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Fan Wuxi's lobbying activities have achieved very good results, and a consensus has been formed in the old leadership circle headed by Fei Lao, saying that he wants to support Fan Heng's re-election, and the position of the Standing Committee must be retained.

Boss Zhu believes that Fan Heng has made great contributions in recent years, and his achievements are obvious to all, coupled with the fact that he is just over 60 years old, he is relatively young, and he should continue to play an important role in the leadership position.

As for the attitude of the No. 1 leader, it is a bit ambiguous, as a key figure in the handover of the old and the new, the No. 1 leader obviously cannot easily state his position, otherwise it is easy to cause unpredictable consequences to the current situation, but he also said to Fan Wuxian that he always wants Comrade Fan Heng to have a better arrangement.

Although Fan Wuxian didn't get the answer he wanted, after a comprehensive analysis, it can basically be concluded that his father's re-election has been ironclad, and there are no more doubts.

After solving this matter, Fan Wuxi felt very comfortable in his heart, and there was good news from the company.

Before the National Day, the computer design department of Fan's Investment Group launched a supercomputer with a measured computing speed of more than trillions per second, which passed the appraisal of the expert group headed by the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This supercomputer, which has the core technology of independent intellectual property rights, has reached the tenth place in the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers currently announced, and the top nine computers are all made in Japan and the United States.

This computer is designed by the main components produced by Fan's Investment Group, with a total length of 10 meters, including 15 cabinets, 256 computer function nodes, 526 high-performance super processors, its total memory capacity has reached 512GB, and the total hard disk space of the system is 12TB, which has the advantages of easy use, easy management, easy deployment, scalability, high availability, good maintenance, and high performance-to-price ratio.

In the process of research and development, Fan's Investment Group has mastered a large number of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights, of which there are as many as 23 authorized invention patents.

The supercomputer can run the international standard Linpack benchmark program HPL, and use 512 processors to solve 153,600 linear equations, with a measured performance of 1.8 trillion floating-point operations per second. It has been used to run a number of large-scale scientific and engineering computing applications, such as petroleum seismic data processing, reservoir simulation, meteorological forecasting, drug molecular design, and fluid mechanics, and has achieved satisfactory results.

Experts generally believe that this supercomputer has reached the advanced level of similar products in the world as a whole, and some technologies such as fleet management system, fleet monitoring system, fleet system performance optimization technology and fleet infrastructure have reached the leading level of similar products in the world.

Through the design and manufacture of this supercomputer, the strength of the chip R&D department and the overall design department of Fan's Investment Group has been rapidly improved, and it can finally be among the top chip manufacturers in the world.

Fan Wuxian is quite satisfied that his company's technical personnel can achieve such results, so in addition to rewarding meritorious personnel, he also invested more research and development funds in the laboratory to support his laboratory to go further in this regard.

When Fan Wuxian visited Boss Zhu, Boss Zhu was having a headache over tax reform.

Today, the tax rebates in general transfer payments, including value-added tax and consumption tax, personal income tax and corporate income tax base returns, are received more by the richer provinces, less subsidies are received by the poorer regions, and public services in backward areas still lack financial support.

However, the tax refund itself is a kind of compensation for the interests of the local government by changing the financial management system of the central government. Therefore, the impact of this compensation mechanism on backward regions should not be overemphasized, and the proportion of this component is decreasing as the total amount of central transfer payments increases.

The big problem in China is that there are relatively few general transfer payments, and a large number of them are special transfer payments. Recently, there have been many adjustments, if tax returns are not counted, the proportion of general transfer payments in all central transfer payments is increasing, and the management of special transfer payments is even more irregular and arbitrary, so there has been a phenomenon of running money in the department that has been criticized in recent years.

In the special transfer payment, the current operation is often problematic, if it is a 20 million project, the local government generally has to report 50 million or more, why? This is because many projects now require local matching funds, and some remote local governments feel very troubled, do not have much fiscal revenue, and cannot come up with a certain proportion of matching funds.

What to do? Considering that the central government will cut a part of the budget based on local bargaining, plus a dotting fee, it is called rent-seeking cost in economics. And if all provinces and municipalities apply to the ministries and commissions with approval authority, the rent-seeking fees will accumulate to be very considerable, which is game theory.

