How do you view the problem of "luxury construction style"?
Background of current affairs commentary:
7 cadres built a 6-story office building, an 8-kilometer landscaped avenue at the entrance of the highway, and a poverty-stricken county with hundreds of millions of yuan in fiscal revenue borrowed billions of dollars in debt for the project Specially built... In recent years, extravagant and wasteful buildings and landmark buildings have often been thrust into the spotlight, but they have always managed to survive vigorous rectifications, and they have tended to rise over time. However, this time, this trend may be coming to an end. Recently, the Central Party Committee’s Mass Line Education and Practice Activities Leading Group issued a notice clearly requiring the cleanup and rectification of luxurious and wasteful construction to be included in the scope of rectification activities and a comprehensive cleanup.
Commentary on current affairs: How to deal with the problem of "luxurious construction"
To deal with the problem of luxury construction, we need to abandon the idea of ????killing the chicken to scare the monkey, smash the fluke that the law does not punish the public, and put an end to side effects. Opportunities to completely cut off the trend of luxury.
The latest deployment of the central government reveals two important signals for the control of luxury construction: the era of not punishing the public with the law has passed, and a comprehensive cleanup means abandoning the idea of ????"killing chickens to scare monkeys"; the practice of violating the law will not work either. Yes, this governance will continue the courage and intensity of opposing the "four winds" and implementing the eight regulations, leaving no chance for sidestepping.
Reflecting on the past, the reason why "building luxury buildings and building landmarks" has been restrained as soon as it was cured and relapsed as soon as it was loosened is actually a complex realistic logic behind it.
First of all, it is the concept that the law does not punish everyone. This kind of prodigal behavior exists to varying degrees in the eastern, central, and western regions. Ten years ago, the Ministry of Construction disclosed that among the more than 20,000 organized towns in my country, about 1/5 had “image projects” in urban construction. As long as the approval process is kept secret, what will happen to the public buildings and people when the office buildings are completed? Sichuan, Guangdong and other places have launched "cleaning storms" of luxury office buildings, but the intensity is getting weaker and the scope is getting smaller and smaller. The result of "killing the chicken to scare the monkey" approach to governance is often to start at the end but end at the end.
If you don’t go to the extreme and get to the bottom of it, the cost of breaking the law will be very low. Some places prefer to have policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. If the obvious method doesn't work, just work around it. If the secret channel is blocked, it will become a fait accompli. Some local governments and cadres even believe that as long as money is not put into their own pockets and corruption is not involved, there is nothing the higher authorities can do. This brought very bad psychological implications, triggering a chain-like viral spread of luxury construction. In some places, it is even a joke that a city with a population of 50,000 has to build a large square that can accommodate 60,000 people.
Luxurious construction consumes public funds and erodes the government’s credibility. Whether it is under the banner of people's livelihood projects or in any other name, the luxury buildings and landmarks built are seen by the people, hurt in their hearts, and cursed by them. What's more, extravagance and corruption are often closely related. Feng Liucheng, the former secretary of the Huiji District Committee of Zhengzhou City, who is famous for building a luxurious office building that looks like the "White House", is a good example. He was later found to have accepted 1.74 million yuan in bribes during the office building project. It is conceivable that if luxury construction is allowed to grow wildly for a long time, it will only lead to more suspicions of corruption and continue to damage the government's credibility.
Of course, a thorough rectification requires complex and sophisticated system construction, such as supervision of extra-budgetary funds, back-checking of the administrative responsibility chain, and the establishment of external supervision mechanisms, etc. Judging from the current situation, the first step is to impose strict laws and control chaos. Only by acting vigorously and resolutely, smashing the luck of not blaming the law, eliminating opportunities for side effects, and completely cutting off the trend of extravagance, can we gain space and initiative to cure the root cause.
This knife was actually cut last year. In July 2013, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Notice on Stopping the Construction of New Buildings and Cleaning Up Office Spaces of Party and Government Organs." The biggest difference from previous clean-up policies is that it clearly stipulates that all new buildings and halls will be stopped within five years. Construction of buildings that have been approved but have not started will also be stopped. Drawing this time "red line" is undoubtedly to put an end to all kinds of specious excuses and completely put an end to the trend of luxury construction.
The central government has recently emphasized again that those who dare to commit crimes, especially those who have violated discipline since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, must be severely investigated and punished. Tightening the clockwork at the execution level is precisely based on lessons learned from previous experiences. Why are the people satisfied with the current work style construction? Without him, whether it is rectifying public-funded food and drink, public-funded tourism, or reforming public buses, the implementation is unambiguous, tight and tight, detailed and detailed, strict and strict. Once the governance pattern of overall encirclement and resolute division is formed, it will surely become a thunderous trend. If you make the wrong decision, you will be hitting the muzzle of the gun.
What do you think of the "Guo Meimei Case" issue?
Background of current affairs commentary:
Recently, Guo Meimei, who became famous overnight because of her involvement in the "Red Cross", admitted in the detention center that she participated in gambling and organized gambling during the World Cup football match, and confessed The criminal facts of long-term participation in gambling activities and opening gambling bureaus for huge profits.
Commentary on current affairs: How to treat the "Guo Meimei case" issue
The Guo Meimei case is just the tip of the iceberg in football gambling.
During the World Cup, the Ministry of Public Security concentrated on detecting a number of major gambling cases, involving more than 18 billion yuan. Not long ago, a huge online football gambling case was tried in Guangzhou. It took more than five years to set up the game, and the total amount of bets exceeded 484 billion yuan. In 2013, the national lottery sales had just reached 300 billion yuan. Football lottery sales pale in comparison to the huge amounts of money lost overseas through illegal betting.
Why is it that despite frequent crackdowns, huge national wealth still flows abroad through underground gambling?
