Ningbo, Zhejiang Fenced Off — It's Blown Up! The CCP Government Is Completely Broke, and for National Day It Will Stop at Nothing to Make Money. Is This Something Human Beings Would Do? Qiqi Baba TALK “Refresh Your Mind 791” 20261007

This episode consists of clips contributed by anchor Qiqi and netizens, mainly discussing the chaos during the National Day holiday across various parts of China (such as Hua'ao Island in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and anti-Japanese war relic highways), where natural landscapes, beaches, roads, and even village paths were forcibly enclosed with nets to extort money through arbitrary fees. At the same time, the video shows the desolate or sluggish scenes of tourist attractions, hotels, and agricultural markets in many places during this year's National Day holiday, and analyzes that local government financial exhaustion and huge stability maintenance expenditures have led local governments to frantically squeeze the common people.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. Friends could definitely never imagine that there could be the following way of enclosing things to make money, enclosing a place. A small island in Ningbo, Zhejiang was discovered, enclosed with this net, preventing you from beachcombing. If you want to go beachcombing, you need to buy a ticket, which means you have to pay money to go.

[Video Clip] This is Hua'ao. It actually enclosed the sea, simply amazing! Now you can't even get close to the edge of the seawater. Beachcombing over there is thirty-eight per person, only that small opening allows you in, thirty-eight per person for beachcombing. Being able to enclose the sea and sell it for money is truly a talent.

Uh, let's not talk about communism, alright? We don't even need to use whether your country is taking communism as this core ideology to suppress. Let me ask, is this a place that can be enclosed and charged for? The official government came out to respond, saying that public beaches are free of charge, and everyone can enter the public beaches to play freely. We only charge fees for beachcombing, but everyone look at the appearance of that circle of nets, every family's seaside is like this. Standing on the beach, all I can see in my eyes is nets, I can't see the sea at all. Right? Is this still called the seaside? If someone wants to walk in to see the sea, uh, even if I don't beachcombing, he will definitely still charge me an admission fee. Even natural landscapes, even the seaside are enclosed and charged for, and people aren't even allowed to look at the sea. Put bluntly, all resources of that piece of land are forcibly monopolized by them. May I ask, how do national land and the resources within the land automatically belong to the government? This logic makes no sense anywhere! The premise of being able to charge fees is that this resource belongs to you, right? For example, if we open a hotel, and then he comes in to pay for staying, and then we charge because this hotel belongs to me. Or for example, uh, he comes to this restaurant to eat, I charge him because this restaurant belongs to me, and then I provided him with meals, right? This is a kind of buying and selling transaction. But this beach, uh, was neither built by you nor belongs to you, it does not belong to the government. As for the CCP, you said it yourselves, the country belongs to the people, so do the people own all the land in this country and the natural resources within this land? Right? This is very reasonable, right? The CCP has always emphasized fighting landlords, fighting landlords, right? After fighting landlords for so long back then, friends, do you see what the purpose of their fighting landlords was? It was to defeat all landlords, and then become the only landlord to engage in monopoly.

[Video Clip] I never expected that even a road could be fenced off for tolls. Look over there, that place is the 24-Turn Road, a landmark on the Stilwell Road. It was a vital transportation artery during the War of Resistance. As you can see, the road is still incredibly steep. Back then, our strategic supplies were continuously transported to the front line through here. Today, I came here out of admiration. As a famous historical site from the War of Resistance, and a public road at that, I feel it is quite inappropriate for the locals to fence it off and charge such high fees. From now on, I guess I'm a member of the Eighth Route Army too.

[Video Clip] This is Hua'ao Island. They actually fenced off the ocean! It's unbelievable! Now you can't even get near the water. Over there, it's 38 yuan per person for clam digging, and there's only that one small opening to get in. 38 yuan per person to dig for clams. Don't even mention it, you have to follow...

[Video Clip] It's like bandits. Since ancient times, bandits had a code of 'eight things not to rob': first, don't rob the blind or deaf; second, don't rob widows or only children; third, don't rob weddings or funerals; fourth, don't rob mail carriers or ferrymen—equivalent to today's couriers or ride-hailing drivers; fifth, don't rob doctors or filial sons; sixth, don't rob manual laborers or street vendors—like artisans; seventh, don't rob honest officials returning home; eighth, don't rob monks, nuns, or Taoists. So, don't easily compare bad people to bandits; bandits had principles and a bottom line.

[Video Clip - Child] What's wrong, Dad? What's wrong?

[Video Clip - Father] I'm sick.

[Video Clip - Child] Sick? What kind of sickness?

