The will of the people is the greatest politics, the masses of the people hate corruption the most, and if we do not offend hundreds of corrupt elements, we will offend 1.4 billion people.
Author | Lu Yongzhi
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Source | Mustang Finance
Carry out the fight against corruption to the end! Recently, the anti-corruption TV feature film "Zero Tolerance" has aroused a warm response across the country.
Among them, in the second episode of "Fighting Tigers and Shooting Flies", Wang Fuyu, former secretary of the party group and chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, faced the camera and said regretfully: "What do you (referring to himself) want money to do, bury you!" I now know that my crazy greed has reached its peak, but I don't know what I'm asking for money for. ”
Image credit: Screenshot of Zero Tolerance
At this moment, Wang Fuyu regretted it too late. No matter how long and how deeply the problem of violating discipline and law is hidden, it will be exposed one day, and the price will be heavier.
In fact, anti-corruption is not uncommon in the real estate industry, and housing enterprises are also "zero tolerance" for corruption incidents.
In the past two years, the anti-corruption wave has swept in the real estate industry, and many housing enterprises have reported anti-corruption cases, including many head enterprises such as Vanke, Country Garden, Wanda, Xuhui, and even those involved in hundreds of millions of yuan.
Some insiders pointed out that in the current tight capital environment, timely investigation and severe punishment of subsidiaries that drag down the parent company and have obvious loopholes are not only a good thing for enterprises, but also a matter of urgency.
Fire the first shot of the 2022 anti-corruption campaign
On January 15, the official WeChat public account of the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued a document saying that Huang Tao, former deputy general manager of China Resources Land's Beijing Company in North China, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and laws and was currently under disciplinary review by the China Resources Discipline Inspection Commission; the Pinggu District Supervision Commission had designated jurisdiction by the Beijing Municipal Supervision Commission.
Image source: Screenshot of Qingfeng Beijing public account
Huang Tao was born in December 1971, with a postgraduate degree and is a member of the Communist Party of China. He is currently the leader of the China Resources Land Legacy Project Team in North China Region, and has served as the assistant general manager and deputy general manager of North China Beijing Company, the general manager of The Beijing West Business Department of north China Region, and the secretary and general manager of the Party Branch of The North China North Business Department.
Bai Wenxi, chief economist of IPG China, told Dagong Real Estate that the matter still depends on the seriousness of the final investigation results, and also depends on whether the illegal acts are individual performance of duties or corporate acts of the company.
It is worth noting that in Huang Tao's current position, there is a "leader of the regional legacy project team leader". "Legacy projects" refer to real estate projects that have disputes, cannot be developed for various reasons, have unclear property rights or are rotten.
According to the data, one of the "legacy projects" of China Resources Land in North China is the "Former Residence of Liang Sicheng" in Beizongbu Hutong, Jianguomen District, Dongcheng District, Beijing.
In 2009, China Resources Land acquired the plot and prepared to demolish Liang Sicheng's former residence. However, it was later punished by the Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Department and ordered to rebuild, and the plot was also idle. Coupled with various other factors, it has not yet been developed.
Image source: China Resources Land public account
Two days after the above briefing, on January 17, Li Xin, president of China Resources Land, stressed at the 2022 manager work conference of China Resources Land that it is necessary to "do excellent stock, do solid increment", "reduce inner volume, eliminate waste", "blade inward, scrape bone to cure poison, and resolutely rectify loose and soft" as the starting point.
In fact, in recent years, the anti-corruption efforts of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises have been increasing, and not only are regional executives frequently investigated, but also the top leaders of housing enterprises are investigated for violating laws and discipline, which is not a new thing.
For example, on April 17, 2014, Song Lin, chairman of the board of directors and secretary of the party committee of China Resources Group, was taken away by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, and then the Central Discipline Inspection Commission found out that Song Lin had used his position to facilitate embezzlement of public funds and accept bribes for nine years, causing state-controlled enterprises to suffer heavy losses, involving a total amount of tens of millions.
In the eyes of industry insiders, many corrupt executives are the backbone of the enterprise, or they are people who can affect the development of specific business sectors, so the anti-corruption attitude of the enterprise is more important.
