However, who would have thought that behind this small town famous for its culture and Buddhism, there are still many unknown darkness and filth.
The Shifang Temple, which is notorious in the tourism circle and has been ordered to rectify many times, can be called the gathering place of evil forces in Dengfeng. Shifang Temple negotiated with Shaolin Temple when it opened on 1995. Shifang Temple pays the land lease fee 10000 yuan and incense fee of 50000 yuan to Shaolin Temple every year, agrees on the payment date, and allows the company to use the name of Shifang Temple. The lease term is 40 years. After 40 years, the property of Shifang Temple belongs to Shaolin Temple. However, since Qiao Song, the mayor of Dengfeng, took office, although the "Shifang Temple" has become more and more famous and incense has become more and more prosperous, the government rent and incense fees have begun to refuse to pay, and Shaolin Temple is helpless. According to the monks in Shaolin Temple, the "Shifang Temple" has long been regarded as private property by the leaders in Dengfeng, so it is naturally impossible to ask for land rent and incense.
After Dengfeng was occupied by the leaders, Shifang Temple still kept the veil of its tourist attractions. However, when many tourists from Shaolin Temple curiously walked into this mysterious courtyard to offer incense and pray for blessings, they found that the incense here cost thousands of dollars. Many tourists shouted that they were cheated, but they were forced to recognize and donate this expensive "incense" under the coercion and inducement of the temple staff. Open the webpage and search for "Shifang Temple", and we find something like "Shifang Temple-Buddhism is not a clean place" and "Shifang Temple will become the eternal pain of Shaolin Temple?" Complaints such as "Shifang Temple-Buddhist scam at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain" are common.
20 12 Qiao Song, Mayor of Dengfeng, vowed: "We welcome media reports and supervision and accept them with an open mind. Dengfeng City will take this rectification activity as an opportunity, take the 5A-level scenic spot standard as the starting point and minimum standard, increase investment, pay close attention to environmental, health and cultural relics protection issues, and realize scenic spot management.
Connect with the world. However, today, three years later, the fake incident in Shifang Temple is still repeated and intensified. Investigate its reason, the mayor Qiao Song is naturally to blame.
According to local people, in Shifang Temple, the frequency of leading cadres in Dengfeng City is unimaginable. Besides, every three weeks, non-Dengfeng local dignitaries will come here, and Qiao Song, the mayor of Dengfeng, always greets him with an oriental attitude. In the local area, "Shifang Temple" has another name for the mayor's office. It can be seen that the frequent appearance of Mayor Qiao Song here seems to vaguely confirm the truth of the previous statement that "Shifang Temple is the private property of individual county-level leading cadres in Dengfeng", so it is not difficult to understand why Shifang Temple has stood for more than ten years. I'm afraid the mayor Qiao Song is clamoring to catch a thief with a thief, so how can it really be rectified?
Outside the Shifang Temple, another incident is equally striking-the most illegal building in history, the "Tianzhong Temple" incident.
20 10 Dengfeng city decided to rebuild the temple and restore its original scale after successfully declaring the "Tiandi" historical building complex as a world cultural heritage. 20 1 1 in June, 2008, the Tianzhong Temple in Tiandi was planned in detail, and the site of Tianzhong Temple was identified as under the Long Live Peak. After "demonstration", Tianzhong Temple Project obtained the approval document of Dengfeng Municipal Government. The Minutes of Mayor's Office Meeting of Dengfeng Municipal People's Government in July 20 1 1 year stipulated that Tianzhong Temple could not be started until all procedures were completed, but the replies of Dengfeng Municipal Bureau of Religious Affairs and Henan Provincial Housing and Construction Department were 20 12 and 2065433. However, Tianzhong Temple
Construction starts at the same time.
It is precisely because of incomplete procedures that Tianzhong Temple was shut down in early August of 20 12 due to illegal construction. It was not until April 9, 20 13 that Tianzhong Temple got the approval for the use of forest land in Henan Province and started construction again. Before the Spring Festival of 20 14, National Cultural Heritage Administration's inspection notice stopped the Tianzhong Temple project again. In other words, the construction of Tianzhong Temple is likely to affect the protection of existing cultural heritage. The Tianzhong Temple project did not meet the starting conditions at all, and it was not put on record in National Cultural Heritage Administration from beginning to end. In other words, "Tianzhong Temple" is actually an out-and-out illegal building!
