Abuse of accountability, policy fights … Counting the top ten pain points of reducing burdens at the grassroots level
In 2019, it was determined by the central government as the "year of reducing burdens at the grassroots level". From May 2018 to March this year, the central government successively issued important documents such as Opinions on Further Encouraging Cadres to Take on New Roles in the New Era, Notice on Coordinating and Standardizing Supervision, Inspection and Assessment, Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Law Enforcement Force to Integrate Approval Services at the Grassroots Level, Notice on Solving the Outstanding Formalism Problems and Reducing the Burden for the Grassroots Level, etc. In order to do a good job of implementation, the central level rectification formalism was launched as a special working mechanism for reducing burdens at the grassroots level, and the first meeting of the special working mechanism was held on April 1.
This round of great determination to reduce the burden and the great efforts of rectification have highlighted the central government’s feelings of caring for and caring for the people at the grassroots level, which has deeply inspired grassroots cadres and masses everywhere. And a series of practical measures, accurate measures, very grounded, hit the key of grassroots burden and the weakness of grassroots governance, and the broad masses of grassroots cadres and masses have praised it.
At the end of last year, Semimonthly Talk planned and launched 2018: Top Ten Targets of Grass-roots Governance, and conducted in-depth research on ten outstanding problems, such as frequent supervision and inspection, abuse of accountability, pressure "tossing the pot", leaving marks everywhere, heroes of material theory, lazy cadres, typical quick success, policy fights, rising "ceiling" and lack of happiness. After the publication of this 10,000-word research report, it received great attention from all walks of life and caused strong repercussions.
At present, the central government’s spirit of grassroots burden reduction and grassroots governance reform is landing. How is the implementation in various places? What are the solutions and innovation highlights? How have the problems of formalism and grassroots burden improved? What aspects are still the same and need to be continuously diagnosed and treated? In view of this, the editorial department of Semimonthly Talk recently launched a new round of large-scale research, and planned to publish "2019: Ten Pain Points in Treating Grassroots Units", with a view to reflecting the latest trend of reducing burdens at the grassroots level, discovering successful experiences in reducing burdens at the grassroots level, exploring good strategies for grassroots governance reform, and boosting the spirit of central policies to the grassroots level.
Creative planning of topic: Ye Jundong
Special organization and implementation: Zhou Qingyin
Special Co-editor: Xu Xicai, Fan Zhongxiu and Xu Zhongke
Joint research reporter: Jianqiang Liang Fan Shihui Wu Zhong Yang Jian Wu Shuaishuai Richard Chang Shao Kun Tan Chang Tan Yuanbin Qiu Bingqing Xiang Dingjie Zhou Wentao
Top ten pain points keywords：① Frequent supervision and inspection ② Abuse of accountability ③ Pressure "throwing the pot" ④ Leaving marks everywhere ⑤ Materials on heroes. ⑥ Idle cadres ⑥ Typical crash ⑧ Policy fights ⑨ Rising "ceiling" ⑩ Lack of happiness.
Frequent supervision and inspection of treatment: slimming hard leverage
From October 2018, the Central Office issued the Notice on Coordinating and Standardizing Supervision, Inspection and Assessment, to March this year, the Central Office issued the Notice on Solving Outstanding Formalism Problems to Reduce the Burden for Grassroots Units, focusing on solving the problem of over-frequency supervision, inspection and assessment, and becoming an important breakthrough for the central government to relieve the pain points at the grassroots level and loosen the burden for grassroots cadres.
In view of the supervision, inspection and assessment items, the central government proposed that the total amount should be strictly controlled, and the annual plan and approval filing system should be implemented. In principle, the relevant departments of the central and state organs should conduct comprehensive supervision, inspection and assessment once a year, and the supervision, inspection and assessment items for counties, villages, factories, mines, enterprises and schools should be reduced by more than 50%.
All localities have implemented the spirit of the central government and have introduced targeted governance measures. Stopping and streamlining the inspection and assessment items are in full swing.
Anhui requires provincial departments not to introduce new supervision, inspection and assessment items without authorization. The provincial level is reduced by more than 70% compared with the previous year, and the city and county level is reduced by more than 50%. In terms of poverty alleviation, only one provincial-level poverty alleviation inspection is arranged every year, and cities and counties are not allowed to carry out special assessments for poverty alleviation. Jiangxi stipulates that in principle, all departments of the provincial government only carry out comprehensive inspection and assessment once a year, and the inspection method is mainly unannounced visits. Hubei proposed to comprehensively and strictly regulate matters such as supervision, inspection, supervision, inspection, inspection, assessment and evaluation, and implement a strict plan management and approval system. Comprehensively clean up all kinds of supervision, inspection and assessment, resolutely revoke those that can be revoked, and merge those that can be merged as much as possible.
In addition to the reduction of total control, it is also the direction of some local governments to prevent the phenomenon of excessive supervision and inspection from "reinventing" and "wearing another vest". The Hubei Provincial Party Committee issued a warning in the recently issued "Several Measures to Prevent Formalism Bureaucracy": "No unit shall arbitrarily label the daily investigation and guidance work as supervision, supervision, supervision, inspection and inspection."
