All localities should improve assessment methods, reduce the frequency of assessments, and prevent multiple assessments and layer-by-level assessments——
Free cadres from complicated assessments (new observation of cadre status and burden reduction at the grassroots level in progress)
Reporters Zhang Xi, Liu Junguo, Su Bin and Gong Shijian
Editor's note: In recent years, various localities have continued to improve supervision, inspection and assessment work, which has played an motivating role. However, there are also problems such as too many names, too high frequency, and multiple duplications.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “it is necessary to strengthen the sharing of information resources, and the quality of work cannot be judged simply by the number of traces left and the number of materials reported.” “It is necessary to control the total amount and frequency of supervision and inspections at all levels, and similar matters that can be merged must be merged. carry out, reduce the burden on the grassroots, and allow the grassroots to spend more time on the implementation of work." The meeting of the special working mechanism to rectify formalism at the central level and reduce the burden on the grassroots emphasized that efforts should be made to improve the assessment methods, promote the transformation from simply testing "materials" and checking "traces" to focusing on evaluating results and looking at "potential achievements", and free cadres from complicated assessments , put more energy into implementation.
Recently, reporters visited many places to present the progress of improving assessment methods and strengthening the application of results.
Compress the assessment process
Streamline assessment indicators
"Hello, regarding the assessment indicators for the promotion of key projects in 2023 and the project reserve situation in 2024, there are 4 indicators related to major construction in banner counties and districts. Do we need to submit reports item by item?" Saihan, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Lan Haiyu, deputy director of the District Development and Reform Commission, called Teng Geer, chief of the Investment Section of the Hohhot Development and Reform Commission.
"We only need to submit an overall report. We have already mastered the situation in Saihan District during our daily assessment." Tengger replied.
Lan Haiyu introduced that in the past, the city assessed the promotion of high-quality development in banner counties and districts and needed to submit supporting materials on the completion of each indicator. Although some materials have been submitted during daily reporting work, a set of inspection materials still need to be reorganized according to the indicator system, which is a waste of time and energy.
Since last year, Hohhot has implemented a centralized review system for assessment indicators, promoting the "downsizing" of assessment indicators by focusing on key points, squeezing out "water", reducing items, and looking at actual results. "Today's assessment only needs to provide a brief description of the macro indicators and then upload it to the assessment and evaluation information system." Lan Haiyu said.
Relevant departments in Hohhot City require that a centralized review of the annual assessment indicators be conducted every year. General and process work that cannot reflect actual performance shall not be used as points collection factors. The quality of the work shall not be simply judged by the number of marks left, unless expressly provided for. In addition, whether to convene meetings, issue documents, or increase agency personnel shall not be used as the basis for judging implementation. Only assessment indicators that have passed the joint review can be entered into the assessment and evaluation system and cannot be added at will.
"In terms of assessment methods, we require all assessment indicator monitoring units to provide timely warnings and reminders through on-site inspections, dynamic assessments, etc., to understand the progress of the work, and to transform from 'emphasis on traces' to 'emphasis on performance.'" Assessment by the Organization Department of the Hohhot Municipal Party Committee Zhang Gangping, chief of the work section, said.
Last year, Hohhot City put forward more than 230 suggestions for streamlining and improvement to 68 units that participated in the evaluation of assessment indicators, and cut more than 350 evaluation items such as condensing meetings and issuing documents. "The original intention of the assessment is to improve the quality of work, but overly complex assessments will overwhelm the grassroots. We will continue to 'downsize' the assessment indicators to prevent 'material assessment', 'free-riding assessment', etc." Hohhot Municipal Party Committee Organization Department Executive Deputy Minister Bao Ligao said.
“Carrying out daily assessments of civil servants makes it easier to accurately grasp the performance of cadres’ duties. Through the information platform, it only takes 3 to 5 minutes for individual civil servants to fill in their work records, and it takes an average of 10 minutes for leaders to review and evaluate. Good guidance in daily life." said Shi Yinqiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Chengguan Town, Fengxiang District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province.
In recent years, Fengxiang District has effectively reduced the burden on the grassroots by reducing the frequency of assessments, optimizing assessment methods, and making practical use of results. The local government formulates daily assessment methods for civil servants, strengthens control over the total number of assessments, and strictly prohibits each town and department from setting up regular assessment items for all civil servants. The results of daily assessments are used in early evaluation, cadre inspection, rank promotion, etc. In terms of developing party members, education and training, etc., we will achieve "one test for multiple purposes" and prevent multiple assessments and repeated assessments. In the past three years, Fengxiang District has reduced 96 regular assessment indicators for all civil servants. The number of assessment plans submitted by departments at all levels has dropped by 38.5%, and the number of on-site assessments has dropped by 36.4%.
Optimize assessment methods
Improve assessment quality and efficiency
"In the past, there were often several rounds of inspections a day. Now the county has introduced a series of measures to loosen the responsibilities of grassroots cadres and reduce their burdens. We have more energy to go deep into the masses and solve problems face to face." Party Committee of Xinhe Township, Tonglu County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province Secretary Chen Shaoxia said.
In recent years, Tonglu County has started by optimizing and improving assessment methods, and has "slimmed down" assessments from three levels: standardizing assessment methods, optimizing assessment processes, and streamlining assessment indicators. Focusing on "multiple examinations in one", Tonglu County has optimized and integrated multiple inspections and assessments that were carried out by multiple departments and multiple lines in the past, effectively reducing the frequency of assessments. The county has streamlined assessment projects and established an exit mechanism for repeated assessment indicators to reduce the burden on the grassroots from the source. As of now, Tonglu County has cleared 12 assessment items and merged 11 annual comprehensive assessment items, reducing county-level assessment items by 34%.
