Since the central government made continuous efforts to reduce the burden on the grassroots and rectify the problems of formalism that plagued the grassroots, the problems of heavy burden and formalism at the grassroots level have been significantly alleviated.

At the same time, reporter Banyuetan found in grassroots interviews in many places that the problem of Wenshan meeting seas in some villages is still serious, and the chronic problems of formalism such as listed villages and shell cooperatives still need to be cured.

There are still many conferences and materials

　　A village party branch secretary who has been re-elected for three consecutive terms said: "The higher-level department issued a notice asking the village to investigate a conflict every day, and resolve it on the same day, and fill in the form and report it as required on the same day."

　　The village party secretary said, "I spend 60% of my energy on the report every day. In addition, there are several signs of demonstration villages hanging in the village. There are many meetings and inspections. How can there be time for development?"

　　A village party secretary in the northeast said he was often asked to attend town and city meetings.

Once, he was busy with the villagers at the cattle breeding base more than 20 miles away from the village committee, but when he received a call, he had to rush back to the village to participate in a video conference on the theme of production layout. Participation is not allowed".

　　Several members of the rural revitalization work team in a certain province in South China said that sometimes they would go to the town to hold three or four meetings a day, and when they came back, they had to communicate and make arrangements to the cadres of the two village committees.

The above requires that "everything has feedback and everything has a response", so it is necessary to leave traces of work, and timely reporting of various materials has become the main task.

　　Grass-roots cadres reported that some higher-level departments visited villages only to check files and materials. Even if they entered households, they mainly checked the publicity materials posted at villagers’ homes.

In order to cope with the work, village cadres can only repeatedly make materials, go to the door to hang signs or post lists.

"Producing materials, hanging signs, and posting lists has become an important manifestation of the quality of grass-roots work." A village secretary said.

There are many brands and “empty shell societies” in the village

　　During a visit to some rural areas in southern China, reporter Banyuetan saw that the cadres of the two village committees and their work and duty schedules were posted at prominent positions at the gate of the village committee office building, and their work and rest requirements were exactly the same as those of government workers.

However, the subsidy for the members of the two village committees is not high, and their main time and energy are in family life and production.

　　On the outer wall of a village committee, there are 21 signs such as the professional cooperative studio, the rural revitalization squadron, the village post station, the retired soldier's workstation, the anti-pornography and illegal work workstation, and the legal service workstation.

Many signs are just hanging up, and no related work has been carried out.

　　A province in East China has cleaned up the listing chaos, but it has not been eradicated.

A person in charge of a village said that the village has made an event sign, and whoever comes to check will hang it.

Some units also require a separate office in the village, but usually no one goes to work.

　　Some rural cooperatives are also mere formalities and become "shell cooperatives".

The village cadres reported that some cooperatives lacked the ability to drive and innovate, lack local talents who understand business operations and management skills, and lack of funding sources. There have been a number of "four no" cooperatives, that is, no actual business activities, no actual members, and no actual business premises. , No economic benefits.

　　In the past, some parts of the southwest required administrative villages to build joint-stock economic cooperatives, and explored the development model of "unity of villages and communities". This was fully implemented without taking into account the differences in the economy, resources, and organizational conditions of each village, and some empty shell cooperatives also appeared.

　The assessment of the baton must focus on actual performance

　　Some grass-roots cadres said that "there are thousands of threads above and a needle below." There are a lot of large and small tasks and tasks implemented in the village, such as consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation, improving the living environment, and reforming the rural property rights system. To meet the inspection, it is necessary to fill in the forms and deal with a large number of village affairs. Some work will inevitably go through the motions.

　　In 2020, a province in East China deployed a campaign to develop the collective economy of low-income villages, requiring the basic elimination of 562 low-income villages with a village-level collective economic operating income of less than 180,000 yuan.

A township cadre said that of the 21 villages in the town, 11 villages did not reach the goal and could only rely on poverty alleviation funds to spread the funds. The villages with better economy also helped to carry out "asset sharing".

"I borrowed it during the inspection, it is considered to be up to the standard, and it will be returned after the inspection."

　　By 2022, the new goal will become 50% of the key to help promote the operating income of the village collective economy to reach 300,000 yuan.

Many village cadres said: "The collective income of the village mainly depends on the service fee for the land transfer, as well as the rental of fish ponds in the village and the old village office, etc., and the extra target of 120,000 yuan. Where does the money come from?"

　　Relevant experts and grass-roots cadres believe that to curb grass-roots formalism, it is necessary to reduce the burden on the grass-roots from top to bottom, formulate a more objective and effective evaluation mechanism, and pay attention to actual performance.

At the same time, it is necessary to unblock the channels for the masses to report problems, jointly supervise village-level organizations, and make them focus more on service and development.

　　Source: "Ban Yue Tan" Issue 14, 2022

　　Banyuetan Reporter: Shen Rufa, Luo Yu, Liu Deng, Qiang Yong, Duo Lei, Han Chaoyang, Han Fangfang | Editor: Xu Ning