A major institutional reform in a county with a small population [simplified organizational establishment, reduced administrative costs, and improved approval efficiency]
● There are some common problems in Shanxi counties with small population: financial support is not enough to make ends meet, financial expenditures mainly rely on government transfer payments, and the habit of thinking of “waiting, relying, and asking” generally exists; from the perspective of population and establishment, the proportion of financial support personnel is not very reasonable , there is a problem of overstaffing; institutions are generally small in scale and weak in function, and the phenomenon of "small, scattered and weak" is prominent
● Increase the reorganization and integration of party and government organizations with similar functions, such as the county party committee office and the county government office, the county party committee propaganda department and the county culture and tourism bureau to jointly work, integrate the functions of civil affairs, human resources and social security and other departments, and set up county civil affairs and human resources Resource and Social Security Bureau, etc., in 3 to 5 years, gradually realize the substantial reduction of organization, establishment and personnel, and build a simple and efficient grass-roots management system
● After the reform is completed, the administrative cost will be greatly reduced, and the ratio of financial support personnel will be increased from 32:1 before the reform to 40:1; the approval efficiency will be greatly improved. Taking urban planning, land planning, and forestry planning as examples, only the processing procedures and the public announcement time can be shortened by at least 14 working days; the business environment is optimized, and the project operating rate in 2021 will reach 88.9%
Our reporter Ma Chao Wang Zhitang
The number of party and government organizations has been reduced from 36 to 22, the number of leadership positions has been reduced from 135 to 114, the number of institutions involved in reform has been consolidated from 186 to 40, and the number of business establishments has been reduced from 1,964 to 659... Recently, in Shanxi The institutional reform of Hequ County, a county with a small population in the northwest, has aroused social concern.
Why would a county with a population of only 124,000 push for this reform?
How did the reform advance, and what changes did it bring?
With these questions in mind, a reporter from the "Rules of Law Daily" went deep into Hequ County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province to find out.
Three major questions
trigger reform
A heavy rain after the early autumn made the meander especially cool.
Located in Hequ County at the junction of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolian provinces, it has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 5 townships, covering an area of 1,317 square kilometers and a total population of 124,000.
The promotion of institutional reform in Hequ County originated from a survey at the end of 2019.
At that time, when the main leader of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee conducted a grass-roots investigation, he found that there were some common problems in the province's small population counties: financial support was not enough to make ends meet, financial expenditures mainly depended on government transfer payments, and the mindset of "waiting, relying, and wanting" prevailed. ; From the ratio of population and establishment, the proportion of financial support personnel is not very reasonable, and there is a problem of overstaffing; public institutions are generally small in scale and weak in function, and the phenomenon of "small, scattered and weak" is prominent.
In April 2020, according to the deployment requirements of the Provincial Party Committee, and in accordance with the principles of "majority system, flattening, strengthening the grassroots, emphasizing actual combat, and high efficiency", a goal-oriented, result-oriented, problem-oriented, and functional optimization as the core The comprehensive reform of the county-level administrative operation system, which insists that one category of matters is coordinated by one department and one department is responsible for one matter in principle, has been carried out in Hequ and Fushan pilot counties.
"After receiving the task, the county party committee attached great importance to it and established a leading group with the secretary of the county party committee as the team leader. It held 5 leading group meetings and 41 office meetings successively, and successively studied and solved 61 problems such as the integration of party and government functions." Hequ Wu Zhiming, deputy director of the Organization Department of the county party committee and director of the editorial office of the county party committee, said.
Relevant departments are also promoting various work non-stop: the Organization Department of the County Party Committee has conducted a detailed analysis of the current situation of the county's civil servants, the situation of the top leaders and team members of the party, government and mass organizations, institutions, and the parallel work of civil servants' positions and ranks; The rationality, feasibility and safety of reforming the functions, institutional specifications, establishment, personnel age structure, and unit integration, revocation, and enterprise transformation have been thoroughly researched and judged...
