What happened to Zixing in recent years? urgent

At noon on a hot summer day, as soon as the reporter arrived in Zixing City, he encountered a series of accidents: first, Yuan Shengquan, director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, stepped down from an old Pu Sang that was only 30% new at most. The driver was not a full-time driver, but He Yazhong, deputy director of the Standing Committee; Subsequently, the host took the reporter to a very ordinary local restaurant for lunch and apologized slightly. Compared with luxury car transfers and grand banquets that are common in some places, Zixing's reception specifications are somewhat "shabby". However, it is these changes in details that mean that Zixing, "car" and "cup", two chronic diseases that constantly raise the cost of official business, are being "cured". Most of the difficult reforms promoted by Qi Xin are the last choice, but Zixing's official consumption reform is not out of helplessness. In Hunan, Zixing's comprehensive strength ranks fifth at the county level, and its per capita financial resources and per capita GDP rank second in the province. Last year, Zixing's financial balance was more than 30 million. Yuan Shengquan said frankly: "If you want to take a better car and improve the reception level, money is really not a big problem." Without the pressure of money, why should Zixing carry out the reform of official consumption? Li Taihai, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, said that there are two major driving forces for the reform of Zixing City. The first is the spirit of reform from the central authorities. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the "leadership consumption reform", and then CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection demanded "official consumption reform" where conditions permit. Second, in the face of the grim situation that consumption cost's official business continues to rise and even greatly exceeds the GDP growth rate, the Municipal Party Committee feels it necessary to plan ahead. At the same time, the increasingly strong voice of public opinion has also brought tremendous pressure to Zixing's leadership. Many people complain: why don't they feel sad when an official sits in the building and eats a cow at a table? Yuan Shengquan revealed that in recent years, at the Zixing Municipal People's Congress, deputies to the National People's Congress constantly put forward very sharp opinions on the rising cost of official business, demanding that the National People's Congress strengthen financial review and supervision and be optimistic about taxpayers' wallets. It should be admitted that the leadership of Zixing City has a sense of active reform, and after this active consciousness forms a joint force with the central spirit, hidden crisis and public opinion, Zixing reform will naturally come naturally. Strongly correct the deviation of "car", and the cutting edge of reform first points to "car". According to statistics, there were 296 official vehicles in Zixing City before the vehicle reform, and the annual expenditure was as high as 20.3 million yuan, accounting for 10% of the local fiscal expenditure. At one time, all municipal leaders in Zixing concentrated on closed learning. Huang Xiang 'e, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, took the opportunity to send people to visit the city and found that most of the buses taken by city leaders were still running on the street, and the phenomenon of private use of buses was shocking. A survey conducted by Zixing Vehicle Reform Office shows that one third of buses are used for official business, one third for leaders' private use and one third for drivers' private use. Some leading cadres go out for tourism, fishing, banquets and entertainment, and even let their children go to school and their mother-in-law change gas. The bus's "deviation" has actually become an open secret. In addition, there are huge loopholes in bus repair fees and gasoline fees. The working efficiency of each bus is only one-fifth of that of taxis, and the cost of car maintenance is almost eight times that of taxis. The locals joked: "The cowshed closes the cat, and the loophole is too big." At first, Zixing car reform tried to start from towns and bureaus, because "reform will easily affect the lives of the lower classes", fearing that it would touch the interests of leaders from the beginning and repeat the fate of reform failure. However, the leaders of Zixing finally made up their minds to challenge this fate. Fifty municipal leaders in Zixing unanimously passed the "monetization reform of official vehicles" and took the lead in "opening their own privileges". Across the country, bus reform is not a new topic. However, in many places, the bus reform has not been successful, or it has become a simple currency "redemption", or the salary of cadres has been raised in disguise. Therefore, the success of Zixing car reform depends largely on whether the system design is reasonable. According to the director of Zixing car reform office and reception reform office, the main measures of Zixing car reform are as follows: canceling municipal leaders' cars and official cars of various units, and canceling full-time drivers; Pay transportation subsidies to leading cadres at the municipal and bureau levels according to the standards; Encourage leading cadres to take social operation vehicles or buy their own cars, and set up government service fleets at the same time. Leading cadres need cars and must