According to the latest agricultural situation dispatch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the country’s autumn grain has now harvested 50.4%, and the progress is basically the same as last year. The autumn grain harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the annual grain output is expected to increase at a high level.
The picture shows September 16, at Zhangquan Family Farm, Wanchang Town, Yongji County, Jilin City, Jilin Province. Farmers transfer the harvested rice to the tractor warehouse.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Nan
There is grain in hand, so don't panic in my heart.
October 16th is the 40th World Food Day.
The theme of this year's UN Food and Agriculture Organization's activities is "Growing Together, Prospering Together, Sustaining Together, Action Creates the Future".
The week of the 16th was my country's Food Security Awareness Week, with the theme "Firming China's Rice Bowl and Building Global Food Security".
Looking at the world, under the background of the continuous spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, my country has always maintained a stable and orderly social order, of which the stable supply of food and agricultural and sideline products is indispensable.
"Hongfan eight political affairs, food is the head of the government." As a large country with a large population, solving the problem of feeding more than one billion people is always the top priority of governance.
To keep the Chinese people's rice bowl firmly in their own hands, in addition to continuously strengthening food security governance, effectively responding to the impact of the epidemic, ensuring food supply, and curbing food waste, it is also particularly important to resolutely curb corruption in grain enterprises.
In August 2019, Wu Xincheng, the former director of the Food Bureau of Shaanxi Province, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined 3 million yuan in the first instance. He had previously accepted a request to give the Huaxian Central Grain Reserve a 45 million jin of grain storage quota; Hubei Province Former Chairman Zhou Junping and former Deputy General Manager Liu Liangyong of the Grain and Oil Group Co., Ltd. violated decision-making procedures and ignored capital risks, resulting in a loss of more than 850 million yuan in national interests. They were sentenced to 5 years and 3 years in imprisonment for committing state-owned company personnel negligence.6 Months...In recent years, discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels have severely investigated and dealt with corruption cases in the grain field, and used iron discipline to escort the country's food security.
Falsified settlement vouchers, inflated weights, fictitious transactions, the person in charge of the grain depot and the inspector purchases grain to make money by “fake”
Due to the needs of fire, water, and theft, large granaries are often located in open areas far away from the downtown area. The natural concealment is easy to leave a blind spot for supervision, which makes some "inside ghosts" who are guarding and stealing have no fear, and they start to take state-owned funds. idea.
The Mingguang Osmanthus Collection and Storage Depot in Mingguang City, Anhui Province is subordinate to China Grain Storage Anqing.
From August 2014 to December 2017, Chen Weiguo, the former head of the Mingguang Osmanthus Storage and Storage Depot and inspector, took advantage of his position and cooperated with others to fraudulently obtain 1.314 million national grain purchase funds by falsely issuing settlement vouchers and inflating grain weight. More than yuan, of which Chen Weiguo received more than 474,000 yuan.
In late November 2015, the grain merchant Ji proposed to Chen Weiguo to inflate the weight of the grain when delivering grain, and promised to pay Chen Weiguo the defrauded national grain purchase funds.
Chen Weiguo was involved in Ji's 27 trains of grain. Each vehicle inflated 3-9 tons. After deducting water, the inflated grain settlement weight totaled 107.646 tons and defrauded the state's grain purchase funds totaling more than 297,000 yuan. Chen Weiguo Received 244,000 yuan.
During the same period, Chen Weiguo did the same. When Zhao sold 7 trains of grain, each cart was inflated by 4 tons of gross weight. After deducting water and impurities, the inflated grain settlement weight was 26.144 tons, defrauding the state's grain purchase fund of more than 72,000 yuan. All the money went into Chen Weiguo's pocket.
Not only inflated the weight, Chen Weiguo also intensified and fictionalized the deal.
He asked someone to provide several copies of his ID card and bank card on the grounds that the unit needed to solve the work expenses, and falsely issued 4 copies of a total of 39.25 tons of grain purchase settlement vouchers. All of the 108,000 yuan was later entered into his personal account. Account.
