 16 on a grand scale or at least has historically inspired it even if there is a pretense by modern acolytes to ignore, cherry pick or reinterpret history.

The basic plot of The Changeling is improbable bordering on impossible, but remember it is set in the future (star date 3541.9 to be exact). An interstellar probe is launched from Earth in 2002. It is called Nomad (游牧民族). Its mission is to explore for life forms. It collides with a meteor and is damaged. Eventually, it meets an alien probe which is designed to sterilize soil as a prelude to colonization. Nomad repairs itself with help from the other probe, but its mission is skewed.

As Tan Ru (谭儒) 9 its goal is now to sterilize life. It begins by sterilizing 4 billion inhabitants of the Malurian system. This number roughly corresponds to the whole population of Earth which in 1967 numbered 3,478,770,104. It then proceeds to the planet of its creator or Earth where it intends to sterilize the population. In this sense, the episode is apocalyptic.

If one wishes to interpret the clash of systems representing both life and sterilization as it pertains only to China then one may begin one's examination with The Great Leap Forward 大跃进 (1958-1962). It was the clash between the old feudal system and the establishment of a new, Communist industrial system through people's communes. However, the unexpected consequence of a new wind of communism with the meteoric rise of Mao was the death of over 40 million Chinese in a man-made famine. It is comparable to a freak accident of a probe hit by a meteor. The probe repairs itself with the help of an alien probe, but its mission changes to sterilization of life.

Sun Dawu (孙大午) was born in 1954 in the village of Langwuzhuang. It was just before The Great Leap Forward. As a youngster he had no food to eat. He was forced to eat grass to survive. He estimates that millions more were killed in The Great Famine 大饥荒 (1958-1962) than have been officially reported.

To enforce the unrealistic quotas which were never met, First Party Secretary Zhang Guozhong ran a labour camp. It held 1.5% of the population from farmers to Party officials who offered resistance. Punishment included flogging and naked exposure to the winter elements. As a result, 124 people did die. "Outside the camp some 7,000 people were tied up, beaten, spat upon, paraded, forced to kneel or deprived of food, resulting in another 212 deaths." 18

"A little over an hour's drive from Beijing via the new highway, Xushui (徐水) was a star county of the Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950's. Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi both toured Xushui and promoted the community nationwide. It is where the fantasy started that a single mu of land could produce 10,000 catties of wheat (亩产万斤). Upon learning that there was so much food it couldn't be eaten Mao told the members of the people's communes to eat five meals a day. The tragedy that transpired following The Great Leap Forward is well known
to history." 2

Chairman Mao visits Xushui in 1958

The people's commune of Xushui (徐水) in 1958 set the national standard with Mao's visit for two reasons. On hearing of the projected, unrealistic harvests that were expected in the autumn, Mao recommended the following. 'Plant a little less and do half a day's work. Use the other half for culture: study science, promote culture and recreation, run a college and middle school.' 4 It meant nothing to starving people. Do you know that no one officially starved in China as they were listed as dying of other causes and imaginary diseases?

Furthermore, the institution of the family was destroyed in the People's Commune of Xushui. The first separation of men and women into different living quarters took place in Xushui in 1958. The practice of separation spread to Henan, Hunan and Anhui. It was said through propaganda that the dearest persons in the world are our parents, but they cannot compare to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party. 1

"During the Great Leap Forward in 1958, Xushui became a model county for state collectivizing measures. The Xushui experiment in Communism was one of the most revolutionary, ludicrous, and tragic experiments in the history of China, as Chinese scholars now recognize. Mao visited communes in Dingxian and Xushui. Just southeast of Xushui county-town, Dasigezhuang village was renamed the 4th August brigade. But when Zhou Enlai (周恩来) visited he was shocked to see the destitution that communization was bringing, and Xushui's favoured status did nothing to prevent many starving to death there around 1960." 4

The Great Famine threatened to undermine Mao's power so the Cultural Revolution ensued from 1966 to 1976. It represented the collapse of Chinese civilization. New targets of resistance classified as enemies were found. One of these targets of a new apocalypse was the family. For example, young Red Guards were encouraged to "turn in" members of their family who deviated from Mao Thought.

