The Ministry of Finance and the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office issued a notice to strengthen the supervision and management of poverty alleviation funds

Improve the performance of poverty alleviation and win the battle against poverty

● The Ministry of Finance, together with the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, jointly issued the “Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Financial Special Poverty Alleviation Funds for 2020, Pilot Projects Concerning the Integration of Agriculture-related Funds in Poor Counties, and Poverty Alleviation of Assets and Revenues”, which requires the implementation of the requirements of the fund management system and the use of funds management

● Continue to increase the scale of special poverty alleviation funds at all levels of finance, focusing on the “three districts and three prefectures” and other deeply impoverished areas and war-fighting areas. Make good use of the pilot policies for the integration of agriculture-related funds in poor counties, strengthen the poverty alleviation efforts and consolidate the effectiveness of investment support, and support the poverty alleviation attacks

● All localities should establish a ledger for the financial problems found in audits, inspections, assessments, and investigations, list out the problem list and rectification measures, and promote the rectification and sales numbers one by one to ensure the quality of rectification

□ Reporter Du Xiao

□ Huang Jiayu, an intern in this newspaper

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on March 27. The meeting pointed out that from the perspective of the evaluation of the effectiveness of poverty alleviation and the "look back" of special inspections, the tasks facing poverty alleviation are still arduous and complicated, and the remaining are the most difficult "hard bones". The task of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation is very heavy. In some respects, there are still weak links and inadequate work. The new coronary pneumonia epidemic has brought new difficulties and challenges. It will take more arduous efforts to win a comprehensive victory from poverty alleviation. All localities and departments should enhance their sense of responsibility, mission, and urgency, maintain their stamina and endurance, prevent slackness and war exhaustion, promote the excellent style of continuous combat, adhere to target standards, adhere to precise strategies, adhere to strict and practical, and maintain the overall policy of poverty alleviation Stability, continue to increase investment, work and support, comprehensively check for deficiencies and fill in shortcomings, accelerate the completion of shortcomings and weaknesses, consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, resolutely win the battle against poverty, and ensure that a well-off society is fully built on schedule.

Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council jointly issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Financial Special Poverty Alleviation Funds in 2020, the Pilot Projects Concerning the Integration of Agricultural Funds in Poor Counties, and Asset Poverty Alleviation" (hereinafter referred to as "Notice").

"Notice" requirements, earnestly implement the requirements of the capital management system, standardize the management of the use of funds. Strengthen the main responsibility of fund users, do the preliminary work, accelerate the capital expenditure and project implementation progress, form the physical workload as soon as possible, and avoid "subscribing for funds" or "funds and other projects".

At a press conference held by the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council, Fu Jinling, Director of the Department of Social Security of the Ministry of Finance, said that the size of the central government ’s special poverty alleviation funds will continue to increase substantially in 2020, and the fund allocation mechanism will be further improved, focusing on the “three districts and three states”. Equally inclined to deep poverty areas. It is clear that this year's fiscal special poverty alleviation funds will be tilted to areas with more serious impacts on the epidemic, with emphasis on industrial projects, and more support will be provided to the production, storage, sales, transportation and other links of industrial poverty alleviation projects that are more affected by the epidemic, to solve the difficulty of selling agricultural products. "problem.

This year is the year of a decisive battle against poverty. The proper and proper use of special financial aid funds for poverty alleviation is very important for winning the decisive battle against poverty. A reporter from the Legal Daily interviewed this.

Improper use of poverty alleviation funds

Directly affect poverty alleviation performance

Wang Youjie (pseudonym) is a teacher in a university in Beijing. He went to a county in the southwest frontier to work as a poverty alleviation cadre three years ago. He told the "Legal Daily" reporter that because poverty alleviation funds are funds invested in specific projects to achieve poverty alleviation goals within a specific period, the poverty alleviation funds are closely related to the planning, implementation, and management of poverty alleviation projects. Poverty alleviation fund management not only involves issues such as budgeting, raising, distributing, distributing, transferring, using, and reporting accounts, but also involves issues such as project planning, project library construction, project bidding, project construction and management, project acceptance, and performance evaluation.