pay for them themselves. Some cadres, with subsidies, use power, human feelings and other factors to try their best to take the free bus. What should we do? Zixing City Commission for Discipline Inspection immediately issued a series of supervision measures. In addition to explicitly prohibiting leading cadres who receive subsidies from borrowing vehicles from any unit, asking for or reimbursing expenses, they have also established archives of leading cadres' official activities abroad, and regularly announced the use of leading cadres' transportation expenses at the grassroots level ... It is clear at a glance whether the cadres are sitting in a "overlord car" or a "human car". At the beginning of 2004, after careful planning, Zixing car reform was officially implemented. It is the common mentality of leading cadres to rationally curb the rise of "tragedy": they dare not take more ill-gotten gains, but they feel at ease when eating and drinking with public funds. Why? Because eating and drinking with public funds is a trivial matter for many people, in real life, officials who are held accountable for eating and drinking are extremely rare. In Zixing, a famous eco-tourism city, the psychology of such officials used to be very popular, which led to the increase of official reception fees year after year. NPC deputies exclaimed that it had become a "bottomless pit". According to statistics, Zixing's official reception fee was 1 1 10,000 yuan in 2002, and 1.7 million yuan in 2003 and 2004. The most typical one is Zixing, a small unit with only 60 people. The reception fee for 10 is 980,000 yuan. "Official reception is a basket, and everything can be put in." Zixing city leaders realized that after the bus reform, the official reception reform must be followed up quickly, otherwise not only the administrative cost will be reduced, but also the achievements of the bus reform may be jeopardized. At the beginning of 2005, the "Measures for the Reform of Official Reception System in Zixing City" was officially implemented, and its core content was to implement the management of official reception expenses. After the reception fee index is approved according to the official reception volume, the official expenses are directly allocated to the city leaders and the municipal units, and are used by the relevant responsible persons, saving prizes and subsidies, and overspending is at your own risk. Li Taihai, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, is allocated an official reception fee of 25,000 yuan every year, which makes him have to "live within his means and settle accounts every time he treats guests". On one occasion, Li Taihai invited employees to dinner, and someone gave everyone a pack of cigarettes according to the old habit. At that time, although Li Taihai just said "You saved me money" in a joking tone, it was really painful in my heart. The data is the most convincing. Today, Zixing car reform has been implemented for a year and a half, and the reception fee reform has been carried out for more than half a year, which has reached the point of "let the facts speak for themselves". Zeng Yuewei provided four sets of data to reporters. First, there are 122 buses in the city included in the scope of vehicle reform. Before the car reform, the average annual car maintenance cost reached 6180 thousand yuan. After the vehicle reform, the transportation subsidy for cadres was only 3120,000 yuan, saving 3.06 million yuan. Second, before the car reform, the party and government organs in the city purchased or replaced more than 15 new cars every year. Now this cost is zero, which directly saves about 3 million yuan in car purchase expenses; Third, before the car reform, the annual salary subsidy for 122 full-time drivers was as high as 2.44 million yuan. After the car reform, the government service team only has 50 drivers left through competition, saving about 6.5438+0.44 million yuan in driver fees. Fourth, after the vehicle reform, 2.02 million yuan was raised by auctioning the remaining vehicles. Adding up the above four figures, Zixing Automobile Reform achieved a huge benefit of 9.52 million yuan in one year. In terms of official reception, from June 65438 to June 2005, Zixing spent 42 1 10,000 yuan, a decrease of nearly 3 million yuan and 4 1% compared with the same period last year. Especially in June of this year, 5438+ 10, the city's official reception expenses only cost 340,000 yuan, a decrease of 840,000 yuan compared with the same period of last year, a sharp drop of 7 1%. When interviewed by Zixing, the reporter found three meaningful details: first, all the four major organs of Zixing City were concentrated in one compound, but there were less than 10 cars in the compound; Secondly, Zixing City has opened several inexpensive cafeterias, and many official receptions are held here, which is very rare in other county-level cities. Third, services such as foot washing and karaoke, which were once booming, have become very light. The owner of a foot washing city sighed and said, "Without public funds, we have to pay for a car ourselves, and business is naturally getting worse every day." For many people, being a leader means having a car and the right to sign bills. However, in Zixing, with the deepening of reform, this traditional official culture is gradually dissolving. Privilege is both benefit and face, and sometimes face can set off the superiority of power. The reporter found that at present, the "mounts" of county-level leading cadres in Hunan are basically