The project has been recognized by multiple departments, with only a gatehouse built in a year and a half. A small video base in Shangluo, Shaanxi claims to invest 150 million yuan

Mr. Bai, a resident of Shangzhou District, Shangluo, Shaanxi, and others are well-known short video bloggers in the local area. In March 2022, they each paid a sincere deposit of 30000 yuan to Shaanxi Pujuyuan Media Co., Ltd. to participate in the small video shooting base project planned and constructed in Sanchahe Town, Shangzhou District, with a claimed total investment of 150 million yuan. Enterprise legal representative Chen promised that after the project is completed, Mr. Bai and others can share the resources of the base, have their own live broadcast room to promote goods to their hometown, and also receive dividends.

Recently, Mr. Bai reported to reporters that the project has been launched for over a year, but only one gatehouse has been built, and there has been no progress since then. He realized that this project was completely unrealistic, and the initial beautiful idea was just a blank slate. He hoped that relevant departments would coordinate refunds and strengthen supervision.

The gate tower built at the entrance of the village

On September 14th, Jimu News reporters visited Sanchahe Town and relevant local departments. The reporter learned that after more than a year since the project was launched, there have been disputes between the project initiation enterprise and the villagers, with only one villager benefiting 1000 yuan from renting a house. Chen claimed that the project has temporarily come to a halt due to funding issues. The town government stated that the planning and construction of the project belongs to corporate behavior, and the government has not invested any funds. After investigation by the Administrative Approval Service Bureau of Shangzhou District, it was found that the project has indeed been registered and approved, which is in line with industrial policies. If no follow-up procedures are processed, the project will expire after two years of approval.

The project was launched for a year and a half, and only a gatehouse was built

On the 14th, the reporter arrived at Qinhe Village in Sanchahe Town, where the small video shooting base is located. This village is more than 100 meters away from the town government and about 30 kilometers away from the downtown area of Shangluo. It is an ordinary Qinling Mountain village, but what sets it apart is the extremely prominent gatehouse at the village entrance.

The gatehouse has no distinctive design and is now dilapidated, with over 10 households of villagers living behind it. This is the small video shooting base that Pujuyuan Company claims to have invested a total of 150 million yuan to build. It has been over a year now and only one gatehouse has been built. Villagers claim that this gate tower was completed in May 2022.

The reporter walked more than 100 meters up the mountain towards the back of the gatehouse and saw a dead end road without any signs of construction. The path up the mountain was covered with weeds.

Damaged gatehouse

Villager Yu Hui said that due to the construction of the gate tower and the construction of roads up the mountain, it is necessary to occupy land and cut down trees. Chen and others negotiated with the villagers and informed them that after the construction of the small video shooting base, tourists came. With popularity, the villagers will no longer have to worry about selling their special products such as chestnuts and cherries.

However, more than a year has passed, and Pujuyuan Company has occupied the vegetable garden, cut down the walnut tree, crushed the water pipe, but the road has not been repaired, leaving only this gatehouse. Yu Hui said that after the gate was repaired, Chen did not show up and the promised compensation of several hundred yuan was not paid.

Behind the gate tower is Li Sheng's house, the only villager who has benefited from the project since its launch. In March 2022, Chen and Li Sheng signed a housing rental contract for video shooting, with a lease term of one year and a rent of 1000 yuan. Li Sheng stated that until the expiration of the contract in March this year, the other party has not used the house and has not renewed the contract.

The villagers feel helpless and amused that they cannot afford to pay hundreds of yuan in compensation for the project that claims 150 million yuan. Upon seeing Mr. Bai and others come to the village entrance again, the villagers gathered and asked when the compensation promised by Pujuyuan Company would be fulfilled when the gate tower was built.

The uphill road planned for the project has not yet started construction

The project leader "lost contact" several months after the partner paid the earnest money

The reason why villagers demanded compensation from Mr. Bai and others was because Chen had led the signing of a partnership agreement for the small video shooting base project in Sanchahe Town, and Mr. Bai was one of the partners. And this agreement is a supplementary one.

