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Lushan County's 7.15 million yuan sculpture of the landmark building "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" quickly caused a storm of public opinion on social media.
The focus of netizens is mainly on two aspects:
First, the actual cost of the project is significantly higher than the market price, and whether there is corruption in it; The second is whether the image design of the sculpture has a formal bidding and publicity link.
Why are sculptures that are supposed to promote local culture "black and ugly"?
However, the investigation details of the "cowherd and weaver girl" sculpture incident in Lushan County have not yet been announced, and on the other hand, the "300 million yuan drone procurement incident" of the Pingyu County Transportation Bureau in Zhumadian City, Henan Province has been pushed to the forefront of public opinion.
Why are local promotion projects often questioned by society? Can the lack of regulatory procedures be filled by a storm of public opinion?
First, Lushan's "cowherd and weaver girl" caused controversy
Netizen A: "Just this sculpture, if you contract me to do it, a maximum of 1 million is enough." ”
Netizen B: "I have been deeply engaged in the field of engineering cost for many years, and I can guarantee that there is definitely a trick here, I hope to investigate thoroughly!" ”
Netizen C: "This is an obvious abuse of power, and I strongly demand that the relevant departments thoroughly investigate this matter and give justice to the public!" ”
As soon as the "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Sky-priced Sculpture Incident" in Lushan County was exposed, its social media related comment areas fell in an instant, and for a while netizens ridiculed and ridiculed endlessly.
Why did the construction expenditure of the project that could have been controlled at about one or two million yuan in the final tender be as high as more than 7 million?
Has the project not been publicly tendered at the start-up stage, or has it not been formally approved by the relevant authorities at all?
Are there any non-compliance in the promotion process of projects that consume a large amount of financial allocation?
This can probably be seen from the arrogant attitude of the follow-up staff towards investigative journalists.
After the incident fermented, Lushan County announced the formation of a joint investigation team composed of housing construction, auditing, discipline inspection commission, finance and other departments.
He also immediately removed Dang Mou, director of the county housing bureau who was directly responsible for the matter, from his post, and gave the administrative secretary a serious penalty for the staff member who was previously suspected of insulting investigative journalists.
However, none of these actions seem to have touched the focus of this incident.
In response to the public's concerns about the early project exceeding the standard process, project cost accounting and project construction supervision, the joint investigation team replied that it was still under comprehensive review and would announce the results to the public.
Coincidentally, just when the majority of netizens paid close attention to the relevant conclusions of the joint investigation team, the Pingyu County Transportation Bureau of Zhumadian City was exposed to illegally building giant slogans in Lushan County.
And also spent 300 million yuan to buy 5,000 agricultural spraying drones in a bad airport project.
The news immediately sparked an outcry, and a discussion focusing on the government's efforts to promote project compliance quickly spread on social media.
Second, the drone procurement incident in Pingyu County
"The county government spent 300 million yuan to buy 5,000 agricultural spraying drones in the airport project." I believe that it is difficult for friends who read this sentence for the first time to clearly understand the meaning of its expression when they read it for the first time.
Yes, reality is sometimes so magical and weird.
If I told you that the total investment in the airport construction project was only 247 million yuan, and when you look back at the news of the 300 million yuan purchase of drones, would you feel both magical and absurd?
The whole process of the drone procurement incident in Pingyu County from project establishment to contract signing can be described as full of doubts or slots.
One of the biggest doubts is why this financial expenditure should not be used for the follow-up construction of the airport project, but for the purchase of agricultural drones?
According to the reporter's investigation, the Pingyu County airport project officially started construction in 2018 until now, and has been in a state of suspension for about 3 years due to financial constraints.
Now that the government has taken out another 300 million yuan to purchase drones, is there any suspicion of embezzlement?
Let's take a look at the drone company that won the bid this time - Pingyu County Changda Transportation Investment and Development Co., Ltd.
It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of its parent company, Yongyue Technology Co., Ltd., and the company's main business is intelligent drone manufacturing.
It is worth noting that Yongyue Technology's drone business revenue last year was only 54,900 yuan.
How can such a powerful enterprise win orders worth 300 million yuan in a highly competitive market?
At present, the specific bidding status of the UAV procurement project has not been announced at the official level.
However, even if the bidding situation is publicized, it is difficult for the majority of netizens to buy the drone manufacturing qualification of Yongyue Technology.
Airport management project to buy agricultural spraying drones?
Even if the project that needs to be managed is surrounded by farmland, I am afraid that it will not be necessary to purchase 5,000 drones at once, what use will these drones come in?
