Why I Wore A Bullet-Proof Vest For The Last Six Years (The Rebuttal Case)
Oops! It looks like the Central Propaganda Department has just struck back. The original letter by Huang Jingao (see previous post) has been removed from all the websites (sina.com, sohu.com, tom.com, etc) together with other related material (such as the interview with the Beijing News). Instead, if you type in the name Huang Jingao, you will find the official 10,000 word statement from the Fujian provincial authorities condemning him. The full translation of this rebuttal appears below.
Who do you believe now?
If you go back to my previous post, you will note that my introduction was quite reserved. I wrote: "People's Daily should not be publishing every letter that it receives, because some of them could in fact serve nefarious purposes." I had assumed that People's Daily had done its due intelligence. The original letter was sent on August 8 and published on August 11, so it is not clear if People's Daily had taken enough time to investigate this matter.
Was Huang's letter one of those nefarious letters? Or was it the rebuttal letter, which is quite detailed? At this point, it is impossible for an ordinary news reader to determine. This is now a case of "He Said Versus They Said." For example, the rebuttal letter implies that the disagreement between the two parties was due to a poorly constructed Memorandum which was unclear about the points of dispute. Since that Memorandum has not been published, it is difficult for outsiders to judge.
However, it can be said that the rebuttal letter is antagonistic in tone and uses the kind of language that will invoke fear and loathing, to wit: the exhortation not to let "the western hostile forces, the Taiwanese hostile forces, the overseas democratic movement elements and the Falun Gong elements" disrupt the economic development and social stability of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province and the western economic region in the Taiwan Strait. It is precisely statements like these that help the causes of these outside 'evil' forces.
The rebuttal letter consists of a long recitation of dates on which various bureaucratic committees held meetings and issued reports. Meetings and reports may convey the impression that certain people were working hard, but it does not necessarily mean that the work was adequate or effective.
Although the rebuttal contains a great many details, there is one significant component missing. In Huang's letter, he recounted how he was dragged into this matter. On his first day at work, he was besieged at his office by more than 100 petitioners holding banners and chanting slogans about the "Land Case". On the second day, more than two hundred showed up. Eventually, he had to meet with more than 600 petitioners at the same time. The petitioners' complaint was that the developer had not compensated the displaced families adequately. The Huang Letter mentioned that in the interest of social stability, the government had to pay more than 3 million yuan to these petitioners from its own treasury. The rebuttal contains no mention of this aspect. In fact, the rebuttal contains no mention of any real people such as these petitioners. Generally, this has been the key criticism of the Communist Party --- it is a vast bureaucracy involved in having meetings, making reports and repeating slogans while being completely out of touch with the masses. This rebuttal fits that stereotype to a tee.
To be fair, there was one petitioner mentioned in the rebuttal. That would be the real estate developer company's vice-president, who also happens to be a National People's Congress delegate. This very special petitioner received the full attention of the National Petition Office, which even sent people down to Fuzhou to push his case. Most other commoner petitioners do not receive that kind of first-class treatment.
I noted a couple more anomalies in the rebuttal case. One, it was confirmed that former deputy mayor Lin Hua and other officials were disciplined for corruption related the "Land Case" but no details were offered. It was a tactical mistake to provide no further information because speculations must abound about the relationship to the current situation.
Two, the rebuttal hints at citizen complaints about personal corruption on the part of Huang Jingao. Given Huang's assertion that he was threatened and had to wear a bullet-proof vest, it would not be surprising that character assassination would be attempted as well. It should be the duty of the Party and the Government to protect Huang against such unfounded allegations, instead of aiding and abetting through ill-disguised hints dropped in the rebuttal case. In an interview with Beijing News, Huang laughed about those letters in circulation, and he welcomes any investigation into his unostentatious and rather boring family circumstances.
P.S. Here is a photo of Huang Jingao wearing a bullet-proof vest that the rebuttal said did not exist.
[translation] The Fujian authorities respond to the Huang Jingao affair
On August 11, the People's Daily featured prominently on the front page the article titled <<A letter from the Lianjiang County Committee Secretary to the People's Daily: Why I Wore A Bullet-Proof Vest for the Last Six Years>>. Afterwards, various other websites inside and outside of China as well as some news media published this letter as well, leading to undesirable social consequences. The Provincial Committee and the Provincial Government leaders of Fujian paid serious attention to this matter and made some concrete directives on the handling of this matter, and the City Committee and the City Government have also taken active steps to combat the negative effects in order to ensure social stability. We will now report on the related situations:
1. The origin of the Lianjiang "Land Case"
In 1998, after the serious flooding disasters from the Yangtze River, the whole country began anti-flooding construction work. The Provincial Committee and the Provincial Government invested in thousands of miles of public projects to increase the heights of the anti-flood levees. In Fuzhou City, the City Government and the Provincial and City Water Works Department put the Lianjiang levee onto its construction project list. Concerning the major potential problem posed by the anti-flood levee, the Lianjiang County government held three mayoral meetings respectively on August 10, August 25 and August 31, covering the demolition of the old city near the riverside, the construction of a new east-west bridge, a 3,000 meter long road along the riverside and increasing the height of the levee so that it can handle water levels that are encountered only once in thirty years. The proposal involved the road, the levee as well as real estate development. On February 12, 1999, the proposal was passed after the Lianjiang County Standing Committee studied it.
The proposal was originally going to be implemented with a 60 million yuan bank loan to be obtained by the Lianjiang County government. However, the government could not procure the bank loan and the government also did not have the money to make the investment on its own. Therefore, the Lianjiang County Committee and County Government decided in May 1999 to study the possibility of putting the plan up for open bidding, and the preliminary plan was as follows: For the Riverside Road and the Levee, the developer would provide the construction money up front (the required capital was around 30 million yuan), but the Lianjiang government will offer as compensation the 20 hectares of land in the northern section of Danfeng Road, the 58 hectares to the north of the Post and Telecommunications Building, the 17 hectares on Yuhe East Road and the four pieces of land totaling 65 hectares for the Yushan Parking Lot. Any shortfall will be covered by the Country Government treasury. The developer would also be responsible for expanding all facilities such as public parks as well as compensating any homes that need to be demolished and removed, and also work on the real estate development inside the redlined area of the old city.
In May 1999, through the introduction of a Political Committee Member Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong group came to Lianjiang to inspect the situation. After many discussions, they signed an <<Agreement To Develop The Riverside Road Reconstruction Project>> on June 26, 1999. Lianjiang County began to prepare for the various items on the project. Unfortunately, the project was terminated later since the Hong Kong group was unable to come up with the capital. On October 12, 1999, the Lianjiang County government met again to discuss the matter of finding commercial developers for the Riverside Road development. The decision was to open the process to bidding, with the requirement that the winning bidder must post a 10 million yuan deposit. Afterwards, there were five companies including the Australian Hsiungshu Business Group (found to be unregistered after investigation by the Provincial and City Commerce Departments) who began discussion with the Lianjiang County government.
On January 21, 2000, the Lianjiang County Standing Committee and the Deputy Mayor met and heard the report about the progress on the bidding. The attendees believed that the various developers were basically acceptable, and Hsiungshu Company offered the highest bid for the four pieces of land designated by the Lianjiang County government as compensation for the reconstruction work.
Based upon the sentiments of the meeting, on January 29, 2000, on behalf of the Lianjiang County government, Huang Shiaofeng, who was the deputy of the Riverside Road Command Department, signed an Agreement For Development with Zhen Baochai who was the legal representative of the Hsiungshu Company. On February 3, 2000, a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Lianjiang County Committee was convened where the Agreement For Development was accepted on principle. Based upon this agreement as the blueprint, an open bid was published to the public. Between February 4 to February 14, 2000, the bid contract was publicized on the Lianjiang County television station for 10 days in a row, and an advertisement was posted at the entrance of the Museum. The deadline for entering a bid was February 25.
