Just like Tong Mingqian's famous saying "Hengyang hurts me, and I also hurts Hengyang." During his tenure as secretary of the Hengyang Municipal Party Committee, he faced the problem of large-scale election bribery and "Buddhist" handling, bringing a place that was already scarred in the political ecology into the abyss of corruption.
Tong Mingqian's ex and descendants in the position of top leader in Hengyang have suffered the consequences of corruption.
Tong Mingqian's ex and descendants in the position of top leader in Hengyang have suffered the consequences of corruption. Since then, as more local municipal party secretaries have been brought down one after another, there have been more and more debates. Is it because the top leader has damaged the local political ecology, or is the local bad environment that has pulled officials down?
The political ecological internal injury caused by the intersection of corruption
September 4, the Jilin Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Li Xiangdong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Jilin Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, has voluntarily surrendered. One detail is that among the four former secretary of the Jilin Municipal Party Committee who were successively dismissed, Li Xiangdong had work intersections with three of them.
In 2005, Li Xiangdong was appointed Secretary-General of Jilin Municipal Government. The mayor at that time was Xu Jianyi. Later, Xu Jianyi became Secretary of Jilin Municipal Party Committee. Less than half a year, Li Xiangdong was appointed member of the Standing Committee of Jilin Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee. After Xu Jianyi was transferred from Jilin (in 2015, he was investigated as general manager of FAW Group), in January 2008, Zhou Huachen went to Jilin City to replace Xu Jianyi, while Li Xiangdong continued to serve as secretary-general of the municipal party committee. Zhou Huachen was also dismissed as deputy director of the Jilin Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee 10 years later.
Later, Li Xiangdong and Zhao Jingbo worked in the same team for 8 years until Zhao Jingbo was transferred in 2017 and served as deputy secretary-general of the Jilin Provincial Government and inspector of the Provincial Government Office, and then was dismissed in April this year.
In fact, by looking at the many consecutive fallen municipal party secretaries, you can find that there are more or less intersections between them, and even corruption circles. In the early years, Maoming, who was dismissed for three consecutive times as secretary of the municipal party committee, exposed the shocking case. The Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection described the "organized crime" characteristics of corruption becoming increasingly obvious, "one investigation, one string, one end, one nest", and this situation still exists today.
There are places where the municipal party secretary was successively dismissed, and the place seems to be unable to escape the fate of the hardest-hit areas of corruption. For example, in Kunming, four municipal party committee secretaries were brought down in 12 years, and three of them were connected. Qiu He's successor Zhang Tianxin was demoted in July 2014. After Gao Jinsong took office, he was dismissed after serving as the secretary of the municipal party committee for half a year.
Qiuhe was later investigated while serving as deputy secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, and major anti-corruption actions have also begun at the provincial level in Yunnan. In 2017, when the Central Inspection Team conducted a "look back" inspection in Yunnan, it stated that Yunnan was not strict in implementing political discipline and political rules, and the "remnants" such as Innocence and Qiu He were not thoroughly eliminated, the relationship between government and business was unclear, and the political ecology was damaged. With Qin Guangrong voluntarily surrendering, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, there have been six provincial and ministerial officials who have important posts in Yunnan, including two provincial party secretaries.
Top leaders often lead a place to ruin, which can be seen from some subordinates and departments. In Siping City, Jilin, not only were the two municipal party secretaries successively dismissed, but in December 2017, the three mayors were dismissed for less than half a month, and the deputy mayor was also dismissed earlier. According to statistics, a total of 12 officials in the city were investigated within four years.
Under the rule of the corrupt municipal party secretary, the public security, transportation and urban construction departments in some places have become "high-risk departments" called by some media. In Taiyuan, three public security directors were dismissed during their tenure in Shen Weichen and Chen Chuanping. Lu Yunfei, who had been in charge of the Lianyungang Public Security Bureau of Jiangsu for 8 years, was investigated one month after "sending off" two municipal party secretaries.
In recent years, the anti-corruption situation in Henan has been severe. There have been cases of municipal party secretaries being dismissed in Kaifeng, Jiaozuo and Sanmenxia in its province, and it has been "contagious" to the provincial level. The two top leaders of the province's largest state-owned enterprise and Henan Energy and Chemical Group were investigated. What is even more amazing is that the four directors of the Provincial Department of Transportation were dismissed during their tenure.
The political ecology "internal injury" caused to the local government by these top leaders can be interpreted in a recent article by Feng Zhili, member of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Director of the Provincial Supervisory Commission. He said that some cadres lack a sense of political security and have too high tolerance for political pollution. Some cadres either choose to protect themselves or abide by the "unspoken rules" and become the "silent majority"; due to the long-term damage to the political ecology, some cadres have been deeply affected by the remaining poison for a long time. In the face of authoritarianism, family affection and ethnic interests, they ignore the party's discipline and national laws, are unaware of awe, and lack the awareness and awareness of being supervised.