At the same time, relevant departments solicited 58 opinions and suggestions in various fields from multiple perspectives and levels through individual conversations, research discussions, etc., and successively solicited opinions and suggestions from cadres and the masses for 245 person-times, forming 17 types of analysis reports and 5 demonstration results.
Institutional reorganization
work gets busy
When he saw Zhang Ruidong, he was rushing to write an urgent report, during which he received 3 calls in less than 5 minutes.
In September 2021, Zhang Ruidong was transferred from the deputy director of the Organization Department of the Hequ County Party Committee in charge of the daily work to the deputy director of the County Development and Reform Industry and Information Technology and Science and Technology and Commerce Bureau in charge of the daily work.
The bureau integrates the functions of the county development and reform bureau, industry and information technology bureau, energy bureau, commerce bureau and science and technology education bureau in the past. Director, 4 deputy section-level deputy directors.
"The number of 8 leadership positions has become 5, and one bureau in the past has now become a stock office. People are naturally busy. There are constant calls and meetings every day. It is often after get off work that they can start to deal with desk work." Zhang Ruidong sighed.
In this reform, in accordance with the principle of optimization, coordination and efficiency, Hequ County has increased the reorganization and integration of party and government institutions with similar functions.
For example, in coordinating the establishment of party and government institutions, the county party committee office and the county government office, the county party committee propaganda department and the county culture and tourism bureau are co-located, that is, a set of working organizations and two agency names.
The County Party Committee Editorial Office and the County Veteran Cadre Bureau were merged into the County Party Committee Organization Department, and the office brand of the County Party Committee Organizational Committee was added.
The United Front Work Department of the county party committee is integrated with the county federation of industry and commerce.
In the fields of economic construction, agriculture and rural areas, people's livelihood security, urban construction and transportation, social management and other fields, comprehensively set up relevant institutions.
Integrate the functions of civil affairs, human resources and social security and other departments, and set up the county civil affairs and human resources and social security bureau.
Integrate the functions of the natural resources and forestry departments, set up the county planning and natural resources bureau, add the name of the county forestry bureau, and adjust the cadre management system of the county planning and natural resources bureau to territorial management.
Integrate the county housing and urban-rural construction administration and the county transportation bureau to form the county urban and rural construction and transportation bureau.
After the reform, Hequ County has set up 22 party and government institutions, all of which are formal departments.
The person in charge of the party committee work organ and the government's main work department shall be concurrently held by the county party committee standing committee member or the deputy county head of the government.
For public institutions, promote the cross-departmental integration of institutions with similar responsibilities and tasks, and adjust and optimize public institutions that are too small in scale, shrink in functions, and are scattered and duplicated.
In principle, no more than 10 public institutions will be established, and no more than 10 public institutions directly under the county party committee and county government.
After the reform, in addition to primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, public hospitals, health centers and public institutions affiliated to townships (streets), 40 public institutions were included in the county's institutional quota management.
Staff placement
straighten out emotions
For Zhao Xizhu, this reform allowed him to experience the feeling of riding a roller coaster.
In December 2020, the Hequ County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau added the brand of the County Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, and uniformly exercised the power of administrative punishment in 8 areas including market supervision, cultural market, urban management, and emergency management, as well as related administrative inspection, administrative Coercive power.
Law enforcement teams in related fields have also been integrated into a comprehensive administrative law enforcement team.
After the integration, the deputy county magistrate concurrently serves as the director of the Market Supervision Administration.
As a result, Zhao Xizhu, who served as director for only 8 months, suddenly became the deputy director in charge of daily work.
"The field of law enforcement has changed from one to eight, but I have changed from director to deputy director. Although the level has not changed, I was really uncomfortable at first." Zhao Xizhu said, but as the work progresses, it is found that the law enforcement is now stronger. , because the deputy county magistrate can directly summon the relevant departments to solve the problem, but it is difficult for the director to do so.
