Disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies notified a batch of corruption cases in the field of engineering construction, taking multiple measures to ensure the efficient and clean advancement of major projects during the 14th Five-Year Plan
Strictly prevent the project from being built and the cadre from falling
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On July 16, Yang Yong, the former vice chairman of the CPPCC in Yangquan, Shanxi Province, was "double-opened", informing him that he "utilized the convenience of his position to seek benefits for others in terms of financial support, project contracting, coal mine resource integration, etc."; July On the 11th, Lin Chuanwei, the former party committee member and vice president of the Bank of China Fujian Branch, was "double-opened", informing him that he "received the benefits of the business owner through house decoration" and "bypassed the system and intervened in the procurement bidding"...Recently, disciplinary inspections The supervisory agency notified a number of typical cases of corruption in the engineering construction field, and released a clear signal of resolutely cutting off the profit chain of corruption in the engineering construction field.
Historical experience shows that during the period of large-scale development and large-scale construction, corruption problems often occur frequently, and corruption problems are often prone to occur in capital resource-intensive fields.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, my country will organize and implement a number of strategic, basic and leading major engineering projects, involving key areas such as science and technology, infrastructure, ecological environment construction, people's livelihood, and culture.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection required to focus on areas and links with strong policy support, investment intensive, and resource concentration, and resolutely investigate and deal with corruption in infrastructure construction, project approval, state-owned enterprise reform, public resource transactions, and scientific research management.
The project construction transaction chain is long, the investment amount is large, and the interest is highly related, which is easy to breed corruption
An engineering project has to go through many links from approval, planning, bidding, construction, quality supervision, and acceptance evaluation. The transaction chain is long, the amount of investment is large, and the interest is highly correlated, which is easy to breed corruption.
In July last year, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a notice to launch a three-month special rectification for leading cadres to interfere in project construction and mineral development in violation of regulations.
Subsequently, Ma Shurong, the former director of the Hengshan District of Yulin City, illegally intervened in the construction of the project and accepted bribes as a typical case and notified the whole province.
In July 2014, Ma Shurong was appointed as the assistant to the governor of Hengshan County and the dual founding director to preside over the work of the County Housing and Urban-rural Construction Bureau. After that, his wife's nephew, Bu Moumou, came to the door and asked him to contract the project for Liu Mou, a businessman.
Without saying anything, Ma Shurong immediately greeted Yang, the then director of the Hengshan County Bidding Office, asking him to provide convenience for Liu to borrow the company’s qualifications and to help him in the project bidding process.
At the same time, he greeted the person in charge of a bidding agency and helped Liu win the bid by way of bid rigging.
The bid price of the project was 15.9 million yuan, and the final price was 20.4203 million yuan.
This is of course not in vain.
The project was still being implemented, and Ma Shurong instructed Bu and Liu to discuss and collect a benefit fee of 650,000 yuan.
In May 2015, the two sides followed the same pattern, and Ma Shurong helped Liu Mou undertook the N1 bid section of the second phase landscape project of the third section of the right bank of the Luhe and the first section of the left bank in the urban area of Hengshan County.
Two times received a total of 1.15 million yuan in benefits, and Ma Shurong distributed 650,000 yuan to "White Glove" Bu Moumou.
Moreover, Ma Shurong was not satisfied with simply collecting money to do things. Instead, he came up with a method of "making money with money". He proposed to invest in the project in the name of his wife and brother.
In order to cover up the bribery behind the scenes, he also asked the other party to issue a false investment certificate receipt.
After 14 months, the project payment had not yet been settled, so Liu transferred 1 million yuan to him in the name of dividends.
From July 2014 to March 2019, Ma Shurong successively intervened and intervened in 15 engineering projects in violation of regulations, repeatedly requesting and receiving money from engineering contractors totaling 5.5986 million yuan.
Ma Shurong all accepted the high-end cigarettes, Moutai, parking spaces, travel arrangements, and gifts given by the merchants.
