Although Patten is half-joking, there is some truth in what he said, if he really entered the county propaganda department, he would still be able to see the ** phenomenon of being an official? Can he still write an article exposing the criticism? Can he still report to his superiors without writing materials?

Not entering the Propaganda Department back then may have been a blessing for Niu Tiangou, otherwise, he might have suffered some kind of retaliation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Perhaps, "Misfortune and blessing lurk" was the teacher Geng who always squinted at the normal school back then - the old man Geng with a strange temper saved his life.

In real life, there are too many cases of retaliation against some people for reflecting and exposing the problems of cadres.

However, there is no if in reality, Niu Tiangou has no time to talk to him about hypothetical things now, he is concerned about the problem at hand, so he asked a little seriously: "You say...... Will the above issue of peasants' housing fees be investigated and dealt with to the end? ”

"Judging from the situation that the city sent people down to supervise, the municipal party committee should have made up its mind, and it is estimated that this time it will not only investigate to the end, but also investigate and deal with a number of relevant responsible persons, and the behavior of indiscriminate charging for building houses will be completely prohibited." Seeing that Niu Tiangou didn't have the heart to joke, Patten also became serious, thinking about it, "It's not ......."

"But what?" Seeing that Patten was slurring, Niu Tiangou couldn't help but ask a little nervously.

"But in this way, land management may be in a difficult situation for the time being." Chris Patten is not worried.

"Why?" The expression on Niu Tiangou's face stiffened slightly, and he seemed to flash a trace of unhappiness, "Could it be that stopping the indiscriminate collection of fees for peasants' house construction and reducing the burden on peasants will lead to chaos in land management?" ”

"That's not what I meant."

Seeing that Niu Tiangou seemed to be unhappy with what he heard, Patten quickly explained: "The life of farmers is already hard, and the income of agriculture is low. They must have a grudge against charging them indiscriminately, and this practice is indeed inappropriate. ”

"Yes, especially the village cadres also took the opportunity to collect any land compensation fees, and did the fees they collect really use to compensate for the land? Isn't it used to fill the gap in the village's indiscriminate spending? Also, the cultivated land reclamation fee collected by the land resources, they should invest this fee in land reclamation to ensure the area of cultivated land, but do they do this? Haven't you gotten these expenses on the wine table? Maybe it's 'reclaimed' into someone's pockets. You say, can the peasants be free from grievances? Niu Tiangou pouted.

After listening to Niu Tiangou quietly, Patten said: "Therefore, if we want to abolish the indiscriminate fees for peasants to build houses and reduce the burden on peasants, the broad masses of peasants will certainly enthusiastically support it, and this will undoubtedly be a great thing for stabilizing China's agricultural foundation." All I'm saying is that the current state of our land management is worrying. ”

"What's the current situation?" Niu Tiangou asked.

Patten glanced at Niu Tiangou and patiently explained: "First, most of China's huge land management team depends on fees to survive, and cutting off the source of fees will basically collapse the land management department.

"Due to historical reasons, our land management departments did not have a unified establishment from the very beginning, and all provinces, cities, counties, towns, and townships all arranged their own establishment of undertakings and set their own policies for collecting fees, thus forming a situation of 'collecting fees to support people' and creating a huge contingent of land management personnel who rely on fees to support themselves.

"Take our Jiangbei Province as an example, according to statistics, among the nearly 25,000 people in the land management system of Jiangbei Province, only nearly 18,000 people have been approved for establishment, and nearly 7,000 people have no establishment, accounting for nearly 28%; As for the township and township land and resources institutes, which are self-supporting institutions, less than 10 percent of the personnel are included in the financial budget, and the salaries and expenses of the rest of the personnel are all maintained by collecting fees for land and building houses.

In this way, the behavior of charging fees for building houses has been completely abolished, and most of the personnel's salaries and funds have been cut off, and everyone has no choice but to be laid off to find their own way out and find food on their own.

"Second, because the source of fees has been cut off, not only will the salaries of the managers be unable to be paid, but the funds will also be unsustainable, and the land management department will not be able to carry out its work normally.

"According to estimates, to handle the registration and issuance of a farmer's land for building a house, it is necessary to go to the site many times to survey and demarcate the boundary, determine the land ownership and area, and judge whether it conforms to the plan, and the working cost of each household is generally about 200 yuan, and if each household only charges 15 yuan for the cost of the "land certificate" and the "house ownership registration certificate", not only can not protect the capital, but the land management department will also have to post it upside down.

"In this way, the grassroots land management departments will simply not collect any money, not a single certificate, and stop carrying out management work.

"Third, because the land management department has stopped its management work, the peasants will indiscriminately occupy and build indiscriminately, resulting in a serious phenomenon of illegal occupation of cultivated land.

