VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese businessmen have been going to
every corner in the Vietnamese land to collect all the things that Vietnamese
think are useful and throw away, thus raising doubts about the machinations
behind this.
Chinese collecting everything
Chinese businessmen have kicked
off a new campaign of collecting dry buffalo dung at the three-way crossroad
market in the border area of Vietnam, China and Laos.
Though the sale price is low,
just VND60,000 dong for 15 kilos, this is still high enough to prompt
Vietnamese farmers to spend their time to collect buffalo dung to sell to
Chinese.
In the central province of Nghe
An, in May 2012, farmers rushed to the rice fields to hunt for bloodsuckers to
sell to Chinese. Since bloodsuckers could go for good prices, farmers in Que
Phong district gave up digging yam to hunt for bloodsuckers – a simple job
which could bring big money, about VND200,000 per kilo.
In HCM City, people in Hoc Mon
and Cu Chi districts in late 2011 also rushed to hunt for bloodsuckers to sell
to Vietnamese merchants, who then sold to Chinese.
However, the merchants then
“disappeared,” leaving the fields full of bloodsuckers, raising fear among
farmers.
The “bloodsucker hunting
movement” occurred not only in Nghe An and HCM City, but also in many northern
provinces as well, which has damaged the ecosystem and the environment.
In the northern province of Thai
Nguyen, hunting for leeches has become a new career. Some people reportedly
could buy houses and TVs with the money from bloodsuckers. A person in Pho Yen
district of Thai Nguyen province said he sold bloodsuckers to merchants at
VND900,000 per kilo, but in China, bloodsuckers can be sold at VND 10 million.
In October and November 2012,
Chinese businessmen flocked to every commune of Quang Ninh province to collect
the leaves of a plant local people called “chu ka.” Not only collecting chu ka
leaves, they also convinced local residents to chop down a lot of phong ba
trees (Argusia argentea).
Chinese offered to pay VND15,000
per kilo of the tree, which means that local farmers can pocket VND8,000-10,000
dong per kilo – a very attractive profit for them. This prompted a lot of
people to give up fishing to take a new job – going to the islands in the open
sea to look for phong ba trees, the kind of tree which can help clean the air.
In Lang Son province, in
September 2012, groups of local people in Loc Binh district rushed to go to the
forest to dig sim (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Ait.) Hassk) roots to sell to Chinese
at VND2,500 per kilo. Local people felt excited with the new and simple job,
which could bring the ‘high income” of VND250,000 a day .
What are the machinations?
Chinese have been present in
every place in the Vietnamese land, looking for everything they can. This has
caused a headache to the local authorities, which know for sure that there are
machinations behind the Chinese move, but do not know exactly what they are.
When asked why they collected dry
buffalo dung in Dien Bien province, Chinese all answered that they would manure
rice fields in their localities.
The people in Que Phong district
in Nghe An said they heard Chinese need bloodsuckers to make medicine, but they
are not sure about that.
Nguyen Anh Dung, a biology
lecturer of the Vinh University, warned that if Chinese stop collecting
bloodsuckers, the creatures would damage the ecosystem. “In order to ruin
bloodsuckers, one needs to soak them into alcohol and then burn them,” he
explained.
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