[Video Clip] Need to use the bathroom.

[Video Clip - Child] What kind of sickness, brother? Ah, brother, you're running away? Brother, don't run! Brother, you don't want the old man anymore? Your dad is sick, and you don't want your dad? Brother. Brother, where are you going? Brother, are you really leaving? Your son doesn't want you anymore.

[Video Clip] We came too late, or maybe the time...

[Video Clip - Child] Take a picture first.

[Video Clip] The world's number one country for failed protests, the world's number one country for political buck-passing, the world's number one country for epidemic spread, the world's number one country for political polarization, the world's number one country for currency over-issuance, the world's number one country for expectation volatility, the world's number one country for disinformation.

[Video Clip] The world's number one country for origin-tracing terrorism.

[Video Clip - Child] After they finish taking a photo with you, they take out a small card. Their card is here: 'I am deaf and mute, please take a look, support 25 yuan.' Oh, I see. Understand now? They are specifically scamming tourists. You even asked them for water? Uh, how much? Three yuan. Pay, money, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay. Then you give the water back to them, the beauty looked at it, the beauty gave it back to you, are you not listening?

[Video Clip] Give the brother a like, so handsome.

[Video Clip] You say you're not listening? Two yuan per trip, four yuan for two trips.

[Video Clip] Alright then.

[Video Clip] Hey, it's not easy for us to build a bridge.

[Video Clip] Hmm.

[Video Clip] Look at whose it is? Look at our seven or eight families learning.

[Video Clip - Child] Refreshing and brain-boosting 791.

[Video Clip] No, we're just passing through.

[Video Clip - Child] We're going to Zhaowulu, 18 kilometers straight ahead. You need five tickets for all your meals and accommodation. Okay, alright, alright.

[Video Clip] Alright, alright.

[Video Clip - Child] You only have those few people.

[Video Clip] Three.

[Video Clip - Child] Three.

[Video Clip] Still need to register the number of people.

[Video Clip] O.K.

[Video Clip] This is fucking crazy! Blocking the road, they block the main road to make it a scenic spot, forcing me to walk on a shitty road, seriously.

[Video Clip] The Longji Rice Terraces are so beautiful! Tour guide, I didn't buy a ticket, but I did buy a ticket. Are you worthy of my ticket price? Refund my ticket! You're not worthy of my WeChat Moments!

[Video Clip] Sigh, what a fool, driving hundreds of kilometers here to see if the rice is ripe? To see if other people's rice is ripe? Look at this, what? Think about it, sigh, driving hundreds of kilometers here.

[Video Clip] Ah! This.

[Video Clip] Get out of the car! Get out of the car! Get out of the car! Put on the waist pad and face cover.

[Video Clip] Can just anyone paint parking spaces on the side of the road? Today I saw lines painted all along the roadside, and there was a toll sign, but these are all shops at the entrance. How are people supposed to drive their cars out? I don't get it.

[Video Clip] This location at the Terracotta Warriors is such a rip-off! I suggest everyone not to buy fruit at this exit. The pomegranates and red dates are rotten, the old lady is too evil.

[Video Clip] I strongly support hotels raising their prices during National Day, the higher the better. Like the city I came to today, I checked the usual hotel price, it's around 200 a night, but today it's 1,788 a night. If it's usually 200 and it goes up to 300 for National Day, I'd book it without hesitation; if it goes up to 500 or 600, I might grit my teeth and book it; but if you suddenly raise it to 1,800 a night, I don't hesitate at all. I chose an RV camp instead. Look at how many RVs are there, many are resting here too. Of course, there are hotels for 400 or 500 a night in this city, just for today. But those 400 or 500 a night hotels are the ones you wouldn't even look at on a normal day, and today they are 400 or 500. Tourism.

[Video Clip] It really has changed! We prepared for ten days to welcome the National Day, and in the end, we only had ten guests on October 1st. Friends, if you want to go out and play, really don't travel too far. We have over seventy employees serving just ten tourists; do you think that's good? I still have a few days left, but you must visit the scenic spots near your own home before the 7th. I don't even know how much longer I can hold on.

[Video Clip] In our huge parking lot, there are only these few sparse cars; there really are no tourists. One autumn rain brings a chill; this autumn, what's cold is the heart of the homestay owner, because everyone has heard: poverty makes us destitute, and the northwest makes us drink the wind.

[Video Clip] It's too funny, it's hard for fruit sellers to make a living too; they've started selling vegetables. Look, the clerk originally only had to sell fruit, but now they have to sell vegetables, and they have to organize them leaf by leaf here, check them one by one, and use a knife to trim the tops so they look fresher.

