Selection of public integrity: the system code for talents to stand out

24 ice and snow athletes were selected for the Beijing Winter Olympics commendation list

Selection of public integrity: the system code for talents to stand out

Pictured is Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming celebrating after the competition. Photo by Qu Peng, a reporter of this newspaper

Zuo Hanyuan, website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, reported that on April 8, the summary and commendation meeting of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Beijing. According to the announcement list of commendations, a total of 150 people have been identified as individuals with outstanding contributions, including 24 participating athletes.

How did these elite athletes stand out through layers of selection? Recently, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the State General Administration of Sport and the State Supervision Commission of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission in the State General Administration of Sport has comprehensively sorted out the work experience of preparing for and supervising the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

"We have always attached great importance to the selection of athletes participating in comprehensive international sports events, conscientiously implemented the requirement of 'selection of public integrity', and after the exploration of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, it can be said that a relatively mature international sports event selection mechanism that conforms to the reality of the mainland has been formed." Liu Guoyong, member of the party group and deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports, told reporters that in the selection of athletes at the Hangzhou Asian Games, these good experiences and systems will be used to determine the best candidates and the strongest lineup to finally represent the country.

Strengthen leadership, "promotion management", healthy competition, and select national teams that can recruit good battles and have a good work style

Building a national team that can compete well and has a good style is an inevitable requirement to ensure that the competition is brilliant and the national image is displayed on the world stage. Liu Guoyong said that strengthening the problem orientation is the clear attitude of the State General Administration of Sport in carrying out the selection work in recent years. "In the past, we still had some deficiencies in the selection work, such as the vision of selecting people was not broad enough, the methods were not scientific enough, and there was a phenomenon of 'small circle selection'. Only by solving these problems can we ensure that the selection is carried out openly, fairly and impartially. ”

How can we move forward to solving the above problems? Lu Kuilong, a second-level inspector of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed at the State General Administration of Sport, believes that compacting the main responsibility of "selecting public integrity" is the primary task: "In the selection of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, according to the situation under supervision, we promptly sent discipline inspection and supervision suggestions to the party group of the General Bureau, urging it to firmly formulate the quasi-selection plan, strictly examine each project, and promote innovative leadership mechanisms, change the past model, further strengthen the organization and leadership of the selection work, and the party group of the General Bureau has personally deployed important work and personally inquired about major issues. The key links are personally coordinated. ”

According to reports, when organizing and carrying out the selection work for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the State General Administration of Sport drew on the experience of the Tokyo Olympic Games that "the members of the party group of the General Bureau are responsible for the division of labor, and the center (association) has set up a leading group for the selection work." On this basis, the principle of promotion management has been determined.

"The establishment of a leading group for selection work in accordance with the principle of 'who is in charge and who is responsible' and the implementation of promotion management is actually a reform of the management system, which is more flattened, which is conducive to consolidating responsibilities, fully grasping the relevant situation, expanding the field of vision of selection, and is also conducive to giving play to the subjective initiative of leading cadres and effectively avoiding problems such as information asymmetry and low decision-making efficiency." Liu Guoyong said.

The reporter noted that in the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, each project is trained in the name of "national training team" instead of "national team", Liu Guoyong said that this is exactly the requirements put forward by the party group of the General Bureau for "small circle selection", "The national team must be called the national team at the moment of final selection." The early establishment of the so-called national team, on the one hand, is easy to make the athletes who have already entered the team slack, on the other hand, it also narrows the scope of selection, which may lead to the rejection of really powerful athletes. Different national training teams, a project can be engaged in several branches, so that the team and the team to form a healthy competitive relationship. ”

On the basis of fully soliciting the opinions of all parties, the party group of the State General Administration of Sport also combined with the characteristics of the project and directly put forward guidance and suggestions for the selection work. During the formulation of the selection plan for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the General Administration proposed that athletes who won the championship in this season's World Cup competitions could directly qualify for the Winter Olympic Games, so that outstanding athletes could adjust the pace of training for the Olympic Games against the standard, ensuring the unity of selection principles and flexibility.

"In this process, the discipline inspection and supervision group attended the special meetings on the selection work as observers, and on many occasions went deep into the frontline of the preparation for the competition to carry out research and inspection, to understand the main responsibility of the party group of the General Bureau of the General Administration of the People's Republic of China in fulfilling the main responsibility of 'selecting and promoting public honesty,' the relevant departments carrying out the work of selecting and dispatching athletes, coaches, and referees, and the responsible persons of various projects and the 'number one leaders' at all levels performing their duties and being suitable for their posts, giving priority to handling clues to relevant problems, and striving to promote the realization of fairness and justice." Lu Kuilong said.

