05.26.08
Earthquake Brings Out Best, Worst in People
The allegations of dishonesty by Chinese Red Cross societies are rampant. Last week Truth from Facts reported on a QQ rumor alleging that Red Cross officials were feasting on donation money. Subsequently there have been stories alleging that a Red Cross society in Hainan, China, was demanding a 5% “management fee”. That story apparently had legs, as the local vice director of that chapter was trying to find an official-sounding way to pilfer funds, and she has since faced administrative sanction. Perhaps stories like that are what is leading to the spate of rumors of dishonesty by the Red Cross, like this one I received this morning from a colleague (English translation and original Chinese below):
Please help pass this around! Two people from the Zhongjiang Red Cross came to my pharmacy today to buy RMB10,000 worth of medicines, but demanded that we issue an invoice for RMB50,000. We (First Pharmaecuticals Manufacturer of Chengdu) did not comply, resulting in the management of the neighboring Tonghua Yijia Pharmacy giving it (a receipt) to them. These people are terrible! According to State regulations, all donations go into a fund, and they can legally take 10% of this fund for administrative expenditures. Under the current law this is considered legal! Therefore, of the several billion in RMB already raised, several hundred million has already been taking out. If you don’t believe it, you can ask the fund official right here. Now of the 90% remaining of donation money, are the materials being purchased done so at the lowest market price? Are they being bought at bulk price? Is the purchase receipt showing 50 RMB or 500 RMB? Who knows? Our media and great people should now demand that that the purchase receipts from each day should be made public! Don’t just make public the receipts of donations collected, we want to see the purchase receipts! Where are these trillions of RMB going each day!! It’s Chinese people, please forward this! If the people won’t take pains to investigate the government, then the government will tend towards rot!
SHTig adds (5/26 5:00pm PRC time): This rumor led the Red Cross chapter in question to issue this formal statement on the Zhongjiang government website, saying this rumor is bunk and beckoning people to report names of those who are damaging the reputation of the Red Cross without warrant. Also, since I first posted this article, I learned that Tonghua (the location of the factory that was supposedly next door to the Chenghua store that refused to give out the inflated invoice) — is in Jilin province, some 3 hours away by plane! But none of this stops the non-thinking hoards to pass along dumb messages like this…
帮人转发的，看看！今天又两个中江县红十字会的人来我们这里购买了1万多元的救灾药品，但要求我们开5万多元的发票。我们（成都制药一厂）没有答应，结果由隔壁通化一家药厂经营部开给他们了 这些人渣！按照国家规定，所有捐款到了基金会，他们合法的拿走10%作为行政经费.按照现存法律来说，这是合法的！所以几十亿捐款已经有几亿元被合法拿走！不信你可以问问身边的基金会的人。那么，剩下90%的捐款，采购的物资是否按照市场最低价格？是否按照批发价？采购帐篷的时候是50元还是500元？谁能知道呢？我们的媒体和广大市民，现在应该要求公布每天的采购清单了！别再单方面公布捐款清单，我们要知道采购清单！几十亿元每天的使用动向！！是中国人的，请转发！如果民众都没有努力监督政府 那么政府有腐败现象 ！
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