Food and electronics aren’t the only things being faked in China. According to state-run news agencies, Chinese Communist Party officials are also faking their personal records in order to get better chances for bonuses and promotions.
A central inspection team under the Chinese regime’s anti-graft regulator looked into personal records of local officials in 20 Chinese provinces, and after a year of work, they found that fake records were rampant. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that officials in 15 provinces had altered their personal records—including their names, ages, education levels, and work experience.
In one case mentioned by Xinhua, a local official has almost nothing truthful in her personal record, except her gender. Wang Hongying, chief secretary of the Quality Inspection Association in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, who is now labeled “the liar secretary,” faked everything except her gender in her record, including her name, age, work experience, and other areas. Over a third of the 90 seals in her documents were faked, the report stated.
The system to promote officials under the Chinese regime has set criteria for promotions and bonuses including on age, education level, and length of service. In order to clear obstacles for promotions, many local communist officials “white wash” their personal records by “reducing their ages, prolonging their working services, and enhancing their education degrees,” reports Xinhua. Some officials also deleted blemishes from their work records.
For instance, in some provinces, officials are required to be under 35 years old to be promoted to deputy-section-level cadres, under 40 years old to be promoted to be section-level cadres, under 55 years old to be departmental cadres, and so on, the report stated. To get around these requirements, many local officials fake their ages in their records to get a chance at promotions or to prolong their terms in service.