On November 07, 1966. Red Guards under the leadership of Tan Houlan (谭厚兰) dug up and dynamited the graves of the first three and last three generations of the Kong family (Confucius). On November 29, 1966, a telegram was sent to Chairman Mao. It read as follows:

“Dearest Chairman Mao,

One hundred thousand members of the revolutionary masses would like to report a thrilling development to you: we have rebelled! We have rebelled! We have dragged out the clay statue of Kong the Second Son (Kong lao’er 孔老二); we have torn down the plaque extolling the ‘teacher of ten-thousand generations’; we have leveled Confucius’ grave; we have smashed the stelae extolling the virtues of the feudal emperors and kings, and we have obliterated the statues in the Confucius Temple! 6

With reference to The Changling one may also refer to geometry. Imagine two equilateral triangles in the sci-fi episode which are fairly balanced. They correspond to the two probes representing life and sterilization. Then, an unexpected happening transpires which distorts the balance and harmony of sine, co-sine and tangent. It is tangent then that rules or what is called Tan Ru in The Changeling episode. The new triangle is no longer equilateral. It corresponds to illogic or Mao Thought gone askew without checks and balances during The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution. It is personified by the zealot Tan Houlan during the latter revolution.

Dawu City is NNW of Xushui

A "farm" whose generic name is used herein was created as an organ of the state in 1958 at the beginning of The Great Leap Forward. In theory, it was created in order to use unplanted land and wasteland in the surrounding villages. However, [in 1963] the "farm" also requisitioned large amounts of land from surrounding villages such as Dingzhuang Village, Langwuzhuang Village, Mazhuang Village, and Zhaizhuang Village." 3 The implication was that if it wasn't accepted then one didn't eat.

The farm's new mission wasn't to sterilize wasteland for productive usage, but rather it adopted a mission which is metaphorically similar to The Changeling. The farm sterilized life in the villages. Life left. The "farm" is the metaphorical equivalent of Tan Ru (谭儒) or Tangent Rules which sterilizes life. Tan Ru (谭儒) is shaped like a drill and it drills out life with a laser or photon torpedo. It wishes to sterilize the King Fisher (翠鸟) who as head of Dawu Group brings fertility to the Waste Land (荒地). 19, 20

孙大午和妻子刘会茹当年创业时的合影

In 1985--not 1958, it was the Dawu Group which formed an agricultural enterprise on wasteland by leasing it. The more successful it became the more irritating it was to the "farm". Sun Dawu states the problem succinctly. "The farm does not have a dominant position in the market economy, it does not have the qualifications to cooperate with me, and the two sides have no basis for equal cooperation, because the farm itself has no ownership, and it manages the land for the country, but the background is different. It is vacant, and there is no real unit that bears economic responsibilities, and no investors. The Bureau of Agriculture is only responsible for policy guidance, regardless of the farm’s business activities." 3

In 2010, the newly built Rongwu Expressway reignited the dispute between the "farm" and Dawu Group. Even though Dawu Group leased the land, it could only be compensated for ground attachments. This meant major compensation went to the "farm". 12

Kangyang Town Apartments 大午集团 Dawu Group

More recently, the Dawu Group encountered major problems with its Dawu Kangyang Nursing Home Project (8 apartment buildings). It was approved by the district chiefs and had support from the Xushui District Land Bureau. However,on July 25, 2018 the decision was reversed. It was declared the buildings were built without approval and the land was illegally occupied. At the request of The Xushui District Government and Land Bureau, the Group paid a fine of 4,151,250 yuan. In addition, the 77,000 square meter project was confiscated and Sun Dawu threatened with arrest. 21 If the project received approval from the local government then how did it all of a sudden become illegal according to Sun Dawu?

The Great Noon Triangle comprised of Xushui City, Dawu City, Fushan and Baoding City Satellite

Dawu City is seven kilometers northwest of Xushui City. One might imagine it forming a small, equilateral triangle (等边三角形) of Xushui City, Dawu City, Fushan and Baoding City. Fushan is included because Sun Dawu is guardian of the mountain where Huangdi united the tribes over five thousand years ago. In addition, remnants of religious enclosures can be found at Fushan. The Sun Temple Park at Dawu City with its Confucian and Buddhist temples is the spiritual center of the region.

Sharing one side of the equilateral triangle which might be referred to as The Great Noon Triangle (大正午三角) is one side of what might be referred to as a non-equilateral Great Xiong'an Triangle (雄安新三角) whose center is Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区). Xiong'an New Area is expected to grow exponentially. It is the artificial intelligence, 5G, I of T center of The Great Xiong'an Triangle. The programs and programmers of the area reflect Xi Thought; whereas, Dawu City serves people personifying Sun's heart.

