Wan Bentai, former chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, went against the wind and disciplined public funds for tourism projects to catch oil and water
Strictly check the environment and eat the environment
"Profoundly reflect on Wanbentai's violation of discipline, environmental protection and environmental protection issues, establish a clean and self-discipline bottom line, and fight pollution prevention and control with strict discipline..." Recently, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the National Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Ministry of Ecology and Environment In conjunction with the Party Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, issued a notice on the national ecological environment system, requesting that the Wanbentai case be used as a mirror to carry out in-depth warning education.
Wan Bentai, the former chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, was expelled from the party in December 2020 for serious violations of discipline and law, and his retirement benefits were cancelled.
The notification stated that he was "doing environmental protection and eating environmental protection." Violations of discipline and law include accepting gifts from environmental business owners, seeking benefits for relatives by arranging project projects, and using power and position influence to promote products and contract projects for private enterprises and individuals. Seek profit.
What are Wanbentai's routines of "doing environmental protection and eating environmental protection"?
How did the problems of "doing environmental protection and eating environmental protection" happen?
How to deal with the stubborn diseases in the environmental protection field?
While preaching the spirit of the eight regulations of the central government, while violating disciplines against the wind, travel with public funds by the opportunity of research and inspection
Wan Bentai was the first batch of graduate students after the resumption of postgraduate enrollment in 1978. He entered the field of environmental protection in 1981. He once worked in the Shenyang Environmental Monitoring Center Station, the former State Environmental Protection Agency, the State Environmental Protection Administration, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
As a professional cadre who has worked in the field of environmental protection for a long time, Wanbentai has a wealth of environmental protection work experience and is well versed in various "doorways" in this field.
"Come here with the map and see where we go for a stroll." This is a saying that Wanbentai often talks about.
Those who are familiar with him know that this means that he has to use the opportunity to go to local research and inspections to visit tourist attractions.
Environmental protection work requires in-depth investigations and inspections in various places, and Wanbentai is not really concerned about these. He often uses polluting companies to see too much and monitoring sites are almost the same. He spends a lot of time on the water, watching the flowers, and spending a lot of time visiting nearby. Attractions.
The investigation found that after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Wanbentai disregarded the spirit of the eight regulations of the central government, and requested that the research plan not include nature reserves and scenic spots in the research plan, and still did not forget to take the opportunity to visit in secret. Famous scenic spots such as the Potala Palace, Nam Co, and Youyiguan have all left their sights.
"The places where Wanbentai goes are mostly in border provinces and remote areas. The environmental protection departments at the provincial, city, and county levels accompany them at all levels. Not only do they travel to and from the car, but they also bear the cost of tickets, cable car tickets, etc." .
Wan Bentai's "hedonic" investigation and inspection has increased the burden on the grassroots and damaged the image of the party and the government.
"The higher-level leaders came to investigate, and we naturally had to arrange the reception, but accompanied to the scenic spots, and a large group of people, it harmed the image of party members and cadres, and also increased the burden on the grassroots who were not wealthy. In fact, we couldn't bear it. "Said a comrade from the ecological environment department of a certain place.
In addition to traveling with public funds by means of research and inspection, it is also a well-known "hobby" of Wanbentai that is so lively and loves to eat together.
According to the case handling personnel, Wanbentai has a wide variety of dining options. Some of them are business owners who make special trips to Beijing to invite dinner, while others are arranged for meals when they are away on business trips; some are arranged in hotels, and some are arranged "small stoves" in the owner's home or corporate canteen; There are those who have dinner, and others who "tasting red wine" together after the meal. Some bosses even know that Manmoto has studied in Japan, so he specializes in arranging to eat Japanese cuisine.
For business bosses’ invitations, Wanbentai not only comes there every time he calls, but also likes to meet friends to eat and drink together.
"As the former chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Wan Bentai understands the requirements for the spirit of the eight central regulations, but he preached the spirit of the eight central regulations, while violating the spirit of the eight central regulations." In public occasions such as the National Environmental Monitoring Conference and the Clean Government Work Conference, Wan Bentai requested that “Leaders of the environmental monitoring system must strictly implement the spirit of the eight central regulations, so that the “four winds” problem can be continuously improved.” In order to maintain the people’s heaven."
It was his turn, but he should eat, drink, and play, leaving behind the spirit of the eight central regulations.