At the beginning of 2022, Chen promised Mr. Bai and others that each person would invest 30000 yuan as a goodwill fund. After the project is completed, they can share the resources of the base, have their own live broadcast room to promote goods to their hometown, and also receive dividends.

At first, Mr. Bai and others believed that a project worth hundreds of millions of yuan could be considered a mere 30000 yuan investment, so they had doubts about the investment. He checked the business license and office location of Pujuyuan Company, and found Mr. Shao, who is also a short video blogger, to discuss. Mr. Shao believes that the short video bloggers around him, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of fans, have all wanted to live stream and promote their products. However, due to the lack of a complete industry chain and concerns about "failure", the small video shooting base has been built, and the short video bloggers have found an "organization" to live stream and promote their products, which is also an opportunity.

In March 2022, Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao invested 30000 yuan each. In the following month of the same year, the construction of the gate tower for the small video shooting base began and was completed more than a month later.

After several months, Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao discovered that apart from the gatehouse, the mountain road planned by Chen had not started construction. They learned that not only did the villagers not receive compensation, but also that Chen had not paid the more than 40000 yuan project cost for Li's construction of the gatehouse. They were worried that their investment would fail, so they approached Chen to request proof of payment. Afterwards, Chen, Mr. Bai, and Mr. Shao signed the aforementioned partnership agreement, each holding 1% of the shares. In addition, Li also became a partner with a project payment of over 40000 yuan, holding a 1% stake.

Supplementary Partnership Agreement

Not long after, the gate tower of the base was damaged, and there was no construction on the mountain road. Someone reminded Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao not to be deceived. They once again began to doubt the project and questioned why there was no progress on Chen's project, hoping to refund the sincerity money and withdraw from the project. Chen replied that the project has approval documents and official reports from relevant departments, and the government and other enterprises will also invest in it in the future, ensuring everyone's peace of mind.

Chen presented the Shaanxi Province Enterprise Investment Project Filing Confirmation issued by the Shangzhou District Administrative Approval Service Bureau, as well as documents from multiple departments in Shangzhou District, to Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao, stating that the project has been officially recognized. The project name, project unit, construction location, total investment amount, etc. displayed in the project filing confirmation letter are consistent with Chen's statement, and the planned start date is April 2022.

However, in August 2022, Chen lost contact and only appeared in December of the same year. At this time, Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao, after multiple investigations, believed that they had been "deceived" and began to seek assistance from relevant departments to coordinate the refund. Until September this year, there was no progress in the project except for the construction of a gatehouse.

The leader claims that the project will be completed in 10 years, but it is temporarily stalled due to funding issues

On the 14th, according to the guidance of insiders, the reporter arrived at the office of Pujuyuan Company located in the downtown area of Shangluo, and the building was empty. Mr. Shao said that a few months ago, the company's brand was taken off, the door was locked, and its whereabouts are still unknown.

On that day, when the reporter contacted Chen repeatedly, he was live streaming sales, and his live streaming room had less than 10 online fans, so the sales situation was not optimistic. And when he talked to reporters about the planning of the small video shooting base project, he seemed still full of confidence.

The office space is empty and deserted

Chen claimed that the project truly exists and has received support and approval from government departments. When asked by the reporter whether the project belongs to the local investment promotion project, Chen evaded and did not respond directly, "It definitely won't have nothing to do with the government."

Regarding the situation where only one gatehouse was built after the project was launched for over a year, and there were constant disputes with partners and villagers, Chen said that the project has temporarily come to a standstill due to financial reasons, and the subsequent introduction of funds still needs to be promoted. "If there are disputes, they can sue me in court."

Is the project site selection, total investment of 150 million yuan, and construction content realistic? Chen believes that Sanchahe Town is a provincial-level demonstration town for rural revitalization, with tourism resources to explore and a foundation for planning and constructing small video shooting bases. He explained that the base includes Starry Sky Room and internet celebrity live streaming room, with an investment of approximately 10 million yuan. In addition to later tourism development, the planned total investment is 150 million yuan, and it is planned to be completed in 10 years.