"One project, one plan" prevents injustice and incorruptibility from the source, and everyone has the opportunity to win glory for the country

The key to preventing unfair and incorruptible problems such as fraud, black-box operations, and behind-the-scenes transactions from the source lies in clarifying the selection principles and improving the selection system. Liu Guoyong told reporters that in accordance with the characteristics of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the actual conditions of work, the State General Administration of Sport put forward several hard principles that must be adhered to at the beginning of the selection work: First, adhere to fair, just, and open competition, strictly implement the points system for the selection of various projects, and publicize the selection methods to the public, and the selection contest will be broadcast live on television or the Internet, and take the initiative to accept social supervision; second, it is necessary to persist in combining sports with specialization, pay attention to actual combat, and introduce social teams to compete with the state training team on the same stage and select the best; third, persist in attaching equal importance to moral performance and the problem of doping." One vote veto".

"Adhering to the supremacy of rules, acting according to rules, and using rules to solve some contradictions and problems is an experience that must be adhered to." Ni Huizhong, secretary of the party committee and director of the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, said, "While clarifying the general principles for the selection of various projects, taking into account the differences between ice projects and snow projects, especially the actual situation that there are many factors affected by the selection of snow projects, we adhere to the principle of 'one project and one plan' and 'team policy' when formulating specific plans, do not engage in 'one size fits all', and strive to improve the pertinence and scientific nature of the selection methods." ”

Liu Guoyong introduced that this model of classification implementation has begun to take shape at the time of the selection of the Tokyo Olympic Games. "When formulating the method for selecting shooting projects, we abolished the method of protecting the scores of athletes in previous international competitions, implemented the elimination of points, and determined the athletes participating in the Olympic Games in strict accordance with the results of the domestic selection competition.

The reporter learned that the formulation of the selection plan is a bottom-up process, first of all, the team committee composed of team leaders, coaches, managers, etc. formulates a preliminary plan according to the requirements of the competition goals and tasks, submits it to the centers and associations, and after the team members have argued and approved one by one, then widely solicits the opinions of various provinces and cities, and finally reports to the party group of the General Bureau for study, and the Department of Competitive Sports checks the relevant procedures. This means that before each plan is officially released, it must go through several rounds of revision and improvement, and fully absorb the opinions of all parties.

In the selection plan for the short track speed skating project of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, except for Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing, who won the World Cup this season, the other participating athletes were determined through three selection competitions. Each match selects 1 male athlete and 1 female athlete with the highest number of points, and the remaining athletes are determined according to the ranking of the total points of the three games, and all the selection matches are broadcast live by CCTV.

"Judging from the current technical landscape of international short track speed skating, the ability to lead the way is crucial, so in the program, we have targeted the setting up of competition points in the 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters events to select athletes who can better adapt to the rhythm of the Olympic games." Ni Huizhong said.

The figure skating single-player event set up 3 stations and 5 selection competitions, ranked according to the sum of the 4 better results, and selected to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. "We hire international referees to participate in the refereeing, and the members of the referee team for each game are selected by lottery, so as to avoid the referees from influencing the judgment due to the inherent impression of the athletes formed by continuous refereeing, and create a level playing field for the athletes." Ni Huizhong introduced.

The two-stage curling project selection scheme is also eye-catching. In the first stage, the national open registration was implemented, and 36 athletes were selected from more than 100 people who registered for the competition, and team competitions, 1-on-1 competitions and special technical tests were conducted, and 11 athletes were admitted to form a challenge team according to the total point ranking. After entering the second stage, the first plan changed the practice of the previous selection of the whole team, counted the success rate of the challenge team and the national training team of each baseman, and finally selected the athletes with the highest number of points in each base to form the Winter Olympic team, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of all athletes.

"One of the highlights of this selection process is that talents from all walks of life have the opportunity to participate." Ni Huizhong told reporters that a major feature of this Winter Olympics is the selection of materials in the season, the training in the season, and the participation in the season, among the athletes, there are both from the national training team, there are also from the club, or in the overseas solo training, and a considerable number of cross-border cross-discipline talents, therefore, in the design of the program always adhere to the "everyone has the opportunity to win glory for the country" orientation, to ensure that a bowl of water level.

According to the official website of the Winter Games Center, a total of 21 selection plans were formulated and announced during the selection process of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. "Judging from the results, the Chinese sports delegation has made a historic breakthrough, ranking among the top in the gold medal list, and the total number of medals and the number of gold medals have both reached a record high, which also fully demonstrates that our selection plan is powerful and effective." Ni Huizhong said.

Strictly implement the selection procedures, and set up a special working group for the supervision and inspection of the selection of participants to strengthen the supervision of the whole process

After the selection methods for each project are formulated and publicized, it is also necessary to ensure that they are strictly implemented. To this end, the State General Administration of Sport has set up a special working group for the supervision and inspection of the selection of the competition, which is responsible for organizing and implementing the supervision and inspection of the selection of the competition.

In terms of personnel composition, the deputy director of the Department of Competition and Sports and the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the organs directly under the discipline inspection jointly served as the leader of the supervision and inspection working group, and the members of the group came from the Department of Competition, the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Organ, the Department of Personnel, the Department of Science and Education, the Winter Games Center and other departments.