"If the poverty alleviation funds are insufficiently raised, the availability rate is low, and the local supporting capacity is weak, the poverty alleviation project will have problems such as insufficient construction and poor progress, which will directly affect the poverty alleviation performance. On the contrary, if the poverty alleviation project planning is sluggish, rough accounting, frequent adjustments, and premises If the work is not solid, the management cannot keep up, the inspection is delayed, and the reporting is not timely, the poverty relief funds will have problems such as slow progress in expenditure, low reporting rate, and low efficiency of fund use, which will also directly affect poverty relief performance. "Wang Youjie said.

According to Wang Youjie, the current problems in the use of poverty alleviation funds mainly include: "funds and other projects" or lack of timely application for funding support due to lack of advancement in planning; or "funds and other projects" due to the lack of timely planning and solid or Low operating rate, etc .; due to the slow progress of the project, incomplete procedures, and timely acceptance, etc., the annual balance transfer rate of the poverty alleviation funds is high, and the funds cannot be used for project implementation according to the plan; Misrepresentation of information about low-income households, fabrication of project declaration materials, and other fraudulent activities, fraud or misappropriation of poverty alleviation funds.

Yang Yongchun, a specially appointed professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, believes that, overall, the use of poverty alleviation funds is relatively standardized. The results of the audit show that over the past few years, the problem of violations of disciplines and regulations of poverty alleviation funds has decreased significantly. The proportion of funds detected in audits has decreased from 36.3% in 2013 to 3.2% in 2019, of which severe violations of discipline and regulations have dropped to 0.51%.

"From the overall situation of the use of poverty alleviation funds, the biggest problem is that poverty alleviation funds are misappropriated. The flow path of poverty alleviation funds has been from the central to the rural areas, and there are many supervision links. How to ensure the standardized use is an important issue that needs to be resolved at this stage." Yang Yongchun said.

"Now there are many sources of poverty alleviation funds and strict management. At the end of each year, there is a large-scale assessment and audit of the use of poverty alleviation funds. With such a large amount of poverty alleviation funds, there can be no problems at all, but from the audit reports over the years, the problems There are fewer and fewer. "Said Wang Sangui, Dean of the Poverty Alleviation Research Institute of Renmin University of China.

Precise use of poverty alleviation funds

Flexible adjustment of tilted objects

A poverty alleviation cadre told the reporter of Legal Daily that in order to ensure the safe and standardized use of poverty alleviation funds, the local government sent out condolences, rewards and subsidies to the poverty-stricken households in the form of "one card" and directly put all kinds of poverty-relief funds in special accounts To prevent misappropriation by intermediate agencies. For industrial poverty alleviation funds, "one household, one policy" is adopted. The poor households first apply, help the cadres and grassroots organizations to evaluate, and adopt appropriate methods such as "substituting awards", "first planting and subsidizing" for suitable industries. Prevent poor households from diverting industrial poverty alleviation funds to improve their lives or other uses.

"According to the ideas of" promoting poverty alleviation by short- and medium-term industries and prospering wealth by long-term industries ", giving appropriate subsidies to poor households that develop planting and aquaculture industries can stimulate poor households' enthusiasm to develop their own industries in the process of poverty alleviation. Under the industrial poverty alleviation pattern of poverty alleviation-led industries and households with income-increasing and wealth-increasing projects, it can effectively avoid the phenomenon of policy of "raising lazy people." The poverty alleviation cadre said.

The "Notice" requires that we continue to increase the scale of special poverty alleviation funds at all levels of finance, focusing on the "three districts and three states" and other deeply impoverished areas and war-fighting areas. We will make good use of the pilot policies for the integration of agricultural-related funds in poor counties, strengthen investment support for poverty alleviation efforts and consolidate the effectiveness of poverty alleviation, and support the determination of victory in poverty alleviation.

"Poverty alleviation funds mainly refer to financial special poverty alleviation funds." Yang Yongchun said that these funds are not only "life-saving money" for poor villagers, but also "security money" to win the battle against poverty. The most important reason for rational use of poverty alleviation funds is that "the money to buy water cannot be Buy oil ".