Both triangles are within the bigger area called Jing-Jin-Ji (雄安新三角) or Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei (known as Ji). It can also be said that a large piece of Jing-Jin-Ji (JJJ) may be found within an imagined non-equilateral triangle of Beijing, Tianjin and Baoding.

The centerpiece or hub of the JJJ megalopolis is Xiong'an New Area. It was founded on April 1, 2017. It's about 40 kilometres east of Xushui City. It seems that Jing-Jin-Ji rings in a poetic way with President Xi Jinping's name and furthermore that the Xiong'an hub of Jing-Jin-Ji represents his legacy.

During the Northern Song Dynasty 北宋 (960-1127), the area was a Watery Great Wall. In the Sixth Lunar Month of 1048, the Yellow River flooded 13 and more floods followed. However, in 1128, General Du Chong intentionally broke the bank of the river thereby provoking a flood in order to halt the Jurchen invasion. The waterlogged swamps were not deep enough for boats, but not shallow enough for soldiers to walk through. The swamp stretched nearly 500 kilometers. As a result, fertile farmland was lost and replaced by salinized, sand- covered land. The peasant-farmers left.

A thousand years later the state is draining the swamps in order to build a modern hub of the future. While peasants have returned to make claim on their property the legacy is "soil salinization, water toxicity and poverty". Why are farmers poor and why do they have little to eat? The answer is that the state plans for them and plans for them badly.

The "farm" and land bureau have disturbed the harmony between The Great Noon Triangle and Great Xiong'an Triangle. It has disrupted the balance between Dawu Village founded in 1985 to become a city and Xiong'an New Area founded in 2017 to become a hub. If Dawu Group (大午集团) as a large, self-sufficient agricultural enterprise is metaphorically sterilized then who will provide food for programmers in the self-sufficient, Xiong'an New Area with its sandy, salinized soil? There is friction brought about, too, along the Xushui-Baoding common line of the triangles or between heart and thought.

In Dawu's view, the "farm" is like a "freak" (怪物) 3. Its business activities have nothing to do with its superiors, its profits and losses have nothing to do with its superiors, and the amount of money it makes is not handed over to the state or the government. However, the superiors will still provide various compensations to the "farm" according to the agricultural land. In other words, as a result of a freak accident in The Great Leap Forward, the "farm" has itself become like a "freak" where Tangent and illogical arbitrariness rule.

Dawu Group has made it explicitly clear in writing that it does not give bribes nor accept bribes or red packets. It has been trusted by the local peasant population since its inception in 1985. The Group established a co-operative-grain bank which has had the confidence of farmers since at least 2003 if not earlier. Its medical system is free and is not plagued with bribery as it is throughout China. The Group puts people ahead of profits. Anyone who claims the Dawu Group is corrupt has corrupted the definition of corruption. Therefore, it is abundantly evident that charges brought against executives of Dawu Group for corruption have no basis in truth. They are infamous confabulations.

Dawu Group represents life and growth in the Xushui area. It reclaims the waste land. Sun Dawu represents the Kingfisher (翠鸟) 19,20 bringing fertility (生育能力). On the other hand, the "farm" is sterile (无菌的) and metaphorically sterilizes its people as a Changeling. As a result, the peasant-farmers live in poverty or have moved away to poverty. Life is sterilized.

敢言民企老板遭抄家警方拘捕30人恐涉黑入罪 - 万维读者网 2020年8月4日

The clashes of “6.21事件”和“8.4事件 were not provoked ( 没有被激怒)) by Dawu Group, but by the "farm". It is the metaphorical equivalent of Tan Ru (谭儒) firing 90 photon torpedoes (光子鱼雷) at the starship Enterprise (星舰企业). The campaign to annihilate the private enterprise of Dawu Group in 2020-21 (which is run on Confucian principles stressing the importance of the family along with its ancestors) is equivalent to the campaign to "Annihilate the Kong Family Business" (消灭孔氏家族企业) in 1966. The new campaign might be called an attempt to "Annihilate the Sun Family Business" (歼灭太阳家族企业) as part of Cultural Revolution 2.0. It can be expressed by lyrics from the 1965 single called "Paint It Black" (把它涂黑) by the Rolling Stones (滚石).

"I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black.

