Since the outbreak of the Shanghai epidemic, as countries and regions outside of China have successively chosen to "coexist with the virus" in the face of the more transmissible Omicron variant, China has consolidated its early epidemic prevention achievements and maintained the "dynamic zero" epidemic prevention policy It is encountering more and more tests and challenges, coupled with the one-size-fits-all, layer-by-layer, formalism and other problems in the implementation of epidemic prevention policies in various places, which has exacerbated the rebound and dissatisfaction of the people, and group protests of different scales have been exposed in society. event.
Beginning in mid-to-late May, the gathering protests that attracted widespread public attention came from college students in Beijing, Tianjin and other places.
On May 15, the Wanliu Campus of Peking University built a wall overnight without soliciting opinions or issuing a written announcement, dividing the campus into east and west sides. The area is separated, and half of the originally shared outdoor rest area is divided for faculty members.
Staff and family members of Wanliu Campus can freely enter and exit the campus, while students can only stay on campus and cannot order takeout, which became the trigger for the gathering of Peking University students to protest.
Chen Baojian, Vice President of Peking University and Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, held a loudspeaker to talk with the students.
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From Proposal to "Demolish the Wall" to "Down with the Bureaucracy"
Dissatisfied with the school's approach, a large number of students gathered to protest on the campus, demanding "the right to live together" with the staff, or directly allocate all outdoor rest places to students. ".
The school sent a number of leaders to quell the incident.
Chen Baojian, vice president of Peking University and deputy secretary of the party committee, held a loudspeaker to talk with the students, promising to solve the problem for the students, and called on the students to return to the dormitory first, and then he visited each room, "Please return to your dormitory in an orderly manner, if today It's my responsibility that I didn't go to any dormitory that night." Chen Baojian asked the students to put down their phones, "Protect Peking University."
After the situation at Peking University subsided, groups of students protested at China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Normal University, Tianjin University, Nankai University and other universities. Unlike Peking University's dissatisfaction with the physical isolation of the "wall", the reasons and demands of the subsequent protests in several universities included Greater universality...
For details, please read the 320th issue of "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly (June 6, 2022), "
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