Since the start of the World Cup, various portal websites have spared no effort to promote football lottery, but they still cannot relieve people's enthusiasm for gambling. Online gambling, which is more exciting and profitable, has become the choice of some people. Today, with the rapid development of the mobile Internet, gambling no longer requires gambling equipment, venues, crowds, and cash. With a computer or mobile phone and an account, you can go to any gambling website in the world to complete gambling instantly. Simple terminals, convenient payments, constantly changing domain names, and flexibility in technology updates make it impossible to prevent. Gambling bookmakers are located abroad, which also creates many difficulties for law enforcement. Changes in law enforcement targets require changes in thinking and upgrading of methods in gambling governance.
Gambling has a long history. In our country, both managers and ordinary people have an instinctive emotional rejection of gambling. Gambling is regarded as a bad behavior and a public hazard, and is prohibited by legislation. However, the temptation of gambling is not small, and there are many things of gambling nature in life. The two sides of gambling are like the front and back of a coin. In addition to prohibiting and cracking down, we must also strengthen guidance so that the people in the country can correctly view the harmfulness and entertainment of gambling. We cannot be "strictly defensive" at home while allowing foreign bankers to reap the benefits of China's wealth.
my country currently only uses lottery as a means of raising public welfare funds rather than as an independent industry. From the perspective of positioning, the two lottery issuing agencies, Welfare Lottery Center and Sports Lottery Center, are only given the function of raising public welfare funds. They are not given the function of protecting the lottery market, avoiding the loss of national wealth, and coordinating the development of tourism, games, finance, telecommunications and other related industries. , The government shares the responsibilities and obligations of preventing and controlling private lottery and underground gambling. Lottery issuing agencies under this system design can meet the expansion of the domestic market and achieve sales growth, but they lack the motivation and means to prevent the loss of the gaming market and the outflow of national wealth.
The rampant underground gambling reflects the deviation of my country’s lottery positioning and the backwardness of gambling control methods. According to the development situation of the Internet gambling industry, we must improve relevant laws and management policies, upgrade the governance methods of illegal gambling, and promote the market-oriented reform of the lottery issuing department, so as to truly eliminate blockages and solve the problems of underground lottery and online gambling.
How to deal with the problem of “admissions oolong”?
Background of current affairs commentary:
Recently, the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education held a press conference regarding the petition by some parents of candidates at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and reiterated that the Shenyang Conservatory of Music marked on the professional examination certificates of candidates Behavior that is "within the program quota" is a violation and should be deemed invalid. As for whether the affected candidates can be re-enrolled, there is still no answer.
Commentary on current affairs: How to deal with the issue of “admissions oolong”
The initiator of the matter was the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. The school promised "planned quotas" during admissions and adjusted the remaining enrollment plans from outside the province to be used within the province, which violated relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, such as "no illegal promises of admission to candidates in various ways before the admission process is completed" and caused errors to candidates. guide so that they cannot enroll in school. In this regard, Shenyang Conservatory of Music must bear the responsibility for violations. However, so far, the school has not been held accountable.
Although it has been classified as a violation, and the hidden rules of arbitrarily adjusting the enrollment plans of various majors inside and outside the province have been made public, the Shenyang Conservatory of Music claims that the relevant issues were caused by the loss and omission of documents from the Department of Education. Policies were not followed. It may be difficult to convince people to use such reasons to excuse institutional mistakes. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, provincial admissions offices are responsible for supervising the implementation of national admissions policies by colleges and universities and correcting violations of national admissions policies and regulations. Since the Liaoning Education Department has determined that Shenyang Conservatory of Music has illegally recruited students, it should thoroughly investigate the ins and outs of the illegal operation, give everyone an explanation, and hold the relevant personnel accountable in accordance with the law. Only in this way can we live up to the expectations of parents and society.
For candidates who have no school to attend, they are the victims of this illegal enrollment. If they suffer "secondary harm" because they have no way to relieve themselves and have no way to deal with the aftermath, it is obviously against the fairness of education. . It is true that education administrative departments and colleges and universities must strictly abide by systems and regulations to maintain the seriousness and authority of enrollment plans. However, if the school violates the rules, innocent candidates cannot bear the consequences. How to give them an explanation and a way out for their anxious dreams tests the responsibility and wisdom of the parties concerned.
When looking at this "enrollment mistake" scandal, we must also reflect on how fairness and justice in the education field can be guaranteed? How to solve the illegal enrollment problem that has been repeatedly banned in recent years? In this incident, not only were there problems such as illegal operations by universities and repeated delays in accountability, but also many loopholes were exposed in the implementation of the policy. For example, the document on adjusting the admissions policy was communicated and implemented. The Department of Education and the person in charge of the university neither conducted face-to-face or face-to-face meetings. After phone calls, there was no confirmation of receipt. Neither the Ministry of Education nor the universities knew whether the Ministry of Education had special regulations for art schools in setting the male-to-female enrollment ratio. If it is done so carelessly and casually, aren't laws and regulations just a piece of paper? This just shows that only by returning to the rule of law can education be truly fair. Only within the framework of the rule of law, education administrative departments strictly enforce the law, and universities and other educational institutions recruit students independently in strict accordance with the law, break hidden rules and eliminate arbitrariness, can the bottom line of education fairness be defended.
It is not enough to do it yourself. This incident exposed the lack of rule of law at many levels, including college entrance examination recruitment and administrative supervision. It is not only a case of reflection on educational fairness, but also highlights the urgency of making up for the shortcomings of the rule of law in education. Only by strictly following the examination and enrollment principles established by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee that schools independently enroll students in accordance with the law, government macro-management, and social participation in supervision, and run education affairs well within the rule of law, can similar problems be prevented from happening again.