There are village clerks in the village (people's eyes, grassroots governance exploration ②)
Introduction
Like many villages, three years ago, there were "five members" in rural Guidong County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province: ecological forest rangers, rural (river) cleaners, road maintenance staff, traffic persuasion staff, and safety production supervisors.
Today, after unified integration, there is only one "member" in the villages of Guidong County: the village clerk.
"Many members" have changed to "one member". Guidong County not only insists on giving full play to the role of public welfare positions in "covering the bottom line and helping emergencies", but also pays attention to compacting the responsibilities of public welfare positions and improving efficiency. The number of rural public welfare positions in the county has been integrated The former 1,919 people were reduced to 1,120 people.
Guidong is located on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi and in the hinterland of Luoxiao Mountains. The county has a resident population of 212,300 and an area of 1,451.56 square kilometers. There are 471 mountains over 1,500 meters above sea level.
The county area is large and the population is scattered, making it difficult to manage affairs at the village level in Guidong.
In the past, an area often involved multiple public welfare positions, and there were problems such as unclear responsibilities and low efficiency.
In April 2019, the Guidong County Government issued the implementation plan for the integration of village-level public welfare posts, exploring the implementation of the village clerk system of "multiple employees in one, one member with multiple uses".
Through the integration and optimization of personnel, various public welfare positions have changed from the previous division of labor and "one person, one post" to one post with multiple responsibilities, which is divided into parts.
At the same time, Guidong insisted on keeping the funds and personnel down, and encouraging salary increases. The salary for public welfare positions has been increased from 60 yuan to 500 yuan per month before the reform to the current 1,130 yuan or more. The village clerks are motivated to work It has been significantly improved, and its role in the rural grid governance mechanism is more prominent.
In May 2020, seven departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "Notice on Further Making Good Use of Public Welfare Posts to Play the Role of Employment Guarantee", requiring "strengthening the standardized management of posts" and "resolutely avoiding multiple posts in one village and multiple posts per person." Too many posts are set up too much and so on.”
In May 2021, five departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Effectively Strengthening Employment Assistance, Consolidating and Expanding the Achievements of Poverty Alleviation and Helping Rural Revitalization", proposing to "increase the overall use of various positions" and "sound" The management mechanism of setting up posts on demand, hiring by post, receiving compensation on the post, and orderly resigning from posts will further standardize the development and management of rural public welfare posts.”
In December 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the National Rural Revitalization Bureau released the third batch of 21 typical cases of rural public services across the country, "Guidong, Hunan: 'Village Clerk' Skillfully Weaves Rural Public Service 'Net'" on the list.
A few days ago, the reporter walked into Longxi Village, Xinfang Township, Guidong County, the most populous administrative village in the county, to listen to the story of the village clerk.
Village primary school teacher Fang Jiagui——
"Someone does things, takes care of problems, and takes responsibility. Village clerks are 'all-rounders' of village 'micro-governance'"
The ancient trees are tall and straight, and the forests are winding and quiet. The children of Longxi Nursery Hope Primary School in Xinfang Township, Guidong County were walking on the way to school in twos and threes. Safety.
This forest road is Wu Yonggen's job responsibility area. He usually not only diverts traffic, but also cleans up, and makes several round trips in the morning and evening.
"The village clerk guards the children's way to school, parents can rest assured, and teachers can rest assured." Fang Jiagui, a second-grade teacher at Longxi Nursery Hope Primary School, said that there are more than 120 students in the school and the affiliated kindergarten who pass through this ancient forest every day to and from school. The lush branches and leaves have experienced wind and rain for many years, hiding hidden safety hazards.
At 6:00 a.m. on November 15, 2021, when Wu Yonggen was inspecting and cleaning along the way as usual, he found a broken branch of an ancient heather tree on the road. He speculated that it was caused by the strong wind and rain the night before.
"The diameter of the broken branch is thicker than the mouth of the bowl." Fang Jiagui recalled that when he passed the incident site that day, Wu Yonggen had dragged the broken branch nearly one person tall to the grassy pile beside the road.
