The extravagant copy and copy blindly borrow

  The changing landscape under the impulse of political achievements

  The road turntable next to the lofty mountains has moved more than 600 stones to build an artificial stone garden. The "Royal Garden" built with huge debts is seldom asked. The entrance of the northern city expressway is copied from the southern "Dragon Gate" with a cost of over 100 million... Behind the strange "changing taste" landscape is the impulse of some party members and cadres to divorce reality and rejoice in their achievements.

  Not long ago, due to an online video, Pan Zhili, former secretary of Dushan County Party Committee of Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province, and Liang Jiageng, former secretary of Sandu County Party Committee, blindly borrowed money to carry out image projects and political achievements projects once again attracted public attention.

Subsequently, the Qiannan Prefecture government responded and notified related issues, rectification ideas and progress.

According to the report, Pan Zhili and Liang Jiageng’s views on political performance have been seriously deviated. In the absence of research and demonstration, they rushed for quick success and quick profit, blindly financing and borrowing for the construction of ancient cities, water towers, racetracks, etc., and the scale of local debt was too large and debt risks. Outstanding, some projects eventually become unfinished projects.

In addition, the two had other violations of discipline and law, and were eventually expelled from the party and public office. A series of rectifications surrounding the above issues are progressing.

  In recent years, reports on political achievement projects and image projects have aroused a lot of attention. In particular, some of these projects appeared in economically underdeveloped areas but cost more than 100 million yuan. They were flashy, and there were even violations of discipline and law. The masses responded strongly.

What are the manifestations of blind landscaping?

Why are some poor areas keen to make landscapes?

How to strengthen supervision and restraint from the source?

  Indiscriminately raising debts regardless of financial resources, choosing a site "with ulterior motives", copying other areas' landscaping techniques

  A few days ago, the Supervision Office of the General Office of the State Council conducted an inspection of illegal taxation in Jingxian County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province, and found that the county arranged for the fourth Hengshui City Tourism Industry Development Conference to promote the Jingzhou Tower Scenic Area, 11 key projects such as the Grand Canal Landscape Corridor and Dongzi Cultural Town have planned investment of more than 263 million yuan, of which 6 projects have no budget, and it is planned to resolve about 145 million yuan by applying for special bonds or general bonds.

  Building a landscape lighting project is not a bad thing.

The landscape lighting project, which is in line with local reality, can show local characteristics, and has been scientifically proven, can not only enhance the image of the city, but also promote the development of the local economy and benefit the people.

However, if the local financial resources are exceeded for construction, blind decisions are made without a budget, or even "showing performance" under the guise of enhancing the image of the city, paving the way for personal promotion, the landscape lighting project will change its flavor and become a flashy image project. , Achievement project.

  It is not uncommon for Jingxian and Dushan counties to have borrowed money to "enhance the image of the city" while their fiscal revenues and expenditures are clearly tight.

In addition to surpassing the level of local economic development and blindly raising debts, the image project and the political achievement project also have some common characteristics, such as the "ulterior motives" in site selection.

At the beginning of last year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development informed that Yuzhong County, Gansu Province, will construct two antique gates of Qin and Han Dynasties 28 meters high and 145 meters wide at the intersection of Qiyun North Road and 312 National Road and the entrance of Qiyun North Road. The sculpture and two landscape plazas far away from the residential area cost an average of 3,425 yuan per square meter.

  Another example is copying and blindly transplanting landscaping techniques from foreign countries and other regions, and the resulting landscape is incompatible with the local culture and history.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development also mentioned that the "Longmen" landscape of the Hancheng entrance and exit of the Xiyu Expressway in Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province, is out of place and copied the landscaping techniques of the southern region, which is extremely incompatible with the geographic environment and overall style of the northern cities.

  In the eyes of the relevant person in charge of the Anhui Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, some political achievement projects and face-saving projects reflect obvious "show", "big" and "urgent" problems.

"Show" is keen on "creating bright spots" and "building a facade", which is flashy and costly; "big" means to engage in big events, scenes, and demolition and construction; "urgency" means to get used to "one size fits all" and encounter problems. "Three axes", "three minutes" of popularity.

  What is even more controversial is that while building these "show", "big" and "urgent" projects, some basic people's livelihood issues have not been paid attention to and resolved for a long time.

The "Qindong Water Town" project in Weinan, Shaanxi disregarded the local natural ecological reality, creating lakes on dry land and destroying 2041.50 acres of arable land, including 139.77 acres of permanent basic farmland, and a large number of farmers lost their land.

