The negotiations between Secretary Yue Bingshan and Comrade Hong Zheng were not very smooth.

Although Secretary Yueshan listed what he learned and argued with reason, Comrade Hong Zheng refused to let go and the conditions were not significantly relaxed, which made Secretary Yueshan feel a lot of pressure.

"General Hong Ying, although the tax reform is currently in the trial stage, our Hedong Province has already shown many bad signs." Secretary Yueshan said to Comrade Hong Zheng, "The financial pressure is too high, and the salary of financial support personnel is almost released, such as medical care, education, government staff, etc. These people have net investments. You can't expect them to come out and make money by themselves? You can still hold on in a short period of time. If this is the case in the long run, the local finance will go bankrupt!"

What he said was not an alarmist statement, but a relatively accurate conclusion that Die Ye Kai said and analyzed the actual situation comprehensively.

In the past, the central government had a small fiscal revenue and the local government had a large fiscal revenue. Now, a tax-sharing system was put into use, and this situation suddenly turned upside down. The central government had a large fiscal revenue and a small local fiscal revenue.

But in this way, local enterprises can do a lot of things. Now they are short of financial resources and cannot do it. The central government has a lot of extra money in their hands, and they don’t even know how to spend it.

The direct consequence of such changes is that the central government's financial resources have increased significantly, and it is capable of doing many large projects and doing some long-term investment. However, the disadvantage is that the local economy has been greatly affected, and the most important thing is that it is reflected in some key construction projects of local governments.

These local construction projects suddenly fell into a funding bottleneck and could not continue to push them.

It is like a highway construction project in Hedong Province that is planning to launch, and at this time the government's investment in this area cannot be guaranteed.

Although Ye Kai should be responsible for all the funding issues, as the secretary of the provincial party committee, Secretary Yueshan also had his thoughts in his mind. He could not have borrowed money to build the entire road? How much can the right to speak on this road in the province? Although things can be solved through negotiation before, it is better to talk about equity ratios, income dividends, etc., and even whether the expressway can be listed for operation in the future.

But in the final analysis, if you don’t spend money to add projects, you always feel that you are a little bit confident.

"Comrade Yueshan cannot change this. The central government is determined very much. The idea of ​​a national game of chess will not change, and it will not retreat because of temporary difficulties." Comrade Hong Zheng's answer was also very persistent. "You are also a cadre from the central government. You can understand the purpose of the tax-sharing reform. In the short term, local governments will definitely be somewhat disagreeable and encounter some difficulties. However, as long as the general direction is well controlled, there will always be ways to deal with the past: Besides, the tax-sharing reform has only changed the distribution relationship between the central government and local finances, and the total economic volume will not be affected. The money is only distributed in different forms and will not have any major impact on the local economy."

Comrade Hong Zheng was very determined to promote the tax-sharing reform. Secretary Yueshan argued with him for a long time, but did not achieve satisfactory results. He had to return to the provincial office in Beijing in a depressed manner.

At this time, Lise was already late, and it was supper time again.

"Hey, why are there still crabs?" Secretary Yueshan was surprised to find this problem after going to the restaurant.

"It was sent by Ye Kaizhi, it was quite fresh crabs." The staff next to him replied.

"Oh, this guy is a big guy, it doesn't matter if he eats a few crabs." Secretary Yueshan nodded and said after hearing this.

The secretary Guan He, who was beside Secretary Yueshan, found a plate and put a few crabs over.

Secretary Yueshan didn't say anything nonsense, grabbed a crab and used pliers to lift the shell and ate it on his own. After eating three of them in a row, he said to Guan He with some depression, "What happened today is not going well:"

Guan He looked carefully at Secretary Yueshan, and naturally knew what he was going to see Premier Hongzheng today.

Overall, Comrade Hong Zheng and Secretary Yueshan are both people with a tough style and strong personality. These two people sat together and argued about tax reform, which was obviously a verbal battle. However, Secretary Yueshan argued with reason, and Comrade Hong Zheng insisted on the plan to increase the central tax ratio, which he insisted on, could not change because of his words, and the tax-sharing reform could not be stopped.

"But it's not all that's gone." Comrade Yueshan wiped his mouth with a tissue and said to Guan He, "I asked for 400 million yuan from Comrade Hong Zheng, which is considered a project fund that supports highway construction. It's always better than nothing."

