Keep an eye on the field of rural collective economy and promote comprehensive and strict party governance to the grassroots
Manage the responsible fields of "three capitals" in rural areas
On February 13, the No. 1 Central Document of 2023, "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Doing a Good Job in Comprehensively Promoting the Key Work of Rural Revitalization in 2023" was released.
The document pointed out that it is necessary to unswervingly solve the "three rural" issues as the top priority of the whole party's work, and in the section "giving farmers more adequate property rights", it clearly proposed to improve the rural collective asset supervision system, in order to strengthen the "three rural areas" in rural areas. Capital" management points the way.
Rural collective economic organizations, also known as economic cooperatives, are a type of special legal person that develop collectively owned economies under the leadership of township party committees and village party organizations. item function.
At present, there are about 960,000 rural collective economic organizations at the township, village, and group levels in my country, with about 900 million members, involving 6.55 billion mu of collective land and other resources, and 7.7 trillion yuan of rural collective assets, of which operating assets 3.5 trillion yuan.
With the promotion of rural revitalization in an all-round way, it has become an urgent task to keep and manage the responsibility fields of "three capitals" in rural areas.
The phenomenon of "stretching black hands" and "moving cheese" in the field of rural collective economy occurs from time to time
"There are more and more villages with a collective income of 100 million yuan in Hangzhou, and there are 35 village collectives in the province with the top 50 income in our city." The comrade in charge of the office said that since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hangzhou has investigated and dealt with 165 cases of "three capitals" issues in village economic cooperatives, mainly focusing on village-level project contracting, compensation for land acquisition and demolition, and subsidy funds for benefiting the people.
Based on resource endowments and location advantages, rural collective economic organizations in various places actively revitalize rural collective asset resources, promote the preservation and appreciation of collective assets, and broaden channels for farmers to increase their income.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in 2020, the total income of village collective economic organizations across the country will reach 632.02 billion yuan, and dividends to members will be 70.38 billion yuan.
However, while the "cake" of the rural collective economy is getting bigger and bigger, it has also become the coveted target of some people with ulterior motives.
Analyzing the relevant cases investigated and dealt with in recent years, the reporter found that some managers of rural collective economic organizations took advantage of their positions to "reach out" to the village collectives to "reach out" and "move cheese", racking their brains and changing methods to amass money for profit. The amount of money involved was huge. .
With huge amounts of funds and assets in their hands, some managers of economic cooperatives could not resist the temptation, and took advantage of the convenience of their positions to intentionally embezzle them, digging out collective "properties" and enriching individual "pockets".
For example, Guo Sumei, deputy party secretary and deputy director of Fengzhuang Community, Lailong Town, Suyu District, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, and legal representative of Dongzhangwei Village Land Share Cooperative, used her position to misappropriate 188,700 yuan of rice subsidies from the cooperative five times.
In March 2022, Guo Sumei was put on file for review and investigation.
Under the pressure of anti-corruption, some managers of economic cooperatives dare not directly touch the "cheese" of the collective economy. Lose the public and enrich the private.
For example, Wu Xiaoping, former party secretary of Yangjiapailou Community, Liuliu Street, Xihu District, Hangzhou and former chairman of the Economic Cooperative, together with Wu Yuping, former director of the Economic Cooperative, lent collective funds to enterprises for profit-making activities without authorization, totaling RMB 73.5 million.
Wu Xiaoping, Wu Yuping and their relatives have repeatedly accepted tourism activities funded by the bosses of private enterprises, and received property totaling more than 780,000 yuan.
Wu Xiaoping was expelled from the party and sentenced to four years and six months in prison for the crime of embezzling funds and accepting bribes by non-state functionaries.
The operation and management of rural economic cooperatives often involves the development of village collectively reserved land, property leasing and resource contracting, construction of engineering projects, capital and asset management, etc. Some economic cooperative managers regard power or influence in their hands as "chips" and use "thank you fees" Accepting bribes in the name of "lending interest", "dry stock dividends" and other names.