During this period, several developers made inquiries. However, due to the huge capital requirements, low profit prospects as well as the long duration, they passed on the bid. In the end, only the Hsiungshu Company made an offer based upon the published requirements, and they also posted 500,000 yuan in deposit.
On February 25, 2000, the Lianjiang County Standing Committee and the Deputy Mayor met and determined that even though only one company (that is, the Hsiungshu Company) offered a bid and posted a deposit, they ought to expedite the project and therefore they agreed to sign a formal contact with Hsiungshu. On March 9, 2000, Lianjiang County represented by deputy mayor Lin Hua signed the <<Lianjiang Riverside Road Reconstruction And Real Estate Development Memorandum>> (referred to hereafter simply as the Memorandum) with the Hsiungshu Company. After the Memorandum was signed, the Hsiungshu Company posted the 10 million yuan deposit.
In the Memorandum, the following were stated clearly: the Riverside Road (including the fortification of the anti-flood levee, the park, the bridge and the facilities) will be built and paid for by the developer (about 30 million yuan); the developer will be responsible for the compensation of the displaced families who lived on the Riverside Road; the designated land lots (marked by redlines on the map) will be developed by the real estate developer; the Riverside Road construction loan will be compensated by the County government with four pieces of land (a total of 101 hectares valued at 26,765,000 yuan, including other fees), with the remaining funds being provided by the County government. The contract also stipulated that the four pieces of land should be given to the developer only after construction on the levee has begun.
In order increase local tax revenues, the Memorandum also asked the developer to establish a company within Lianjiang County. In June 2000, the Hsiungshu Company established the Fuzhou Yuancheng Real Estate Development Limited Company (referred hereafter to as the Yuancheng Company) in Lianjiang County. On July 12, the Lianjiang County government, the Hsiungshu Company and the Yuancheng Company signed the <<Additional Memorandum>>, in which the obligations that the Hsiungshu Company signed with the Lianjiang County government were transferred to the Yuancheng Company.
After the Memorandum was signed, the Yuancheng Company believed that the plan offered by the Lianjiang County for Riverside Road was a bit too unrefined, and asked a professor at the Xiamen University Planning and Design School to make modifications in conjunction with the comrades at the Provincial Construction Committee. The professor and the Provincial Construction Committee agreed to change the anti-flood levee from a curved shape to a straight-line, expanding it by 20 feet outwards. The five groups in Lianjiang County reviewed the proposed revisions and were satisfied. On May 10, 2001, the Lianjiang County Standing Committee agreed with the revised plan, and then the Yuancheng Company commenced to construct the Riverside Road, the modification of the old city and to develop the real estate.
Up until March 2002, the Yuancheng Company had completed about 80% of the work on the Riverside Road levee, 30% of the work for the road surface; 20% of the real estate development, offering 446 units for sale with 265 units being sold. In the old city, the total area of the displaced homes was 44,971.18 square meters, with 411 displaced homes (in 22 housing units), of which 226 homes were compensated and 185 homes were given property swaps.
At the start of March 2002, the Lianjiang County Committee changed its personnel. The original County Committee Secretary was transferred, and the Fuzhou City Financial Committee Secretary Huang Jingao became the Lianjiang County Committee Secretary. After Comrade Huang showed up to work, he received continuos reports about corruption problems during the development of the Riverside Road and this was investigated by the personnel. After investigation, they found that there was supposed to be 28.09 hectares additional land due to the extension of the levee as well as 1.75 hectares of excess land at the old wine factory. Of these land lots, which are nationally owned, the Yuancheng Company had used 13.93 hectares without compensating the government.
On March 26 and 28, the Lianjiang County government issued the <<Notice To Temporarily Cease Using Nationally Owned Land>>, pointing out that the company's Garden Street Phase One and River Summer Building Phase One construction projects included more than 10 hectares of government-owned land. Since the problem of compensation for the land is unresolved, work on them should be suspended temporarily.
On April 1, the Lianjiang County Standing Committee convened to discuss the matter of the Yuancheng Company taking over nationally owned land. It was determined that a special leadership group should be formed to deal with the matter. Afterwards, the Lianjiang Land Assessment Department made assessments about the land that Garden Street Phase One and River Summer Building Phase One took over.
On April 15, the five groups in the Lianjiang County government met and decided that the County Government will assume control over the land, but the developer had the opportunity to purchase land on a one-time-only basis. Afterwards, the leadership group that was formed to deal with residual problems from the Riverside Road reconstruction project met with the directors of the Yuancheng Company and communicated to them the decisions of the five groups in the Lianjiang County, asking them to go to the Land Department to complete the process. The Lianjiang County leaders also negotiated several times with the Yuancheng Company, and promised them that they could make a partial payment for the time with the rest being paid in installments. However, the Yuancheng Company disagreed and believed that the rights to the two land lots belonged to them, and consequently there was no issue of unresolved compensation.
At the same time, the Yuancheng Company believed that this issue arose due to a problem of leadership transition at the county and the two leaders had completely different attitudes towards the company. Since no agreement was reached, the Lianjiang County Land Supervisor and various City enforcement agencies showed up at the Yuancheng Company construction site to demand the developer to stop working.
On one hand, the Yuancheng Company petitioned the Fuzhou City People's Government for an administrative order. On the other hand, the company's Vice President Zhou Huangmen filed an <<Emergency Report On The Lianjiang County Government Plans To Renege On Its Contractual Obligations In The Reconstruction Of The Old City And Cause Our Company Huge Economic Damages With Serious Social Consequences>> with the National Petition Office.
On the grounds that the Lianjiang County government issued the <<Notice To Temporarily Cease Using Nationally Owned Land>> to re-establish its ownership lacked legal foundations, the Fuzhou City Government issued an <<Administrative Restoration Order>> on July 22, 2002 titled <<The 2002 Number 3 Document to Restore The Decision>>, superceding the 2002 documents 60 and 61 on the <<Notice To Temporarily Cease Using Nationally Owned Land>> issued by the Lianjiang County government. During the same month, the Lianjiang County Government special task force arrested Yuancheng Company's vice president Zhou Lungcheng and other related personnel on the grounds that the Yuancheng Company was engaged in economic crimes.
The key point of dispute between the Yuancheng Company and the Lianjiang County government was about the additional 28.09 hectares of land after the original Riverside Road design plan was expanded outwards as well as the right of ownership for the 1.75 hectares of land on the excess land at the former wine factory.
The Yuancheng Company believes that the aforementioned land lots belonged in the old city development area, and there was no issue related to undetermined or unpaid compensation.
Its principal reasons were:
The Lianjiang County government believed that these two land lots are national reserve properties and belongs to the government. The reasons were:
2. How the Provincial and City Committees Handled the "Land Case"
The National Petition Office treated the petition by Zhou Huangmen very seriously. On May 14, 2002, the National Petition Office sent a <<Letter On The Petition By Zhou Huangmen>> to the Provincial Committee leaders, with copies of the letter from Zhou to the central government leadership plus the related documents.
