13 executives have successively dropped the horse to warn that the problem of relying on enterprises to eat enterprises is still serious
Behind the Moutaiwo case
The Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection recently announced that Zhang Jiaqi, former deputy general manager of Guizhou Moutai Liquor Co., Ltd., and Li Mingcan, a member of the Party Committee and deputy dean of Maotai University, were under investigation for alleged serious violations of discipline and law.
Since May 2019, Yuan Renguo, the former deputy secretary and chairman of Maotai Group, was notified of the "double opening". At least 13 senior executives of Maotai Group and its subsidiaries have been investigated. A series of questions then surfaced: What is the root cause of Maotai's "drinking by drinking" corruption? What are the system loopholes? What kind of political ecology is behind the management chaos?
The deployment requirements of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, seriously investigated and dealt with the problems of state-owned enterprises that rely on enterprises to eat enterprises, set up rents for rent, related transactions, and collusion between internal and external embezzlement of state-owned assets, and urged strict implementation of the business of leading spouses, children and their spouses Relevant regulations for running an enterprise, resolutely cut off the interest chain of "surrounding" and willing to be "surrounded", and resolutely break the network of power and money transactions.
Since the beginning of this year, the first inspection team of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee has reported relevant issues to the Maotai Group Party Committee and urged rectification. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection Commission assisted the provincial party committee in the special rectification of provincial leaders to use Maotai liquor for private gain. Zhang Jiaqi and Li Mingcan were The investigation is the inevitable result of the continuous deepening of special rectification and the continuous purification of the political ecology of Maotai Group. In the process of comprehensively and strictly governing the party and advancing in depth, Maotai Group is accelerating the formation of a good development trend of "wine fragrance and righteousness".
Interest chain for long-term existence
More than 4,000 bottles of Maotai filled a room in the family and poured the most expensive vintage wine into the sewer... Earlier this year, the scene revealed by the TV feature film "National Supervision" impressed many people. Wang Xiaoguang, the former member of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and vice governor of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, who "drinks only drinks the old Maotai", not only drinks Maotai illegally with public funds, but also with his family to accept the sale of Maotai liquor, use his power to resell Maotai liquor, and obtain the specialty of Maotai liquor. , Dafa "liquor wealth".
Moutai, produced in Renhuai, Zunyi, is one of the most regional specialties and resources in Guizhou, and has created huge economic and social benefits. However, its prosperity was difficult to cover up chaos for a period of time. With Wang Xiaoguang being investigated and dealt with in April 2018, the “Maotai liquor monster” derived from the privileges of leading cadres gradually became public.
For a period of time, Maotai was popular for eating and drinking with public funds, and Maotai was popular among cadres. The ex-factory price of a bottle of 53-degree Feitian Maotai in a 500-ml bottle was 969 yuan, and the market guidance price was 1499 yuan. However, due to the tight supply and demand relationship, it is difficult to buy Moutai liquor at the guide price. The prices of supermarkets and specialty stores are mostly above 2,000 yuan, and you can earn money by getting liquor. As a result, under the influence of power, the Maotai store became the "4S shop" in the wine, which seriously polluted the political ecology and social atmosphere in some places.
According to a survey, Yuan Renguo had long held the power to sell Maotai liquor, while relying on the "approval of liquor" to seek private gains, and at the same time used Maotai management rights as a tool for political attachment and fishing for political capital.
Taking Yuan Renguo's case as a breakthrough point, Guizhou Province severely investigated and punished a group of senior executives such as Liu Zili, the former general manager of Maotai Group, and Gao Shouhong, the former deputy general manager. In 2019 alone, eight former group executives were arrested, all of which involved "bribery crimes".
