Righteous anti-corruption is by your side丨The first episode of "political supervision"
From October 26 to 29, 2020, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing.
The theme of this plenary meeting is closely related to everyone's future.
The plenum deliberated and approved the "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Term Goals for 2035."
The victory of building a well-off society in all respects is in sight, and the new journey of building a modern socialist country is about to begin. A magnificent blueprint for China's future development is presented to the world.
The plenum pointed out that in the face of the complicated international situation and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core will not forget its original aspirations, keep in mind its mission, and unite and lead the entire party and the people of the country to move forward, innovate, and strive for success. Promote various undertakings of the party and the country, and achieve decisive achievements in decisive victory in an all-round well-off society.
The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is in a critical period.
The more severe and complex the situation, the arduous and onerous tasks, the more we must always stick to our original aspirations and missions, insist on the people's supremacy, firmly rely on the people, continue to benefit the people, firmly root the people, and implement them in various decision-making deployments and practical work .
Political supervision will follow up wherever the major decisions of the Party Central Committee are deployed.
Discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels take the lead in practicing the "two maintenances", adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, focus on major decisions such as implementing new development concepts and achieving high-quality development, and focus on major decisions such as winning the three tough battles, ensuring and improving people's livelihood Make arrangements, strengthen supervision and inspection, implement supervision in place, give full play to the role of supervision and guarantee implementation, and promote perfect development, so as to ensure that the building of a well-off society in all respects is successfully completed, recognized by the people and can withstand the test of history.
Enterprises illegally mine coal, local government condones private digging
Under the azure skyline, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has undulating mountains and vast grasslands. However, the alpine meadow with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters at the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains has been torn apart by years of indiscriminate digging, forming multiple huge ones. Sinkhole.
This shocking picture is the scene left after illegal coal mining in the Muli mining area in Qinghai.
As early as August and September 2014, the Party Central Committee issued important instructions continuously to resolutely stop destructive mining in the Muli mining area and restore the environment. After that, it has issued important instructions on this issue several times.
However, in August 2020, the media reported that a company named Xingqing Company was still illegally mining coal in Muli under the name of ecological restoration, and the damage was shocking.
In accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Committee, together with the Central Political and Law Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the State Administration of Market Supervision, the State Forestry and Grass Administration, and the Qinghai Provincial Committee, formed an investigation team to conduct thorough investigations on related issues. .
Upon arriving at the mining area, the investigation team felt the great significance of this investigation and remediation.
Zhang Jinpei (a staff member of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): The
snowy mountains and white clouds on both sides of the road and the vast grasslands are beautiful, but once you enter the mining area, there are 19 slag mountains and 11 pits. The contrast is still very big.
The general secretary has given important instructions on why the illegal mining of coal in the Muli mining area has made many important instructions and the political and ecological significance behind it. We felt the harm caused by the destruction of the ecological environment at the scene and brought us a visual impact.
Qinghai Province is the birthplace of the three major rivers of the Yangtze River, Yellow River and Lancang River and is known as the "Chinese Water Tower"; Qilian Mountain is an important ecological security barrier in western my country and an important water source for the Yellow River Basin.
The Muli mining area is located in the hinterland of the southern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, at the source of the Datong River, an important tributary of the Yellow River. It is of great significance to protect the ecology here. It is related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the future generations.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): The
Muli mining area has caused so much damage to the ecological environment, and it is difficult to recover for decades or hundreds of years. So this is in line with the request of the General Secretary. The requirements of the central government are completely different.
Political supervision is first of all politics, so our investigation also starts with political discipline.
The place name Muli is derived from the Tibetan language, which means burning stone and refers to the extremely high-quality coal resources buried under this land.
In 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the "Master Plan for the Muli Coalfield Mining Area", which has strict restrictions on the total amount of mining permitted and the environmental protection requirements of mining. However, high-quality resources have led to illegal mining and excessive mining, especially extensive mining. The open-pit mining has caused great damage to the environment.
The herdsmen who have lived in this area for generations have personally felt the changes in the environment.
Local herders: The
pasture has become dusty, and now only yaks are allowed.
The Muli area was originally a place for herding sheep. In the past, every household had sheep.
After the pollution becomes extremely serious, the sheep can no longer be raised and only the yak can be kept.
Yaks are different, and their endurance is slightly better.
Contamination causes dust to accumulate, and dust enters the lungs of sheep, and sheep are prone to lung disease and infection.
In 2014, the Party Central Committee issued an important instruction to stop destructive mining in the Muli mining area.
However, the investigation team learned that by the beginning of 2015, another company had begun illegal coal mining.
Local herders:
Since August 2014, it has been publicized many times. The township and county have publicized that they cannot dig. Everyone is very happy.
But then started digging again.
Except for a few months of work stoppage each year, coal is basically still being transported.
Obviously, some people have ordered them not to do it, and they have not stopped them. This not only harms the direct interests of the local people, but also violates the long-term interests of the people of the whole country.
At which level is the problem that caused the major deployment of the Party Central Committee to fail to be implemented?
The investigation team read more than 3,900 documents, visited 26 departments, conducted in-depth investigations and interviews with multiple mine owners involved in illegal mining, relevant party committees and governments with supervisory functions, and party and government leaders and staff members of functional departments, and clarified layer by layer. Relevant responsibilities, it is determined that the relevant units in Qinghai Province, Haixi Prefecture and Muli Mining Areas have not implemented rigorous rectification and reforms, and have failed to abandon responsibilities to varying degrees.