For a large country like China, to complete the transformation of governance, its inherent requirement is the autonomy of local governments on the basis of decentralization, and the fiscal and taxation system is the core of the entire governance mechanism, and the current urbanization process in China is also forcing the transformation of the entire tax base, local governments must have their own stable sources of income to support administrative expenditures, economic infrastructure and public goods supply, but also to turn to the expenditure structure based on public finance.

The existing tax-sharing system is far from being able to meet the inherent requirements of China's political transformation at the current stage of economic and social development.

Boss Zhu said to Fan Wuji, "There are four main problems in China's current financial system, all of which are very tricky. ”

The four problems he mentioned are: First, the legislative power of taxes and fees is highly centralized. China's legislative power over taxation is highly concentrated in the central government, and it cannot fully arouse the enthusiasm of local governments in conserving tax sources. Moreover, the legislative power of taxation is often concentrated in the hands of the government, and decisions are made and implemented through decisions, notices, and regulations, and the role of the National People's Congress and local people's congresses is limited, and the latter two are also currently problematic in their own personnel structure. The Budget Law delegates the decision-making power of the financial management system to the State Council at one time, which is equivalent to the financial power of a family, which is completely handed over to the housekeeper or nanny, or the financial power of a company is transferred from the board of directors to the general manager.

Second, China is not a legally decentralized state, and all the financial arrangements and adjustments of powers between the central and local governments so far have been the result of negotiations and compromises between the central and local governments. Due to its political and administrative authority, the central government often has the main initiative and decision-making power over the division of administrative and financial powers, so it lacks internal stability and legal security.

Third, the current local tax system is not perfect, and the structure of the local tax system is unreasonable. There is a lack of local subject taxes. The scale of revenue of individual local taxes and their proportion in the overall tax revenue are relatively small, resulting in small and unstable local financial resources, and a high degree of dependence on extra-budgetary and extra-institutional funds, land finance, and liabilities.

Fourth, in terms of fiscal expenditure, the efficiency is still very low. Governments at all levels generally focus on revenue and ignore spending efficiency. The lack of a transparent and constitutionally binding public finance budget system has resulted in taxpayers and the media, as the fourth power sector, unable to effectively monitor government expenditures, and taxpayers do not pay taxes commensurate with the public services they enjoy.

Although Fan Wuxian is not very clear about the domestic tax system, he once studied the affairs of the United States, so he said to Boss Zhu, "In mature and competitive federal countries, such as the United States, first demarcate the boundary between the market and the government, and then demarcate the powers of governments at all levels according to the principle of subsidiarity, and then determine the expenditure responsibilities and expenditure needs according to the powers of governments at all levels, and finally determine the revenue needs." The source of the right to income is the right to affairs, the right to spend, and the need to spend, all of which are conferred by the citizens of the jurisdiction and arranged within the constitutional framework. The so-called principle of subsidiarity refers to the fact that all matters that individuals and the market can handle are left to their own disposal; The functions of the government are left to the government at the lowest necessary level, with the support of the higher level of government. Moreover, before the higher-level government takes over or intervenes, it must also consider whether it can really solve the problem better. So the United States is a little bit different from us. ”

Obviously, in the reform of the tax structure itself, local governments must have their own stable financial resources, which is also the basis of local government autonomy itself. For example, according to the experience of the United States, the general outline of the pillars of the three pole government sources is that personal income tax and payroll tax (similar to social security tax) belong to the federal (central); Sales tax and corporate income tax are returned to the state (equivalent to the provincial level in China); Property tax goes to the local government (local government).

China has the largest number of levels of government in the world, with five levels of government (central, provincial, municipal, county, and township), which is one of the important reasons for the current confusion in the division of administrative and financial powers. The reform of the fiscal and taxation system needs to be accompanied by the reform of the administrative system, and in the medium and long term, it is obvious that China's administrative system will need to carry out a series of reforms.

"But these problems are no longer a headache for me, and when I take over next year, I can live my retirement life in a down-to-earth manner." When Boss Zhu talked about this, he also felt a little embarrassed.

Although he had presided over the daily work of the State Council for many years, he had only served as a serious premier for one term, and he did not carry out thorough economic and financial reform according to his own ideas, so that he left behind a lot of half-pulled projects, which is very regrettable.

It is conceivable that after the new leader comes up, his own set of work ideas may not be able to be continued, and some efforts may be considered to be abandoned halfway.

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