The reporter sorted out and found that the sales system is also a high-risk area for Maotai Group corruption. From November last year to February this year, Ma Yupeng, former general manager of Guizhou Moutai Liquor Sales Co., Ltd., former chairman Wang Chonglin, former deputy general manager Lei Sheng, and former East China regional manager Luo Aijun were arrested on suspicion of taking bribes. Earlier, Nie Yong, former chairman of Maotai Group E-Commerce Co., Ltd., former general manager Xiao Huawei, and former head of the series liquor business department Wang Jing, were also prosecuted for alleged bribery. Among them, Nie Yong and Xiao Huawei were sentenced. The occurrence of this high-corruption zone is related to the price divergence caused by the alienation of the Moutai liquor marketing system.
On July 7th, Zhang Jiaqi and Li Mingcan, both of which were released by the Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, were former executives of Maotai Liquor Co., Ltd. Li Mingcan entered the Maotai Distillery in 1994 and gradually grew from a salesman in a supply and marketing company to an executive. In July 2015, he served as deputy general manager of Maotai Liquor Co., Ltd. The reporter noticed that in March of this year, Li Mingcan's position was readjusted to the party committee member and vice president of Maotai University. Zhang Jiaqi has been working in Renhuai, Guizhou for a long time. Since March 2011, he has served as deputy general manager of Maotai Liquor Co., Ltd. In February of this year, Zhang Jiaqi was removed from the position of deputy general manager one month earlier than Li Mingcan, until he and Li Mingcan went on the same day. Deng Lianfan, deputy chairman of the China Institute of Integrity and Legal Affairs, said that behind these deceased executives, most of them were trying to win over "hunters" who corroded leading cadres and a long-standing relationship network, and Maotai was a link in the chain of corruption.
The huge economic benefits are the root of the existence of persistent problems such as relying on enterprises to eat enterprises and rent-seeking. Xia Hongmin, member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Director of the Provincial Supervisory Committee, referred to the Maotai executives who had fallen into distress as "wine cocoons" who "drink wine by drinking", saying that they must focus on key areas Corporate anti-corruption is a top priority, and serious investigation and prosecution of the problem of relying on enterprises to eat enterprises.
Family corruption highlights chaos in business management
On July 10, Li Taiming, former assistant vice president of Maotai University, received a series of "bribery lists" that once again attracted public attention.
Li Taiming, the wife of Wang Chonglin, the former chairman of Guizhou Moutai Liquor Sales Co., Ltd., seeks benefits for Moutai liquor distributors in signing and approving retail Moutai liquor, increasing the number of contract plans, and daily management of specialty stores, and illegally accepts brand-name handbags and bracelets. , Jewelry necklaces and other belongings.
This news brought Maotai College into the public eye. It is understood that Maotai College is located in Renhuai City, Guizhou Province. It was established on May 23, 2017, approved by the Ministry of Education and funded by Maotai Group. It is a full-time undergraduate college specially designed to cultivate applied talents around the wine industry chain.
Not only did it establish a college, but Maotai, which was keen to expand, once had many subsidiaries and numerous new projects. It wasn't until 2018 that Maotai began to "downsizing" after realizing the hidden worries of expansion. At present, it has cleared and rectified dozens of branches and subsidiaries, tightened the scope of the group logo, and controlled the company's management level within three levels.
Wang Chonglin's and Li Taiming's husband and wife also exposed Maotai's problems of "breeding in inbreeding" and family-style corruption, which were also shocking. Earlier, Yuan Renguo was notified of "family corruption". Since 2004, his wife and children have profited more than 230 million yuan from operating Maotai liquor illegally. Many of its relatives and even drivers also engaged in the Maotai liquor operation with the help of Yuan Renguo, and acted as a bridge for other illegal businessmen to act as brokers in power and money transactions.
Due to Maotai's relatively closed geographic location and special craft heritage, some generations have worked in Maotai. At the same time, some leaders regard positions as "private instruments" for private mutual acceptance, making "inbreeding" deeply entrenched, "circle culture" intertwined, and highlighting violations of personnel selection. This is also the inspection committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee to the Maotai Group Party Committee Feedback problems.
