Addition and subtraction behind tight days
On June 11, 102 central departments announced the 2020 departmental budget. Compared with 2019, the tightening of days to reduce expenditure has become the biggest bright spot.
The government work report makes it clear that governments at all levels must really live a tight life. How do you live tight? How does the central government take the lead? How to make active fiscal policy more active and promising? Perhaps the most intuitive answer is the increase or decrease of the numbers in the departmental budget.
Expenditure reduction: "Three public" funds have been greatly reduced
The government work report states: "The central government's expenditure arrangements at the current level have negative growth, and non-rigid expenditures that are not urgently needed are reduced by more than 50%. All kinds of surpluses and precipitated funds should be collected and rescheduled."
This requirement is fully reflected in the budget of the central department, especially the budget of the "Three Publics". In the context of continuous control of the "Three Publics" funds for many years, not only the central government’s budget for the "Three Publics" in 2020 has been generally compressed compared to 2019, but the compression ratio of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other departments has exceeded 50 %.
The reporter noticed that among the "three public" funds compressed by various departments, the cost of going abroad (boundary) for official business and official reception decreased the most.
Taking the Ministry of Commerce as an example, the budget for the “Three Publics” in 2020 is 28.241 million yuan, a decrease of 26.708 million yuan from 2019. Among them, the expenses for going abroad (offshore) and official reception fees for official business were 22.7559 million yuan and 267.05 million yuan respectively, a decrease of 25.332 million yuan and 2.4112 million yuan respectively from 2019. The main reason was that the Party Central Committee and the State Council Reducing the requirements of opposing waste, combining the actual situation of epidemic prevention and control, and further reducing the expenditure of the "Three Publics".
In the sports system, the State Administration of Sport's budget for the "three public" funds in 2020 will be RMB 72,866,400 less than in 2019, a decrease of 62.06%. Among them, the budget for overseas travel (offshore) expenses decreased by 71.604 million yuan, a decrease of 65.19%; the budget for official reception fees decreased by 1.233 million yuan, a decrease of 47.42%. The main reason for this is to prudently run all undertakings and cancel foreign affairs visits and reception activities that are no longer carried out due to the epidemic situation.
"Although the announced budget is from all departments, it reflects the unified arrangement of the central government." Yang Zhiyong, secretary and deputy director of the Disciplinary Committee of the Academy of Social and Economic Strategies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters that whether it is to reduce budget expenditures such as the "three public" funds Still, raising the fiscal deficit rate, issuing special anti-epidemic bonds, and establishing a special transfer payment mechanism all convey clear signals of a tight life.
Excellent structure: basic livelihood expenditures only increase but not decrease
While resolutely reducing general expenditures, basic people's livelihood expenditures have only increased but not reduced, and expenditures in key areas have been effectively guaranteed. This is the “addition and subtraction method” in the budget of the central government department regarding the tight days.
A good ecological environment is the most inclusive well-being of the people. According to Zou Shoumin, director of the Department of Science and Technology and Finance of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry has implemented the requirements of tight days, drastically reduced general expenditures, and carefully cleaned up due projects. The general public budget in 2020 has decreased by 1.1 billion yuan from the previous year. . While doing subtraction, further optimize the expenditure structure and concentrate funds to support the battle against pollution.
"For example, the budgets for ecological environment monitoring and information subjects have not been reduced but increased, with an allocation of 1.547 billion yuan, an increase of 3.81% over the previous year, to support the increase of water quality monitoring sections in major strategic regional watersheds such as the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Yes. We have also arranged a budget of 410 million yuan for ecological environment monitoring and law enforcement subjects to support the blue sky, clear water, and clean soil protection and supervision work, ensure the successful completion of the pollution prevention and control battle, and provide strong support for the comprehensive construction of a well-off society." Zou Shoumin Tell the reporter.
In the field of medicine and health, it is equally obvious to increase instead of decrease. Take the National Health and Health Commission as an example. In the 2020 budget arrangement, the budget for health care expenditures for maternal and child health care institution projects is 1 million yuan, an increase of 176,000 yuan or 21.36% over the number of implementations in 2019.
In Yang Zhiyong's view, this change is a manifestation of the implementation of a proactive fiscal policy, which strengthens the sense of gain for market players and the masses while tightening the life.
"There is no contradiction between a tighter day and the implementation of a more active and promising fiscal policy. From a policy perspective, to implement an active fiscal policy, we must maintain a certain degree of expenditure expansion, otherwise it will become a tightening policy and affect investment and consumption. From the state As far as the fiscal plate is concerned, the tight life is not to compress the overall expenditure scale, but to optimize the expenditure structure and further protect people's livelihood while compressing non-rigid expenditure." Yang Zhiyong said that the most important thing at present is to improve quality and efficiency and spend money it is good.
Strong supervision: make sure every money is spent on the blade
The addition and subtraction of numbers can only be effective if they are properly implemented. This is also a necessary condition for a good life.
The reporter noted that, although affected by the epidemic, the time for the central government to release the budget has been postponed, but compared with previous years, the project expenditure budget disclosure has been significantly increased, and the budget performance information disclosure has continued to increase.
Taking the disclosure of project expenditure budget as an example, the number of projects disclosed by the central department this year has reached 83, which is further expanded compared with last year. The Ministry of Education "Education and Aid Program for "Incentive Farming Program" and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment "Atmosphere, Water and Soil" "Pollution Prevention Action Plan Implementation Management Project", "Medical Security System Construction Project" of the National Medical Security Administration are all included.
At the same time as the information is disclosed, the tight supervision cannot be separated from the strong supervision and guarantee of the discipline inspection and supervision organs.
The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the People’s Bank of China will strengthen political supervision of budget preparation and implementation as an important starting point for the implementation of over-tightening requirements. Through supervision and overall planning of various expenditures, supervision of strict implementation of the scope and standards of expenditures, Strengthen the coordination between stationed supervision, audit supervision, and financial and accounting supervision, etc., to ensure that the budget funds are spent.
"We will earnestly perform our political supervision duties, urge the resident departments to implement the requirements of tight days, and urge the internal audit and finance departments to give full play to their supervisory functions, and strengthen the overall process supervision of budget implementation." The relevant person in charge of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment introduced that they will further strengthen the supervision of the operation of power, urge the resident departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law, and uphold public rights, to ensure that the funds are used in the most necessary and critical battles for pollution prevention. local.
As an important department of people's livelihood, the relevant people's livelihood expenditures of the six units under the comprehensive supervision of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the National Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the National Health and Health Commission have not decreased but increased. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the group introduced that it will base on the position of the duty of supervision and supervision, focus on the "six stability" and "six guarantees" expenditure orientation, and urge the party group of the comprehensive supervision unit to firmly establish the idea of a tight life and pay close attention to the political height Performance goals, improving budget preparation, and optimizing the expenditure structure not only firmly suppress the pressure, but also reduce the reduction, but also ensure that every money is spent on the knife edge and the important place. (Reporter Qu Peng)