[People News] Recently, the Beijing Public Security Bureau’s Public Transportation Corps published a list of “duty auxiliary police” to be hired in November. Soon after, official media reported that “since many of the hires graduated from prestigious schools such as Peking University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China University of Political Science and Law, the matter quickly attracted widespread attention from netizens.”

Amid the heated discussion, the publisher of the list suddenly changed one hire’s educational background from “Peking University” to “Peking University (Medical School Online Education),” as if to explain that this person did not attend regular on-campus programs but only took distance-learning courses.

What exactly is the list publisher afraid of? Afraid of tarnishing Peking University’s reputation? That’s probably overthinking it.

The Chinese people have seen it all before. As early as 2020, we saw news of Peking University master’s and PhD graduates being recruited to work at a district-level neighborhood office in Hangzhou. That same year, a primary school in Shenzhen had Peking University master’s and PhD holders on its new teacher roster. Just this past April, a Peking University master’s graduate openly declared she would stay on campus — to work as a cafeteria auntie. Amid waves of doubt, netizens pointed out the key detail: that cafeteria job actually came with full formal establishment (bianzhi), an iron rice bowl.

And isn’t the current recruitment by the Beijing Public Security Bureau’s Public Transportation Corps exactly the same?

Official media have already published articles with titles like “Peking University Grad Becoming Auxiliary Police — Overqualified?” and “Prestigious University Graduates as Auxiliary Police: Don’t Lightly Call It ‘Overqualified’.” They stress that this auxiliary police position is by no means a lowly post. The specific work will be “coordinated and arranged by the political work department and the employing department of the unit,” and the salary is 4,200 yuan during the probation period, rising to 5,111–6,839 yuan after formal hiring.

With a scolding tone, the official media warned the common people: “Just because you got into a famous university doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed a bright future.” Because in CCP China, the “reality” is that even students from the same university and same major will have vastly different fates — some laugh, some cry; some receive multiple high-paying job offers, while others are ignored by every employer.

Only, the official media dare not admit that such a huge gap most likely exists only between the second- and third-generation princelings of the regime and ordinary people.

If that Peking University graduate really only has an online distance-learning degree and no proper formal education, doesn’t that perfectly prove the point?

Looking at the screenshot of the Beijing Public Security list, many of those hired did not graduate from famous universities at all, which shows an extremely high probability of hereditary succession for these posts. In other words, if a graduate really comes from a grassroots background, even with the halo of a prestigious university, it is very difficult for them to jump across professions and fields to snatch an iron rice bowl post.

Putting the names of famous-university graduates on what is essentially an internal recruitment announcement is just the CCP continuing to paint pretty pictures, so that the desperately overworked oxen and horses will keep believing that the reason they can’t get ahead is that they’re not working hard enough or excellent enough — rather than that opportunities are being plundered and stolen from them.

For a long time, the Chinese people have rarely seen any official department suddenly make public an internal announcement related to assets, positions, or resource allocation. The fact that a recruitment list for auxiliary police positions with formal establishment is now being publicized may reveal two things:

1. Other positions with establishment are far more valuable and are basically never recruited openly, so there is no need for public announcement;
2. Under the CCP’s current order to “live frugally and tighten belts,” many departments are facing budget cuts and cannot even pay salaries, so new hiring has to be suspended.

Take top students from Tsinghua and Peking University: in the past, they could at least become teachers or work in neighborhood offices. Now many schools are closing or about to close, and serving civil servants are having their wages delayed or are even being asked by their units to “lend” money. For those who are not second- or third-generation red aristocracy, getting into the system with establishment has become harder than reaching the heavens.

But why are there still vacancies for auxiliary police? Especially when the number of surveillance cameras on the mainland already far exceeds the rest of the world combined, enough to reign supreme globally.

The answer is obvious: the CCP’s most cherished “six stabilities” (stable employment, finance, foreign trade, foreign investment, domestic investment, and expectations) can no longer be maintained; not a single one of the “six guarantees” (protect residents’ employment, basic livelihood, market entities, food and energy security, industrial and supply chains, and grassroots operations) can be guaranteed. The entire society is in dire straits; every industry is trapped in a deep freeze with no way out; ordinary people live without hope. Everyone realizes that “this year may be the best year we’ll ever have from now on.” Those who can’t bear it any longer either carry out indiscriminate killings to take revenge on society and vent their rage, or harm themselves, or take their loved ones with them to jump off buildings, rivers, bridges, or lie on train tracks…

When the “three driving carriages” of the economy have all stalled, when the CCP that has always shouted “everything for money” has become the target of public anger, when a society completely controlled by the CCP has reached the point where even prestigious university graduates, the middle class, and highly educated people have no jobs and no food, and ordinary citizens can only wait to die — who is the chief culprit if not the CCP?

As more and more anti-CCP warriors roar at this immoral regime, as slogans declaring “The CCP is an evil cult” appear in massive numbers on the streets, the only method left to this regime that rose through violence is probably a blanket, one-size-fits-all stability maintenance crackdown.

Even though the atmosphere everywhere is already tense and oppressive, in the days to come, more and more kinds of police personnel tasked by the CCP with watching the common people will appear without dead angles in every street, alley, and public place — above and below bridges.

This country, blindly mismanaged and over-controlled by the CCP, has long become a pressure cooker. If they keep turning up the heat, the only result will be to blow the CCP itself to smithereens.

The CCP refuses to believe in retribution, but in the end it will be completely annihilated. Whatever it fears most will come true. Will the CCP be the exception?

(Published originally by People News) △