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Xinhua County, Hunan Province is a national poverty-stricken county. However, poverty and luxury have reached the extreme. There are girls who sell their bodies for a full meal, and there are also stars who spend millions. A few months ago, I heard the news that Xie Wensheng, the former secretary of Xinhua County Committee, was arrested. It is said that tens of millions of yuan in cash were found in a coffin in his house (not officially confirmed). A few years ago, Xinhua County opened an office in Beijing, and I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the opening ceremony, and submitted a planning idea for promoting Xinhua tourism brand to Xie Wensheng, then secretary of the county party Committee. Xie gave it to his men without reading much, and there was no more. Xihe town, my hometown, spontaneously formed a furniture industry, and low-grade furniture was sold to more than half of China (rural market). However, no county government official has ever tried his best to support the construction of a large furniture base like his parents in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, and only set up checkpoints on transportation routes, charging by piece. At present, Xihe's furniture industry has set out in the west. The counterfeit money in Meng Gong Town (mainly silver coins, ancient coins and ancient coins) is the first one in craftworld, which also surprised the national coinage experts. However, the government never thought of introducing its "talents and technology" into the formal handicraft industry, and watched it go into the abyss of crime and be wiped out by the order of the Ministry of Public Security. People often wonder why the state gives Xinhua hundreds of millions of yuan in poverty alleviation funds every year, but the development of Xinhua has never improved. After reading this article, you will understand everything. The full text of this article is reproduced from the May 2008 issue of Caijing magazine. The original title is "A National Poverty-stricken County 14" and the author is Ouyang Hongliang.

It is nearly May, and it is the "spring shortage". Yang Ronghua, who is in his fifties, is sitting alone in front of a shabby hut, doing nothing and being at a loss.

Yang Ronghua is a farmer in Jinlong Village, Shuiche Town, Xinhua County, Hunan Province. Poverty has been with him since birth. He hasn't eaten meat for more than half a year, and his staple food is "eight dishes" every day. The so-called "Moba dish" is to add salt to vegetables without oil and then mash them for the next meal. In winter, he lacks warm cotton-padded clothes; Spring came as scheduled, avoiding the pain of freezing, but the house that leaked rain everywhere became his biggest trouble.

In Jinlong Village, there are more than 20 "single poor households" like Yang Ronghua. There are many peaks and mountains here, and the mountain roads are rugged. It takes more than half a day to go to the town government. Not only the economy is backward, but also the information is blocked. Yang Ronghua has never read a book, hardly watched TV or understood the Internet-but he knows that Xinhua County is a "national poverty-stricken county".

Indeed, he also knows that 1994, Xinhua County was identified as a poverty-stricken county supported by the state. Since then, various poverty alleviation funds have poured in. According to the statistics of Xinhua County Finance Bureau, as of 2006, the county has received 537 million yuan of special poverty alleviation funds. Together with the "counterpart poverty alleviation" funds obtained by various departments of the county government, the total amount exceeds 654.38 billion yuan.

However, the 14 support from the central and local governments has not changed the overall poverty situation in Xinhua County. So far, there are still 78,000 people living in extreme poverty in this county, and there is no industrial enterprise with an output value of over 100 million yuan. The per capita GDP is less than a quarter of the national average, the per capita net income of farmers is less than half of the national average, and the county and township debts are as high as 654.38+362 million yuan. Two-thirds of the annual fiscal expenditure is subsidized by the higher authorities.

Xinhua County is the epitome of 596 poverty-stricken counties in China. The course of poverty alleviation in Xinhua County 14 reflects the inefficiency and many problems of administrative poverty alleviation, prompting people to reflect on the concept and model of poverty alleviation.

Prosperity and poverty

At the end of June, 5438 +2008 10, at the end of the lunar calendar, the freezing rain and snow disaster hit Xinhua county. A political "earthquake" attacked Xinhua at the same time: Xie Wensheng, member of the Standing Committee of Loudi Municipal Committee and former secretary of Xinhua County, was "double-regulated" by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection for alleged economic problems, and was immediately arrested by the procuratorate and placed on file for investigation. Not long ago, Chen Chengnan, former director of the county finance bureau, was also put on file for investigation. It is alleged that Chen is suspected of misappropriating poverty alleviation funds to "buy tickets" for relatives.

The fall of the two men brought panic to the officialdom of Xinhua County, and also attracted attention to the whereabouts of the largest resource poverty alleviation fund in Xinhua County. With the deepening of relevant investigations, the problem of chaotic use of poverty alleviation funds in Xinhua County has gradually surfaced, and the current investment system for poverty alleviation has been questioned.

