System status quo
20 12 10, Guangzhou municipal commission for discipline inspection informed Nansha that it would pilot the property declaration system for officials. 12 In late February, relevant schemes and institutional arrangements have been discussed and approved by the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal Committee. In the Nansha experimental area, newly promoted city management cadres made their property public. However, up to now, the details of this scheme are still "still hiding half her face behind her guitar from us" and "long-awaited"
As early as 1987, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) clearly suggested that the problem of "establishing a property declaration system for state employees" should be studied and solved in relevant laws. 1995 the general offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council jointly issued the regulations on income declaration of leading cadres at or above the county (department) level in party and government organs (hereinafter referred to as the regulations on income declaration).
Fan believes that although the Regulations on Income Declaration has played a certain role in preventing corruption since its implementation, its effect is not ideal. The reasons are as follows: First, the "Regulations on Income Declaration" has only nine articles, less than 600 words, which is only a "soft law" and its operability is not strong; Second, the scope is too narrow, and only personal wage income is required to be declared, not family property, but only labor income and non-labor income; More importantly, it only requires declaration, not disclosure, and lacks the supervision of the masses and society.
"In fact, the pilot project in Nansha did not set the goal of extensive publicity, but stayed at the declaration stage," Fan said. He believes that Guangzhou, as an economically developed region, should have the courage and courage to "kill a bloody road" in the reform and opening up that year, and take the lead in piloting the intra-party declaration system for family property of public officials in the country.
Submit a proposal
Fan suggested that the scope of applicants should be defined as public officials at or above the county level and public officials at or above the level of state-owned enterprises (including state-owned holding enterprises); Public officials at or above the county level who have officially retired but have not completed five years must also declare their property.
The contents of the declaration should be all the property of family members, including: land, buildings and real estate attached to them; Cash, deposits, securities and options, cars and other valuables, jewelry, calligraphy and painting, antiques and other collectibles and other movable property with a value of more than 5,000 yuan. Applicants' family property abroad and abroad must also be declared.
In terms of methods, law enforcement agencies should fully publish the contents declared by the applicants in the local area, the official website of the department and the mass media. "Take the lead in declaring public family property, starting with 2000 city management cadres in Guangzhou".
In terms of punishment, if the applicant fails to report on time, it shall be ordered to make up the report within a time limit. The authenticity and legality of the declaration should be strictly checked. If it is found that the declaration is false, it shall be given administrative or disciplinary sanctions; If the circumstances are serious, legal responsibility shall be investigated.
Responses from Parties
Some people say that Fan "broke the hidden rules of officialdom", and some people say that "this deputy secretary-general of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has come to an end. Go home and sell sweet potatoes."
Fan, the deputy secretary-general who is willing to be the first person to publicly declare his property, was questioned by members of the same group.
"You are a bureau-level cadre, how come you only have a house of more than 70 square meters?" "I really only have one set now, 72 square meters, and one more square meter can be confiscated!"
"After this incident was reported, I personally felt some pressure." Fan Qingsong said, "What am I afraid of? When I am 58 years old, I will be desperate. "
invisible assets
Fan was a little late for the meeting. After arriving at the meeting place, he has been sitting in his seat, silently listening to others. It was over an hour before he began to speak.
"My proposal was followed up by the reporter that day. Because the reporter asked, I made my property public." Fan Songqing said: "I only have one property."
A male member at the scene immediately asked, "You only have one property, but there are many intangible assets. How much does your book cost now? "
Fan Songqing explained: "My book was written when I was a reporter."
Property disclosure
Another male member took over the conversation: "You are a bureau-level cadre, why do you only have a house of more than 70 square meters?"
A female member then added: "He only said half, he had a house to sell in 2003, and there should be two suites."
Fan Songqing can't sit still. "Let me explain. 1998 When allocating the house, I got a 72-square-meter house on Hailian Road. According to the regulations of housing reform, the number of department-level cadres is below 100 square meters, so a set of houses of more than 50 square meters in Wuyang New Town was added, of which more than 20 square meters exceeding the standard were bought at the market price. At the end of 2003, the house was sold. I really only have one set now, 72 square meters, and one more square meter can be confiscated! " After a word, everyone was silent.