On May 20, the Provincial Committee and the Discipline Committee leaders demanded that Fuzhou City organize an investigation. The City Committee leaders gave serious attention to this matter and asked the City Discipline Committee to lead the investigation. After the personnel studied the matter, they concluded that the land dispute between the developer and the County government should be resolved by negotiations. At this time, Huang Jingao expressed his dissatisfaction with the conclusions reached by the City Discipline Committee. Based upon his request, on June 11, the City Discipline Committee formed a special investigation group consisting of personnel from the City Land Department, Planning Department, Construction Department and Water Works Department to conduct yet another investigation of the matter. The conclusion was that the <<Memorandum>> signed by both parties did not contain sufficient clarity to resolve the land dispute. They recommended the two parties should both recognize their responsibility on this matter, and that they should either resolve this matter through negotiations or in a court of law.
At this time, on June 27, the City Committee made a self-evaluation to the Provincial Committee which was forwarded as <<The Self-Evaluation Report Concerning the Investigation Of The Dispute Between The Developer And The County Government Over Land Use In The Lianjiang Riverside Road Reconstruction Project>>.
Since the two parties in the dispute insisted on their original positions which are diametrically opposite to each other, the above problems could not be resolved. In the ensuing period, the Lianjiang government determined that there may be corruption problems with the Yuancheng Company, and took action to freeze the company accounts and arrested the petitioners. Once again, the Yuancheng Company went twice more to visit the National Petition Office. On September 4, 2002, the National Petition Office invited the Provincial Committee and Fuzhou City Discipline Committee and City Committee personnel to come to Beijing to discuss. The National Petition Office leaders expressed their opinions, and severely criticized the erroneous ways in which the Lianjiang government handled this matter. There were four main points:
After the provincial and city teams returned home, they made their reports to the provincial and city leadership. The Provincial Committee leadership indicated that the Fuzhou City Committee should continue to handle the matter. When the Fuzhou City Committee leadership heard the report, they held two more meetings on September 24 and October 2 to discuss this specific subject. They emphasized that corruption must be attacked. No matter who or what was uncovered, they will get to the bottom of the case in a way that will withstand the scrutiny of history. At the same time, they insisted that everything has to be based on facts and the law and any problems related to the Lianjiang Riverside Road Reconstruction Project land dispute as well as party disciplinary problems should be seriously dealt with, being careful not to confuse the two issues together.
Prior to this, based upon the August 29 instructions, the City Committee had formed a special 8/29 task force from the City Public Security Bureau and the City Prosecutor's Office to investigate the dispute in the Lianjiang County Riverside Road reconstruction project again. The work by the 8/29 task force began with the overall objectives of promoting economic development and ensuring social stability, to continue to fight the combination of corrupt elements and economic development, to insist on investigating all law-breakers in accordance with the law, to consider the full social and political impact, to distinguish between corrupt behavior and administrative mistakes, to follow the laws and regulations and, when the laws and regulations are unclear, to ask for instructions from the superior authorities.
Working in conjunction with the Lianjiang County Committee and government, the task group went over the situation of the land dispute between the developer and the Lianjiang county government. The task group believed that the dispute between the Lianjiang County government and the Yuancheng Company arose out of these main factors: (1) the two sides have different interpretation about certain articles in the <<Memorandum>>, which was not clear on some issues; (2) during the dispute about the Riverside Road project, both sides used the <<Memorandum>> as the basis as if it were a contract. Yet the articles in the Memorandum did not reach the legal requirement for contractual status, and they focused on the construction of the Riverside Road, the development of real estate and the compensation of land. Neither side had clarified what would happen to the land rights after the redline plan was revised.
The 8/29 task force believes that the disputing parties should recognize the actual situation and augment the articles in the <<Memorandum>> in consideration of the sincere intentions of the government as well as the investment environment so that the problem can be resolved in accordance with the law.
The 8/29 task force also investigated the matter of the Yuancheng Company illegally reselling as well as reselling back the land use rights. They believed that the Lianjiang leadership and personnel had not handled the case according to the law and that they had used a 'retail' approach in breaking the 60 hectares into pieces to audit, which would seem to violate the regulations concerning their right to investigate. As for illegally reselling and reselling back land, this was a newly added criminal code. This would be the first case in this city, and there are no other cases in the entire country for reference. Since there are no concrete guidelines as yet, the related law enforcement departments had different opinions about this case.
On this matter, the 8/29 task force and the Lianjiang County Committee and Government consulted the Provincial Land Resources Department for confirmation, but did not receive any definitive answers. Based upon this situation, the City Committee decided that in the interest of not delaying the progress of this case, this particular problem should be temporarily tabled until the authorities can definitively handle this. At the same time, the 8/29 task force with the assistance of the Lianjiang County Committee processed the problem of illegal acts by former Lianjiang County deputy mayor Lin Hua, Wei Zishin and some other officials.
On January 28, 2003, upon the request of the City Committee, the City Discipline Committee leaders, the City Standing Committee members and the City Public Security Bureau director came to Lianjiang County to meet with the leaders of the five groups about the 8/29 reports. They communicated the wishes of the City Committee to ask Lianjiang County to close the case in a timely matter and to grasp the sentiments of the masses; to seriously absorb the lessons and to build up teamwork so that care will be exercised in the future. The members were urged to concentrate on economic development.
At the time, Lianjiang County Secretary Huang Jingao on behalf of the County Committee and Government affirmed that they will implement the decision of the City Committee and clean up the residual problems from the Riverside Road reconstruction. On March 20, the City Committee and Government issued a report titled <<The Report Concerning the Handling Of The Land Ownership Dispute Between The Developer and The County Government In The Lianjiang County Riverside Road Reconstruction Project>> to the Provincial Government and Committee. Based upon this report, the Provincial Committee Office made a report to the National Petition Office on April 3.
Afterwards, Fuzhou City actively handled the problem of the residual problems from the Riverside Road reconstruction. The City and Lianjiang County Law Courts and the related departments conducted vast amounts of work. Concerning the temporarily tabled problem of the Yuancheng Company being suspected of illegally reselling and selling back the land, the City Land Department even sent its deputy leader to Beijing to consult with the National Land Resources Bureau.
In February, with the arrangement by the Provincial Committee and the City Committee, Comrade Huang Jingao went to study for six months at the Central Party School. Upon his return in August, the County began another series of actions. On the basis that the Yuancheng Company did not pay all its civil defense fees, the County Court froze the real estate assets of the company and proceeded with a public auction.
The National Petition Office wrote and called the Provincial and City Committee about this matter, and the Provincial Committee issued a directive. On August 22, the City Discipline Committee leadership held a meeting with the leaders from the City Supervisory Department, the Public Security Bureau, the Court, the Prosecutor's Office, the Civil Defense Office together with the leaders from Lianjiang County. They discussed the letters from the National Petition Office about this case.
The Provincial Committee Supervisory Department comrades attended the meeting. The meeting attendees listened to reports from the City Supervisory Department, the City Court, the City Civil Defense Office and the Lianjiang County Court and, after some serious discussion, came to the following conclusions:
On September 16, the City Committee Office wrote the Provincial Committee Office to report on the details of the meeting. On September 17, the Provincial Committee Office sent the letter titled <<The Report On The Situation About Implementing The National Petition Office's Request On The Related Matter>> to the National Petition Office.
On November 10, the National Petition Office leaders visited Fujian province and they accepted the actions taken by the City Committee and the City Government, but they questioned the inability of the Lianjiang County Committee and County Government to implement the decisions made by the City Committee, to close the case and to re-initiate work. They pointed out that since 2002, Yuancheng Company Vice President Zhou Huangwen has written to them five times, visited in person three times and called many more times. This is a typical multiple petition case and they urged the City Committee and the City Government to make sure that the Lianjiang County Committee and County Government to complete this case according to the decision of the City Committee within the next two months.
