(Looking back at the 13th Five-Year Plan) Poor counties in China break the deadlock of "no rice money to buy noodles"
China News Service, Beijing, October 22 (Reporter Zhao Jianhua) "Money for rice is not allowed to buy noodles" and "special funds are used for exclusive use, and are not allowed to be used for other purposes"-this is one of the principles that China has implemented for the management of budgetary funds for many years One.
The special funds are used exclusively to prevent greed-embezzling financial funds under the guise of special funds.
However, it also limits the ability of impoverished counties with limited financial resources to concentrate resources to win the battle against poverty, causing some financial agriculture-related funds to sleep on their accounts, and funding project arrangements are fragmented.
In order to solve these shortcomings, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China promoted pilot projects for the integration of agriculture-related funds in poor counties to break the deadlock of "no money for rice is allowed to buy noodles".
Led by the Ministry of Finance, the right to allocate 20 agricultural funds, including financial special poverty alleviation funds, managed by 13 central government departments, is fully handed over to 832 poor counties. The poor counties will independently coordinate funding projects according to local conditions and focus on shortcomings. Precise force.
The pattern of "diversion from multiple channels and one tap to release water" has gradually formed.
In poor counties, the approved funds for the construction of reservoirs can be used as appropriate for more urgently needed road construction.
According to the person in charge of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the Ministry of Finance, from 2016 to June 2020, 832 poverty-stricken counties across the country have coordinated and integrated the use of agricultural funds at all levels to exceed 1.5 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), and the counties are integrated annually. The scale of funding exceeds 360 million yuan, providing "grain and grass quarters" for winning the fight against poverty.
In recent years, China's poor counties have received more and more financial support.
From 2016 to 2020, the central government's special poverty alleviation funds have increased by 20 billion yuan each year for five consecutive years, and will reach 146.1 billion yuan in 2020.
All provinces have adopted measures in accordance with local conditions and households, focusing on cultivating and expanding characteristic industries in poverty-stricken areas, improving the conditions of small-scale public welfare production and living facilities, and enhancing the self-development ability of the poor and the ability to resist risks.
The central special lottery public welfare fund to support poverty alleviation in old revolutionary areas has continued to increase. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 10 billion yuan has been allocated to the central special lottery public welfare fund to improve the production and living conditions of poverty-stricken areas and directly increase the income of poor households. project.
A lot of money is spent on impoverished counties. How efficient is the fund?
The Ministry of Finance of China stated that through the establishment of a poverty alleviation fund general ledger, it will promote sunshine poverty alleviation and clean poverty alleviation, and guide local governments to establish the performance concept of "spending money must be accountable for effectiveness, and invalidity must be accountable", and implement the main responsibility of performance management of poverty alleviation funds.
It has changed the situation of "disruption as soon as it is released" and "death as soon as it is managed", and explored and formed a new pattern of financial capital management.
In recent years, the proportion of problematic poverty alleviation funds identified by audits in random inspection funds has fallen from 36.3% in 2013 to 1.5% in 2020.
Among them, the proportion of serious violations of discipline and law, such as capital corruption and embezzlement, has dropped from 15.7% in 2013 to 0.19% in 2020.
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