Two-way "pollution"
Lingbao, a county-level city with low popularity, has been dismissed or sentenced since 2018. Three municipal party secretaries have been repeatedly dismissed in Sanmenxia, which can be under the jurisdiction of Lingbao.
In August 2014, Lian Ziheng was investigated as Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial People's Congress. Previously, he served as mayor and secretary of the municipal party committee in Sanmenxia for 7 years.
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One month before Lian Ziheng was investigated, the Eighth Central Inspection Team pointed out in its feedback to the Henan Provincial leadership team that in Henan, the problem of buying and selling officials was prominent in terms of cadre selection and appointment, and the problem of running officials to get officials and canvassing votes and bribery was once quite serious, and the problem of cadre promotion occurs frequently. Some media revealed that Sanmenxia, during Lian Ziheng's administration, was an area with an extremely prominent problem of buying and selling officials.
After Lian Ziheng was transferred from Sanmenxia, his successors Yang Shuping and Zhao Haiyan followed in the footsteps of their predecessors. During the period when Zhao Haiyan was in charge of Sanmenxia, the chaos in selecting and employing people became even more serious. The public even called her the "official secretary". After one year of office, nearly 100 department-level cadres were adjusted. The verdict shows that some subordinates went to Zhao Haiyan's office to deliver 1 million yuan nine times. It is worth noting that in June 2018, her husband, Zhang Jintong, director of the Henan Provincial Geological and Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau, was investigated.
In fact, almost all official notices of the fallen Municipal Party Committee Secretary involve the issue of personnel selection and employment. Some leading cadres said that the bad political ecology, especially the distortion of employment orientation, has led to a series of serious consequences and chain reactions. Some speculative cadres who observe their words and expressions and can run away and give away are promoted and reused, resulting in "bad money driving out good money."
But at the same time, the personal factors of corrupt people cannot be ignored. Looking at the numerous official reports and judicial judgments, one of the common points of these fallen municipal party secretary is that they are corruption wherever they go, and they are promoted while corruption. In addition to organizational and personnel, the corruption areas of the fallen Municipal Party Committee Secretary are mainly concentrated in engineering contracting, land planning, project approval, loan financing, intervention in judicial affairs, and transfer of state-owned property rights, and are compounded.
Shen Weichen's corruption period lasted from 1992 to 2014, with a span of 22 years. In addition, such as Nie Chunyu, former secretary of the Luliang Municipal Party Committee, Chen Shili and Fang Xiping, former secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee, Lian Ziheng, former secretary of the Sanmenxia Municipal Party Committee, all of them have corruption in many positions, and most of them occurred during their tenure as the top leaders of the party and government.
When the Shanxi officialdom was rebuilt, Luliang, as the "severely affected area", welcomed deputy department-level cadres from provincial-level agencies to "airborne" here and hold important positions. The most conspicuous one is Ma Wenge. In March 2015, he was transferred from the position of deputy director of the Provincial Party Committee Political Research Office to member of the Standing Committee of the Luliang Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Xiaoyi Municipal Party Committee, but was investigated three years later. In this regard, the media evaluated him in five words: People will change.
Xinhua News Agency once published the "Anti-Corruption Report in Luliang, Shanxi", saying that while a large amount of coal excavation caused natural geological collapse in some places, this land has formed a terrible "black gold" phenomenon due to the collusion between resource economy and power corruption, and a heroic city has ruined its reputation by "black gold".
But long before he became the Secretary of the Xiaoyi Municipal Party Committee, Ma Wenge had already violated the discipline of integrity. In September 2009, a business owner invested 10 million yuan to entrust Ma Wenjie to invest in stocks, and the two parties verbally agreed to share the profit.
Corrupt officials and bad environment are often two-way "pollution".
Even some municipal party secretaries have really achieved "corruption and succession" in the same matter. On October 9, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission publicly exposed six typical cases of corruption involving gangs and "protective umbrellas". These include Liu Shengjun, former deputy mayor of Dandong City, Liaoning Province, Yang Naiwen, former vice chairman of the Dandong CPPCC, and Gao Jun, former secretary of the Fengcheng Municipal Committee, who acted as "protective umbrellas" for gang-related organizations.
Last year, the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department successfully solved the case by sending police to other places. A total of 75 people involved were arrested, verified 27 criminal cases, including two gun murder cases, 140 land was seized, and various assets were seized and frozen.
Let’s talk about their “protective umbrella”. Liu Shengjun and Yang Naiwen served as secretary of the Donggang Municipal Party Committee and worked as a team for 7 years. In 2011, Liu Shengjun, then mayor of Donggang, was promoted to the position of mayor, and Yang Naiwen was replaced. In 2016, after Liu Shengjun left the position of the municipal party committee secretary, he was replaced by Yang Naiwen again. In 2018, the two were successively dismissed.