“我想看到它被涂成黑色，涂成黑色
黑如夜，黑如煤
我想看到太阳从天空中消失
我想看它涂漆，涂漆，涂漆，涂黑。

D. Carlton Rossi
2021 年 7 月 10 日
July 10, 2021

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1. Becker, Jasper, An Overview of the Famine, 1996.

http://www.geocities.ws/films4/anoverviewofthefamine.htm

2. Cao Yaxue, Sun Dawu: A Chinese Agricultural Entrepreneur's 36 year dream in the era of reform and opening up, part one, March 30, 2021

http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/scholarship.php?searchterm=020_confucius.inc&issue=020

3. 中国经营报：孙大午的新困惑：国营农场为何物？
China Business News: Sun Dawu’s new puzzle: What is a state-owned farm? 2010-10-25

在孙大午看来，国营农场就像一个“怪胎”：它的经营活动与上级无关，盈亏与上级也没关系，赚多少钱也不上交国家，也不给政府交。可是上级仍然会按照农用地给予农场各种补偿（原来的情况是农民纳农业税，农场也纳农业税；现在农民享受每亩80多元的补贴，农场也享受），农场在市场经济中经营生产、盈亏自负，看不出和“国家”有什么关系。

http://sundawu1.blog.sohu.com/161530405.html (censored)

4. Jones, Stephen, Xushui Ritual

https://stephenjones.blog/xushui-ritual/#_ftn2

5. Kong Lin During the Cultural Revolution

https://dongren.fr/kong-lin-during-the-cultural-revolution/

6. Sang Ye and Geremie R. Barmé, The Fate of the Confucius Temple, the Kong Mansion and Kong Cemetery 孔庙、孔府、孔林

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8. Ping Xin 辛平, “Menghuan de tiantang: Xushui "gongchan zhuyi’ shidian ji” 梦幻的天堂: 徐水”共产主义” 试点记 [Illusory paradise: record of the experimental site for “Communism” in Xushui], Yanhuang chunqiu 1994/1, pp.29–40.

9. Tan Ru

https://www.tor.com/2015/12/15/star-trek-the-original-series-rewatch-the-changeling/

10. The Great Cultural Revolution 文化大革命

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

11. The Great Leap Forward 大跃进

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

12. 吴丹红, 孙大午因何被抓？与国营农场土地纠纷浮出水面, November 15, 2020

https://money.163.com/20/1115/18/FRGCB76N002580S6.html

13. Zhang Ling, Changing with the Yellow River: An Environmental History of Hebei, 1048-1128, Newcastle University,

https://www.academia.edu/6168887/Changing_with_the_Yellow_River_An_Environmental_History_of_Hebei_1048_1128

14. Zhang Ling, Xiong'an New Area: One locale, two histories, a thousand years apart

https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/10508-xiong-an-new-area-one-locale-two-histories-a-thousand-years-apart/

15. Red Guards

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guardshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards

16. 邓小平理论 Tough Thought, Tough used as an adjective in English means strong or resilient, so in Chinese it means tough, strong or unyielding
© D. Carlton Rossi, https://www.sundawu.net

17   吴丹红  孙大午因何被抓？与国营农场土地纠纷浮出水面 2020-11-15

Wu Danhong, Why was Sun Dawu arrested? Land disputes with state farms surfaced November 15, 2020

https://money.163.com/20/1115/18/FRGCB76N002580S6.html

18. Jun, Xiao, Through the Valley of Death: 9 Warning Signs, Part II

https://erenow.net/modern/maos-great-famine-the-history-of-chinas-most-devastating-catastrophe-1958-62/11.php

19. T. S. Eliot reads: The Waste Land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqvhMeZ2PlY

20. Frazer. J. G., The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, 12 Volumes, New York, Macmillan and Company: 1894.

Volume 4, The Golden Bough: The Dying God

https://ia800206.us.archive.org/29/items/goldenboughstudy04fraz/goldenboughstudy04fraz.pdfia800206.us.archive.org/29/items/goldenboughstudy04fraz/goldenboughstudy04fraz.pdf

21.  大午：民在违法，官在犯罪，路在何方？！

The People are Breaking the Laws, The Government Officials are Committing Crimes, Where’s the Exit?

