Inner Mongolia investigates corruption in the field of coal resources for 20 years
Ujin descaling
The implementation of the coal resource allocation policy is not strict, there are problems such as random development and utilization, and disordered resource allocation; the extensive development mode of "digging and selling coal" has not been fundamentally changed, and the phenomenon of "coal production and coal shortage" still exists; the state-owned and collective assets are serious during the transformation process Loss, using the opportunity of coal-related enterprise restructuring to encroach on collective funds, and taking advantage of equity transfer opportunities to embezzle state funds are prone to problems...
On July 17, 2020, with the complete feedback of the special inspections in the coal resources field of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, a series of problems in related fields were exposed to people's eyes.
For a period of time, the concentration of violations and laws in the coal resource field in Inner Mongolia has become a culprit for many years and the biggest "poisonous tumor" and source of polluting the political ecology. It must be strongly promoted with the determination to cure bones and cure it.
20 years
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the world’s largest open-pit coal mine and an important energy security base in China. There are coal mines in 11 of the 12 league cities in the region. There are 523 coal mines with an approved production capacity of 1.28 billion tons. However, in the past, this piece of black gold, under the control of some daring and ulterior motives, has become a breeding ground for corruption, covering the grasslands that should have been blue sky and white clouds.
On July 16, 2020, Yun Guangzhong, the former standing member of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the former secretary of the Hohhot Municipal Committee, heard the trial of bribery. In October 2019, Yun Citizen, the former deputy secretary of the Party Group and general manager of China Huadian Group Co., Ltd., who had retired for 6 years, was investigated. He worked in two major coal-producing provinces and largest coal enterprises in China; Xing Yun, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People’s Congress, was investigated and investigated for serious violations of discipline and law on October 25, 2018; Inner Mongolia on April 25, 2018 The former deputy chairman of the autonomous region Bai Xiangqun was investigated and investigated for serious violations of discipline and law, and became the "first tiger" after the 19th National Congress...
On February 28 this year, according to the disciplinary inspection and supervision recommendations of the National Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee and the government held the coal of the autonomous region in response to the violations of laws and regulations in the coal resources area exposed by corruption cases such as Yunguangzhong, Bai Xiangqun, Xing Yun, and Yunmin. The mobilization and deployment meeting of the special rectification work on violations of laws and regulations in the resource field clearly stated that "it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive perspective consultation on the development and utilization of coal resources in the region since 2000." This means that related issues in the past 20 years will no longer be "safe" in the dusty history.
Why go back and look for 20 years?
"Developing this special rectification is a major political task entrusted to the Inner Mongolia by the Party Central Committee." Shi Taifeng, secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said: "The outstanding problems in the coal resources area of our district are mainly manifested in the illegal acquisition and resale of coal resources. Unauthorized allocation of coal resources, coal-related corruption issues seriously pollute the political ecology, and the spread of problems in the field of coal resources has become the biggest'poison tumor' and source of pollution in the political ecology. It must be firmly removed and completely eliminated."
On the night of the mobilization and deployment meeting, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Commission for Discipline Inspection released the scope of clue acceptance for suspected violations of discipline or illegal duties and crimes in the coal resources field since 2000. This list of clues mainly includes: investing in coal mines in violation of explicit or hidden names, using their powers to seek illegal benefits for their close relatives or specific related parties and colluding with officials and businessmen, asking for bribes and bribes, acting as an "protection umbrella" for unlawful mine owners. Project configuration, mining rights transfer, coal resources integration and merger and reorganization, environmental impact assessment, mining rights handling, mining rights income disposal and other issues of discipline and law violations, dereliction of duty in daily supervision, cracking down on illegal production and administrative law enforcement , Misuse of power, and clues to dereliction of duty and corruption behind coal mine safety accidents, corruption, etc.
Full coverage is one of the characteristics of this inventory. Since 2000, all planning projects, investment review, resource allocation, environmental assessment review and approval of mining rights, shareholding changes, mineral transactions and other aspects of coal mines in Inner Mongolia coal mines, the status, processing time, and approval procedures of coal mine enterprises and coal blending projects , Policy basis, etc. will be investigated, and one mine, one file, one mine will be cleared.
According to the unified deployment of the Party Committee of the autonomous region, from March 27 to June 10, 2020, the seventh round of the 10th Party Committee of the Autonomous Region conducted 7 rounds of inspections to 7 bureaus such as Ordos City and 4 offices and Baotou including the Natural Resources Department of the Autonomous Region. Three state-owned enterprises, including Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd., carried out special inspections in the field of coal resources. At the same time, 21 coalition inspection groups were simultaneously formed in 7 allied cities, and they collaborated with the autonomous region party committee inspection group to conduct inspections on 237 coal-related departments (units).