However, even though it was defined as "illegal building", "Tianzhong Temple" continued to work persistently until it was stopped again by National Cultural Heritage Administration in April 20 15. Based on the possible disadvantages of this project, Vice Premier Liu Yandong personally instructed the demolition of this illegal building. However, today, the tin house on the west side of the Tianzhong Temple site is still full of wood and tools, and workers are processing and making the doors and windows of the temple. When will the illegal buildings be demolished? At present, it is still far away.
Three stops and three openings, why can the "Tianzhong Temple" project still turn a deaf ear to the opinions of the management department and continue to go its own way after being stopped? According to Li Ming (a pseudonym), an official of Dengfeng City, Tianzhong Temple is a key project in Dengfeng City. Even if some departments have questions about the procedures, they still have to listen to the municipal government. "The previous agreement was stopped, indicating that the law enforcement in the early stage was not enough. Why do you do this shows that there is a government backing. "
From the progress of this project, it is not difficult to see how much support the Dengfeng municipal government has given to Tianzhong Temple. 20 12 after tianzhong temple was shut down due to illegal construction, on June 5438+03, 15, the mayor of Dengfeng city, Qiao Song publicly declared at the sixth plenary (enlarged) meeting of the fourth municipal Committee that the restoration of tianzhong temple would be accelerated. In order to speed up the construction process of the project, Mayor Qiao Song personally took the lead in demolishing the building, and 36 indigenous people were forced to move, thus clearing the obstacles for the project construction from the geographical space. Since then, Mayor Qiao Song personally waved the flag and shouted for the platform of Tianzhong Temple project, and presided over "Digital Sky" and other activities. On the one hand, he tried his best to enhance the significance and image of this illegal project in public, and on the other hand, he met with relevant management departments in private and asked for the green light for Tianzhong Temple.
It is precisely because the Dengfeng Municipal Government personally promoted this illegal project that this project was able to get a lot of procedures that could not have been passed, and it was also able to start work without National Cultural Heritage Administration's knowledge. Even an instruction of the vice premier met with many obstacles and could not be implemented. Qiao Song, the mayor of Dengfeng, has made great contributions, which makes people wonder why the government of Dengfeng, headed by mayor Qiao Song, is so focused on this illegal project instead of focusing on other important work.
Who will pay the bill for the 36 indigenous residents who were forced to be displaced during the demolition and construction of Tianzhong Temple?
It is reported that in order to promote the project, the demolition measures taken by the Dengfeng municipal government are extremely violent. According to the local relocated households, the Dengfeng municipal government measured the land to be demolished on the first day, and asked all residents to move immediately the next day, with an interval of less than 24 hours! From beginning to end, there are no documents, notices, how to transition, how to resettle, how to compensate and so on. After being produced, residents were told that there was no compensation standard. Three days later, large machinery began to act, and a few hours later, the property of two or three generations was reduced to ruins. All the villagers who were demolished were forced to stay with neighbors or relatives, and more villagers had nowhere to live, so they had to build temporary tents. Many families have no place to store surplus food and are forced to sell it at low prices. Animals such as chickens, ducks and pigs have nowhere to be fostered, and a series of farm tools are not handled. It's even sadder to have an old man or an old man at home, and no one dares to take him in. They don't know when this situation will last, and they are afraid that the old people will die in their homes one day.
It is hard to imagine that the above scenario will happen in a society ruled by law. Even though the government had issued the Order No.590 of the State Council as early as 20119, under the leadership of Mayor Qiao Song, the Dengfeng municipal government still went its own way, resulting in such tragedies frequently.
Take the national property Shifang Temple as your own; Instructing staff to blackmail tourists; Without first approving the illegal construction of Tianzhong Temple, refusing to accept the instructions of the state to return to work illegally; Violation of cultural relics protection laws and regulations, destruction of Shaolin protected areas; The mayor took the lead in violent demolition, and tens of thousands of residents were displaced. The behavior of the Dengfeng government under the leadership of Qiao Song is simply shocking. I just don't know how long the gang in Dengfeng can be rampant. Who can give people a bright future of Henan tourism?
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