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China charging miracle.

One of the "miracles": the toll length of expressway ranks first in the world. According to statistics, there are currently 6,543.8+0.4 million kilometers of toll roads in the world, including 6,543.8+0.0 million kilometers in China, accounting for 70% of the world. In February 2007, a World Bank report on China's expressways revealed that the average toll per kilometer for German trucks was 0. 15 USD, and that for China was 0. 12 to 0.2/kloc-0 USD. In terms of the proportion of vehicle tolls in per capita GDP, China ranks first with a ratio of over 2%, surpassing the United States, Japan, France, Italy and Canada. Faced with this fact, regardless of China's national conditions, the relevant departments immediately used "world practice" to justify that China's tolls were similar to those of developed countries such as Germany. However, the biggest loophole in this defense is that it has made such a lowest calculation error, namely per capita income and per capita GDP! In 2005, for example, Germany's per capita income was $34,580, ranking 16 in the world, China was $65,438+0,740, ranking 103 in the world, and Germany was 20 times that of China. In the same year, Germany's per capita GDP was $25,250, ranking 16 in the world, while China's per capita GDP was $65,438+0 109, ranking109 in the world, and Germany was nearly 23 times that of China! Although the income gap is so large, the tolls paid are the same. Is this "in line with international standards"? !

"Miracle" 2: The public welfare features of expressways have been completely lost. According to the news of Xinhua News Agency on September 2, 20071day, Chinese Minister of Communications Li delivered a speech at the 23rd World Road Congress in Paris on September 20071June 984, saying that the policy of "building roads with loans and paying back the loan with fees" promulgated by the China government proved that the policy effect of China's toll road practice was enormous, which was in line with China's national conditions. The transportation ministers of various countries showed great interest in China's toll road experience. After reading this report, the author thinks that the "ministers of transportation of various countries" have shown great interest in Minister Li's speech, just like being fooled by others and complacent. It should be said that people can understand and accept the policy of "loan for road construction and charge for repayment" in the early stage of expressway construction. But what is the reality? How do people feel? According to a report of Beijing Audit Bureau, by the end of June, 2004, the Beijing section of Beijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway had collected 654.38+0.7 billion yuan, leaving nearly 600 million yuan after repaying loans and other funds. Li Shuyuan, a representative of Beijing Municipal People's Congress, believes that the Beijing section of Beijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway should stop charging according to the principle of "building roads with loans and repaying loans with fees". However, the representative's proposal did not receive a positive reply. In addition, the relevant departments have awarded the right to operate this section to the first company, allowing it to operate until 2029. (Beijing Times on July 6, 2007) After paying off the loan, the expressway has made a profit of 600 million yuan, but it still charges again, and the charging period is extended to 2029, which shows that the public welfare nature of the expressway has been completely lost. Is this the "great role" and "successful experience" of China, where the transportation ministers of various countries have shown great interest in toll roads? !

The third "miracle": endless charges. "Road construction by loan and repayment by charge" is a construction method under the special environment of shortage of highway facilities and concentrated highway demand. However, the Beijing section of Beijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway has already earned 600 million yuan. Why should it charge again and operate until 2029 or even longer? Recently, the authoritative media broke the news that the Capital Airport Expressway was originally designated as the "government toll repayment expressway", which is characterized by unprofitable and should stop charging after paying off all loans. However, more than three years after the completion of the toll collection, the nature of the expressway was "consciously" changed to "operating expressway", and the 30-year toll collection right was re-approved. It has been more than ten years since the telephone calls and reports about the cancellation of expressways at the Capital Airport. The first company turned a deaf ear like an insulator, and its vice president declared that "high-speed charging is conducive to alleviating traffic congestion" and threatened that "annual fee 100 is enough"! (People's Daily Online, June 30) Illegal toll collection and overdue toll collection of toll roads in China have become prominent problems. For example, a highway in Guiyang has a construction investment of 310.96 million yuan and a bank loan of about10.5 million yuan. However, before the road was ordered to stop, the toll collected was as high as 637 1 10,000 yuan, more than four times that of the loan! According to another data, among the 74 expressway toll stations in Guangdong Province, there are 33 toll stations with an estimated repayment period of more than 30 years, accounting for 45%, and there are 6 toll stations with a repayment period of more than 1 0,000 years, of which Heyuan River toll station has reached 756 years! In reality, we also see the fact that not only this kind of charge is indefinite, but also the interval of some expressway toll stations is illegal. According to the laws of our country, the distance between adjacent toll stations should not be less than 50 kilometers on the same non-closed toll road main line, while the distance between some toll stations in the western region is only about 10 kilometers! Is this the road development mode and direction with "China characteristics"? !