The principal leaders of the City Discipline Committee told the National Petition Office leaders that the City Committee and City Government were very concerned about this case and have held numerous meetings to analyze the situation and have also done a great deal of related work this year. They promise that they will follow the request of the National Petition Office to make sure that the concerned parties finish this case as quickly as possible.
3. Concerning Comrade Huang Jingao's Extraordinary Methods To Publicize The Handling Of The Problem
The City 8/29 special task force has made a thorough investigation about the problem between the developer and the County Government in the Lianjiang County Riverside Road Reconstruction Project, and all persons who are connected with this case have been handled appropriately. There are several residual cases which is going through the legal channels. But Comrade Huang Jingao has bypassed organizational principles and used non-normal channels to publicize his dissenting views to the outside world. The City Committee has handled this in an appropriate way in each case.
In May 2004, Comrade Huang Jingao was interviewed by a certain magazine inside China, saying that "because he was attempting to prevent the loss of national properties, he offended evil forces and had to wear a bullet-proof vest to and back from work." The magazine reporters turned the interview into an article titled "Why do I have to wear a bullet-proof vest to work?" and was ready to take it to the printer on May 13 for publication.
On the evening of May 12, the City Committee learned about this news and convened an office meeting and made the following decisions: first, the City Committee Deputy Secretary and the City Discipline Committee Secretary will represent the City Standing Committee to speak to Comrade Huang Jingao and ask him to follow organizational principles in his work. If he has any opinions, he can reflect them to the organization through the usual channel instead of publicly distributing comments about his disagreement with organizational decisions.
Second, the City Committee contacted the concerned media entity immediately, and the magazine agreed to withdraw the article from the printing press. On May 13, the City Discipline Committee leaders met with Comrade Huang Jingao and severely criticized him for violating organizational rules. They emphasized that the County Committee Secretary must look at the big picture and report on serious problems to the City Committee. They instructed Huang that the article about the interview between Comrade Huang Jingao and the magazine reporter should not be published there, nor in any other news media and they also asked him to retrieve the recorded material from the magazine reporter.
At the beginning of July, the principal leaders of the City Committee received certain letters from the masses forwarded from the Provincial Committee about Comrade Huang Jingao breaking certain rules pertaining to corrupt practices. Once again, the City Discipline Committee was instructed to speak to him. On July 11, the City Discipline Committee leaders spoke to Comrade Huang Jingao again, and after telling him to pay attention to his personal conduct with respect to corrupt practices, reminded him again that he should follow the organizational principles of the party and to refrain from publishing views of discontent in the interest of overall situation. Comrade Huang Jingao agreed at the meeting that he would following the instructions of the City Committee and that he will not disclose anything more about the Lianjiang "Land Case" to the news media again.
At the beginning of August 2004, the City Committee received a report from the Lianjiang County Committee titled <<Concerning The Request To Expeditiously Solve The Residual Problems Of The Lianjiang County Riverside Road Reconstruction Case>>. The document indicated that the City Middle-Level Court has delayed issuing its decisions concerning the case of the displacement of the nationally owned Lianjiang Beverage Services Company, the Museum, the Fengcheng Clinic and the Cultural Building and the case of the contractual dispute concerning the County Land Department and its authority to award land. As a result, the County is unable to dispose of these two cases and therefore the Lianjiang Riverside Road Reconstruction Project cannot be totally resolved and the case cannot be effectively closed.
This document got the attention of the City Committee, which sent two deputy secretaries to reiterate the relevant organizational principles and emphasized again that a Communist Party member must follow the party discipline and national laws. Comrade Huang Jingao indicated that he was willing to follow the party principles and that he would not publicize the related problems to the outside.
At the same time, the two City Committee deputy secretaries met with the City Middle-Level Court director and Lianjiang County comrades Huang Jingao and Zhang Tianjin about the subject of Lianjiang County's document. The meeting concluded that the City Committee and City Government have been highly concerned about the handling of the Lianjiang County Riverside Road Reconstruction Project and the leaders have issued multiple directives, held multiple meetings and issued clearly defined requests.
With the concurrence of the Provincial Committee leaders, the City Committee sent out a special task force formed from comrades in the City Discipline Committee, the City Prosecutor's Office and the City Public Safety Bureau to go into Lianjiang County to investigate the problem. The Lianjiang County Committee and County Government have also performed large amounts of work. The Provincial Discipline Committee, the Land Resources Department and the Civil Defense Office also provided directions after receiving reports.
At the same time, the City has seriously dealt with the cadre corruption problems in the Riverside Road Reconstruction Project. The residual problems were also capably handled, where they have now entered into the legal channel (being considered by the City Middle-Level Court). The meeting came up with these concrete proposals for handling the residual problems:
On August 11 the City Committee learned that the People's Daily website has published the letter "From the Lianjiang Committee Secretary to the People's Daily: Why Did I Have To Wear A Bullet-Proof Vest For Six Years?", the principal leaders sent a City Committee deputy secretary and the City Committee Propaganda Department deputy chief to verify the situation with Comrade Huang Jingao.
During the conversation, Comrade Huang Jingao was quite emotional and stubborn. He admitted that he wrote and sent the letter, and he communicated the following points: 1, as a Communist Party member, he has the right to write letters to the Party newspaper/website to report on the situation because this is not against party rules; 2, all the contents in his letter are supported by evidence, including eyewitnesses and physical evidence and he was willing to accept the responsibility for any errors; 3, he published this article after deep thinking; he hoped to get others to discuss the issue so that everyone can make a factual judgment to resolve this matter; 4, the contents of the article were not thorough enough since he has a lot of information that will be disclosed at the appropriate moment and this would broaden the incident.
Comrade Huang Jingao's letter to the People's Daily created very negative consequences. On the evening of August 11, the City Committee held an emergency meeting at the office of the City Committee Secretary to discuss ideas about how to handle the matter. At the same time, the City Committee leaders spoke to Comrade Huang Jingao to point that he had done wrong and that he should seriously reflect. The City Committee met first to discuss about the full mobilization to combat typhoon number 14, and then there was a Secretary Office meeting to communicate the desire from the Provincial Standing Committee to see that the thoughts become unified and to take actions to ameliorate the negative effects. At the same time, the decision was made to assign two City Committee deputy secretaries to join the combined Province-City investigation group to review the investigation work on the Lianjiang County Riverside Road Reconstruction Project and to seriously discipline all responsible parties.
On August 12, the City Committee and City Discipline Committee leaders went to Lianjiang County to direct the work on the typhoon and to communicate to the Lianjiang County Standing Committee as well as the National People's Congress, government and political bureau officials about the seriousness and danger of Comrade Huang Jingao's action in order to unify the thoughts and stabilize the political and social situation. Each County Standing Committee member and each county leader was asked individually, but none of them have seen or heard from any other comrades that Comrade Huang Jingao wore a bullet-proof vest.
On the morning of August 13, the City Committee convened a meeting of the Standing Committee and then held an expanded Standing Committee meeting in the evening. The subject was the situation concerning Comrade Huang Jingao writing the letter to the People's Daily, and it was pointed out that this ignored the political situation, that it ignored the overall situation, that it represented a bad case of individualism, that it was an extremely wrong act that broke organizational discipline, that the direct effect was that it would be used by western hostile forces, Taiwan hostile forces and democratic movement elements thus leading to social and political stability. This was a serious political incident.
Faced with this serious political battle, the various levels of the cadre leadership in the city must stay together with the Provincial and City Committees, to show the same bright flags, to hold firm attitudes, to remember the mission, to defend our territory, to be loyal to the Party and the people, to complete the work in Fuzhou and to protect the hard-won situation in order not to allow the western hostile forces, the Taiwan hostile forces, the overseas democratic movement elements and the Falun Gong elements to disrupt Fuzhou and hence all of Fujian province and accomplish their attempt to foul up the economic region on the western side of the Strait of Taiwan.
