Chapter 1265: Stop Pretending to Be Pitiful

Chapter 1265: Stop pretending to be pitiful

But even though Gan Xiaoying thinks the car is not very good, she is driving a white Hyundai now. A small car worth more than 100,000 yuan is economical and fuel-efficient. Although it is not very prestigious to drive it out, it is already a good means of transportation for the family to go to and from work.

However, when she took the key handed to her by Zhao Jianhui, she couldn't help but be a little stunned. Geely Golden Eagle? Although the appearance of this car is good, the popularity of this brand is actually a little too low, right? Besides, it is said that this car has no major problems, but many minor problems. What kind of person is this person? He actually drives such a car? Either stingy or pretending to be poor, do you have to?

Back to the back of the desk, Zhao Jianhui processed several documents, and just signed a "read" on them. Looking at the watch, it was time to get off work. Zhao Jianhui couldn't help shaking his head. The work of the Political and Legal Committee is still very leisurely, which is not comparable to the governor and mayor.

For some cases, no one in the provinces and cities below wanted to report them. Those that could be suppressed were handled by the local governments. Those that could not be suppressed were reported by the local governments only because some people had exposed their past through the channels of petitioning higher up.

In this regard, local governments have at least three ways to "buy peace with money". One is to send people to intercept petitions in Beijing. For a long time, this work has been centered on the Beijing Office, and local governments and courts have spent manpower and material resources to stay in Beijing. Most petitioners who come to Beijing to petition are sent home by the Beijing Office.

Most young male staff members of grassroots government offices, public security bureaus and courts have to take turns to stay in Beijing, and their main task is to intercept petitions in the petition offices of major government offices.

However, the Beijing Office caused chaos in the management and administrative order of the capital, leading to its abolition by the central government. So far, except for 50 provincial governments and special economic zone governments and 296 prefecture-level governments that still retain offices in Beijing, all regions and departments have abolished a total of 625 offices in Beijing.

The closure of the Beijing Office has obviously increased the cost of local governments sending people to intercept and receive petitioners, making the second method more desirable: outsourcing the interception of petitioners to security companies. Take Dingyuan Company as an example. It has signed relevant interception cooperation agreements with relevant departments of 19 provincial governments.

Security companies intercept, detain and repatriate petitioners for local governments. Each project has clear fee details, including: stabilization fee of 200 to 400 yuan per person, and compulsory fee of 200 to 400 yuan per person. The details of escort fees are different according to different means of transportation, escort personnel and distance.

Tu Xiong's security company was also approached by local governments to discuss this kind of business. At that time, Tu Xiong was also jealous, but Zhao Jianhui tried to stop him from developing this business. Later, Dingyuan Company suffered from the disease, and Tu Xiong was convinced to admire Zhao Jianhui's foresight.

Even if the interception fails, the petitioners have already been affected and registered with the relevant departments, then the local government needs to help the third way: "cancellation".

After the petitioners appeal to the higher authorities, the petition department will keep a record of the petition, which is called "numbering". Public data shows that in 2009, the number of petitioners to Beijing in Hebei Province ranked first in the country, reaching 15,700 people, Zhongyuan Province ranked second with 5,700 people, and Liaodong Province ranked third.

However, after 2009, the relevant departments changed the rules and no longer reported normal petitions, but only reported the number of "abnormal petitions". A national ranking was conducted every month and sent to provincial party committees and governments.

These rankings are linked to the assessment of local governments, but as long as they spend money to get rid of them, they will not affect their political achievements.

Including stationing in Beijing, outsourcing and "cancelling numbers", the fear of local governments for petitions has spawned a huge stability maintenance "market", where various rent seekers, brokers, and thugs seek food. Whether it is the Beijing Office, security companies, or officials of the Petition Bureau, they all share the benefits in this rent-seeking field, maintaining and expanding the "stability maintenance" pie. As this "market" expands, even if it has no direct connection with "maintaining stability", it can be used as a pretext for "rent-seeking".

The gray market of intercepting visits, outsourcing and canceling registrations exists mainly because of the stability maintenance system itself. Take petitions as an example. In the actual operation of petitions, petitions are either "intercepted" or "cancelled", and the "lower-level information transmission" function that petitions should have is almost ineffective. However, from the source of institutional design, due to the delicate relationship between the central and local governments, its positioning itself contains a paradox.

According to Ying Xing, dean of the School of Social Sciences at China University of Political Science and Law, the passage of the "Provisional Regulations on Petitions of Party and Government Organs (Draft)" in 1982 marked a turning point in the petition system: unlike the mass mobilization and class struggle in the Mao era, the petition system in the new era serves the overall situation of economic construction and stability and unity.

In Ying Xing's view, the shift from mass mobilization and class struggle to economic construction and stability and unity will inevitably lead to the issue of "maintaining stability". Since many local governments are dominated by economic construction, they are not representatives of public interests on issues such as farmers' burdens, land disputes, layoffs, and housing demolition compensation, but rather as subjects with their own interests, and are bound to have a tendency to directly conflict with the interests of the parties involved.

