作者：中国民主党英国总部党员 程敏
时间：2026年3月27日
首先不可否认的一点，中国近年来在科技上的成就是世界瞩目的，无论是AI产业，机器人，电动汽车等等，都在以惊人的速度发展着，很多老中人也一如既往的为祖国的科技发展骄傲自豪。但是我不仅完全没有这种自豪感，反而忧心忡忡，这倒不是因为我作为铁杆汉奸，见不得中国人过好日子，而是我深知，中国的科技越进步，中国人未来就越惨，推翻共产党的代价也就越大，离民主也就更遥不可及了。
在几个月前，我的一位国内朋友，曾愤愤不平地给我转发了几个视频和截图，内容大概是河北强推农村“煤改气”，但每月数千元甚至上万元的取暖费用，以农村老人微薄的养老金根本无力负担，甚至入不敷出。于是河北的农村老人只能选择多穿衣服硬扛寒冬，但是零下十几度的极寒哪里是几件破棉衣扛得住的，于是实在扛不住就偷偷烧煤烧柴取暖，原本这只是一个典型的“上有政策，下有对策”的中国特色案例，但架不住近年来我党统治下的中国科技进步确实牛逼，而我党又是出了名的“干好事千疮百孔，干坏事天衣无缝”，当地政府面对这种情况，除了往常的”鼓励邻里相互监督举报“以外，竟然还机智的选择使用无人机巡逻农村，实时监控是否有农民偷偷烧煤烧柴取暖，一经发现便没收工具并处以数千元的高额罚款。以至于有一些老人竟然因为负担不起燃气费，又不敢偷偷烧柴，最终活活冻毙。在21世纪，这种事发生在任何现代国家，都会引起舆论的轩然大波，媒体和民众也会群情激愤，对政府百般问责，唯独中国，很快这件事就被全网封杀，禁止讨论，而民众也都习以为常，好像一早就知道会是这个结果似的。只能说，任何丧尽天良灭绝人性的事，只要一旦和我党沾上边，好像大家突然就恍然大悟了——是共产党干的啊！那就不奇怪了，都散了吧。
无人机监控烧煤只是“科技害民”的一个极小的例子，类似的例子数不胜数，例如我党曾经主动发表视频提及的“遥控装甲”——装备“装甲”的士兵在被俘或失去战斗力后，后方的技术人员可以选择远程操控装甲引爆销毁，如此视人命如草芥，妥妥反人类的武器，我党第一时间想到的居然是“我真牛逼，赶紧发出来让大家一起膜拜”，这种恐怖分子的思维逻辑放眼世界，也就只有我党和少数几个“正义联盟”的成员国想的出来了，真是让人叹为观止，当然在这个视频引发舆论哗然之后，我党也一如既往地光速删除了该视频。
目前世界上最火的产业毋庸多言，一定是AI产业，AI每一天的发展都是日新月异，而我党对于AI也是无比重视，但是跟其他国家希望用AI提高生产力不同，我党更希望利用AI稳固自身的统治地位，所以审查、监控肯定是重头戏，早些年我党就以举世闻名的天眼系统实时监控整个国家，未来随着AI技术的发展， 加上我党“党在法上”的权威，可想而知异见人士的处境将更加举步维艰，个人再无隐私可言，一言一行都将经过AI的首先审核，譬如微信，长期以来微信的监控更多的是在群聊的范围，也就是群组内的消息会被实时监控并且和“色情、暴力、我党负面”有关的信息会被及时屏蔽并删除，而个人私聊某种程度上还是可以发一些“大尺度”的照片，但是上个月我在与朋友私聊时，我发出的一张习近平穿肚兜的恶搞照片被自动屏蔽，之后又试了几张曾经能发出去的照片，发现也是一样的结局，可见现在审查功能已然完全延申到了私聊功能，而AI技术的进步，也意味着未来这种审查与监控的成本会下降，我党不再需要每年支出大量的人力与“维稳费”，当然这不代表我党会把省下的钱投入到民生，毕竟我党的根本利益从来就是维持共产党的统治，人民这玩意儿就跟卫生纸一样，需要的时候用一下，用完了扔进废纸篓就行了。省下来的钱用来多关几个不知好歹的异见分子，用来和“正义联盟”的兄弟们打好关系难道不香吗？
我为什么不愿意看到中国的科技进步，因为在我看来中国的根子就是歪的，所以中国的科技发展也只会在“助纣为虐”的道路上越走越远，科技越发达，中国人的未来就越绝望。像华为这种公司做到世界第一又如何呢？是中国人能买到更加便宜好用的手机？还是更好的保护用户的隐私？都不是，在一个“党领导一切”的国家里，他们只会更加卖力的维护我党的统治，充当掌控民众的爪牙，因为这既是他们赖以生存的第一准则，也是他们能够做大做强的根本法宝，所以我深切的为中国的科技进步感到悲哀。
Why I Am Unwilling to See China’s Technological Progress
Author: Cheng Min, Party Member of the China Democracy Party UK Headquarters
Date: 27 March 2026
First of all, one point cannot be denied: China’s technological achievements in recent years have been remarkable by any global standard. Whether in AI, robotics, electric vehicles or other sectors, development has been advancing at an astonishing pace. Many Chinese people, as always, feel proud of their country’s scientific and technological progress. But not only do I feel no such pride at all – I am in fact deeply worried. This is not because, as a die-hard “traitor”, I cannot bear to see Chinese people live better lives. It is because I know very well that the more advanced China’s technology becomes, the worse the future for Chinese people will be, the higher the cost of overthrowing the Communist Party will become, and the further away democracy will recede.