Who will supervise the local leader
0 corruption is not a special case of a certain region or a certain department.
Jilin Baicheng Normal University two party secretary Liu Xiaochun (left) and Ren Fengchun (right) were successively dismissed.
On August 10 last year, a notice of the fall of two party committee secretaries of a Jilin Provincial University was on the "headline" of the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission: Liu Xiaochun, secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin Baicheng Normal University, was subject to disciplinary review and supervision investigation; his former and former Party Secretary Ren Fengchun was expelled from the party for serious violations of discipline and laws.
Get out of the vicious circle of "corruption before and after" and it is very important to purify the political ecology. First of all, we must eliminate all evil and punish corruption.
November 26, Liu Yongping, former deputy mayor of Luliang City, Shanxi Province, who had been out of the public eye for a long time, was announced to be "double-opened". The reason is summed up in two words - bribery. He is the third department official in Luliang who has been punished for bribery in the past two years. Last year, the Heilongjiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection also informed the three people who bribed the former secretary of the Daqing Municipal Party Committee, and the signal of comprehensive and strict governance of the party was clearer.
In addition, various systems need to be further improved. After the two former presidents of Changde First People's Hospital were successively dismissed, the local government focused on comprehensive medical reform in the "case-based promotion of reform", and continued to follow up on supporting reforms such as medical insurance payment methods, personnel and salary systems, drug and equipment bidding and procurement, comprehensive supervision and management, and modern hospital management systems, with remarkable results.
Local leaders "corrupted after success", exposing their weakness in supervision of top leaders.
Many places have also made attempts in this regard. For example, "airborne" officials "change serum dirt". As a foreign cadre, the top leader of the "airborne" can be more open-minded as a foreign cadre, holding the "Shangfang Sword" in hand, and rectifying the political ecology. However, how to prevent the "pollution" between the new officials and the local political ecology is still a difficult problem.
After experiencing the "three consecutive falls" of the director, Henan once airlifted An Huiyuan, the former deputy director of the Provincial Planning Commission, to the Department of Transportation as director. After that, An Huiyuan was promoted to Assistant Governor of Henan Province and Secretary-General of the Provincial Government. However, Dong Yongan, who went to the Provincial Department of Transportation to replace An Huiyuan, was dismissed three years later.
Clear and regulate the power of the top leader is the key to governance pointed out by many scholars. In terms of strategy, Du Zhizhou, a professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, it is necessary to clearly define the power boundaries of the top leader, so that power can go from infinite to limited in energy, and from ambiguous to clear and visible in boundaries.
Regarding the specific methods of supervision, Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Research Center for Integrity Construction of Peking University, believes that inspections and inspections are currently more effective. However, we must further strengthen supervision of the top leaders, not only improve the inspection and inspection system, but also play the role of democratic decision-making mechanism at the institutional level, "such as supervising the top leaders through democratic life meetings and other methods."
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Liu Jincheng, executive director of the Center for Integrity Research of China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), suggested that the top leaders should be appropriately decentralized and restricted, and "put the eggs in different baskets" should be put into different baskets; at the same time, supervision should be strengthened, supervision networks should be strengthened, and reporting channels should be broadened; laws and systems should be used to keep a good job of personnel, move the defense line forward, form an anti-corrosion barrier to prevent "promotion with illness"; once corruption problems are discovered, they should be pursued to the end.
However, due to the wide range of corruption in the top leader, the work of cleaning up pollution and rebuilding the political ecology is extremely susceptible to various obstacles and challenges.
Henan Xinyang Public Security Bureau former director Li Changgen was dismissed and found more than 30 people who bought officials. Their behavior of buying officials and bribes were both important criminal circumstances and evidence, and appeared in Li Changgen's guilty verdict. But in the judgment, the complete names of these bribers were hidden. After some people applied to disclose relevant information in accordance with the law and were rejected, they sued Xinyang Municipal Public Security Bureau to the court. There is no following as of press time.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has been determined to strengthen supervision of the top leaders and eliminate "corruption after successors", and has taken decisive measures, with remarkable results.
The just-concluded "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposes to focus on strengthening supervision of senior cadres and major leading cadres at all levels... to solve the problems of supervision of top leaders and supervision at the same level. It is necessary to promote the coordinated connection of discipline supervision, supervision of supervision, dispatched supervision, and inspection supervision, improve the NPC supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision systems, and form an effective mechanism for discovering problems and correcting deviations.
has reason to believe that the above-mentioned supervision methods, supervision methods and supervision mechanisms will form a skynet, so that the top leaders of corruption will appear early and be punished early, and that the political ecology of a place will be clear.
Source: Integrity Lookout (ID: lzlwzz)