The important tasks for the moment are to fully implement the spirit of the Seventh Congress of the Provincial Committee and the Eighth Congress of the City Committee in order to built up the economic region on the western coast of the Strait of Taiwan and to make the central city larger and more powerful. On August 14, the four major groups of the City Committee held meetings among all their cadres, and the other cities and counties will also be holding their corresponding meetings in order to communicate the spirit of the Provincial and City Committee meetings to the broad party membership, so that we can collect our thoughts and energies to stabilize the good social and political situation and we will all concentrate our resolve and energies to increase development.
(News.fjii.com) 关于连江县委书记黄金高致信《人民网》事件 福州市委、市政府经初步调查作出正面回应
8月11日，《人民网》在主页显著位置刊载《连江县委书记致信人民网：为何防弹衣随我6年》一文，随着国内外诸多网站和一些新闻媒体进行了转载，在社会上造成极其不良影响。省委、省政府领导对此高度重视，及时对处置这一事件作了具体明确的指示，市委、市政府也当即采取了积极稳妥的措施，竭力消除负面影响，保持省会政治社会的安定稳定。现将有关情况通报如下：
一、连江“地案”的由来
1998年，长江流域发生特大洪涝灾害后，全国掀起防洪工程建设热潮，省委、省政府做出千里江河堤防加固加高的工作部署，福州市政府及省、市水利部门将连江县敖江防洪堤列入改造范围。连江县政府针对本县防洪堤存在的重大安全隐患问题，分别于1998年8月10日、25日、31日三次召开县长办公会议，研究决定拆迁江滨地段旧城，修建一条西起新大桥，东至埔下，与堤面连体，长3000米，宽20.5米的江滨路堤，使城关防洪堤抗洪能力提高到30年一遇的水平，并提出实行路、堤、房三位一体的综合开发方案，1999年2月12日该方案报经连江县人大常委会研究通过。方案原定由连江县政府贷款6000万元自行进行开发建设，后由于银行贷款无法实现，县财政又无力承担大笔投资，连江县委、县政府遂于1999年5月研究决定将该项目推出招商，并拟定初步招商方案如下：江滨路、堤由 开发商先垫资建设(约需资金3000万元)，连江县政府指定将丹凤路北段20亩、邮电大厦北侧58亩、玉荷东路(杭下)17亩、玉山停车场65亩四块土地用于抵还江滨路建设垫款，不足部分由连江县财政拨付；由应招的开发商负责承担位于江滨路、堤及公园等市政配套设施范围内的拆迁房屋安置补偿费用，以取得江滨路规划红线内旧城改造房地产开发项目。1999年5月份，经马鼻籍政协委员吴某牵线引进香港某集团到连江县考察，经多次洽谈，于1999年6月26日与连江县政府签订了《江滨路改造建设投资开发协议》，连江县江滨路项目建设指挥部当即着手开展前期准备工作，后由于香港某集团资金不到位致使该项目中止。1999年10月12日，连江县政府办公会议对江滨路开发建设招商方案进行再次研究，决定继续按原方案进行招商，同时要求开发商中标后先交纳项目押金1000万元。会后，有澳大利亚雄宝实业集团公司(以下简称雄宝公司，经查省、市工商局，未登记注册)等5家与连江县政府进行该开发项目洽谈。
2000年1月21日，连江县委常委、副县长联席会议听取了招商洽谈情况汇报，与会同志认为各开发商提出的投资条件基本相当，但雄宝公司对连江县政府指定的四块用于抵偿垫款的捆绑土地报价最高，可进入实质性洽谈。
根据会议精神，2000年1月29日，由原江滨路指挥部副指挥黄兆丰代表连江县政府与雄宝公司法定代表人陈宝财草签了《开发协议》。2000年2月3日，连江县委再次召开常委会，原则同意了《开发协议》，并决定以此为蓝本，再次推向社会公开招标。2000年2月4日至14日，招标公告在连江县电视台连续播放十天，并在县博物馆门口张贴，报名时间截止至2月25日止。在此期间，又有数家开发商前来咨询，但因项目投资大、投资利润率低、周期长等种种原因，先后放弃投标。最后只有雄宝公司按招标公告中有关规定报名投标，并交了50万元投标押金。2000年2月25日，连江县委再次召开常委、副县长联席会议，会议研究后认为，按照程序在规定的投标时间内，虽然只有一家投标单位(即雄宝公司)交了押金，但为了尽快实施该项目，同意和雄宝公司正式签订协议。2000年3月9日，连 江县政府原副县长林华代表县政府与雄宝公司签订了《连江县江滨路改造及房地产开发备忘录》(以下简称《备忘录》)，《备忘录》签订后，雄宝公司即缴交了投资项目押金1000万元。
在这份《备忘录》中，明确约定以下内容：江滨路(含防洪堤加固、公园、引桥及市政配套等)由开发商垫资(约3000万元)承建，坐落在江滨路堤上的拆迁户安置补偿费用由开发商负责；江滨路内规划区域的地块(按规划红线图，建设规划总平面布置图)由开发商进行房地产综合开发；江滨路建设垫资款由县政府以指定的四块土地(计101.5亩，定价2676.5万元，已含各项规费)抵还，不足部分由县财政负责拨款返还。同时约定，上述4块投资返还地块使用权应于防洪堤动工后再交由开发商支配。为了增加地方财政税收，《备忘录》还要求开发商应在连江县设立公司，2000年6月，雄宝公司在连江县成立了福州源盛房地产开发有限公司(以下简称源盛公司)。7月12日，连江县政府、雄宝公司、源盛公司三方签订了《补充备忘录》，将雄宝公司与连江县政府所签《备忘录》中规定的权利义务全部转给源盛公司。《备忘录》签订后，源盛公司认为连江县提供的江滨路规划方案较为粗糙，便委托厦门大学规划设计院教授和省建委规划处的同志对江滨路规划方案进行修改，该教授与省建委规划处建议改变原“一层皮”规划方案，对防洪堤进行改弯取直，外扩20米，设计出更为理想的规划方案。连江县五套班子在听取了新方案的介绍后表示满意。2001年5月10日，连江县政府常务会议同意了调整后的规划方案，而后源盛公司开始进行江滨路建设、旧城改造及房地产开发。