On November 15, 2022, the Qingdao Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of Shandong Province notified that Gao Xudong, the former secretary of the party branch of Majiazhuang Village, Jiulong Street, Jiaozhou City, and chairman of the economic cooperative, was expelled from the party for serious violations of discipline and law.
The circular pointed out that he was "seeking profit for himself and his relatives in the construction of village collective projects and land leasing".
Weak awareness of discipline and law, weakening of inner-party supervision, absence of internal control supervision and other factors lead to the breeding of "greedy".
The harm of "greedy flies" is as fierce as a tiger.
The development of the rural collective economy is related to the strategic deployment of rural revitalization and to the sense of gain and happiness of the people. It is necessary to dig deep into the deep-seated reasons behind corruption in the collective economic field, and address both symptoms and root causes.
Judging from the facts of the relevant cases, the corruption methods of some managers of collective economic organizations are not "smart". Objective factors.
The "Rural Revitalization Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" officially implemented in June 2021 clearly stipulates that villagers' committees and rural collective economic organizations should, under the leadership of township party committees and village party organizations, implement village self-government, develop collective ownership of the economy, and protect farmers' legitimate rights and interests, and should accept the supervision of villagers.
However, in actual work, some party committees and village party organizations have weakened their supervision, relying more on the "top leaders" of economic cooperatives than supervising them, and focusing on development rather than party building.
A former chairman of an economic cooperative in a certain city who was investigated and prosecuted mentioned in his "self-reported materials": "In daily work, whether it is the street party working committee, discipline inspection committee, or district competent department, they are all busy with affairs, and basically do not pay attention to their work. The management and supervision of economic cooperatives is included in the work schedule. In addition to special meetings, education and supervision for the main leaders of economic cooperatives are even more lacking, and they are in a state of laissez-faire.”
Many village (community) Party secretaries, village (community) directors, and chairman of economic cooperatives are all in one person, with centralized power and long tenure, coupled with the influence of complex factors such as rural favors, clans, and interests, village (community) discipline inspection organizations and economic cooperation The board of supervisors of cooperatives is unable to form effective supervision, leading individual cadres to act arbitrarily and confidently in major matters.
When investigating the corruption case of Lu Songjia, the former secretary of the party branch of Wandong Village, Gouxi Township, and Wu Zhijian, the former director of the village, the investigators of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Committee of Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province found that “for a long time, Lu Songjia and Wu Zhijian basically controlled the project in this village. The right to speak, without their support, even if the bid is won, it will be difficult to solve the problems that occurred during the construction, making other contractors discouraged.”
There are also economic cooperative party secretaries whose term of office lasts for decades, and they put relatives, friends or specific related persons into the economic cooperative team, and the middle-level cadres of relevant departments are also related personnel, resulting in the lack of internal supervision and control.
"From the perspective of the village itself, problems such as disordered internal management and irregular financial management exist to varying degrees." Qin Hu, deputy director of the Party Style and Political Style Supervision Office of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, discovered during the investigation and handling of the case that some villages There are no special accountants, cashiers, and collective accounts; some villages have frequent changes of financial personnel, and the handover is not timely and comprehensive, resulting in unclear "family background", incomplete accounts, inconsistent accounts, and even long-term failure to make accounts and no accounts to check. Condition.
Take collective "foreign capital" leasing and leasing contracts as an example. In some places, the contract signing did not follow the democratic process, in some places the public bidding was not in place, and in some places the property leasing price was arbitrary, and even the contract was not recovered when it expired.
In order to standardize management and strengthen institutional constraints, some places have explored the implementation of village account management, but in practice, only formal review of the use of funds is often conducted, without substantive review.
In addition, due to multiple factors such as the openness and transparency of economic cooperative accounts and the knowledge structure of cooperative shareholders, it is difficult for farmers to participate in supervision, leaving room for a small number of people to evade democratic decision-making and violate discipline and law.
Organically combine the development of rural collective economy with rural grassroots party building, and give full play to the leading role of party building
It's up to the party to do a good job in rural affairs and realize rural revitalization.
Party organizations at all levels must earnestly assume the main responsibility and political responsibility for rural revitalization, and insist on the five-level secretary of the province, city, county, township, and village.