Great efforts to realize power, "giving favors" with topic projects, "fishing oil and water" for corporate platforms
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to eco-environmental protection, the field of work has expanded, and the working methods have become more rigid.
And Wan Bentai ignores the important responsibilities of pollution prevention and ecological environmental protection, and extends the tentacles of power for personal gain into the field of selection and employment, project project arrangements, project review, and formulation of regulations and standards. Oil and water".
Wan Bentai was born in an ordinary peasant family.
As a "successful person" in the family, he believed that he was obliged to help the people in the family, so he arranged for the work of relatives and friends to "give favors."
According to Wan Bentai, he has arranged 19 relatives and friends to work in the environmental protection system and environmental protection enterprises by greeting relevant personnel. The number of people and the wide range of involvement are amazing.
"Wan Bentai arranged relatives and friends to the environmental protection system, not out of the public heart of recommending talents, but purely to help relatives and friends for profit." According to the case handlers, some of these people did not meet the basic requirements for open recruitment, because Wan Benta was given a "green light" due to the influence of his position; some had low abilities and poor quality, because Manben was too greeted and left the "back door"; some did not meet the conditions for entering Beijing because he was a relative of Manbenta Was directly "pointed".
In addition to using the job to "give favors", Wan Bentai also used the convenience of his position to use the subject project to operate a personal network, receive money for the company's intercession platform to seek benefits, and even intervene in environmental protection inspection and law enforcement, treating the environmental protection field as a "private land" "Tang Monk Meat."
In order to provide help to his relatives in the examination, Wan Bentai took the initiative to arrange the project to a professor, and allocated 400,000 yuan in one-time funding. The project has not completed the scheduled task so far.
To provide assistance for a city to be selected as a national ecological demonstration zone, he accepts a bank card from the local eco-environmental system cadres; to help the company in which he owns shares seek a competitive advantage, he asks the person in charge of a subject to upgrade the company’s monitoring technology to a national standard The analysis method, when the former Ministry of Environmental Protection explicitly prohibited enterprises from participating in the compilation of national standards, they also sought help from the responsible comrades of relevant departments and pushed for the inclusion of enterprises in the list of cooperative units... , I will do my best to help as much as I can." However, "Enthusiasm" is selfish and selfish. What hurts is the principle of organization, and what hurts is fairness and justice.
In 2015, the "enthusiastic" Wanbentai became even busier after retiring. He began to go crazy and "make money" everywhere: participating in various seminars to help companies recommend products; organizing meals across the country to help companies match up; Say hello to old colleagues and subordinates, and help the company to do things smoothly... Wanben is too busy, his schedule is fuller than when he was on the job, and even when he was organized to take measures, he also proposed to "fight" A few calls to adjust the itinerary."
Wanben is too aware of the intention of the company’s "consulting fees", but he is happy to laugh at it. "The reason why the bosses generously paid the consulting fees was the influence of the former chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The productivity of strength and personal connections, so this is essentially taking advantage of the influence of the original position to make money and accept bribes in disguise, which is a violation of discipline and law."
According to Wan Bentai's own account, the "consulting fees" he received from environmental protection companies in the past four years of retirement is almost the sum of all his wages for more than 30 years of work.
The problem of "doing environmental protection, eating environmental protection" is seriously harmful, and the atmosphere of pollution damages cadres
"Giving favors", "fishing for oil and water"... As a leading cadre of the ecological environment system, Wan Bentai's corruption has had a negative impact on the environment and the cadre team in the environmental protection field.
Especially in the field of national environmental monitoring, many cadres of the monitoring department are hand-picked by him. Wan Bentai willfully intervene in cadre recruitment, instrument procurement, monitoring management and other matters. "Environmental protection" not only affects career development and leads individuals astray, but also corrupts the morale and leads to crooked cadres.
In 2020, many cadres in the environmental protection field have been dealt with due to problems such as “doing environmental protection and eating environmental protection”. For example, Chenggang, the former second-level inspector of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, who used his power to seek economic benefits for the company he actually controls, Zeng Yu, former member of the party group of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, and former leader of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Eco-Environment, and the former leader of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment.
"Because of the strong professionalism in the environmental protection field, the cycle characteristics of the industry are obvious, old classmates, old colleagues, old acquaintances, etc. are inextricably linked. Party members and cadres are not righteous or hard, and they are prone to intercede. , Engage in small circles, do environmental protection, eat environmental protection, and have no distinction between environmental protection companies." Analysis by the responsible comrades of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
In fact, in addition to the characteristics of individuals and fields, the ecological environment departments exercise powers such as administrative examination and approval power, law enforcement punishment power, policy formulation power, and evaluation and ranking power.