In the cold winter, the anti-corruption efforts of housing enterprises have not decreased
In 2021, real estate companies can be described as struggling, while coping with the downturn in the industry and the pressure of the capital chain, they have not ignored internal loopholes and allowed corruption.
According to statistics, in 2021, a number of housing enterprises, including Dongyuan, New Town Holdings, Country Garden, Xuhui, Vanke, etc., opened a self-examination and self-correction model, setting off a round of anti-corruption storm.
Image source: Screenshot of the briefing
In March 2021, Dongyuan Group issued a number of disciplinary notices in East China, involving a total of 15 people in Hangzhou and Shanghai.
According to the Circular, a recent audit by the Risk Management Center of Dongyuan Group found that the company in East China had problems such as artificial manipulation of bidding results, collusion in bidding, supplementation of false bidding processes, illegal cash-out, falsification of original full family data, employees accepting rebates and benefit fees from suppliers, and employees borrowing from suppliers, which seriously violated the company system and touched the red line.
Three months later, in June, New Town Holdings issued an internal announcement that Cao Jianfeng, former deputy director of marketing of Suzhou Yusheng Company, Liu Zhiqiang, former marketing manager of Yusheng Company, Xu Zhou, former deputy director of planning of Niesheng Company, and Fei Sheng, former assistant general manager of Niesheng Company, were given free termination of labor contracts for suspected job-related crimes, never hired, included in the list of untrustworthy personnel, and ordered to return all illegal gains.
It is understood that Suzhou Yusheng Company of New Town Holdings was responsible for developing MOC Core City Hui, which was fined about 1.824 million yuan by the Suzhou Housing and Construction Bureau for unauthorized construction without obtaining a construction permit.
Also in June, it was reported that Zhang Qiang, the former general manager of Country Garden Cultural and Commercial Tourism Group, had been transferred to the judicial organs for handling on suspicion of embezzlement of his position and bribery.
According to the data, Zhang Qiang previously served as the general manager of CITIC Commercial Management, the assistant to the president of Blu-ray Real Estate, and the president of Blu-ray Cultural Tourism Group. Zhang Qiang joined Country Garden in April 2018 as the general manager of Country Garden Cultural and Commercial Travel Group.
According to Country Garden insiders, Country Garden Group attaches great importance to clean and anti-corruption work, resolutely cracks down on all violations of law and discipline, and adopts a "zero tolerance" attitude towards fraud and corruption. The Zhang Qiang incident was discovered during an internal picket.
At the end of October last year, Wang Jiaxi, the former vice president of Excellence Group, who had been in office for less than a year, was sent to the judicial organs for handling corruption, and the amount involved could be hundreds of millions of yuan.
As for the reasons for the arrest and the latest developments in the incident, Excellence replied that at present, Wang Jiaxi has indeed been taken away to assist in the investigation, but he does not know what is going on, nor does he know when it is (because) the matter, everything is not very clear.
In early November 2021, Xuhui internally reported a serious team corruption case. There are five main people involved in the case: one marketing director and one sales manager, and three sales case personnel, including project management personnel, management trainees of the marketing mouth, and former sales crowns.
According to the notice of Xuhui Chengdu City Company, from November 2019 to May 2020, the sales manager of Chengdu Jiangshan Heming Project and others sold the houses checked out by multiple sets of customers of the project at a premium price outside the contract, and the proceeds of the mark-up were privately divided by the project marketing general and the property consultant.
The company dismissed five of the parties and transferred them to the judiciary on suspicion of embezzlement of office. The public security organs have also filed a criminal case and taken criminal coercive measures against the above-mentioned persons.
It is worth mentioning that Xuhui's "anti-corruption" involves a low level, but it is very strong, and it is directly transferred to the judicial organs.
Also in early November, Vanke issued a fine, issuing a fine to the COO that was "downgraded to Level 2 and fined 10 million yuan.". This is not because he personally stepped on the high-voltage line, but because of the northern region in charge.
For the anti-corruption of housing enterprises, Yan Yuejin, a well-known real estate analyst, believes that corporate anti-corruption reflects the good governance model of enterprises. Enterprises should adhere to "zero tolerance" in corruption, and the increase in corruption problems has eroded the development ability of enterprises, losing the environment of fair competition and distribution mechanism.
