On the first working day of the new year, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection intensively published notices that four central management cadres were sanctioned by the party discipline and government affairs.
The reporter combed the website and found that in January, a number of party members and cadres at or above the bureau level were also investigated, of which 26 were subject to review and investigation, and 42 were subject to party discipline and government sanctions.
At the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that closed in January, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech in which he fully affirmed the new and major achievements in the comprehensive and strict governance of the party in the past year. The results achieved in the struggle are satisfactory."
All kinds of domineering exercises
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection clearly requested that the supervision of the "top leaders" and the leadership team be strengthened. This is a key link to ensure that the party Central Committee's major decision-making and deployment and the comprehensive and strict party governance strategy are implemented.
If the "top leader" has a problem, it is easy to spread, endanger the team, destroy the team, and pollute the political ecology of a party.
Inventory of relevant announcements made public in January, Zhang Anshun, former party secretary and director of the Shanxi Banking Regulatory Bureau, was expelled from the party; Xue Jining, former party secretary and director of the Inner Mongolia Banking Regulatory Bureau, was expelled from the party; former vice governor of Qinghai Province and former secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Committee , Wen Guodong, the former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, was expelled from the party... Since 2020, the national discipline inspection and supervision organs have filed and investigated more than 5,800 "top leaders" at the county level and above.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission posted a comment on the website: The power is concentrated, the decision-making "one word", the "one word" of the use of people, the "one pen" for spending money, and the "one hand" for projects. Similar plot.
Therefore, some people call some "top leaders" as "dominant players."
"Top leaders" engage in "small circles" in selecting and appointing people. By virtue of their personal preferences, they often lead to teamwork and group corruption.
Yang Hongwei, the former secretary of the Qianjiang District Party Committee of Chongqing City,’s “Shuangkai” bulletin pointed out that he is “the biggest'pollution source' of the political ecology of the region where he serves”.
Yang Hongwei likes to play basketball, and those who play with him can be reused. His classmates, fellow villagers, nepotism, and former clubs are often promoted and placed out of style.
"It doesn't matter whether the work is good or bad, but the relationship with Yang Hongwei is good," the case handler said.
After Yang Hongwei left Qianjiang, more than 70 department-level cadres in the district were filed and investigated for violations of discipline and law. Most of their violations occurred during Yang Hongwei’s administration in Qianjiang.
The "top leader" is corrupt and degenerate, and the failure of supervision is an important reason.
The superior supervision is too far, the supervision of the same level is too soft, and the supervision of the lower level is too difficult, which weakens the effectiveness of the supervision and restriction of the "top leader" power, and public power can easily become a personal weapon.
The corruption of the civil air defense system in Jilin Province is a typical case of the excessive concentration of power of the "top leader" of the civil air defense department.
Since the special management, the province’s discipline inspection and supervision organs have filed a case for review and investigation of 368 civil air defense system cadres, including 76 former or current “top leaders” in the civil air defense department.
The issue of violations of discipline and law by "top leaders" has repeatedly verified that "the power without supervision will inevitably lead to corruption."
At present, the system in which major leading cadres are not directly in charge of specific affairs has been tried and implemented in some places.
Whether or not the problem of excessive concentration of power of the “top leaders” can be solved from the system requires a practical test.
Lax family governance "backyard" fire
The failure of control over relatives and children is the beginning of the degeneration of many leading cadres.
The correct concept of power is the "talisman" for party members and cadres to maintain their true colors, especially the "top leaders" who hold heavy power. If the idea of "closing wives and shades" emerges, power will deteriorate in the face of interests, and the bottom line will be in affection. Fall in front of you.
Among the 14 central management cadres who were punished by party discipline and government affairs in January and cadres of the central-level party and state agencies, state-owned enterprises and financial institutions, 8 were mentioned as having family traditions and "disregarding family members."
The anti-corruption documentary film "Right Wind and Anti-Corruption is by Your Side", which was broadcast in January, explored the phenomenon of "father and son soldiers" and "husband and wife files" in official corruption.
Zhang Maocai, who once served as the “top leader” in Linfen, Yuncheng, and Jincheng of Shanxi Province, the most prominent feature of his case can be summarized as “the whole family goes into battle, embezzling father and son soldiers”.
Zhang Maocai was not at home all year round, and always felt "owed them". Facing the rebellious youngest son Zhang Xuan with a kitchen knife and fighting with him, he did not seriously discipline him, but blindly indulged him.
