Why does grain-related corruption become a problem?
The purchase, sale, purchase and storage of grain is a key link in ensuring food security, but the current violations of discipline and law in this field have not been curbed.
What are the typical manifestations of these problems?
Why is it easy?
Which links become high-incidence areas of corruption
Banyuetan reporter found that the construction of grain depot facilities, grain transportation, enterprise investment and operation, and the approval of grain storage and storage sites have become areas with high incidence of violations of discipline and law.
Some cadres use their power to provide assistance to enterprises in the construction of grain storage depots and storage facilities, such as colluding bids, setting bidding conditions for enterprises, revising scoring standards, and requiring judges to lower the scores of other companies; some Use power or position influence to help enterprises controlled by relatives to participate in grain purchase and storage.
Grain purchase and storage links are easily targeted by "grain mice".
Depressing the purchase price of grain, inflating the amount of grain wastage, reselling government grain reserves in violation of regulations, signing false dynamic grain reserve grain purchase agreements, and withholding the income from rotating grain sales... Some "gatekeepers" who should be national grains use many means to seek personal gain.
Ma Zhiming, the former director of the Grain Reserve in Gejiu City, Yunnan Province, used the old grains that had expired and rotated to replace the new grains into the warehouse. In the purchase and sale business transactions between the grain buyers and sellers and the reserve warehouse, the grain price difference was formed, and 1.91 million yuan of grain purchase and sales funds were collected and withheld.
The dereliction of duty in the process of grain reserve rotation and grain subsidy declaration will also cause heavy losses to the country.
From 2017 to 2018, Zhao Taizhong, then manager of Yunnan Guangnan County Grain Purchase and Storage Operation Corporation, and Huang Bingxiao, then deputy manager, did not strictly control the quality of grain during the rotation of grain purchase and storage, and purchased grain based on sensory experience, resulting in The content of the purchased grain yellow grain rice exceeded the standard, resulting in a loss of 1.896 million yuan.
Liu Guozhong, a former member of the party group of the Finance Bureau of Ning'an City, Heilongjiang Province, deliberately concealed problems such as the lack of special agricultural products invoices for self-purchased corn during the inspection of a private enterprise's declaration of grain subsidies, resulting in the declared enterprise illegally obtaining 1.36 million yuan of national grain subsidies. .
There are also individuals who treat grain-related public funds as private funds and arbitrarily misappropriate them.
In the typical cases publicly notified, some persons involved privately set up "small treasuries" for other expenses of the unit and personal use; some instructed their subordinates to misappropriate public funds; Buying stocks, personal consumption.
Correspondingly, the supervision of personnel in key positions such as finance is a mere formality. They not only dare not adhere to the implementation of relevant regulations, "say no" to violations, but even actively cooperate to form a false case.
Why does food corruption become a problem
Industry monopoly, poor management system, and lack of internal and external supervision have resulted in frequent occurrence of grain-related corruption.
The relevant person in charge of the inspection work leading group office of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee said that the grain-related field was once an "unpopular" industry and had been neglected for a long time, especially the state-owned grain enterprises did not implement the reform requirements in place, and there were widespread differences between government and enterprise, policy-related business and operation. Sex business is not completely separated and other issues.
"The Grain Bureau and the purchase and sale companies are mostly two brands and a set of teams. They are both policy executors, makers, and the main body of the market. They have become an important reason for the absence of supervision." Executive Deputy Secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of Yizheng City, Jiangsu Province, Deputy Supervisor of the Commission Director Ding Hongjuan said.
Shen Bin, Secretary-General of the Research Center for Integrity of Yunnan University, believes that due to the monopoly of the grain purchase and sales department on the pricing, procurement and sales methods of grain, the public is often unable to participate in supervision, and the internal supervision and restriction mechanism is not perfect or the supervision is fake, the superior supervisor The lack of daily guidance, supervision and inspection by the department to the grassroots units makes it possible to "operate in the dark" in such links as acquisitions and sales, and it is not easy to detect.
"Using the case to warn, to use the case to promote reform, and to use the case to promote governance" is not thorough, and it also prevents food-related corruption from being warned.
In some places and grain-related units, the rectification of grain-related problems found in various supervision and inspections has not been in place. Some have changed and committed again, and have committed crimes while changing.
There are also departments warning that education is a mere formality, and party members and cadres have not learned profound lessons from corruption cases in the grain field.
Some leading cadres turned the clues to the problems handed over by various supervisory agencies, moved down the responsibility, did not take the initiative to claim, did not organize self-examination and self-correction, resulting in low awareness of discipline and law among the staff of grain depots of grass-roots grain enterprises, and did not understand policies. Request, follow the "old rules" to do things, long-term violations of discipline and law without knowing it.
Ding Hongjuan told Banyuetan that in the past, the organizational relationship of the party members of the grass-roots grain station was in the township party committee, and the personnel relationship was in the grain system. Neither party branch on both sides included them in their daily management.
Such "two-for-nothing" causes the relevant personnel to actually stray from the supervision.
To catch the "big rat" requires a heavy punch
Guaranteeing food security is related to economic development, social stability, and long-term stability of the country, and we must strike hard against grain-related corruption.
The first is to strengthen political supervision and follow-up supervision, carry out special inspections and inspections, strengthen the supervision and inspection of party committees and governments at all levels and relevant departments to implement the main responsibility and supervisory responsibility of food safety, "zero tolerance" for dereliction of duty, and effectively change supervision. For the situation of lack and vacancy, promote the coordination of main responsibilities, supervisory responsibilities and supervisory supervisory responsibilities, strengthen implementation, supervision and supervision, and form a joint force for rectification work.
Experts suggest that it is necessary to master the regular methods and paths to solve problems, and prevent supervision and accountability from being simple and rude, and going through the motions vigorously.
The second is to insist on investigating and reforming while governing, conscientiously summarize the law of occurrence and causes of cases, deeply analyze the deep-seated reasons behind the corruption problem, supervise and improve the system, plug loopholes, and deepen reforms. and other links to establish a complete supervision and control mechanism.
For example, speeding up the construction of a digital supervision information platform for grain-related enterprises, using modern scientific and technological means such as big data, tracking grain purchases and sales in real time, and improving risk early warning and prevention and control capabilities.
Third, we must continue to deepen the reform of state-owned grain enterprises, straighten out and solve the "intestinal obstruction" in the system and mechanism.
Experts suggest to promote the separation of policy and operational functions, government reserve operation business and enterprise operation, strict separation of personnel, physical objects, financial and accounting management, and build a grain reserve management system with clear property rights, clear rights and responsibilities, and scientific management.
Source: "Ban Yue Tan" No. 11, 2022 Original title: "Long-term unattended, illegal without knowing it: reform is difficult to implement, and it breeds grain-related corruption"
Ban Yue Tan Reporter: Zi Qiang Yang Jing Zheng Shengzhu | Editor: Xu Xicai