At the same time, with the disintegration of the people's communes and the advancement of state-owned enterprise reform, the control capacity of grassroots units has weakened, and the ability and space for urban and rural residents to seek self-interest expression has increased day by day. More importantly, with the progress of reform and opening up, the awareness of citizens' rights has increased, and the previous administrative means seem to be ineffective.

Ying Xing believes that on the one hand, petitions highlight the order demands for stability and unity and require that conflicts be kept at the grassroots level. On the other hand, as one of the central government’s means of restricting grassroots governments, they encourage petitioners to “resist according to law” in certain circumstances.

The conflict between these two goals puts petitions in an unjustifiable paradox: on the one hand, the central government hopes to have a mass line to supervise local governments, so it insists on the petition system; on the other hand, it does not want to affect the work of the central government, so Local governments are required to strictly control petitions and nip "instability factors in the bud" and digest them at the grassroots level. Under this idea of ​​focusing on "blocking" and not expanding the channels for sorting out, once unstable events such as collective petitions occur, local governments can only resort to extraordinary measures.

Due to the lack of procedural and legal effectiveness, the petition system cannot effectively end conflicts and disputes; and the underlying reason behind this is the arbitrariness of power. At the same time, the mechanism for terminating conflicts in the judicial process dominated by power is also weak.

The “stability maintenance” system is adapted to the problems faced by the country during its transition period and expands as social conflicts intensify. To break the vicious circle of stability that "the more stability is maintained, the more unstable it becomes", as Professor Sun from Tsinghua University pointed out, it is necessary to transform government functions and establish a limited government; improve the legal mechanism to resolve social contradictions and conflicts; and establish a balance of interests under market economy conditions. mechanism; promote the development of civil organizations.

The most important ones can be summarized in two words: "rule of law". Governing the country in accordance with the law and building a socialist country under the rule of law is the direction of political system reform proposed in the report of the 15th National Congress of the CPC Central Committee. On March 10, 2011, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress announced that a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics has been formed.

However, the pace of reform of the political system, especially the reform of the judicial system, still needs to be accelerated. If we want real social stability, we must first promote the reform of the judicial system. A judiciary that is fair, efficient, credible, and capable of restraining public power is a "pressure reducing valve" for society. Promote the reform of the judicial system so that courts can truly independently exercise their powers in accordance with the law, and social conflicts can also be brought into the orbit of the rule of law.

Secondly, democracy should be gradually expanded. The people are the masters, and the citizens are the masters of the country. As big as the change of government or as small as the increase or decrease of water prices, if citizens hold the votes, participate in hearings, have the right to vote, and express their opinions in a reasonable manner, most of the unstable factors can naturally be eliminated.

Thirdly, the ruling party should change its thinking on governing and enhance its ability to govern. The experience of various countries around the world shows that social conflicts in modern society are not only inevitable, but also an inevitable phenomenon for the healthy functioning of society. In this regard, on the one hand, the government regulates its own laws and does not cross boundaries, does not break the law, and does not create unstable factors; on the other hand, it liberalizes civil organizations and cultivates civil society. Once a conflict occurs, there are independent courts to judge and independent non-governmental organizations. Mediation, natural stability and unity, social stability, and long-term peace and order.

With the formation of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, we have reason to expect that the law will not only become people's "shield", but also become a weapon for stabilizing society.

However, we don’t know how many years it will take to really reach this point. From Zhao Jianhui's perspective, this step was really difficult. It is not that the establishment of several systems is difficult, but the difficulty lies in the ideas of the people who implement the systems.

Now that my level has not reached that level, I can only get off work when it is time to get off work.

After packing his small bag, Zhao Jianhui went out with his bag. When he saw Gan Xiaoying also packing his things, he asked more: "Going home? How about eating together?"

"Okay, I happen to be fine." Gan Xiaoying replied simply. Zhao Jianhui couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking, why should I say this more often? It was just a kind word at first, but Gan Xiaoying really knew how to stick to it.

After walking out of the door of the office building, Zhao Jianhui met his driver named Wu Yucheng for the first time. The person named Xiao Wu in Zhang Caiping's mouth was actually in his thirties. As soon as he drove Zhao Jianhui's car into the parking lot, he saw Zhao Jianhui and Secretary Gan walking out of the office building, and ran over to ask Director Zhao whether to drive out in the Audi or the Geely.

Zhao Jianhui said to himself that since he invited the secretary, he couldn't neglect the driver. It was just a good time to try the driver's "skills". So he said with a smile: "Let's go out for a meal. You can drive any car and choose the place. Today I invite Secretary Gan and you..."

Gan Xiaoying couldn't help but glanced at her lips: "Boss, don't talk so pitifully, okay? You have entertainment expenses, just like you work like this, you can't finish the food no matter what..."