He is a reporter from Henan TV, his name is Cui Songwang

The full 30-minute version of the special news report on "Retarded Slave Labor" that year

September 4, 2011 Late

Henan TV station’s urban channel reported on a black chain involving mentally retarded slave labor. Through undercover investigations, reporters from this channel discovered many clandestine factories in Zhumadian and Zhengzhou, where mentally retarded people were violently forced to work for free. Subsequently, police from Yuanyang County, Dengfeng City, Xiping County and Zhumadian City in Henan Province launched separate attacks and rescued nearly 30 mentally retarded slave workers in the brick kilns, and captured many foremans involved in the case.

The mentally retarded slave workers do not have enough to eat and sleep well

Under the guidance of insiders, the reporter went to the intersection of Tongshan Avenue and Cedar Avenue in Yicheng District, Zhumadian City, Henan Province A number of black brick kilns using mentally retarded slave labor were found in the entrance of the city, the west side of Gaocheng Bridge in Gaocheng Town, Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, and Ludian Town, Xiping County, Zhumadian City.

In these black kilns, there are as few as 5 and as many as a dozen mentally retarded people, crowded into small simple rooms with strong odors. They do not have enough food and rest every day, but they have to do heavy physical work. He was beaten frequently. Some mentally retarded people are physically disabled, with their shoulders and waists severely deformed.

In a black kiln factory in Dengfeng City, mentally retarded people were forced to work in temperatures as high as 39 degrees Celsius. During the investigation, the reporter found that in addition to physical breakdown, the intellectual and mental disabilities of mentally retarded people will become more and more serious after being enslaved in black kilns for a long time.

The owner of the kiln factory has been controlled by the police

According to the Xiping County Party Committee Propaganda Department, at 1:20 pm on the 4th, the Xiping County Public Security Bureau quickly organized more than 40 police officers to rush to the scene. The owners of the two kilns were controlled, 9 accused migrant workers and people with intellectual disabilities were identified, and they were quickly taken away from the scene.

According to the Propaganda Department of the Yicheng District Committee of Zhumadian City, 4 At 6 pm on the same day, Yicheng District organized police to conduct an inventory of relevant brick kiln factories, successfully rescued eight mentally retarded migrant workers, and controlled the brick kiln owner and contractor, and criminally detained those arrested involved in the case in accordance with the law. The district's labor inspection department conducted a wide-ranging investigation of the employment situation in the district and found no similar problems. At about 2 p.m. on September 4, the Gaocheng Town Police Station in Dengfeng City received a report and quickly rushed to the scene to investigate and rescued five mentally retarded people.

A staff member of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department said that it was unclear whether this was just an isolated case.

Personal experience

Reporters pretending to be mentally retarded people to undercover black brick kilns

The exposure of mentally retarded slave workers in black brick kilns began with an undercover report on the Henan TV Metropolis Channel. Through undercover investigations, reporters from this channel discovered many clandestine factories in Zhumadian and Zhengzhou, where mentally retarded people were violently forced to work for free.

According to reports from this channel, the mentally retarded people in black kilns mainly come from the Zhumadian section of National Highway 107 in the province, as well as train stations in prefecture-level cities. Starting from August 14, a male reporter from the channel pretended to be mentally retarded and wandered around Zhumadian Railway Station. From time to time, he begged people, picked up cigarette butts on the ground, and even grabbed half a bowl of cold noodles left by diners at a street stall. He was finally confused. A slave broker looking for prey nearby.

On the afternoon of August 17, the reporter was pulled into a taxi by two men and taken to a kiln factory called "Hengtai Company" in Xiping County, Zhumadian City, which he had previously visited undercover. In the evening, he was sold to Wan Chengqun, a contractor, for 500 yuan. Afterwards, the reporter was forced to work for more than three hours. During this period, he was slapped in the face and beaten with a triangle belt when he begged for water. In the kiln factory, a mentally retarded man was slapped in the genitals by the supervisor. Finally, after the kiln factory assembly line was suspended, the reporter was finally allowed to go to the kitchen to drink water. He took the opportunity to escape from the kiln factory, and three or four hours later, he met up with his colleagues who responded.

