Our reporter Shen Dongfang
Recently, the Office of the Central Committee and the Office of the State Council issued the "Five-year Action Plan for the Improvement and Improvement of Rural Human Settlement Environment (2021-2025)", which clearly stated that the revolution in rural toilets should be solidly promoted and the treatment of rural domestic sewage should be accelerated.
"Since 2018, more than 40 million rural household toilets have been renovated. By the end of 2020, the national rural sanitary toilet penetration rate has reached 68%, and it is expected to exceed 70% this year." Liu Huanxin, a member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and director of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau, presented the results of rural toilet reform in the past three years with a set of data.
Although the toilet is small, it is related to people's livelihood and reflects civilization.
The revolution in rural toilets has been intensified, and sanitary toilets have been continuously promoted and popularized. They have played a major role in improving the rural environment and sanitary conditions and improving the health of farmers.
However, in the process, problems such as inadequate ideological understanding, simplification of promotion methods, inability to keep up with technological innovation, and insufficient mobilization of farmers still exist. In some places, there are still phenomena such as formalism and bureaucracy.
It is the most common problem in rural toilet reforms that the rectification does not ask for acceptance, seeks quickness but not good, and seeks results but not effects.
"This toilet did not even have a toilet installed. How did it pass the inspection?" When inspecting the rural toilet improvement project in Menlou Village, the supervision and inspection team of the Fushan District Commission for Discipline Inspection, Yantai City, Shandong Province, found that the villager Liu did not install the toilet according to the standard. The other inspection team in the country also found similar problems with multi-family villagers.
The supervision and inspection team contacted the person in charge of the Bureau of Housing and Urban-rural Development on the spot, but the response was that after a third-party inspection and acceptance, the results of the above-mentioned rural households’ toilets were all “qualified”.
Such an obvious question is actually "qualified"?
Upon investigation, the District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau has not been able to supervise the work of third-party intermediary agencies, and the audit control is not strict, the acceptance requirements have been "relaxed", and the acceptance procedures have been "reduced."
The same problem also occurred in Binhai County, Jiangsu Province.
In November 2020, when the Binhai County Commission for Discipline Inspection conducted an investigation into relevant reports, it was found that Zhang, the deputy mayor in charge of the Badan Township government, and Shen Moumou, the party branch secretary of Dongxing Village, had not accepted the acceptance, according to the winning bid. The company provided the village farmers’ beneficiary registration form and project village beneficiary summary form, and provided 980 toilet renovation acceptance reports to the County Patriotic Health Campaign Committee Office.
But in fact, Dongxing Village actually changed 428 toilets, which is less than half of the reported number.
Zhang received a warning from the party, and Shen received a punishment of staying in the party for one year.
In response, the Binhai County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision conducted a comprehensive "review" of the rural toilet renovation projects in 17 towns (districts, sub-districts) throughout the county, revised and improved 4 systems and mechanisms, and filed and investigated 11 people.
The lack of investigation and research and the violation of the principle of adapting measures to local conditions is another common problem.
Changing the toilet is hard work, but also technical work.
Some remote mountainous areas lack water and do not have the conditions to establish a sewer network; some cold areas lack proper insulation measures and are easy to freeze in winter; in some loose soil areas, underground fecal collection facilities may collapse and settle.
"Water is suitable for water, and drought is suitable for drought" is the general principle of promoting toilet improvement.
However, some places have not conducted in-depth investigations of local actual conditions, insufficient research, and unclear backgrounds, technically copying other local practices, or even pushing them on a large scale without trials and demonstrations, leading to a situation of "building but not using".
For example, in the rural toilet renovation in Yuhong District and Liaozhong District of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, the regional characteristics of the severe cold in winter were not fully considered. The outdoor double-urn toilet renovation model selected was unscientific, and the product quality and construction quality were not strictly controlled. As a result, a large number of new toilets have been abandoned.
What's more, in the promotion of toilet reforms, they took the opportunity to collect money, treated the project as a private plot, and contracted out whoever gave the most benefits, and blatantly demanded bribes from the management and service targets.
From 2017 to 2018, the rural kitchen and toilet reform project in Ningming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was specifically implemented by the Huimin Office of the County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.
Li Dongsheng, the director of the Huimin Office at the time, recommended the construction team of the Ling brothers to take charge of the construction work of the project after accepting bribes from his fellow villager Ling. The company signed a construction agreement for the kitchen to toilet project.
Li Dongsheng received a benefit fee of 31,000 yuan from it.
On June 29, 2020, Li Dongsheng was dismissed by the government from his post, and the proceeds from the violation were turned over to the state treasury.
In order to prevent the popular support project from becoming a "sad" project, local disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies focused on consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation to effectively connect with rural revitalization, focusing on rectifying and implementing the formalism and bureaucratic issues in the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment, and promoting the implementation of the policy of benefiting the farmers and the people. implement.
The Beiliu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region used the big data supervision platform to complete a comparative analysis of the 19,000 funds issued by the city for reforming kitchens and toilets, and conducted on-site inspections of suspected problems. Accumulatively, it was discovered that the declaration, review, and completion acceptance were not strictly controlled. There were 79 clues and 18 cases were filed.
The Commission for Disciplinary Inspection of Jianhu County, Jiangsu Province, through on-site inspections, random household entry, etc., carried out a comprehensive investigation on the situation of rural toilet reforms by town (street), village by village, household, and toilet, and seriously investigated and corrected the methods in rural toilet reform. Issues such as ism, bureaucracy, etc., so far, a total of 136 cases have been filed, 13 people were advised to talk, and 13 people were reminded to talk.
The Changshu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Committee will cooperate with the "Division, Organization and Land" to carry out special supervision of human settlements and environmental improvement projects, promote the introduction of "Measures for Strengthening the Management of Village-Level Small-scale Construction Projects" and other systems, and urge the grassroots to explore long-term management of rural human settlements improvement New model.