Zhang Jinpei (Staff of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
We have found out the illegal facts of
Xingqing
Company and other enterprises, and we have also found out the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, especially the Haixi Prefecture Party Committee, the State Government and related functional departments The main problems in implementing the important instructions of General Secretary Jinping.
The Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government are generally serious in implementing the instructions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. Many measures have been taken for the ecological improvement of the Muli mining area, and some results have been achieved. However, there is a problem of tightness and looseness in the work, and it has only gone halfway. , Did not catch to the end.
At the same time, there are deviations in ideological understanding. On the one hand, it emphasizes adjustment and governance, and on the other, it emphasizes production.
Zhang Jinpei (Staff of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
In 2015, when the Qinghai Energy Bureau was still in the period of comprehensive intensive rectification, it reported to the National Energy Administration for instructions on the revision of the overall plan for the Muli mining area. It has an annual production capacity of 8.1 million tons. It requests an expansion to more than 20 million tons. There is a certain ideological swing in the relationship between protection and development.
When the application was not approved, the provincial government’s Muli Coalfield Integration and Renovation Coordination Team approved a state-owned enterprise Yihai Company to resume mining on the grounds of alleviating the contradiction between coal supply and demand; subsequently, it approved a private enterprise Xingqing The company has carried out pilot projects for slope treatment and allowed the mining of a small amount of outcrop coal and engineering coal that appeared during the treatment process.
As soon as this hole was opened, Xingqing Company began to conduct illegal mining secretly under the guise of a pilot.
Ma Shaowei (controller of Xingqing Company): In the
plan, we mainly asked for governance, but we illegally collected some coal in the name of governance.
In August 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Qinghai.
During the inspection, the general secretary talked most about ecology, and specifically talked about the Muli mining area.
Before and after, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important instructions many times, emphasizing the need to hold back and grasp to the end, do not solve it thoroughly, and never let go; leading cadres at all levels are required to take the initiative and do not wait for instructions from our central comrades. Just act.
However, looking back now, there is a state of concern in the remediation of the Muli mining area, with more achievements and fewer problems.
The Haixi Prefectural Committee even proposed to create the so-called "Muli Experience."
Relevant functional departments, especially Haixi Prefecture, are eager for quick success and short-term benefits. They are pushing forward the re-greening of Zhashan Mountain, which is easy to do and effective, and the backfilling of mining pits that are difficult and slow to yield.
Shi Bai (Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee):
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out that the greatest value of Qinghai lies in ecology, the greatest responsibility lies in ecology, and the greatest potential lies in the ecological positioning of the province. Introspection, there was such a serious problem that I did not always persist, and only did the first half of the process, but did not grasp the second half.
At the end of 2016, after the renovation of the Muli mining area entered the consolidation and upgrading stage, Qinghai Province basically delegated the authority of the ecological renovation of Muli to the Haixi prefecture level, but the work in the Haixi prefecture was in a mere formality, and there was a moderate obstruction.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
We have sorted out a line in the implementation of the spirit of the important instructions of the General Secretary. There has been a fault in Haixi Prefecture. The fundamental reason should be the basic reason. Out of Haixi Prefecture, out of Wen Guodong.
Wen Guodong, the former deputy governor of Qinghai Provincial Government, former secretary of the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Committee, and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, was formally filed and investigated by the State Supervisory Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in September 2020.
The Muli mining area is under the direct management of Haixi Prefecture and the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, while Wen Guodong ideologically ignores ecological protection, but hopes to end the renovation and expand coal development as soon as possible.
Wen Guodong (former secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee, former vice governor of Qinghai Province):
What I considered at the time was the small economic account, not the big account of environmental protection.
Without this political position, protection and development are still opposed.
When the investigation team reviewed the materials, it was found that Wen Guodong’s repeated adjustments and governance cannot affect development and development. The Haixi Prefecture Committee clearly stated that Haixi Prefecture should be turned into a coal development and coal chemical industry cluster of 100 billion yuan. , To become an important industrial town on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, these concepts and practices are obviously contrary to the direction of the renovation and protection of the Muli mining area. There are two reasons behind this.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): The
first is driven by political interests.
He believes that continuous political progress still requires so-called political achievements.
The second is driven by improper economic interests.
He supports Ma Shaowei to dig coal, and Ma Shaowei in turn conveys economic benefits to him.
Wen Guodong and Ma Shaowei are both from Huangzhong County, Xining. They knew each other in their hometown. At that time, Wen Guodong was the secretary of the county party committee secretary, and Ma Shaowei was already in business. He felt that Wen Guodong had room for improvement in his career, so he took the initiative to win relations. .
After that, Wen Guodong successively served as the organization minister of the Haixi prefectural party committee and the secretary of the Yushu prefectural party committee. Ma Shaowei has also been managing this relationship with his heart. From time to time, he arranges dinner parties at his place of office, and also presents red envelope gifts during the Chinese New Year. Guodong also regarded this fellow as a close friend.
Wen Guodong (former secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee, former vice governor of Qinghai Province):
30 years of relationship, beyond a friendship, because we have been too long, it feels like the two of us are conjoined.
I feel that I believe in him like I believe in myself.
In July 2015, Wen Guodong was transferred to the secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Party Committee, just as Xingqing Company started illegal coal mining in the name of slope management. Ma Shaowei immediately felt that the relationship of many years of business could come in handy.