The candid camera shows that after seeing the arrival of a new slave worker, the foremans were smoking cigarettes and laughing. It is understood that the supervisor who beat the undercover reporter with a triangle belt at Hengtai Company was a minor, only 14 years old.

Revealing the secret

The mentally retarded slave workers are sold for three to five hundred each

The 23-year-old mentally retarded Bai Shasha is from Baisha Town, Yichuan County, Luoyang. At the end of March last year, he lost his father in the suburbs of Luoyang. In July this year, Bai Shasha, who had severe injuries to both ears and multiple fractures all over her body, crawled home crying. He claimed that after he went missing last year, he was threatened with a knife, taken to a car and taken to the kiln factory, where he was hit with bricks and whipped every day. After the police rescued him, he was thrown into Baisha Town, and he returned to the village by himself.

Yuan Haojie, another mentally retarded person, remembers that his black kiln factory was in the suburbs of Zhengzhou. The boss's surname is Zhao, and he has many mentally retarded slave workers. Yuan is from Xiangcheng County, Pingdingshan City. When he was working in Pingdingshan five years ago, he was deceived into being a slave laborer in Zhengzhou. He was not fed well, was not paid, and was often beaten. A year ago, he escaped over the wall with the help of a paint bucket and returned home.

Qi Zhancheng, the slave labor contractor and a native of Pingyu County, Zhumadian, said that when he encountered a mentally retarded person who could not be deceived, he followed him on a motorcycle. In a place where no one was around, "a few people would pinch him and leave." The process requires at least 3 people to work together. Once obtained, the slave workers who are easy to use will be kept by themselves, and the slaves who are not easy to use will be sold to other foremen. The contractors who used slave labor were all connected to each other. According to the investigation, the price of each mentally retarded slave worker is between 300 yuan and 500 yuan.

An insider said that if you hire normal people, you will have to pay a salary of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year, but if you use mentally retarded slave workers, you will not have to pay a cent of salary.

Investigation

Most of the black brick kiln owners are from Xichuan, Henan

In Henan, mentally retarded people and even normal people have been trafficked into slave labor for at least ten or twenty years. . In 2007, the Shanxi black brick kiln incident brought the slave labor ecology in Shanxi, Henan and other places to the press. At that time, more than 20 of the suspects captured by the police and involved in the trafficking of mentally retarded people were from Xichuan County, Henan Province. The slave labor bosses involved in this case, Yan Yucai and Wan Chengqun, are both from Xichuan, Henan.

As early as 2006, the media conducted an investigation into Hengying Village, Shengwan Town, Xichuan County, which is home to "black kiln contractors". The history of local slave labor can be traced back ten to twenty years. Hengying Village is located at the junction of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi provinces. The local traffic is congested and the natural conditions are poor. There are nearly 300 people in the village who work abroad all year round.

The mentally retarded people from Xiping County, Dengfeng, Xinxiang and Zhumadian were rescued one after another and received care. Director Wang of the Xiping County Rescue Station said that this is not the first time that mentally retarded people have been rescued by the police and sent to the rescue station. “A group of people were rescued the year before last, about 10 people,” he said.

This was confirmed by Director Zhang of the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department. Director Zhang said that Henan police have been cracking down on illegal employment in recent years. He revealed that the province cracked down on illegal employment the year before last, and specially organized police forces to rescue a group of mentally retarded people in Shandong, as well as in Xinxiang and other places. "Some time ago, Zhengzhou Railway Station abducted mentally retarded people to Shandong, and we also sent police to rescue them," he said.

However, regarding this slave labor incident, Director Zhang said that the police have not yet figured out whether it is an isolated case or whether there is a comprehensive and general problem.

