Liu Xianming exposed 9800 yuan behind the "China Backbone" award.

The chaos of charging awards caused by "* * * and the backbone of the country"

Our reporter Wang Junxiu intern Zhou Ti China Youth Daily (20 1 1 July 20th, 2006 edition).

Recently, "backbone" has become a hot word on the Internet. Ni Ping was pushed to the forefront of public opinion because he won the "national backbone" award. A post "How many * * * and national backbones were stopped by 9800 yuan" let the public know the inside story of "spending money to buy prizes", and the evasiveness of the organizer made the whole thing more and more confusing. In fact, at present, the public is not only concerned about whether Ni Ping deserves the prize, but also about the chaos of charging awards caused by "* * * and the backbone of the country".

Just after "* * * and the backbone of the country" was exposed to spend money to buy prizes, the original high-profile publicity of this activity became secret. After the incident, the official website of Hualing Editorial Selection Committee, "Meritorious China", was immediately closed, and no one answered the phone. China Youth Daily reporters visited several institutions with red-headed documents and big seals on the selection documents of "* * * and the backbone of the country" one by one, but most of them were rejected. The netizen broke the news that the person in charge of China Economic Newspaper, the organizer of the event, was vague about this matter, while other related units, China Influential Media and China Development Strategy Research Association, were also silent and perfunctory when asked by reporters. The Documentary Literature Research Association admits that the 9800 yuan charged is the entry fee rather than the award fee. On the other hand, the Professional Committee of Talent Strategy of China Development Strategy Research Association categorically denied participating in this activity, saying that it was completely ignorant and the official seal might be stolen. They are conducting an internal investigation and cannot respond for the time being.

"This award itself is questionable. At that time, I felt that there were too many awards, the fees were too high, and I was suspected of spending money to buy prizes. " In an interview with China Youth Daily, Liu Xianming, the author of How many * * * and the backbone of the country have been stopped for 9,800 yuan, said that many domestic institutions are engaged in the appraisal of trainers, and he often receives invitations from some institutions to participate in various competitions, many of which require payment. "The answer I give is always: I will not participate in the appraisal that requires me to pay money; On the premise of not paying fees, I have no objection if you choose me according to your standards. You can't spend money to participate in the selection of honorary titles in order to obtain personal honor. "

In fact, the situation of giving money with one hand and awarding prizes with the other has existed for many years. There are so many awards under various banners such as "China" and "China" that it is hard to tell the truth from the false. There is a saying on the Internet that "there are prizes everywhere in China, and no one has a prize." Most awards activities must be called "money", and "starting with profit and ending with profit" has become a tool for some associations to learn to generate income.

Now, it seems that this "backbone" incident has become a farce that hit the nail on the head-originally just wanted to question Ni Ping's award, but under the sweeping of the Internet storm, the interest chain and huge interests behind the award were uncovered.

In fact, apart from Liu Xianming, some people are willing to "spend money on prizes". The reason why the shanzhai selection such as "Backbone" is "enduring" is related to poor supervision, and also because some people who pursue fame and fortune are willing to be "deceived". Winning prizes seems to be a common thing. The number of awards, to a certain extent, has become another standard to measure personal ability and enterprise ability. For the organizers, it is precisely because they have found out the psychology of the participants that they have created gorgeous coats and glorious titles to satisfy their strong vanity.

Participants were fascinated by the gorgeous coat knitted by the organizer. Organizers charge high fees in the name of conference fees, room and board fees and album publishing fees. This in itself is Zhou Yu's Huang Gai-one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. When the winners standing on the stage get the awards presented by the organizers, perhaps both sides will secretly rejoice for the duet directed and performed by themselves.

However, such selection activities hurt the public. Perhaps, in the face of various prize-winning activities in the future, the first thing ordinary people think of is "How much is this prize worth?" Perhaps, the worship and respect in the past are gone, and more is disdain and contempt.

In fact, at the end of the debate, it is not important to buy the "backbone award". How much of this cottage choice has not been exposed? How can we cure it? This is what we should continue to pay attention to.

China network television (Focus Interview): Whose backbone was the "backbone" award (20 1 108 16)?

During this period, the awarding activities of "the backbone of the country" and "the backbone of China" were hotly debated and questioned. First it was poked by the public, and then it was named by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. On August 15, the Ministry of Civil Affairs imposed an administrative penalty on the organizer of the "* * * and the backbone of the country" character selection activity, and informed the industry and commerce and public security departments of the alleged violation of the law by the organizer of the "China Backbone Award". So, how did this happen? The reporter launched an investigation.

