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...seems stupid that [the administration] would ban kegs—hard alcohol replaces it,” said Yale freshman Julia Huang...
...Huang has a history of fighting graft. After serving in the People's Liberation Army, he rose to become head of the finance commission in Fuzhou. While helping lead an investigation into illegal pig slaughterhouses, he received death threats and his own deputy was beaten to death in an orange grove. The city issued him a bulletproof vest that he wore proudly around his office. The investigation led to jail terms for five prominent Party officials. On the day Huang reported for duty at Lianjiang in January 2002, a hundred residents stopped him to say the government had torn down...
...Huang's bosses in the provincial capital created their own team to investigate his allegations. But the implicit tension between growth and fighting graft was visible when the team was told to "strike a balance between the struggle against corruption and economic development," according to documents released by the city to rebut Huang's essay. In the event, the committee ruled that the case was an "economic dispute" rather than corruption and that construction should continue. After lobbying against the ruling for two years, Huang contacted the People's Daily website, which posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview...
...night that Huang posted his essay, Fuzhou's Party secretary called an emergency meeting and declared that Huang had made "serious mistakes," according to an official rebuttal posted on the city's website. The next day, Fuzhou investigators drove to meet Huang. At day's end, they declared that he had deceived the public by saying he wore a bulletproof vest; everyone they'd talked to, the Fuzhou officials' response said, denied seeing him wear it. A day later, Huang was accused of a "serious violation of organizational discipline." His essay, said the rebuttal, would be "used by hostile forces...
...government's rebuttal hints that Huang himself "violated rules of honest governance" but provides no details. "He ran the town like a king, with no regard for the law," says Zhou Hongwen, the vice chairman of Yuansheng Real Estate Corp. But back in Lianjiang, residents say they glued posters supporting Huang on the wall of Party headquarters. They were removed. "Eight people lived in my mother's house, and now where will they go?" asks one woman living near a Christian church, also slated for destruction. "Officials are stuffing themselves on our rice, and we're going hungry...