According to a media practitioner in Henan, black brick kilns across Henan have never disappeared due to weak law enforcement. After the Zhengzhou Railway Station was exposed four years ago, Zhengzhou officials promised to eradicate the phenomenon of slave labor trafficking. However, the Economic Information Daily reported a few days ago that according to the newspaper’s recent investigation, Zhengzhou Railway Station is still the hardest hit area for slave labor trafficking.

Response

Police: Destroying black brick kilns depends on the local government

Director Zhang of the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department believes that for such incidents, it is still necessary to fundamentally destroy them Relying on the local government, "Clay bricks have been banned for a long time, but supervision at the village and village levels is weak, and illegal brick kilns are still being opened." All the police can do is crack down on trafficking and illegal labor.

The day before yesterday, the mentally retarded workers were sent to Zhengzhou Railway Station by the Qiaobei Township Government of Xinxiang City, but no one was sent to accompany the four mentally retarded workers back home. The local labor and social security office also had no idea about the rescue situation. The afternoon before yesterday, the reporter wanted to interview the Xinxiang City Labor and Social Security Supervision Brigade, but the other party said that they “only accept reports.”

A cadre of the Propaganda Department of the Henan Disabled Persons' Federation said that the Disabled Persons' Federation's attitude is to severely crack down on mentally retarded people who are abducted and trafficked into black brick kilns. However, after a mentally retarded person is illegally trafficked and lost, the family may not think of reporting it to the cadres of the Disabled Persons' Federation, "We have not received any information about this."

The brave reporter who secretly visited and escaped: Cui Songwang

Introduction

Cui Songwang (1986-), male, Han nationality, from Luohe, Henan. Chief reporter of Henan TV City Channel. Graduated from Tianjin Institute of Physical Education majoring in Journalism and Law. He once worked as an undercover agent in a black kiln factory and helped the police capture 8 black kiln factory owners and recruiters, and rescued 30 slave workers.

2003-2007, studied journalism and law at Tianjin Institute of Physical Education.

In 2007, he entered the Henan TV Station Urban Channel.

In 2011, he was selected as a candidate for China’s Charming 50 People.

Elected as the 2011 Chinese Righteous Figure.

On May 22, 2013, he was selected as one of the young protagonists of the CCTV version of "To Youth" - "Youth Model".

Cui Songwang’s life ideal

Born in Luohe, Henan in 1986, this boy grew up drinking spicy soup. When he was a teenager, he wanted to dress himself up cooler, so he spent every summer vacation They all go to work in brick kilns to earn money.

His fat figure was busy in the flying dust, loading about two hundred bricks, pressing down the handle of the cart, and running away as soon as the traction rope was hung on his shoulders.

The first time I worked, I earned 47 yuan in 3 days. He immediately bought a police armed belt, a copy of "The Generals of the Yang Family", and a T-shirt for his mother.

He looked in the mirror arrogantly, looking at the shining police logo on his waist, feeling satisfied. Thinking back to the time when I was working, the owner of the brick factory would give me water and watermelon from time to time. Hard work doesn't seem that difficult.

But Cui Songwang didn't know at that time that the word brick kiln would leave a deep mark on his life in a heartbreaking way.

In 2011, at the age of 25, he was already the youngest chief reporter of Henan TV Metropolis Channel. Reporting people's livelihood news is trivial and complicated. But he still noticed that there were several hotline calls about black brick kilns every month.

His thoughts returned to that summer four years ago.

On the official website of Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, there is a "Journalism and Law Major" in the corner of the enrollment plan. In 2007, Cui Songwang will graduate from the college in this corner.

In June of the same year, the black brick kiln case in Shanxi broke out.

The trafficker parked the van on the side of the road and asked a boy passing by to help carry things. He took the opportunity to push the person into the van and take him to a small dark room near the train station. After gathering enough people in a car, we drove them to the black kiln in Shanxi late at night.

In order to facilitate control, the kiln factory prefers to target immature minors and people with intellectual disabilities.

