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Danwei Picks: Anhui's most grateful citizenPosted by Joel Martinsen, January 22, 2008 4:59 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). China's most grateful peasant: At the China Media Project, David Bandurski tells how a blogger discovered how one Anhui peasant has many reasons to be grateful to the party leadership, from the local level all the way up to Hu Jintao: What followed was a sublimely human moment. President Hu leaned over, cupped his hands, and drank from Zheng Jichao's faucet. It was this dramatic scene that captured the particular attention of Chinese blogger "Zuo You Yi Guo Hui" (左右一锅烩).
When I heard about Hu Jia, I was full of admiration. I even felt he should be a model for young people to follow. A 27-year-old young man who sought neither fame nor fortune, doing countless things to protect the environment and wearing himself out until he got hepatitis. He had just left the hospital, but often worked until two or three o’clock in the morning. Every day my colleague’s email inbox would contain a large quantity of messages about the work he was doing. The things he cared about and dealt with were extremely diverse and even trivial, but he was extremely passionate about all of them. Full of doubt, I asked my colleague if he was sick. My colleague said yes, he’s got hepatitis. No, I said. I mean sick in the head.
There are many benefits to being a Xinhua employee: prestige domestically, opportunity to travel, comprehensive insurance, access to information and job security (you have to be a spy to get sacked round here). But watching some hugely talented, creative people donning shackles every day is not particularly pleasant viewing. Some may argue: "What do they expect? Their role is to spread governmental love." But I have met numerous graduates (Xinhua only employs fresh-faced university students so they have no time to develop any style other than "Xinhua-style"), who have joined Xinhua and, after a few months work, almost all have admitted the job is very different to what they anticipated - and not in a positive way. We're sorry to see him go, and we wish him the best of luck wherever he ends up next.
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