"The land management department does not care, and no longer goes to the village, as long as the peasants pay the cost of the certificate, they can build houses at will, and the village does not intervene, and the management departments do not go through the building procedures, which will not only lead to the illegal occupation of farmland by the peasants, but also the construction of houses by all peasants will be illegal.

According to the incomplete statistics of the Jiangnan Provincial Department of Land and Resources, in recent years, there have been 100,000 rural households building houses in Jiangnan Province, covering an area of 20,000 mu.

"I'm worried that if the fees for farmers to build houses are abolished, there will be this kind of loss of control over land management in our province."

Seeing that Patten said this, as if the abolition of fees for peasants' house construction would lead to the result of losing control of land management, Niu Tiangou suddenly felt a little unhappy, flattened his mouth and retorted: "Do you think that you can effectively manage the land by indiscriminately charging fees for peasants' house construction?" Wrong!

"Indiscriminate collection of fees can only increase the burden of building houses on the majority of peasants, so that many poor peasants who cannot afford to pay the fees cannot afford to build houses, while those few who get rich first and those who have the money to run small factories and small enterprises, they have the money to pay fees, as long as they stuff enough money into the corrupt officials in the villages and townships, no matter how they illegally occupy farmland, they can get approval, resulting in a large amount of fertile land being occupied and destroyed, and land management is still out of control!" Niu Tiangou seemed to be getting angrier and angrier the more he talked.

"The situations you mentioned do exist, but they are a minority after all, and once the building fees are abolished, the phenomenon of illegal occupation of land will bloom everywhere." Patten argued.

"Then there is no way to abolish the indiscriminate fees for peasants to build houses, and at the same time allow the land management department to really play a management role?" Niu Tiangou saw that he had a little truth in what he said, hesitated for a moment, and asked.

Patten thought for a moment and replied, "Not yet." However, the land authorities are working to explore ways to reform. ”

"So how do you think reform can achieve the 'best of both worlds'?" Niu Dehua couldn't help but ask.

Patten pondered for a while before he said: "I think we should start from two main aspects.

"First, further streamline the organization and streamline the ranks.

"In accordance with the responsibilities and tasks of land and resources management, and in accordance with the principle of regional natural conditions and adapting measures to local conditions, grass-roots land and resources management offices shall be set up according to regional classifications, and the personnel establishment of each institute shall be scientifically and rationally approved.

"Taking Jiangbei Province as an example, if the reform is in place, the land management system will have about 10,000 people, which can reduce the number of personnel by half.

"Second, ensure the salaries and funds of these 10,000 or so personnel.

"The salaries and expenses of the personnel of the land management system, including the township and township land management offices, should be included in the financial budget, and the central and provincial finances should increase the intensity of transfer payments to the land departments of cities and counties according to the financial conditions of each locality, so as to ensure the normal operation of the work of the land management departments.

"In this way, the behavior of indiscriminately charging peasants for building houses may be effectively eradicated, and land management may be carried out effectively."

"There may be some truth in what you said, and it may also alleviate the behavior of indiscriminately charging farmers for housing to a certain extent." Seeing that what he said was similar to what Director Wan meant, Niu Tiangou nodded approvingly, but said again, "But in my opinion, this is a palliative treatment rather than a cure." ”

Niu Tiangou then retorted: "Reducing the number of personnel by half, with sufficient salaries and funds, will it be possible to ensure that the land management personnel will not be charged indiscriminately?" Will they be able to guarantee that they will not sell the peasants' land? Let me ask you, those corrupt officials illegally grant land to real estate developers and small and medium-sized enterprises and then take bribes on a large scale, and then these real estate developers and small and medium-sized enterprises pass on these bribes to others, is this a disguised indiscriminate charge to the whole people? Do they have no wages and no money? No, the root lies in the greed in their hearts, the people's hearts are not enough, the east is not bright and the west is bright, and they are all doing everything possible to make more money from the peasants' land.

"So, I think that even if the reduction of half of the land management personnel and the full payment of their salaries and expenses temporarily curbs them from charging the peasants, they will definitely charge the whole people in disguise. The worries of land management, to paraphrase a sentence in "The Story of Yueyang Tower", are: Worry about indiscriminate collection from farmers, and worry about indiscriminate collection from farmers, but when will you be happy? It must be said: Eradicate the greed in the hearts of the land management officials......"

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After eating this meal for more than 2 hours, Niu Tiangou was in a good mood.

After all, the two things he reflected are being investigated and dealt with, which shows that although there are many corrupt officials like Director Wu in our country, there are many phenomena, but there are also many good officials, and there are many people who can do things for the people, otherwise there would be no hope for our country for a long time.

After the meal, he left mobile phone numbers with Patten and asked Niu Dehua to pay attention to Zhao Xiaobao's case, Niu Tiangou broke up with the two.