Three meals were steamed buns and cold water without any vegetables. Each meal had to be eaten within 15 minutes. Anyone who moved slowly would be severely beaten.

Deceived into working as a "black brick kiln contract worker" for three months, 38-year-old Shui Daoyu said that he worked more than 16 hours a day. The black brick kiln workers here have the power of life and death, and work is slow. Not only were the migrant workers deprived of food and clothing, but if they were not careful, they would be "cleaned up" by thugs and buried in nearby barren hills.

A reporter from Henan TV Station exposed this incident, which alarmed the central government. The governor of Shanxi Province publicly apologized to the society for this.

Cui Songwang was deeply moved and was admitted to the reporter's urban channel as soon as he graduated.

Four years later, almost at the same time, two mentally retarded children ran away from two black factories with injuries all over their bodies.

Cui Songwang's heart palpitated, and he decided to investigate in depth.

Once he pretended to be miserable, saying that he was a fugitive from prison and wanted to come to beg for food. The people in the black brick kiln were hesitant and served a bowl of noodles. It was fishy and smelly, as if it had been rotten for several years.

Cui Songwang instinctively felt sick, and the hesitation flashed through his head. But in order to make the people in the kiln believe in him, he wolfed down two whole bowls. Unexpectedly, after leaving the house, the owner of the black kiln factory followed him for a full two kilometers.

This attempt failed, but Cui Songwang, who became increasingly frustrated and courageous, still tried to approach the black brick kiln in various ways. He has pretended to be a vegetable seller, a feed seller, a kiln owner, a person released from prison, everything he can think of

After half a month of continuous investigation, Cui Songwang used various characters as disguises. Understand the working mechanism of illegal labor in black brick kilns: the evil kiln owners deceive mentally retarded people who have no ability to protect themselves and arrange them into a small house of four to five square meters. These people who were deceived worked day and night to make money for the kiln owners. One person could earn 20,000 yuan a year.

After investigating to this point, we actually have enough material to edit a very successful program.

But whenever he thought of the eyes of the mentally retarded slave workers, full of helplessness and gloom amid fear, Cui Songwang felt a dull pain in his heart. He couldn't sleep all night: How were these workers deceived?

"I want to go back. Even if I am disabled, I just want to come back alive."

He took off more than 500 degrees The myopia glasses, the widening of the eyes are very unnatural, but they just look like a retard.

In order to avoid suspicion, Cui Songwang did not take a shower, brush his teeth, shave or change clothes for two weeks in the hot August. He and his colleagues went to Zhumadian, a place where kiln owners often went to look for mentally retarded workers, hoping someone would take the bait.

On August 15, 2011, a man in gray clothes stepped forward:

Man: "Where do you live from?"

Cui Songwang: " I am twenty years old."

Man: "How old are you?"

Cui Songwang: "My family is on the river"...

Cui Songwang thought he succeeded. , however, the smooth nails betrayed him. The mentally retarded slave laborers worked for a long time without knowing how to clean themselves, so their fingernails were filled with black mud and cinders, and their fingertips were covered with thick calluses.

I wonder if this detail was noticed, but the man in gray did not completely trust Cui Songwang. But he didn't give up and continued to improve the details of the disguise.

Three days later, he finally saw the man in gray at the train station again. Cui Songwang identified him as a professional recruiter. So he walked straight over, not looking at the suspicious crowd around the man.

He stared straight at a customer who had left over half a bowl of cold skin. He rushed up to him and swallowed all the soup and noodles. He even had to pick up a piece of green onion stuck to the bowl. stand up.

On the afternoon of August 17, Cui Songwang, who was lying on the lawn waiting for a chance, was approached by a man in gray "as he wished". He even ran around like an animal twice in front of everyone, and was finally raped for 500 yuan. Sold to a black kiln factory that I had visited beforehand.

Cui Songwang lives in the black brick kiln, living in fear every day as a double agent.

