According to official data from the mainland, by the end of 2021, there were 1,472 counties in China. In 2023, when the national audit department conducted an audit of the flow of key livelihood funds, it found a more serious situation.
In this audit, a total of 13 provinces, 159 counties, and the use of special funds for nutritious meals for rural compulsory education students were audited, and key audits were conducted.
At this point in time, from 2021 to August 2023, this special fund will be a total of 23.137 billion yuan.
After the audit, it was found that there were many problems in these 159 counties.
The first problem is that 66 of the 159 counties have embezzled special funds for nutritious meals for students.
(1) 66 counties directly misappropriated and repaid debts
A total of 1.951 billion yuan was misappropriated, and the misappropriated money was used to pay off local debts and used for the three guarantees at the grassroots level. It means that it is used for daily expenses and debts are repaid.
Seeing this, I felt very powerless in my heart, no matter how short of money, I couldn't use the children's nutritious meal money to pay off the debt!
If the money is used to pay off debts and used up, the standard of nutritious meals for students will definitely be lowered.
According to the national 2021 document, the subsidy for each student is 4-5 yuan, and if this money is misappropriated, the standard will definitely be less than 5 yuan.
(2) 41 county towns and 1,553 schools, directly lowering standards
In addition to embezzling money, the 41 counties and 1,533 schools have adopted a method of lowering the standard of feeding services.
What does this mean?
For example, the standard used to be ten dollars per person, but now it has become five dollars. Lower the bar. Then there is the purchase of ingredients, for example, ordering a batch of fresh pork for a school, but not actually ordering, but the bills are there, and through fake accounts, the money is taken from it.
These 41 counties have won 270 million yuan from student nutritious meals in this way.
(3) The education departments of the five counties will directly get kickbacks
The way this county operates is like this, first send out the bids, let everyone bid, and show fairness. In fact, it has been decided for a long time. After winning the bid, the company that delivered the food to the school returned the money to the local education department through dividends and donations.
As a result, the food delivery company received less money, so the quality of the ingredients he gave to the school would definitely decrease. The education departments of five counties took 42.1602 million yuan from nutritious meals in this way.
So why did the 42.1602 million yuan go, used to give benefits to his own people.
If the money is taken away from above, the catering company, if it wants to make money and get profits, will only send very poor quality ingredients to students to eat. Because the top took the money, and the bottom did it, and the top could only open one eye and close one eye.
In 159 counties, 147 such companies were found.
(4) Designated suppliers
Finally, there are 25 counties, 52 suppliers have been designated, and 2,605 schools are delivered.
Why is the designation a violation?
Because these 52 suppliers belong to the designation, since it is designated, it is not so transparent, who delivers the food, just the above sentence, and the way of designation, it is easy to entangle interests and lead to corruption.
In addition to the designation, there are also some enterprises, through the falsification of information, borrowing other people's qualifications, to bid, and finally these 78 enterprises, using this means, actually won the bid for 101 students' nutritious meal projects, involving 35 counties.
This involves lax scrutiny, dereliction of duty and other issues, and whether these unqualified enterprises can ensure the safety of food is a big problem.
In addition to this aspect, it is the relevant departments, for their own interests, in order to seek money, to open one eye and close one eye to the existing problems. In this review, it was found that 77 schools had such people.
This kind of information is sad and angry to watch.
Fortunately, we can see this information from the official to support the state to seriously deal with these violators of law and discipline, and hope that the nutritious lunch program for students will get better and better.