"Now that the deputy county magistrate is in charge of the direction, my deputy director is responsible for implementing it, and I am more motivated!"
Solving the problem of "people" is not only a difficult problem for institutional reform, but also the key to doing a good job in reform.
"The number of people involved in the reform, the scope is wide, and the situation is unprecedentedly complicated." Wu Zhiming said that in order to solve the problem of "people", the secretary of the Hequ County Party Committee and the head of the organization department of the county party committee had a conversation with the section-level cadres of the units involved in the reform. Helped to straighten out emotions, stimulate motivation, and properly do a good job of personnel adjustment and placement, and held talks with 237 people.
In terms of personnel placement, the 49 leading cadres who voluntarily quit their leadership positions will be given priority to be promoted to rank according to regulations; for leading cadres who have exceeded the number of positions, the reserved treatment will be included in the management of the "cadre turnover pool", and they will undertake central tasks such as rural revitalization and enterprise assistance. ; For the 903 career personnel who were overstaffed due to the reform, they were readjusted and equipped by taking the counterpart party and government departments to learn and exercise, serving as the backbone of the village (community) "two committees" and comprehensive management grid members; Each year, a certain percentage of civil servants will be recruited to recruit personnel from existing institutions.
"The goal is to use 3 to 5 years to gradually achieve a substantial reduction in organization, establishment and personnel, maintain fresh blood in the cadre team system and a reasonable age structure, and build a simple and efficient grassroots management system." Wu Zhiming said.
Facing the problems of departmental reorganization, reduction in the number of positions, and changes in management methods, some cadres have increased ideological confusion and low entrepreneurial enthusiasm, Hequ County has established an evaluation system of "performance files + comprehensive evaluation", and has promoted and reused 17 people since last year. Cadres, 10 advanced units and 30 outstanding cadres were commended and rewarded with great fanfare, and 2 "first-in-command" and 1 deputy who failed to perform their duties were removed, and rewards and punishments were strictly honored, and efforts were made to solve the problem of "doing well".
smooth operation
Clear division of labor
A new organization is established and a new team is in place. How to ensure normal operation?
How to connect top to bottom?
For some departments where the deputy county magistrate also serves as the director, how should the director and the deputy director in charge of daily work divide the work?
The reporter learned from interviews that Hequ County clearly serves as the deputy county magistrate who also serves as the main person in charge of the government work department, serves as the first secretary of the party group, and is responsible for the party's first responsibility for governing the party; he works at a part-time unit at least once a week, focusing on presiding over the "three major and one major". (major matters decision-making, appointment and dismissal of important cadres, arrangement of important projects, use of large amounts of funds) matters and collective decision-making of "three key points" (key indicators, key tasks, and key work).
The executive deputy who presides over the daily work serves as the secretary of the party group, presides over the office meeting of the director (minister, director) and the bureau affairs (department, director) meeting, supervises the daily management of the staff, and reports important situations to the county leader who is also the main person in charge .
The other deputy positions are responsible for the work in charge and responsible for the director, forming a work pattern in which the first level is responsible for the first level and the first level is responsible for the first level.
At the same time, Hequ County also requires reform-related departments to establish and improve a number of systems such as party affairs and personnel management systems, business management systems, and logistics management systems to standardize daily management.
On the issue of straightening the connection between the upper and lower levels, Hequ County has established a "one-to-many" and "many-to-one" operation mechanism, formulating a business counterpart table for city and county institutions for the top, and refines the corresponding relationship for the bottom, forming a county-level unit and a township Correspondence table of party and government agencies.
In the department, a working group with the deputy director as the team leader, the internal unit and the corresponding public institution personnel as the team members is established to be responsible for the implementation of the tasks in the corresponding fields, and to effectively solve the problem of insufficient "one-to-many" connection.