[Video Clip] Hainan is usually bustling with traffic and pedestrians, and every city is overcrowded. But this year's National Day, I looked at Sanya Bay yesterday, and there was basically no one. But today we came to a farmers' market in Qingshui Bay to see what the situation is like at 8:30 in the morning. Follow my lens and take a look together. But I've looked, and you see the parking lot here has basically no cars, and there's even fewer people here. You see many shops haven't even opened at eight o'clock in the morning, so you know what the situation is like.

[Video Clip] You see. It's, it's a market like this.

[Video Clip] There really aren't many people, but I don't know if everyone is on their way here by self-driving, or if Hainan just isn't a stop this year.

[Video Clip] Why does it feel like not many people came to Hainan for this long National Day holiday? Or is it that you didn't come to Haikou? Did you all go to Sanya? It feels like there are so few people! Even when I went out for a late-night snack these past two days, it felt like there weren't as many people as on a normal Saturday or Sunday. Did you all go to some secret place? I don't know where to travel either, give me some recommendations. If I really can't find a place, I'm going to go clubbing in Wanning.

[Video Clip] There aren't many people in Sanya during the National Day this year. Today, I took my daughter to two scenic spots, namely the Tianya Haijiao Scenic Area and the Daxiao Dongtian Scenic Area in Sanya, and it felt like there weren't many people. Since we brought our daughter to Sanya for school this year, we didn't return to our hometown in Henan for the National Day, and we plan to visit the scenic spots in Sanya one by one. In fact, in previous years, as soon as the National Day arrived, all the major scenic spots and beaches in Sanya were full of people, and hotel prices and air tickets were very hard to grab. This year, it's obvious that there aren't many people in the scenic spots. I pondered and realized the core is that everyone's travel might be becoming more rational now.

[Video Clip] It closed down. The hotel that had accompanied everyone for ten years next to the Guixi Railway Station closed and stopped operating. I can only say that business is really too hard to do now. Ten years ago, in this location of mine, the occupancy rate was over seventy percent on average, and if I had just focused on running the hotel, I wouldn't have lost money.

[Video Clip] The most pitfall scenic spot, the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang. Everyone, please avoid this during the National Day, don't come. Where is the entrance to the scenic spot? I graduated from university and I still can't find it. I haven't even entered the scenic spot yet, and I've already been walking through the commercial street for half a day, but I just can't find where the entrance is.

[Video Clip] The parking lot and toll station are very, very.

[Video Clip] Over there, over there, over there, beyond the clouds. From the parking lot to the scenic spot, I have already experienced at least three snack streets, but this snack street, everyone look.

[Video Clip] How long is it? There is still a long way to go in front, and you can't see the end at all.

[Video Clip] No wonder Luoyang tourism can never beat Xi'an. Henan scenic spots treat tourists like fools. As a Henan native myself, I don't even want to come again. I must complain about this kind of value-driven scenic spot; I think it is tarnishing the World Cultural Heritage.

[Video Clip] The whole way is.

[Video Clip] It's bumpy like this, and they don't consider whether everyone will be pushing a stroller, nor do they consider whether there will be elderly or disabled people. Everyone, do you see that?

[Video Clip] Did you build it? Impossible, we built it, but this road is ours. This side of ours is not, it's not built by you, I can't pass from here? Why can't I pass? This can't be passed. It just can't be passed! You are just saying it can't be passed now! Does that mean I have to pay to pass here, what's the point? What is this private road? Is this road yours privately? Or is it the country's? The government's? You need to, you need to say it out! Who exactly does it belong to? It belongs to every citizen. If you call the police, you can report it to the police station. It belongs to every citizen, every road is.

Well, to put it bluntly, it's just about fencing everything off to charge fees. I think the reasons for these charges will only increase in the future, and they will use all sorts of methods, not just fencing things off. Because the government really has no money left, especially local governments, which are in the most, most, most difficult position. Because for local governments, uh, in many places, the money allocated by the central government is not enough to use, and then their own income is all wasted. Uh, what I mean is that it has been pocketed by them, so, the huge costs of stability maintenance (weiwen) mean the government is spending more than it earns, and no one can sustain that. So what to do then? They can only squeeze the unlucky people living on that land to death! Because in reality, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the only landlord in all of China, and all Chinese people living on that land are essentially their slaves. The horror of this monopoly, no matter how much you expand its dimension, space, and scope, will not be an exception. Alright, that is all for this episode. If you want to support me, you can join the membership channel. I also really hope to be able to chat with everyone in real-time during the member-only live streams. That's it for this episode, see you next time.