This year's No. 1 Central Document specifically listed "improving the rural governance system led by party organizations", emphasizing "strengthening the political and organizational functions of rural grassroots party organizations."
As an important part of the grassroots governance system, rural grassroots party organizations are the foundation of all the party's work and combat effectiveness in the countryside, and the leadership core of various organizations and work in towns and villages.
The previously issued "Implementation Measures for the Rural Revitalization Responsibility System" clearly pointed out that the village party organization leads all kinds of village-level organizations and various tasks in a unified manner, and the villagers' committees and rural collective economic organizations play a fundamental role in fully implementing the "four discussions and two disclosures" system , organize and mobilize farmers to participate in rural revitalization.
In recent years, our country has actively promoted the "one-shoulder selection" and "two committees" of village party organization secretaries. Many village party organization secretaries have served as heads of village-level collective economic organizations and cooperative economic organizations through legal procedures.
By organically combining the development of the rural collective economy with the construction of grassroots organizations, and doing a good job in supporting the construction of village-level organizations with the village party organization as the core, the village-level party organization has become an important force leading villagers to become rich and well-off and maintain rural stability.
"It is necessary to highlight the party organization as the leadership core of the economic cooperative, and the board of directors to carry out work under the leadership of the party. Strictly implement the important matters of the village-level collective economy that need to be researched and discussed by the village party organization. The party organization is responsible." Fan Liqing, director of the Party Style and Political Style Supervision Office of the Hangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, introduced.
In recent years, Hangzhou has deepened the promotion of the "Great Ginger" rural revitalization joint party committee model to promote the transformation of party building advantages into development advantages and governance advantages.
On the premise of not breaking the administrative divisions, Xiajiang Village in the city’s Chun’an County took the lead to integrate 24 surrounding villages and set up the “Daxiajiang” Rural Revitalization Joint Party Committee, forming a working pattern of linkage between township departments, unified overall pace, and coordinated and coordinated progress .
Persist in leading rural governance with party building, strengthen the functions of the three-level governance system in counties and villages, consolidate county-level responsibilities, promote the expansion of power and empowerment in townships, and consolidate the village-level foundation.
The "Regulations on the Work of the Communist Party of China's Rural Grassroots Organizations" stipulates that one of the main responsibilities of the township party committee is to "discuss and decide major issues in the economic construction and social development of the township."
Township party committees should strengthen investigation and research, clarify work tasks, determine work priorities, take effective measures, strengthen supervision, inspection and specific guidance.
Regularly listen to reports on the fulfillment of responsibilities by the party organizations of economic cooperatives, and timely study and solve the problems encountered by economic cooperatives; for townships (streets) where corruption is prone to occur frequently in economic cooperatives, strictly pursue accountability and accountability, and force the implementation of party management responsibilities. Prevent corruption, interception, misappropriation and false reporting of projects to extract funds, and prevent collective economic activities from being controlled by a few people and breeding corruption.
Changting County, Fujian Province insists on putting the Party's leadership throughout the development of cooperatives, and issued the "Changting County Implementation Plan for Implementing "Party Building +" Cooperative Work", which clarifies the implementation path of the cooperatives led by the village party branch, and establishes the establishment of party organizations, party activities, etc. The specific requirements are written into the charter of the cooperative, and the three-level work responsibilities of the county and village are compacted.
The township party committee establishes a work ledger, and guides the village party branch to adopt methods such as contributions from the village collective economic organization, advances from village cadres, absorption of funds from members, and support funds from superiors, etc., to coordinate and implement supporting start-up funds for the initial operation of farmers' professional cooperatives.
In Danling County, Sichuan Province, the organization department of the county party committee and the county agricultural and rural bureau take the lead in grasping the general affairs, the township party committees are directly responsible, and the village party branch implements the specific implementation. measure.
Carry out the rectification of corruption and work style in the field of rural revitalization, and promote the healthy development of the rural collective economy
"Our Dongkou town has learned a profound lesson on the issue of rural party members' violations of discipline and law. Zhang, who used to be the party branch secretary of a certain village, took advantage of his position to extract 150,000 yuan of policy funds and was expelled from the party." Recently, Cadres of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Juancheng County, Shandong Province carried out warning education in the training class for newly appointed village cadres held in Dongkou Town of the county.