Yang Yongchun believes that the "Notice" has pointed out the direction of the future investment in poverty alleviation funds, for example, it is inclined to the "three regions and three states" and other deeply impoverished areas, and the areas where the war is listed. It is also possible to further regulate the use of funds and strengthen the main responsibility of fund users. Against the background of epidemic prevention and control, the "Notice" puts forward some general poverty alleviation fund management methods, which provide a solid guarantee to ensure the victory of the epidemic prevention and control war and the fight against poverty.

The "Notice" pointed out that during the epidemic prevention and control period, the financial special poverty alleviation fund project management requirements, in accordance with the "State Council Poverty Alleviation Office of the Ministry of Finance on actively responding to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic situation to strengthen the financial special poverty alleviation fund project management work to ensure the completion of the poverty alleviation target task "(Guokaibanfa [2020] No. 5) is implemented. Promptly promote the filing of the plan for the integration and use of agricultural-related funds. If it is really difficult to prevent and control the epidemic situation, it can be appropriately postponed (at the latest no later than the end of April).

Yang Yongchun believes that in the context of prevention and control of the epidemic, in order to win the battle against poverty, it is necessary to work hard to overcome the impact of the epidemic, take back the lost time, and accurately use the funds for poverty alleviation is more important than ever. The use of poverty alleviation funds should be combined with the prevention and control of epidemic situations. On the premise of ensuring that the investment focus remains unchanged, the tilted objects can be flexibly adjusted to tilt the grassroots objects (especially the grassroots objects that have been formed in the poverty alleviation industry but suffered losses due to the epidemic). For the poverty alleviation industry to resume work and production, the use of poverty alleviation funds should help to fill in the shortcomings in the resume work and production. In terms of employment poverty alleviation, special poverty alleviation funds should be properly arranged during special periods to ensure the employment of poor laborers and ensure that the task of winning the battle against poverty is completed on schedule.

The "Notice" pointed out that adhering to the local conditions to promote asset income poverty alleviation work, adhere to the original intention of developing characteristic industries and strengthening the county economy, and resolutely correct various types of borrowing assets such as simple share dividends, open stock real debt, poverty alleviation micro-credit "household loans for corporate use" and other types of loans. The violations committed in the name of benefiting the poor.

Yang Yongchun believes that the use of asset income for poverty alleviation on the surface can achieve immediate results, but poverty alleviation work cannot encourage the unhealthy mentality of sitting on it. The more important goal of poverty alleviation is that poor households can develop simultaneously and their ability to become rich can be improved simultaneously. Adhere to the local conditions to promote asset income poverty alleviation work, focusing on distinguishing the poor households, which requires related departments to make good linkages, correctly and reasonably assess and distinguish the poor households ’labor capacity, and for those who have lost or partially lost their ability to work It is necessary to give a certain policy preference to poverty alleviation with regard to asset income. Poor households with obvious ability to work should not be allowed to sit in equal shares.

Long-term investment of poverty alleviation funds

Regulatory use in accordance with the law

Recently, the State Council Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development issued the "Guiding Opinions on Establishing a Monitoring and Supporting Mechanism for the Prevention of Poverty Reduction", stating that the prevention of poverty return must be placed in a more important position. Establish a monitoring and assistance mechanism to prevent the return of poverty, consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, and ensure high quality to win the battle against poverty.

The "Notice" pointed out that all localities should regard supporting the development of agricultural characteristic industries in poverty-stricken areas as the key to consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and promoting rural revitalization, driving poor laborers to work and employment, and further increasing the proportion of special poverty alleviation funds and other integrated funds for industrial development In addition, it will fill the shortcomings of the rural public welfare infrastructure necessary for the safe operation and maintenance of rural drinking water.

Yang Yongchun believes that 2020 is the year of a decisive battle against poverty and a key node in the link between the "last mile of poverty relief" and rural revitalization. The development of agricultural characteristic industries not only can effectively consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, but also can consolidate the foundation of rural revitalization, including stabilizing the income of poor villages and driving the employment of poor laborers. This is a very important measure.

