On April 29, 2022, a resident's self-built house in Jinshanqiao Street, Wangcheng District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, suddenly collapsed in a sit-down manner, turning the 8-story building into ruins, killing 54 people and injuring 9 others.
On January 8, the third episode of the four-episode TV feature film "Continuous Efforts and In-depth Advancement" jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and China Central Radio and Television Station was broadcast, revealing in detail the corruption problems behind the accident: Hunan Province, Changsha City, Wangcheng District and relevant departments have problems such as slow and simple response to centralized governance and deployment, mutual prevarication and avoidance of contradictions in daily supervision, lack of serious investigation and rectification, ineffective investigation and punishment of violations of laws and regulations, chaotic management of housing inspection institutions, and loss of control of the source of self-built housing planning and construction.
The feature film pointed out that for a long time, there have been many opportunities to avoid tragedy in the local area, but in the first-level prevarication, perfunctory responsibility, and paralysis of luck, several opportunities to resolve risks have been wasted.
"It's either a natural disaster or a man-made disaster. Lu Jun, a staff member of the Changsha Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Hunan Province, said.
The self-built houses involved in the incident were illegally added. CCTV screenshot
Xiangne:
Self-built houses were illegally built to 8 floors
It has not been reported to any department for the certificate
After the collapse of the "4.29" residential self-built house in Changsha, the accident investigation team of the State Council conducted an investigation, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the State Supervision Commission and the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision also simultaneously carried out the investigation of accountability.
The investigation found that there had been many opportunities to avoid tragedy. The house involved belongs to the Panshuwan Group of Jinping Community, and the owners are local residents Wu Qisheng and Wu Zhiyong, father and son, who first built a 5-storey building and a partial 6-storey building in 2012, and then added it to 8 floors and 9 floors in 2018 without authorization, with a height of 26.3 meters.
The most incredible thing is that in addition to the solid brick wall on the first floor, the second to fifth floors are all empty bucket walls with much poor load-bearing, and it can be said that it is a matter of time before something goes wrong. When homeowners are extremely lacking in safety awareness and basic common sense, supervision is particularly important. However, due regulation has never been put in place.
Since 2016, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have deployed six special actions to demand the inventory and rectification of illegal houses and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property. However, this deadly building has become a fish that has slipped through the net in previous operations.
2016-2018:
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Hunan Province have carried out illegal construction management
Wangcheng District has been missed
In 2016, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development deployed a five-year special action to deal with illegal construction in urban built-up areas, when Wangcheng was withdrawn from the county and set up districts for a short time, and the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Changsha City still regarded it as a county and was not included in the scope of rectification.
In 2018, Hunan Province launched a three-year special action to deal with illegal construction in the county, but this time the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Changsha City regarded Wangcheng as a district and once again excluded it from the scope of rectification. In this way, Wangcheng District became a vacuum that was missed by both actions.
Lu Shan, former deputy secretary-general of the Hunan Provincial Government and former secretary of the party group and director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said in front of the camera: "As the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, there is indeed a dereliction of duty in the management, you don't care whether it is a county to a district or a district to a county, it is just a problem that may be wrong in one or two investigations, but there should be no omissions in many investigations." ”
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In addition to housing and construction, urban management and planning departments also have regulatory responsibilities for illegal construction from different angles, but instead of forming a joint force, multiple departments pass the buck to each other.
Chen Wenhao, a former vice governor of the Hunan provincial government and former mayor of Changsha, said, "For a long time, we have not taken self-built houses seriously from top to bottom. For the housing and urban-rural development departments, the natural resources departments, and all aspects of the blame-shifting, I have the responsibility of negligence and negligence, and I am convinced. ”
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"There shouldn't be any accidents during my tenure"
Wangcheng District is located at the junction of urban and rural areas, and there are many self-built houses and many illegal expansions and floors, which are long-standing problems, and if we want to seriously rectify them, we are bound to face disputes and resistance, and we have to do a lot of hard work. Some cadres are not unaware of the potential safety hazards of a large number of illegal buildings, but because they are afraid of difficulties, they prefer to be selectively blind.
