Hunan businessman Chen originally wanted to expose a tender “trick.” At the end of 2010 a tender procurement, the instrument was surprised to find the owner of Hunan Provincial Department of Finance, Department of Culture, provincial organs of government procurement centers spent 30 million yuan, the price of 15 million yuan to buy something.
But soon, a government official to another public Shui on a more spacious track. In a recent interview, the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture, the Director, Financial Planning, Ding Yu to “Legal Daily” correspondent explained that the procurement of goods while limiting the highest bid and lowest price, reason, in addition to “protect the quality , “and” implementation of the budget needs. ”
“Today is not only budget, as well as budget execution. If the budget is not executed, the financial to be recovered, is bound to affect the second year of the budget.” The official said.
Chen has three government departments in Hunan Province to court, accusing them of the purchase price in advance to set the lower limit is illegal; and this on the “budget” of the discussion is getting worse. Some people worry that the end is approaching, the government departments to implement the budget “reckless money” scenario is about to occur again; others expect, just a week ago by the State Council executive meeting on the “Budget Law Amendment (Draft)” to make real be changed.
“Assault pay” nothing new topic, it is like a long-standing picture, each end of the year, plus some people will be crushing the ink
Despite the limit on the tender notice was put on a “minimum” hat, but for over ten years of business Chen or a glance, they are really “abnormally high.” He is the most impressive set of speakers: Notice the minimum price is 1.9 million, and he quoted the price originally planned only 7,000 yuan.
Compared to the dissatisfaction of their bid failed, the boss more willing to emphasize, in that tender “state and the taxpayer’s interest” has been compromised: the procurement in accordance with the final result of the government for the same product, spend a times the price.
“Even according to what they said, to spend the budget, but also to see what their worth ah!” He said.
The angry tone of the merchants do not know, in the annual “surprise money” many “opportunity” behavior, there are many, and he experienced the same absurd story. Ministry of Finance, responsible person, to see from the implementation of the budget over the years, the progress of expenditure showed a “former low-high” trend: in the first quarter of the slow progress on spending, the second and third quarter, picking up the fourth quarter is further accelerated.
Because of absurd cases are legion, “assault pay” nothing new topic. In other words, it’s like a long-standing picture, each end of the year, plus some people will be crushing the ink.
These are mostly ordinary people of few words. Until the end of the Guangzhou friends “music bug” suddenly discovered that the door is road do a “sand lime dust, road potholes” can take a closer look, the whole vast project is just “dig out the old brick, and transport some new bricks come back covered. ”
Everyone seems to happen a few toad in his side, a similar story. A tax invoice to buy the end of the civil servants who complain too much, because “too much work to carry out the project focused on the end of the year”; accordingly compiled a netizen even a limerick: “budget early enough, by the end of assault spent …”
Ye Qing, deputy director of Hubei Provincial Bureau of Statistics ( microblogging ) , said, “surprise flower budget” is the various departments and units there is a general phenomenon. “We do not allow the previous year’s budget did not run out till next year, so only a limited time to spend all finished.”
Yeh it seems in the past, government revenue is not high, the balance amount will not have much, people have also not very memorable experiences. And now, China’s fiscal revenue is growing at an alarming rate increased significantly. In recent years, revenue growth is almost twice the GDP growth rate, in the first 10 months to complete the annual revenue budget targets. In this context, at the end of “assault pay” the amount has become more and more staggering.
Ministry of Finance statistics show that in 2007, governments at all levels in the last month spent nearly 1.2 trillion yuan, more than the amount of annual expenditure of 1 / 4 December 2008, government expenditure amounted to more than 1.5 trillion in 2009 to two trillion. This year, according to statistics, the financial sector had nearly two months in the remaining more than 3.5 trillion financial resources to determine the whereabouts – which is equivalent to the Swiss gross domestic product in 2010.