By Sun Dawu (Chairman of Supervisory Board of Hebei Dawu Group, China)

https://www.hrichina.org/chs/zhong-guo-ren-quan-shuang-zhou-kan/sun-da-wu-min-zai-wei-fa-guan-zai-fan-zui-lu-zai-he-fang

22.  孙大午：我这十年, 请看博讯热点：民企的困扰 (博讯北京时间2013年10月13日转载)

孙大午曾经感叹，最近提到重庆的事情，大家还心有余悸，说害怕“文革”回头，确实如此，我今年59岁了，经历了“文革”，也经历了改革开放三十多年的过程，一直以来，我们的社会何时摆脱过“文革”的阴影呢？

Sun Dawu once sighed that at the recent mention of Chongqing’s affairs, everyone still has lingering fears, saying that they are afraid of the "Cultural Revolution" to turn around. It is true. I am 59 years old this year. Since then, when has our society escaped the shadow of the "Cultural Revolution"?

https://www.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2013/10/201310131940.shtml

L'image poem of D. Carlton Rossi based on Draconis 11 and 10 and the Big and Little Dippers

Of the evidence presented by the public prosecutors, there was one piece of written evidence of special importance. Lawyer Wang Shihua regarded it as “the eye of the case” (“案眼"), evidence of a “case-critical” nature, and believed that this evidence alone could explain why the well-known entrepreneur Sun Dawu is standing trial today. This evidence is the “Minutes of the Public Security Bureau [2020] No. 1 Meeting of Xushui District Public Security Bureau of Baoding Municipality.” The minutes of the meeting show: On August 3, 2020, the state-owned farm, planning to clear the Dawu Farm’s structures on its own initiative, requested Xushui District PSB to provide police presence to maintain order at the scene. Xushui District PSB decided that the police force would arrive at the demolition site before 5 a.m. on August 4. Yet the manner in which the Baoding Farm requested police protection was no more than a written document submitted to the PSB on August 2, and its main content simply stated that the farm planned to demolish the fencing and mobile houses erected by the Dawu Group on August 4.

Several defense lawyers focused their cross-examination on this piece of evidence. Lawyer Wang Shihua pointed out that the written request of the state-owned farm was not a report of criminal conduct. The illegality of requesting police protection in such a manner, as well as the police force’s intervention in a civil dispute, is obvious. “If I believe I face physical danger while defending a client in court in Gaobeidian today, and I ask the PSB to send policemen to protect me, is that acceptable? Of course not. Because I represent private interests, and the police can only be used to protect public affairs and public power.” In addition, given that the minutes of the PSB meeting and the state farm’s written request were both created before the August 4 incident, “it is a trap set up for Dawu. The case we are going through such lengths trying today is no more than a case involving a civil dispute.”

https://chinachange.org/2021/07/24/briefing-on-the-seventh-day-of-dawu-trial/

Yang Bin (former prosecutor) and advisor to Sun Dawu

The Chinese businessman who defied the state and got locked up

Louis Neal

June 17, 2021

A person with knowledge of the case said prosecutors were urging the defendants and their families to fire their lawyers and hire legal representatives from Gaobeidian or allow the government to appoint them.

https://insider-voice.com/the-chinese-businessman-who-defied-the-state-and-got-locked-up/

Legal team members: Shihua, Yang Xuelin, Tong Zongjin, Zhang Lei, Liu Jinbin, Zhu Xiaoding, Wang Wanqiong, Zhou Lei, Zhou Haiyang, Hao Yachao, Shen Yachuan and other well-known lawyers.

If it is true that prosecutors urged defendants and their families to fire their lawyers and hire legal representatives from Gaobeidian or allow the government to appoint them then a mistrial must be declared; otherwise, there is not even the appearance of justice.

Sun Dawu's Minor Grandchildren become "Legal Orphans"

Liu Huiru is Sun Dawu's wife, and Zhang Yuan and Ma Xiaochen are Sun Dawu's daughter-in-laws. After Sun Dawu and his wife, two sons, and two daughters-in-law were arrested on November 11, 2020, Sun Dawu's five minor grandchildren became "legal orphans" overnight.

https://yibaochina.com/?p=242083

"Freak" State Farm

中国经营报：孙大午的新困惑：国营农场为何物？

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中国经营报：孙大午的新困惑：国营农场为何物？
分类：征地争议 | 标签：农场集团土地物权法孙大午
2010-10-25 09:53 阅读(2788)

孙大午在考虑自己还要不要配合那条路过大午集团的高速公路的建设施工。

“怪胎”国营农场

在孙大午看来，国营农场就像一个“怪胎”：它的经营活动与上级无关，盈亏与上级也没关系，赚多少钱也不上交国家，也不给政府交。可是上级仍然会按照农用地给予农场各种补偿（原来的情况是农民纳农业税，农场也纳农业税；现在农民享受每亩80多元的补贴，农场也享受），农场在市场经济中经营生产、盈亏自负，看不出和“国家”有什么关系。

