Ren Mengyan / China Central Radio and Television Voice of China WeChat public account
The Paper Special Commentator Shouichi
According to the "Voice of China" report, recently, a number of grassroots cadres in Yanggao County, Datong, Shanxi Province reported that there was serious fraud in the process of implementing the "multiplication of market entities" plan. In the past two years, Yanggao County has been assessed on the number of new market entities almost every month, and the township and town leaders are assigned to the village, and the village party secretary can only find relatives and friends to complete the registration, and even register a number of business entities under his own name. A number of grassroots cadres said that such layers of apportionment are really unbearable.
In order to complete the requirements of the "multiplication of market entities" by the superiors, the village party secretary "pulled people's heads" everywhere
The grassroots cadres of Yanggao County, Datong City, reported that from April 2022, Yanggao County has the task of "multiplying market entities", and the county will be assigned to the township, and the township will be sent to the village party secretary.
He told reporters that the latest task was issued on February 26, 2024, requiring that within 2 days, the town should register 9 new enterprises, and finally their town overfulfilled the task, and the registration was all "sole proprietorship enterprises". Such requirements are made every month. From August last year to February this year, there were more than 200 registered enterprises in the town, and some people opened 6 companies in half a year.
Grassroots cadres: Originally, registration was a voluntary act of natural persons, but the number of registrations was small, and the county had a task every month to complete the quantitative task of "multiplying the number of market entities". The township had no choice but to apportionment to the village, and the village party secretary had to find someone to register without a license for actual operation. It has to be reported every month, and it can't be criticized.
Assign tasks layer by layer. Provided by the interviewee
According to the official website of the Datong Municipal Government, many specific measures have been taken to create a good business environment and promote the multiplication of market entities. For example, we will continue to shorten the time for enterprises to set up, provide free assistance, free copying, free mailing, and free engraving of official seals for newly established market entities.
The grassroots cadre told reporters that at the beginning, these policies did provide convenience for villagers who wanted to register business entities, but tasks were assigned every month, and specific numbers were specified, and the pressure was on grassroots workers.
In the first few months, the village party secretary would mobilize their relatives and friends to pick up the car and send it to the county seat to go through the registration procedures, and later the county would send staff down to the town to facilitate the formalities.
Assign tasks layer by layer. Provided by the interviewee
The initial requirement was that each person could only register three business entities, but as the pressure on the task increased, the higher-ups relaxed the registration restrictions, and the village cadres themselves registered multiple business licenses. "Later, it was difficult to find someone, so I could register all the time. ”
In the middle of 2023, a new task is here. Market players should not only "quantity", but also "quality". The county no longer assesses the number of individual industrial and commercial households, but to increase the proportion of enterprises in the market entity, and the task assessment requirement is that the newly registered enterprises are counted.
At the same time, due to the high task pressure in the first half of 2023, the number of individual industrial and commercial households has increased significantly, resulting in a low proportion of enterprises. "It can be a joint venture or a sole proprietorship, and the specifications have been raised. ”
Centralized deregistration
Assign tasks, calculate assessments, and apportionment at all levels, and the number of new market entities is fraudulent
A decomposition table of the multiplication task of market entities in Yanggao County from April to August 2022 shows that 11 townships and towns in Yanggao County, as well as community offices, market supervision and administration bureaus, public utility service centers, industrial parks, and investment promotion service centers participated in the assessment.
In April, the county's task volume was 1,100 new market entities, and 720 were actually completed;
In May, the number of tasks was 750, and 685 were actually completed;
In June, the number of tasks was 709, and 751 were actually completed;
In July, 970 tasks were completed, and 829 were actually completed;
The number of tasks in August includes the uncompleted tasks in July, which is 1,100 in total.
In the four months from April to July, Yanggao County added 2,985 new market entities.
Yanggao County's decomposition table of market entity multiplication tasks from April to August 2022
According to public information, Yanggao County has a permanent population of 186,600 and a registered population of 262,900. A village party secretary told reporters that he had searched for all the relationships he could find, and after the registration requirements were relaxed, he simply put all the registered enterprises under his own name. "It's all about completing the task, and we can't find the masses, so we can only do it alone. ”
The reporter inquired that a village party secretary registered 23 market entities under his name, only 3 of which are cooperatives that are actually operated before 2022, and the remaining 20 have individual industrial and commercial households, cooperatives and companies, involving shoe stores, clothing stores, fruit stores, freight fleets, breeding factories, aquatic product stores, flower shops, building materials factories, two convenience stores and a nail salon.