Ma Shaowei (controller of Xingqing Company):
Wen Guodong has a relationship with Haixi. He is the secretary of the state party committee, which is equivalent to our fellow villager. If he affirms his support in this respect, the relationship will be hardened.
This so-called friendship with fellow villagers and friends is actually based on interests.
The red envelopes that Ma Shaowei gave to Wen Guodong for New Year's greetings were not large. In the first Spring Festival when Wen Guodong took office as Secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Party Committee, Ma Shaowei's red envelopes rose to 200,000.
Wen Guodong (Former Deputy Governor of Qinghai Province, Former Secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee):
He brought 200,000 yuan with him during the Chinese New Year in 2016.
He said that this kind of relationship between us, why are you polite.
One is a fluke, and the other is selfishness, which opens this gap.
Hei Jin continued to open up the gap, and Wen Guodong had accepted Ma Shaowei's bribes of tens of millions by the time of the incident, which naturally sheltered him.
Many relevant leading cadres in Haixi Prefecture knew that the illegal exploitation of Xingqing Company was intensifying, but because they knew that Ma Shaowei and Wen Guodong had a close relationship, they went around this problem.
Wang Hongbin (former director of Haixi Prefecture Natural Resources Bureau):
We try to avoid being unwilling to intervene or asking about these things.
The leaders also acquiesced that we did not want to touch it.
Ma Chengde (Executive Deputy Director of Yuanmuli Coalfield Management Bureau):
He
just produces
coal and doesn't control it.
Our inspection is an inspection, but in many cases it may be true that we open our eyes and close our eyes.
The investigation found that the management system of the Muli mining area is not smooth, which is also one of the reasons why Wen Guodong and Ma Shaowei collude with each other and do whatever they want.
The management committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone is called the provincial-administered state. In fact, the province does not care, and the state manages it randomly.
For a long time, the Secretary of the Haixi Prefectural Party Committee has concurrently served as the Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Management Committee, and the governor concurrently served as the Director of the Management Committee. Most of his work has been based on economic development and coal supply protection. Chaos.
Liang Yanguo (former executive deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone):
Neither the prefectural government nor the management committee of the pilot zone is really in charge. Everyone says that everyone is in charge and no one cares.
The Muli Coal Field Administration under the pilot area is located in the mining area, and it should be the most convenient place to supervise.
Since 2012, the former four departments of the province's land and resources, environmental protection, safety production supervision, and water conservancy have granted relevant administrative law enforcement powers to the Muli Coalfield Administration. Since then, these provincial functional departments have ignored them.
Looking back, this authorization did not achieve the purpose of facilitating supervision. Since August 2014, the Muli Coalfield Administration has basically done nothing in law enforcement for more than six years.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the National Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): The
office is located in this Muli coal field, that is, eating in a pot, and the final law enforcement and supervision powers finally become decorations.
In 2017, Li Yongping, the new director of the Muli Coalfield Administration, did not understand the background of Xingqing Company, and once banned illegal mining.
Ma Shaowei immediately found Wen Guodong and asked him to come forward to the Yumuli Coalfield Management Bureau and the management committee of the Qaidam Experimental Zone to participate in the dinner to help him remove obstacles.
Ma Shaowei (controller of Xingqing Company):
I asked Wen Guodong to make an appointment for a meal, that is, I hope they will support our company's illegal production in Muli. The Secretary of the State Party Committee asked him, and he still has to come.
Wen Guodong took the initiative to make an appointment for the Ma Shaowei platform, saying that based on the situation reported by the Muli Coalfield Administration, Xingqing Company re-reported the optimized governance plan, which in fact further expanded the scale of illegal mining.
Wen Guodong has repeatedly urged relevant leading cadres to expedite the research and approval of this plan.
Liang Yanguo (former executive deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone):
If I look at this plan, I really think it is mainly coal mining. Why?
It worked out a plan for the treatment of the slope at the bottom of the mining pit, and it actually mined coal, and the coal that was later mined was taken from the bottom.
Under Wen Guodong's intervention, Xingqing Company soon resumed illegal mining again.
Li Yongping, the former director of the Muli Coalfield Administration who had previously stopped mining, also turned his head and began to accept bribes from Ma Shaowei; more than 10 people including Ma Shengquan, former deputy director of the Administration, Liang Yanguo, executive deputy director of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone Management Committee, were also arrested. Detecting acceptance of bribes and becoming a community of interests provide protection for illegal coal mining.
Zhang Jinpei (a staff member of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
They colluded with each other. In order to prevent the fact of illegal coal mining, they were inspected by higher authorities or discovered through investigation and investigation. They tried every means to design the so-called two classic research routes.
One of these two routes is privately called a "half-day tour", which is connected in series by three ecologically restored slag hills in the two mining areas; the other is called a "day tour", which adds the mining pit side of Xingqing Company For the observation deck of the slope treatment pilot, most of the research and inspection teams only pointed and looked at the observation deck, passing by the illegal mining site.
Dozens of investigations and inspections have not found the problem of illegal coal mining. On the one hand, it shows that Qinghai Province and other relevant functional departments are not solid in their work style, insufficient investigation depth, ineffective in finding problems, and not specific in guiding work; on the other hand, it is also because of the regulators and mining areas. Enterprises should cooperate externally, deceive the top and conceal the bottom, avoid problems, and respond to inspections.