In the late autumn, the mountain wind was cool, but Wu Yonggen's forehead was covered with beads of sweat. He waved his broom with both hands to clean up the branches scattered on the road before the children went to school.
"The obstacles on the road have been eliminated, and the hidden dangers in the air have not been eradicated." Wu Yonggen said that there are some dead branches in this ancient forest. Because the tree height is more than 10 meters, it is difficult to observe the abnormality with the naked eye. If the dead branches hanging in the air suddenly It is not trivial to break and fall and hit pedestrians.
"The hidden dangers are eliminated earlier, and pedestrians are safer." Wu Yonggen immediately reported the situation to the two village committees, and suggested to comprehensively investigate problems such as tree dumping and dead branches, and take targeted protection measures; Tall and isolated ancient trees, take lightning protection measures in time.
The village clerks responded, and the village cadres responded.
Wu Yonggen’s suggestion was affirmed by the two village committees. Under the coordination of the Politics and Law Committee of the Guidong County Party Committee and the County Development and Reform Bureau jointly dispatched by the Longxi Village Rural Revitalization Task Force, forestry technicians carried out a comprehensive investigation of the ancient forests, and checked the dumping, decay and withering and the existence of pests and diseases. The branches are marked one by one.
Afterwards, the municipal aerial work platform truck drove into Longxi Village, and the village clerks fastened safety ropes, took the lift, and pruned and disposed of dead branches with hidden dangers of breakage.
"The village clerks perform their duties well, and the children's way to school is safer." Fang Jiagui said that in the past, there were also road maintenance staff, cleaners and traffic counselors on this road, but there were multiple managements, unclear responsibilities, and shirk. has happened.
In April 2019, Guidong County issued an implementation plan for the integration of village-level public welfare positions. According to the integration mechanism of "one member with multiple responsibilities and overall planning", the ecological forest rangers, rural (river) cleaners, and Five types of village-level public welfare positions, such as road maintenance personnel, traffic persuasion personnel, and safety production supervisors, are centralized and integrated as village clerks.
"System design is the key to integrating and optimizing public welfare positions." Wang Fengmei, a staff member of the Guidong County Coordinating Urban and Rural Development Leading Group Office, said that at that time, all administrative villages (communities) in Guidong County hired village clerks based on the proportion of 8‰ of the total population. , and clearly divided the responsibility area of each village clerk, and the number of rural public welfare posts was reduced from 1,919 to 1,358.
Wu Yonggen became the first batch of village clerks.
With the village clerk in the village, Fang Jiagui quickly felt the change.
Longxi Nursery Hope Primary School is built on the mountainside. When it rains heavily, the concrete pavement built along the mountain is flooded with water, and shoes are often soaked when walking on the road.
One day last spring, Fang Jiagui encountered a torrential rain on his way to work, but the amount of water passing on the road was much smaller than before. He walked all the way to the school without water getting into his shoes.
At the school gate, Fang Jiagui noticed that two slender water troughs were carved out of the road, and the rainwater poured into the roadside drains along the troughs.
A colleague told Fang Jiagui that the sink was proposed by Wu Yonggen.
"Someone does things, takes care of problems, and takes responsibility. Village clerks are 'all-rounders' of village 'micro-governance'." Fang Jiagui said with emotion.
Village clerk Wu Youxiong——
"From 'one share in charge' to 'one share in charge', the salary package has increased, the work efficiency has been improved, and the sense of responsibility has been strengthened."
The winding Longxi River flows quietly, and the green mountains are reflected on the mirror-like water.
Suddenly, with a "dong" sound, a bus hit a street tree, and several village officials, including Wu Yonggen and Wu Youxiong, who were patrolling nearby, rushed to the scene quickly.
Fortunately, only the body was damaged and the passengers were not injured.
However, a sturdy branch had blocked the upper right of the front of the car, and another cluster of branches protruded into the window.
This section of the road is the only bus line from the county town into the village.
"Obstructions must be removed immediately to ensure safe passage of vehicles." Wu Yonggen leaned the ladder against the tree trunk and climbed to the top of the wooden ladder to saw branches. Wu Youxiong supported the ladder with both hands, and other colleagues delivered tools to Wu Yonggen from time to time.