“农场的一把手是权力最大的人。现在农场有七千亩土地，场长可以发包给任何一个人，收益全部由农场领导说了算，只要农场职工不闹事，就万事大吉。对于农场的经营事务，是上不用请示，下不用商量。农村还有个民主选出的村委会，有事时村委们商量着办，地方国营农场的“主人”是谁，让人看不明白。这是非常奇特的现象。”孙大午说。

事实上，在我国，除了新疆、黑龙江、海南拥有广袤的因建国后采用国家开荒的方式建设的农场之外，在传统的农业区，如保定地方国营农场这样的国营农场十分分散。

而保定地方国营农场的成因也有着十分复杂的历史背景。记者了解到，保定徐水县正是当年人民公社的发源地，而保定地方国营农场也是在当年的“共产风”的大潮中成立的。据农场场长张洪生回忆，农场在1958年大跃进时期成立。“主要是利用周围村子不种的地以及荒地组建的。”

不过，农场也大量征用了周围的丁庄村、郎五庄村、马庄村、翟庄村等村庄的土地。据了解，国营农场现有耕地5600余亩，其中外租2400余亩。记者得到的一份来自周围村庄委员会的申诉材料显示，农场共占用郎五庄、马庄、翟庄、丁庄四个村庄的集体土地共计5085亩，可见占到了农场现有土地面积的大部分。不过，张洪生的说法是“并没有那么多。”

现在国家对于农业的补贴政策越来越优厚，使得农场职工和周围村民的境遇差别显得越发突出，当地人向记者介绍说，周围村民的人均耕地只有不足2亩，而农场职工只有100多人，人均耕地却达到五六十亩，非常富有。这自然让村民们心理不平衡，他们于是希望能够要回被农场无偿占有几十年的土地。他们多年来的上访终究没有什么回应。

“这个问题的根源在哪里呢，就是《物权法》留下了空白，”保育钧说，“物权法在涉及国家、集体、个人权利的时候留下了好多空白。其中就有国有农场的承包人有没有用益物权，是不是使用权人的问题。解释的时候用集体来解释，来对付你，实际上是把民营企业的承包租赁使用权否了，所以你处于一个非常危险的境地，什么时候要把你收了就收了，承包租赁得不到法律保障，这是个要害问题。”

因此，保育钧建议，一定要把国有农场的主人找到，这是根源。“其实不光是国有农场，国有林场、渔场、盐场都有类似的主人问题有待解决。”而孙大午提出的方案是，应该将保定地方国营农场改制，“可以保留相当的土地分给农场原职工，作为对他们的安置，保证他们的生活，而将其他的土地归还周围的村民。否则这些问题早晚会爆发。

China Business News: Sun Dawu's new puzzle: What is a state-owned farm?

Last modified on 2010-12-17 09:39 Reading(2788)

China Business News: Sun Dawu's new puzzle: What is a state-owned farm?
Category: Land Acquisition Disputes | Tags: Farm Group Land Property Law Sun Dawu
2010-10-25 09:53 Reading(2788)

Sun Dawu was considering whether he should cooperate with the construction of the expressway passing by the Dawu Group.

"Freak" State Farm

In Sun Dawu's view, the state-owned farm is like a "freak": its business activities have nothing to do with its superiors, its profits and losses have nothing to do with its superiors, and the amount of money it makes is not handed over to the state or the government. However, the superiors will still provide various compensations to the farm according to the agricultural land (the original situation was that farmers pay agricultural tax, and the farm also pays agricultural tax; now farmers enjoy a subsidy of more than 80 yuan per mu, and the farm also enjoys it), and the farm operates in a market economy. Being conceited, I can't see what it has to do with the "country".

"The leader of the farm is the one with the most power. Now the farm has 7,000 mu of land, and the farm manager can issue a contract to anyone. All the profits are determined by the farm leader. As long as the farm employees don’t make trouble, everything will be fine. Regarding the management of the farm. There is no need to ask for instructions and no discussion. There is also a democratically elected village committee in the countryside. When something happens, the village committee will discuss it. It is hard to understand who the "owner" of the local state-owned farm is. Strange phenomenon." Sun Dawu said.

In fact, in my country, in addition to Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, and Hainan, which have vast farms built by the country after the founding of the country, state farms such as the local state farm in Baoding are very scattered in traditional agricultural areas.

