Professor Jiang Ping, former president of the China University of Political Science and Law, spoke to a China Economic Summit on May 21, 2004.
When consulted on a case involving a Chongqing resident confronting illegal brutal eviction by real estate developers, Professor Jiang recommended the court to send law enforcement agents to assist those developers.
Professor Jiang is a civil law authority in China, notably the chief drafter of the civil code as well as the recently passed property law, which for the first time that the communism China acknowledge the ownership of private property. Professor Jiang will be remembered in the legal history for his diligent contribution. However, he will also be remembered as a rent-a-lawyer figure who sells his sole to whoever pays the higher bid.
In the aforementioned case, the resident has all lawful rights on his resident, and the commercial develop refused to make proper compensation. In stead, they cut the electricity and water to the house, and block it with a 50 feet deep trench. When all failed, they bribed the local court to use armed forces, which is in fact a direct violation of a 2004 directive from a the Chinese Supreme Court that no force shall be used by the court in evicting resident for developers. When people all over the nation cried out foul, Professor Jiang jumped out to defend the rich. Professor Jiang argued that whoever could make more money out of a piece of land should be allowed the land.
There had been great concern over the enactment of the property law. Some feared it's a public surrender to the capitalism; while some feared it furthered denied poorer's opportunity in challenging the richer.
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