Several village clerks cooperated tacitly, the branches were quickly sawed off, and the traffic on the village road was restored.
The place of the incident was not Wu Youxiong's area of responsibility, but she came to the scene as soon as she received a call for assistance.
According to the list of duties, village clerks undertake daily duties such as rural cleaning, road maintenance, forest protection and fire prevention, and traffic persuasion.
Compared with Wu Youxiong's original public welfare position as a cleaner, the role of the village clerk is obviously heavier, but she is still very motivated.
This stems from the effect of the reform of the management mechanism of rural public welfare posts in Guidong County.
——Set the salary, and the treatment guarantees the salary.
In accordance with the principle of "transferring funds as needed", the Guidong County Finance Bureau plans and integrates more than 20 million yuan of funds for public welfare positions in various departments every year to ensure the remuneration of village clerks.
The monthly salary level of village clerks has increased from the original 60 to 500 yuan to the current 1,130 yuan or more.
When Wu Youxiong was a cleaner, his monthly salary was 500 yuan, and now his income has more than doubled.
——Delineate the area and manage the grid in the whole area.
Guidong County divides grid areas according to the principles of territoriality and convenience, and village clerks serve as grid members.
Longxi Village has high mountains and dense forests, and the villagers live in scattered places. When Wu Youxiong was a cleaner, he was responsible for the cleaning of 1/3 of the village, cleaning at least two hours once, twice a day.
Today, as a village clerk, Wu Youxiong "people are on the grid and things are on the grid". Although the area of the service responsibility area is only 1/3 of the previous one, his responsibilities have increased.
Early in the morning, Wu Youxiong put on an orange vest marked with the words "Xinfang Village Attendant" and a helmet with the words "Xinfang Safety Persuasion" to start the day's work.
Holding a large broom, while sweeping along the village road, she paid close attention to the passing vehicles and reminded the children going to school to take precautions.
"Many things can be carried out simultaneously now, and the working hours are similar to the previous ones, but the responsibility is heavier and the responsibility is heavier." Wu Youxiong said.
"The tasks of village clerks have increased, and their comprehensive skills need to be improved urgently. We strengthen business training to ensure that they are competent as soon as they take office." Wang Fengmei said that Guidong County regularly organizes training for village clerks, and township cadres in charge of related businesses explain road maintenance respectively. Road protection, forest protection and fire prevention, etc.
After the theory class, the village clerks went outdoors to watch the firefighters demonstrate how to use tools such as wind extinguishers and chainsaws.
Xinfang Township also printed and distributed training manuals to each village clerk, which Wu Youxiong carried in his pocket for easy viewing at any time.
Since 2019, Guidong County has carried out a total of 156 training sessions for village clerks, with 17,000 participants, which not only improves the skills of village clerks, but also enhances the ability of teamwork.
"From 'managing each share' to 'carrying the same load', wages have increased, work efficiency has been increased, and sense of responsibility has become stronger. Not only can you work at home with peace of mind, but you can also take care of family and farm work." Wu Youxiong said that the new crown pneumonia Since the epidemic prevention and control work was carried out, the village has established a village clerk inspection team. She and the village clerks in the adjacent responsible areas have been organized into a team to help protect the health of the villagers from temperature measurement to cleaning and disinfecting.
Huang Wei, secretary of the general branch of the village party——
"From long-term employment to one-year employment, from no-objection automatic renewal to differential competition, the recruitment and renewal process of village clerks is more strict and standardized."
After a notice to recruit village clerks was posted, 98 villagers from Longxi Village were attracted to sign up.
In February 2021, after the qualification review of the village committee and the township government, the public voting of the masses, and the announcement of the proposed personnel, 26 people were finally selected as the 2021 Longxi Village clerks.
Wu Youxiong re-competed for employment and was re-appointed.
In 2016, Wu Youxiong was identified as a village cleaner. The renewal procedure is simple, just fill in the form.