The supervisory committees of grass-roots disciplinary committees in Inner Mongolia have also started to work under unified arrangements. The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Tongliao City established 5 supervision groups to carry out a thorough investigation of the clues in the coal resource field since 2000, and dig deep into the chain of benefit transmission. The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Xilinguol League implemented the "flip chart operation" and required each county (city , District) strictly carry out the investigation work in strict accordance with the established "timetable" and "road map"; Ordos City Yijinholo Banner Commission for Discipline Inspection implements the "three tactics of war", that is, the leader of the leader, the war of the map, the war of listing; Wuhai Haibowan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision accurately worked out the cleanliness risk points of 8 coal-related departments, established a communication and coordination mechanism with 17 coal mining enterprises, and sorted out the "Personal Information Collection Form" filled out by more than 3,500 public officials. Check and verify.
As Liu Qifan, member of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Director of the Supervisory Committee, said, special rectification of violations of laws and regulations in the field of coal resources is related to the comprehensive and strict governance of the party and the fight against corruption, to purify and repair the political ecology, and to regulate the economy Order is related to the high-quality economic development and the well-being of the people of all ethnic groups. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels in the region and the vast number of discipline inspection and supervision cadres should improve their political positions, have a profound understanding of the extreme importance and practical urgency of carrying out special rectification, earnestly shoulder great political responsibilities, and do a solid job of special rectification and supervision.
Problem unsealing
"Some implementation policies are distorted, there are orders that are not allowed, there are prohibitions, illegal use of power, random approval, illegal acquisition and reselling of coal resources occur from time to time; some resources are broken through the bottom line, the audit is not strict, and the declaration is not true The problem of violating regulations and illegally allocating coal resources is prominent; some implementation projects have crossed the red line, the fire area governance projects have been implemented in a chaotic manner, and'fraud coal' and'coal coal' still exist..." Recently, as the autonomous region party committee inspection group has been inspected all The party organization feedback the inspection situation, and problems in the field of coal resources were exposed one by one.
Not only that, the leader of the special inspection team in the field of coal resources introduced that other problems include: some have deviations in the role of leadership check, illegal decision-making, blind decision-making, willful decision-making, lack of responsibility for governance rectification, illegal mining, cross-border mining and other issues Prominent; some use their powers to set up rent-seeking rents, use resources to allocate power to engage in related-party transactions, power-money transactions, and coal-related corruption seriously pollute the political ecology; others regard coal resources as "tang monk meat" and "rely on coal to eat coal". Mine eats mine "relys on enterprises to eat enterprises"; some have implemented rectification responsibilities that are not thorough enough, and the problems of surface rectification and side-by-side reform still exist.
The feedback from the inspection tour left a deep impression on Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Public Policy Research Center of Peking University and the Research Center for Clean Government Construction. "It can be said that the feedback has captured the crux of the problems in the field of coal resources, especially the characteristics of resource allocation and the operation of power in the field of coal resources, and put forward a series of targeted suggestions. And the feedback is systematic and does not stop at Superficial violations of laws and regulations, but deep-rooted problems in the system of coal resources, put forward a series of rectification opinions."
Grasping and digging deeper, in line with the characteristics of the power operation in the coal resources field in Inner Mongolia and the law of corruption cases in recent years, in Zhuang Deshui’s view, these feedbacks “help the reform and innovation of the coal resources field in Inner Mongolia in the next stage, and also Provide work guidelines."
The special inspections are divided into three categories. One is Menghe City in Inner Mongolia. It conducts inspections on the main leadership of the coalition party organizations with rich coal resources. The focus is on fulfilling the main responsibilities in the field of coal resources; , Including decision-making supervision departments; third, coal-related state-owned enterprises.
"The three types of subjects are included in the scope of special rectification, which has achieved full coverage of supervision and supervision and restriction of the entire process of power operation, including decision-making power, execution power and supervision power in the coal-related field, as well as the macro level. Subject responsibility." Zhuang Deshui believes.
It is understood that more than 90% of coal resources in Inner Mongolia are concentrated in Ordos City, Xilinguole League and Hulunbeier City. This special remediation naturally became the focus of remediation.
Combining the feedback from the three places, it is not difficult to find that there is a problem of ineffective implementation of the major decisions of the Party Central Committee. For example, the city of Ordos “selectively implements the regulations concerning the reform of coal-related state-owned enterprises, irregularly allocates coal resources, transfers exploration rights at low prices, and irregularly changes the shareholdings of state-owned coal mines.” Xilinguole League “weak leadership, lack of supervision, and violations of state-owned coal mine reforms” The problem of acquiring and reselling coal resources is outstanding. Hulunbuir City has adopted a simple and extensive development model to expand coal production capacity, introduce coal projects, and allocate coal resources.
In addition, the reporter noticed that there are problems in political ecology in many places, such as Ordos’ “problem of leading cadres investing in coal mines is prone to occur frequently”, and Xilin Gol League “individual leading cadres investing in coal-related enterprises and investing in coal,” Still exists", Hulunbeier "has collusion between government and business interests and the spread of problems in the field of coal resources."
