Lushan County, Henan Province spent 7.15 million (RMB, the same below, 1.33 million yuan, S $ 1.33 million) built a cowboy and weaver sculpture, which caused a large number of criticisms, and officials were removed from office.
expensive and ugly sculpture?
This cowherd and weaver sculpture was unveiled in Lushan County, Pingdingshan, Henan Province on August 22 this year.The sculpture is about 17 meters high, and the form of combination of copper, forging, relief and hue is adopted.
The bidding documents released by the Chinese Government Procurement Network on July 6 showed that this project was bid by Ruizawa Art (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. at a cost of 7.152 million yuan.The procurement content includes: the original site of the stone migration, transportation and installation processing, and the entire process of the design, production, transportation, and installation of sculpture. The delivery and installation period is 50 days after the contract is signed.
Lushan claims to be the birthplace of the Story of the Tanabata Festival and the story of the Cowherd Weaver. I hope to use this to create a tourist signboard and show the new image of Lushan as a cultural city and the city of tourism through the cowherd and weaver sculpture.
However, Chinese netizens obviously did not buy it. After the sculpture appeared, she was immediately "laughed at" and was "expensive and ugly" by netizens.
Cowherd and weaver sculpture was later found to be very similar to the "Xiangjiang Goddess" sculpture completed in 2021.Except for different bases and characters, the main structure, material, color matching, and relief shape are almost the same, and they are suspected of plagiarism.
Many netizens also believe that cowherd and weaver sculpture is far less exquisite as "original". For example, the moonlight shape of the goddess of Xiangjiang has exquisite sculpture patterns, and the moon's moon is "like a yellow banana".
In addition to ridicule Lushan County's "copying of homework", netizens have rumored that the cost of the sculpture of the Xiangjiang goddess is nearly 42 times cheaper, which has also caused questioning of interest transportation.
According to CCTV news reports, the winning company Ruize Company has obtained five sculpture projects in Pingdingshan City since 2018, with a total amount of 14.82 million yuan, of which there are three projects in Lushan County.Ma Moumou, one of the designers of the Cowherd Weaving Girl Sculpture, and the largest shareholder of Ruize Company, also took a group photo with many leaders in Henan Province, and the Chinese City Sculpture Construction Research Institute and the Chinese Cultural and Economic Promotion Association, which were worked as a leader in Henan Province, did not have official registration information.
Facing the questioning, the staff of the Lushan County Housing and Urban Construction Bureau responded on Monday (August 28) that the bidding of the cowherd and weaver sculpture "is in line with the process and accepts supervision ... and not only the supervision of the people, but the government departments also have supervision.Maybe who says you can do it. "
But when asked what material was the sculpture and why it cost more than 7 million, the staff said he was unclear, "but it must be worth it."
I don't know if I don't know it
What really makes public opinion is as big as snowball, it is the official perfunctory and rude attitude of official response to public opinion.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter tried to call the Lushan County People's Government Office on Monday to clarify the controversy around the sculpture around the cowboy and weaver.One "unclear".
The questions from reporters include: whether 7.15 million yuan is used to build a cowboy and weaver sculpture; whether to notice the sculpture of the cowboy weaver female sculpture to the Xiangjiang goddess of Changsha is accused; whether to pay attention to the public opinion on the Internet;EssenceIn response to the reporter's questioning of the Lushan County Government Office, it had been noticed by the media interview with the media, and the staff still said that "I don't know."
Not only "I do not know about six asks", another media and the people of Guizhou Radio and Television Pay attention to the reporter from the reporter to call the Lushan County Housing and Construction Bureau for further interviews./P>
In addition, an Internet celebrity guide "Xiao Hei Zhuming" uploaded a video on Tuesday, saying that he criticized the Niu Lao and weaver sculpture in the video last Saturday (August 26), and received a threat email. "Let me immediatelyDelete videos related to Lushan, more importantly, and attach my son's ID number and my family address. "
Some netizens described that behind this incident, "on the one hand, the public power is abused, and the privacy of ordinary citizens randomly leakes, and on the other hand, it is the manifestation of local officials' arrogance ... FurthermoreHow big is the problem behind this sculpture? "
Faced with the storm of public opinion, the joint investigation team established in Lushan County announced on Tuesday (August 29) that it was exempted from the position of the party secretary of the Communist Party of China and the Director of the Communist Party of China with direct responsibilities.Li Moumou, a staff member of the Housing and Urban Construction Bureau, also gave a great deal to government affairs.
