ABSTRACT
On 25 April 2005, after his first full month in his new post in Heilongjiang Province, Z was given a surprise. Around 100 teachers blocked the gates of the Sengong Group (Sengong is an abbreviation for the forest industry in Chinese) and demanded to see the official in charge of complaints and education. Some shouted through their home-made loudspeakers: ‘We want higher pay, we want food, and we want to see Z’. Some said: ‘He is an assistant to the provincial governor and represents the provincial government, and he is also head of the Sengong Group. We want to know whether he will implement the No. 9 document of the State Council and whether Sengong is still ruled by the Communist Party’.