截至2002年3月止，源盛公司已完成江滨路堤坝建设总工程量80%，路面施工工程量30%；房地产开发总量20%，可供预售商品房446套，已预售265套。旧城综合开发拆迁总面积达44971.18平方米，拆迁总户数411户(其中含22个单位)，已货币安置226户，产权调换185户。2002年3月初，连江县委换届，原县委书记调离，由原市财委主任黄金高同志接任连江县委书记。黄金高同志到任后，陆续收到举报信，反映江滨路开发过程中存在腐败问题，即组织人员进行核查。经核查发现，因防洪堤堤坝外移新增建设用地28.09亩和旧酒厂剩余用地1.75亩，均为国有土地，政府未收取土地出让金，现已被源盛公司开发占用了13.93亩。3月26日和28日，连江县政府给源盛公司分别发出《关于暂停使用国有土地的通知》，指出该公司“花园街”1期和“江夏苑”1期工程项目用地中含有国有新增土地10多亩，该地块土地出让金缴交问题尚未商定，应先暂停使用。4月1日，连江县委召开常委会，研究源盛公司占用国有土地问题，决定成立江滨路改造建设遗留问题协调工作领导小组，负责有关工作。随后，连江县土地评估事务所对“花园街”1期和“江夏苑”1期占用的这两块土地价格作了评估。4月15日，连江县召开五套班子领导联席会议，作出了由县政府收回上述两块土地；开发商可按评估价一次性受买等决定。会后，连江县江滨路改造建设遗留问题工作领导小组先后两次与源盛公司领导面谈，向他们通报了县五套班子联席会议精神，请他们尽快到土地部门办理有关手续。县分管领导也几次同源盛公司协商，承诺允许他们先交一部分土地出让金，以后分期归还。对此，源盛公司提出异议，认为上述两块土地使用权属于他们，不存在土地出让金未商定问题。
同时，源盛公司认为，此事件的发生主要原因在于县主要领导调整后，前后任领导对公司持截然不同的态度。由于协商不成，连江县土地监察、城管等执法部门多次前往源盛公司施工现场执法，责令开发商停止施工。源盛公司一方面向福州市人民政府申请行政复议，一方面由该公司副董事长周宏文以《关于福建省连江县政府在江滨路旧城改造项目中毁约造成我公司重大经济损失和严重社会后果的紧急报告》为题，到国家信访局等部门上访。鉴于连江县人民政府在原用地批复有效的前提下，作出《关于暂停使用国有土地的通知》，缺乏法律依据，针对连江县政府未依法行政的行为，根据《行政复议法》规定，2002年7月22日，福州市政府对此作出“榕政复决［2002］3号行政复议决定书”，撤销连政综［2002］60号、61号《关于暂停使用国有土地的通知》。当月，连江县委专案组即以源盛公司涉嫌经济犯罪为由立案，对该公司副总经理周龙盛(周宏文之子)和其他涉案人员予以刑事拘留审查。
源盛公司与连江县政府争议的焦点问题，主要在于连江县江滨路规划方案经修改后堤坝外移新增建设用地28.09亩和原县旧酒厂剩余用地1.75亩的使用权归属上。源盛公司认为上述两个地块使用权属于旧城开发范围，不存在土地出让金未商定和未缴交问题。其主要理由是：1、根据《备忘录》规定，源盛公司负担江滨路近5.1万平方米规划区域内的数百户居民拆迁安置费用，连江县政府作为补偿，将江滨路规划区域内的沿防洪堤内侧进深41米(其中路及隔离带分别占用20.5米+6米)的地块，出让给他们进行房地产综合开发，不存在无偿占用问题；2、《备忘录》中有注明该收的规费和政府用于偿还垫资工程款的4个地块地价，没有规定这两个地块要收出让金；3、县土地局已同他们签订了土地出让合同，明确指明“江夏苑”1期和“花园街”1期项目(含新增13.93亩土地)不收土地出让金；4、如果这两块土地要收土地出让金，连江县政府当时为何不直接用这两块土地抵还。而连江县政府认为：两块土地应该是国有存量土地，属于政府所有，理由是：1、江滨路是政府投资进行建设的，新堤建成后，新增的土地应属于政府；2、堤坝外移新增28.09亩土地，是由政府投资进行堤坝改弯取直、外移、拆迁补偿及园地赔青后才形成的建设用地，县旧酒厂1.75亩，是原文山路建设指挥部拆迁的剩余用地，这些都是政府投入后才形成的可供开发的“熟地”；3、规划红线只是作为开发范围的依据，并不等于红线范围内的两块土地不要收出让金；4、《备忘录》中没有注明上述两块土地不要收出让金，原先未明确的问题，现在可以重新明确；5、源盛公司提出土地“捆绑”为何舍近求远，这是因为当时堤坝未外移，上述两块土地还未形成。由此双方产生较大分歧。
二、省、市委采取的措施以及“地案”调查处理经过
国家信访局对周宏文上访反映的问题十分重视，即于2002年5月14日向省委主要领导发来《关于转送周宏文来访问题的函》，并随函附上周宏文递交给中央领导的信件及有关附件。5月20日，省委、省纪委几位领导都先后做出批示，要求福州市组织核实处理。市委主要领导对此高度重视，即要求市纪委牵头核实。市纪委当即组织人员进行调查研究后，认为开发商和县政府对争议的地块，应通过双方协商办法加以解决。此时，黄金高同志对市纪委调查结论表示不满意，在其要求下，6月11日，又由市委办牵头，抽调市国土局、规划局、建设局、水利局部分业务骨干组成联合调查组，对此一问题再次进行调查核实，也认定这是一起政府和开发商双方对签订的《备忘录》具体条文理解不同以及《备忘录》规定不够明确而引起的用地纠纷，建议双方都应认识到在这个问题上应负的责任，立足《备忘录》，公平、合理地进行协商解决，也可以采用法律诉讼的方式解决。据此，市委办于6月27日向省委办公厅作了反馈，省委办公厅以《关于连江县江滨路改造建设中开发商与县政府用地纠纷问题调查情况的反馈》，向国家信访局作了报告。
由于纠纷双方坚持原有立场，观点对立，对上述问题始终无法达成和解。随后一段时间，连江县就源盛公司地审批中可能存在的腐败问题开展了调查，并采取了查封源盛公司帐户、批捕上访人等措施，为此源盛公司又两次赴国家信访局上访。2002年9月4日，国家信访局约请省委办、福州市纪委和市委办有关同志赴京交换意见。国家信访局领导以及有关司、处长先后发表意见，严厉批评连江县在处理这一用地纠纷问题上的错误做法。主要有以下4点内容：
1、把原本是经济纠纷的事办成了带有政治色彩的经济案件。连江县向开发商下达用地停工《通知》后，开发商曾向福州市政府申请行政复议，市政府否决了连江县的停工《通知》。随后，连江县采取了一些新措施：包括由县土地局向县法院申请撤销土地出让《合同》，组织有关方面对源盛公司进行检查，查封源盛公司帐户，县检察院批捕上访人周宏文(未果)及儿子、公司副总周龙盛。而且周宏文当时是福清市人大代表(现为福州市人大代表)，批捕应依据法律程序。以倒卖土地罪批捕周龙盛似欠妥，因周不是公司法人代表，且最高人民检察院认为倒卖土地罪是新刑法增设的罪名，宜慎重适用。这些动作，致使事情扩大化，也有打击报复上访人之嫌。
2、在处理用地纠纷问题上行为草率。连江县认为开发商占用了国有土地，但当初土地局审批时没有提出这个问题。连江县在没有经过法律程序的情况下，直接下达《通知》要求开发商暂停使用纠纷用地，强迫开发商停止施工，行为前后矛盾，自我否定，摇摆反复，极不严肃。
3、要让事情回到其本来面目上。经济问题要用经济的办法，按照法律程序办理。行政机关、司法机关应本着公正、公平、公道的原则，处理此事，做到符合程序，于法周全。要权衡利弊，考虑各方面的利益，采取公平合理的策略。在具体操作上，应还其本来面目，排除外界干扰。目前重要的是不要再节外生枝，促使事情继续复杂化、扩大化。要给上访者以说话的自由和环境。