The fourth "miracle": toll road chaos. On June 27th last year, Li Jinhua, Auditor-General of the National Audit Office, reported to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) the audit of the implementation of the central budget and other financial revenues and expenditures in 2006. He said that the audit investigation of toll roads found that there are the following outstanding problems in the construction, operation and management of toll roads in China: First, some roads illegally charge fees, which increases the social burden. The audit investigation found that 16 provinces (cities) illegally set up 158 toll stations on 100 expressway, and by the end of 2005, they illegally collected tolls of14.9 billion yuan; Seven provinces (cities) raised their toll standards and collected tolls of more than 8.2 billion yuan; 35 operating expressways in 12 provinces (cities) have become "sky-high expressways" because the approved toll period is too long, and the toll income obtained is several times higher than the investment cost or even more than 10 times; Second, some places rely too much on loans to build toll roads, and the debt burden is heavy. During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period (200 1-2005), 67% of the newly-built secondary roads in 15 provinces (cities) were toll roads. By the end of 2005, the toll roads in Yunnan, Sichuan, Heilongjiang and Chongqing all accounted for more than 80% of the secondary roads; Third, the transfer of management rights of some toll roads is not standardized, resulting in a large loss of state-owned assets. The audit spot-checked 10 provinces (cities) 106 highway management right transfer projects, and found that 64 projects were examined and approved by local governments beyond their authority and in violation of regulations; Part of the transfer funds are from abnormal sources. 18 of the 24.3 billion yuan obtained from the transfer project,1700 million yuan was paid by the bank loan obtained by the transferee with the transferred road as pledge. Bidding for some projects is a mere formality, and the transfer price is not evaluated or reduced, resulting in the loss of state-owned assets. The result of this confusion, on the one hand, seriously affects the utilization rate and transportation efficiency of highways, increases the transportation cost of related products, hinders the optimal allocation of resources and the coordinated development of regional division of labor, and restricts China's economic development; On the other hand, highways are also corrupt departments. In recent years, the phenomenon of "repairing roads and toppling cadres" and "the director of highway traffic has fallen off the horse" can be called a scene in the transportation field. Statistics show that in recent years, more than 20 transportation directors in Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Beijing and other provinces have been dismissed, and the Luo Xu Expressway in Henan has put three provincial transportation directors in jail continuously. The expressway from Shenyang to Shanhaiguan has a section of 50 kilometers, and 62 corrupt officials have actually lost. Isn't this a miracle of the world? !

