The cement of the irrigation canals in the fields is quietly spread 1 centimeter thinner, and a huge amount of money can be "stolen" per kilometer; bid-rigging and collusion in project bidding and bidding, and even subcontracting to the hands of village leaders and evaluation experts layer by layer; emphasizing "face" over "lining", and the average investment in soil improvement is less than 50 yuan per mu...... In view of some "hidden problems" and "underground corruption" in the construction of high-standard farmland, Anhui has explored the establishment of a new supervision model of "discipline inspection and supervision + administrative law enforcement + industry experts" to help the local government accelerate its progress towards the "100 billion jin Jianghuai granary".
"One sentence can make people with ghosts in their hearts sweat"
The smooth fields are vertical and horizontal, the ditches are distinct, the road is the road, the well is the well, the water is the water, and the seedlings are the seedlings...... The construction of high-standard farmland involves many industries such as agriculture, construction, water conservancy, and bidding. Song Xuntian, head of the discipline inspection and supervision group of the Huainan City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in Anhui Province, said that if you don't know how to do it, even if you receive clues, it will be difficult to find evidence at the scene.
Cadres of the Guangde Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Anhui Province went deep into the front-line supervision and inspection of high-standard farmland construction Photo by He Ying
Song Xuntian, who is in his 50s, has dark skin, which was exposed to the "lower field" in the summer. In June 2023, under the deployment of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, the Anhui Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision will promote special supervision and governance in the field of high-standard farmland construction.
Go deep into the fields, learn from experts, and ask the masses for advice...... At the construction site, one discipline inspection cadre after another gradually changed from laymen to "knowledgeable".
Cutting corners is a common problem. In Cao'an Town, Tianjia'an District, Huainan City, discipline inspection and supervision cadres found that a kilometer-long irrigation canal was quietly paved with concrete on the roof, and the thinnest part was less than 30% of the design thickness. In Tianchang City, Wang Moumou, the former secretary of the general party branch of Longgang Community, Tongcheng Town, was seriously investigated and punished for falsely listing expenditures and arbitraging funds for high-standard farmland projects. In a high-standard farmland project that has been completed in a county in central Anhui, the average investment in soil improvement is less than 50 yuan per mu.
"Now that discipline inspection cadres go to the fields to supervise, a word can make people with ghosts in their hearts sweat. Xu Ping, deputy secretary of the Huainan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, said.
Multi-party "team" linkage supervision
"Four eyes and four looks" to enhance deterrence
The fact that discipline inspection and supervision cadres can enter the state so quickly is inseparable from the innovative support of the working mechanism. In Huainan, Anhui Province and other places, a new supervision model of "discipline inspection and supervision + administrative law enforcement + industry experts" has been established, and a "special task force" led by discipline inspection and supervision departments, coordinated by departments such as agriculture, housing and construction, water conservancy, auditing and administrative law enforcement, and participated by experts in the fields of construction management, bidding, audit and acceptance.
The new supervision model solves the problem of professionalism, and also solves the weak links that existed in the past, such as "difficulty in verification" and "weak punishment". "In the past, the problems found were mainly fines, but now not only fines but also 'qualifications', so that after a company violates the law, it is 'punished in one place and restricted everywhere', such as not being able to participate in bidding for a period of time. Zhu Tao, deputy director of the Huainan City Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau, said that various departments have collaborated to form a closed-loop crackdown chain of investigation, rectification and governance, and the deterrence and warning force has been greatly enhanced.
In the field of high-standard farmland construction management, Anhui discipline inspection and supervision organs have formed a working mechanism of "four eyes and four looks": pay close attention to the four main links of project pre-project, bidding, construction management, and fund payment, and look for suspicious problems by looking at the site, looking at the data, looking at the quality, and looking at the audit checks.
In Wuhe County, Bengbu City, discipline inspection and supervision cadres discovered during joint supervision and inspection that there were several thousand acres of aquaculture pits and ponds in the local high-standard farmland, and after investigation, a small number of town and village cadres were derelict in their duties and responsibilities, and tacitly allowed some contracted peasant households to dig and breed irrigation ponds supporting high-standard farmland without authorization, and the local agricultural management departments were not in place to supervise and supervise them.
In addition, the Anhui Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has also expanded the channels for the masses to report through the comprehensive implementation of the information platform of "supervision and communication" for small and micro powers.
Li Zijie, head of the discipline inspection and supervision team of the Anhui Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, told the reporter that the construction of high-standard farmland is a field of concentrated power, intensive capital and rich resources.