Tens of thousands of “law enforcement” personnel dispatched by Beijing have descended upon China’s vast countryside to enforce compliance with the Chinese regime’s latest demands for expanded grain production.
Over 2,500 grassroots “agricultural law enforcement teams” have implemented the central authorities’ new directives on planting, animal husbandry, water usage, and product quality and safety.
The result has been chaos and misery across numerous communities as the rural management personnel, or “nongguan” as they are nicknamed in Mandarin, wantonly inflict severe consequences on hapless residents and their property for minor or even nonexistent infractions.
Videos and accounts posted on social media show the nongguan digging up healthy vegetable sprouts, bulldozing gardens, sawing down fruit trees, or hounding livestock they claim are in violation of the central policies….