Since the beginning of this year, Juancheng County has held such training courses 21 times, and a total of more than 1,000 new village cadres have received education.
The key to rural revitalization lies in the people and the key.
To promote the healthy development of the rural collective economy and strictly prevent corruption, we must first build a team of rural cadres with strong politics, skills, and work style.
After the re-election of the "two committees" of villages across the country has been completed, all localities have organized visits to warning education bases, home visits to clean government, told red stories, and notified typical cases. Awareness of self-discipline is the first lesson of taking on a new role.
The Jilin Provincial Commission for Disciplinary Inspection and Supervisory Committee carried out the activity of "one book, one lesson", to ensure that the activities covered all administrative villages, and guided all village cadres to exercise their powers correctly, to guard against ineffectiveness, and to keep ringing the alarm.
Taibai County Discipline Inspection and Supervision Committee of Shaanxi Province organized the cadres of the "two committees" of the newly appointed village of Taochuan Town to attend the trial of the case of Su Mou, the former party branch secretary of Dujiazhuang Village in the town, and Chen Mou, the former director of the village committee, in the county people's court, and felt the violation of discipline and law at close range painful lessons.
Disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies at all levels adhere to the problem-oriented approach, and earnestly do a good job in the "second half of the article" of the economic cooperative cases that have been handled.
The Heilongjiang Provincial Discipline Inspection and Supervision Agency researched and sorted out 14 key points of supervision, including interception and embezzlement, embezzlement, IOU entry, private establishment of "small treasury", and illegal contract issuance, and carried out special rectification of outstanding issues in rural collective "three-capital" management throughout the province.
The Hangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision conducted analysis and research on corruption issues, put forward countermeasures and suggestions to the municipal party committee, carried out special treatment of issues in related fields, and assisted the municipal party committee in drafting relevant document systems to further improve the management system, financial management, income distribution and other systems of rural economic cooperatives.
The Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Zhumadian City, Henan Province selected 30 villages (communities) in the city with large-scale "foreign capital" in rural areas, intensive project funds, and rich resources.
The Zhumadian Municipal Commission for Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision simultaneously issued a list of promotion and supervision and a roadmap for supervision, guiding districts and counties to carry out supervision of promotion and weaving a dense grassroots supervision network.
In order to strengthen the financial management of rural collective economic organizations and standardize the financial behavior of rural collective economic organizations, in December 2021, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Financial System of Rural Collective Economic Organizations", stipulating that the financial activities of rural collective economic organizations should be in accordance with laws and regulations Accept the supervision and guidance of the township people's government (including sub-district offices), agricultural and rural departments, and financial departments, and accept the supervision of auditing and other relevant departments.
Discipline inspection commissions at all levels regard digital reform as an important starting point for supervising and standardizing the power operation of rural collective economic organizations, and take the management of collective "three capitals" and the use approval process as an entry point to promote the institutionalization, standardization, and informatization of the financial operations of collective economic organizations .
Based on the geographical information of assets and resources, the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Changshu City, Jiangsu Province uses Internet, cloud computing, geographic information technology and other means to develop asset resources and contract management systems, which are connected to the original fund supervision system, cloud financial accounting system, Suzhou The municipal property rights transaction system forms a compatible and interoperable platform for the supervision and management of rural collective assets, and strengthens the "one network" supervision of rural collective assets.
The Commission for Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision of Xishan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province explored a new model of "blockchain + 'foreign capital' supervision", disclosed collective "foreign capital" related information and data on mobile phones and computer terminals, and fixed important data with "blockchain" technology , to realize operation on the chain, certificate storage on the chain, and control on the chain.
At present, the data of the 504 collective economic organizations in the district in the fields of monetary funds, creditor's rights and debts, fixed assets, investment, and construction in progress have been visible on the chain, transparent and open. , you can grasp the collective assets of your community and group in real time on your mobile phone.
(Cao Yi, reporter from China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News)