  Misplaced views on political performance, leading leaders use power arbitrarily, and lack of supervision over the use of construction funds for government investment projects has spawned image projects

  On the one hand, there is the real dilemma of economic backwardness and people’s livelihood problems that need to be solved urgently. On the other hand, there is the absurd behavior of turning a deaf ear to borrowing to build landscapes. What are the problems behind the blindly building landscapes in some economically underdeveloped and impoverished areas?

  A county-level cadre in a certain area in southwestern China told reporters that in some places and units, cadres have short tenure and frequent exchanges. In the eyes of many cadres, the assessment of political performance mainly lies in GDP growth and various construction projects.

Some leading cadres who are determined to establish a personal image and pave the way for promotion tend to invest funds in projects that are easy to see results in the short term. However, there is a lack of long-term and slow-effective projects such as ensuring people's livelihood and supporting small, medium and micro enterprises. power.

  In the eyes of a small number of people who have misplaced views on political achievements, poverty alleviation is time-consuming and laborious, and achievements cannot be achieved. Only by engaging in project construction can political achievements be demonstrated.

"Focus on both fame and fortune. On the one hand, we will vigorously promote work that we believe is effective in order to gain a good reputation; on the other hand, we will make money for the family and be an official." They believe that only the project can be built. Good, so that superior leaders can see the results.

  In addition to the misplaced view of political achievements, what is more worthy of attention is that the lack of power to supervise the top leaders is an important reason for the final implementation of these unrealistic projects.

According to the case handling personnel of the Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, in Pan Zhili's view, what he identified was an "order", and the cadres generally believed that he was the number one in the county and had the power to decide everything in the county.

In Dushan County, Pan Zhili alone has the final say in making major decisions. As long as he approves the project, he will start construction, ignoring the lack of design, budget, and audit links. As a result, Dushan County has illegally occupied 28,000 mu of land and lost state-owned assets. Over 1 billion yuan.

  In many notifications to leading cadres involved in image projects and political achievements projects that were investigated and punished, expressions related to the willful use of power can be found.

For example, Liu Zhenxue, former deputy secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, while serving as the secretary of the Yicheng District Committee of Zaozhuang City, regardless of the actual situation of the local economic development and financial constraints, he forcibly decided to invest 125 million yuan by the district state-owned enterprise. Yuan Renminbi, the construction of "Guanshi Durian Garden" scenic area south gate and other achievements of the project.

Huo Ronggui, the former deputy director of the Agricultural and Rural Work Committee of the Gansu Provincial CPPCC, was engaged in a "one-word hall" during his time as secretary of the Wuwei Municipal Party Committee. He personally made decisions on major matters, regarded the ruling place as a private domain and an independent kingdom, and blindly paved stalls and started projects. , Causing severe losses and heavy debt burdens to local governments.

Liang Jiageng, who had "formed a team" with Pan Zhili, was also notified that he had ignored the party Central Committee's major decision-making arrangements for poverty alleviation, had his own way, ignored the wishes of the masses, violated the rules of procedure, and made decisions.

  Behind the misplaced view of political achievements, there is actually a lack of awareness of political discipline and political rules.

However, the supervision and restriction mechanism of power is not sound enough. In some places, collective decision-making is in vain, and the power of top leaders is not restricted. "One word" is popular, and it has become a booster for blind landscaping to a certain extent.

  In many places, the use of financial funds in violation of regulations, lax approval and other issues, objectively also provide the possibility for the image project.

Some localities lack a review and debt accountability mechanism for the sources of government investment projects, and the lack of effective supervision on how much the government should spend on investment projects and how to spend the money has not only provided opportunities for some impoverished areas to borrow money, but also Become a risk point for breeding corruption.

  Find a suitable way out for projects that go astray and urgently, and avoid "demolition"

  In recent years, the Party Central Committee has stepped up efforts to rectify image projects and political achievements projects, and severely investigated and punished a group of cadres. In many places, image projects and political achievements projects were promptly suspended.

After the cessation, how to base on the actual situation of local economic and social development, treat differently according to local conditions and time, find a suitable way out for these projects that are deviated and urgently, and avoid "one demolition", so as to minimize losses, it also needs attention. .

  After reviewing the rectification and reform measures of political achievement projects in some areas, the reporter found that conversion, market-oriented operation, or transformation into people's livelihood facilities have become several common treatment methods.

For example, Dushan County promotes rectification and reform in different batches through continuous construction, postponement, conversion, and reduction of construction scale.