Buick, Guangben and Passat. According to the financial resources of Zixing City, we can better equip them. However, after the implementation of the car reform, the leaders of Zixing City must "wipe their bottoms". Yuan Shengquan, director of the Standing Committee of Zixing Municipal People's Congress, told the reporter that he originally had a Mitsubishi car of nearly 300,000, which was only 500 meters from home to office, but it was a special car to and from work. On the first day of the car reform, Yuan Shengquan walked to and from work. There are embarrassing times, but after all, it is close to the people, and the people-oriented consciousness is quietly enhanced in a subtle way. "This not only reduces expenses, but also helps to make better decisions. It's also good for your health. What are you talking about? " He Yazhong, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, spent more than 40,000 yuan to buy an old Pu Sang. Some people laughed at his broken car and lowered his status. He Yazhong didn't care: "In fact, reform is sometimes a completely changed life. If you think about it, your face is just that. " It has been revealed that at present, more city leaders take taxis and buses, and some even take motorcycles. There are also 25 city leaders who bought cars, mainly used cars and cars with a price of100000 yuan. Practicality, fuel economy and economy have become their first considerations, and the issue of face has long been forgotten. The implementation of the official reception reform has also "forced" Zixing officials into actuaries. Now Zixing leading cadres go to Changsha, the provincial capital, and most of them take buses instead. Li Taihai calculated an account: if you go by car, the fuel fee, bridge crossing fee and accommodation fee should be at least 2,000 yuan, and the round trip by bus is only 2 10 yuan, and other expenses are less than 500 yuan. Some leaders in Zixing frankly said: when signing bills, it is often a stroke of a pen, and they are too lazy to read them. Now they must look carefully and "clip the door" when it is time to "clip the door"; I used to go to the countryside by car alone, but now I often rent a car with several people, and there is no important business, so I don't bother the grassroots easily. The direct goal of Zixing reform is to reduce the cost of officials, but with the specific operation of the reform, it shows the deep value pursuit of improving the ruling ability. Whether it is the evolution of official culture or people-oriented consciousness, whether it is to strengthen official cost accounting or to establish a power restriction mechanism, it is the inevitable choice and value connotation of the ruling party for a long time. Zixing's "political reform" obviously has more significance and results worth looking forward to. The historical experience of "how long can the red flag last" has proved that although reformers show the way of the future, their fate is often lonely and often ends in tragedy. Looking at the whole country, the car reform in Zhejiang was stopped, and the car reform in Guangdong was also criticized. Few places set foot in the reform of official reception, but Zixing tried to conquer these two "highlands" in one fell swoop. Is there any change in the future? In fact, after the "reform" of Zixing's official consumption started, the question of "how long can the red flag last" appeared. Although the reform has been generally smooth so far, this doubt reminds Zixing reformers that they must treat the confusion that has appeared or may appear with a rational attitude. "Don't change if you go down" and "Don't change if you change the environment", Zixing's cadre group has already experienced this loneliness of "going deep into the army alone". At the same time, public security, procuratorial, legal, departmental and vertical management departments, enterprises and institutions have not entered the ranks of reform. "One city, two systems" has made some cadres resist reform, and some leaders even feel that they have "suffered losses". At present, Zixing's public service reform is limited to municipal leaders and party and government leaders of various units, and other leading cadres, including departmental deputies, have not been included, which has also caused new imbalances. It seems that if the interests of all parties are not taken into account and the coverage of reform is not expanded, the reform will lack stamina and even lose the public opinion base. However, in the process of deepening and promoting reform, how to prevent the reform measures from being alienated into disguised welfare may become a gap that reformers can hardly cross. Although Zixing's reform plan has been approved by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, it cannot be said that it has obtained the most credible guarantee of the rule of law. If the reform plan collects a wider range of public opinions and is authorized by the National People's Congress, its credibility will not be questioned. In fact, the fundamental policy to curb official consumption is to make the financial budget supervision really hard and prevent taxpayers' hard-earned money from being wasted on unnecessary official extravagance and even official corruption. In Zixing, such a supervision idea has gradually become clear, and bus reform and reception fee reform have become two important contents of NPC's debriefing. We must admit that Zixing's reform is rational and its system design is comprehensive. We should wish Zixing a good "reform".