Once received the informative letter, Xingqing Company suspends mining, hurriedly transported the illegally mined coal, hid all the machinery, and blocked the related roads with muck, making it difficult for the inspection team to discover.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
This side is beautiful, the bright side, the illegal coal mining tiankeng, Xingqing company used some slag hills to cover it It’s actually more than a hundred meters away from that viewing platform.
Under the circumstance of failure of various levels of supervision, Xingqing Company, which has no mining license, has illegally mined 11.95 million tons of coal since 2007.
Wen Guodong knew that Ma Shaowei had been mining illegally, but he never asked him how to mine and how serious the environmental impact was.
It was not until the incident occurred in August 2020 that he went to the illegal mining site for the first time and witnessed the scars caused by his actions on the ecological environment for the first time.
Wen Guodong (former secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee, former vice governor of Qinghai Province): For the
first time, I was really dumbfounded when I saw the pit.
The surrounding grassland is green, the blue sky and white clouds are still in the distance, and the big black pits underneath are suddenly dark. Without those data, you can see that it is very serious with your eyes. The more you look, the more serious you look, and the more you look, the more you are afraid.
The first reaction is to feel that the sky is falling, and I feel like a disaster.
No amount of confession can undo the environmental consequences that have been caused.
The ecological environment has always been easy to destroy, but it is long and difficult to manage; the economic benefits obtained from illegal mining are not directly proportional to the investment in environmental governance; not to mention the cost of ecological damage, which cannot be measured by money.
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core regards building an ecological civilization and building a beautiful China as a major national strategy, and has repeatedly emphasized that it will never be soft on behaviors that destroy the ecological environment.
The National Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has resolutely implemented the Party Central Committee’s deployment. In recent years, it has severely held accountable and accountable for many environmental damage incidents such as illegal coal mining in the Muli mining area, illegal villas built in the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, environmental pollution in the Qilian Mountains, and illegal squatting of Dongting Lake The major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are effective.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
At the political level, we still have to consciously benchmark against the requirements of the Party Central Committee and the General Secretary, and take the initiative to solve problems in a timely manner, instead of waiting for the central leadership Comrades have instructed them and asked for them to act again. This is too costly, and some losses are difficult to recover.
At present, Wen Guodong and other related leading cadres are under review and investigation, and Ma Shaowei, the actual controller of Xingqing Company, has also been taken coercive measures by the public security organs.
The Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and Government issued the "Three-year Action Plan for the Comprehensive Improvement of the Ecological Environment in the Muli Mining Area and the Qinghai Area at the Southern Foot of the Qilian Mountains."
The industrial and mining enterprises in the Muli mining area were completely shut down, the Muli Coalfield Administration was abolished, and the Muli Coalfield Ecological Protection Bureau was established to fully perform the special responsibility of ecological environmental protection supervision.
Shi Bai (Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Standing Committee of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Committee): The
Provincial
Party Committee and the
Provincial Government have implemented two aspects of work. The first is to restore the political ecology with all efforts, because it is actually a political ecological decision. Natural ecology.
The second aspect is to spare no effort to restore the natural ecology of the Haixi.
To rectify and restore the ecological environment, we must hold on to it. Once we grasp it to the end, the investigation team will organize a look back to ensure that the ecological restoration and protection of the Muli mining area are in place.
A good ecological environment is the fairest public product and the most inclusive people's livelihood. Whether it is in the west or east, the northern part of the country or the Lingnan, a good ecological environment is the common yearning of the people.
Local herders: After
the pits dug are filled, grass is planted for greening. This is a happy thing for everyone.
I heard that this plan will be implemented for three years. After completion, everyone thinks that it will be blessed, so they are very happy.
To build a well-off society in an all-round way, we must focus on key points, make up for shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses.
Ecological environment is one of the areas where the shortcomings are prominent, and all parts of the country need to attach great importance to it and resolutely fight the battle against pollution.
Poor areas and the poor population are another prominent shortcoming. Speeding up to make up for this shortcoming and winning the battle against poverty is a bottom-line task and a landmark indicator for building a well-off society in all respects, and it is also a solemn commitment of our party.
The discipline inspection and supervision organs resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, continue to deepen the special governance of corruption and work style issues in the poverty alleviation field, and make every effort to ensure that the fight against poverty is resolutely won.
"Business Opportunity" drivers found to take 450,000 poverty alleviation funds
Xiangxi Prefecture in Hunan belongs to the Wuling mountainous area, with overlapping mountains and interlacing ridges and valleys, creating beautiful natural scenery; but for people living in mountainous rural areas, many mountains mean inconvenient transportation, poor soil quality, and few and scattered arable land; for poverty alleviation In terms of work, this is a concentrated, contiguous and extremely poor area with deep poverty and heavy poverty alleviation tasks.
Road construction is very important in the poverty alleviation work here. However, in March 2018, the masses reported that a road in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County has been repaired for 3 years but has not been completed, and the project funds have been taken away.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection of Hunan Province attaches great importance to it and requires the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Xiangxi Prefecture to finish the matter within a time limit and give the people a satisfactory answer.
Guzhang County is a deeply impoverished county at the national level in the Wuling Mountain area. Saying goodbye to road difficulties is the general expectation of the people in the mountainous area. It is also a basic condition for breaking the bottleneck of the village's economic development and achieving prosperity out of poverty.
Due to topographical restrictions, most of the land in Xianfeng Village is on the high mountains, several miles away from the village. The road is a mud trail that people stepped on. The crops can only be back down the mountain with a basket.