According to the relevant regulations at the time, except for overage or violations of law and discipline, public welfare positions are generally employed for a long time, and the labor agreement will be automatically renewed after the expiration.
Nowadays, village clerks are hired once a year, and Wu Youxiong is more attentive when working.
"From long-term employment to one-year employment, from automatic renewal without objection to competitive employment, the recruitment and renewal process of village clerks is more strictly standardized." Director of Xinfang Township Social Affairs and Emergency Affairs Service Center, Longxi Village Party Branch Secretary Huang Wei introduced that the implementation plan for the integration of village-level public welfare positions in Guidong County stipulates that all townships should strengthen the management of village clerks and strictly implement the employment mechanism of the survival of the fittest. Review applicants one by one.
"Wu Youxiong's re-employment is due to her excellent performance in the previous year and the basic conditions she possesses." Huang Wei said that Wu Youxiong has a strong sense of responsibility and has served as a village clerk for three consecutive years. The villagers praised.
She is also a poverty alleviation household in the village, which is in line with the public welfare nature of the village clerk's post, and won unanimous support in the mass evaluation session.
"Village clerks are people who do things for the villagers, and the recruitment must be open and transparent." Huang Wei introduced that the Longxi Village Review and Recommendation Working Group determined the candidates for village clerks based on the voting results and reported them to the Xinfang Township Government. , the list of personnel to be hired should be publicized at the township and village levels.
After the publicity period expires, the Longxi Village Committee signs a labor service agreement with the newly (continued) hired village clerk, and reports it to the County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau for the record.
At the beginning of this year, Guidong County introduced a new recruitment plan for village clerks. The number of village clerks was determined according to 6‰ of the total population of each village. The number of village clerks in the county was reduced from 1,358 last year to 1,120. Staff positions were also reduced from 26 to 21.
This year, 17 village clerks, including Wu Youxiong, were reappointed, and the other 4 were newly hired, which means that 9 village clerks from the previous year were not renewed.
Why didn't they get hired?
"Three of them are over 60 years old and do not meet the age requirements." Huang Wei said that the remaining six were because they failed to perform their duties well during the employment period.
"For example, there is a ditch in Sister Fu's area of responsibility, and there are often rubbish and debris floating on the water surface. She always needs to be reminded repeatedly by the village cadres before she can clean it up. Brother Deng is not too concerned about his own work. Once, the village cadres checked the hygiene, He found that there was rubbish in his area of responsibility and asked him to clean it, but he said that he was buying rubbish outside and would not be back in a while." Huang Wei introduced.
Open the 2021 Longxi Village village clerk assessment and evaluation summary table, the test scores of Sister Fu and Brother Deng are at the bottom.
When the village clerk was recruited in 2022, Longxi Village took the village clerk's evaluation score in the previous year as an important basis, and the two were unsuccessful.
Guo Hongbo, Secretary of the Township Party Committee——
"Village clerks are familiar with nostalgia and public opinion, and are becoming the 'first tentacles' for collecting information, discovering risks, feeding back information, and resolving disputes."
In 2021, only 3 conflicts and disputes will be handed over to the township level for mediation in Longxi Village, which is 1/6 of the number two years ago.
In the 2021 survey on public safety and satisfaction in Chenzhou, Xinfang Township, where Longxi Village is located, ranks fourth among 159 townships in the city, up 120 places from 2019.
"The village clerk system has played a positive role in resolving conflicts at the grassroots level," said Guo Hongbo, secretary of the Xinfang Township Party Committee. According to the list of responsibilities, village clerks perform their daily duties as well as policy preaching and conflict mediation." Village clerks come from villagers and serve villagers, and they are often the first to come into contact with various conflicts and disputes, and they also have a better understanding of the causes of conflicts and disputes.
The village clerk of Longxi Village, Fu Dayi, is a good player in resolving conflicts and disputes.
At the end of June last year, when Fu Dayi was on patrol by bicycle, he vaguely heard quarrels coming from the terraces opposite.
When I went to see it, it turned out that it was the villager Sister Wu and Aunt Li who were arguing.