After successfully succeeding, Chen Weiguo conspired with the warehouse owner Mingguang Osmanthus Flour Co., Ltd. legal person Yang, and the purchase and custodian Liu, and generously issued a grain settlement voucher based on 3% of the total grain purchase.
Chen Weiguo issued 10 303.184 tons of grain purchase settlement vouchers, defrauding the state's grain purchase funds totaling more than 836,000 yuan.
On June 29, 2020, Chen Weiguo finally paid the price for what he did.
He was sentenced to three years in prison for corruption and fined 280,000 yuan, and his illegal gains were recovered.
Treating the old as the new, empty in and empty out, and false reporting of losses are typical methods of corruption
From 2014 to 2018, Tao Yonghong, the former general manager of Sichuan Qingshen County National Grain Management Co., Ltd., instructed Guo Xiuqun, the then chief financial officer, to take advantage of his position in the rice rotation business process to obtain more than 880,000 by interception and fraud. Yuan, and listed as the company's off-book funds for safekeeping.
In the meantime, the two jointly embezzled the company’s off-book funds of 330,000 yuan, and Tao Yonghong personally embezzled the company’s off-book funds of 103,400 yuan.
This case is quite typical, exposing the three methods of corruption in the state-owned grain depot: taking the old as the new, emptying in and emptying out, and falsely reporting losses.
According to relevant regulations, grain depots should rotate their grain reserves on a regular basis, that is, selling old grain and buying new grain. The market price of the former is low and the market price of the latter is high. This makes people with ulterior motives pay attention.
Tao Yonghong and others have adopted methods such as "using the old as the new" and "using the shoddy as the good" in grain rotation to earn the grain price difference.
At the end of 2016, grain merchant Li approached Tao Yonghong, hoping to purchase a batch of Chinese grain storage from the grain depot.
Tao Yonghong took the opportunity to propose that some old grains would be bought back from Li afterwards and put into storage.
The 896 tons of "circular grain" allowed Tao Yonghong to collect 200,000 yuan, and this batch of old grains could only be used to produce feed due to multiple indicators of unqualified, and no one had any questions.
At the end of 2016, Tao Yonghong and others moved 1,047 tons of municipal-level grain reserves to another grain depot to “use the old as the new”.
Tao Yonghong and others took great pains, not only copied the past list of farmers who sold grain, but even fabricated some non-existent people and forged accounting vouchers.
In November 2017, this batch of grain reserves should be rotated as required. Tao Yonghong arranged for Guo Xiuqun to make a false sales contract and sell the non-existent "air grain" to Sichuan Luyan Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.
Because there is no grain, the purchase of grain is just a "walk" on the book.
"Empty in, empty out" allowed Tao Yonghong and others to get a price difference of more than 310,000 yuan.
In 2018, they repeated their old tricks and defrauded nearly 230,000 yuan of state funds in a batch of 3,100 tons of county-level grain reserves.
"The maximum grain loss limit is 3%. As long as it is managed a little better, the loss can be controlled within 1%." According to a storekeeper of a grain depot in Qingshen County State Food Company.
During the rice rotation process from 2014 to 2016, Tao Yonghong and Guo Xiuqun used the price difference between rotation and rotation as well as the surplus generated by loss to obtain 180,000 yuan of funds by fabricating false information.
On July 29, 2020, Tao Yonghong was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison with a fine of 300,000 yuan, while Guo Xiuqun was sentenced to 2 years in prison with a probation of 3 years and a fine of 100,000 yuan.
Why do seemingly simple and awkward operations succeed?
Luo Shuyi, deputy secretary of the Qingshen County Commission for Discipline Inspection and deputy director of the County Supervisory Committee, said that the county food authority should have the responsibility of supervising and managing the stock, quality, and safety of grain reserves, but the relevant personnel have turned their eyes and closed their eyes, and supervision is in vain. Grade-level reserve grain has been transported for nearly a year, and the empty warehouse has not been found.