The fifth miracle: the expressway industry has become a profiteering industry. According to reports, Su Shen Zhejiang-Anhui Expressway Co., Ltd. set up a booth in the labor market in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province to recruit toll collectors for expressways. The scene was packed, and many people took the registration form and began to queue up early in the morning. It is planned to recruit toll collectors 147, attracting more than 600 applicants 1600 and more than 700 college graduates. According to the staff, such a hot scene is rare in the city's recruitment market. (China Youth Daily, July, 2006 14) The recruitment of toll collectors on expressways has made many college students rush, and their enthusiasm for registration even exceeds that of civil servants. This scene is definitely not accidental. The metaphor behind it is that job stability and high welfare, especially monopoly units have gradually become the pursuit goal of college students' employment. Not to mention the envy of ordinary people, even bureau-level cadres want to "resign and change careers" for it. At a meeting held in Jiangsu Province, a deputy director of the Provincial Communications Department said, "I also want to be a toll collector on the expressway!" " "(Chengdu Daily, September 7, 2005) Although what the leaders of the Communications Department said was a joke, everything happened for a reason. It is reported that the monthly salary of ordinary toll collectors in some highway toll departments in this province has actually reached 8,000 yuan, which is more than 10,000 yuan, not to mention the usual welfare. The income of nearly 10 thousand yuan or even more than 10 thousand yuan is much higher than that of departmental cadres! This is the internal reason why college students should be called "road bandits" by netizens, because the expressway industry in China has become a profiteering industry with obvious characteristics! According to Xinhua News Agency on June 30th, 2004, Xu, the former minister of jiangsu provincial party committee Organization Department, was "double-regulated" for selling officials. With the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xu jiangsu provincial party committee was removed from the Standing Committee. According to the investigation, Xu's biggest income from selling officials was provided by Zhang, the former director of Jiangsu Provincial Communications Department, amounting to 2 million yuan. In other words, the position of a director of the communications department is worth 2 million. So, how much does a director of communications need to "earn" in order not to lose money? Where did this 2 million come from? Li, director and investigator of the Investigation Division I of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Nanjing Procuratorate, said: "Expressway construction is a typical capital-intensive industry, such as Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, with a cost of more than 24 million yuan per kilometer, with an average of at least 24,000 yuan per meter. "This reminds me once again of Marx's famous saying: With 30% profit, people will take risks; 100% profit will trample on human conscience; With 300% profit, you have to risk being hanged!

"Miracle" 6: "See only gold, but not people", and the expressway has become a "roadblock" for economic development. On the issue of highway toll collection, transportation authorities at all levels have tried their best, such as bluffing to copy a red-headed document approved by a government in a prominent position at the toll station, high-tech toll collection means, and adhering to the rigid principle of "one car, one pole", the classic farce of "seeing only gold but not people" has been staged from time to time. On June 30th, an ambulance carrying critically ill patients in Pingle County, Guilin, Guangxi was chartered to open a section of expressway that has not been officially opened. Drivers who are unfamiliar with the road conditions drive all the way to find the exit, but after finding the exit, they have to stay for 7 minutes because of charging problems. After the critically ill patient was sent to the hospital, he died because of ineffective rescue. Family members think that the patient lost the prime time of rescue because of the delay of toll station; Guilin Toll Station of Guilin-Liuzhou Expressway stated that the toll collectors acted in accordance with the rules and regulations. In this regard, some Guilin citizens think that toll stations are "inhuman". No matter how the toll collectors abide by the rules and regulations, they should also put people first and put saving lives in the first place, so what's wrong with letting ambulances carrying critically ill patients pass first and then reporting to the leaders? After all, "there is only one life, and saving people is the most important thing." (Xinhuanet on July 8) Earlier, it was reported that a similar thing happened at a highway toll station in Liaoning. A 120 ambulance had to pass the toll booth. However, because the doctors, nurses and drivers who made house calls didn't have the "toll fee" of 10 yuan in their pockets, they were stuck in the toll booth for more than ten minutes. When the toll collectors arrived at the scene, the patients with heart disease had missed the opportunity of treatment and lost their lives. Now, as long as we pay a little attention, it is not difficult to find that the toll roads with checkpoints all over the country not only make the highway toll fall into the craze of "seeing money but not people", but also become a "roadblock" that affects the coordinated economic development of China! In the past, people only realized that Gui Li and other lawless elements extorted "tolls" from passers-by on the grounds that "I opened this road". I never thought that today, what people feel personally is that everywhere, on the grounds of "paying back the loan by charging", it is openly and legally necessary to "leave the toll" for passing vehicles. ! Therefore, under the background that China's expressways are sitting on the floor almost crazily and collecting cash, isn't it obvious whether it promotes or hinders the healthy development of China's social economy? !