In order to solve the outstanding problems of selecting and appointing personnel, Maotai Group continued to promote personnel adjustments to the management and subsidiaries. At the end of 2019, cadre ranks and job titles were adjusted to 163 cadres. Since the beginning of this year, the official website of Maotai Group has repeatedly released information to adjust and enrich the leadership of the second-level departments and subsidiaries.
Behind the chaos is the serious lack of party leadership
In fact, before Yuan Renguo was investigated, several former executives of Maotai Group had been sentenced to death, including Qiao Hong, former general manager of Maotai Liquor Co., Ltd., Fang Guoxing, deputy secretary and deputy general manager of Maotai Group, Maotai Liquor Co., Ltd. Tan Dinghua, the former deputy general manager and chief financial officer of the company.
After these corruption problems occurred, they aroused social concern and strong reflection within Maotai: Why are the Maotai problems always forbidden?
On the surface, it is closely related to the local social customs, the lack of strict management of Maotai, the inadequate understanding of cadres, and the lack of determination for early remediation.
Maotai Group is a big tax and tax accountant in Guizhou. In 2018, Maotai Group achieved a tax revenue of 38 billion yuan, and the taxes paid accounted for about 14% of the total tax revenue in Guizhou Province. The reporter learned that in the past, due to concerns about the impact on fiscal revenue, there were many coping measures and few fundamental measures for the problems exposed by Maotai. He was unwilling to dare to touch deep-seated contradictions.
Before the eight central regulations were promulgated, party and government organs were one of the main channels for the sales of Moutai liquor. In the process of determining distributors, Moutai Group mainly depends on whether the distributors are familiar with the local party and government organs, whether they have relationships and backgrounds. In addition, the Maotai Group has also been keen to launch a variety of specialty wines, commemorative wines, and custom-made wines to stimulate the special needs market and the abnormal needs of specific groups. "Drinking is not buying, buying is not drinking." These have encouraged enterprises Unhealthy trends.
The more important reason is that there is something wrong with the political ecology. For a long time, the concept of the party within the Maotai Group was indifferent, and the power of the principals was too concentrated. Yuan Renguo has served as the deputy secretary, general manager, and chairman of the Maotai Group Party Committee since 2000, and he has sole responsibility for major matters. Regarding illegal wine sales, when the Group Discipline Inspection Committee and the audit department reviewed relevant matters, the competent department directly said, "This is the greeting of Chairman Yuan." Yuan Renguo also said on many occasions that "whoever sells wine is sold", and even said, "This is a normal production and operation activity, and the Discipline Inspection Commission should not be too wide."
Zhuoma, the secretary of the Guizhou Maotai Group Disciplinary Committee, who took office in August 2018, admitted frankly: “Maotai had so many problems before because of lack of supervision. The party committee of the group is unwilling to let the Disciplinary Committee perform its duties.”
Judging from the feedback from the central inspections and the cases of discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels investigating and handling state-owned enterprises, the weakening of party leadership, the lack of party building, and the comprehensive and strict governance of the party have been the most prominent problems.
For state-owned enterprises to develop healthily, party organizations must not be lacking in managing direction, managing the overall situation, and grasping the ranks. Strengthening party building, strengthening supervision, and improving the system will be a strong support for the future development of Maotai Group.
With the continuous deepening of the reform of the disciplinary inspection and supervision system, in August 2019, Dolma gave a new title-the Provincial Supervisory Commission dispatched an inspector. The Guizhou Provincial Supervisory Committee's Office of the Supervisory Commissioner of Maotai Group was established and co-operated with the Group Discipline Inspection Commission to further strengthen political supervision and strict daily supervision. Dolma said that it is necessary to work hard to promote the "three noes", find and plug the shortcomings and loopholes in the system, and use high-quality supervision and inspection to promote the system's advantages into better corporate governance.
Taking the "three nos" as one of the ideas and thinking to fight against corruption and continue to repair the political ecology
The Chishui River, which originated in Yunnan and flows through Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, is 500 kilometers in length and has many wineries along the coast.
