Promote the coordination of statistical supervision and disciplinary supervision, organizational supervision, inspection supervision, audit supervision, etc.
Cohesion and supervision
On August 30th, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the 21st meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform. It reviewed and approved the "Opinions on More Effectively Giving Full Play to the Role of Statistical Supervision", emphasizing the need to strengthen statistical supervision functions and improve the quality of statistical data. Accelerate the construction of a complete, collaborative, efficient, and restrictive statistical supervision system.
The meeting pointed out that statistical supervision is an important part of the party and state supervision system.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have made institutional arrangements for the improvement of statistical supervision, investigated and dealt with a large number of statistical violations of discipline and law, and statistical supervision has achieved remarkable results.
It is necessary to promote the integration of statistical supervision and disciplinary supervision, organizational supervision, inspection supervision, audit supervision, etc., strengthen work coordination and use of statistical supervision results, and enhance supervision efficiency.
Since the completion of the first two rounds of statistical inspections in 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and 9 State Council departments, the third round of statistical inspections will be launched soon.
The National Bureau of Statistics will achieve "full coverage" of regular statistical inspections of provincial and regional party committees and governments within this year.
As an important means of adhering to the position of political supervision and carrying out statistical supervision, statistical inspectors are regarded as "a good recipe for effective management of statistical violations."
What did the Statistics Inspector find?
What is the reason for the exposed data distortion problem?
How to promote the integration of statistical supervision and disciplinary supervision, organizational supervision, inspection supervision, audit supervision, etc., to improve supervision efficiency?
The reporter interviewed relevant departments of the National Bureau of Statistics.
The statistical inspector adheres to the combination of “points” and “aspects”, continuously broadens the channels for discovering problems, deeply analyzes the root causes of problems, and explores effective governance strategies
In the "Science and Technology Economic and Information Bureau QQ Group" of a certain city in eastern China, the "instructions" received by the enterprises in the area regarding statistical data are shocking——
When companies submit financial statements, the main business income indicator must exceed 20 million yuan, and the number of reports in the first half of the year must be at least half. Companies that are less than 20 million yuan must adjust the number of reports in the last two months as required; less than 20 million Yuan enterprises will automatically withdraw from the database and no longer enjoy preferential policies such as project declaration; each enterprise must first submit the paper or electronic version of the report to the Bureau of Economic and Information Technology for review before reporting the statistical report on the online direct reporting platform.
Wang Mou, a temporary employee of the District Economic and Information Bureau, also asked all enterprise statisticians to clean up relevant chat records.
"Annual main business income reaches 20 million yuan" is the basic threshold for industrial enterprises above designated size.
The number of "regulated enterprises" is one of the indicators to measure the strength of the local economy.
According to regulations, industrial enterprises above designated size need to enter the "National Basic Statistics Unit Directory Database" first, and then report the relevant data truthfully, that is, "enter the database first, then report the number".
In addition, Wang asked many companies to report statistical data at an increase of about 20% over the phone.
After the inspector discovered the problem, the then-in-charge of the bureau was punished by an administrative warning, and Wang was dismissed.
"Statistical data quality is the lifeblood of statistical work. Providing statistical data truthfully, accurately, and in a complete and timely manner is the eternal theme of statistical departments and a lifelong task for statistical workers." Ning Ning, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, and Party Secretary Ji Zhe said.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Statistical Management System and Improving the Authenticity of Statistical Data", "Proposals for the Sanction of Persons Responsible for Statistical Violations and Laws", and "Provisions on the Prevention and Punishment of Statistical Falsification and Falsification Supervision Work" (hereinafter referred to as " The Opinions, the Measures, and the Regulations) have been issued successively, and the statistical ecology has been continuously consolidated and expanded, but the soil that breeds statistical fraud still exists, and the struggle against unhealthy trends has not stopped.
How does the statistical inspection work?
To put it simply, it is necessary to combine "points" and "surfaces".
