Hangzhou, Whose Paradise Is It? tanzhuo, hubin, Paradise, Hangzhou

*  [022]  Hangzhou, Whose Paradise Is It?  (05/10/2009)  (Hecaitou's blog)
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200905a.brief.htm#022

        Tan Zhuo, male, born in 1984, hometown Ningxiang (Hunan province), only child.  In 2002, he entered the Department of Information Science and Electrical Engineering (Zhejiang University) to major in Communications Engineering.  In 2006, he graduated and stayed in Hangzhou to work as an employee of ECI Telecom.  He was about to get married.

        At 20:50pm on May 7, 2009, he bought a ticket for the movie "City of Life and Death" (aka <Nanjing! Nanjing!>).  This is the sixth year that he has been in Hangzhou, so he was walking around a city that he was familiar with.  Perhaps he might have heard the low roar of three modified cars approaching from afar.  But why was that unusual?  He was in his city and he can hear that kind of noise every evening.

        Consequently, he was totally unprepared when he was rammed by a red modified Mitsubishi race car the next second.  His head hit the front window glass which immediately shattered to pieces.  He was catapulted into the air by the force of the collision, even spun a few times in the air, before he dropped to the ground.  Blood began to ooze slowly from his mouth and nose.  According to eyewitnesses, he "was launched into the air higher than a public bus."  When the ambulance arrived, the crew determined that Tan Zhuo's heart had already stopped beating.  On Wener Road, the speed limit was 50 kilometers per hour.  That red Mitsubishi was racing at more than 70 kilometers per hour.

        A Mitsubishi race car; a modified vehicle; a rich young man.  These three factors would have been enough to arouse the wrath of the people.  Some day, the driver Hu Bin's biggest regret may be that he hit a Zhejiang University graduate.  Tan Zhuo is a typical new migrant in Hangzhou.  He was born in the 1980's and grew up in a small town in inland China.  He studied hard for 12 years and beat out several hundred thousand other students to gain admission into a first-class national science/technology university to major in engineering science.  After graduation, he joined a local company, earned a salary and got into a romance.  He was prepared to develop slowly, saving a bit of money at a time to eventually buy an apartment, get married and settle down.  This kind of life is neither lofty nor lowly, neither good nor bad.  But for many other students, it would be their Hangzhou dream too to get a job there and settle down.  But now a speeding car driven by a rich young man has destroyed that Hangzhou dream.  When the people read in the news report that "the person who caused the accident had a bad attitude," they were enraged.  The BBS at Zhejiang University boiled over with rage.

        Within 48 hours, this news item appeared at all the major BBS and portals across China.  Young students flooded the forums repeatedly and left comments at the major blogs to call for media and Internet attention on this case.  The relevant authorities in Hangzhou seemed to have noticed this and they issued the routine orders to control and guide public opinion.  They felt that it was embarrassing to have this headline story and they can make the matter go away through appropriate controls.  But Hangzhou is an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China.  In Hangzhou, there is a real-name registration system, but no such thing exists at the other Chinese BBS's.  The Hangzhou media may be forced to use only the officially designated reports, but the other media in China do not have to do so.  In Hangzhou, the media reporters may not be able to write in their media, but they continued to speak out in their blogs.  Reporters are people too and therefore they have to earn a living.  At the same time, reporters know how to speak because they are people too.

        Citizens of Hangzhou went to the scene to pay tribute to Tan Zhuo.  Clearly, they are unhappy with the car racing that has been going on in this city.  For them, the matter is not just pity for a deceased young man.  His death symbolizes a certain chronic illness that threatens the lives of everybody in this city.  Tan Zhuo is dead, and he could be any citizen.  Everybody can face his fate -- to walk in your own city, get hit by a young car racer, tossed into the air, spun around, dropped into the ground and then be dead.  What happens after the death of Tan Zhuo is not just a matter for his family, but it is everybody's business.  This time, Tan Zhuo died for all the people of Hangzhou.  What happens next?  The people need to understand just what kind of city they are living in.  Is Hangzhou "the paradise on earth" with the all the singing and dancing in ancient lore?  Or it is a city where rich young man can speed in cars and kill people?

        Human flesh search began immediately on the driver.  A traffic violation record from December 7, 2008 was truly astounding:


        This record showed that on December 7, 2008, the driver was speeding at 210 kilometers/hour on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Expresswway (which had a speed limit of 120 kilometers/hour).  According to <Traffic Laws>, anyone who speeds at more than 50% higher than the speed limit should have his/her driver's license taken away.  The incident on May 7, 2009 showed that this law is a joke.  So everybody began to ask: If this driver had his license taken away in accordance with the law, would Tan Zhuo be still alive?  Once this question got started, the next ones came naturally: Why did this driver get extra consideration from the law?  Where did things go wrong?  Who authorized this extralegal move?  And why aren't street racing being restricted effectively?