The formation of Baoding local state farm also has a very complicated historical background. The reporter learned that Baoding Xushui County was the birthplace of the People’s Commune, and the local state-owned farm in Baoding was also established in the tide of the “communist wind” that year. According to Zhang Hongsheng, head of the farm, the farm was established in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. "It was mainly formed by using unplanted land and wasteland in the surrounding villages."

However, the farm also requisitioned large amounts of land from surrounding villages such as Dingzhuang Village, Langwuzhuang Village, Mazhuang Village, and Zhaizhuang Village. It is understood that the state-owned farm has more than 5,600 mu of arable land, of which more than 2,400 mu is rented out. A complaint from the surrounding village committees obtained by the reporter shows that the farm occupies a total of 5085 mu of collective land in the four villages of Langwuzhuang, Mazhuang, Zhaizhuang, and Dingzhuang, which shows that it occupies most of the existing land area of the farm. . However, Zhang Hongsheng's statement is "not so much."

Now the country’s subsidy policy for agriculture is becoming more and more generous, making the difference between farm workers and surrounding villagers more prominent. Locals told reporters that the per capita arable land of surrounding villagers is less than 2 mu, while farm workers only have more than 100 people. The per capita arable land has reached fifty or sixty acres, which is very rich. This naturally makes the villagers psychologically imbalanced, so they hope to get back the land that has been freely occupied by the farm for decades. After all, they did not respond to their petitions over the years.

"Where is the root of this problem? The "Property Law" has left blanks," said Bao Yujun. "The Property Law has left a lot of blanks when it comes to the rights of the state, collectives, and individuals. Among them are the contractors of state-owned farms. If there is no usufructuary right, it is a question of whether it is the owner of the right of use. When explaining, use the collective explanation to deal with you. In fact, it is whether the private enterprise’s contracted lease use right has been denied, so you are in a very dangerous situation, when? If you have to accept it, you can accept it. Contracting and leasing cannot be protected by law. This is a critical issue."

Therefore, Bao Yujun suggested that the owner of the state-owned farm must be found. This is the root cause. “In fact, not only state-owned farms, but state-owned forest farms, fisheries, and salt farms all have similar owner problems to be solved.” Sun Dawu’s plan is to restructure Baoding local state-owned farms, “it is possible to reserve a considerable amount of land to the original workers of the farm. As a resettlement for them, to ensure their livelihood, other land should be returned to the surrounding villagers. Otherwise, these problems will erupt sooner or later.

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http://sundawu1.blog.sohu.com/161530405.html

A basic tenet of law is that a defendant has the right to meet his accuser. At trial, Sun Dawu has the right to meet the owner of the state-owned farm. If the owner cannot be identified then charges should be dismissed.

大午集团 Dawu Group

Sun Dawu: Talk about the protection of legal persons’ property rights

2016-11-17 18:19 Reading (633)

I believe that the property rights of legal persons are a kind of public power, while the general meeting of shareholders is a kind of private power. Property cannot be named public, and public power cannot be named private. Property can be inherited, but the position of the manager cannot be inherited. The position of the chairman is a public power, because the chairman is not the power of the general meeting of shareholders, but the power of the legal person's property rights.

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/659257.html Chinese language

Dawu Group

http://web.archive.org/web/20201210185444/http://www.sundawu.ca/Dawu_Group.html

Sun Dawu Biography

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206182145/https://sundawu.ca/Biography.html

Sun Family

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206181809/https://sundawu.ca/Sun_Family.html

Sun Photo Album 1

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206182535/http://www.sundawu.ca/Sun_Album.html

Sun Photo Album 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206182652/http://www.sundawu.ca/Sun_Album_2.html

Private Entrepreneurial Constitutional System

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206180301/https://sundawu.ca/-_________2.html

Dawujituan 大午集团

http://web.archive.org/web/20180903210551/https://sundawu.ca/Dawujituan.html

Model City

https://web.archive.org/web/20190206182429/http://www.sundawu.ca/Model_City.html

Ji Weilian (纪玮莲).

I have tried to communicate with Dawu Group without success. Letters to Langwuzhuang and even Baoding are being returned. Therefore, I will write openly. Miss Ji Weilian (纪玮莲) is pictured on the left. She is Sun Dawu's personal secretary. Both she and Sun Dawu among others have been arrested. With respect to Sun Dawu it should be noted that his entire family has been arrested. Both Ji and Sun are my personal friends.