"In addition to organizing meetings, visiting and researching, reviewing materials, etc., for the key matches of the key project selection competition, the supervision and inspection working group will also go to the scene to watch the whole game, understand the implementation of the point system selection requirements, the implementation of the selection method, and the integrity and self-discipline of the staff, and strengthen the pressure transmission." Lu Yunbo, a cadre of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the State General Administration of Sports, said.

At the speed skating selection competition site, Lu Yunbo noticed that the arrangement of high-definition cameras is very dense, and the large screen on the scene will also display information such as the contestants' segmented results in real time, "The application of these high-tech means has greatly improved the transparency of the selection, squeezed the space for illegal operations, plus the deterrent effect brought about by the supervision and inspection working group directly into the field, ensuring the standardization of the selection process." ”

In order to further broaden the channels of supervision and inspection, the supervision and inspection working group has also established a specially invited supervisor system, inviting Zhu Zhiqiang, former president of the Harbin Institute of Physical Education, Fang Xuefeng, a sports commentator, and other experts familiar with the rules of the winter project competition and competition work to serve as specially invited supervisors, and to convene a meeting of specially invited supervisors at an appropriate time to collect reflections on the selection of participating athletes and listen to relevant opinions and suggestions.

Lu Yunbo told reporters that the monthly dispatch mechanism for the supervision work of the Winter Olympics in the General Administration system established by the discipline inspection and supervision group of the State General Administration of Sport has become a link between internal supervision and external supervision. ”

Lu Kuilong introduced: In the process of promoting the selection work, the discipline inspection and supervision group insisted on starting from the three stages of pre-work, during, and after the event, and carried out full-coverage supervision and no dead-end checks -- before carrying out the selection work, systematically studied the competition rules, development status, and Olympic prospects of various ice and snow projects, sorted out the key links of "selecting public and honest", and on this basis carefully formulated supervision plans so as to be targeted; when formulating the selection plan, polish the "supervision eye" and smooth the cooperation with the Competition Department. The information exchange channels of the winter transportation center and other relevant units, timely and comprehensively and accurately grasp the progress of the work. Throughout the selection process, we insisted on "zero tolerance" for those who used their authority to seek improper benefits and accepted red envelopes and gifts, so as to fight when they appeared.

"In January, a meeting suggested that, judging by recent performance, an athlete who had previously been unsuccessful should be replaced for an athlete who had already been selected for the Winter Olympics. The discipline inspection and supervision group believes that once the selection system is determined, its rigidity must be maintained, and it is not appropriate to make extraneous matters and affect the morale of the contingent. Lu Kuilong told reporters that this judgment was unanimously approved by the party group, and finally decided not to replace personnel, ensuring the seriousness of "choosing public integrity.".

In view of the fact that most of the teams have been training and participating in overseas training for a long time, the discipline inspection and supervision group has also established and improved a mechanism for reporting letters and visits, set up a special reporting telephone for the Supervision of the Winter Olympics, and unblocked the "five-in-one" reporting channels for letters, telephones, networks, mailboxes, and visits, and asked all relevant centers and associations to notify the reporting methods to each sports team, and open up the "last kilometer" of the Winter Olympics selection and petition reporting.

"We specifically call different sports teams to conduct spot checks on the situation of reporting telephone notifications, and ensure that every athlete, coach and staff member in each team clearly knows the way to report and can reflect the situation in a timely manner." Lu Kuilong said.

Continue to open the vision of selecting and employing people, and recruit talents for the world

The strict selection of the competition laid the foundation for the major success of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. In the face of the next series of important international sports events, how should we continue to improve the selection mechanism for participation and better implement the requirements of "selection of public integrity"? Lu Kuilong put forward three suggestions from the specific operational level: "First, adhere to the use of numbers to speak, in the system design into the integration of more quantitative indicators; second, invite more authoritative experts to participate, improve the scientific and persuasive selection; the third is to extend the decision-making chain, from the team to the association, the center, and then to the competition department, the party group of the General Bureau, in the middle to add more decision-making links, the longer the entire chain, the higher the difficulty of operating from it." ”

"The methods should be more open and the competition should be more intense." Liu Guoyong said that it is necessary to continue to open up the vision of selecting and employing people, do not set thresholds, and recruit talents for the whole society, all Chinese and even the world. At the same time, it is necessary to solve the selection problem of going abroad to participate in the competition within the 4-year cycle, adhere to the must-choose whenever it comes out, move the threshold forward, and use more and more adequate competition to select talents.

Liu Guoyong said that at present, the State General Administration of Sport is actively promoting the construction of the talent pool of various projects. "Coaches and athletes who meet the standards are included in accordance with the procedures and announced to the public, and all representatives must be selected from this library to avoid the situation that coaches arbitrarily designate candidates." Of course, this library is dynamically adjusted, and it is necessary to absorb excellent talents in time to avoid omissions. ”