The two terraced fields are adjacent to each other, with Wujiatian on the top and Lijiatian on the bottom. They have shared a water source for many years. If you open a small opening on the Wujiatian ridge, the water can flow into Lijiatian.
At that time, there was a drought and the rice was in the stage of tillering and heading. Sister Wu was worried about the lack of water in her rice field, so she blocked the water outlet on the ridge.
Aunt Li was in a hurry, and immediately quarreled with Sister Wu.
Fu Dayi is an "old-fashioned style" who has been farming for more than 30 years. He stepped on the ridge to the terraced fields of Wu's family to explore the depth of the water, and calmly expressed his opinion: "There is no shortage of water in the paddy fields, but it is easy to breed if there is too much water. Pests such as the two borers are not conducive to the growth of rice. It is advisable to keep the water depth of the paddy field at about 5 cm. The water depth of your paddy field exceeds 7 cm." After hearing this, Sister Wu calmed down and dug the ridge with a hoe. There was a gap, and the water flowed into the rice fields of Aunt Li's family.
"Village clerks are familiar with local conditions and public opinion, and are becoming the 'first tentacles' for collecting information, discovering risks, feedback information, and resolving disputes." Guo Hongbo said that there are more than 3,500 people in Longxi Village, which is the most populous administrative village in Guidong County.
There are only seven cadres in the two village committees. In the past, it was time-consuming and laborious to mediate conflicts and disputes among villagers. Now the village clerks effectively assist the two village committees to resolve conflicts at the source, resolve disputes at the grassroots level, and solve problems around the masses.
There are fewer conflicts and disputes, and there is more momentum for development.
At the beginning of this year, the good ecological environment of Longxi Village attracted a company to invest in the development of the Chinese herbal medicine industry under the forest.
This new investment will provide villagers with a number of nearby jobs.
Wang Fengmei, a performance appraisal cadre——
"Make good use of the assessment 'baton' and ask for both effectiveness and accountability"
Driving on the winding mountain road in Longxi Village, the greenery occasionally reflected a touch of orange-yellow. It was the village clerks in work clothes who were patrolling the section of their respective responsibility.
Every morning at 5:30, Fu Dayi takes a broom and a dustpan to go out. After cleaning the 3.5-kilometer-long road leading to the village, he also cleans key areas every two hours.
"Counties and townships have assessments, and the masses have assessments, so work can't be sloppy." Fu Dayi said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Make good use of the assessment 'baton' to ask for both results and accountability." Wang Fengmei said that the Guidong County Coordinating Urban and Rural Development Leading Group Office took the lead in establishing a dynamic management mechanism for village clerks, implementing "quarterly inspections at the county level, and every township and township." "Monthly assessment and village-level daily inspection", taking the mass evaluation as the main assessment index and linking it with the daily performance of the village clerks.
Since 2019, Guidong County has reduced the performance of village clerks by a total of 517 person-times.
"Improve the professional level of the village clerk team with a dynamic management mechanism, and the flow mechanism of 'the able ones go up and the mediocre ones down' is gradually formed." Wang Fengmei said that the labor agreement has not expired but the assessment has not passed the assessment or caused a major impact due to work mistakes. , The lost village clerk shall be terminated by the township according to the regulations.
Since 2019, seven village clerks in the county have been dismissed for failing to perform their duties.
In 2021, Guidong County will select 150 outstanding village clerks within the county and will be rewarded at the standard of 1,200 yuan per person.
Fu Dayi has been among the best in previous assessments and was awarded the title of Outstanding Village Officer.
He placed the big red certificate in a prominent position in his living room, and he was more motivated to work.
"This is the first time that Guidong County has evaluated village clerks. In the future, we will explore a normalized reward mechanism to stimulate the enthusiasm of village clerks to love their posts." Wang Fengmei said.
Wu Zhiping, secretary of the Guidong County Party Committee, said: "We will continue to improve the treatment of village clerks, promote the construction of the village clerk team, take public welfare posts as an effective means of strengthening rural governance, weave a network of rural governance, and improve rural governance. A game of chess."
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