A warehouse administrator from the Qingshen County National Grain Company also confirmed this view from the side. "The Grain Bureau came down to inspect, basically just walking around and looking at the materials. I have never found a problem for so many years."
It is not only the lack of strong external supervision, but also the internal rules and regulations that remain on paper and cannot be implemented.
It is understood that Tao Yonghong is engaged in "one word", "three important and one big" issues are often not collectively studied, and the company's various internal control systems have not played their due role.
Whether it is the distinction between old grain and new grain, or the identification of grain quality and grade, it is only judged by the grain warehouse staff based on experience, which provides man-made operation space.
Once the responsibility is weakened, the organization and discipline will become inevitable, and the risk of corruption will increase.
One detail is worth noting. The company’s party branch was established in 2017, but the branch did not carry out any work before June 2019, and records such as "three meetings and one lesson" were all fabricated later.
The top leaders of grain enterprises fall to the bottom line, and their willful use of power endangers food security
On September 25, the Intermediate People’s Court of Changchun City, Jilin Province publicly sentenced Meng Xiangjiu, the former party secretary and chairman of Jilin Grain Group Co., Ltd., on charges of bribery, embezzlement of public funds, corruption, abuse of power by state-owned company personnel, and multiple crimes. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and a fine of 3.7 million yuan.
The investigation found that from September 2006 to January 2017, Meng Xiangjiu served as secretary of the Shulan Municipal Committee of Jilin Province, assistant to the mayor of Jilin Municipal People’s Government, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Grain Bureau, and Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Jilin Grain Group Co., Ltd. Conveniences in positions such as directors, or take advantage of the conveniences formed by their positions, through the conduct of other personnel’s positions, to provide assistance to relevant units and individuals in terms of project contracting, business operation, job arrangement, position adjustment, and promotion, and accept others’ Property, a total of more than 32 million yuan equivalent.
The reporter searched for relevant cases on China Judgment Documents.com and found that from 2007 to 2014, Wang Chonglin, who served as the legal person of Jilin Grain Group Jingu Co., Ltd., Jilin Grain Group Liquor Company Manager, and Jilin Grain Group Marketing Company Manager, worked in Jilin Grain Group. He was able to get promotion and adjustment, and paid 370,000 yuan to the then chairman of the group Meng Xiangjiu in seven times.
Meng Xiangjiu is not the leader of the grain company who has fallen off the horse in recent years.
On May 5, 2019, after a family meeting, Fan Shengliang, director of Kuyuan directly under the Sichuan Grain and Oil Wholesale Center and former chairman of the grain and oil company, decided to submit the case and took the initiative to come to the letter and visit room of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province.
As a soldier, he has gradually grown from an ordinary soldier to a cadre of the regiment; as the "helm" of a state-owned enterprise, he fell below the bottom line and failed to escape the "hunting" of illegal businessmen.
According to investigations, from 2009 to 2015, Fan Shengliang took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others and illegally received 2.64 million yuan in property.
Prior to this, construction businessman Wang met Fan Shengliang through a gathering of fellow villagers in Zhejiang, and obtained some projects directly under the library.
With the help of Fan Shengliang, in 2009, Wang successfully won the edible oil tank project with a total price of about 2 million yuan.
Wang's "Knowledge of Enlightenment Report" has repeatedly expressed that Fan Shengliang has "recited courtesy" and has also given him many cares. The settlement fund for the largest project is about 38 million yuan.
Fan Shengliang’s son is a heart disease. In his early years, because of busy work and neglect of care, his son Fan stayed in his hometown after he was born.
Until graduating from university, Fan came to work in a bank in Chengdu, and his family was reunited.
The good times didn't last long. Around 2014, Fan's capital chain broke due to investment errors, and he was burdened with more than 30 million yuan in debt.
From February 2015 to July 2016, Fan Shengliang mentioned that his son needed to repay debts, and asked Wang to borrow 1.7 million yuan.