Zhou Zhengmao, the former deputy head of Wangcheng District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, is holding the mentality of fearing difficulties, he said: "There are so many stocks of these illegally built houses, in fact, there are potential safety hazards, and it is not ordinarily difficult to solve them. It's a fluke, anyway, as long as it's within my term of office, it shouldn't be an accident. ”
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The chengguan inspected 6 times and found that the Wu family was illegally constructed
Just a verbal warning
If those responsible for supervision do not take responsibility and do nothing, the result is that not only the problems left over from history cannot be solved, but the illegal self-built houses are more and more built higher and higher. It was precisely because they saw that no one was in charge that they dared to illegally add it in 2018, and they judged that as long as they avoided the chengguan.
During the construction of the Wu family, the chengguan did come and had the opportunity to eliminate this hidden danger. The investigation found that the urban management law enforcement officers had six inspections and found that the Wu family was engaged in illegal construction, but most of them were only verbal warnings, and only one time issued a "Notice of Rectification Order", requiring an immediate suspension of work and an interview with the squadron. However, the Wu father and son did not go to the interview, and continued to work secretly. The members of the urban management team reported the relevant situation to the captain of the cold economic department, but the cold economic department did not take it seriously, and forgot about it in a blink of an eye.
Leng Jingke, the former squadron leader of the Jinshanqiao Squadron of the Wangcheng District Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, said, "At that time, I really forgot about this matter and was careless, which I admit is indeed my own dereliction of duty." I thought about it for a moment in my life, and if I did this, my own soul would be deeply condemned in this life. ”
In this way, the Wu family's house was increased from 5 to 8 floors in broad daylight, and the already fragile building was even more overwhelmed, and the pace of tragedy began to speed up.
Wangcheng District investigates illegal construction:
A single house was not checked, but the data was blindly reported three times
In 2020, another opportunity to spot the problem appeared.
In that year, two accidents occurred in Quanzhou, Fujian Province and Xiangfen, Shanxi Province, in which self-built houses collapsed, resulting in heavy casualties. In July 2020, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development deployed a one-year "two violations clearance" across the country. However, the Hunan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development did not forward the notice until September, the city of Changsha did not issue the plan until January of the following year, and the Wangcheng District action was even more delayed, and the notice was not issued until June 25, 2021, just a few days before the end date required by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
Zhou Zhengmao said, "It is true that the amount of (investigation) tasks is too large, and the difficulty is also great. Therefore, we have dealt with the above requirements and dealt with the major tasks assigned by the above with formalism. ”
In fact, not a single house in Wangcheng District was investigated, but the so-called investigation data was reported. After the accident, the investigation team saw the problem in the data. According to the data, Wangcheng District has revised the data three times in a short period of time, and on June 29, it was first reported that 217 buildings were investigated, and only 6 days later it was changed to 81,668 buildings, and then it was changed to 18,238 buildings after a month, which is a huge difference before and after. Following this discovery, the detailed process of Wangcheng District's deception and desire to cover up was exposed.
According to the investigation of the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, the first time the investigation data reported was more than 200 buildings, I felt that this data was too little, and then I thought that the data would be bigger, and the second time I directly put the data of more than 80,000 self-built houses registered and got it up, and then found that more than 80,000 buildings were all investigated, and it seems unrealistic, because only in such a short time, it was changed to more than 18,000 buildings.
Housing Safety Inspection:
One person collects money, and one person observes the results with the naked eye and makes a qualified conclusion
In this way, the Wu family's obvious illegal construction was not only not taken care of, but after the construction was added, it was rented to more merchants, and restaurants, private cinemas, and family hotels were opened in the building. To obtain a family hotel license, it is necessary to go through a housing safety inspection, and an agency called Xiangda Engineering Testing Co., Ltd. issued an appraisal report for the problematic house, saying that it "meets the conditions for safe use". The investigation found that this extremely irresponsible agency was recommended by Liu Wanquan, the former deputy head of the Public Security Management Brigade of the Wangcheng Branch of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau, to homeowners in need in the jurisdiction for group purchase, which was behind Liu Wanquan's acceptance of the company's benefits.
