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sundawu8 孙大午
China's Rich Try to Rival Communist Party's Power?
Stratfor, Strategic Forecasting Inc., June 06, 2003
As a self-designated champion of rural reform and a spokesman for China's peasantry, Sun emjoyed some official support. He criticized excessive bureaucratic procedures as hindering rural entrepreneurship and found audiences at China's prestigious Beijing University. Sun's outspokenness won him some fame, and he became the subject of recent articles in publications such as the Hina Economic Times and Singapore's The Straight Times.
Sun 孙大午 eventually pushed the envelope too far, however. In a recent essay published on his company's web site, he criticized Beijing for neglecting rural development and railed against state-owned banks for moving funds--largely made up of China's 800 million rural residents' personal savings--into urban projects. At the same time, Sun withdrew 3 million yuan ($360,000) from a state bank, allegedly to establish a private rural credit cooperative. This was far beyond Beijing's limits.
China: Foreign Lending Soars Amid Cash Crunch at Home
Statfor, Strategic Forecasting Inc., August 08, 2003
In June, Sun Dawu, one of China's leading entrepreneurs, was arrested for trying to establish an independent credit cooperative as an alternatibe to state-controlled banks. Sun publicly criticized Beijing for neglecting rural development, and he railed against state-owned banks for moving funds--largely made up of China's 800 million rural residents' personal savings--into urban projects.
Sun's case raised a critical issue. He suggested that if Chinese citizens do not approve of Beijing's' fiscal policy, they could influence the government by withdrawing their funds from the state banks, a move that could have dire consequences for the government if it were to become the impetus for a run on the banks.
Chinese Farm Reform: Something Revolutionary This Way Comes?
Jan 06, 2004
http://www.stratfor.biz/Print.neo?storyId=226675
Summary
Beijing has announced a new round of measures to help alleviate Chinese farmers' economic burdens. Although reforms have been implemented piecemeal over the past several years with marginal success, events in 2003 in China -- including the Hu government's slap-on-the-wrist punishment of entrepreneur Sun Dawu -- suggest that more radical steps could be in the offing.
Officials with the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the State Development and Reform Commission said Jan. 5 that they have abolished, exempted or lowered 15 types of financial charges in order to reduce the financial burden on the country's approximately 800 million farmers. The government reportedly will not approve any new fees on farmers before the end of 2005 and urged regional and local authorities to lower their fees as well.
The move is Beijing's latest bid to improve the Chinese peasantry's lot in life. Rural incomes remain flat, and farmers face stagnant prices, competition from agricultural imports and the caprices of corrupt local leaders. New President Hu Jintao's administration has been responsive in meeting some of the needs of China's rural residents in recent months, including considering some radical changes and consenting to direct political challenge....
The second, and even more surprising, event is the rehabilitation of Chinese tycoon and self-appointed champion of the peasant, Sun Dawu. Sun was arrested after publishing essays critical of government policies and state-controlled banks and for establishing an unauthorized independent credit cooperative for farmers. The outspoken businessman committed two venal sins in China: First, he openly criticized the government, and by extension the Party; and, second, he encouraged Chinese farmers to withdraw their money from state-controlled banks if they did not like the way the government loaned money -- an idea that strikes a chord with the farmers who seethe at the thought that the vast majority of the loans from China's Big Four commercial banks go to unproductive state-owned enterprises, while they find it difficult borrow anything.
Not long ago, Sun would have received a one-way ticket to a re-education camp in a barren part of China, but he got off with little more than a sharp slap on the wrist, heavy fines and a three-year suspended sentence for "causing disorder in the local financial sector." Sun's favorable treatment indicates a couple of things: First, he is well-connected, and that is what likely saved his skin. But more importantly, his commuted sentence reveals that -- in the eyes of Beijing -- the entrepreneur's charges against the state were correct....
Sun's rehabilitation by the Party could set a fatal precedent. There are many entrepreneurs, workers, farmers, religious adherents and intellectuals across China who have ideas on how Beijing could better run the country, and their activism is almost always rewarded with censure. But now, other well-placed individuals with convictions could become emboldened. Since it invites more dissent, allowing a small amount of plurality in an authoritarian regime can be a slippery slope.
Although the unexpected behavior from Beijing regarding mortgaging land rights and Sun's light punishment suggest the situation possibly has become desperate enough that the government is being forced to go to extraordinary lengths to tackle the problems, it also demonstrates the Hu administration's ability to react more quickly and decisively than that of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin. The first year of the new president's administration has been marked by a number of popular policy decisions, including his agile handling of the SARS crisis early in the year, repealing outdated vagrancy laws and canceling the leadership's annual retreat to a seashore resort in Beidaihe. Judging by Hu's track record in 2003, the upcoming year could see sweeping changes in China's countryside which will begin to address adequately the complaints of the majority of the country's population.
Press Arrests Taint Reform Image, Ed Lanfranco,
United Press International
In December the newspaper was the first to report on the reemergence of SARS in Guangdong before government authorities had informed the World Health Organization. It has also carried extensive coverage on the trial of Sun Dawu, one of China's wealthiest private entrepreneurs jailed for alleged financial improprieties but later released.
http://wwww.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/ 20040322-051716-5202r.htm
The Challenger Type
China's Strategy, Volume 1, January 30, 2004
by CSIS International Security Program and China Media Net Inc.