It was borrowed in name, but he neither fulfilled the borrowing procedures, nor agreed on the repayment period and interest on the funds. Wang knew well that this was actually to fulfill his past promises. Considering that Fan Shengliang had helped him a lot before, so Give generously.
Afterwards, Wang told the investigator that his thinking at the time was that Fan Shengliang had helped him, and he would pay the money if he wanted, or even give it to him if he didn't.
On May 27, 2020, Fan Shengliang was guilty of accepting bribes and was sentenced to 4 years in prison and fined 400,000 yuan. The returned stolen money was confiscated according to law and turned over to the state treasury.
Strengthen supervision and take responsibility, strictly control the acceptance of purchases, and ensure the real quantity, qualified quality and safe storage of grains in the warehouse
In the golden autumn season, millet rice is fragrant, and it is another harvest time.
According to the latest agricultural conditions dispatched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 50.4% of the country’s autumn grain has been harvested, and the progress is basically the same as last year.
A bumper harvest of autumn grain is a foregone conclusion. The annual grain output is expected to increase at a high level. The average yield per mu is expected to increase by nearly 2 kg, and the total output has stabilized at the level of 1.3 trillion jin for six consecutive years.
A month ago, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves, and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Notice on Effectively Doing a Good Job in the Purchase of Autumn Grain in 2020."
The "Notice" clearly stated that all relevant departments in various places must earnestly enhance their overall awareness and sense of responsibility, take the initiative to benchmark against the table, make the purchase of autumn grain the top priority of the current grain circulation work, and do not relax, grasp it, and resolutely hold on The bottom line of "sell."
In terms of "implementing responsibilities, building a firm bottom line, and earnestly grasping policy-based purchases," it emphasizes the need to strictly implement quality and price standards, and must not lower grades and prices, raise prices, and refuse to accept grain that meets standards, and protect the interests of grain farmers.
It is necessary to strictly control the purchase and acceptance, strengthen the inspection of grain in the warehouse, and ensure that the quantity is true, the quality is qualified, and the storage is safe.
It is necessary to strictly regulate the recording and retention management of the relevant materials of the purchase vouchers such as the warehousing inspection list and quality inspection list.
The corruption of the food system is alarming.
According to Yan Hui, Chief of the Grain Management Section of the Economic and Information Bureau of Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province, the grain system mainly has the following risk points: First, the quality inspection risk. The directivity inspection conducts random inspections of local good-quality grains and passes the acceptance, so that the quality is not up to standard. The second is the risk of order subsidy. In the process of purchasing farmer’s grain, the review and control are not strict, and the cooperative intention is reached with the farmer, and the farmer is acquiesced to complete the order through the method of purchasing grain from outside and receive the government order subsidy; The third is the risk of inconsistency with the actual accounts, false inventories on the grain inventory statistics account, untimely write-off of grain losses and wastage, and sometimes purchases and sales are not recorded in the accounts, etc.
Based on their supervisory functions, local discipline inspection and supervision agencies focus on the specific links of grain storage and circulation, and urge functional departments to guard the "responsible fields" and secure the "grain bags" of the masses.
Disciplinary inspection and supervision teams dispatched by relevant departments at all levels regard ensuring the supply of national food and important agricultural products as an important task of political supervision, effectively playing the role of supervision, guaranteeing implementation, and promoting perfect development, and urging the departments stationed to strengthen policy implementation.
"To be rich is expensive, but to apologize is cheap."
For a long time, the macro-control function of grain reserves has been the ballast of my country’s food security. On the one hand, the lowest purchase price is initiated to prevent “low grains from hurting farmers”; on the other hand, it is through auctioning policy grains and placing reserved grains for rotation. Grain has been continuously put into the market to prevent "rice expensive and hurt the people."
It is the "four-character formula" of "purchase, storage, adjustment, and sale" that guards the jobs of 1.4 billion people. We must not let "worms" ruin our hard-won harvest.
(Our reporter Guan Xiaopu)