A few months ago, a friend of mine in China angrily sent me several videos and screenshots. They were about the forced implementation of the “coal-to-gas” policy in rural Hebei. But heating costs of several thousand, or even over ten thousand yuan per month, were simply beyond what elderly villagers living on meagre pensions could afford. Many could not even make ends meet. As a result, elderly people in rural Hebei could only choose to put on more layers and somehow endure the winter. But when temperatures fall to more than ten degrees below zero, a few worn cotton jackets simply are not enough. So when they could no longer bear it, some secretly burned coal or firewood to keep warm.
Originally, this was just another typical Chinese case of “where there is a policy from above, there is a countermeasure below”. But under the Party’s rule, China’s technological progress has in fact become extremely effective, and the Party has always been famous for one thing: when it tries to do something good, it is full of holes, but when it does something bad, it is airtight. Faced with this situation, local governments did not merely rely on the usual tactic of “encouraging neighbours to monitor and report one another”. They also cleverly chose to use drones to patrol rural villages and monitor in real time whether any farmers were secretly burning coal or wood for heat. Once discovered, their tools were confiscated and they were fined several thousand yuan.
As a result, some elderly people, unable to afford gas and too afraid to burn firewood in secret, were literally frozen to death. In the twenty-first century, if this happened in any modern country, it would trigger a huge public outcry. The media and the public would be furious and would demand accountability from the government. Only in China was the story quickly scrubbed from the internet, banned from discussion, while the public seemed to take it in stride, as though everyone had known from the beginning that this would be the outcome. It can only be said that any act, no matter how heartless or inhuman, once it is connected with the Communist Party, suddenly produces a kind of collective enlightenment in people: “Oh, the Communist Party did it? Then it’s no surprise. Everyone disperse.”
Drone surveillance of coal burning is only a tiny example of how “technology harms the people”. There are countless others. For example, the Party once publicly released a video about what it called “remote-controlled armour”. In this system, once a soldier wearing such “armour” is captured or loses combat capability, technicians at the rear can remotely trigger the armour to self-destruct. This is a weapon that treats human life as worthless and is plainly anti-human. Yet the Party’s first instinct was not horror, but: “We’re amazing – let’s show this off so everyone can admire us.” This kind of terrorist logic is something that, looking around the world, only the Party and a few members of its so-called “justice alliance” could come up with. It is truly astonishing. Of course, after the video caused public uproar, the Party did what it always does – it deleted the video at lightning speed.
There is no need to say much about the hottest sector in the world today: it is obviously AI. AI is developing at a breathtaking pace every single day, and the Party attaches enormous importance to it. But unlike other countries, which hope to use AI to improve productivity, the Party wants above all to use AI to consolidate its own rule. So censorship and surveillance are bound to be central. Years ago, the Party was already using its globally notorious “Skynet” system to monitor the entire country in real time. As AI technology continues to develop, combined with the Party’s doctrine that “the Party stands above the law”, one can easily imagine that dissenters will face even greater difficulty in the future. Personal privacy will cease to exist. Every word and action will first pass through AI scrutiny.
Take WeChat as an example. For a long time, WeChat’s surveillance focused mainly on group chats. Messages in groups were monitored in real time, and content related to “pornography, violence, or criticism of the Party” was promptly blocked and deleted. In private chats, however, it was still possible to send some more “sensitive” images. But last month, while chatting privately with a friend, I tried to send a parody image of Xi Jinping wearing a child’s vest, and it was automatically blocked. I then tried several other images that had previously gone through without issue, and found the same result. This shows that censorship has now fully extended into private messaging as well.
As AI technology advances, the cost of this sort of censorship and surveillance will continue to fall. The Party will no longer need to spend huge sums every year on manpower and on “stability maintenance”. Of course, this does not mean the money saved will be invested in people’s welfare. The Party’s core interest has always been the preservation of Communist rule. The people, in its eyes, are like toilet paper: useful when needed, thrown into the bin when not. Isn’t it far more appealing, from the Party’s point of view, to use the savings to jail a few more inconvenient dissidents and to strengthen ties with its “justice alliance” brothers?
Why am I unwilling to see China’s technological progress? Because in my view the foundation of China itself is crooked, and therefore its technological development will only go further and further down the road of aiding tyranny. The more advanced the technology becomes, the more hopeless the future of Chinese people will be.
What does it matter if a company like Huawei becomes number one in the world? Does that mean Chinese people get cheaper and better phones? Or that users’ privacy is better protected? Neither. In a country where “the Party leads everything”, such companies will only work harder to preserve the Party’s rule and to act as its claws in controlling the people. That is both the first principle of their survival and the fundamental secret behind their growth and power. That is why I feel such deep sorrow at China’s technological progress.
