Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 817: Firm Determination

This is also an economic account. The income from growing grain is originally much lower than that of the secondary and tertiary industries. When farmers finally collect the grain, they are exploited by the grassroots cadres of the purchasing and marketing system, who privately withhold and misappropriate the grain and divide up state subsidies among themselves. All these situations have greatly dampened farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain.

In our survey, 50 out of 100 farmers had never heard of planting subsidies. Once the money arrived at the grain bureau’s account, corrupt officials made a list and divided it up among themselves.”

After seeing the meager income from farming, the farmers naturally welcomed the local government's offer to acquire some land to build industrial plants or commercial residences. Even if the land acquisition fee was only tens of thousands of yuan per mu, the benefits were incomparable to farming. In this case, the farmers were happy, the local government was happy, and the Grain Bureau ignored them and did not care at all.

With the interests of several parties intertwined, how could it be possible not to occupy the red line of arable land? No one is stopping it.

Qi Tongwei took a quick glance at the top leader's expression and found that his expression was very serious, but without any inclination or expression, so he continued to speak into the microphone.

"Continue. If there is corruption in the grain collection process, there must be corruption in the storage process. There were endless warehouse corruption in the Ming and Qing dynasties. I guess their methods have not improved much now."

Hu Haiou continued to introduce the situation in Zhongjiang Province.

“Yes, the warehouse link is mainly the corruption of the county-level grain bureau, and the grain purchase link is the corruption link of the township grain station. The two complement each other and collude with each other. The main means of corruption are as follows.

1. Reselling inferior grain as good quality grain.

Depending on the grade and freshness of the grain, some corrupt officials will replace old and low-quality grain with new grain, and then find local merchants to resell the high-quality grain.

According to our statistics, the grain bureau of a medium-sized grain-producing county can resell hundreds of tons of grain a year. The amount is not very large, usually around a few hundred thousand. The grain price is not high. Compared with other local corruption, the amount is difficult to be high. It can be regarded as an ant moving house. "

Merchants who purchase grain even include grain bureaus in some coastal provinces. Those areas have less arable land, special terrain, and not many people farming. They cannot complete the task of collecting grain, so they will spend money to buy some grain from grain bureaus in Zhongjiang Province and other regions to meet the tasks assigned by their superiors.

Qi Tongwei scolded him directly.

"What's with the ants moving? Although the amount of corruption they have done is not large, the harm they have done is huge and far-reaching. We must take this into consideration and continue."

Hu Haiou looked at the document and continued to report the situation.

“Yes, there are similar ones.

2. False reporting of losses.

This is still counterfeiting inventory for resale. We have found similar situations in more than 30 county grain bureaus. Some granaries are even specially made and cannot be discovered through simple inspections.

3. It is pure fraud of subsidies by empty warehouses, that is, directly making a list and not collecting grain at all, directly cheating the superiors of subsidies. This behavior has occurred in more than county grain bureaus and is considered the most common corruption.

Some cadres did not dare to resell grain, but they forged grain storage applications to apply for subsidies and distributed them to all employees in the bureau. Some people were more excessive and the director and several others ate all the subsidies. Some people used the subsidies as welfare for the entire bureau.

It varies.”

At this time, the top leader turned on the microphone, and all the cadres, including Qi Tongwei, sat up straight unconsciously.

“Comrades, for the various situations listed above, we must classify different behaviors and not simply distinguish them based on the amount of corruption.

We should effectively utilize the four forms of processing methods to carry out effective identification.

As Director Hu just said, some cadres ate the money themselves, and some cadres applied for subsidies and used them for other purposes. This involves the boundary between violation of discipline and violation of law, and we must make a clear boundary.

Needless to say, in the case of illegal activities, you can just discuss with the procuratorate and transfer the case for prosecution. As for cadres who have violated disciplines, you should discuss the typical behaviors as soon as possible, how to punish them, and issue a guiding opinion, which will be handed over to the provincial disciplinary inspection commissions to carry out the punishment themselves.

Don’t be afraid of tedious work, and don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to grassroots matters.”

Everyone on the screen said yes.

"Yes."

Qi Tongwei took over and continued to give instructions.

"The major grain-producing provinces will compile separate reports. Some provinces where the situation is not so serious will have separate reports. Continue."

Although it was not written in detail above, the situation of violations in provinces with relatively low grain production, such as Jiangdong Province, is completely different.

The local grain bureau does not resell the collected grain because the amount they can receive is very small. Some grain bureau cadres are keen to engage in business themselves. As Qi Tongwei knows, they occupy some grain stations that should have been abandoned to engage in processing or other industries. Most of them are directly rented to some enterprises or individuals and rent is collected.

Because they were unable to collect the required amount of grain, the leaders of these grain bureaus used the rent from abandoned grain stations to buy up the grain that was being resold by grain bureaus in major grain-producing provinces and stuffed it into their warehouses. As for how to spend the money, they just had to make a nice account.

For problems in provinces like this, Qi Tongwei instructed that they should be boldly handed over to the local provincial disciplinary inspection commission for analysis and judgment. Most of them fell into the category of violations of discipline and there was no need to increase the workload of the inspection team.

For some problems discovered during inspections of the Grain Bureau that do not require handling by the Discipline Inspection Commission, the newly formed Grain Bureau team will coordinate and resolve them to establish a long-term mechanism. The Discipline Inspection Commission will only impose penalties for relatively serious cases.

In fact, the local provincial-level Grain Bureau, Audit Bureau and Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection have a heavier workload, and the inspection team is only responsible for providing guidance in the general direction.

"There is also corruption in the sales process. A typical example is selling the reserve grain at a low price to companies controlled or affiliated with relevant officials, and then buying it back at a high price with government funds to siphon off funds.

The provincial-level grain bureaus are mostly involved in bidding for grain projects and taking kickbacks from them.

This last link can only be operated by a relatively high-level grain system. Zhou Cheng and others at the provincial level and those investigated by Qi Tongwei relied on building high-standard and high-tech granaries, providing some conveniences to relevant units, and accepting bribes.

After he had finished speaking, Qi Tongwei looked at the top leader.

“Speed ​​up the process, complete a round of inspections, and remember to get some data from the audit department.

With this round of experience, the next round of cooperation with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to check the red line of cultivated land will be more intuitive and efficient. "

Qi Tongwei made a summary and once again emphasized the determination to check the red line of cultivated land. The top leader also did not express any opinion. This matter is inevitable and unstoppable.