Peng Yuyuan and his wife have more than ten acres of land in the mountains, and they grow tea, ponkans and August melons. The young couple are very hardworking. The annual harvest is good, but the biggest problem is how to transport them.
Reporter:
How much is the annual harvest?
Peng Yuyuan (a villager in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County): more than
20,000 catties.
Reporter:
How many times do you need to recite?
Peng Yuyuan (a villager in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County):
Like more than 20,000 catties, about 120 each time, it's like this anyway, it's more than 100 trips anyway.
Sister Long Cong (a villager in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County):
I am so small, I can't move my back.
He carries more than one hundred catties, and I carry dozens of catties. Sometimes I see him working so hard, that is, when I finish work, I take it once.
The inconvenience of transportation is dragging down the pace of poverty alleviation.
Villagers have repeatedly reported that they hope to build an industrial road from the ground to the village.
After receiving the feedback, the Guzhang County Transportation Bureau decided to invest 457,000 yuan in the construction of a 1.5-kilometer-long industrial road in early 2016, and the project started immediately.
The villagers were very happy at the time. Unexpectedly, the project suddenly stopped after a month and a half, and there was no news for two years.
The villagers can only continue to carry on their shoulders and backs, seeing that only a small section of the road has been built, and it is gradually obliterated by weeds.
Long Xiuquan (Staff of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan Province): After the
report, we stepped on the spot. This grass was higher than us. When we first went there, we didn't know this was the way.
The investigation found that the contractor for the road construction project appeared to be a local private boss, but there was actually another person behind the scenes, who was the driver of the Guzhang County Transportation Bureau at the time, and the money was mainly taken by him.
Long Hua (former staff member of the Transportation Bureau of Guzhang County):
At that time, lard was overwhelmed. Using the convenience of his position, I wanted to do something like this.
The boss came forward, but I didn't come forward.
Long Hua took advantage of his identity as a driver for the director, to clear the relationship in private, and took the project under the name of a company.
The road was still under repair at the beginning, but the compensation was suspended because a villager was unable to agree on compensation for land occupation.
It stands to reason that we should communicate with the villagers and report the situation truthfully, but Longhua did not do it. Instead, they found acquaintances to complete the project acceptance in violation of the regulations and get all the project funds.
Long Hua (former staff member of the Transportation Bureau of Guzhang County):
Let the technicians of the Transportation Bureau check and accept. At that time, there was an old comrade who had a better relationship and trusted me. I said, rest assured, I will definitely get through. He believes I am, and I signed the receipt of acceptance.
The road was not completed, and it actually only cost more than 120,000 yuan, and Longhua took away all the funds of more than 450,000 yuan. After the money was given, the road was left alone.
Long Hua (former staff member of the Guzhang County Transportation Bureau): To
put it bluntly, the money is in place, so don't worry.
The relevant leaders of the Transportation Bureau were not supervised. They did not follow the requirements of the system to check on the spot, and signed and agreed to allocate the full amount. It was not until the masses reported it two years later that the road was not repaired at all.
Hu Yangang (Deputy Director of Guzhang County Transportation Bureau):
Supervision is not in place.
As a result, the people do not trust the government and the Transportation Bureau.
Tian Zhifang (the director of the Guzhang County Transportation Bureau at the time):
This incident was a wake-up call. We must strictly control the people around us, and also strictly demand myself.
The responsible persons such as Tian Zhifang, then director of the Guzhang County Transportation Bureau, Hu Yangang, deputy director, and other relevant persons were punished by party discipline and government affairs, and the funds were recovered. In October 2018, the long-awaited road by the villagers was finally repaired.
Peng Shaoshu (a villager in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County):
You can go on tricycles, agricultural vehicles, any vehicles, carts and small vehicles.
Villagers in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County:
farm vehicles, tricycles, pickups.
Peng Yuyuan (a villager in Xianfeng Village, Guzhang County): The
tricycle was just bought last year. If it used to go on a trip, it would take almost half an hour, but now a few minutes will pass.
The hard work of the ancestors for generations has finally become history, and agricultural products can be transported down the mountain into the market more easily.
The construction of infrastructure such as roads and houses is not only a basic condition for poverty alleviation, but also an important guarantee for stabilizing poverty alleviation and preventing poverty. With these basic guarantees, they have the ability to change poverty with hard work.
Grasping the problems exposed in this case, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Xiangxi Prefecture, by analogy, carried out a special treatment of the prominent problems of the "four ones" of one road, one well, one lamp, and one house in the whole prefecture, and more than 16,000 problems in the prefecture. Street lights have been rectified. In terms of relocation for poverty alleviation and relocation of rural dilapidated houses, the prefecture took the initiative to account for 663 people, filed and investigated 122 people, collected 136 million yuan in violation of discipline and law, and rectified more than 5,000 households.
We will not only strictly investigate corruption issues, but also pay attention to problem rectification, so that the people can truly enjoy the benefits of poverty alleviation policies, and ensure that the poverty alleviation work is pragmatic, the poverty alleviation process is solid, and the poverty alleviation results are real.
He Shuhong (Deputy Director of the Party Work Style, Political Style Supervision Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
This is the focus of our discipline inspection and supervision agencies in the field of poverty alleviation.
The problem of infringement on the interests of the masses in the field of poverty alleviation has greatly damaged the credibility of the party and the government.
It has also greatly damaged the party's ruling foundation.
Discipline inspection and supervision agencies are mainly responsible for the guarantee of discipline and work style in the fight against poverty.