Bai Shazhou, The Growing Influence of China's Capitalists
Sun's uniqueness does not lie in the fact that he has turned a family livestock farm, with 1,000 chickens and 50 pigs, into a large enterprise called Dawu group. His uniqueness doesn't lie in how many employees he has hired or how much capital he has generated. It does not lie in the fact that he has invested in a technical school for poor kids or a charitable hospital. He is unique because he refuses to ally with those in power to obtain wealth in China, where connections with the power elite is the short cut to becoming rich.
On October 27, 2002, an inside source was quoted on a US-based Chinese-language online forum as saying that President Hu expressed concerns about Sun's case after he read various news articles about it. Three days later, the local court in Hebei released Sun with a sentence of three years in prison, four year's probation, and a 100,000-yuan fine.
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Chinese version, The Challenger Type
挑战型资本家 福布斯中国富豪排行榜前 100 位并没有河北大午集团董事长孙大午的名字，但把孙大午说成是当代中国最着名的资本家并不是夸大之词。北京理工大学经济学教授胡星斗称孙是中国最优秀民营企业家、中国企业家的良心（14
The Economist, Speaking Out, Businessmen are starting to Challenge the Authorities, December 30, 2003
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2313388
孫大午接兩弟回家再送妻「投案自首」 明报 12/23/2003 8:11:00 AM 518 202
2.中央插手 释孙大午 明报 11/20/2003 3:55:00 PM 2344 293
3.人民日报[今日关注]: 学界评孙大午案件 中华工商时报 11/19/2003 6:09:00 PM 3155 185
4.民营企业家孙大午作客新浪总裁在线(实录) 新浪财经讯 11/13/2003 5:06:00 PM 10540 146
5.从孙大午事件看基层政府的掠夺性本质 刘水 11/10/2003 6:11:00 PM 1868 108
6.农民企业家孙大午获释背景 BBC 11/10/2003 8:02:00 AM 989 134
7.孙大午获罪前后 经济观察报 11/8/2003 6:39:00 AM 3398 122
8.政府该如何对待孙大午 秋风 11/7/2003 7:46:00 PM 2232 108
9.孙大午等案激发中国各界精英纷起悍卫言论自由 联合早报 11/5/2003 10:29:00 AM 2366 148
10.报告文学：农民英雄孙大午----秘书眼中的孙大午 佚名 11/4/2003 9:49:00 PM 29026 216
11.孙大午终于回家 表示大午集团还要好好干 北京青年报 11/2/2003 12:51:00 PM 3437 137
12.果然如此！富豪孙大午判三缓四，被从轻发落 中国青年报 10/30/2003 6:00:00 PM 1149 211
13.民间的力量挽救了孙大午----胡锦涛亲批救人 草庵居士 10/28/2003 10:44:00 PM 378 488
14.传胡锦涛介入, 孙大午案出现转机 星岛日报 10/28/2003 10:18:00 AM 478 177
15.孙大午其人：从军官、行政干部到农民的传奇 老实顺民 10/16/2003 12:44:00 PM 6602 223
16.孙大午案是个信号 顾则徐 10/3/2003 8:15:00 PM 5527 148
17.如何处理孙大午案意义重大 刘宾雁 9/18/2003 2:26:00 PM 1600 193
18.恶法治国及其受害者----评孙大午非法融资案 刘晓波 9/8/2003 11:29:00 AM 3536 114
19.孙大午案是个信号 顾则徐 8/12/2003 8:44:00 AM 5536 185
20.愿意为孙大午提供实际帮助的人请联系 博讯 8/10/2003 8:32:00 PM 4014 84
21.当局逮捕孙大午, 醉翁之意不在酒 金海涛 8/6/2003 9:42:00 PM 1533 210
22.孙大午案, 北京学者律师促释法 明报 8/5/2003 5:42:00 PM 498 123
23.孙大午事件研讨会流产 (图) 明报 8/3/2003 11:02:00 AM 696 179
24.中国经济时报：谁把孙大午逼进了困境？ 华中炜 唐福勇 8/2/2003 11:57:00 PM 2180 227
25.保卫孙大午！ 东海一枭 8/1/2003 10:30:00 AM 2692 165
26.孙大午为什么失败？ 自由湘军 7/24/2003 10:58:00 PM 2292 172
27.孙大午被捕之后 中国《新闻周刊》 7/23/2003 1:26:00 PM 3442 227
28.亿万富翁孙大午涉罪调查 中国《新闻周刊》： 7/23/2003 1:24:00 PM 6662 174
29.孙大午事件值得中国工商界和知识界最大程度的关注 作者: 狼协 7/23/2003 1:16:00 PM 2082 131
30.《财经时报》 关于河北巨富孙大午的报道(图) 田予冬 7/21/2003 2:45:00 PM 4226 239
31.从孙大午案看民间融资困境和金融垄断 王怡 7/21/2003 12:47:00 PM 3818 120
32.孙大午案可能意味着中国民营企业的更大危机 杨支柱 7/17/2003 12:03:00 PM 2327 145
33.继杨斌之后, 富豪孙大午被控非法
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