According to An Pingnian, Director of the Bureau of Statistics Enforcement and Supervision of the National Bureau of Statistics, during the on-site inspections, the inspection team not only used the methods of reading questionnaires, inquiries and interviews, accepting letters and visits, etc., to understand the "face-to-face" problems, but also used the "four non-two straight" inspections. "Double random" spot checks and other methods to understand the "point" problems, check the quality of township statistical work and enterprise source data, and use the grass-roots "nervous endings" to track local party committees and governments in implementing the party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployments on statistical reform and development. Existing problems, and then in-depth analysis of the root cause of the problem.
The statistical inspection has been carried out for two consecutive years. What problems have been discovered?
"From an overall point of view, in recent years, various localities and departments have paid more and more attention to statistical work. However, there is still a gap between the implementation of the "Opinions", the "Measures" and the "Regulations" of some localities and departments and the requirements of the central government. Problems such as ineffective implementation of responsibilities for statistical falsification and various degrees of inaccuracy in the statistical data of some companies under inspection still exist." An Pingnian said frankly.
The inspectors found that some local governments instructed companies to falsely report data out of investment considerations, and statisticians even provided tables that included specific economic data, asking companies to "draw from the gourd" to ensure "steady growth" of data, and specific specific requirements would be specified in individual months. Growth rate; some local economic and information departments held a meeting at the beginning of the year to directly arrange statistical fraud tasks and issue "fraud subsidies" to enterprises; some companies falsely reported statistical data to meet the "regulatory" standards, which deviated from the tax bureau data, and some No tax record even...
Statistical fraud has the problem of a small number of leading cadres’ misplaced views on their performance, as well as insufficient prevention and punishment, and a weak awareness of the rule of law in all aspects of statistics.
The country's three orders and five applications strictly prohibit falsification of figures. Why do individual localities, departments and enterprises repeatedly take risks and falsely report statistics?
“Some local party committees and governments force subordinates and enterprises to increase their weight in order to complete the task of target assessment; some enterprises do not resist or interfere with their independent reporting rights in accordance with the law. Instead, they cater to the local government and relevant departments in order to seek development support.” Mao Youfeng, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, analyzed that the purpose of statistical fraud and falsification is mainly twofold: On the one hand, a small number of leading cadres regard statistical falsification as a shortcut to seek illegitimate interests, and use illegal intervention to manipulate statistical data. The article reads "Officials provide figures, and figures are used by officials." On the other hand, some companies falsely report and conceal statistical data to seek their own interests in order to obtain loans, create famous brands, and enjoy policy preferences.
In closer examination, the causes of statistical falsification and falsification are more complicated, including the problem of misplaced views of party and government leaders' performance, as well as the problem of insufficient local punishment, and the problem of weak awareness of the rule of law in all aspects of statistics.
Specifically, in some places, there is insufficient understanding of the harmfulness of statistical falsification and falsification, and there is a phenomenon of comparing statistics with each other, which causes the setting of goals and tasks to be out of reality and puts greater pressure on real statistics; in some places, there is local protectionism, and there is a problem of statistical falsification. Accountability and accountability are "relaxed and soft"; some places one-sidedly maintain the local image, and have negative sentiment towards the exposure of statistical fraud cases.
A small number of grassroots cadres do not have enough respect for the statistical law, have a weak awareness of the rule of law, and some even know the law to break the law.
Some companies do not know the law, do not understand the law, and fail to comply with the law. Some companies do not pay attention to statistics, and they do not cooperate well and report numbers at will; some falsify warehousing data for their own benefit, falsely report and conceal statistical data; some do not want to offend local governments And the relevant departments, report the number according to the requirements against their will.
"Accountability for statistical violation cases is not timely and in place, the mechanism for preventing and punishing statistical fraud and fraud is not complete, and the role of case warning education is not fully played." "The data quality control system is incomplete, and there is a lack of effective data quality control methods. Insufficient guidance from local departments"... Recently, various inspection teams of the National Bureau of Statistics have fed back their inspection opinions to the regions and departments under inspection in 2020.