A supervisor took a fancy to his shoes and wanted to snatch them away. Cui Songwang was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. Hidden in his socks are a camera, a small cell phone and a flashlight. Once his shoes are stolen, his identity will be exposed. Fortunately, the supervisor was called away by a woman, and Cui Songwang escaped.

When working as an undercover slave worker, beatings were commonplace. Whips, shoe soles, slaps, anything can fall on the slave workers as long as the overseer is displeased. Every day, every moment, the overseer never stops wielding the whip. The only purpose of slave workers' lives is to make money for their bosses.

For the supervisors, it was an ordinary day. They waved the belts in their hands, raised their palms, and landed on Cui Songwang.

This is another unusual day. Three hours after Cui Songwang was beaten, he ran away.

It was still dark, and everything in front of him was pitch black, just like his uncertain journey.

There was no plan for this escape. The only preparation was to make a phone call to his colleagues while the supervisor was in the toilet. Even though we were contacted, rescue couldn't arrive immediately. The only one we could rely on was ourselves.

Cui Songwang ran forward with all his strength. He fell into three big pits, and each time, his foot was injured repeatedly, but he told himself: Never stop!

Climbing out of the third pit, there is a river. He grabbed wormwood with one hand, and held a flashlight and a camera that was afraid of getting wet in the other. As soon as he reached the other side of the river, he plunged into the cornfield.

It was still dark, and the barking of dogs was getting closer and closer. Cui Songwang knew they were coming. He knelt on the ground with one leg and crawled forward with one leg.

At this moment, if you want to live, you cannot stop.

In the early morning of the next day, three hours after escaping from the kiln, Cui Songwang finally met his colleagues. In an instant, several grown men hugged each other and cried.

Cui Songwang said: "It is so difficult for a strong person with normal intelligence like me to escape. How can a mentally retarded worker escape? Sometimes if he escapes, he will become a slave laborer again."< /p>

In early September, the series "Slave Labor with Intellectual Disabilities" was broadcast. Eight illegal brick kiln owners and recruiters were arrested, and more than 30 mentally retarded workers escaped from the sea of ??suffering.

In just one month, Cui Songwang, who had not bothered to accept the praise of everyone and was liberated from the inhuman life, returned home, but he was not in the mood to celebrate this hard-won victory with his family - he was pregnant. My wife of two months had a miscarriage.

Cui Songwang felt very guilty, "I didn't take care of her this month."

Many years later, when talking about this anecdote, many people thought that the journalist who worked so hard must have been dead long ago.

He is still here, still sticking to his front-line news position, and just a few months ago a new work was recommended for awards. He is now a producer of the Henan TV Station City Channel, an ordinary but extraordinary journalist.

Those who do not fall are also heroes. Journalists should be warriors, not martyrs.

Six years ago, someone asked, how old can an undercover investigation be? Cui Songwang replied, "I don't say that I will live forever. I really want to be in my forties, and then I'd better go to a university to teach journalism."

It's been a long time since I was brave. Cui Songwang is now only 31 years old and is fulfilling his promise as a reporter.

Every time the word "journalist" is mentioned, many people still criticize and hate it, and even derogatorily call it a "prostitute."

"There is no good thing about reporters."

"Hmm".

But when an individual’s rights are violated and there is nowhere to seek justice, the first thing most people think of is to look for these “bad guys.” They don't know what "off duty" means. They only know that wherever they are needed, they should be there as soon as possible.

Times have changed. The appearance of reporters is no longer as glamorous as it used to be. When they become the subject of conversation, it is either because of low wages or occupational diseases. Although a work will be viewed by thousands of people, most journalists will not be famous.

The few that are seen by people are the epitome of the entire reporter group. The perseverance of reporters who focus on the fields of economy, food, and education all year round is as wonderful as the war reporters in the war. One is writing history with sincerity, and the other is exchanging ideal vows with bullets.

(Such incidents are still brewing in every corner, and we may have only seen the tip of the iceberg, yes, just the tip)