I was rather shocked to read comments made by both at the pre-trial hearing as well as other family members. There is a horror and terror experienced by them. Sun is being fed pickled vegetables even though he is the Chairman of one of the largest agricultural enterprises in Hebei Province. Miss Ji cannot keep food down. Sun's grandchildren are left at home without proper supervision. To understand this matter you have to know that Sun, his wife (Liu), his two sons, his brothers and sister-in-laws have also been arrested. I have known them all since 2002. They are decent people.

I therefore extend a formal invitation to the parents of Miss Ji to visit me in Port Colborne, Canada. At least they and Miss Ji will have some relief for the short duration of their visit. I also extend a formal invitation to the five grandchildren of Sun Dawu and his wife; so that the children can relax and be carefree here for a short while. Do not forget that Sun asked me to China in December 2019 to teach teachers at Dawu School as well as his grandchildren.

Miss Ji's parents or subsitutes can act as chaperones as well as any and all members of the Sun family who have not yet been arrested to supervise the children and to secure their welfare. You may all visit me immediately.

D. Carlton Rossi
June 2, 2021

d.carlton.rossi@protonmail.ch
1 905 714 5108

This invitation remains in effect as of July 28, 2021

20130226 第五届董事会换届选举

February 26, 2013

The fifth general election of the board of directors

一句“我无罪，但是我伏法”代表着他的悲与愤，9年后，这种悲与愤远未消逝。

The phrase "I am not guilty, but I am not guilty" represents his grief and anger.

Nine years later, this grief and anger are far from gone.

大午集团孙大午大 8.4事件

孙大午被捕在海外瞬间变成道德模范孙大午被捕11112020 Sun Dawu arrested 11112020

拆迁,寻衅滋事 Property Seizures

https://孙大午.com or https://www.xn--rkr99kf0b.com

https://孙大午.cn or https://www.xn--rkr99kf0b.cn

LINKS

人身和财产权 Person and Property Rights

China Change

https://twitter.com/hashtag/孙大午

Lazarus Resurrected

With silent lips "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".
Welcome to my hometown and to my home
as fish dish awaits with bottle of báijiǔ.
My toast to your health and your prosperity,
your family and your ancestral lineage.
The Sun shines brightest at time of Big Noon
and smiles on bigger land of fewer people.

D. Carlton Rossi
2021年4月19日

保育钧 Bao Yujun

"影响农村金融稳定的不是孙大午，而是垄断的、僵化的金融体制。”

"It is not Sun Dawu that affects rural financial stability, but the monopolistic and rigid financial system."

SUN Dawu's Eulogy to Bao Yujun

保育钧先生曾对邓小平复出、恢复高考、为知识分子正名起到过重要作用。他由宣传部门转到全国工商联工作后，两次提案促成私产入宪，屡次为民企发声。他率真耿直，敢说实话。说实话是需要胆量的，更是令人尊敬的。人们称他“保大炮”，我倒觉得他更像温暖民企的火把。他对中国的民营经济贡献很大，民企不应该忘记他，我们大午集团更不会忘记他。2014年在我们企业创办30周年庆祝活动中，保主席发言说：“大午集团自力更生、循序渐进，自食其力光彩！不劳而获不光彩。”对此，我们很有感触！“自食其力”就是我们大午集团风雨三十年的写照，我们今后的发展还是要靠“自食其力”。

Mr. Bao Yujun played an important role in Deng Xiaoping's comeback, the restoration of the college entrance examination, and the rectification of intellectuals. After he was transferred from the propaganda department to the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, two proposals led to the entry of private property into the constitution, and he repeatedly spoke for private enterprises. He is straightforward and dare to tell the truth. To be honest, it takes courage and is respectable. People call him "protecting a cannon", but I think he is more like a torch that warms private enterprises. He has made a great contribution to China's private economy. Private enterprises should not forget him, and Dawu Group will never forget him. In the celebration of the 30th anniversary of our establishment in 2014, Chairman Bao said: "Dawu Group is self-reliant and gradual! It is not honourable for nothing." We are very touched by this! "Self-reliance" is the portrayal of the 30 years of our Dawu Group. Our future development still depends on "self-reliance".

https://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/gsnews/2020-11-11/doc-ifxsuypf4738386.shtml

Sitting from right to left are Mao Yushi and his wife, the late Bao Yujun and his wife. As host, Sun Dawu is standing in the background. Video may be downloaded and distributed.

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