The problems of industry authorities and coal-related state-owned enterprises have also been exposed. The Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission "has integrity risks in key areas, and some leading cadres have problems with profit-making from illegal investment in the coal resources field", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology "has loopholes in the management of special funds related to coal, and there are outstanding hidden risks of clean government risks." Involve in illegal profits in the field of coal resources." The inspected state-owned enterprises generally have the problems of not fulfilling their supervisory responsibilities and “looseness and softness”. Baotou Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd. has the phenomenon of “relying on enterprises to eat enterprises” and “favoring relatives and friends.” Inner Mongolia Energy Construction Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. The "circle culture" prevails, and the selection and apology are out of the standard.
Bone cure
The verification problem must be cleared.
During the special rectification period, Liu Qifan pointed out in the investigation and supervision of the Xilinguole League that he has been looking back for 20 years in the vertical direction, leaving no blank space and no dead ends in the horizontal direction, to ensure that the problem is cleared, and will not stop until the goal is achieved. It is necessary to adopt cross-comparison, top-bottom verification, and coordinated operations from top to bottom, to compare and verify the clues of the problems found between the upper and lower levels, the same level, and related departments, and to check and fill vacancies.
From planning and project registration, registration, corporate name change, shareholder change, to equity trading, mining rights transfer, special rectification focuses on all aspects of in-depth verification, without letting go of any details, in order not to miss any fish ".
Inner Mongolia Huolinhe Coal Industry Group former general counsel Li Yongxian, Inner Mongolia Energy Power Investment Group Co., Ltd. former party secretary and chairman Xue Shengqi, Inner Mongolia Coal Geological Exploration (Group) Co., Ltd. two party secretary, general manager Mo Ruoping, Hao Shengfa , Liu Wenguang, the former party secretary and chairman of Inner Mongolia Jardine Energy Group Co., Ltd....... With the continuous improvement of special rectification, the list of people who have fallen into disregard has been lengthened, involving multiple systems such as governments, people's congresses, political consultative conferences, and state-owned enterprises in the autonomous region.
Up to now, more than four coal “tigers” have been dismissed in Inner Mongolia for more than 4 months, and as many as 6 have served as directors of the coal bureau. For example, Guo Chengxin, the former party secretary and director of the Ordos City Coal Bureau, has held the power to approve local coal projects for eight years. In May this year, he was investigated after 5 years and 3 months of his retirement.
Subsequently, some main leaders of the former coal bureau of Ordos City were also investigated. On June 9, Wang Jun, secretary of the party group and director of the Jungar Banner Energy Bureau, was investigated for serious violations of discipline and law; on June 10, Wang Yongfeng, the former director of the coal bureau of Dalat Qi, was investigated and was a member of the Standing Committee of the Dalat Banner NPC Member of the party group and deputy director of the meeting; on the same day, Li Yan, former deputy director of the Coal Bureau of Yijinhuoqi, was investigated. He had resigned from his public office for nearly 8 years after being "rocket-styled"; on June 16, the original coal of Dalat Qi Bureau Director Wei Zhanbiao was investigated, and he had retired for 4 years and 4 months.
Some scholars believe that corruption may occur in many links in the coal industry chain, but the most important thing is the transaction link. Once a leading cadre becomes a shareholder, as a investor, it represents the interests of shareholders, but it also represents public power and belongs to a special subject. "These two characters are mixed together and it is easy to have conflicts."
Judging from the feedback from inspections, Zhuang Deshui believes that the outstanding problems are mainly reflected in the allocation of resources. Specifically, there are serious problems in the decision-making, execution and supervision of allocation. It's no surprise that'cooking coal for personal use' and relying on coal to eat coal'."
He further analyzed that the reason why corruption in the coal resources field is prone to occur frequently is closely related to the decision-making, implementation and supervision of the entire field, and is directly related to the performance of the industry's competent authorities and relevant persons in charge. "From a systemic perspective, it cannot be said which part of the problem occurred, but the entire system has a corresponding problem, which makes the corruption problem intensify."
Cures the bone to cure the poison. Inspection feedback requirements, inspected party organizations must adhere to problem orientation, strengthen political responsibility, and effectively solve some outstanding problems in the field of coal resources and the reform and development of state-owned enterprises, and implement the political requirements for strict and comprehensive party governance . It is necessary to consolidate rectification responsibilities, strengthen daily supervision, strengthen the organization and leadership of the rectification work, solve the problems one by one, and do a solid inspection of the "second half of the article".
"Corruption in the field of coal resources, in addition to lack of supervision, is also directly related to the failure of some leading cadres to act, and the system is not perfect, so back-checking can not only find current problems, but also find the root of the problem from a historical perspective." Zhuang Deshui It is believed that this special rectification is not only a manifestation of the deepening of inspections, but also a vivid practice of political inspections. The more important significance is to use special rectification and supervision to promote the reform process. It can be said that deeper reforms and innovations in the field of coal resources are also brewing in the future. (Reporter Guan Xiaopu)