Part of the business entity under the name of a village party secretary
A villager told reporters that at the repeated requests of village cadres, he has applied for three business licenses under his name, and two have been cancelled so far. "It's just to complete the task for the village, fake, nothing opens. ”
A villager opened three tofu shops in seven days
The reporter consulted with the Yanggao County Administrative Examination and Approval Service Administration, and the staff said that all registrations require real-name authentication, which is subject to my consent.
According to the 2023 and 2024 government work reports of Yanggao County, in 2022, the "Year of Market Entity Construction" activities will be carried out in depth, with 6,792 new market entities, with a total of 22,615, and 4,956 new market entities in 2023, of which enterprises and tax-related entities will account for 49.61% and 67.55% respectively.
A grassroots cadre in Yanggao County, Datong City: The main body of the market has grown a lot, and the data is relatively good, but in fact it is of no use to economic development at all, and it cannot solve the practical difficulties of the peasants. If you don't do this, the county won't be able to pay the difference of your superiors, and you will have to rank every month.
Countywide rankings for October 2023
The Paper | The village party secretary has 20 business licenses, and the multiplication of market entities cannot rely on counterfeiting
How ridiculous Yanggao County's "market entity multiplication" plan is, you can intuitively feel it by looking at the two sets of figures. First, not long ago, a town was required to register 9 new enterprises within 2 days. Not to mention, is it possible for an ordinary township to suddenly give birth to 9 enterprises in 2 days, even if it occasionally gathers, it is impossible to predict in advance. When this demand is put forward, it is inevitable that people will suspect that there is a suspicion of "encouraging" fraud at the grassroots level. Second, there are 23 market entities registered under the name of a village party secretary, only 3 are cooperatives that are actually operating before 2022, and the rest involve shoe stores, clothing stores, fruit stores, freight fleets, breeding factories, aquatic product stores, flower shops, building materials factories, two convenience stores and a nail salon...... Is it possible for a village party secretary to get involved in so many trades? Doesn't there is no need to verify all this information? Won't the higher-level departments question it out of common sense? However, it is these blatant deceptions that have become a routine operation in accomplishing the apportionment task. In order to fulfill the above-mentioned targets, at first the village party secretaries had to mobilize their relatives and friends, and the village party secretaries took the cars to the county seat to complete the formalities; later the county sent staff to the town to "facilitate" the villagers to go through the formalities. If the villagers really have a need for registration, the door-to-door service is worthy of praise; but if the villagers are all called by the deadlift, don't the staff members of the "intimate service" know that after registration, the data reported is good-looking, and in fact there will be no business activities? From pulling people's heads to registering, and then to reporting statistics at various levels, a lot of manpower and material resources are consumed, and it is not all formalism and collective waste? The more serious problem is that this kind of fraudulent behavior will also cause decision-makers at all levels to misjudge the market situation. These data, which reflect the "sharp increase" of market entities and the development of enterprises, will blur or even cover up the real situation at the grassroots level after they are reported layer by layer. Decisions that could have been made on the real economy can also be postponed or even put on hold. In reality, governments at all levels should indeed pay attention to the increase in the number of market entities, which can directly reflect the vitality of the local economy and the advantages and disadvantages of the business environment. However, whether it is a market entity or a business environment, what matters is not the data or conclusions on paper, but whether the local economy is really developing with high quality and whether more people can achieve employment and increase income. Therefore, falsifying these indicators is essentially meaningless except for self-deception. No matter how good the data in the official report is and how carefully it is fabricated, if it does not match the real feelings of the local people, it will do no good. It is not terrible for a local economy to suffer a temporary setback, but what is terrible is that the economy has not improved, and the official data is still very gratifying. Therefore, in view of the absurd scenario of "the village party secretary has no choice but to apply for 20 business licenses", it is necessary to conduct an in-depth investigation and explore which link the key driving force of counterfeiting comes from. The village said that it was sent by the township, and the township said that it was sent by the county, so who sent the task from the county?
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