        If there is true justice and fairness in this world, then there must be an explanation to those for whom the deceased was a son, an employee or a fiancé.  An explanation must be given to all those citizens who walk in the streets.  Those who enable this driver to have a license to kill must stand up and give an explanation.  Hangzhou has always been known as paradise.  So the citizens should know whose paradise is this and whose hell is this.


        Tan Zhuo when he was alive


        Tan Zhuo, May 7, 2009

    Related Link: Car racing incident  Oiwan Lam, Global Voices Online; Street Racing Rich Kid Kills Pedestrian, Netizens Outraged  ChinaSMACK


        Laughing and joking after the incident

*  [023]  How To Bury Hu Bin  (05/10/2009)  Hu Bin is the driver whose car killed Tan Zhuo in Hangzhou.  Hu has a high negative image as being a rich young man whose reckless car racing killed an aspiring young man.  How to bury Hu Bin?  Well, you don't need more moral outrages because there are more than enough out there.  Instead, the most potent weapon is an apparent defense which is guaranteed to inflame even more passions against Hu Bin.

    (RedNet)

        When I first read about the Hangzhou incident, I was outraged.  Then I calmed down.  Amidst the hubbub, I seemed to have come up with some things which I couldn't articulate at first.  At this time, this incident has gone beyond a normal traffic accident.  I would like to share some of my thoughts with you.

        1. Traffic accidents are now an inextricable and inevitable of human civilization today.  Although traffic accidents are bloody, they are part of the forward progress of human civilization.  We need to rationally handle this Hangzhou traffic incident in terms of historical materialism.

        2. A driver obviously needs to drive safely.  But we must not forget the unique set of circumstances in China whereupon certain criminal elements deliberately dive into oncoming cars in order to extort the driver.  Many drivers have come across such situations.

        The deceased Mr. Tan came from the backwards Hunan province and he is looking forward to get married.  Therefore, he must be economically stressed.  When he saw these luxury cars come and go, he must get lots of ideas.  At a minimum, he must have been distracted when he crossed the street because he had plenty on his mind.  Therefore, the incident occurred.  This is a tragedy.  Apart from Mr. Tan, the driver Mr. Hu is a victim too.  When a young person such as him encounters such an incident, he is bound to suffer mentally.  We know indirectly that Mr. Hu comes from a family of well-known Hangzhou entrepreneurs.  His father is a patriotic entrepreneur and a very likeable person.  The impact of this incident on the Hu family is far more significant than that on the Tan family.  The dead has departed, so we should be more considerate about the living.

        3. In terms of contribution to the Gross Domestic Product of China as well as Hangzhou, the family of Hu Bin is immeasurably more important than the Tan Family.  Wu Bin is the builder, sponsor and economic supporter that Hangzhou needs.  Meanwhile Tan has just joined the workforce and his contribution is small -- in fact, he is using more resources from than he is contributing to Hangzhou.  When we deal with the problem, this should be our first consideration.

        4. This is just a normal traffic accident.  This is a typical traffic accident.  There is no need to exaggerate this to the point of sending a threatening letter to the mayor.  Once people do that, the nature of the incident is altered and we can no longer deal with the matter with a harmonious spirit.  Certain people with ulterior motives are using this ordinary traffic accident against our government and our entrepreneurs.  This is an assault on the economic reforms and opening.

        We must be vigilant and pay special attention to the political tendencies and schemes.

        Based upon the above, I personally strongly urge the Hangzhou police to stave off the pressure and deal with the matter in a pragmatic way in accordance with the law.  We cannot give up our principles and favor someone just because he is dead.  We must hold onto a scientific attitude.

        I believe that the preliminary findings of the traffic police are accurate, scientific and law-abiding.

        Based upon the above analyses, I call on everybody to safeguard the hard-earned prosperity of Hangzhou, to defend the legal rights of the driver involved in the incident and to protect comrade Hu Bin!


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Street Racing Rich Kid Kills Pedestrian, Netizens Outraged
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by Fauna on Sunday, May 10, 2009


A young man in Hangzhou, China was hit and killed by a red Mitsubishi Evo sports car that was racing with two other expensive sports cars a few nights ago. Chinese netizens are outraged and afraid that the rich will be able to break the law and avoid trouble by using their money. The police statements after the accident have made Chinese people even more angry.