In response to problems such as the difficulty in quantifying the political quality of cadres and the inaccurate portraits of cadres, the Tonglu County Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Organization Department of the County Party Committee focused on testing the political quality of cadres who have passed the examination, and constantly improved the inspection methods. By visiting the community and listening to word of mouth, they conducted comprehensive and multi-angle inspections Understand the cadres' personal moral character, abilities and styles, etc., and timely follow up and remind them of emerging tendencies and make closed-loop rectifications.
In response to problems such as poor linkage between various departments and "islands of information" in cadre assessment, Tonglu County has explored the establishment of an assessment and evaluation information data collection mechanism that "connects both top and bottom, taking into account both left and right", and promotes the integrated use of information such as discipline inspection and supervision, petitions, and responsibility audits. Effectively use information technology and big data analysis to comprehensively understand the comprehensive performance of cadres and promote assessment and evaluation to be more objective, fair, accurate and efficient.
"In the past, we paid more attention to deducting points for some negative behaviors in the cadre assessment. Now we regard strict management, love and encouragement as important tasks." said Tang Zhengang, a member of the Tonglu County Supervisory Committee.
Mao Jianbiao, Secretary of the Tonglu County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Director of the County Supervisory Committee, said, “In the next step, we will promote the linkage between relevant departments, continue to deepen the rectification of formalism, improve the normalization mechanism of grassroots burden reduction, strictly prevent the rebound, and truly reduce the burden on the grassroots. , It’s really a burden reduction.”
Strengthen the application of results
Encourage responsible behavior
Dalian Village, Tuxi Town, Fenggang County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, used to be a mountain village with poor appearance, low village income, and weak village collective economy. Today, the collective economy of the village has achieved growth for four consecutive years. Where does the change come from? Many people bluntly said that village cadres who can do practical things are the key.
Strict examination promotes strict management, and encouragement promotes responsibility. Fenggang County has introduced policies for grassroots cadres. For village party organization secretaries, village committee directors, and heads of collective economic organizations, it is exploring the implementation of a management mechanism of "basic remuneration + performance assessment + collective economic development income generation rewards + intra-party care" to motivate grassroots Cadres take responsibility. Due to the continuous growth of the village's collective economy, Zhu Jian, secretary of the Dalian Village Party Branch and director of the village committee, was commended and his salary was increased according to procedures.
How to effectively promote cadres to "be able to move up and down"? It is necessary to open up the barriers for cadres to "get up" through multiple channels, and to unblock the channels for "getting down" in an integrated way to solve the problem of cadres not taking on responsibilities and inaction, and stimulate the enthusiasm of officials to start their own businesses.
"The 17 cadres in the county who have retired from leadership positions have taken the initiative to take root at the grassroots level as instructors to serve the construction of mountainous villages. Five of them were promoted due to excellent performance in the assessment." Xu Feng, director of the Organization Department of Fenggang County Party Committee, believes that learning can improve abilities , Promote application through examination, strictly control application, and firmly establish the employment orientation of emphasizing hard work and focusing on performance is the key.
"This comrade has good political literacy, is responsible, innovative, pragmatic and dedicated, and has outstanding work performance..." When the Fenggang County Party Committee Standing Committee meeting studied cadre and personnel work, the County Party Committee Organization Department reported a "portrait" of Jiang Wei's inspection.
Jiang Wei is a cadre of Fenggang County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, and has been rated as outstanding in the annual assessment for 8 consecutive years. In accordance with the cadre selection concept of "hard work, outstanding performance, priority", Fenggang County adopts the "one extension and two expansion" cadre inspection method, extending the inspection to the cadres' living community, to the cadres' personal family life and family evaluation, to fully understand Jiang Wei behavioral performance. Since then, Jiang Wei was transferred to the deputy director of the bureau.
In recent years, Fenggang County has always used the grassroots frontline as a platform for cultivating and identifying cadres, promoting the connection between assessment results and cadre selection and appointment, and stimulating the entrepreneurial enthusiasm of cadres and officers. "In future cadre promotion, exchange and employment, training and learning, etc., we must give full play to the 'baton' role of assessment, giving priority to the outstanding and promising people," said Ma Hua, secretary of the Fenggang County Party Committee.
■Message board
When it comes to inspections and assessments in the field of comprehensive rural revitalization, it is necessary to further sort out the assessment matters and reasonably optimize the frequency of assessments. When going to the village level for inspections and assessments, try not to get together in groups to reduce the amount of rest time occupied by grassroots cadres.
There are more than 100 assessment indicators related to a certain task in a certain place. Although it is comprehensive and systematic, the focus is not focused enough and the guidance is not precise enough. It is recommended to reduce assessment indicators, adhere to the combination of qualitative and quantitative measures, and highlight pertinence, operability, and openness.
A certain department in a certain place included the number of public cultural services received per capita as an assessment indicator, established a data reporting system, and required grassroots to regularly upload relevant information for data support. This place superimposes digital platform browsing data as the number of services received per capita, leading some places to find third parties to brush data for rankings. It is recommended that relevant departments optimize assessment methods and set more scientific and reasonable assessment indicators.
——Netizens’ messages are excerpted from the “Leadership Message Board” of People’s Daily Online (People’s Daily)