Why do townships feel aggrieved? Why do township cadres feel aggrieved?

Why do towns and villages feel aggrieved?

First, there is no money to do things. Although office expenses have increased a lot in the past two years, they are still barely enough to maintain running water, electricity, heating, internet, cars, oil, paper and other consumable expenses. At the same time, when superior units assigned work to townships, they did not allocate service funds. They only assigned tasks without giving money. As a result, townships could only squeeze out office expenses to squeeze out money to complete the tasks assigned by superiors. Townships were in difficulty. Keep things running.

The second is the shortage of manpower. The number of people in a township is generally 40-60, but it has never been fully staffed. Most towns in the county have more than 10 vacancies. Even if they are fully staffed, more than 40 people cannot do more than 100 tasks. Stability maintenance, central work, comprehensive management, family planning, environmental protection... and dealing with endless waves of inspections, evaluations, inspections, and surveys, none of which require manpower. Township cadres generally have three to four jobs, and some have more. In addition, the county also transferred cadres from towns and villages. Almost every town and town had four or five cadres removed by the county, and those removed were all key members.

The third is the imbalance of power and responsibility. The power is infinitesimal, but the responsibility is infinite. The weakest shoulders carry the heaviest burden. After the institutional reform, the power of townships has been infinitely shrunk. Almost all powers such as financial rights, personnel rights, and land rights have been assigned to the county level. Small things such as building a roadway, cleaning a ditch, providing a subsistence allowance, or digging a well are all out of reach. It must be approved by superiors and cannot be decided by oneself. However, all tasks from the central government, (autonomous) regions, prefectures, and counties will eventually be pushed down to the towns and villages. Even some tasks that are the responsibility of the state's county business departments must be delegated to the townships, but to whom can the townships delegate the work? Towns and villages can only bear the burden. If the work is not done well, the township will still be responsible and take the blame. At the same time, this is also one of the many reasons why there are so many petition cases.

Fourth, it is difficult to make independent decisions and carry out work independently. Every day's work in townships revolves around the baton of superiors. It is rare that one day can decide how to carry out one's work and in what way based on one's own reality.

Fifth, it is difficult for village cadres to cooperate. As the village level is a mass self-governing organization, and the salary is only a few hundred or a little more than 1,000, it is inevitable that village cadres have low enthusiasm for work. The towns and villages are basically helpless against them. They cannot scold them or even say one or two harsh words, otherwise they will give up their work. And they basically dodge as much as they can, deal with it as much as they can, and just wander around. What's more, many village cadres are more powerful than township leaders because of their excessive autonomy. They can't eat oil and salt, and can't pour water.

Sixth, it is difficult to do mass work. After the abolition of agricultural taxes, it became more difficult to mobilize the masses. When building roads and canals, volunteer workers could no longer let people out, and it was difficult to call in when something happened. Some farmers even stopped cleaning the garbage in front of their homes. Township cadres did the cleaning for them anyway. When something happens to the masses, they beg the masses and run around the masses, but the masses ignore them; when the masses have something to do, the masses will come looking for them, no matter whether the township can handle it or not. The most difficult thing to do is mass work under the conflict of interests. If you are hard-working, you will violate disciplines and laws. Some cadres even use their own money to buy things for the masses in order to build closer relationships.

Seventh, numerous inspections, retreat work and petitions consume a lot of energy. The most annoying thing is the inspection and evaluation survey. There are 30-40 units in the county. Even if each unit comes once a quarter, an inspection team will come every three days on average, not counting those from the state and autonomous regions. And petitions are another headache, and there is no choice.

Why are township cadres aggrieved?

First, low wages, poor treatment, and difficult conditions. Most of them only cost more than 2,000, and not many get more than 3,000. This is paid to the card and is not counted as net income. The targets of township work are farmland and farmers, and going to villages to register households is basic work. Cadres spend at least 200-300 yuan each month on motorcycle gas, transportation, and phone bills when going to villages to live in households. The towns and villages have never compensated for this. The towns and villages don’t have the money to make up for it, so they have to pay it all out of their own pockets.

Some towns and villages have built new offices in the past two years, which have improved a lot, but there are still many township offices that are very simple. Many of them have three or four people crammed into one office. In winter, they have to set up a stove and their hands and feet tremble with cold. , summer is full of smelly sweat. There are also many employees who don’t have canteens. A meal at an outside restaurant costs at least 15 yuan, which is half of a month’s salary. There are few dormitories, and most of them have a folding bed in the office. You can open it to sleep when you are on duty at night and put it away in the morning.

Second, the workload is heavy and rest time is not guaranteed. Continuous overtime and on-call shifts are normal and are unpaid. It would be good to take one or two days off a month, but even if you take a break, it won’t make you calm or feel at ease. Simple leisure activities such as sleeping quietly at home, going out with family, and gathering with friends have become a luxury for township cadres.

The third is stress and nervousness. There are so many things involved in the work, even if you concentrate and work hard, you will inevitably make mistakes. There will always be areas where your work is not satisfactory. From the secretary to the mayor of the township, down to the general staff, everyone is frightened and sensitive every day. They are afraid of an accident somewhere in the township, afraid of someone in the area they are responsible for causing trouble, and afraid of all kinds of unknown risks. And if something goes wrong, it can range from being scolded, to having wages deducted, being held accountable, to losing one's job or even going to jail.

Fourth, the future is murky. At the grassroots level, where the ceiling phenomenon is most concentrated, there are a lot of 4050 section members, but what can the deputy section level do? The vast majority of them just work until they retire. How many stand out? How many people have risen to prominence? Then I thought about it, aren’t the township comrades excellent? Who is not an all-rounder and a multi-tasker?

The fifth is not being understood. Family, relatives, and friends don’t understand. You can’t see anyone all day long. What are you doing so busy? The society and the masses do not understand that township cadres, like urban management, are sitting in the crater where social conflicts erupt, facing the masses directly on the front line. They must complete the tasks of their superiors without offending others. Is it possible? It's like a mouse burrowing into a bellows and getting angry from both ends. When it comes to work performance, how many people see it and keep it in mind? TV is full of "advanced examples" of people who ignore their children's illness or the elderly's fainting, and work hard to stay at their jobs. But township cadres are also human beings, with emotions and desires, families to support, wives and children to take care of, elderly people to support, and relatives and friends to interact with.

Sixth, low status. In the eyes of the masses, township cadres have no power and cannot get things done, so of course they are not welcome; within the system, many state and county government agencies also look down on township cadres, and a small clerk in the county can do whatever they want. They yelled at township cadres and scolded them. Although he is a civil servant at the same level, he has no choice but to endure it.

Seventh, family and relatives are ignored. Always give up the small family and take care of everyone. Chatting with a school teacher, he said that most of the students in the class with poor grades have one parent working in the township; 80% of the students with the worst grades have both parents working in the township. How many young cadres can successfully negotiate a partner? How many times a week can cadres with children see their children and supervise their studies? How many people can often go back to their parents' house to help and talk?

Having chosen this path, the road is still long. Who knows the bitterness and taste of the road?