4、要及时报告处理工作情况。首先要制定工作方案，进一步弄清事由，加以梳理，依法办事。其次要把处理情况及时报告国家信访局，上报材料要经有关领导审阅。再次，已初步确定将此事列为该处2002年重点督办的案例，要求我们及时反馈办理情况。
省、市赴京汇报组返回后，即分别向省、市委领导作了汇报。几位省委领导作出批示，要求继续由福州市委进行处理。福州市委主要领导听取了赴京情况汇报后，也于9月24日和10月2日连续两次主持召开专题会议进行研究。明确提出有腐必反，无论案件涉及到什么人、什么问题，都要一查到底，彻底查清，经得起历史检验；同时一定要坚持以事实为依据，以法律为准绳，对连江县江滨路建设用地纠纷以及所牵涉到的违法、违纪问题，认真梳理，不能互相混杂，把问题搞乱。此前，根据省领导8月29日的批示精神，市委专门成立了由市公安局副局长和市检察院副检察长等组成的“8·29”专案组，对连江县江滨路建设中用地纠纷所涉及的有关问题再次展开认真的调查。市“8·29”专案组在调查工作中，从积极促进经济发展和维护社会安定稳定的大局出发，坚持反腐败斗争与经济发展有机结合，既坚持依法依纪严肃查处相关涉案人员，又全面考虑社会政治效果，严格区分腐败行为与工作失误、集体研究与个人独断、罪与非罪的界限，力求平稳处置。对凡属国家法律法规和政策明确的，严格按法律法规、政策执行；法律法规、政策不够明确的，向上级权威部门请示，得到明确答复后执行。在连江县委、县政府等有关方面配合下，经过艰苦细致的调查，再次核查了开发商与连江县政府土地权属纠纷的情况。认为连江县政府与源盛公司产生争议的主要原因在于：(1)双方对《备忘录》中的某些条款存在不同的理解及《备忘录》条文不够明确；(2)在开发江滨路过程中争议双方都以《备忘录》作为依据，将《备忘录》当作合同来履行。而《备忘录》的内容条款达不到合同法的规范要求，但又集中了江滨路建设、房地产开发、土地出让等综合性条款，特别是在规划红线几经调整后，双方对调整后新增土地权属问题没有进一步加以明确。市“8·29”专案组认为，争议双方应当根据实际情况，从政府诚信和投资环境的角度，立足《备忘录》条文，依照国家有关法律法规，采取稳妥的方式解决有争议的问题。市“8·29”专案组还调查了源盛公司涉嫌非法转让、倒卖土地使用权罪的问题。认为连江县政府有关领导和人员没有严格按照土地法规办理，而是采取“化整为零”的方式，将60亩地块拆分后进行审批，存在越权审批的违规行为。由于非法转让、倒卖土地使用权罪是新刑法新增的罪名，本案在我市尚属首例，在全国也无类似案例可供参照，目前无具体司法解释，所以有关职能部门对案件定性认识不一。为此，市“8·29”专案组和连江县委、县政府先后向省国土资源厅等权威部门申请认定，但也均未获得十分明确答复。鉴于这种情况，市委决定在不影响整个案件处理的前提下，将该问题暂时予以搁置，待权威部门正式定性后再作处理。同时，市“8·29”专案组在连江县委配合下，对连江县原副县长林华、魏子升等少数国家机关工作人员违纪违法问题进行了查处。
2003年1月28日，受市委委托，市纪委领导和市委常委、市公安局局长专程赴连江县，向五套班子领导成员通报了“8·29”专案调查情况，传达了市委有关会议精神，要求连江县抓紧时间结案，努力稳定广大干部群众情绪；认真吸取教训，加强干部队伍建设，今后再上类似工程一定要慎重。要一门心思抓经济发展、抓工业项目。当时，连江县委书记黄金高代表县委、县政府在会上表示将认真贯彻市委的决定，依法行政，妥善解决江滨路建设遗留问题。3月20日，市委、市政府以《关于连江县江滨路改造建设中开发商与县政府土地权属纠纷问题调查处理情况的报告》，向省委、省政府作了报告。省委办公厅也据此于4月3日向国家信访局作了反馈。
此后，福州市积极妥善处理江滨路建设的遗留问题，市、连江县两级法院和有关部门做了大量的工作，对源盛公司涉嫌非法转让、倒卖土地使用权罪等前期搁置问题，市国土局还专门派出副局长到北京咨询了国土资源部。2月份，根据省委组织部和市委安排，黄金高同志到中央党校学习半年，8月回到连江县委工作后，县里又展开一系列动作，县法院以源盛公司欠缴人防费为由，查封该公司房产并进行拍卖。国家信访局连续致函、致电省、市委过问此事，省纪委领导对此作出批示。8月22日，市纪委主要领导等又召集市监察局、公安局、法院、检察院、人防办、连江县委等领导开会，落实国家信访局有关督办函事宜。省委督查室的同志应邀参加了会议。会议听取了市监察局、市法院、市人防办、连江县法院关于该案的调查情况汇报，经过认真讨论研究，议定了如下意见：1、必须继续坚决贯彻好市委决定，维护好连江县发展稳定大局。2003年1月26日市委书记办公会议在听取市“8·29”专案组历经半年调查研究的报告和市纪委、监察局有关案件处理情况汇报后，经过慎重研究，决定基本了结“8·29”专案。连江县委、县政府应坚决贯彻市委决定，保持连江县稳定发展的势头，珍惜这一来之不易的局面。在处理相关问题的过程中，一定要坚决贯彻市委会议精神，要有全局观念，处理历史遗留的经济建设项目应宜粗不宜细，宜冷不宜热，冷静妥善处理好相关问题。2、鉴于“8·29”专案已基本了结，今后处理连江江滨路开发的相关问题，包括征收人防建设费等问题，都应与“8·29”专案剥离，进入正常的渠道，即按政府有关规定和通过法律程序解决。3、考虑到连江县江滨路开发建设有关问题的特殊性，即当时县委、县政府为了开发需要而给予开发商的政策倾斜和承诺，参与处理此案的有关各方既要依法依规办事，又要尊重历史和现实。在具体问题的处理上，建议连江县委、县政府做进一步认真研究，作出明确的界定和决定，并稳妥实施。4、鉴于连江江滨路开发工程有关人防费征收问题已进入司法程序，会议原则同意市中级人民法院提出的处理意见：一是目前市中级人民法院正在审理关于福州源盛房地产公司连江县江滨路改造工程人防易地建设费行政罚款的诉讼，连江县法院应暂缓该案的强制执行；二是连江县法院要全面梳理案情，对福州源盛房地产公司提出的异议，一件一件审核清楚，并及时向市中级人民法院汇报；三是关于连江县江滨路改造的案件，既要依法公正办案，又要考虑历史因素，精心审理判断；四是今后凡涉及连江县江滨路改造的案件，连江县法院在立案和采取重要措施前都要向市中级人民法院报告。
9月16日，市委办通过便函向省委办公厅报告了有关会议情况。9月17日，省委办公厅向国家信访局报送了《关于落实国家信访局督办函有关问题的情况报告》。
11月10日，国家信访局领导来榕调研，他们对市委、市政府处理该问题的一系列措施表示认可，也对连江县委、县政府对市委、市政府的指示仍顶着不办，案未结，工未复等问题提出疑问，他们指出，2002年以来，当事人源盛公司副董事长周宏文就此问题五次来信，三次来访、多次来电，是个十分典型的重复信访案件，希望市委、市政府督促连江县委、县政府，按照市里研定的意见，务必在两个月内办结此案。市纪委主要领导向国家信访局领导表示，市委、市政府对此案高度重视，多次召集会议进行研究，今年以来有关方面又做了大量的工作，我们将按照国家信访局领导的要求，协调有关方面，尽快把此案办结。