"Ma Shurong's intervention in the engineering construction field is typical. He is the'top leader.' He has the final say on many things, and the issue of violations of discipline and law involves multiple links such as project bidding, project funding, and project approval." Analysis of case handling personnel.
In June 2020, Ma Shurong was "double-opened" and his suspected crime was transferred to judicial organs for handling in accordance with the law.
He confessed: "The organization arranged for me to work in an important position, but I failed to control myself. The government and business colluded and failed the trust and training of the organization. I am now willing to confess my guilt and confess my punishment and sincerely repent and reform."
Corruption in power-intensive positions such as bidding and approval of engineering projects is high, involving projects such as external undertaking, subcontracting, construction, and procurement.
For a period of time, there have been many reports involving leading cadres who illegally intervene in project construction.
Ma Dong, deputy director of the Research Office of the Kunming Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, told reporters that violations of discipline and laws in this field are mainly concentrated in urban village reconstruction and real estate development, transportation infrastructure construction, municipal engineering, resettlement and relocation and other projects that concern the interests of the masses. , The amount involved can range from hundreds of thousands of yuan to tens of millions of yuan.
Corruption in power-intensive positions such as bidding and approval of engineering projects is high, and violations of discipline and law mostly involve the external undertaking, subcontracting, design, construction, supervision, and procurement of engineering projects.
In the process of project undertaking, some construction units privately offered bribes to the person in charge of the project, the tenderer and other personnel, which led to the tendering process.
Ma Shurong intervened in project construction in violation of regulations, mostly focusing on project bidding and bidding, and realized his intentions by greeting the bidding office and bidding agency.
Zhao Mingwei, former director of the Bengbu Municipal Tendering and Procurement Administration of Anhui Province, in order to increase the probability of winning bids for his favorite companies, changed the public bidding into an invitational bidding, precisely set layers of "checkpoints", and deliberately excluded several powerful companies from the invitation of bidding .
In the process of project approval, some approvers use their power to go through procedures in violation of regulations and collect facilitation fees.
He Yonglin, former secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s Bayannaoer Municipal Party Committee, and Wang Xuefeng, former secretary of the Ulan Chabu Municipal Party Committee, were "double-opened". Both were notified to take advantage of their positions to seek benefits for others in terms of project approval and other issues.
In the supporting procurement link, some procurement unit leaders and managers directly or in disguise designate suppliers to take rebates and receive red envelopes.
In February of this year, Hu Jie, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, was investigated. His problems included illegal intervention in project construction and government procurement.
In the supervision and acceptance link, some supervisors and inspectors receive the benefit fee from the construction unit or the project owner before passing the project acceptance.
In the construction industry in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province, weird things once appeared: when inspectors arrived at the construction site, all the bosses or on-site persons in charge would give them gifts such as shopping cards, fitness cards, and cigarettes; every time the company received an inspection task, everyone was arguing. He was rushing to the construction site in order to receive the red envelope.
The units and personnel involved were dealt with seriously.
In the process of disbursement of project funds, some persons in charge or managers of funding units directly or in disguise demand bribes from the construction unit.
“If you don’t borrow money, you will terminate the contract and not settle the project payment.” Su Zhanxiong, the former station director of the Rural Cooperative Economic Management Station in Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, took advantage of his position to facilitate the implementation of the Xiji County Agricultural Economic Station project in related enterprises. Solicited 450,000 yuan in bribes from the management and technical personnel of the construction company.
Su Zhanxiong was "double-opened", and his suspected crime was transferred to the judicial organs for handling in accordance with the law.
"The damage caused by corruption in the engineering construction field should not be underestimated." Ma Dong said that violations of discipline and laws in this field may cause serious damage to the political ecology of a unit, a place, or a field, which will damage the image of the party and the government and increase the restoration of the political ecology. cost.
Some party members and cadres and the project construction contractor formed an exchange of interests, which undermined the principle of fair market competition and the normal business environment, which may cause the construction of projects to be out of reality, frequent occurrences of supervision failures, and ultimately the embezzlement of state-owned assets and damage to the interests of the masses. .