Coping with stress
Fan said, "It is impossible without pressure. These days, many leaders, colleagues and friends have sent me messages to care about me. In fact, caring is worrying. Some people say that I "broke the hidden rules of officialdom", while others say that "the deputy secretary-general of the CPPCC has come to an end, so go home and sell sweet potatoes". I am not angry after reading it. I'm 58 years old. What else don't I understand? Go your own way and let others talk. "
"After this proposal was reported by the media, many leaders gave strong support, and President Su Zhijia of CPPCC also supported me. Today, the staff of the CPPCC Proposal Committee told me that this proposal has been put on file, and the next step is to hand it over to the relevant party building departments for handling. I am very happy to hear the news. Before I wrote this proposal at home, my family knew I was busy, didn't know what to write, and didn't tell them. It was not until the media was exposed that my family knew that I wrote this. My wife also said that I don't even have a villa at the bureau level, and you live in an old building of more than 70 square meters. How dare you bask in it? (Laughter) That can't be helped. Now the house is too expensive to buy. "
"Nansha has become a pilot project for official property declaration and publicity, which is a good opportunity. I think we should seize this opportunity to let Guangzhou take the lead in piloting the system of public declaration of family property of public officials in China, and then push this system to the whole country, which will directly affect the process of democracy and the rule of law in China, improve the party style and political style, and our country will have great hopes. As for some people who say this about me, I will say: I am selfless and generous. "
Incorporate into legislation
The formulation of official property disclosure did not begin today. The netizen "the dream has set sail" said, "How many years have officials' property been publicly talked about? But what about the actual situation? I think unless NPC legislates, it will be useless! "
In this regard, Fan said that as early as 1987, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) proposed legislation for this purpose, and it has been more than 20 years. "However, due to too much resistance, the National People's Congress still has no legislation. Instead, the law was replaced by1the "Regulations on the Income Declaration of Leading Cadres at or above the County Level in Party and Government Organs" promulgated by the Central Committee in April 1995. The implementation effect is far from satisfactory. " He said in Weibo that since 17, anti-corruption slogans have become louder and louder, corruption has intensified, anti-corruption measures have increased, the number of corrupt people has increased, and the amount of crimes has increased. Anti-corruption, like "cutting leeks", presents the phenomenon of "corruption first and succeeding" and greed is invincible. Therefore, it is necessary to openly incorporate the official property declaration into the legislation of the National People's Congress.
So, where is the resistance to legislation? What is the biggest difficulty in promoting the disclosure of official property now? Some netizens have raised such questions.
"It is mainly the resistance of officials with more family property and huge (property) sources, which makes the central high-level officials undecided." Fan believes that technical conditions and objective factors are secondary, and the central government must make up its mind to disclose its property. "In China, as long as the Party Central Committee makes up its mind, there is nothing that can't be done well, can't be done, and can't be done."
notice the time
Yesterday, Song Qing, a fan who called for and orally disclosed his personal property, opened the Weibo. His Weibo certification is "Fan, Deputy Secretary-General of Guangzhou, who took the lead in publishing property income to the media".
After the opening of Weibo, he used micro-interviews to communicate with netizens about the disclosure of officials' property. Netizens asked him 267 questions, and he replied to 14 of them, expounding his resistance to property disclosure in his heart, emphasizing that officials' property disclosure should be top-down and the scope of disclosure should be family-based, and answering netizens' questions about him.
20 13 on the fourth day of the Guangzhou two sessions, the name of Fan, deputy secretary-general of Guangzhou, was "Liang". Previously, people couldn't find his entry, but since yesterday, "Fan" has been included in Baidu Encyclopedia and described as "calling on Guangzhou to take the lead in piloting the family property disclosure system of public officials and set an example in Du Nan". Why did Fan "jump out"? Did the leader "interview" him these two days? ..... Yesterday at noon, the first official of Guangzhou Public Property walked into the "Micro-interview" program jointly organized by Southern Metropolis Daily, Nandu.com and Tencent Dayue.com, and asked questions directly from netizens. During the one-and-a-half-hour interview, the reporter collected more than 1000 questions from the Internet.
Good official
Southern Reporter: The netizen "Long Fei Jiu Tian" thinks that less property does not mean good officials. If you don't do practical things for the people, even if you live in a hut, the people won't say you are a good official. what do you think?
Fan: I understand that this netizen is talking about people with political achievements and corruption, and they may also have political achievements; A person who is not corrupt cannot be said to have no political achievements. However, we can't put the two in opposition. In fact, ordinary people hope that you have political achievements and that you are not corrupt. It can't be said that you "have to" misappropriate millions or tens of millions of yuan to build this expressway. Such officials are not good officials. People who have political achievements and are not corrupt are good officials.
Southern Reporter: Although this official property disclosure system has not been formally implemented, in fact, the property of "Uncle Fang" and "Sister Fang" has been "disclosed" on the Internet. How to treat this phenomenon?