Anti-corruption "zero tolerance" for housing enterprises
In recent years, in order to deal with the problem of "corruption", housing enterprises have also been continuously improving the anti-corruption mechanism, from internal handling to directly handing over to the police, and will not tolerate anti-corruption problems.
Since 2019, the entire real estate industry has set off a round of anti-corruption boom. Wanda, Midea Real Estate, Poly Real Estate, Sunac, Jinke, Agile And many other real estate companies have joined the "anti-corruption army".
In January 2019, Jian Yuping, president of Agile Real Estate Hainan, and Cai Xiaopeng, vice president of Guangzhou, were dismissed for serious integrity violations; in May, Deng Min, executive deputy general manager of Landsea Green Group Chengdu Company, was dismissed from the judicial authorities for suspected economic crimes and arrested by the judicial authorities; in May, Wu Zhangyan, deputy general manager of Poly Real Estate, was investigated and taken lien measures; in June, corruption incidents occurred in Sunac Shanghai and Wuxi branches, involving more than 100 million yuan in funds.
In August 2019, Wang Mou, former assistant to the president of Wanda Commercial Management Group and general manager of the South China Operation Center, Mi Mou, former deputy general manager of Wuhan Regional Merchants Operation, Fu Mou, former general manager of Huanggang Wanda Plaza, and Zhang Mou, former deputy general manager of Xiaogan Wanda Plaza, demanded bribes from merchants, suppliers and employees, involving an amount of nearly 100 million yuan, seriously violating the group system and suspected of committing crimes. After the incident, Wanda terminated the labor relationship with the above four people and handed them over to the judiciary.
In September 2019, the vice president of Hainan Atlantis Business Travel Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Fosun, and two of his subordinates sold some apartments and villas to home buyers at a higher price, making a profit of nearly 200 million yuan, and the company handed over 3 people to the relevant judicial departments.
Image source: Honest and honest real estate public number
In October 2019, Midea Real Estate issued a group anti-corruption announcement, saying that several employees, including vice presidents of regional companies, project marketing managers, and property consultants, had collectively cheated and used their powers to make profits. At that time, 6 people had been taken criminal compulsory measures by the local public security organs.
In the view of industry insiders, the problem of internal corruption is related to the expansion of enterprise scale, the extension of management radius, and the lack of internal and external supervision. Especially in the period of rapid development of real estate, extensive enterprise management makes land acquisition, project bidding, investment attraction, procurement, housing sales and other fields prone to corruption.
In 2015, the China Enterprise Anti-Fraud Alliance was established in Shanghai, with founding members including Alibaba, Country Garden, Midea, SF, Vanke, etc., which is the first non-governmental non-profit cooperative organization in China to be established by enterprises with the goal of anti-fraud.
In order to fight corruption, housing enterprises have also built anti-corruption alliances. In July 2020, 14 real estate companies, including Shimao, Rongxin, Sansheng, Sunshine City, Yuzhou, etc., gathered in Shanghai to establish the "Audit and Supervision Alliance".
In addition, country garden, Vanke, Evergrande, Longhu and other housing enterprises have established supervision departments, and anti-corruption has become an industry trend.
In fact, Country Garden's clean and anti-corruption work has maintained high pressure in recent years. In addition to the risk management and internal control system set up by the Board of Directors of the Group, Country Garden has also set up a risk control audit and supervision center, and in 2019, it established a discipline inspection committee.
Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Wanda Group, who is "iron fisted" anti-corruption, once said in a speech, "I am not in charge of specific business in the group, and the only department in charge is the audit department, which is equivalent to the discipline inspection committee of the Wanda Group!" ”
In Yan Yuejin's view, from the perspective of anti-corruption technology, the difficulty is not great, but many corrupt executives are the backbone of the enterprise, or the figures who can affect the development of specific business sectors, so the anti-corruption attitude of the enterprise is more important.
The reason why the TV special "Zero Tolerance" is hot is precisely because it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In 2021, the real estate industry suffered a "cold winter", in such an environment, the hearts of real estate people need warmth and encouragement.
With the deepening of the anti-corruption of housing enterprises, the loopholes in enterprise management are gradually being repaired, the real estate industry has entered the era of management dividends, and the parallel management and development will become the strategic task of more enterprises, and the anti-corruption of housing enterprises has been on the road.
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