When the river flows through Maotai Town, the terrain suddenly drops from nearly thousands of meters above sea level to 400 meters. Surrounded by high mountains on all sides, it forms a basin-like trough, forming a unique local microclimate-warm winter and summer with little rain. According to research, this climate is very suitable for the growth and reproduction of wine-making microorganisms. The microbial community is diverse and relatively stable, and is not easily affected by external damage.
The unique geographical conditions, excellent water quality, and special microbial communities constitute a special ecological environment, supplemented by complex craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation, and jointly created the core competitiveness of Moutai's unique sauce flavor.
The ecological environment is very important for wine making, and the political ecology is even more important for leading and ensuring the development of state-owned enterprises. Upholding the party's leadership and strengthening party building is the "root" and "soul" of state-owned enterprises, but the Maotai Group once lost this advantage, and the political ecology was severely damaged.
In response to the Maotai Group's series of corruption cases, the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee emphasized firm and comprehensive governance of the party, and promoted no daring, no rot, and no want to rot, and solidly carried out special rectification to promote illegal purchase, approval, collection, and delivery of wine. 1. The use of alcohol to curb the wind has been fundamentally curbed, and has achieved good political, disciplinary and social effects. At the same time, relevant regulations were formulated to urge the Maotai Group to establish leading cadres to intervene in the Maotai liquor business activities and greet the registration and filing system with 61 control levels, blocking the back door of "drinking by alcohol".
On April 24, the First Inspection Group of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee reported to the Maotai Group Party Committee that Maotai Group has long relaxed political construction and ideological construction, there is a gap between the central and provincial Party committees in decision-making and deployment, and there is a long way to repair the political ecology. Construction, implementation of the "two responsibilities" governing the party's governance of the party, serious investigation of post-corruption risks, timely plugging of loopholes in the system, and effective promotion of problem rectification.
Not long ago, after receiving feedback from the Provincial Party Committee, the Maotai Group Party Committee launched a half-month "finding problems, looking for measures, and finding goals" big discussion activity, which listed strengthening party building and promoting high-quality development as important content. Gao Weidong, party committee secretary and chairman of Maotai Group, said that through inspections and rectifications, party building should be comprehensively strengthened to accelerate the formation of a political ecology and development environment of "wine, fragrance, and harmony".
The Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection has deepened the use of the "three nos" concept, requiring all units with leading cadres to be reviewed and investigated for reselling and accepting Maotai liquor must carry out "one case, one rectification" to supervise party organizations at all levels to block cases exposed Loopholes, constantly weaving secret system "cage".
In the recent circular of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, there are still many examples involving Moutai. Among them, the former political commissar Liu Jian of the traffic police detachment of Qiannan Prefecture Public Security Bureau has still received 18 bottles of Maotai liquor since the special rectification, and the former party group secretary and director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau of Puding County, Anshun City received the management service object Maotai liquor illegally. 20 bottles. Chen Bo, former party secretary of Baini Town, Zhijin County, Bijie City, arranged for others to use public funds to purchase 120 bottles of Maotai liquor for reception and personal enjoyment. The three also had other issues of discipline and law violations, all of which were punished by "double opening".
Maotai's stock price has been a hot spot in the stock market in recent years. During the centralized rectification of Maotai, Guizhou also had doubts that the implementation of special rectification will affect the stability of Maotai's stock price, destroy Maotai, and even hinder the economic development of the province.
However, through the joint efforts of the whole province of Guizhou, the special rectification saw the true chapter, moved the true style, and achieved practical results. The image and brand of Maotai were maintained, and the Maotai Group renewed its vitality. Affected by the epidemic, revenue and net profit of domestic liquor companies generally declined in the first half of this year, while Maotai still maintained double-digit growth, of which operating income increased by 12.76%, and net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies increased by 16.69%. (Reporter Dai Jiangbing Jiang Yongbin)