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in ningyuan county, hunan province, an education foundation controlled by a group of retired senior cadres pretended to be "voluntary donations" but actually specified donation amounts, requiring local teachers to raise funds according to a fixed amount and to mobilize students and parents to donate according to a fixed amount, suspected of apportioning compulsory donations.

to this end, i wrote yesterdaythe charity that suggests teachers to "make voluntary donations" is backed by a group of veteran cadres》 criticized it in an article.

yesterday, a reader reminded me that in addition to supporting poor teachers and students, ningyuan county also plans to use 700,000 yuan of the donation money for "school infrastructure upgrades and renovations" and 80,000 yuan for "teacher training, project rewards and implementation."

"school infrastructure upgrades and renovations" all rely on donations, and "teacher training and project rewards and implementation" also require donations. this is probably not the original intention of charity.

how much of the money raised by hunan will be used to help poor teachers and students in the future?

ningyuan county is not the only county that has asked teachers to pay compulsory donations. in june, huitong county in hunan province had already done so. this time, on the so-called 99 charity day, i wonder if the teachers in huitong county have escaped.

at the end of yesterday's article, i said: in the local bureaucracy, some veteran cadres have changed their past temper of being submissive, turning a blind eye, and keeping aloof after retirement, and have become outspoken and responsible. there are also some veteran cadres who are staging a "final madness", using the remaining power to do things that cause headaches for current officials and ordinary people.

in the past, i have written articles criticizing this type of retired veteran cadres who continue to cause trouble and disrupt the normal operation of local areas. the person who provided the information at that time was the secretary of the municipal party committee of a county-level city. now he is still in the officialdom and has become a local official at the department level.

below is the main content of the article i wrote that year, which was published in the newspaper where i worked at the time.

the troubles of a municipal party secretary

in december 2013, i suddenly received a call from a municipal party secretary: "brother, there is something you can pay attention to."

i have been working on current affairs news at southern weekend for less than three years, so i am considered a junior reporter, but i always get a few calls like this throughout the year. sometimes, it's the secretaries who have had a few drinks and happened to see one of my reports and want to chat with me; sometimes, they want to know where i am active recently because they heard rumors that i have moved to their territory again and they are a little worried.

this time, i thought that some manuscript touched him and he wanted to talk. but he told me that he wanted to report a situation to me. so i reported to the editorial department and set off.

after changing several modes of transportation, i arrived at his territory. when the long-distance bus was about to enter the city, i texted him that i was almost there. he said he would wait for me in the office. after getting off the bus, i took a motorcycle and headed straight to the municipal party committee compound.

after exchanging their personal experiences on the recent officialdom situation, they got to the point. he said that in recent years, various retired old leaders have successively set up various associations, and then went to local areas to ask for money, cars and houses from their former subordinates and current local leaders.

i asked him to give a few examples. he lit a cigarette and said, "for example, a retired leader founded an association. he called me and asked me to support him with 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in activity funds and to set up a branch here. he also needed me to provide support for the association's activity vehicles and office space."

the municipal party secretary called his former boss's behavior "begging."

"for you, a municipal party secretary, this request is nothing, right?" i was a little puzzled.

"twenty or thirty thousand is indeed not a lot, and that's why i felt embarrassed to refuse. moreover, my old leader was my direct superior and i would lose face if i refused. however, after agreeing to one, similar beggars came one after another, and there are more than ten in total," he said.

i asked him to give an example. he said, "once, an old leader came to 'investigate' the work of the association. we were going to ask a deputy mayor to accompany him, but the deputy mayor had a meeting and didn't go. as a result, the old leader was unhappy and called us to blame us, saying that we didn't care about feelings."

the municipal party secretary also introduced that some old leaders bypassed the main local party and government officials and went directly to the lower-level bureaus to ask for help. the people below did not dare to offend them and could only give "subsidy", but this directly affected the normal use of department funds.

"they are all retired, but they still set up an association and conduct research. they also need the company of incumbent local leaders, which has a bit of an impact on grassroots work." the municipal party secretary said that he hopes the media can appeal and reflect this, "old leaders should not set up any associations. if they want to set up an association, it should be purely private, and they should not seek alms from local party committees and governments."

i can understand that these retired officials were his leaders and superiors in the past. it is impossible for him to report such matters through the organization, and he can only hope to appeal through the media.