The investigation team also promised to comprehensively review the project design, engineering cost, and bidding process that will be comprehensively reviewed.
Some netizens described the official handling of "too perfunctory", and believed that the official "cannot be contented on the surface of the surface, but to deeply develop the essence of the problem, find the root of the problem, and fundamentally solve the problem."
Negative image engineering
In recent years, in order to seize the certification of celebrities' former residences and the birthplace of legends, it is committed to building large -scale sculptures to create cultural landmarks.
In 2016, Hubei Jingzhou spent 170 million yuan to build a huge Guan Gong statue with a height of 57.3 meters and weighing 1,200 tons.The largest bronze statue, known as the world's largest volume, once became a landmark building in Jingzhou City, and was included in the key project library of the Chinese cultural industry.
But the good times are not very often. Guan Gong's statue was exposed to the surface of the statue on the surface of the statue of cracks and base sinking on the surface of the statue.Investment is 155 million yuan to demolish and move.
From construction to demolition, Guan Gong's statue spent 320 million yuan in sky -high price.Some people criticized "One building and one hundred million yuan is gone, who is the fat, who is the one who pays?" And the netizen teased, Guan Yu may not expect that he will be beheaded twice after thousands of years.
In addition, Wuhan's "birthSculptures such as life and "Welcome to Wangjing" in Beijing have also been criticized for high cost but no sense of beauty, and even being included in the list of strange buildings by netizens. However, most of these controversy stayed at the level of public opinion.Accountability.
Starting from the second quarter of this year, China's economic recovery has weakened. The real estate market as the main source of income sources of local governments has led to a sharp decrease in local governments' income.
As the local finances fall into a dilemma, it is obviously difficult for the local government to open one eye to these millions or even hundreds of millions of image projects.In particular, Lushan County, which was trapped in the center of public opinion, announced poverty alleviation in 2020, and the financial situation was still not optimistic.
In 2022, the statistics of the National Economic and Social Development Statistics of Lushan County showed that Lushan County's general public budget revenue last year was 1.238 billion yuan, and the general public budget expenditure was as high as 5.127 billion yuan.
Chinese officials have recently pointed out the problem of image engineering frequently.The People's Daily of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the National Supervision Commission of the Communist Party of China on the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China have issued documents in the past two weeks to criticize some local leaders of leading cadres to engage in the image of labor, people, and money, not only waste resources, but also affect economic and social development, and harm the prestige of the local party committee and government.
In addition to Lushan County, Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu established an investigation team on July 31. The "Citizen Park" rotten project with a total investigation of 952 million yuan; the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court of Jiangxi Province also publicly tried Fujian Province in JuneChen Jiadong, former director of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Municipal People's Congress, received a bribe, corruption, and abuse of power.In April of this year, the Chen family was publicly notified by the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, saying that he was engaged in the image project of labor and the people.
The scale of the "face project" built in some places is also staggering, which is significantly exceeded by local financial resources.Yuzhong County has been a national poverty -stricken county in the past, and only withdrawn from poor counties in 2019.Surging news quoted public information reports that in 2023, the general public budget revenue of the county's financial general public budget was expected to be 670 million yuan, and debt expenditure was as high as 1.2 billion yuan.The "Citizen Park" project was established in 2016, with a total investment of more than 900 million.
The These examples show that once the large -scale projects of the local government are out of public opinion, formal supervision procedures, or the actual situation of the local itself, there may be problems.EssenceIt is said that "ugly and expensive" is relatively small. If it is still hidden, direct or indirect interest conveying and cat greasy, the harm is not just aesthetics.
