The mayor of Shandong asked the government to "catch the exam"
"The mayor is here!" At 18:40 on July 9, 10 minutes before the live broadcast, there was applause from the waiting audience. Yang Hongtao waved to the stage, shook hands with the commentators, and bowed to the stage.
In the next 75 minutes, the Mayor of Dezhou City, Shandong Province, who had just been in office for half a year, faced an "exam" that was not easy: a five-section reporter secretly interviewed the short film "Live" to expose the problems of the business environment in Texas and face it directly. In the short film, the mayor looked dignified from time to time. He raised his microphone twice and said “very shocked”, even more frankly, he said “to be reviewed”.
"It's awkward and heavy." After the live broadcast, Yang Hongtao confessed to reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, "But we welcome this kind of supervised program, let the problem dry, let it dry, and further promote the solution of the problem. Due".
Yang Hongtao was the fifth mayor of Shandong to enter the scene of "Ask for Shandong". From June 4th, each week, the mayor of Shandong's 16 cities will receive TV questioning on this program, which is the first time in the country.
Since the inception of the "Top TV" program on Lanzhou TV Station in 2005, TV inquiries aimed at establishing channels for communication between the government and the people have gone through 15 years. Since its launch in March 2019, "Ask the Shandong" has sprung up, and once again brought the TV question back to people's vision. After asking the provincial departments and special subjects to ask the question, now, we began to face the mayor of the 16 cities.
Real recordings, "hard core" issues, direct hits... Officials at all levels in Shandong appeared one by one, and the original ecological scene responded to the rectification, which caused high ratings and high attention. How will this "blade-inward" reform, which originated from the public opinion review screen, reshape the new image of this eastern province? The public has more reason to expect that an open, transparent, and efficient interaction mechanism between the government and the people may go further than asking the political scene.
Asked Zhengtai's listing chiefs "can't sit still"
"Accurately speaking, this is not only a TV program, but now it has been embedded in the new pattern of work in Shandong Province, and it has become a powerful means for the provincial party committee and provincial government to carry out the work." Liu Zhongguo, director of the Public Opinion Supervision Department of Shandong Radio and TV Station, so positioned Shandong".
The content of the program is sinking to the local cities, where people's livelihood is blocked, difficult, and painful. The cadre's style and responsibility are fully demonstrated, and the implementation of various policies is more visible. In the view of the program's specially invited observer and Yuan Shuguang, a professor of law at Jinan University, " Questioning politics at this stage is particularly critical."
The form of "watching, asking, commenting" is interspersed throughout each program, that is, after the end of each secret interview video, the mayor and relevant department heads accept questions, and representatives of the National People's Congress, CPPCC members and mass representatives vote on the spot, and then invited observers Instant reviews.
Although the "Ask the Shandong" program, which asked 34 directors of the government, has passed its freshman period, the mayors who first accepted the "big test" of public opinion on the live broadcast are still holding a sweat.
At the last minute before taking the stage, the mayor specifically asked the staff to drink a large cup of espresso; the mayor said frankly after the live broadcast that "there are three or four times that I can't sit still" on the show; Yuan Shuguang noticed that there was more than one “mayor” in the mayor sitting opposite.
"It can be said that it is both nervous and not nervous. To say nervous is to fear that your work is not done well and let the people down. The TV asks the political imager to send a door-to-door medical examination to help us find and correct the problem, which is a great thing. From this perspective, there is no need to be nervous." After the live broadcast on the evening of July 2, Li Yonghong, the mayor of Rizhao, admitted in an interview with the media that "the overall pressure is very great."
At the political scene, in the face of various problems, many mayors admitted that they could not sit still.
In the short film, a large truck full of sand and stones rushed past the red light, and a large truck suspected of being overloaded drove past the police car flashing light. After the reporter called the police, he waited for a long time but no police came to enforce the law... …In the face of this shocking scene, the mayor of Qingdao anxiously blurted out with Shan Dongfang's words: "It looks very hot!" He expressed his position on the spot, "We must thoroughly investigate the companies and law enforcement personnel involved that night."