In February this year, Huanggang City, Hubei Province made strict regulations on the nominal name, reporting and filing, total frequency, methods and methods of supervision, inspection and assessment, and it was not allowed to conduct supervision, inspection and assessment in disguise in the name of "research guidance" and "research discussion". The relevant person in charge of the Supervision Office of Huanggang Municipal Committee told the reporter that after cleaning up, there were only three inspections and assessments carried out in the name of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government.
Half a month’s talk with reporters revealed that the supervision and inspection projects were greatly slimmed down, which hit a key point of the burden of formalism at the grassroots level and responded to grassroots concerns, with good response from all over the country.
"Some hard levers related to supervision, inspection and assessment are hard measures to reduce the burden on grassroots, which really touches the bitterness of grassroots cadres." Wang Xiaocong, secretary of the Party Committee of Wen ‘an Town, zhijiang city City, Hubei Province, told reporters about the semi-monthly talks, "This is a timely rain and a shot in the arm. This time we are relieved. "
Dongtou District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province focuses on controlling the total amount and frequency of supervision and inspection, clarifying the form of supervision by unified dispatching, and merging similar items for various inspection contents. The relevant person in charge of Dongping Street said: "Streamlining some unnecessary repeated inspections has given us more time and space to do practical things for the people."
While the majority of grassroots cadres praised the sharp reduction in supervision and inspection, some people also worried that after the total amount control and quantity streamlining, the spur effect of supervision and inspection would be discounted.
Grass-roots work is extremely complicated. To make supervision and inspection more targeted and effective, we can increase the "squatting" and "sinking" experience of supervision and inspection at higher levels. After reducing frequent surprise inspections, some cities and counties have increased their contact points in places with complex situations, prominent contradictions and many difficulties, so that supervision and inspection can truly become a useful physical examination for in-depth investigation and study and taking care of the diseases at the grassroots level.
In order to solve the problem of false style of supervision and inspection, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee has put forward the following "Nine No’s": no stepping on the spot in advance, no accompanying at all levels, no cursory inspection, no catwalk, no design of "classic route", no temporary packaging, no arrangement of "extras", no requirement of "reciting lines", no concealment of problems and no fraud.
On March 29th this year, Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee issued "Thirty Measures on Forcing Formalism to Reduce the Burden for Grassroots Units", in which Articles 19 and 20 respectively stipulate: advocate the real inspector’s fact-finding based on unannounced visits, point out and urge rectification in time when problems are found, and do not replace rectification with accountability, and resolutely stop the spread of "inspection culture"; Avoid cluster research and put an end to situational research.
An unannounced visit is often more likely to find problems than a thorough investigation. Zhejiang doesn’t engage in big-name inspections, without notice, greeting, listening to reports and accompanying receptions. It goes straight to the grassroots and goes straight to the scene. In 2018, Zhejiang Province organized two rounds of centralized unannounced visits, involving 589 inspections in 60 projects in 7 categories. For the problems found in unannounced visits, we should immediately check and change them, and copy them on the spot and assign them to relevant counties (cities, districts) for rectification and implementation.
After rectifying the chaos of supervision and inspection, it is timely to reshape the work evaluation mechanism. The Notice of the Central Office on Solving Prominent Formalism Problems to Reduce the Burden for Grassroots Units puts forward that the key to strengthening the result orientation and evaluating the work of a place and unit depends on whether the actual problems are solved and how the masses evaluate it. Wang Wei, a member of the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the National People’s Congress, said that the supervision and inspection work is to promote the implementation of the work and needs to improve the result-oriented system.
How to assess the work performance after the reduction of supervision and inspection? Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province uses internet plus to improve the "year-end examination", strengthen the daily assessment and optimize the assessment methods. Wang Lili, director of the publicity classroom of the Disciplinary Committee of Shengsi County, Zhoushan City, said: "Fully implement the network assessment mechanism and change ‘ At the end of the exam ’ For ‘ Examination process ’ The pressure on grassroots cadres is lighter and the work is more practical. "
The party secretary of a town in the east believes that in some necessary inspections and assessments, the heads of higher-level units and leading comrades in counties and cities should not only have the eyes to find problems, but also have tricks to guide and solve problems.
Curing the abuse of accountability: clarifying the boundary of fault tolerance and exemption
"Every day, under various pressures, I do my work without regrets, but what is chilling is that I turn my head to face ‘ Cold-faced leader ’ , the general assembly meeting ‘ If you can’t do it, resign, and if you can’t finish it, you will be punished ’ Talk about it. All kinds of criticisms and notifications full of distrust, I don’t know when it will come to me. " Abuse of accountability has become a major worry for some grassroots cadres.
In view of the abuse of accountability, the Notice of the Central Office on Solving the Prominent Formalism Problems to Reduce the Burden for Grassroots Units specifically proposes that we should adhere to the combination of strict management and love, seek truth from facts, be serious, standardize, accurately and prudently accountable according to the law, and truly play a role in accountability and vigilance.