"This is a good thing. You can get so much money from Comrade Hong Zheng, Secretary Yue, you are the first one!" Guan He was immediately happy when he heard this, "Secretary Yue, would you have two drinks tonight?"

"Well, just one cup is enough." Secretary Yueshan thought about it and agreed.

Guan He was a little excited and ran over to get the bottle and Bai Fen.

Although the price is far lower than that of Maotai or something, it is just hometown wine and the quality is excellent, so Secretary Yueshan also likes to drink it:

It was said it was a cup, but it seemed that Guan He poured him more than one or two taels of money.

In fact, Secretary Yueshan knew very well that as a matter that had been basically decided, the tax reform could not be stopped. Otherwise, Comrade Hong Zheng would not have negotiated with the governors one by one. This time he found Comrade Hong Zheng to complain, but he didn't really want to stop this policy, because this could not be done at all.

This time he went there, just to use this matter as a bargaining chip to save some benefits.

Perhaps because of the fact that he had prepared well before and absorbed some of Ye Kai's views, Secretary Yueshan felt that he had a vague feeling of being the upper hand when he was debating with Comrade Hong Zheng. In the end, Comrade Fa Zheng had to admit that Secretary Yueshan still raised some key issues in his words, which need to be weighed and considered.

It is probably because of this reason that Comrade Hong Zheng agreed to Secretary Yueshan’s request and tried to squeeze out a hundred million yuan to Hedong Province as a special fund for the expressway construction project:

"The work of the Beijing Office needs to be strengthened." Secretary Yueshan drank some wine and suddenly said something like this.

Guan He also drank a little with Secretary Yueshan. When he heard his words, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then he just thought about the meaning of this.

From one time on, the main function of the Beijing Office was to collect information for local governments, run projects, and carry out receptions.

For example, there was a director of the Beijing office of a prefecture-level city. During the tax reform, he found out that the indicators in various places should be prescribed in one year, so he immediately reported to the mayor. The city quickly made a decision and spent a lot of money at the end of the year, which raised the local indicators in the previous year.

As a result, after the tax system was changed to Apple in the second year, the local government obtained sufficient funds according to the policy:

Running projects is also the biggest task of the Beijing Office. The most important thing is to understand the plans and directions of the projects approved by various ministries, commissions and bureaus every year.

There are only a few people in the central ministries and commissions. Of course, which company reports sufficiently, the project and funds will be granted to which company.

Some functional departments have a large number of projects and funds, but they cannot conduct inspections across the country. Where to start projects is entirely based on the local government's report, and there is no standard for approving projects. If you are too honest, you will not be able to call, and you will not make any noise or make trouble, it will be difficult to get projects.

Therefore, the Beijing Office is also very important in this regard. After receiving the news, the local government will hear the news, strive for projects and funds:

Therefore, after Secretary Yueshan felt the pressure of tax reform and procurement, the first thing he thought was that he should strengthen the strength of the Beijing Office. Staff should be equipped with smart and capable people, and funds should be given priority:

In fact, Secretary Yueshan’s decision was correct. After the tax-sharing reform, the central government’s finances were more abundant, so the phenomenon of running the department’s money became even more serious. There are two reasons why local governments want to run to the department: First, the department has money; second, this money must be obtained by "running".

Due to historical reasons, many ministries and commissions are relatively rough in the management of budget funds and do not list specific projects.

Whoever runs more and knows more about the ministries and commissions, may get more payments, which is very random.

There are also some ministries and commissions, and some individuals make decisions on investment in some major projects.

In other words, some departments of the central government have a large amount of fiscal transfer funds, but whoever can get these funds lacks strict procedural norms, and the fund approval process lacks standardization and transparency. The responsible officials enjoy considerable discretion:

There are often three "in principle" in the document, that is, there are other unprincipled ways to go, and the one who knows the most about regulations and the most about them is the maker of the regulations:

In principle, it means the lack of principles, which is the subtlety of Chinese.

Because fiscal transfer payments are free, theoretically, their demand is close to infinite, because everyone needs money, but the supply is limited. Because the central government has only so much money in total, local governments must have a fierce competition for this, and can even be described by any means.

This kind of abnormal competition is economically called power rent-seeking.

Run is next to a foot, and there is a bag next to it. You have to take the bag to run. The bag cannot be empty. This is how the breeding of soil and breeding grounds are produced:

"Do you think there are any good candidates to recommend?" Secretary Yueshan asked Guan He.
Chapter completed!