"Top leaders" have a high proportion of cases involved, and some party members and leading cadres take the lead in undermining the democratic centralization, project management, and fund appropriation systems
Cases show that among the corrupt party members and cadres in the engineering field, “top leaders” are not a minority. Some people regard the right to approve planning power as a prohibition and engage in collusion between officials and businesses, transfer of interests, and realization of power.
Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee, is a typical example of the intoxicated "Humanity Project".
Zhang Qi and unscrupulous businessmen use power and interest as the link to pull and pull, forming a "co-corruption circle."
In the name of attracting investment, he helped the leader's relatives get land and projects; he favored the same level and subordinates, and allowed his wife and son to use their influence to intervene in landscaping projects to make money.
According to Zhang Qi and the persons involved in the case, violations of regulations and laws were prominent in the commercial development of Sanya's Phoenix Island, Xiaozhou Island, Haikou Simapo Island and other islands, and there were leading cadres behind them.
From April 2017 to January 2021, disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies at all levels in Hainan Province investigated and dealt with 515 corruption cases involving engineering fields, involving 536 people, involving 49% of relevant city and county leadership members, and “top leaders” accounting for 30%; Among them, 69% of the cases investigated and handled by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision involved engineering corruption, and “top leaders” accounted for 59%.
According to Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of Peking University's Center for Integrity Construction Research, in the field of engineering construction, “top leaders” are more involved in cases because they often have the right to make decisions on engineering projects and use their position to designate, instruct, suggest, greet, approve and other methods. Intervention, even procedural decision-making on the surface, private giving and receiving behind the back.
Some leading cadres have tried every means to evade supervision and supervision from various quarters in order to obtain projects for specific entities that convey benefits, and even take the lead in destroying various systems such as democratic centralization, project management, and fund allocation.
Ma Dong believes that the implementation of the system must be strengthened, and the implementation of democratic centralism should be regarded as an important content of the responsibility system assessment, supervision and inspection, and inspections, and urge all departments at all levels to further improve the "three important and one large" decision-making mechanism, and strictly implement the main responsible comrades. It does not directly take charge of administrative approval, finance, cadres and personnel, and the "last position" system, and actively builds a power operation mechanism of "deputy responsibility, principal supervision, collective leadership, and democratic decision-making".
The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Supervision of the "Top Leaders" and the Leading Group" stated that disciplinary inspection agencies should strengthen the analysis of the construction of the party style and clean government in the fields of engineering construction and other fields, pay attention to the discovery of common problems, and strengthen the management and supervision of key positions.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, carried out a thorough investigation of the clues of issues related to engineering construction in the city; compacted the main responsibilities of party organizations at all levels, supervised the strict implementation of the "three important and one large" decision-making procedures, and strictly implemented the bidding system for engineering construction projects Establish a supervision platform in key areas such as engineering construction, and accept prompt reports and accusations of violations of discipline and law in administrative approval and law enforcement supervision; supervise and urge development and reform, finance, housing construction, land, transportation and other units to combine the characteristics of the industry to improve and improve the power list system, Strengthen the restriction and supervision of the power operation of key fields, key posts, and key personnel.
The person in charge of the Jinhua Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision told reporters that it is necessary to grasp the key point of standardizing the use of power of the “top leader”, keep a close eye on the decision-making power, planning power, and approval power of engineering projects, and focus on places, departments and fields where engineering projects are intensive, through integrated supervision. Strength, implement effective supervision, embed supervision in all aspects of the power operation process, promote and improve the supervision and control of the system and mechanism of the "top leader" power exercise, and truly manage the key people, the key places, the key things, and the key Time.
Weave a network of all-staff, full-process, and all-round supervision, check loopholes and shortcomings in project construction, promote deepening reforms, and improve governance efficiency
In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", my country will promote a series of major construction projects.