Xinhua County, located in the west of central Hunan Province, was under the jurisdiction of the central government before the Song Dynasty. It was named "Xinhua" because it is "Wang Hua's New World". After 1949, the Lengshuijiang Industrial Zone under Xinhua County was set up independently, and its financial resources were greatly reduced; Later, due to the construction of Zhexi Reservoir, the county's 6.5438+0.65 million mu of fertile land was flooded. Coupled with the subsequent deforestation, Xinhua County was devastated.

Xinhua County, with a population of 1.3 million, is the largest population county in Hunan Province and a typical agricultural county, in which the agricultural population accounts for nearly 90%. According to the county statistical bulletin, the per capita net income of rural residents in Xinhua County in 2005 was only 1536 yuan, which was 47% of the national average in that year. 14 poverty alleviation has not turned Xinhua county into a pillar industry, nor has it established a sustainable and effective poverty alleviation mechanism. In some poor mountainous areas, farmers still depend on the weather for food, failing to get rid of the strange circle of "getting rid of poverty in good years and returning to poverty in bad years".

However, compared with the overall poverty in the county, Xinhua County is full of luxury. At the beginning of 2008, Caijing reporter saw in an interview with Xinhua County that the newly-built county building and square were quite magnificent, and the official vehicles in front of county-level organs were luxurious, ranging from Guangben to Toyota to Buick. The car led by the county poverty alleviation office is also worth more than 200 thousand.

An official of Xinhua county government told reporters that almost all the top leaders of county-level units have two or three properties and several commercial shops in the county.

With the completion of the new county government building, the development of the new city is in full swing. Xinhua county leaders are very proud of this. According to local leaders, Xinhua City will double in the future. According to an insider, the development of the new urban area is mainly driven by various government departments, the county government bureaus are moving eastward, and the new office buildings are becoming more and more magnificent.

The huge contrast between urban and rural areas in Xinhua County is a torture of the "development-oriented poverty alleviation" policy: where have the huge poverty alleviation funds been used? How is the performance?

Fight for the "poverty hat"

Xinhua County 1994 has become a key county for national poverty alleviation.

From 65438 to 0986, in order to eliminate poverty, China municipal government decided to invest a certain amount of financial funds every year, supplemented by discount loans from state-owned banks, giving priority to supporting the poorest 33/kloc-0 counties in China, solving their financial difficulties and helping these poor counties develop. At the same time, the provinces have also identified corresponding key poverty alleviation counties at the provincial level and invested corresponding funds.

At that time, the counties and cities around Xinhua County were striving to be "well-off counties" and "top 100 counties", but Xinhua County decided to strive to be "national poverty-stricken counties" because of its different leadership interests at that time. To this end, the county set up a poverty alleviation office in 1988 to take charge of this work, and Yang Guowu became the first director of the poverty alleviation office.

Yang Guowu, 73, who has retired, told Caijing that to become a "national poverty-stricken county", one must first become a "provincial poverty-stricken county". In order to collect information, after he became the director of the Poverty Alleviation Office, he went to the countryside to investigate in sandals, and wrote six or seven hundred thousand words of research materials to reflect the poverty situation in Xinhua County to his superiors.

Where there is a will, there is a way. 1989, Xinhua county was designated as the key county for poverty alleviation and development in Hunan province, and Yang Guowu was also called "the number one hero". The insider told Caijing reporter that the county magistrate at that time said excitedly: "Xinhua County has risen from a fifth-class citizen to a fourth-class citizen, and will continue to be a third-class citizen and a second-class citizen in the future."

The next step is to strive for "national poverty-stricken counties". Xinhua county has made great efforts. First of all, the county authorities found that the Red Seven Army passed Xinhua during the Long March, so they used it to declare "revolutionary old districts and counties" and increased their bargaining chips for "national poverty-stricken counties".

Second, go online. According to Yang Guowu's memory, he once heard that a leader of the leading group for poverty alleviation in the State Council had a meeting in Huaihua, Hunan Province. He immediately drove hundreds of kilometers with Xinhua County leaders on a snowy night, arrived at 4 am, climbed over the iron gate of the leader's residence, and his cotton-padded clothes were cut. He was wearing a cotton-padded coat, revealing cotton wool to report, and the leader was very moved.