The construction scale and content of the aforementioned project filing confirmation show that this project with a total investment of 150 million yuan covers a total area of 430000 square meters, including a building area of 16600 square meters.

Mr. Bai said that the project was completely unrealistic, and the initial beautiful idea was just a blank slate. "I couldn't even repair the roads, and I wanted to build viewing pavilions and internet celebrity live streaming rooms on the mountain. I even boasted about building a business school, rural cultural center, and homestay."

In Mr. Shao's view, the site selection of the project has some connection with the hometown of one of the aforementioned partners in Sanchahe Town, and Chen, as the legal representative of Pujuyuan Company, was also recommended by this person. He said that the specific reason for the project's location in Sanchahe Town is still unknown to him. "I don't care anymore, I just want to return the investment early, terminate the contract, and avoid being implicated in the future."

The town government claims that the project is indeed registered, but planning and construction are corporate actions

On the 14th, Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao arrived at the government of Sanchahe Town. The relevant staff registered their demands and stated that they would contact Chen to negotiate and resolve them. If the negotiation fails, it is recommended that they take legal proceedings.

On that day, a person surnamed Li from the government of Sanchahe Town told reporters that the planning and construction of the small video shooting base project was a corporate action, and the government did not participate. The project was only located in Sanchahe Town. The town government did not invest any funds in the project, and the total investment of 150 million yuan is also the statement of the project initiator.

Project information released by the district government

However, Mr. Bai does not recognize that the project is just a corporate action. He said that the official platforms and media of the district and town had previously publicly endorsed this as an introduction project by the government, as well as approval documents from functional departments. The project has only built one gatehouse for over a year since its launch, and there have been constant disputes. The government department is responsible for this. Regarding this, the person in charge surnamed Li mentioned above stated that the approval documents presented by Chen need to be consulted with the relevant departments in the district. "Whether this project can continue is also their corporate behavior."

The reporter noticed that in April 2022, Shangzhou District Committee, the official website of the District Government, Sanchahe Town's WeChat official account and local media had published articles that Sanchahe Town closely focused on the goal of building a "one capital and four districts" and a provincial tourism demonstration area, fully relying on its own ecological resources, actively introduced enterprises to build a short video shooting base, helped create a provincial tourism demonstration area, and promoted the construction of a provincial rural revitalization demonstration town.

The article reveals that the total investment for the Sanchahe Town Health and Wellness Short Video Shooting Base project is 10 million yuan, covering an area of 430000 square meters. It plans to build core functional venues such as internet celebrity live streaming rooms, performance halls, business schools, Qinling Health and Wellness Agricultural Tourism Product Exhibition Hall, and rural cultural center. Through methods such as live streaming of internet celebrities, comprehensive experience of characteristic rural culture, and promotion activities of characteristic agricultural and tourism products, we will promote the development of beautiful rural ecotourism and continuously enhance the popularity and reputation of Sanchahe Town. The project will drive the sales growth of agricultural and tourism products in the entire town, continuously benefiting the local people with ecological effects and dividends, and injecting strong momentum into promoting high-quality economic and social development in the jurisdiction.

However, as of the press release, the article on Sanchahe Town's WeChat official account has been deleted.

Project filing information

According to information from Shaanxi Government Service Network, the project was approved and filed by the Shangzhou District Administrative Approval Service Bureau on April 20, 2022.

A staff member at the window of the Shangzhou District Government Service Center of the bureau introduced that some of the documents issued by Chen were a response from the functional department to the district administrative approval service bureau regarding the solicitation of the construction project of the small video shooting base in Sanchahe Town, whether it involves the core and key protection areas of the Qinling ecological environment. The confirmation letter for filing will only be issued after confirming that the project implementation site does not involve a protected area, complies with industrial policies, and passes the filing review. Filing is project initiation, and it is currently impossible to check whether the project has started construction. After the project is approved, if the enterprise does not complete any follow-up procedures within two years, the project will expire and be invalid.

At this point, Mr. Bai and Mr. Shao realized that this project may just be a joke. When internet celebrities live stream their products and invest in projects, it's not just a joke.