Under the protection of his father, Zhang Xuan became more bold and reckless, and his reputation for collecting money and doing things spread.
Even Zhang Maocai's eldest son began to compare with Zhang Xuan, "see who uses his father's power to make more money."
Similar cases are not uncommon in recent years.
In the "Secretary Yan's Daughter" incident that once caused a storm of public opinion, Yan Chunfeng, the former deputy secretary of the Guang'an Municipal Party Committee of Sichuan Province, was eager to put out the fire when public opinion developed rapidly, hoping to find acquaintances to quell the incident through personal relationships.
Only one week after the kindergarten turmoil, the Sichuan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on the basis of the preliminary review that Yan Chunfeng was filed for review and investigation, and discovered that he had used his position to benefit others and accepted bribes.
Facing the camera, Yan Chunfeng regretted: "Ashamed to my family, my son does not have a father, and my daughter does not have a father." He rarely spends time with his children, but wrongly wants to make up for it with money, even He did not hesitate to violate the law and discipline to satisfy his ex-wife's financial demands.
“Let’s not love relatives for favoritism, nostalgia for old gains, and don’t support relatives”, leading cadres consciously take the lead in establishing a good family tradition and strengthening the line of defense for the family. On the one hand, they should care for their families without spoiling, being kind and not indulging. On the other hand, we must strictly observe discipline and earnestly report personal matters to the organization.
At the end of each year, this reporting work is going on. This is an important hurdle to test whether leading cadres are loyal and honest. It is also an important part of relying on the system to help leading cadres maintain the bottom line of integrity. The role of.
On the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission released in January the list of cadres who have been "double-opened", many people have the problem of "concealing and not reporting personal matters" and "not reporting personal matters truthfully."
Some people feel lucky and think that “it doesn’t matter if you don’t report it, you can’t find out if you underreport the organization”, and those with a guilty conscience are afraid of organizing inspections, and deliberately conceal their marital status, spouse’s and children’s status, which are all disloyal to the party. Dishonest performance.
Keep the death penalty "zero tolerance" for corruption
On January 29, Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People's Court executed the death penalty on Lai Xiaomin, the former “top leader” of China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd. in accordance with legal procedures.
He was the second official who was sentenced to death for corruption after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was immediately executed. He was also the senior official who received the highest amount of bribes.
How much deterrence does the Criminal Law provide for the highest "life imprisonment or death penalty" for the crime of accepting bribes for cadres with "distracting thoughts"?
In fact, whether the death penalty is imposed on corruption crimes is based on the premise that no homicide is involved. In addition to considering the amount involved, it also depends on the consequences, whether it has caused major losses to the interests of the country and the people, and whether it has undermined the prestige of the party and government. Cause adverse effects, etc.
Even though Lai Xiaomin had pleaded guilty and repented in court during the court session; for example, the verdict also found that he had provided clues about major crimes of his subordinates and was verified to be true, and he had significant meritorious service.
But these plots are still not enough to allow Lai Xiaomin to escape.
This verdict is not supported by the righteous indignation against the corrupt official who "kill and then quickly", but the rational, calm and objective evaluation of the facts of the case.
In judicial practice, there have been precedents that impose the death penalty on corrupt officials who commit corruption crimes in excess of 100 million yuan.
Bai Enpei, former vice chairman of the Environmental and Resources Protection Committee of the National People’s Congress, Zhu Mingguo, former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Wei Pengyuan, former deputy director of the Coal Department of the National Energy Administration, were sentenced to death for accepting bribes with a two-year reprieve. These cases highlight the party And the country’s zero tolerance for corruption crimes.
It is worth noting that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection made an important judgment on the current anti-corruption situation: "Traditional corruption and new corruption are intertwined, and corruption is more hidden and complicated."
For example, the "crime of on-lending usury", which is legally lending while illegally lending usury; "one family, two systems" type of corruption, that is, there are leading cadres working in party and government agencies in the family, as well as non-public economic sectors, private enterprises and other fields. The problem of "public funds storage", using fiscal funds to offset performance and obtain excess profits for financial institutions...
Corruption methods are constantly being renovated, and the discipline inspection and supervision team must also update the knowledge structure, continuously improve the ability to identify and crack new types of corruption cases, maintain a clean political ecology, and demonstrate the party and the state's "zero tolerance" for corruption.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Report, etc.)