The original Wulian ancient city theater building and the three major temples have been converted to attract companies to revitalize their assets.

For the Shuishilou (Jingxingu Hotel) project of social concern, a market-oriented operation model was adopted to sign a cooperation agreement.

In February 2018, Rucheng County, Hunan Province was discovered by the provincial party committee inspection team that it violated the poverty-stricken county restraint mechanism and long-term large-scale borrowing to engage in political achievement projects.

The inspection and rectification report of Rucheng County shows that the previously built squares, landscape avenues and other projects have been transformed into public fitness facilities, free parking lots and other livelihood facilities to alleviate problems such as parking difficulties and traffic congestion in the city.

  Achievement projects and image projects often involve huge government debts, and it has become a top priority to resolve the remaining debt problems as soon as possible.

The reporter noticed that after being notified by the inspection team, Rucheng County issued the "Five-Year Action Plan for Resolving Government Debt Risks in Rucheng County (2018-2022)". It plans to raise funds through measures such as revitalizing assets and resources, increasing revenue and reducing expenditures every year. Funds to repay existing debts.

The county's government work report in 2018 showed that the existing government investment and construction projects were classified and handled according to the principle of "stop, delay, adjust, and withdraw", reducing the investment amount of 2.115 billion yuan.

Through the market-oriented transformation of platform companies, 1 billion yuan of government debt was divested.

Through special liquidation, 469 million yuan of government debt was written off.

In 2020, the county will resolve the government's hidden debt of 2.823 billion yuan, and the debt risk level will be reduced from "Class 1 area" to "Class 2 area".

  Establish and improve related mechanisms around motion, planning, approval, and construction, and increase accountability

  While rectifying individual cases, the central and local governments are also making great efforts to carry out systematic rectification.

Last year, the central education leading group on the theme of "Don't forget the original intention and keep in mind the mission" specially issued a notice, requesting the rectification of "achievement projects" and "face-saving projects" such as excessive "landscape lighting projects".

It emphasizes that local party committees and governments at all levels must establish and improve relevant mechanisms around motion, planning, approval, and construction, to prevent "achievement projects" and "face-saving projects" from the source.

The discipline inspection and supervision agencies in Shaanxi, Anhui, Hunan, Tibet and other provinces have launched special supervision and inspections on such issues.

  It should be noted that in the past two years, my country has made a lot of explorations in preventing performance projects and image projects through sound systems, such as improving public finance budget supervision mechanisms and promoting scientific government investment decision-making.

In September 2018, the Party Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on the Comprehensive Implementation of Budget Performance Management", proposing to strive to basically establish a comprehensive, full-process, and full-coverage budget performance management system within 3 to 5 years. The responsible person implements the performance-life responsibility accountability system, which embodies the "spending money must be accountable for effectiveness, and invalidity must be accountable".

In July 2019, the "Government Investment Regulations" were formally implemented, and the government investment project approval system was further standardized, clarifying the documents that the project unit should prepare and submit for approval, the investment authority or other relevant departments to approve the basis and review items of the project, and stipulate the approval Major government investment projects shall perform procedures such as intermediary service agency evaluation, public participation, expert review, and risk assessment.

  In addition to establishing a long-term supervision mechanism and rational use of financial funds, it is also an important way to strengthen restraint by exerting multiple supervisory forces to strengthen the supervision of top leaders, and increasing accountability for image projects and performance projects.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission have repeatedly emphasized that serious problems should be investigated and dealt with in response to the situation. The revised "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China" have added sanctions for blindly borrowing "image projects" and "performance projects" for blindly raising money. The intensity of the punishment for this violation.

  A few days ago, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the Tibet Autonomous Region Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Audit Department of the Autonomous Region urged the Audit Department to include the "Landscape Excessive Lighting Project" as the key content of the budget implementation audit of 78 units in 2020, and enhance the binding force by strengthening audit supervision.

In recent years, the state has clearly included local debt in the scope of the economic responsibility audit of leading cadres, and by playing the role of “performance audit” and “outgoing audit”, it has seriously held accountability for leading cadres who engage in image projects, performance projects, and decision-making.

  The purpose of improving the system and supervision mechanism is to strengthen constraints from the outside, prevent image projects and performance projects from the source, and ultimately rely on leading cadres at all levels to keep their original mission in mind, establish a correct outlook on political performance, and put the interests of the people first, and be solid. Do practical things, do good things, and solve problems for the masses.

  Achievements that can stand the test of history and the people are true political achievements.

(Reporter Hou Ke)