In that group purchase, Xiangda Company appraised more than 20 houses in this jurisdiction in one day, without any professional equipment, two people collected money and one person observed with the naked eye, and each stayed for more than ten minutes on average, and the reports issued were all qualified. The investigation found that Xiangda Company actually did not have the ability to identify at all, and the reason why it obtained professional qualifications was also because the public officials of the Hunan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau accepted red envelopes from the company, turning the qualification review related to safety responsibilities into a formality.
Community Investigation of Hidden Dangers:
Ask a temporary worker to go through the motions
Fast forward to the last year before the accident, and there was actually a chance to defuse the time bomb at the last minute.
On June 19, 2021, a house collapse accident occurred in Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, only a few hundred kilometers away from Changsha, killing 5 people and injuring 7 people. However, this accident, which is close to the province, still has not attracted the attention of Changsha City.
Zheng Jianxin, the former mayor of Changsha City, Hunan Province, said in front of the camera: "There are already collapsed houses in Chenzhou, we feel as if it is next door to others, it is someone's business, and we listen to other people's accidents as stories, and we are not vigilant from the heart, always thinking that it will not be us here, we are doing very well here, and when we ask the director, they all say that it is very good, and our houses are good." ”
For this investigation, whether it is Changsha City or Wangcheng District, they are holding meetings and issuing documents instead of actual work, Wangcheng District pushed the investigation task to the street, and the street pushed the task to the community. The community invited two people who did not have any professional knowledge in this area for 120 yuan a day, and the 40 houses, including the house involved, were investigated in two days.
This is the only time in the previous special rectifications that someone went to Wu's house to conduct an on-site investigation. But the two temporary hires who don't know the profession can only be put on a show. The final data reported by Jinshanqiao Street said that there were zero potential housing safety hazards in the jurisdiction.
Last Warning Signs:
The wall was cracked before the incident
The steel bar is bent, and the homeowner does not take it seriously
In the first-level prevarication, perfunctory, and paralyzing luck, there have been countless opportunities to resolve risks that have been wasted, and the steps of tragedy have come to the door without people realizing it.
At about 10 o'clock in the morning on the day of the incident, the house was still releasing the last warning signal, and some tenants found that the walls were cracked and the steel bars were bent, but after hearing the tenants' feedback, Wu's father and son still thought that it would be enough to buy some steel to reinforce it. At 12:24 on April 29, 2022, the tragedy was finally cast.
Killed 54 people
Four central management cadres were held accountable
After the accident, within a month alone, 7,180 additional floors and expansion houses were found in Wangcheng District, and 44,000 houses were found in Changsha City. However, at that time, for the obviously inaccurate data, the three levels of the provinces and municipalities were not audited and checked, and they were reported at this level.
In the face of the loss of 54 lives, no one can resist the torture of conscience. However, no amount of repentance afterwards can restore the lost life.
With the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission held the four central management cadres accountable:
Hu Henghua, member of the 20th Central Committee, deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and mayor (served as deputy secretary, acting mayor and mayor of Changsha Municipal Party Committee from December 2013 to November 2016, and secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee from July 2017 to October 2020), Chen Wenhao, member of the party group and former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress, Wu Guiying, member of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee, Hu Zhongxiong, member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Guiyang Municipal Party Committee (deputy secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee from February 2018 to January 2020, The acting mayor and the mayor of the city have filed a case for review and investigation on the issue of dereliction of duty and responsibility in this collapse accident. Comrades Hu Henghua, Chen Wenhao, and Wu Guiying were given intra-party warnings, and Comrade Hu Zhongxiong was given administrative demerits.
In addition, the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision held 62 cadres under the provincial management level accountable, four of whom were transferred to the judicial organs on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law, and 20 units responsible for the accident were ordered to conduct written inspections and earnestly rectify the situation. Wu Zhiyong, the owner of the house, 14 people, including the housing design and construction personnel, and the relevant personnel of the testing company, will also be held legally responsible.
Source: CCTV News, Southern Metropolis Daily, N Video