Third, build momentum through the media. 1993, through the efforts of Xinhua county, a central-level media issued the internal reference "More than 500,000 farmers in Xinhua county are not allowed to eat enough and wear warm clothes", which was instructed by the central government and the State Council at that time. This internal reference and leadership instructions are the key factors for Xinhua County to become a "national poverty-stricken county". According to the reporter's understanding, Xinhua County immediately received support from all sides after the instructions of senior leaders. At that time, the deputy governor in charge of Hunan Province made a special trip to Xinhua County to work on the spot, bringing a total of hundreds of millions of yuan of "real money" to Xinhua County.

From 65438 to 0994, the State Council decided to increase the number of poverty-stricken counties designated by the state to 592. At this time, most grassroots leaders have also discovered that "national poverty-stricken counties" mean free subsidies from the central and local governments, and there are many preferential policies. For a time, the qualification of "national poverty-stricken counties" became a scarce resource and the competition was fierce. Because of doing "homework" before, Xinhua County seized the opportunity to "stand out" and wished to become a "national poverty-stricken county".

Yang Guowu recalled to Caijing reporter: "I was waiting for news in Beijing at that time. 65438+ At 0 o'clock in the middle of the night, I learned the good news from the home of a director of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office. After running in the snow for more than an hour, I went back to the hotel in the basement and told the deputy magistrate who lived together in Beijing. We are both happy and excited, crying our heads off. "

According to the requirements of the central authorities, every "poverty-stricken county" should have a central ministry to help the poor. At that time, 592 poverty-stricken counties all wanted to compete for the "counterpart poverty alleviation" of the Ministry of Finance. In the fierce competition, Xinhua County finally won and won the "counterpart poverty alleviation" by the Ministry of Finance for seven years.

Yang Guowu told Caijing that he was once called an "old beggar" by a familiar director of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office. However, Yang Guowu is not unhappy. He explained that he didn't think it was ironic that the other party used such wording, but that it contained an affirmation of his persistence in his work.

After retirement, Yang Guowu was not idle. He also went to Beijing from time to time and went to the central ministries and commissions, and won seven hats for Xinhua County, such as "National Key County for Soil and Water Conservation", "National Key County for Ecological Construction" and "National Pilot County for Comprehensive Agricultural Development". Yang Guowu said: "Each hat means at least several million yuan."

Poverty alleviation funds become "Tang monk meat"

Xinhua County planted a "cash cow" in the name of a national poverty-stricken county. Since 14, Xinhua county has received financial poverty alleviation funds and policy support funds of state-level poverty-stricken counties totaling more than one billion yuan.

According to the current poverty alleviation policy, there are two main types of poverty alleviation funds provided by the central government to "state-designated poverty-stricken counties": one is the "work-for-relief" funds held by the National Development and Reform Commission, which are mainly used for road construction, water conservancy facilities, drinking water for people and livestock, and small watershed management in poverty-stricken areas to improve the production and living conditions of poor people; The other is the development fund of "Poverty Alleviation Office Plan and Financial Department Allocation", which is allocated by the financial department and the poverty alleviation department after consultation, focusing on the development of planting, aquaculture and poverty alleviation through science and technology.

After Xinhua County becomes a "national poverty-stricken county", in addition to the central and provincial financial poverty alleviation funds held by the county poverty alleviation office and the work-for-work relief office, it can also obtain discount loans for poverty alleviation. Agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, transportation, education, finance and other departments in the county can get all kinds of poverty alleviation funds.

According to Yang Guowu, these poverty alleviation funds have various names, ranging from tens of millions to tens of thousands of yuan.

These financial poverty alleviation funds are usually mastered, approved, implemented and accepted by various government departments. However, due to the lack of supervision from the poor and the public, and the lack of independent institutions to evaluate the performance of poverty alleviation, these funds are more likely to be wasted, even squeezed or misappropriated.

When interviewed by Caijing reporter in Xinhua County, he was informed of a large number of cases of inefficient use of poverty alleviation funds. For example, from 1996 to 1998, Xinhua County received poverty alleviation funds as high as 36 million yuan. After these funds arrived at the county poverty alleviation office, mountain development office, forestry bureau and other departments in batches, each department went its own way and bought all kinds of fruit seedlings, most of which did not survive, and those that survived did not have results. Since 14, despite the key support from the central and provincial levels, Xinhua County has not found a slightly large-scale economic forest and fruit forest, and even common fruits such as oranges in southern mountainous areas have to be imported from other places. Xinhua county is known as the base of medicinal materials, with a scale of 6,543.8+10,000 mu, but actually less than 20,000 mu.

