Li Keqiang admitted at a State Council meeting on Dec. 24 that the situation of illegal fundraising remains relatively serious. (Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images)
In recent years, China's P2P loans have frequently exploded, giving rise to a large number of "financial refugees" that Zhongnanhai is unable to solve. Li Keqiang admitted at a State Council executive meeting on Dec. 24 that the situation of such illegal fundraising remains dire. Some analysts believe that the authorities have filed a case in the name of illegal fund raising, which means that people whose investments have been damaged will lose their money.
According to a press release issued by the Communist Party of China government website on December 24, Li Keqiang said the "Prevention and Disposal of Illegal Fund Raising Regulations (Draft)" regulations were introduced, it is very necessary. He stressed that the situation of illegal fund-raising is still relatively serious, "must always keep a sharp eye.
In the early years, the Chinese Communist Party authorities advocated the development of inter-network Internet finance, but due to the government's participation and the lack of supervision, P2P lenders have frequently thundered in recent years, with millions of financial refugees losing their money and frequent incidents of rights protection.
P2P lending (peer to peer lending), also known as social lending, refers to direct lending between individuals and individuals through inter-net institutions. Officials from the Communist Party of China's Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission recently said that the original 5,000 P2P lenders have been completely zeroed out.
According to independent think tank Tianjun Political Economy, P2P online lending has been reduced to a ponzi scheme with a spinning pool of capital, where the principal of the back investors pays the interest of the front investors, and once it is fully blocked, it means that many more investors will lose their money.
In addition, the P2P lending cases that have been filed by the police so far have been charged with the crimes of illegal public deposit taking and capital raising fraud. According to the official rules, the interests of participants are not protected by law, and it is basically difficult for investors to get their capital back.
On December 7, about 4,000 victims of the Nine Rich platform went to Nine Rich's Beijing headquarters to defend their rights, and police beat the rights-holders, sprayed them with pepper water, and pulled them onto buses. The explosion caused 340,000 lenders to lose their money, and the amount involved was 30 billion yuan (RMB, same below).
On December 10, World Human Rights Day, financial refugees from all over China went to Beijing and provincial capitals to defend their rights, with slogans such as "Viral disaster, man-made disaster", "Contract tampering, financial fraud", and "Financial innovation failed, how can you blame people for non-sucking? The company's financial innovation failed. The company's slogan is "The virus is a natural disaster.
The official P2P lenders will be completely zeroed out, so what about those huge debts? Is it also zeroed out at the same time?
As previously reported, in August this year, Guo Shuqing, chairman of the Communist Party of China's Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said publicly that as of June this year, online lending platforms "still had more than 800 billion yuan from lenders that had not been recovered".
Some critics have criticized the CCP's unfair handling of P2P cases, saying that the CCP's regulation is a sham, and that the involvement of the CCP's powerful class and officials in P2P projects to enrich themselves has accelerated the explosion of P2P mines, and ultimately the people of the CCP have become the leeks to be harvested. The Chinese Communist Party not only does not rescue the P2P victims, but also "maintain stability" and crack down on those who defend their rights. On September 6, 2018, a 31-year-old woman in Hangzhou was victimized by a state-owned P2P website, and she was violently suppressed by the authorities, leaving a suicide note and dying. The single mother is just one of the millions of P2P victims.