In the construction of a horizontal coordination working mechanism, a number of systems such as planning and overall planning, joint consultation, coordination services, and tracking of results have been clearly established to ensure the effective implementation of the work.
What changes has the new mechanism brought about?
Zhao Zhenyu, deputy magistrate of Hequ County and director of the County Civil Affairs and Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said frankly: "Nowadays, the pressure of work is even greater, and the requirements for work standards and quality are also higher. In the past, I was the leader in charge, and the director of the department in charge was held accountable for problems. , now dealing directly with myself."
In order to ensure that the work in the game can be fully grasped, Zhao Zhenyu comes to the game at least once a week, and handles official business directly in the conference room without an office.
Up to now, 16 party group meetings have been organized and held, and all the "three major and one major" matters have been studied at the meeting.
"In the past, when I was in charge of the leadership, I only communicated with the director. Now I also communicate directly with the deputy director and even the section chief. I have a better understanding of the situation and a better grasp." Zhao Zhenyu said.
Achievement transformation
Efficiency improvement
The white shirt and the party emblem on the chest are particularly eye-catching.
In an office of the Hequ County Project Promotion Center, director Zhang Zhihong is busy at his desk.
The project promotion center where Zhang Zhihong is located was formed from the merger of the original investment promotion service center and the county project pre-examination center. It is mainly responsible for the county's investment promotion, project promotion, promotion of key provincial and municipal projects, ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin, and Taixin integration construction.
"In the past, I was only in charge of investment promotion, and when I was recruited, I entered the next department. It was unclear whether it could be implemented. Now investment attraction, contract signing, landing, construction, under construction, and production are linked together, and the full-cycle service is provided." Zhang Zhihong said, now When making promises in investment promotion, you have to consider fulfilling them on the ground, "because there is no place to push them."
There are many changes brought about by the reform.
Such as the approval efficiency has increased significantly.
Taking urban planning, land planning, and forestry planning as examples, before the reform, it was approved and announced by three departments, and after the reform, it was approved by the county planning and natural resources bureau. Especially after the deputy county head also served as the director, the level of request for instructions was reduced and the time was greatly shortened. .
Only the processing and publicity time can be shortened by at least 14 working days.
The improvement of approval efficiency brings about the optimization of the business environment, which ultimately translates into the effect of attracting investment.
In 2021, Hequ County's five indicators (signing rate, operating rate, completion rate of investment amount, completion rate of funds in place, and completion rate of non-solid investment funds) will all enter the city's first phalanx, and the project operating rate will reach 88.9%.
After all the reforms are completed, administrative costs will drop significantly.
According to estimates, after the reform is completed, 160 party and government departments and public institutions will be reduced, and public expenditures will be reduced by 3.67 million yuan, a decrease of 8.2%; after the establishment of institutions, wages and benefits, "five insurances and one housing fund" and other expenditures will be reduced by 133 million yuan every year. Yuan, accounting for 13% of general public budget revenue; the ratio of financial support personnel has increased from 32:1 before the reform to 40:1, exceeding the province and close to the national average.
At the same time, with the reduction of the number of units, the office space has become more concentrated, and 10,500 square meters of office space has been vacated to provide basic guarantees for community activities, social undertakings and public services.
The reporter learned in the interview that the reform has produced certain results, but there are also some problems that need to be solved urgently.
For example, the merger of departments with similar functions has created a super department, and the reduction of personnel after the reform has caused the department to struggle to operate.
For example, the reformed county development and reform bureau of industry and information technology and science, technology and commerce has 32 statutory responsibilities, only 11 people in 24 establishments, and 5 staff members, including the establishment personnel of the development and reform shares company, have to connect with the municipal development and reform commission and other departments.
At the same time, another problem brought about by the reduction in the number of leadership positions is the narrowing of promotion channels.
In addition, the deputy county magistrate is also in charge of other units while concurrently serving as the director. In the case of limited resources and energy, how to balance and support the competent unit and the unit in charge should be further considered.