Fan: Why is there an anti-corruption network? Because we have been waiting for the official family property declaration to be made public for too long, almost 30 years. The longer you delay, the more passive you are, and the more you will cause people's dissatisfaction. As I said, there are certain risks in making official property public, but if you refuse to make official family property public for a long time, your ruling position may be even more dangerous.
Stable accumulation
The communique of the Second Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection proposed that the system of leading cadres reporting personal matters should be seriously implemented and spot checks should be carried out. A few days ago, Fan, deputy secretary-general of the Guangzhou Municipal Political Consultative Conference, called on Guangzhou to take the lead in piloting the family property disclosure of public officials and was willing to be the first person to disclose property. Where did his courage come from? How to avoid "not letting reformers blow the cold wind" in property disclosure? How to deal with the relationship with citizens' privacy protection?
New system
Reporter: Recently, incidents such as "Uncle Fang" that have been constantly exposed have aroused people's concern about the family property of officials. How to effectively implement the disclosure of official property declaration?
A: There are some defects in the current official property declaration system, which only requires the declaration of personal salary income and does not require the declaration of family property; Only declare labor income, not non-labor income, which leads to some officials' property declaration becoming a mere formality.
In the financial real-name registration system, the coverage of personal real estate information networking is expanding, and these supporting measures are gradually improving. Technical support is not the fundamental problem. The key is that the system must have deterrence, so that the contents of public officials' property declaration can be true and reliable.
Reporter: From the cases that have been investigated, we found that a small number of officials concealed and transferred property, and the punishment in this respect is not perfect enough. How to promote the disclosure of property declaration and establish an effective punishment mechanism?
A: China's income declaration regulations impose relatively light penalties on the declaration subject for violating the regulations. Only those who fail to declare or fail to declare their income truthfully are ordered to declare and correct by their party organizations, administrative departments or discipline inspection and supervision departments, and given criticism, education or disciplinary action according to the seriousness of the case.
Punishment still depends on laws and regulations, with rules to follow. It is impossible to make official property public, and it is difficult for legislation to expose the great resistance of official property public.
Publicity policy
Southern Reporter: The term "official property disclosure" has been mentioned for nearly 30 years. In Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Ningxia and other places, the relevant system has been tried out, but it has reached a deadlock not far away. What do you think is the reason?
Fan: What impressed me most was that it was first implemented in Altay, Xinjiang in 2009, and then piloted in the whole country. However, due to great resistance, the leaders took political interest, which was short-lived in the end. The first reason is that there is no strong legal guarantee for this system. In China, many things are said to be "crossing the river by feeling the stones", but it must be promoted from top to bottom, from central to local. If we "cross the river by feeling the stones" completely from the bottom, officials can have various excuses and policies will not be implemented.
Southern Reporter: Some netizens said that many officials are reluctant to disclose their property because the current environment is very bad. Will there be corruption in the future, and even they can't be caught?
Fan: I think corruption in China is quite serious all over the world. For example, in the United States, an official who embezzled 1000 dollars was caught, and people made a fuss, but in China, it was really a drop in the bucket. Since today's corruption situation is distressing, it is all the more necessary to propose and implement this system.
Stop reformers from blowing cold air
Reporter: Altay, Xinjiang, Cixi, Zhejiang, Huai 'an, Jiangsu and other places have successively launched pilot projects for official property declaration. Most of the pilot targets are newly promoted cadres, department-level or county-level cadres. How to evaluate this?
A: Due to the narrow policy space of the pilot work, most of them have not achieved sustained results. In the eyes of some people, the disclosure of property declaration should be "one size fits all". However, in a complicated new policy, it is not easy to break the ice every step forward. All aspects of property declaration and disclosure need to be mature and steadily advanced.
Judging from the current signs, there may be a certain distance between Guangzhou's property disclosure and public expectations. But after all, it has accumulated experience for the gradual advancement of policies in the future, and the driving force of public opinion will affect whether the property disclosure can take a good step and take a good road to a certain extent.
Reporter: Family property disclosure is the focus of official property disclosure. After full disclosure, how to combine it with citizen privacy protection?
A: There are still some "misunderstandings" in the disclosure of official property, and the privacy of official personal life needs to be respected. However, the power in the hands of public officials is public power and is endowed by the people. You can't hide it in the disclosure of property declaration on the pretext of protecting privacy. Only when the declaration is not made public, the lack of social supervision cannot produce a strong supervision effect.