City Management Officers in China - They Are Said to Be Crueler Than Tigers

It is nice for people working hard to make a city clean and tidy. But what if these people become cold blood and violent?

It is common to see bad reports of the city management officers’ conflicts with the unlicensed vendors. The latest two reports arises a hot debate. The first one said the officer has snapped a partial finger of an old woman who wants to sell her vegetables which her family could not eat up. The other one is that the officer has clapped a 76-year-old man who walked for 8 hours to the city and wished to sell his sweet potatoes for collecting money to cure his paralyzed son. Both old people are unlucky. They have got hurt while the officers are executing their duties.

The officers in China may be a little different from others in other countries. They are said to the legal organized criminal gangs. City management officers belong to the public institutions. The government pays them monthly. They also enjoy other welfares as the public servants do. But the problem is that there are no specific laws or stipulations to regulate them when they do their jobs. Thus results in the conflicts between the vendors and the city management officers. They usually abuse, hit or kick the sellers. In some cases, it is bloodshed.

These people are not welcomed by the mass but the government needs them to fulfill some tasks. The purpose of this institution is to make sure there are no unlicensed vendors on the street. But the situation is complicated in China. Common people have no ways to redress an injustice because the officers are protected by the government. People hate these officers and describe them as tigers.

It is not right to say all the city management officers are bad or cruel. But in many cases this is the reality. Chinese people are wondering why they are treated by them in this way. They pay taxes to the country. When a report about this shows up, people are always mad at the city management officers.

China has a long way to go. Chinese people should know more about their rights and responsibilities. It is wrong for a person to hurt another one even when you are a law-executor. Sincerely hope the government will make great efforts to make things better and let the people live a peace and easy life.