"Very angry!" Facing the phenomenon that the masses were reviewing cars and running pig farms, but was blamed by the department, Chen Ping, the mayor of Heze City, said bluntly: "This is a typical bureaucratic style that can never be tolerated and must be dealt with seriously!"
The wisdom of investing 50 million yuan in Linyi Mall only exchanged a "sleep webpage" for 5 years. Linyi City Mayor Meng Qingbin pained Chen: "Some of our staff and departments are numb to the point of anger!"
Not only did he express his position in the live broadcast, but also the mayor's review on the spot-"I first heard about this place, indicating that my work is not comprehensive and in-depth, and no problems were found in time." Facing the phenomenon that the marine bio-industrial park invested heavily is idle, Li Yonghong does not deny it.
After watching the short film that the masses ran many times but encountered difficulties in obtaining permits, Yang Hongtao eagerly shouted to the cadres at all levels of the city on the live broadcast: "Our document was released, the mobilization meeting was also opened, and at the meeting, the leaders of all districts were Go to the lobby, take a look, take a look at the process, I don’t know if you have gone, have you gone? What is the face of such a poor business environment to attract investment?"
For the mayors' political performance, Yuan Shuguang gave a rating of "above good". He explained, "As the head of a city, it is impossible to understand everything in detail, and it is crucial to establish a functioning long-term supervision mechanism."
What made Yuan Shuguang uncomfortable was that when answering the supervisor’s question, there were still individual mayors who “played Tai Chi”, saying that the resolution of the matter required a process. “This kind of perfunctory attitude cannot satisfy people’s expectations. Officials facing the problem Be courageous and move forward."
"For the mayors, this is a real'catch up'." Yuan Shuguang emphasized that "the people's government should be responsible to the people, the people are the reviewers, and the people are also the supervisors, especially in the information age. With the help of television cameras, the government's work has become geometric and the people see it in their hearts and minds."
As a matter of fact, the mayors who went to Wenzhengtai were all "required".
Before each mayor comes to power, he will receive a piece of clear paper that reads: "When participating in the live broadcast of the government and answering questions, please implement the spirit of the leading comrades of the provincial party committee. Don’t say the wrong thing, don’t say the formalist words, highlight the people-centered guidance, and don’t show “one, two, three, four...” when answering questions"
The audience is by no means a visitor, but a real supervisor. In each episode, in addition to 20 heads of departments, districts and counties in the prefectures and cities in question, there will be a standing committee member of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee to watch the show. In addition, the Organization Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, the Political and Legal Committee of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and the Shandong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection must send people to the scene every time. For the Shandong organizational department, the information released by this program has become an important window for inspecting cadres at all levels.
"Spicy words come first" Asking about politics is not a talk
"Spicy words at the head", a "spicy" in the end-"Ask the political scene" pays attention to a "spicy" word. "Ask politics is definitely not a clean talk". In Liu Zhongguo's view, as long as you really ask and dare to ask, there will be a "spicy" smell, so that officials at all levels will really "sweat face", face the crux of the problem, and effectively promote the solution To prevent the program from becoming a "show field" for leading cadres in disguise.
Whether or not we pay attention to the livelihood of the people and focus on the real people's questions, to a large extent, determines the political effects and the success or failure of the program. The column team has worked hard to collect materials, and the clues come from a variety of sources, including leader message boards, hotlines, and netizen messages... The director also commented on the local government work report word by word, for the "weakness" and "short board" in the implementation of the work of the government department Horn.
"When we first made this show, the biggest challenge we faced was how to find out the regional characteristics and people's expectations, as well as the heavyweight clues related to local economic and social development." Tian Jin, producer of "Qingzheng Shandong" Say.
From this point of view, each country's administrative content avoids similarities and has its own importance.
Qingdao, which is at the forefront of Shandong's economic and social development, has intensively introduced a number of "golden" policies to attract talents, but attracted talents but lacked basic supporting services. It has failed to resolve the actual division of a talent apartment.
In recent years, Heze City, which has made efforts to build a peony characteristic pillar industry in recent years, has suffered from massive elimination of oil peony introduced by some local governments due to blocked sales channels. Not only that, the big data account of peony enterprises is lacking, and tracking services of related departments are almost No.