三、关于对黄金高同志采取非正常手段反映问题的处置情况
在市“8·29”专案调查组对连江县江滨路改造建设中开发商与连江县政府土地权属纠纷问题基本查清，相关涉案人员已作处理，且有关遗留的几个案件已进入司法程序的情况下，黄金高同志违反组织原则，多次通过非正常渠道向外传播扩散自己的不同意见。对此，市委都先后及时采取措施，作了稳妥的处理。
2004年5月，黄金高同志在接受国内某杂志记者采访中，反映其“因为维护国有资产不受流失而得罪黑恶势力，整天穿防弹衣上下班”等情况，该杂志记者将与其谈话的内容进行整理，形成《我为什么要穿防弹背心上班？》一文，并准备于5月13日上机印刷刊发。5月12日傍晚得知这一消息后，市委立即于当晚召开书记办公会议研究，并做出相关处理决定：一是由市委副书记、纪委书记代表市委常委会找黄金高同志谈话，严肃要求其按组织原则办事，个人有意见可按正常程序向组织反映，不准随便公开发表对组织决定不满的言论；二是由市委领导立即与有关新闻媒体进行联系，该杂志同意从印刷机上撤下了这篇稿子。接着，市委纪委主要领导于5月13日约谈了黄金高同志，严肃批评了其违反组织纪律的做法，强调作为县委书记，要维护大局，重大问题要向市委请示汇报，明确要求黄金高同志与某杂志记者谈话的文章，现在和今后都不能发表，也不能在其他新闻媒体上发表，并要求其将与记者谈话的录音材料取回。7月初，市委主要领导收到省纪委转来群众来信反映黄金高同志个人违反廉政规定方面的一些问题，又再次批示市纪委主要领导代表市委常委会找其谈话。7月11日，市纪委主要领导又一次约谈了黄金高同志，在强调个人廉政方面需要注意的问题后，又再三要求黄金高同志要自觉遵守党的组织工作纪律，从大局出发，不准对外公开发表对组织决定不满的言论。黄金高同志当场表示按市委指示办，不再在新闻媒体上披露有关连江“地案”的事。
2004年8月初，市委收到连江县委上报的《关于要求尽快协调处理连江县江滨路改造建设案件遗留问题的请示》。文中主要反映市中院对连江县饮食服务公司、博物馆、凤城卫生院、文化馆等四家国有单位拆迁纠纷案件、县国土局土地使用权出让合同纠纷案件、县人防办行政处罚案件二审久拖未决，致使江滨路改造工程无法进行总体决算，江滨路改造建设整个案件无法全面结案等情况。此文立即引起了市委的高度重视，市委主要领导又立即指派市委两位副书记谈话，重申了党的有关组织纪律，强调做为一名共产党员，必须按党纪国法办事。黄金高同志表示愿意按组织原则办事，不对外扩散有关问题。同时，市委两位副书记又召集市中院院长和连江县黄金高、张天金同志就连江县委请示中反映的问题共同研究。会议认为，连江县江滨路改造建设案件由来已久，市委、市政府对该案件的处理是高度重视的，主要领导多次作出批示、亲自过问和开会研究，并提出明确要求。经省委领导同意，市委曾派出了由市纪委、市检察院、市公安局等部门同志组成的专案组，赴连江县开展了调查工作，连江县委、县政府也做了大量工作；省纪委、国土资源厅、人防办等有关部门领导听取了该案有关情况汇报并进行了指导。同时，市里对江滨路改造建设中涉案干部的腐败问题进行了认真查处，对有关遗留问题也作了稳妥的处理，目前已进入司法程序(由市中级人民法院依法进行审理)。会议就下一步处理该案件遗留问题提出如下具体意见：
1、对遗留问题的处理，要坚持依法办事，以维护稳定大局，促进当地经济发展。由于市委高度重视，已多次研究明确了原则处理意见，市直有关部门和连江县都要认真贯彻执行。
2、要支持人民法院依法公正审理案件。各级各有关部门领导要增强法律意识、诉讼意识、程序意识、证据意识，在法律问题上不能乱开口子。作为地方党政领导一定要依照法律程序办事，不能随意干预人民法院的正常审判工作，即使对个案有不同看法，也应当通过正常渠道反映。
3、市中院要抓紧依法、公正、稳妥审结该案件的遗留问题。鉴于连江县反映的几起案件，市中院已立案受理，而有关问题正在请示省高院，目前尚未接到批复的情况，请市中院抓紧与上级法院沟通，以尽快批复有关请示事项，依法处理好该案遗留问题。有关办案人员要本着对人民、对法律高度负责的态度，依法公正稳妥地审理好该案件。
4、连江县委、县政府要进一步做好相关单位、有关人员的思想工作，市、县有关部门要加强沟通协调，理解支持法院的审判工作，共同创造良好的依法审判环境。一旦人民法院依法作出判决后，有关单位都应尊重执行，如有不服判决，也应通过法律渠道向上级人民法院申诉，绝不允许任何单位和个人采取违反法律规定的做法。
8月11日获悉《人民网》刊登《连江县委书记致信人民网：为何防弹衣随我6年》信件后，市委主要领导立即指派1位市委副秘书长和市委宣传部常务副部长找黄金高同志核实有关情况。在整个谈话过程中，黄金高同志情绪激动，态度固执。他承认此文是他撰写并发送的，同时陈述以下几点意见：1、作为一名共产党员向党报、党网写信反映情况是党员的权力，不违反党的纪律。2、对文中的内容他都有证据，包括人证、物证，如果有错由他个人负责。3、发表这篇文章，他是经过深思熟虑的。希望通过此文引起大家的讨论，让大家“实事求是地进行判断”，从而促进此事的解决。4、文中的内容还不彻底，还有很多情况未提供出来，适当的时候还会曝光，事情还会闹得更大。
黄金高同志致《人民网》的信件发表后，造成了极为不良的影响。8月11日晚，市委紧急召集书记办公会议，研究了相关处置意见。同时，市委主要领导又找黄金高同志谈话，指出他的错误行为，要求他认真深刻进行反省。市委在召开防抗第14号强台风动员部署会之后，再次召开书记办公会，传达省委常委会精神，进一步统一思想认识，迅速采取措施，尽力减少负面影响；同时决定市委两位副书记参与省市联合调查组，配合做好连江县江滨路改造工程的调查工作，查明情况，依法依纪对有关责任人员进行严肃处理。8月12日，市委、市纪委主要领导前往连江县，一方面指挥防抗台风工作，一方面分别与连江县委常委及人大、政府、政协主要领导谈话，指出黄金高同志错误的严重性、危害性，进一步统一思想认识，稳定连江的政治和社会局势。经逐一询问县委常委及其他谈话的县领导，均称从未看过或听说过其他同志有见过黄金高同志穿过防弹衣。
8月13日上午，市委召开常委会，晚上又召开常委扩大会，通报黄金高同志致信《人民网》的有关情况，指出这是不讲政治、不讲大局、个人主义恶性膨胀、严重违反组织纪律的极端错误行为。其行为的直接后果是为西方敌对势力、台湾敌对势力、民运分子等利用，引发了社会政治不稳定，成为严重的政治事件。
面对这场严重的政治斗争，全市各级领导干部都要与省委、市委保持高度一致，旗帜鲜明、态度坚决，牢记使命、守土有责，以对党、对人民的赤胆忠心，把福州的工作做好，维护来之不易的大好形势，不让西方敌对势力、台湾敌对势力、海外民运分子、法轮功分子妄图搞乱福州进而搞乱福建、搞乱海峡西岸经济区的图谋得逞。当前要迅速认真贯彻省委七届七次、市委八届七次全会精神，加快推进“建设海峡西岸经济区、做大做强省会中心城市”的进程。8月14日，市四套班子领导还将迅速分头召开所分管的部委办局党员干部会议，各县(市)区也召开相应会议，向广大党员干部传达省、市委会议的精神，进一步统一思想，正本清源，千方百计稳定省会良好的社会、政治局面，把大家的精力坚决引导到齐心协力、突破风险、加快发展上来。
