The security of grain depot reserves is related to national food security.
After tracking a local grain reserve case, reporter Banyuetan found that the lack of system, lax management, and lack of supervision in individual local food systems led to the fact that the grain guards had little power and small officials were greedy. .
The index allocation "shoots the head",
Discretionary "Look at Relationships"
The People's Procuratorate of Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province recently prosecuted Su Xueming for accepting bribes.
After examination, the criminal suspect Su Xueming used himself to be responsible for the allocation of local grain reserves, allocation of funds, buybacks, etc. Due to his position, he illegally received more than 1.42 million yuan in money for many times, seeking illegitimate benefits for others.
Su Xueming's bribery case is thought-provoking.
In terms of level, Su Xueming is just a stock-level cadre, but he is in a key position in the Wujiang District Grain Bureau, and he "can make decisions" and "make the final call" in many business fields.
Wang Weiwei, prosecutor of the Second Procuratorial Department of the Wujiang District Procuratorate, introduced that when Su Xueming served as the legal person and general manager of Wujiang Grain Purchase and Sales Corporation, he was the only one in the corporate leadership team, and he was in charge of all major and small affairs.
When the grain quality failed to meet the standard several times and the annual grain reserve plan could not be completed, Su Xueming decided to purchase grain from other places on his own, and when there was enough warehouse capacity in Wujiang District, he arbitrarily adopted the method of grain storage in other places, and failed to report to the district government in writing. Serious threat to local food security.
The allocation of local grain reserves is the annual key work and primary task of the food system, and it is related to regional food security.
Su Xueming holds the right to allocate indicators, but does not act according to the policy, but grabs illegitimate benefits for others.
During his tenure, the distribution of local grain reserves in Wujiang District was only issued in the form of the document "Measures for the Management and Operation of Local Grain Reserves in Wujiang" for two years. In other years, Su Xueming decided the allocation plan based on his personal relationship.
In 2016, Su Xueming divided the region's 5,800 tons of wheat reserves into two and gave them to the Suzhou Wujiang Grain Purchase and Sales Corporation Wanping Branch, where the bribe-bender, Zhong Jingen, was located, and Jinjiaba, Suzhou Wujiang Grain Purchase and Sales Corporation, where the bribe-bender, Wang Rongming, was located. Each branch company has 2,900 tons, disrupting the order of grain reserve distribution and infringing on the legitimate interests of other enterprises.
The system "pretends" and supervision "goes through the motions"
What is the reason that key personnel in key positions like Su Xueming are "out of control" and breed corruption?
One of the reasons is that existing policies are ineffective and poorly implemented.
The "Administrative Measures for Local Grain Reserves in Jiangsu Province" implemented from October 1, 2015 to December 31, 2020 stipulates that "the people's governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) divided into districts shall reserve grain according to the local grain reserves issued by the provincial people's government. plan, formulate and implement plans, and organize the implementation." "The method of purchasing local grain reserves shall be determined by the people's government at the same level. It is encouraged to purchase through standardized large and medium-sized wholesale markets."
The government of Wujiang District of Suzhou City did not strictly implement the provisions of the document, but instead handed over the distribution rights of grain reserves to subordinate state-owned enterprises such as the Grain Purchase and Sales Corporation for their own decision, resulting in excessive discretionary power and fostering power rent-seeking.
Some grass-roots food system supervision is only a mere formality, and a key minority of "one post with two responsibilities" is absent.
Reporter Banyuetan's investigation found that some grass-roots grain station staff are deeply involved in the grain system, with old qualifications, professional skills, and familiarity. However, the main leaders and in-charge leaders of local grain departments change frequently, often do not understand business, and adopt the opinions of professional staff.
In the case of Su Xueming, the two deputy directors of the Grain Bureau, who were in charge of regulation, were not familiar with professional knowledge, and they blindly adopted various matters that should have been reported, signed and approved, and discussed and decided at the director's office meeting instead of democratically studied according to the process. Su Xueming's opinion, the restriction and supervision mechanism fails.
In addition, the incomplete restructuring of state-owned enterprises has led to "hoarding filth" in fuzzy areas.
After the grain system was restructured, some staff of the grain management institute decoupled from state-owned enterprises and established private grain and oil purchase and sales companies, but still used the assets of the original grain management institute.
Wang Weiwei said that the assets of the former Grain Management Office belonged to the government and were in charge of the Grain Purchase and Sales Corporation, and the restructuring was incomplete.
In the Su Xueming case, the Wanping Branch of Suzhou Wujiang Grain Purchase and Sales Corporation, where Zhong Jingen was located, was first transformed from Wujiang Wanping Grain Management Office into Wujiang Wanping Fenghu Grain and Oil Co., Ltd. from the 1980s to 2020, and then Suzhou Wujiang Grain Purchasing and Marketing Corporation Wanping Branch was also established. One unit hangs two sets of public and private brands. When collecting subsidies and appropriating payments, there are both public accounts and private accounts. There is a risk of private use and embezzlement of public funds.
The problem of food corruption should be "big bottom"
In response to the phenomenon of "small officials and large corruption" in the field of grain reserves, Dai Fei, deputy chief prosecutor of the Wujiang District People's Procuratorate in Suzhou, believes that cases should play a warning role, deeply analyze the causes of typical cases of violations of laws and disciplines, analyze the common problems in them, and make good use of them. The case "living teaching material" makes key personnel know how to be respectful, guarded against fear, and keep the bottom line.
Bu Yongsheng, a special inspector of the Suzhou Municipal Supervisory Committee, director of the Law and Culture Teaching and Research Office of the Municipal Party School, and a professor of law, said that it is necessary to improve internal supervision capabilities, formulate internal rules and regulations, clarify the division of responsibilities, issue a detailed list of power constraints, and standardize storage inspections and other evidence materials. Whole process record and retention management.
Tang Hao, member of the Standing Committee of the Suzhou Wujiang District Committee, Secretary of the District Disciplinary Committee, and Director of the District Supervisory Committee, said that the discipline inspection and supervision department should focus on many specific links in the grain field, urge functional departments to keep the "responsibility field" and secure the people's "grain bags".
Carry out normalized and clean government talks for the key minority, so that "whoever stores the grain is responsible, whoever spoils the grain, who is responsible", and guards the grain purchase, supply and quality checks.
Unblock the external reporting channels of "letters, visits, Internet, telegrams, and micro-channels", collect clues from multiple parties, and carry out "big bottom" and "big investigation" on food-related issues.
Many experts believe that it is necessary to speed up the reform of grain enterprises, separate the public from the private, separate the public from the private, and clear the source from the aspects of system design, system regulations, process control, and responsibility implementation.
Bu Yongsheng pointed out that it is necessary to improve the ability of informatization and intelligent "technical defense", accelerate the construction of a full-chain digital system in the field of grain reserve management, improve the level of early warning, prevention and control and remote supervision, and enhance the ability of penetrating supervision.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen account management, establish a regular audit system, improve the financial registration management system for all aspects of grain purchases, increase account book auditing, and track the source of special funds to ensure that special funds are used for their own purposes.
Source: "Ban Yue Tan" 2022 Issue No. 8 Original title: "Where to put how much grain is stored, I control the indicators and I make a decision: the "silkworm" case of guarding warehouses warns of food security risks"
Banyuetan Reporter: Liu Weiwei