Linyi City, which was the birthplace of red culture in recent years with the goal of creating a model for revitalizing Qilu in the countryside, has been included in the "Double Hundred Project" in the school building construction of the city because of the mutual evasion between the three departments. The children in the three villages can only squeeze in the bungalows vacated by the village committee.
Rizhao City, with its unique tourism resources and rich tourism city as its development strategy, has been abandoned as a hot spring town for key investment projects, and the construction of soft environments for many tourist attractions in the city needs to be improved.
Dezhou City, which has just opened the city's mobilization meeting for optimizing the business environment in less than two weeks, has been exposed to problems such as the difficulty of transportation of freight vehicles and the "one-chain handling" that causes people to run more errands.
"Very convinced", "like being stabbed", "ask politics more than a stack of documents"...Mayors reacted exactly to these "hard core" questions.
Although the "spicy" flavor is full, the embarrassing scenes of the host who shouted out and the incoherent language of the officials in the questioning program did not appear in "Questioning Shandong", so that some viewers questioned: "Is it to the mayor? Have we kept our face?"
"For example, we are making a Sichuan dish." Yuan Baoguo, deputy director of the Public Opinion Supervision Department of Shandong Radio and TV Station, emphasized that "but the "spiciness" is moderate."
For example, Yuan Baoguo asked the director of the Xiajin County Transportation Bureau to respond to the site's intention to apply for a car-hailing license: "Considering a market configuration problem, I will not give you permission."
"If we invite this director to the scene, the host will cooperate to ask questions, and it will certainly achieve a sufficiently "spicy" on-site effect, but then?" Yuan Baoguo said, within the program group, whether to invite this one? Director, everyone disputed for a long time and reached an agreement: "The job we do is not to face officials, but to conduct constructive supervision and ultimately promote problem resolution."
This background of constructive supervision is integrated into the polishing of on-site issues. Facing the situation of 700 acres of land being left idle for 8 years, the supervisor asked Yang Hongtao on the spot: "Is the index of industrial construction land in Dezhou city surplus?"
"We can also ask another question: Mayor, is it a waste to leave the land idle?" Yuan Baoguo said, "If you ask like this, you may be offside. If you are not spicy, you will be swallowed, and if you are too spicy, you will lose your constructiveness. The original intention of the supervision is that a plate of Sichuan food is just as spicy as it is the most flavorful."
In the program, in addition to the mayor, the principals of the main government departments of the city will go to the live broadcast to receive questions. The counties and municipalities under their jurisdiction set up local venues, and some mayors accept the live connection to ask questions. This form of joint questioning from point to face and top to bottom greatly increases the concentration of "spicy" flavor.
On the live broadcast, each of the four NPC deputies and members of the CPPCC's live commentary was equally "spicy".
In the administrative video, a 50-year-old highway bridge in Heze City is crumbling. This dangerous bridge is still the only way for people in more than a dozen villages in the surrounding area. Because the two counties are pulling each other, they have not been repaired. The representative of the Shandong Provincial People's Congress Xue Fengjun held the "dissatisfied" card and sharply asked: "I have never seen such a dangerous bridge when I was so old. If the leaders cross the bridge every day, will the bridge still be like this? ?"
"Why only one? Why not let the market fully compete? Have the county government and the already approved online car-hailing company ever conducted a private transaction? I suggest you check it carefully." Wen's speech made people call it "addiction". Afterwards, he recalled to the reporters of the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that at that time it was completely "without thinking and blurting out." "As members of the CPPCC, we are not just applauding the applause, but also performing our duties in accordance with the law and making suggestions."
The various grassroots governance chaos exposed in the program made Yuan Siwen think about it: "The unannounced visit to "Ask the Shandong" exposed some problems that were not usually noticeable." In his view, "exposing problems is solving problems." The key to this is to truly promote administration according to law."
As a specially invited observer of the show "Spicy Serving", Yuan Shuguang visited the site three times and asked the mayors several times: Ask about the original intention, policy, and people's livelihood. His interpretation of his role is: to supervise government affairs with public opinion supervision.