Regarding how to implement the above requirements, Yang Yongchun believes that in the use of poverty alleviation funds, it is necessary to accurately support agricultural characteristic industries in poverty-stricken areas, and establish and improve county-level poverty alleviation and agricultural characteristic industry project libraries nationwide. What are the prospects of these projects and need to spend For how much money, try to compile the project according to a certain standard to ensure that the poverty alleviation funds are actually invested in these industries. It is necessary to further strengthen the supervision of poverty alleviation funds, and in accordance with the work mechanism of central planning, provincial responsibility, and implementation by cities and counties, with policy objectives as the guide, constantly improve the normal long-term supervision mechanism for poverty alleviation funds.

"It is certainly no problem to complete the established goal of poverty alleviation this year, but the task is relatively heavy, because the remaining poor people and poverty-stricken areas are the most difficult to eat" hard bones ", coupled with the impact of the epidemic, so the difficulty will indeed be greater." Wang Sangui He said that the issue of returning to poverty should be paid close attention to, and that the supervision of poverty alleviation funds should be further strengthened to be open and transparent.

The "Notice" pointed out that all localities should establish a ledger for the financial problems found in audits, inspections, assessments, and investigations, set out a list of problems and rectification measures, and promote rectification and sales numbers one by one to ensure the quality of rectification. For problems that are prone to occur frequently, it is necessary to deepen rectification from the perspective of improving the system and mechanism, to form effective and effective results of institutional rectification and long-term adherence.

Yang Yongchun believes that in the long run, the poverty alleviation fund supervision procedures must be hard, bright, and complete. "Hard" means to be authentic, "light" means to be publicized, and "full" means that no blind spots for supervision can be left. Regarding the social supervision of poverty alleviation funds, it is necessary to establish fine and operable rules and systems. Poverty alleviation funds require long-term investment and should effectively play the role of social supervision to ensure the efficiency of fund use.

Combined with his own poverty alleviation work experience, Wang Youjie believes that for the long-term use of poverty alleviation funds, standardization of the rule of law is the only way. For example, in accordance with the Property Rights Law, the Cooperative Law, the Poverty Alleviation Policy, etc., we can strengthen the management of the stock assets of poverty alleviation funds, and clarify ownership and management relationships. These assets include public facilities built by village groups using poverty alleviation funds, such as roads, fiber optic cables, drinking water facilities, sanitation rooms, activity rooms, etc .; farmers use rural dilapidated house renovation policies to repair and strengthen houses; residential buildings built in ex-situ poverty alleviation relocation sites And supporting facilities; assets invested in village collective economic organizations or cooperatives. These assets can be divided into private assets, collective assets, mixed assets, etc.

"For the debt and debt relationship formed by poverty alleviation funds, each type of fund source and fund attribute should be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Contract Law, the" Government Investment Regulations "and the financial policy for poverty alleviation, and the debt repayment subject, source, duration, etc., including the Strengthen the management of government debt. Non-debt relationships based on charitable donations and assistance can be handled in accordance with the donation and assistance agreements reached between the assistance unit and the local government. "Wang Youjie said.

The "Notice" pointed out that the local supervision bureaus and local financial supervision departments of the Ministry of Finance should give full play to the local supervision advantages, strengthen the supervision of financial poverty alleviation funds as a normalized work, and strengthen communication and feedback with relevant competent departments and supervision objects. Distinguish the boundary between irregular management and violation of discipline and law, accurately identify problems and track rectification.

In 2018, the National Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released a message that, due to problems related to the use of poverty alleviation funds, involving over 200 million yuan in special poverty alleviation funds, 27 party members and leading cadres in Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region were held accountable.

Wang Sangui believes that improper use of poverty alleviation funds must be investigated, punished, and accountable. On the whole, in recent years, every link in the use of poverty alleviation funds has become more and more standardized, and the systems related to poverty alleviation funds have become more and more perfect.

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