The granary is the national vein, and the people's hearts are determined.
As a populous country, the state guarantees the stability of the granary and grasps the initiative of food security, not only focusing on planting and harvesting, but also focusing on storage and management.
Since August last year, in the field of grain purchase and sale, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission have deployed nationwide special rectification work on corruption and conducted a comprehensive "political physical examination" of state-owned grain purchase and sale enterprises.
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In the past week, the three major grain-producing provinces of Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, and Liaoning have deepened the special rectification of corruption in the fields of grain purchase and sales, and opened the prelude to the special rectification of grain purchase and sales in the Year of the Tiger.
Judging from the previous cases in various places, it not only involves the competent business supervision departments and state-owned grain enterprises, but also covers grain procurement, storage, sales and other links, and the amount of money involved in the case is large, and the level of the personnel involved in the case is high, which seriously damages the political ecology of the grain system, harms the interests of farmers, and endangers national food security.
What are the means for "grain rats" to reap the benefits?
As the special rectification of corruption in the field of grain purchase and marketing continues to advance, the corrupt means of "relying on grain for grain" have gradually surfaced. Judging from the summary, it mainly includes six types of corruption problems, such as "circle grain," "air grain," "rising grain spilled," "loss grain," "differential grain," and "pit agricultural grain."
"Turning grain in circles" is the most important way to "rely on grain to eat grain" at present. It refers to the implementation of the national policy of grain collection, storage and grain reserve rotation, through the means of false purchase and false sales, old top new, unroeded rotation, etc., with the help of inventory is not moving, the book circle, or the inventory and the book circle at the same time to obtain improper benefits.
"Air grain" can be seen as an upgraded version of "circle grain", which refers to "making something out of nothing" between the grain depot and the grain merchants, the grain depot, or within the grain depot. There are three broad categories:
First, false grain purchase and sales contracts were signed between grain depots and grain merchants, documents for entering and leaving grain warehouses were forged, and funds were exchanged to each other, creating the illusion of transactions;
Second, false grain purchase and sale contracts are signed between grain depots, documents for entering and leaving grain warehouses are forged, invoices are issued, but there is no inspection list or weighing list, and the two business transactions are written off, and no real capital flow is actually generated;
Third, the grain depot creates a false rotation appearance through financial processing.
"Spilled grain" refers to the leakage of "spilled grain" and the embezzlement of grain money by concealing and privately selling "spilled grain" and embezzling grain money by deducting moisture impurities and drying, ventilation, humidification and other processes in the process of grain purchase, warehousing, warehousing, transportation and leaving the warehouse.
"Loss of grain" is to arbitrage funds by inflating the amount of food lost.
"Differential grain" refers to the illegal resale of government reserve grain, selling high and buying low to earn the spread.
"Pitting agricultural grain" directly infringes on the vital interests of the masses, and refers to the improper means of pitting farmers and harming farmers in the process of grain procurement, such as withholding two pounds, pressing down on grades and prices, defaulting on grain payments, and increasing the ratio of grain moisture, impurities, and mildew, and obtaining improper benefits.
Food anti-corruption blockbuster!
At the beginning of 2022, the Propaganda Department of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Central Radio and Television Station jointly produced the anti-corruption special blockbuster "Zero Tolerance", of which the second episode, "Fighting Tigers and Shooting Flies", exposed the corruption cases of the food system, which can be described as shocking. The feature film said that the problem of grain-related corruption directly infringes on the interests of peasants on the one hand, and on the other hand, it disguises state funds.
The investigation found that a number of station managers used such means as "grade grain," "grain spilled," and "grain in circles" to abuse their power for personal gain in grain purchase, sale, storage, rotation, and other links, and embezzled grain funds, which not only seriously harmed the interests of peasants, but also directly endangered national food security.
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission commented that there are deep-seated reasons behind the serious lack of supervision. The reform of the grain system has long required the separation of government and enterprises, but in some localities, grain bureaus and grain purchase and marketing companies are still essentially one today, and it is naturally difficult to correctly perform their supervisory functions. In addition, in some localities, the party's leadership in the grain system has been seriously weakened, and the party's building has been seriously weakened, which is also a factor causing frequent corruption. Many grassroots grain station party members have organizational relations in the township party committees, and personnel relations are in the food system, and the party branches on both sides have not included them in their daily management.
The anti-corruption efforts in the grain field will be intensified!
All along, grain procurement on the mainland has been dominated by market-oriented acquisitions and supplemented by policy-oriented acquisitions. The role of the state in macroeconomic regulation and control of grain reserves, as the ballast stone for food security on the mainland, on the one hand, initiates the purchase of the minimum purchase price to prevent "grain from hurting the peasants"; on the other hand, through auctioning policy-oriented grain and releasing reserve rotation grain, a steady stream of grain is released into the market to prevent "rice from hurting the people". However, some people in some major grain producing areas have used the method of "turning grain in circles" to exploit loopholes in the system and endanger the interests of peasants and national food security.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly made important instructions on safeguarding national food security and doing a good job in grain reserves. Discipline inspection and supervision organs regard the special rectification of corruption in the field of grain purchase and sale as a key task in deepening the building of a sound party style and a clean administration and the anti-corruption struggle, strengthen political supervision, strengthen supervision and inspection closely around the implementation of food security decisions and arrangements, and effectively supervise and ensure that the decisions and arrangements for food security are effectively implemented.
In January this year, the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China was held, and the anti-corruption in the field of grain purchase and sale was written into the communiqué for the first time. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels, based on their functions and duties, have strengthened supervision and inspection closely around the problems of responsibility, corruption, and work style, intensified the handling of cases in the field of grain purchase and sale, and started from investigating and handling cases to thoroughly analyze and find out the root causes, supervise and improve the system, plug loopholes, deepen reform, and promote the solution of systemic corruption in the field of grain purchase and sale.
On December 28, 2021, the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau held a national grain and material reserve work conference, taking the special rectification in the field of grain purchase and sales as the key task, and resolutely guarding and managing the "granary of the world". Adhere to high standards and strict requirements, focus on comprehensive reform and thorough eradication, firmly grasp and work hard, self-examination and self-correction must be thorough, the intensity of case handling should be increased, the reform of institutional mechanisms should be deepened, and the means of supervision and control should be penetrating, and the special rectification should be deepened in a strict and down-to-earth style, so as to achieve lasting results.
It is foreseeable that in the future, the state will continue to form a high-pressure situation, strictly and quickly investigate and handle major cases of "relying on grain for grain," maintain the deterrent power of severely punishing corruption, ensure that the problem of corruption in the field of grain purchase and sale is effectively eradicated, and ensure the fundamental interests of the peasants and the state's food security.
Source: Website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission, comprehensive collation of China Grain Network.