From NetEase:


According to Zhejiang Online’s May 8th report, on the 7th, several young people in Hangzhou City Wen Er West Road were street racing, and amongst them one red race car hit and killed a pedestrian crossing the crosswalk. Onlookers said the perpetrating boy’s attitude was very poor, hitting and killing a person yet treating it as if nothing happened. The perpetrator’s Mitsubishi sports car was labeled with two websites, and amongst the websites read “here gathers the country’s best drifting race car drivers”. A witnesses said, “A little after 8:00pm “rumble rumble rumble” came three cars, all very low very sports cars, going very fast very fast. The boy who was hit was crossing the crosswalk at the time, although at the time I did not see clearly if it was a boy or a girl. Upon being hit, his body flew into the air, flew very high very high, as high as that (Mr. Hu pointed to the Dejia Apartments front door/gate, the door/gate is over 5 meters high)! He flipped in the air, and then fell back down.” Onlooking pedestrians all indicated, 100 km/h? Up to 150km/h? Otherwise how could a person be hit so far? The report said the accident victim was from Hunan, born 1984, only son, graduated from Zhejiang University in 2006, and was working at Hangzhou Yisai Communications Limited Company, and prior to the incident had watched the movie “Nanjing! Nanjing! in the nearby cinema.


According to Hu X (the perpetrator) and related witnesses (the only witnesses the police have accepted were the other two sons of rich families who were racing) statements, the perpetrator’s car was only traveling around 70km/h when the incident happened, while the speed limit for the street where the incident happened is 50km/h (what a clever relation). Hu X admits that at the time he did not pay attention to what was happening on the crosswalk.
Did not modify the car, did not drive in the opposite direction, the speed accepted was that given by the perpetrator and his companions instead of those eyewitnesses who were present, also no scientific measurement (hitting a grown man up to 6 meters high, flying over 20 meters away, needs what kind of speed? Is there someone who is good at physics who can calculate or us?)
…then they say the victim was not using the crosswalk…


Hu Bin, the driver of the Mitsubishi Evo called his friends after hitting the victim, Tan Zhuo. Here is a picture after the accident that has angered many netizens:



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#1217723 - Today at 11:25 AM Re: WARNING ! Attention should be paid to Hangzhou [Re: lyx]
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~~~up up , I am looking forward to see his deserving. He and his family are evil-minded. He has humiliated all chinese.

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#1217725 - Today at 11:27 AM Re: WARNING ! Attention should be paid to Hangzhou [Re: henzhe]
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70mile~~~~it is really funny
He should be paid to Zhejiang University too!!


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#1217727 - Today at 11:45 AM Re: WARNING ! Attention should be paid to Hangzhou [Re: henzhe]
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I'm wandering maybe cnn will interested in this news

China News Wrap
http://chinanewswrap.com/2009/05 ... -as-f-1-race-track/
Summaries of major news in the Chinese media
“Rich kid kills pedestrian while using public road as F-1 race track”


Hu Bin

The People’s Daily website has a headline news story about a traffic fatality caused by wealthy youths using a public highway as a race track, which has caused outrage amongst local internet users.  

A figure from the Hangzhou City Public Security Bureau said today that on the evening of 7 May, a traffic accident occurred on the Wen-er West Road that caused a single fatality. On 8 May, Hu Bin, a suspect on the traffic accident, was placed in criminal custody, and police are currently collecting evidence as part of their investigation. The figure from the Hangzhou City PSB also called upon “individuals from all areas of society to promptly report cases speeding, drink driving, and other severe infractions of traffic laws.”

On the basis of the initial investigation, a Mr. Hu was racing a Mitusbishi from Hangzhou’s east to its west with two other individuals on the evening of 7 May. At 20:05, as Mr. Hu’s vehicle was travelling from east to west on the Xihu District’s Wen-er West Road, it collided with a pedestrian walking along a zebra crossing from south to north. The pedestrian was taken to the Zhejiang Province Tongde Hospital, where he died from his injuries.

The victim, Tan Zhuo, was a 25 year-old graduate of Zhejiang University, who was employed by a company in Hangzhou. According to his classmates and colleagues, Tan Zhuo performed extremely well in his studies at Zhejiang University and in his work life, and was preparing to marry his long-term girlfriend at the time of his death.

The accident has triggered strong public reaction in Hangzhou, with eye-witnesses expressing their contempt for the individual responsible on the internet. Following the occurence of the accident, a posting was placed on one of Hangzhou’s local internet forums entitled “Rich kid uses public road as F1 Racetrack, innocent pedestrian sent 5 metres in the air”, with accompanying photos from the scene of the accident.

According to police investigations and the testimony of Mr. Hu himself, at the time of the accident the vehicleinvolved was already speeding, and Mr. Hu has confessed that he was not paying attention to any pedestrian trafic.

Hu exiting from vehicle

The front of the vehicle following the accident

Scene of accident

Link to original news story.
http://society.people.com.cn/GB/42733/9272476.html



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