In July this year, two "Backbone" awards were held on 10, and an award-giving activity named "* * * and the National Backbone" was held at the Beijing National Convention Center. More than 50 people won the Top Ten Meritorious Persons Award, Top Ten Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award and other awards. This award-winning activity has attracted public attention because of its great fame and many celebrities among the winners. Seeing the news of winning the prize, a man named Liu Xianming had many questions about this activity. In March and May of this year, Liu Xianming, who is engaged in enterprise consulting training, received an invitation letter twice by email, inviting him to participate in a person selection activity called "China Backbone" and demanding to pay a fee of 9,800 yuan.

Without any selection in advance, and without seeing the introduction of the selection procedure, you can become the "backbone of China" as long as you pay the money. Liu Xianming thought it was too unreliable, so he ignored the invitation letter. However, after seeing the award "* * * and the backbone of the country", he found that although one was called "* * and the backbone of the country" and the other was called "the backbone of China", although the names were slightly different, there were many similarities in the activities.

Liu Xianming published the invitation letter on the Internet out of doubts about the awarding activities. This has aroused more people's doubts and dissatisfaction. In the face of public concern and criticism, the winners of "* * * and the backbone of the country" came forward to clarify that there is no such thing as spending money to buy prizes. So, are these two "backbones" the same thing, and are the awards authoritative? For a time, the parties debated endlessly around the two selection activities.

These two awards are obviously in violation of state regulations.

According to the survey, "China Backbone" was not a character selection at first, but a series of editing activities of literature jointly operated by China Documentary Literature Research Association and China Economic Newspaper Association. The Talent Professional Committee of China Development Strategy Research Association and the Social News Department of China Press and Culture Promotion Association also participated in this activity. Later, the series was not compiled, and the organizer of the event, Beijing Guofa Zhongke Information Technology Research Institute, changed it to the "Chinese backbone" character award event without authorization, and changed the official seals of several societies, forged invitations and distributed them widely, and even charged high fees to the participants. Probably because not many people were fooled, the so-called "China Backbone" character selection activity ended in vain.

Is the "* * * and the backbone of the country" award, which does not charge the winners, a formal and legal character selection activity? The selection activity of "* * * and the backbone of the country" began in April this year, and the organizers were China Economic Newspaper Association and China Patriotic Engineering Federation, but the real operator of this selection activity was a company named Master China (Beijing) International Cultural Media Center. In the open information channel, the reporter did not find the conditions, procedures and processes for the selection of "* * * and national backbone", did not see the composition of the selection Committee, and did not see the publicity of candidates. In addition, in order to standardize the appraisal and commendation activities, in 2009, the relevant state departments published more than 500 catalogues of award-winning projects that can be held after approval. Neither "the backbone of China" nor "the backbone of * * and the country" is in this catalogue.

Why do you want to hold such a character selection activity?

Both awards are obviously in violation of state regulations. As a formal social group, why should we hold such a character selection activity? In these illegal awards activities, how do China Economic Newspaper Association and other units exercise their functions as organizers? "Actually, it's just a name," one of the organizers, China Patriotic Engineering Federation, told reporters. Because many institutions are short of funds, these names are not called in vain. China Economic Newspaper Association collected 50,000 yuan from the organizers in the selection activity of "* * * and the backbone of the country". In return for the support of this activity, China Economic Newspaper Association collected a management fee of 20,000 yuan in the editing activity of "China backbone documentary literature series". The China Documentary Literature Research Association charges a review fee of 8,000 yuan. China Development Strategy Research Association will charge a management fee of 6,543,800 yuan.

The association charges a nominal fee. These activities will eventually be specifically undertaken by some enterprises, and most of the profits will fall into the pockets of the organizers. The organizers are only nominally unregulated. The consequence of this practice is that the character selection activities such as "the backbone of the country" and "the backbone of China" have become a commercial activity, losing the seriousness and credibility of awards.

A few days ago, the Ministry of Civil Affairs imposed an administrative penalty of suspending the activities of China Economic Newspaper Association for three months and confiscating the illegal income of 50,000 yuan for its illegal activities of appraising and commending meritorious persons in the era of "* * * and pillars of the country". An advance notice of administrative punishment was issued to the China Patriotic Engineering Federation, which will be handled after hearing and other legal procedures are performed recently. Other social organizations that nominally participated in these two series of activities, but did not participate in the award-winning activities, were also issued a notice to be ordered to correct.

Nominal fees are linked to both the name and the profit. For some social groups, this is a huge interest-driven, but also a huge test, testing whether a society has legal awareness, social responsibility and perfect internal management. This selection of the backbone is not a case, and the chaos of awards is not a year or two. If we don't solve the problem from the root, we will deal with this award today, and there may be another award tomorrow. The original intention of the award is praise and encouragement, but taking the award as a cash cow is getting farther and farther away from the original intention of the award.