In some places, it has become a common phenomenon for grassroots cadres to work behind their backs. About half of the 10 team members in some towns and villages were punished behind their backs, and some towns and villages were even "completely annihilated".
The index of accountability and the achievement of political achievements are worthy of vigilance. In some places, how many cadres are accountable is regarded as the performance of relevant departments, and accountability is for accountability. Abuse of accountability also leads to the adverse consequences of "governance idling": "Do less and make fewer mistakes, and there is nothing wrong with not doing it", "If there is a problem, please ask the leader to make a decision", "You throw it at me, I push it at him, and push it around to play idling".
The cadres interviewed in many places have always called for not waving the big stick of punishment at every turn, regardless of subjective and objective reasons. They expect more positive fault-tolerant incentives and less simple and rude accountability.
"We must correctly grasp the relationship between exemption and accountability." Liu Hequan, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Xian ‘an District, Xianning City, Hubei Province, believes that accountability for discipline and fault tolerance are both to awaken the sense of responsibility and stimulate the spirit of responsibility. He told reporters who talked for half a month that Xian ‘an District strictly controlled the "Three Distinctions" and Xianning City’s "Implementation Measures for Establishing a Fault-tolerant and Error-correcting Mechanism for Cadres’ Entrepreneurship (Trial)", and made mistakes in exploration and innovation, policy adjustment, pioneering and taking the initiative, and was lightly accountable or exempted from accountability.
It is a "firewall" to avoid the abuse of accountability to distinguish between normal accusation and false accusation. Qingdao City, Shandong Province, will put the relevant personnel who have been falsely accused and framed into the "blacklist" of dishonesty in the social credit system, and will notify them according to the seriousness of the case. Let the false accuser pay the price and clear the cadre.
It is very important to implement the fault-tolerant and exemption mechanism and clarify the name of cadres who have been falsely reported in time. Some grassroots cadres are able to be officers and take responsibility, but they have touched some people’s "cheese" and have been falsely accused. In view of this, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places supported the officials, showed their swords to the false accusers, and reported dozens of typical cases of falsely accusing and framing party member cadres, releasing the signal of being responsible for the person in charge and the person in charge.
During the two sessions of the National People’s Congress this year, Jingning She Autonomous County of Zhejiang Province issued a public notice, which clarified three false letters and visits and cleared the names of three cadres. Zhong Haiyan, the county magistrate, said that as soon as the clarification notice was issued, the cadres were praising it and the social response was very strong.
Among the 30 articles on reducing the burden at the grass-roots level issued by Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee, three involve improving the procedures of accountability and accountability: accurately applying the "four forms", correcting and preventing the problems of abnormal supervision and discipline, generalization and simplification of accountability; Resolutely prevent the tendency of "accountability when there is a mistake, and discipline when there is accountability"; Treat the cadres who are held accountable correctly, and use them in time for those cadres who have expired and performed well.
A secretary of the Disciplinary Committee in a certain place in Jiangxi said frankly that more than 400 clues were accepted last year. After investigation, about 70% of them were untrue, and some clues took months to find out the facts. "Some clues are full of loopholes, and those who have been falsely accused are burdened with thoughts."
In order to correct the tendency of some cadres to lose their entrepreneurial enthusiasm and "seek stability by inaction" after being falsely accused of accountability, the Yongnian District Commission for Discipline Inspection of Handan City, Hebei Province implemented a "tea talk" conversation system. Su Zenglin, director of the trial room of the Yongnian District Commission for Discipline Inspection, said that cadres in four situations are the key conversation targets of "tea language and pure heart": they think that they can’t lift their heads when they are punished, and they have great ideological pressure; There is a deviation in understanding, and there is a sense of injustice about being punished; I can’t turn my mind around, and I have resistance; Be falsely accused and need clarification.
In the conversation room, there is a long table, several chairs and several cups of green tea. In the atmosphere of "tea talk clears the heart", the knot of the cadres who are accountable is gently opened, and a conversation achieves the purpose of eliminating grievances and encouraging enthusiasm.
In order to encourage grassroots cadres to take responsibility, Hubei Province has improved the fault-tolerant and error-correcting mechanism, pursued accountability and grasped policy boundaries to prevent simplification and expansion. The province properly uses the cadres who have been dealt with and punished. Those who have outstanding performance after the expiration of the influence period should be used boldly according to relevant procedures.
The fault-tolerant exemption mechanism still needs to be "explained by case" in the specific implementation process. A person in charge of the organization department of a municipal party Committee in the east said that from the practical situation, many fault-tolerant and exemption mechanisms lack cases to learn from, and the definition of applicable situations is still vague. Grassroots cadres have doubts about whether the fault-tolerant exemption clause is applicable to reform and innovation and exploration of trial and error, and it is urgent to explain the rules by case and clarify the boundary of fault-tolerant exemption.