In China corruption doesn't stop when you are imprisoned .....
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For reasons that seem strange to our eyes, the Chinese have an 'innovations scheme',
which guarantees criminal prisoners, consideration for instant prison
term commuting, if they are the inventor of an important technical
innovation.
Some intellectual property agents openly advertise their services to prisoners, and to match a specific prisoner to an appropriate innovation, which is most likely to get them released early if they claim to have invented and then patented the innovation.
Some intellectual property agents openly advertise their services to prisoners, and to match a specific prisoner to an appropriate innovation, which is most likely to get them released early if they claim to have invented and then patented the innovation.
Obviously the richer the inmate or their families, the more likely they are to get their sentence fully commuted, and prices range from 6,800 Yuan (£700, $1,100) for a low level idea that can be patented, up to 60,000 Yaun or more (approx £7,000, $11,000) for a better idea and patent.
So popular is this scheme, especially with those facing imprisonment under the current anti-corruption drive, that many of the officials who are facing the possibility of long prison sentences, are now approaching intellectual property agents in advance of their arrests or charges, to get the search underway for a suitable idea to be bought up, in preparation of patenting it after they have been imprisoned.
When corruption in China is so endemic and ingrained, its hard to see how it will ever be eradicated ... it just highlights how bankrupt an idea Communism was and is ..... Russia is also plagued with corruption, even though nominally no longer a state communist bureaucracy since the early 1990's.
As this scam was reported in a national state run newspaper, its likely to be revoked, but that didn't stop one wag on Chinese social media pointing out that in China, prisons should hang up a sign outside saying "China's Nobel Prize Centre".
So popular is this scheme, especially with those facing imprisonment under the current anti-corruption drive, that many of the officials who are facing the possibility of long prison sentences, are now approaching intellectual property agents in advance of their arrests or charges, to get the search underway for a suitable idea to be bought up, in preparation of patenting it after they have been imprisoned.
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| Endemic Corruption And Rampant Nepotism In China |
When corruption in China is so endemic and ingrained, its hard to see how it will ever be eradicated ... it just highlights how bankrupt an idea Communism was and is ..... Russia is also plagued with corruption, even though nominally no longer a state communist bureaucracy since the early 1990's.
As this scam was reported in a national state run newspaper, its likely to be revoked, but that didn't stop one wag on Chinese social media pointing out that in China, prisons should hang up a sign outside saying "China's Nobel Prize Centre".
Outside of Hong Kong the corruption in China is shocking. It's a blight on the way the country is developing. It's as bad as Russia.
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