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that in decisive victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way, we must resolutely fight three tough battles: prevention and resolution of major risks, precise poverty alleviation, and pollution prevention.
Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the three major battles have focused on prominent issues, fought key battles, advanced the deployment of various tasks in depth, and achieved a series of key progress.
However, there are also some places where the implementation of the major arrangements of the Party Central Committee is not in place, causing serious problems and causing serious damage to economic and social development and the safety of people's lives and property.
Who planted the "time bomb" of the Xiangshui explosion accident?
This shocking scene of disaster is the ecological chemical park in Xiangshui County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province after the explosion.
At about 14:48 on March 21, 2019, a violent explosion suddenly broke out from the warehouse of Tianjiayi Chemical Co., Ltd., and a large pit with a diameter of about 120 meters was exploded at the source point. Almost all ground buildings within a diameter of 300 meters It was destroyed, and many buildings within a radius of 5 kilometers were damaged to varying degrees under the impact of the blast wave.
The direct economic losses caused by the accident amounted to 1.986 billion yuan, and what is even more irreparable is the loss of people’s lives and property.
78 people died, 76 people were seriously injured, 640 people were hospitalized, 22,046 houses were damaged, and the peaceful lives of many families were shattered at this moment.
Zhu Han (family of the victim of the 321 accident):
How should I say, for the first four days, I smoked a cigarette alone, but I didn't have enough to smoke, and then I lost sleep at night.
Zhu Han lost his beloved wife in the accident.
On the day of the accident, the couple went to work in the chemical park as usual in the morning. However, his wife Gu Yu never returned home from get off work.
The explosion took her 33-year-old life, and the two children lost their mothers forever.
Zhu Han (family of the 321 accident victim):
They couldn't accept the two children either.
My son, the young one, hugged me and said something, that is, he told me not to go to work in the chemical plant.
The chemical industry is indispensable in the national economy, but every accident will severely damage people’s confidence in chemical safety.
The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to safety in production and emphasizes that development must not be at the expense of human lives. This is an insurmountable red line; protecting people’s lives and property is the greatest political responsibility.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission immediately set up an accident accountability review and investigation team to rush to Xiangshui, communicate closely with the State Council's accident investigation team, conduct review and investigation work based on the cause of the accident identified by the State Council investigation team, and find out the reasons behind the accident one by one. The political responsibilities, work responsibilities, disciplinary responsibilities, and legal responsibilities, two central management cadres and 46 provincial cadres and below in Jiangsu Province were held accountable, and 15 party members and cadres and public officials were charged with crimes of negligence and bribery. Sentenced.
Zhang Yue (Deputy Director of the Eleventh Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): In the
final analysis, we found that it was our local party committee government. One was that the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s decision and deployment was not firm or in place.
The second is that there is formalism and bureaucracy in the process of implementing the Party Central Committee's decision and deployment.
The third is that there are still some corruption problems that endanger the vital interests of the people.
This yellow powder is the culprit of the explosion. It is the nitrification waste produced by Tianjiayi Company during the production process. It is a hazardous waste that should be disposed of in time. Once it dries out, it is very flammable and explosive.
Knowing the dangers, Tianjiayi Company has illegally stored a large amount of nitrification waste for seven years in order to save a monthly processing cost of 1 million yuan.
A large amount of nitrification waste accumulated in the explosion warehouse for a long time, the heat generated by self-decomposition could not be dissipated, and the temperature gradually climbed, which eventually led to spontaneous combustion.
Surveillance video recorded the moment of the incident: the warehouse where the nitrification waste was located first emitted a large amount of white smoke, followed by a local fire, which spread quickly and exploded.
Zhang Qinyue (General Manager of Tianjiayi Company):
I am sorry for the deceased. I mourn for the deceased, apologize for the families of the deceased and the injured.
Zhang Qinyue, general manager of Tianjiayi Company, was sentenced to one year and six months in prison with a two-year reprieve for secretly burying waste materials in 2017.
During the probation period, he still actually controlled Tianjiayi Company, which was also punished repeatedly for various illegal issues.
For such a company with many bad records, it should have focused on preventing risks, but in fact, supervision is only a formality.
Zhang Yue (Deputy Director of the Eleventh Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
Over the past seven years, our relevant supervisory departments have visited companies many times to inspect, and there is serious formalism and bureaucracy. Many inspections were not effective.
During the investigation, at first various departments shirked their responsibilities, saying that they had nothing to do with them.
The Xiangshui County Emergency Management Bureau even organized a rehearsal in advance, anticipating which questions the investigation team would ask, and listing a uniform statement on the paper asking the staff of the bureau to respond accordingly.
These preparations were full of loopholes when facing the investigation, but revealed the intention to oppose the investigation of the organization.
Liu Zhengxiu (Deputy Secretary of the Yancheng Discipline Inspection Commission, Deputy Director of the Supervisory Committee): When
we talked, we talked about the people in the emergency (management) department basically exactly the same, and then we followed (inquired) why you are not bad at a word ?
Of course he said, this is how their system is unified.
The reason why you have to shirk responsibility is precisely because you know you are responsible.
Nitrification waste is both a hazardous chemical and a solid waste. The emergency management department and the ecological environment department bear the most direct supervision responsibility.
Several law enforcement officers from the two companies later admitted that they had seen these nitrification wastes during the company inspections, but they did not pay attention.