In Yuan Shuguang's view, on the political platform, whether officials at all levels, deputies to the National People's Congress, CPPCC members, representatives of the masses, and specially invited observers must "not be afraid to ask, not to ask, not to ask", only after such a test can they Really improve the government’s social governance capabilities,
A storm of rectification and accountability
Relentlessly popular and unrelenting-the on-site political inquiry is like a prelude, followed by a storm of rectification and accountability, in order to eliminate the practical dilemma of "what is asked, where is it implemented".
Asking about politics forced rectification. Some city leaders did not wait for the next day, and some found a meeting room in the TV station office building on the night of the live broadcast to study the deployment and rectification matters. The municipal leaders led by the municipal party committee secretary and mayor rushed to the scene to ask questions about the exposure of the political short film, and specifically studied solutions.
The implementation of the rectification and reform of the questioned municipality will be broadcast before the start of the next questioning program. The Shandong Provincial Committee General Office Supervision Office and the Provincial Government General Office Supervision Office follow up the entire process of the issues exposed by the program, so that "everything has an echo, and every piece can be implemented."
The results of the political administration can be said to be immediate, and the long-standing problems of people's livelihood have been answered one by one.
The dangerous bridge was demolished the day after the program was broadcast, the new design and construction drawings were completed quickly, the construction team entered the site, and the local pledged to complete it within two months; The children can enter the park smoothly in the fall semester; the administrative division of the talent apartment that has been dragged for 6 years has been successfully resolved, and 67 households have obtained a new hukou book...
The policy "intestinal obstruction" previously called "impossible" by the relevant staff was broken through.
From the province to the city to individual merchants, an emergency policy for rent reduction and relief for the epidemic has not been implemented for 3 months. After being exposed on the spot, some merchants have received direct rent refunds; they were not available online before All the government affairs and service matters handled online will be processed overnight…
Correcting acceleration, accountability is equally rapid. After the program was broadcast, Qingdao investigated and dealt with overloaded and overloaded trucks who committed illegal acts on the road and were suspended; the Rizhao Marine Biological Industrial Park plant was suspected of illegal sand washing, and 8 public officials were held accountable due to poor supervision; the Texas Public Security Discipline Inspection Department Quickly intervene in the lazy and indolent issues of relevant departments and staff.
Although the problem is constantly resolved, reflection does not stop.
"Why does "Ask Zheng Shandong" ask where can our policies be implemented?" Wang Yuliang, a special observer of the program and deputy director of the Social Legal System Committee of the Shandong Provincial Political Consultative Conference, once asked back at the show.
"Questioning government is obviously not the purpose. Questioning is to reveal the problem and face the problem directly. The most important thing is to find a good medicine to solve the problem. How can the local government take face to face and make an inference, the real test is the responsibility and responsibility of the local government." Yuan Shuguang said metaphorically : If the municipal party committee and the municipal government are focusing on provincial work as a "revolution," then how to form a "rotation" of various departments in the city and implement various policies are equally important.
“The current situation in Shandong is that it’s hot, hot, cold, and cold. Some departments have insufficient ability to “rotate”, so they can only dial one and turn one round. Their requirements are limited to the task of superiors, but they don’t consider how to serve the people. As an act, these urgently need to be improved." Yuan Shuguang anatomically said.
Yuan Shuguang looks forward to the mayors who have stepped out of the studio to really throw their bodies to the grassroots level, put the expectations, difficulties, and livelihood issues of the grassroots people on the table, and urge the reform to be done. Only in this way can the “what is asked, be implemented What's the stubborn illness.
At present, Shandong prefectures and cities have proposed to "find problems before the "Ask Shandong" and solve the problems", and there are no shortage of films. Some local problems have been rectified.
Liu Zhongguo said, "It may be too ideal to describe our vision with "no politics to ask". I also hope to use this side to ask Zhengtai to effectively monitor some common problems, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and establish A long-term mechanism fundamentally promotes reform in the administrative field."
China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Xing Ting Source: China Youth Daily