Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 28th, title: Chinanews.com Review: Local governments should not only save trouble when formulating a "return home during the Spring Festival" policy
China News Service reporter Wang Qingkai
The National Development and Reform Commission recently emphasized that the implementation of the "New Year's on the spot" policy in various places cannot increase without authorization, and it is firmly not allowed to take "one size fits all" measures to block people from going out and returning to their hometown.
The official statement responded to social concerns in a timely manner, and immediately rushed to the hot search lists of major media, and the people all praised and supported it.
Data map: Passengers are waiting in the waiting hall.
China News Agency reporter Chen Wenshe
As the Spring Festival approaches, in order to better prevent and control the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China encourages the people to "Celebrate the New Year on the spot" and reduce the flow of people.
The National Health Commission has made clear regulations on the travel of people in low-risk, medium-high-risk areas and their local cities.
However, after the policy was passed on at various levels, the taste changed locally.
The policies for returning home during the Spring Festival in their jurisdictions have been issued successively by various localities to overwrite the central regulations, which are complex and diverse.
Different provinces have different measures, and different cities in the same province have different regulations.
In some places, barriers have been deliberately set up to block people's return home.
For example, in many places in Shanxi, all vehicles in Hebei will be persuaded to return; Gansu requires all returning personnel to provide a certificate of negative nucleic acid test within 72 hours... These are the results of increasing the central policy.
Some netizens made an image summary: the central government requires that “just return home from a low-risk area with a green code”, to some provinces, it becomes a “nucleic acid test negative certificate”, and in the city it becomes a “nucleic acid negative certificate + home isolation” "In the town, it becomes "nucleic acid certificate + centralized isolation + home isolation", and finally in the village becomes "no return to home".
Data map: The staff measures the temperature of the passengers and registers the information.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
Why are local governments increasing levels and restricting people from returning home?
The main thing is to hold the mentality of "doing more is worse than doing less" and increase the cost of returning home by setting up barriers for returnees.
Let the returnees do not want to return home and dare not return.
This kind of simple and rude "one size fits all" seems to be a vigorous and vigorous implementation of the policy, but in reality it is an act of "lazy administration" that is unwilling to act and dare not take responsibility and only tries to save trouble.
The central government encourages the people to "Celebrate the New Year on the spot," and local governments cannot selectively ignore the word "encourage".
Let alone change the concept and evolve the "call for encouragement" into "coercion in disguise."
In fact, most people can still understand and respond to the call of the central government to actively support the overall situation of national epidemic prevention and control.
This can be seen from the data on the first day of the Spring Festival this year: On January 28, the first day of the Spring Festival, the national railways are expected to send 4 million passengers, a decrease of 66% year-on-year.
Earlier surveys also showed that nearly 70% of workplace interviewees said that they would "Chinese New Year on the spot" this year.
Of course, local governments have increased the central government's return home policy during the Spring Festival. In addition to "saving pictures", there are also considerations of "picture self-preservation" and "being afraid of being left behind".
The former must be resolutely criticized and put an end to the latter, while the latter has also reminded the higher-level departments that when the epidemic occurs, where accountability is required, it is necessary to ask the "green and red and white", but also to prevent "overall accountability" and "one size fits all". It is even more important to convince the accountable person.
In the early stage of the outbreak, in order to quickly curb the spread of the epidemic, China gave full play to the advantages of the nationwide system and appropriately adopted some "one size fits all" measures as a last resort.
But one year later, China has accumulated a wealth of experience in epidemic prevention and control. If local governments still adopt "one size fits all" prevention and control measures, it will not only affect economic and social development, but also damage the image of a government under the rule of law.
For whatever reason, the central government’s policy of returning home during the Spring Festival has been increased, not only increasing the cost of basic-level epidemic prevention, but also creating trouble for those who need to return home, increasing social conflicts, and in line with the central government’s “scientific prevention and precise measures” of epidemic prevention. Violation of the control policy.
It should be noted that encouraging the people to "Celebrate the New Year on the spot" is a systematic project that requires overall consideration and multi-party collaboration.
Cities must use their sincerity and high salaries to retain people for the New Year, and the grassroots must also relieve the worries of those who stay in the city for the New Year, let alone forcibly block people's return to their hometown.
The voice of the National Development and Reform Commission still stays on the media hot search list.
The enthusiasm of public opinion is actually reminding localities to formulate and implement the Spring Festival return home policy, to be scientific and accurate, not just to save trouble.
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