The “forced donation” in the red-headed document should be a “power” released by the government – Xinhua Commentary – Italian Xinhua Times, Xinhua Media Network

The reason why the government and departments are keen on carrying out donation activities such as “charity one-day donation” and “philanthropy donation” is to transfer or impose the charitable assistance responsibilities that originally belong to the government or departments onto the citizens. Every year, the government can “create” several “highlight” projects for charitable assistance without spending a penny. For this reason, it is not difficult to understand that “you will never tire of it”.

In fact, the “forced donation” in red-headed documents reflects the overstepping and absence of government functions; it also reflects that the government’s power has not truly been released from the cage of the law.

On the morning of the 13th, at the work conference on the transformation of institutional functions of the State Council, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that “the relationship between the government and the market, the government and society should be properly handled, the powers that should be delegated should be delegated, and the affairs that should be managed should be managed well.” The author believes that as far as charity is concerned, management means that the government should increase investment and continue to meet the needs of the development of charitable aid; liberalization means that the government should stop doing stupid things like “forced donations”.

No matter how good the reasons are, the history of “forced donations” using red-headed documents should be discontinued long ago! Yao Mingsheng