The relatively concentrated nature of power also brings a certain degree of integrity risk.
Against the backdrop of favorable national policies, some companies with ulterior motives have tried every means to make friends with leading cadres of the ecological environment system, trying to seek unfair competitive advantage and obtain huge benefits through "hunting" and "corroding" leading cadres.
"The so-called'technical consulting service' is just a cover, mainly to ask him to help introduce and understand the leaders of various local ecological environment systems, or to directly or indirectly recommend products in some public places to gain a competitive advantage, or to encounter environmental protection administrative supervision and law enforcement. If you have any questions, please ask Wanbentai to help coordinate.” A person in charge of a related enterprise directly reported the essence of the "consultation fee" given to Wanbentai.
In addition, there is a certain degree of weakening and blurring of the supervision and management of cadre education, which is also the cause of frequent problems such as "doing environmental protection and eating environmental protection".
Take the Wanbentai case as an example. It violated regulations and interfered in the selection and appointment of cadres, engineering projects, and intervened in environmental protection inspection and law enforcement. In accordance with the "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China" and relevant regulations, relevant units should record the case and report to the higher authorities in a timely manner. No one recorded it, and no unit or individual took the initiative to report it.
Non-compliance and lack of strict discipline provide opportunities for violations of discipline and law.
Carry out special education to promote reform with cases, promote construction with cases, and promote governance with cases
"Special education is an inevitable requirement for the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s comprehensive and strict party management strategy. It is an important measure to implement an integrated promotion of not daring to rot, not wanting to rot, and not wanting to rot. It is a powerful starting point for building an iron army for ecological and environmental protection. Party organizations, cadres and workers at all levels should take a highly responsible attitude towards the party and the country, the people, and the cause of ecological and environmental protection, and have a deep understanding of the importance of carrying out special education from a political perspective.” December 31, 2020, Ecological The party group of the Ministry of Environment held a special education mobilization and deployment meeting based on the case, and Sun Jinlong, secretary of the party group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, pointed out at the meeting.
After jointly investigating Wan Bentai’s violations of discipline and laws with the Hebei Provincial Discipline Inspection and Supervision Agency, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment combined with a series of violations of discipline and law that have occurred in the ecological environment system in recent years. The analysis found that most cases in the environmental protection field are related to unscientific power allocation. The power operation mechanism is not sound and the supervision is not in place. Some systems have "blanks"; some systems are not specific enough, they are vague, and they are like "cats in the bullpen." "Scarecrow".
"For example, Wanbentai is clear about the relevant systems and the relevant regulations, but it is not implemented, not implemented, destroyed at will, and treated as if nothing." The relevant person in charge of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment introduced, It is necessary to do a good job in the "second half of the article", to promote comparative inspections of relevant departments and units, to check for deficiencies and make up for omissions, and to continuously promote the establishment of regulations and system implementation.
The Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued to the Party Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment the disciplinary inspection recommendations for carrying out special education based on the case. At the same time, it put forward five aspects including strengthening the education of ideals and beliefs, strict daily supervision and management, standardizing power behavior, and improving the supervision and management mechanism. The content of the work opinions and suggestions, adhere to the main responsibility and supervisory responsibility in the same direction, play the fundamental role of "investigating a case, warning, and educating one side", and realize "promoting reform by case, promoting construction by case, and promoting governance by case" .
In order to ensure the effective results of the special education, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has also strengthened the whole process of supervision, regularly listening to reports, timely supervision and evaluation, and supervising and promoting implementation.
"The ecological environment system is the main front and the main force for the construction of ecological civilization and ecological environmental protection. It is necessary to earnestly implement the requirements of internal party supervision, strengthen effective measures for internal party supervision, and enhance the effectiveness of internal party supervision. It is necessary to effectively improve party members and cadres. Awareness of discipline and rules, promote the majority of party members and cadres, especially the'key minority', and strengthen the awareness of party constitution, party regulations and party discipline. It is necessary to cultivate a cultural atmosphere for honest political practice, and constantly create an atmosphere of fear and knowing." Kuressi Mahsutti, head of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Ministry of Environment, said.
(Our reporter Xue Peng)