“The prerequisite for doing a good job in the rectification of the second half of the article is to do a good job in the first half of the article." Ma Jing, director of the Statistical Inspection Division of the Bureau of Statistics Enforcement and Supervision of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that a sound system and mechanism is to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the inspection work. The essential.
It is understood that the two rounds of statistical inspectors have consulted nearly 97,000 documents, conducted individual interviews with 3,102 persons (times), questionnaire surveys by 5,059 persons, 3,591 law enforcement inspection companies, on-site investigations in 117 towns (streets), and verified 138 statistics. Clues to violations of discipline and law.
As of the beginning of July, the 17 inspected regions and departments in the second round had all submitted their rectification reports to the inspectors, and the rectification situation had been disclosed to the public.
"According to regulations, the rectification work needs to be completed within three months. This does not mean that it will come to an end. We will also actively guide and urge the supervised regions and departments to continue to implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments on statistical reform and development. Perform statistical statutory duties, and promptly upgrade effective rectification practices to a long-term mechanism to prevent and punish statistical fraud, and promote the construction of a statistical ecology that dare not, cannot, or do not want to fake.” Ma Jing said.
Statistical institutions at all levels take the initiative to strengthen communication with discipline inspection and supervision agencies, and promote the coordination of statistical supervision and discipline inspection and supervision
In June 2020, the National Supervisory Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly exposed the problem of falsification of statistical data in the national economic census in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.
The deputy governor in charge of statistical work, county party secretary, county head and other relevant responsible persons were dealt with accordingly, which formed a powerful deterrent to statistical fraud.
Since 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics has transferred to the National Supervisory Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection a number of cases involving Ningxia Lingwu, Shanxi Yingxian and other cases and recommendations for punishment, timely reporting of the investigation and handling of major statistical violations of discipline and law; signing a supervisory data sharing cooperation agreement, Realize the sharing of macro statistical data on the information supervision platform; statistical agencies at all levels take the initiative to strengthen communication with discipline inspection and supervision agencies, and achieve precise work docking.
In order to strengthen the re-supervision of statistical inspection and supervision, the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the National Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Development and Reform Commission has adopted the methods of attending meetings, reminders of interviews, reading materials, supervision and research, etc., to keep abreast of the development of statistical inspections and strengthen the supervision of inspections. Supervision and guidance of implementation plan formulation, field inspection, inspection of inspection reports, and feedback of inspection opinions.
Strengthen embedded supervision, send people to follow up the work of statistical inspections in a certain area, and extend the tentacles of supervision to the front line of statistical inspections.
In response to the problems of unclear content boundaries, unclear responsibilities and authorities, and unsatisfactory feedback mechanisms in the review of statistical violations, the National Bureau of Statistics, under the guidance of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Development and Reform Commission, studied and formulated the The Notice on Improving the Review of Cases of Statistical Violation of Discipline and Law, promote the coordination of statistical supervision and discipline inspection and supervision, and unite the joint efforts of supervision.
To promote the in-depth development of preventing and punishing statistical fraud and fraud, we must show the sword of accountability and awaken responsibility.
“We communicated face-to-face with the discipline inspection team leaders of 32 investigation teams, and further emphasized the prevention and punishment of statistical fraud and the function of statistical supervision as the main content of strengthening political supervision. We requested the disciplinary inspection team of the corps party group to supervise the investigation teams at all levels. Intensify law enforcement inspections, exert the deterrent effect of investigation and punishment, and actively explore the establishment of mutual restraint mechanisms with local statistical agencies in data production and other links, promptly discover signs and tendencies in statistical falsification and falsification, and make full use of national investigations The team’s “probe” and “sentinel” roles have implemented the Party Central Committee’s various decisions and deployments on statistical work.” said the relevant person in charge of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Development and Reform Commission.
Up to now, the first round of 9 inspected areas has completed the accountability of 278 personnel.
