CCTV News:Yesterday (August 28th), the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced the investigation and punishment of mental problems in violation of the eight central regulations in July. A total of 5,434 problems were investigated and dealt with, and 8,185 people were criticized, educated, helped and dealt with, of which 5,626 were punished by party discipline and government affairs.
According to the latest data, in the first seven months of this year, the problem of illegal eating and drinking was still prominent in some places. Previously, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had published an article pointing out that "eating official letters" is one of the important manifestations of the current "four winds" problem. So what is "eating official letters" and what are its main manifestations?
According to the requirements of the "Regulations on the Administration of Domestic Official Reception of Party and Government Organs", if it is really necessary to receive a business trip, the dispatched unit shall send an official letter to the reception unit to inform the content, itinerary and personnel. The reimbursement voucher for reception expenses shall include financial bills, official letters from the sending unit and reception list. Official activities and visitors without official letters will not be received. It can be said that "no letter, no reception" and "no letter, no reimbursement" are the "hard levers" in official reception.
The so-called "eating official letters" is actually the "four winds" problem of using official letters to eat and drink illegally. Judging from the notified cases, there are various forms of "eating official letters". Some cadres in party member use blank official letters and false official letters to eat and drink illegally or take public funds for other expenses. For example, in June this year, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued the third batch of guiding cases for law enforcement. The first case is Yao, the party branch secretary and detachment leader of a comprehensive law enforcement detachment in a cultural market, asking for multiple "blank official letters" from foreign units, fictional reception matters and reimbursing the detachment. In April 2022, Yao was severely warned by the party, and the government record was punished, and the illegal income was refunded.
In addition to eating and drinking in "blank official letters", some units engage in "multiple meals in one letter", arrange multiple meals in one official reception, split the overspent meals, and "cut the peak and fill the valley" to be reimbursed under other reception letters. A few units still "don’t eat at the same level and eat at the lower level" and pass on the food and drink expenses to the subordinate units. For example, Wang Liansheng, the former head of the Safety Management Section of Wenling Education Bureau in Zhejiang Province, used his position to reimburse more than 27,000 yuan for official receptions and personal banquets without official letters and exceeding the standard in the name of a subordinate school in Wenling City. Wang Liansheng was "double-opened" because of other violations of discipline and law.
Since the beginning of this year, according to the deployment of the State Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have kept a close eye on the problems exposed by "eating official letters" and strengthened supervision and inspection to prevent the "four winds" from rebounding.
Judging from the investigation of various cases of "eating official letters", in some places, official letters are self-made and spontaneous by various units, and management is arbitrary, and there are phenomena of false opening, indiscriminate opening and disorderly opening; Some units exchange blank official letters and fill in the reimbursement independently when necessary; The problem of official reception procedures is more prominent.
Sun Dawei, Deputy Secretary General of China Integrity Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:"Eating official letters" reveals that there are still supervision blind spots and management loopholes in official reception work, and the relevant supporting systems are not precise enough and the system implementation is not strict enough, which leaves an opportunity for false reception, over-standard reception and invisible variation reception.
In essence, "eating official letters" is still a problem of eating and drinking illegally. The reason why these party member cadres who violate the rules and regulations are willing to empty their minds and eat and drink in the name of official reception is not only to satisfy their appetite, but some of them also hope to manage and maintain their "small circle" through dinner and take the opportunity to blend their interests.
Sun Dawei, Deputy Secretary General of China Integrity Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:The problems exposed by "eating official letters" are by no means trivial. Behind them, there are often problems of style and corruption, as well as problems of wind and corruption, wind and corruption, and wind and corruption. "Eating official letters" runs counter to the original intention of the establishment of the official letter reception system, and blatantly violates the specific requirements of rectifying and treating "four winds". It is a kind of face-lifting and intentional evasion of supervision.
In this regard, since the beginning of this year, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have strengthened supervision and inspection of the problem of "eating official letters" by consulting materials and on-the-spot inspection. The Supervision Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection keeps a close eye on the illegal eating and drinking problems such as issuing false official letters to each other and "helping to eat" and going to lower-level units. On the basis of unannounced visits, it improves the cooperation and cooperation mechanism with relevant departments and strengthens the supervision of official reception by digital means. Jiangxi, Hubei and other places have strengthened the online supervision of the reimbursement process of official reception expenses by promoting the establishment of a network supervision platform, and made efforts to break the illegal food and drink capital chain.
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