10/18/2011 China (2point6billion) – Anyone who has viewed the appalling footage of the two-year-old toddler Yue Yue being run over – and then ignored by 18 successive people as she lay seriously wounded in a backstreet in Foshan will also recognize the major failing of the Chinese Communist Party in protecting China’s heritage – the complete abolition of morality.
The girl, who had wandered out into a small back street to look for her brother, was hit by a light truck. Video footage clearly shows driver negligence in striking her; she was easily visible in the middle of a narrow lane. It’s what happened next that has appalled. Knowing he has run her over, the driver pauses for several seconds, then decides to drive on. In doing so, he runs her over again with his rear wheels, and drives off. The lane is busy and over a dozen individuals walk right past her unconscious body, prostrate on the ground in the middle of the lane, without stopping to check. A minute later, she is run over by a truck. All this occurs in a well-lit lane with a hardware market lined with small shops. Finally, a garbage collector spots her, lifts her up, and carries her to the relative safety of the roadside. Her mother then appears and the little girl is taken to the hospital. She seemed in a really bad way – and reports conflict over whether she has already died or remains in a deep coma with permanent brain damage.
This is modern China, the world’s second largest economy, and in a prosperous city. GDP in Foshan grew by 12 percent in 2010, and it has a total income of RMB565 billion. Although it may be relatively unheard of in the West, Foshan is the 11th richest city in China.
What is shocking is not the accident per se, regrettably such incidents are part of life and young children are always vulnerable. What really hits home and is shocking is the fact the driver drove away – causing the child further trauma by running her over with his rear wheels – he must have felt the back of the lorry go over her pathetic, tiny bump – and the attitude of those individuals walking and driving past. It was obvious that a small child lay dying in the street, yet 18 people ignored her until the garbage collector picked her up.
In this aspect, a dangerous lack of moral guidance in China towards its own population is revealed. It is not the first time; the poisoning of 300,000 infants in the melamine milk scandal – a situation born purely out of greed and involving a large state-owned enterprise – dictates that the Chinese Communist Party has failed in its attempts to provide moral guidance to the Chinese people. The list of occasions whereby the Chinese people have responded with callousness to someone in distress is growing. It is however not an issue that concerns race. It is an issue that concerns moral guidance and the serious lack of ethics in contemporary China. That is a social matter and is the responsibility of the State to oversee. The Communist Party, quite simply, has shown total ideological neglect to this aspect of the “China Dream.”
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Concerning China’s treatment of religion, and of those who under long-held religious structures have for centuries provided moral guidance, we learn of Tibetan Monks continuing to immolate themselves, of the last synagogue in Kaifeng being turned into a supermarket, mosques being shuttered in Xinjiang, and Catholic priests detained against their will because they support the Vatican. It is obscene, and the results of the suppression of moral teachings are clear in contemporary China. I warn that the situation can only continue to deteriorate unless China’s amorality is corrected.
Hopefully, the outrage will spark a religious and moral revival in China, and a desire to know God. Because without Him, we are little better than animals – as the callous treatment of a two-year-old girl has painfully demonstrated. The Chinese Communist Party need a radical rethink of their policies towards moral guidance within China, and the long-established role that globally recognized religions have to play. China’s suppression of such has gone way too far, and at the probable cost of a young girl’s life, seedily snuffed out in a Foshan backstreet where only the lowly, a garbage collector with the least to lose, had sufficient grace and compassion to care.
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