Among them, 13 were at the department level, 94 were at the county level, 162 were at the township level and below, and 9 were employees of enterprises and institutions. A total of 97 were given party discipline and government sanctions, and 181 were organized and dealt with.
Promote the co-ordination of statistical supervision and disciplinary supervision, organizational supervision, inspection supervision, audit supervision, etc., and unite the joint supervision of supervision
With the continuous improvement of the party and state supervision systems, the relevance and interaction of supervision in various fields and links has been significantly enhanced. Each type of supervision will have an important impact on other supervision, and it also requires the coordination of other supervisions. It must be coordinated and promoted from top to bottom.
Firmly hold on to the "bull nose" of the responsibility system, and promote the establishment of a horizontal-to-side and vertical-to-bottom responsibility system for preventing and punishing statistical fraud.
Relevant responsibility systems and accountability systems have been established in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangxi, Chongqing, Gansu, Ningxia and other places.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the National Health Commission, the People’s Bank of China and other departments have formulated documents on the responsibility for preventing and punishing statistical fraud. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs have further clarified this The responsibility system and accountability system for preventing and punishing statistical falsification systematically and in this field, and the departmental responsibility system for preventing and punishing statistical falsification has been gradually established.
Statistical institutions at all levels in the inspected area have established responsibility systems for responsible persons and statisticians to prevent and punish statistical fraud.
During the period of statistical inspection and rectification, the inspected areas and departments formulate specific measures, carry out supervision and inspection, and promote the implementation of the "Opinions" and "Measures".
In the first two rounds of inspected areas, the statistical law was included in the compulsory course of the education and training of provincial party school leaders.
Shanxi, Guangxi, and Yunnan have formulated comprehensive performance evaluation methods for high-quality development.
Sichuan has incorporated the prevention and punishment of statistical fraud into the annual due diligence list of the leadership team and leading cadres, as an important basis for evaluation, rewards and punishments.
Auditing is also an important part of the party and state supervision system.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized the function of audit supervision and statistical supervision.
"Audit supervision is at the macro level to realize the protection of national funds and the restriction of power." Li Xue, a professor at the School of Management of Ocean University of China, believes: "The current state audit has evolved from a simple audit of fiscal revenue and expenditure to a follow-up of the implementation of major national policies. Audits, people’s livelihood audits, economic responsibility audits, and leading cadres’ natural resource and asset out-of-service audits, and other audit services that pay equal attention to. authoritative."
Spending money must be effective, and ineffectiveness must be accountable.
The National Audit Work Conference held at the beginning of this year revealed that in 2020, the national audit institutions will deeply reveal major violations of discipline and law, disrupt economic order, and “micro-corruption” and “small officials and huge corruption” around the masses, and transfer them to disciplinary inspection and supervision, judicial organs, etc. There are nearly 4,000 clues to the problem, involving more than 4,000 people.
A total of 18,000 leading cadres were audited across the country, and more than 70 billion yuan was found to be directly responsible for problems.
The main person in charge of the National Audit Office stated, “Only when there is no omission, no exception, and full coverage of the relevant localities, departments, and enterprises and institutions that manage the use of public funds, state-owned assets, and state-owned resources, can auditing have no restricted areas and form a normal state. Transformation and dynamic deterrence will allow power to always have awe of the law and supervision, and let lawbreakers abandon the psychology of fluke and the idea of'passing through'."
The work report of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection pointed out that the integration of various types of supervision should be promoted, and the effectiveness of supervision and governance should be continuously enhanced.
Promote the coordination of inspection and supervision with disciplinary inspection and supervision, and cooperate with the supervision of organization, politics and law, auditing, finance and accounting, statistics, and the masses to form a combined supervision force.
In the next step, we must further play the role of audit supervision and statistical supervision, improve the working mechanism of information communication, clue transfer, measure cooperation, and results sharing, and take the supervision of the party as the leading factor to promote the organic integration, coordination, and formation of various supervisions. Improve supervision efficiency.
Our reporter Guan Xiaopu