Poverty alleviation skills training is another example. According to the reporter's understanding, Xinhua County receives more than 1 10,000 yuan in skills training fees for poor farmers every year. However, the reporter's investigation found that none of the five designated poverty alleviation training schools in the county has the qualification of independent legal person and is not qualified to engage in labor skills training for more than three years.

In an interview with Meishan Vocational School in this county, the reporter saw that the school rented three rooms on the first floor of the county agricultural machinery school, and the signs of "practice operation room", "restaurant" and "office" were hung respectively. Among them, the practice room is less than 30 square meters, and there are ten rusty stoves on the simple cement stove. It is hard to imagine that 400 chefs have been "trained" here in the past two years. However, it is such a humble school that the annual poverty alleviation training fund is as high as 600,000 yuan.

In Baiyun Village, Langtang Town, Xinhua County, villagers told reporters that in 2007, the Langtang Town Government applied for 40,000 yuan of water reform project funds in the name of the village, but there was no project in the village at all. In Chang Lin Village, Tianmen Township, the superior allocated 80,000 yuan for drinking water for people and animals. The only achievement is that the brothers of the village party secretary built a small water tower.

The reporter's investigation also found that some poverty alleviation discount loans were not really used for poverty alleviation projects.

The "Wuxi Paper Mill Project" in Xinhua County is one of many similar projects. 1995, a farmer in Chaxi Town of this county applied for the construction of "Wuxi Paper Mill". Under the instructions of the then county party secretary, he got a loan of 6.5438+0.2 million yuan. But later, the whereabouts of this person was unknown, there was no factory at all, and the whereabouts of120,000 yuan were unknown.

According to a leader of Xinhua County Finance Bureau, from 1994 to 1998, Xinhua County issued more than 50 million yuan of poverty alleviation loans, and only a few million yuan were recovered at maturity. A person from Xinhua County Agricultural Bank said that since 2000, due to the alarming non-performing rate of poverty alleviation loans in the county, Xinhua County Agricultural Bank rarely issued poverty alleviation loans.

In Xinhua County, financial poverty alleviation funds have also become a tool for those in power to seek rent. Due to the opaque source and use of poverty alleviation funds, a considerable number of projects need leadership approval to get money. In the layer-by-layer examination and approval, various poverty alleviation funds are often deducted layer by layer.

According to a village party secretary in Jinfeng Township, Xinhua County who asked not to be named, one of the main tasks of the village party secretary is to "run the project". Will not "run", no matter how poor you are, you will not get poverty alleviation projects. For hard-won project funds, the rebate to the competent authorities is at least 20%, and some are as high as 50%. This money will also be given to towns and villages, and there is little left in the village.

For a long time, "running projects and competing for funds" is a routine work in towns and villages of Xinhua County, and "pre-project funds" is a cost that must be paid. According to the verification of the county audit department, in Shichongkou Town, Xinhua County, which is relatively poor, the invoice for tobacco, alcohol and catering in 2007 was more than one million yuan, including 800,000 yuan for "running the project".

Jinfeng Township, with a population of only10.6 million, received catering invoices as high as10.3 million yuan from 5438+0 in 2006 to 2003. 1996, Chen, then the director of the county poverty alleviation office, provided a guarantee for the private enterprise Shixin Antimony Factory in the name of the poverty alleviation office, and borrowed a discount loan for poverty alleviation with the county poverty alleviation training building as collateral 1 10,000 yuan. Since the loan has not been returned, in May 2003, Xinhua County Court ruled that the county poverty alleviation office should bear joint and several liability, and awarded the creditor's rights of the poverty alleviation training building and the poverty alleviation office to the county agricultural bank of China of 65,438+10,000 yuan.

What's more, poverty alleviation funds are also used for "bribery elections". According to relevant sources of the Loudi Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Chen Chengnan, the former financial director of Xinhua County, was suspected of misappropriating poverty alleviation funds and "buying tickets" for his brother-in-law Duan Zhiting.

On February 5, 2003, Chen Chengnan paid a bribe of 5,000 yuan to three county people's congress deputies in Tunxi Village, Xixi Village and Rile Village of Shuiche Town, hoping that they would support Duan Zhiting in running for deputy county magistrate. This is also the fuse of Chen Chengnan's investigation.

Is a newcomer, please reprint and top, save for one month! There are many "imperial scholars" on the Internet who refute this view. This is the characteristic and shameless of our new politics! Please all new villagers stand up! Maybe we can't change anything, but we can definitely express our strength! Strongly support the country to cancel the "laurel" of Xinhua poverty-stricken counties! We can't get benefits, and we can't support a group of corrupt officials and show off to our people!