To ensure that the goals and tasks of major projects are fulfilled, we must cut off the chain of corrupt interests in the engineering field to prevent the project from "building up" and cadres from "falling down."
Disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies focus on follow-up supervision and precise supervision of key links such as project approval and project quality acceptance to ensure the efficient and clean progress of major project construction.
In midsummer, the hot wind in the Jinsha River valley entrained mist, rising between the huge dams that straddle both banks.
The world's largest hydropower project under construction-the first batch of units of the Baihetan Hydropower Station were put into operation for power generation, which has become another clean energy project emerging in the deep mountains and valleys.
In order to effectively avoid cutting corners, counterfeiting and inferior materials, and false reporting of engineering quantities, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the Three Gorges Group guided the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Ministry of Construction to urge the dam construction control to improve the internal control mechanism, and weave a dense, full-process, all-round supervision network.
In accordance with the work deployment of “joint construction and joint construction” in the construction area, establish and improve the coordination mechanism of party style and clean government construction and anti-corruption work, the joint meeting of discipline inspection organizations in the construction area, and the supervisor system to ensure the safe and orderly progress of Baihetan Hydropower Station.
The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of the major regional strategies clearly defined in the "14th Five-Year Plan".
The Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the National Development and Reform Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Development and Reform Commission included the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as a key content of political supervision in 2021 and included it in the annual supervision work account to fully understand the preparation of relevant special plans, the implementation of important measures, and the implementation of major policies. , Major reforms and opening-up measures, major projects and projects “three majors” as the starting point, focus on discovering and correcting formalism and bureaucratic issues in the process of work promotion, and urge relevant departments to promote high-quality reform measures and project implementation, so as to improve In-depth and meticulous supervision will escort the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision shall supervise the entire process of public works and land transfer projects in the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port to prevent corruption risks and ensure the smooth progress of project construction.
According to reports, the province integrates discipline inspection and supervision, patrol inspections, and audit supervision forces, carries out follow-up supervision, regulates the acceptance of letters and visits, the transfer of problem clues, and the notification of typical cases, and supervises the supervision departments to carry out special management of prone to frequent problems.
As of April this year, a total of 7,198 projects have been included in the follow-up supervision list, promoting the discovery of 10,200 problems, the completion of 7,218 rectifications, and the improvement of 1,444 systems and mechanisms.
The Supervisory Committee of the Shenyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection in Liaoning Province found in its work that the subjects involved in the engineering construction field often conceal their identities and refurbish themselves, using family members and relatives as cover, and some cadres even colluded with each other and cooperated internally and externally, which increased the difficulty of supervision.
The Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection relies on the big data supervision platform to improve the quality and efficiency of supervision in the field of engineering construction through data comparison.
When comparing the exercise data provided by the city's civil air defense system, the Shenyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection found that among the 107 bidding projects involving civil air defense engineering maintenance and transformation, 63 projects have an abnormally high bidding rate for the same company, and the same person represents different companies to participate. Suspected of bid rigging and collusion.
Through the verification, Cai Mou, the former director of the Peace and War Combination Management Office of the Municipal Civil Air Defense Office, and his subordinate Liu Mou repeatedly accepted bribes and colluded with bids to violate disciplines and laws.
"The deep integration of big data technology and the discipline inspection and supervision business has enabled the discipline inspection and supervision agencies to proactively find clues of suspected problems. It will help to solve the problems of lack of supervision in the field of engineering construction, opaque acceptance, and black-box operations." Supervisor of Shenyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection Said Cha Yan, director of the First Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Commission.
The relevant person in charge of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development told reporters that for industry authorities such as housing and urban-rural construction, it is necessary to organically integrate the prevention and control of corruption with industry supervision. Investigate existing loopholes and shortcomings, promote deepening reforms, improve institutional systems, implement regulatory responsibilities, reduce power to set rent-seeking space in the field of engineering construction, improve mechanisms for discovering, exposing, and solving problems, and form a combined force for rectification.