Zheng Ronghua (then the deputy director of Xiangshui County Environmental Protection Bureau): The
inspectors said that they had seen that tons of bags were packed in a lot of bags, and they were placed in the workshop.
Zhang Shurui (then the clerk of the Second Sub-bureau of Safety Production and Law Enforcement of Xiangshui County Emergency Management Bureau): The
sacks are packed, packed, and piled up.
I saw it, but I didn't deal with it and didn't report.
Tianjiayi Company deliberately concealed the truth. When the ecological environment department came to inspect it, it described the nitrification waste as a raw material to be recycled. When the emergency management department came to inspect it, it said that it was solid waste.
The two departments also accepted all the statements of the company. They could manage and should manage them, but in reality they didn't care.
Sun Feng (then director of Xiangshui County Emergency Management Bureau):
We have never checked this. It should be checked by the environmental protection department.
Wang Ruitao (then the director of the Environmental Supervision Bureau, a member of the Yancheng Ecological Environment Bureau at the time):
I don't know which department, but it is definitely not the environmental protection department anyway.
The statutory responsibilities of various departments are clearly laid out there, and such evasive words are destined to fail to withstand scrutiny.
Ding Hua (Staff of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Jiangsu Province):
He said he went to check it. Did you find this thing?
Found.
I found out why didn't you take care of it?
He said that I was not in charge.
Do you know what this is?
It's hard for him to say.
All are responsible.
If you do not find out, then you are negligent. If you find out that you have not dealt with it, then you are negligent.
When the enterprise's inflated pursuit of profit and the shrinking sense of responsibility of law enforcement officers, risks quietly accumulate in the dark.
Corruption and style issues are also mixed in, so that the risk further increases.
The 15 public officials who were sentenced were all found to have accepted cash, shopping cards, and gifts from chemical companies. Wen Jinsong, then director of the Xiangshui County Environmental Protection Bureau, once accepted a cash bribe of 100,000 yuan from Zhang Qinyue, general manager of Tianjiayi Company. , The law enforcement position is naturally difficult to correct.
Wen Jinsong (then director of Xiangshui County Environmental Protection Bureau): It’s like boiling a frog in warm water. It feels like a friend (and the business owner). I always feel that the company has to consider it more. Development, there are some problems, anyway, it is not a fundamental problem.
Individuals even take the initiative to conceal problems for the company for their own benefit.
Sheng Baoliang has been responsible for the environmental supervision of Tianjiayi Company since 2011. In order to take advantage of the project, he actually suggested that the company illegally lay hidden pipes, and collected more than 300,000 yuan for the benefits and sealing fees.
In 2016, Tianjiayi Company secretly landfilled nitrification waste and was reported by the masses.
Not only did Sheng Baoliang not go to the scene to check, nor did he punish the company. Instead, he ventilated with the company privately and asked them to dig it out.
Sheng Baoliang (the clerk of the Xiangshui County Environmental Supervision Bureau at the time):
I said you should dig it out quickly, because in June 2016, the central environmental protection inspector (group) is coming. Everyone is a little scared. Give it to us. It will also have a bad effect on face.
The Second Branch of Xiangshui County Emergency Management Bureau Safety Production Law Enforcement is directly responsible for the supervision of Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park. However, Liu Yang, then director, repeatedly instructed his subordinates to conceal some of the hidden safety hazards discovered by experts during the inspection.
Zhang Shurui (the clerk of the Second Sub-bureau of Safety Production and Law Enforcement of Xiangshui County Emergency Management Bureau at the time): The
director also didn't want to make our own work difficult, and at the same time sold favors to enterprises.
Don't put this hidden danger on it. The leader has a good relationship with the company and doesn't want it to stop.
The investigation team collected a large number of meeting records, work records, and law enforcement records of various departments, checked them in detail, and found a lot of objective evidence of dereliction of duty.
In 2018, Xiangshui County established a new Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park Safety Supervision Bureau. It operates in the park and aims to implement daily supervision. However, it can be seen from the safety record book of this bureau that some staff members are extremely irresponsible. There is no company on-site inspection at all, just sitting in the office and filling in out of thin air.
Ding Hua (Staff of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Jiangsu Province):
(2019) On March 21st (afternoon) at 2 o'clock, Tianjiayi Company exploded, but you know that its safety record has been (recorded) until the same day (afternoon) ) After 6 o'clock, there is still no problem with writing. You said that it has been exploded, and your records are all recorded (in the afternoon) after 6 o'clock. How could it be possible?
right?
That means you are fraudulent.
In January 2018, the former State Administration of Work Safety organized experts to make a special trip to Tianjiayi Company for safety inspections, and found more than a dozen safety hazards, requiring Jiangsu Province to supervise comprehensive rectification and impose penalties.
The former Jiangsu Provincial Work Safety Bureau issued a document requesting that production be suspended for rectification, but the former Xiangshui County Work Safety Bureau did not stop Tianjiayi Company from suspending production at all. Instead, it forged a set of law enforcement documents and reported to the superior that the suspension of production and rectification was completed.
Liu Yang (then Director of the Second Branch of Production Safety Law Enforcement of Xiangshui County Emergency Management Bureau):
Because (State Administration of Work Safety) it is impossible to say that it has inspected it, so it will come over from Beijing and do the inspection again.
After reading the document, it says that production should be discontinued, so it is equivalent to supplementing a discontinued item.
With the deepening of the investigation, it was revealed that in addition to specific malfeasance and corruption, there are also deeper issues of the outlook on political performance and development.
Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park was built in 2002. At that time, most of them were introduced to companies eliminated from other regions. They were small in scale, low in level, and prominent in safety hazards. After more than ten years, it is obviously not suitable for the requirements of the new era.
However, the party committees and governments at all levels are obviously not in place to implement the new development concept. They have neither determined to shut down and withdraw, nor have they taken effective measures to rectify and upgrade in time.
Fan Jinlong (Executive Vice Governor of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee): There
has been such a big incident, so it is true that we reflect on the consequences of not implementing the new development concept.
The Party Central Committee has repeatedly emphasized the need for high-quality development, advancing supply-side structural reforms, and increasing efforts to eliminate backward production capacity. For Jiangsu, a major chemical province, the implementation of these arrangements has very specific and realistic significance.
In January 2017, Jiangsu Province launched a special action to require the closure, transfer, upgrade and reorganization of a batch of chemical companies in the province. However, there are problems with more deployments and fewer actions at the provincial, municipal and county levels.
Feng Jingyou (a staff member of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection):
Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park, in fact, from the beginning of its establishment to the end of the accident, regardless of the national level, the provincial level has repeatedly pointed out its existence. Some problems, including some of its industry layout, if it is said that it has implemented the new development concept of the General Secretary and rectified it long ago, I think it is possible that this accident will not happen.
In 2018, Yancheng Research decided to cancel the Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park, and even coordinated with the Provincial Department of Finance to implement the compensation funds, but Xiangshui County has been delayed until a major accident occurred.
Zhang Shanrong (then the deputy magistrate of Xiangshui County): The
central government has repeatedly proposed high-quality development. We in Jiangsu also mentioned this issue very early, so we can call it out early.
If it was out early, it wouldn't have this problem, and it didn't make up this determination.
The seemingly sudden accident, in fact, looking back, the trajectory of the tragedy step by step is clearly visible.
When the opportunity to rewrite the plot was repeatedly missed, on March 21, 2019, this time bomb that had been planted a long time ago finally detonated.
Zhang Shanrong (then the deputy magistrate of Xiangshui County):
I have always
felt
very guilty. What I saw was that my son was blown to death, and my parents came. My parents were in their 50s or 60s and they were just a child. , I saw that heart-piercing feeling, and that my husband was blown to death. I was in my thirties. My wife was lying next to me crying, always in my head, thinking about this scene after scene. Which link do I say? We take it seriously, or each of our departments stands up and fulfills its responsibilities, that is, if we keep our eyes on it, take it seriously, and follow the rules, then this matter will not happen.
The result of not performing due diligence is to face accountability in the end.
Strict accountability for this particularly major safety incident is also a warning and urging local party committees and governments at all levels and relevant functional departments to earnestly implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and do their responsibilities.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission issued disciplinary inspection and supervision recommendations to the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, pointing out problems from four aspects: firmly establishing a new development concept, tightening production safety responsibilities, increasing safety production supervision and law enforcement, and strengthening supervision and law enforcement team building. Put forward suggestions to promote the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government to improve its political position, consciously practice the new development concept, and resolutely curb the occurrence of major safety production accidents.
Fan Jinlong (Executive Vice Governor of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee):
This proposal reminds us how well the people-centered development thinking is implemented in Jiangsu and how the safety of our people's lives and property is guaranteed.
Jiangsu's chemical industry needs to develop, but what we want is green development and high-quality development.
To implement the new development concept, and then in accordance with the general secretary's proposal to Jiangsu, we must accelerate the formation of a new development pattern.
In response to the disciplinary inspection and supervision recommendations of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervision Commission, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government proposed to promote the special rectification and industrial transformation of the chemical industry.
New chemical parks and new chemical companies outside the chemical parks will not be approved; chemical production companies within 1 km along the main and tributaries of the Yangtze River and outside the park will all withdraw or relocate before the end of 2020, and it is strictly forbidden to build, Expansion of chemical parks and chemical projects.
For the 53 chemical parks in Jiangsu Province, 60% of them will gradually withdraw through renovation and upgrading.
Zhang Yue (Deputy Director of the 11th Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): The
most basic of a comprehensive well-off society is safety. The people must lead a safe life. Through our review and investigation, we have also truly felt that, Only by promoting high-quality development and establishing new development concepts can we avoid the recurrence of these major accidents and provide a guarantee for building a well-off society in all respects.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to the people-centered development concept, established innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development concepts, and is committed to building economy, politics, culture, society, and ecology. The core of a well-off society with civilization and all-round development is to let the people have a solid sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Only when the people live and work in peace and contentment can the cause of the party and the country move forward steadily.
Xi Jinping: The Chinese Communist Party comes from the people and roots in the people. Its original intention and mission is to seek happiness for the Chinese people and seek rejuvenation for the Chinese nation.
The fundamental purpose is to serve the people wholeheartedly.
We must persist in doing everything for the people, relying on the people in everything, maintaining flesh and blood ties with the people, relying closely on the people to open up new prospects for the cause, and promote common prosperity for all people.
The people, it is you, me, and him. They are just ordinary people of flesh and blood, constituting a country of 1.4 billion people; everyone's living dreams and pursuits converge into an inexhaustible driving force for this country to move forward.
Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and realizing the goal of the "first century" embodies the hard work and wisdom of countless Chinese people; on the road to embarking on a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and marching towards the goal of the "second century", The Communist Party of China will continue to write a new chapter in history for the people, rely on the people, and work with the people.