Zhujingban
As Zhujingban ( Chinese 駐京辦 / 驻京办 , Pinyin zhùjīngbàn - "Beijing Office"), those representatives designated by both Chinese provinces also of authorities and bodies Chinese cities or other than authorities in Beijing to be entertained. The term “Beijing office”, which is common in China, is a colloquial abbreviation. For example, say the Office of the City Yuancheng officially "Office of the Municipal People's Government Yuancheng to Beijing" ( 远城人民政府驻北京办事处 ).
The main reason for their existence is to ensure that the interests of the respective organ or its minions are effectively represented before the Chinese central government . Often set up in hotels, Beijing offices also serve as accommodation for regional authorities when they are on business in Beijing. The Beijing offices are also responsible for entertaining central government officials and intercepting unwanted delegations from the region to prevent them from complaining to central government officials of wrongdoing. Since this also gives the term “Beijing office” a negative connotation , other formulations are sometimes used, for example “liaison office” ( 联络处 ).
According to the incomplete count, Beijing has 52 offices of this type of administrative unit under a lieutenant governor or higher, 520 offices of city administrative units, and more than 5,000 offices of county-level administrative units .
Literary processing found the subject in Wang Xiaofang's four-part novel series Zhujingban Zhuren ( 驻京 办 主任 ), which was published between 2007 and 2009 by the Beijing publishing house Zuojia Chubanshe ( Writers Publishing House ) and has sold more than two million times.
history
During imperial times, cities and villages organized representative offices for their residents who were in Beijing on business or to take the official examination. They also acted as a savings bank, mutual aid organization and poor relief. During the Qing Dynasty , the rich and large landowners across the country tried to bribe central government officials. An appointment as mayor cost only a few thousand tael of silver ; a multiple of this was then taken back in office through bribes. The first Beijing office as it is today was the Inner Mongolia Office , founded in March 1949.
During the Cultural Revolution (from 1966) these offices, with the exception of the Tibet office , were closed again. The Red Guards accused these branches of espionage to the detriment of the central government. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, from 1978 onwards, Beijing offices were permitted again. Since then, they have again become important representatives of regional bodies vis-à-vis the Chinese central government.
corruption
There is no effective control of the Beijing offices. The former head of the State Audit Office, Li Jinhua , warned that Beijing offices were 'running around ministries with money' and that they were 'a source of corruption'.
The central government has been trying to limit the number of Beijing offices for a number of years, but its will to assert itself and with it its success has so far been considered moderate. All county and provincial city offices were originally intended to be closed, but in 2010 it was reported that 80% of these offices were kept.
Black prisons
In China, people have always had the right to petition the central government if, for example, they believe they have been treated unfairly by a local authority. However, to prevent such complaints from reaching the central authorities from the province, the Beijing offices operate private prisons. The security companies they employ capture delegations from the region and illegally detain them until they can be brought back home. These contracts cost the Beijing offices over 10,000 yuan a year.
As quasi-extraterritorial “embassies”, even uniformed police officers from the provinces stationed here can carry out these tasks; For example, an elderly gentleman was taken away and deported by Jilin police officers after trying to attract attention at the government headquarters in Zhongnanhai . Beijing City Police are staying out of the situation. Often they have close contacts with the Beijing offices themselves, but do not want to get into disputes over competence because of "disruptive supplicants". The central government remains quite powerless to obtain reliable information about the conditions in the provinces and to intervene legally.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 数千家 驻京 办 半年 内 将 撤销 恐 名 亡 实 存 . In: 南方周末 , January 25, 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ↑ ISBN 978-7-5063-3869-1 , ISBN 978-7-5063-4001-4 , ISBN 978-7-5063-4331-2 and ISBN 978-7-5063-5125-6
- ^ Mei Jia: Body of work. In: China Daily. January 29, 2013, accessed September 6, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Lü Shupeng: The Path Dependence Predicament in Bureaucracy Reform of China - A Case Study of Rectifying Beijing Offices . In: Politics in Flux. Challenges and Opportunities in the Asian Century , Hong Kong Political Science Association 2nd annual conference, 2010.
- ↑ 驻京 办 ： “亦 官 亦 商” 的 毒瘤 . In: BBC , January 25, 2010. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved on January 26, 2010.
- ↑ bbc.co.uk of April 9, 2009: Petitions in China.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 北京 安元鼎 设 黑 监狱 截 访 遭 调查 ： 雇主 多 为 各地 驻京 办
- ^ Human Rights Campaign in China, July 28, 2011
- ^ Human Rights Watch, An Alleyway in Hell. , November 12, 2009.