This huge sum of money so that spectators gripped, but also to many of the parties “stressful.” A salesman selling publicity to the film card “at the end of the budget can find enough of me”, as well as a teacher on the network eagerly asked: “‘reckless money’ in the end what should buy to make yourself feel not a waste of resources? ”
Most would rather spend money the government is not willing to save money – spend the money can be transformed into bright and glorious achievements of the GDP, and saved money, paid in addition to no other use
However, despite numerous examples, most of the time, “surprise money” or a people’s tacit “hidden rules”, only for it to stay in the discussion of non-public and anonymous on the Internet.
Of course, these discussions are occasionally put on the table. In 2009, Liwan District, Guangzhou People’s Congress in group discussions at the meeting, the identity of the Municipal People’s Congress Tang Delin urban management complain about October each year, four are newly paved and dug the “zipper Road”, and some even permit evidence did not begin to do emergency construction.
“The beginning of hard money, money does not go out to the end of the year, on the hard road.” Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress took another thread of her conversation, “This is our budget system is unreasonable result.”
In the past a very long time, China has implemented a traditional “base budget.” In this mode, each year’s budget allocation decisions are based on the previous year increased a certain amount, and the balance be turned over.
Yeh, for example, a unit last year’s budget is 100 million, but only spent 80 million, savings of $ 200,000 paid not only to all but the second year’s budget will therefore be reduced to 80 million.
“Not only did the benefits of saving, but also a disadvantage.” Ye said, “This is the biggest problem.”
He and other scholars have strongly advocated the tax, is another mode of the “zero-base budget”: the annual budget from scratch, without considering the amount of the previous year.
However, in the last ten years of local government and departmental budget reform, although this model has long been widely recognized, but never really realized, “it is customary for one year or it would have on the amount of spending into the budget next year the amount. ”
Development concept is also the source of some of the problems. One widely cited example is the Guangzhou Metro Line 2 of the actual construction spending than the original budget savings of 18 million, can not be responsible Lu Guanglin not only reward, but because “the money did not spend the end, performance is not good,” suffered a criticism, which makes the Zhixing Zi’s leading state-owned enterprises was “a broken heart.”
“I have to spend money balance, you have to blame me, this is forcing me to spend money freely.” Luguang Lin said, “This is a false guide: do not spend money, you’re a fool!”
Investment-led economic growth in the idea, the government is not willing to spend money most would rather save money – spend the money can be transformed into bright and glorious achievements of the GDP, and saved money, paid in addition to no other use. Therefore, various government departments, the money before the end of this year’s surprise gone, in a sense has become an “important task.”
Guangzhou Haizhu District Secretary Deng Qiang said, which means not only used up a lot of financial allocations, and spent less than where they are needed.
Loss and waste is obvious. A netizen said in a news commentary, live in their own city, the bureau completed in order to spend the budget to each one thousand dollars of the purchase price of several hundred computers, the results of a year later, the machine did not even packing demolition of all the ash heap in a vault.
Similar stories have been incidents in different cities: Shenzhen, spent 1.6 million yuan renovation has not been acceptance of the bridge, Changchun police nearly 3 million purchase price of the laptop … … Some experts commented that the story behind these absurd, all hidden “spent budget “logic.
In such a hotbed, the signs of corruption are increasingly growing. One end of the year-end, dinner, celebration, recognition constantly, eating, sightseeing, gifts become “reckless money” important areas; Moreover, such a “dot ties” can “run the Ministry of money into the “get next year more expenditure budget by the end of more spending money to prepare for a surprise – it has become a vibrant impressively corrupt circulatory system.
It had been counting on changes in the “Budget Law.” This is the tax law expert evaluation of the “importance second only to the Constitution,” the law, from 2005 onwards will enter the change process, but until today, still no final enactment.
Ye emotion, “surprise flower budget” is an old problem, the media each year to discuss, government officials every year position, can be so long, not only the problem is not resolved, and “money” amount and scale have become more and more stunning .