Have the relevant authorities held a feasibility workshop on this issue before starting the procurement process? And what will happen to the remaining drones? It is difficult to have a reasonable explanation for these problems.
Is the pricing of 5,000 agricultural drones and a procurement contract worth 300 million yuan, equivalent to 60,000 yuan per unit, in line with the market law?
Do the relevant authorities play a role in supervision and guidance in the process of price setting and negotiation? Is there an exchange of benefits during the contract signing process? These issues should be clearly explained to the public.
What is even more bizarre is that Pingyu County was once a state-level poor county, with a total GDP of only 1.256 billion yuan last year.
Spending a quarter of GDP at once to purchase agricultural drones, can the relevant process stand up to scrutiny?
In the process of the country's comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization, I am afraid that it cannot be ruled out that some people take advantage of the east wind of national policies to enrich their own pockets.
Third, the image project should be stopped
After the drone procurement incident was exposed, the reporter interviewed the relevant leaders of the Pingyu County Transportation Bureau.
The answer given by the other party was, "This is an independent operation of the enterprise, and we do not know about it." This is really a classic statement of blame.
Where did the 300 million yuan come from? Are the government departments really not involved in this matter? Does the purchased drone only serve the needs of the enterprise and have nothing to do with government action?
Presumably this leader will prevaricate with "I don't know" about these questions.
Failure to ensure open, transparent, and reasonable government actions will only result in an increased loss of government credibility.
In order to maintain the credibility of the government, it is necessary to disclose the appropriate situation.
There is no investigation conclusion on the drone procurement incident, but the Pingyu County Transportation Bureau is deeply involved in the "slogan storm".
Some netizens broke the news on social media: The Pingyu County Transportation Bureau openly crossed the boundary and occupied a large amount of farmland in neighboring counties to build a giant sign with the word "Pingyu".
However, everything cannot be easily concluded by the words of one family alone.
It is very likely that the location of this giant sign is at the junction of Pingyu and neighboring counties, and netizens are somewhat suspicious of rubbing the heat.
However, its act of encroaching on farmland to build signage clearly violates relevant national laws.
Engaging in image projects and face projects at the expense of national interests and peasant interests is undoubtedly an abuse of public power, and at the same time, it may further intensify contradictions and cause bitter results.
Fourth, the storm of public opinion cannot replace the supervision of the rule of law
The Lushan County Cowherd and Weaver Girl Sculpture Incident, the Pingyu County Transportation Bureau's purchase of 5,000 agricultural drones, and the installation of giant placards are now gradually showing their original shape under the impact of the storm of public opinion.
Regardless of whether there are any violations such as abuse of power and damage to public fertilizer and private interests in the process of promoting these projects, what benefits do they bring to local social development?
Of course, if these projects exist to imitate other influencer projects to drive local online attention, then they do serve their purpose, even if this popularity is limited to negative effects.
The state has repeatedly stressed the need to resolutely curb grassroots formalism and bureaucracy and continue to tighten the high-pressure red line against corruption.
The practices of the relevant units in Lushan County and Pingyu County are obviously capricious power under the disguise of formalism and bureaucratic style.
The greatest significance of the existence of public opinion storms is to promote and supervise functional departments to speed up the thorough investigation of relevant violations of laws and regulations, rather than engaging in "public opinion trials" or even exposing others on human flesh or the Internet.
What's more, supervision by public opinion cannot replace supervision by the rule of law at all.
summary
Lushan County spent a lot of money to build a sculpture of the cowherd and weaver girl, and the Pingyu County Super Airport Project budgeted to purchase 5,000 agricultural drones...
These operations seem to have a "reasonable explanation" in the eyes of ordinary people, even if behind this explanation lies power willfulness and greed.
In the era of national Internet supervision, government actions should strictly abide by national laws and regulations.
We should abide by procedural justice, consciously accept the supervision of the broad masses of the people, and actively learn from and absorb the suggestions of the masses.
Of course, the Internet world is not an illegal place, and the storm of public opinion cannot replace the rule of law procedure to enforce the so-called "justice".
Any attack that uses Internet channels to spread rumors or slander others is an illegal act prohibited by law.
Network supervision is a double-edged sword, which can break the barriers and boundaries of industry or department supervision, and can also become a channel for expressing and easing public opinion.
However, when people are in it, they may become accomplices of lawbreakers if they are not careful, and how to enhance the recognition of online communication content by the majority of netizens is still an important issue that needs to be solved urgently.