1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 556 Township Finance and County Management (4)

"Boss Yang, I feel extremely sorry for Manager Lu's injury. Since the suspect is a villager from Shahe Village, the county naturally has an unshirkable responsibility. But please believe me, this matter... has nothing to do with me."

As soon as they met, after a few basic greetings, Ma Qingyuan went straight to the point.

If this scene were seen by other people in the system, it would definitely be shocking.

As we all know, in the system, only subordinates report to their superiors, and only those superiors who are busy with many things and whose time is extremely precious will adopt this time-sensitive reporting method... But in fact, even if we put aside the different systems they belong to, Yang Mo and Ma Qingyuan are just at the same level, and they would never make such a gesture.

But when I thought about it, it didn't seem strange anymore.

In the system, job rank alone never means anything.

Apart from anything else, the fact that Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company is now the second money bag in the city and can even directly affect the fiscal budget and allocation plan of DZ City next year is enough to make Ma Qingyuan be on high alert;

You know, Dezhou is already a prefecture-level city, and it has just been promoted. As long as the city's fiscal budget is sufficient, or if it has enough transfer payment capacity, it can take over the finances of some subordinate counties in the name of "tax-sharing reform experiment" and "one city as one chess game."

Anyone in the system knows what this means...and the terrible thing is that although Linyi County's economy ranks among the top three in the city, it is not one of the poor counties that needs financial assistance from the city. But because of this, it is more likely to be under financial management.

Yang Mo glanced at the middle-aged man who had been in charge of Linyi County for three years. He naturally understood why he spoke separately from the county. He just smiled and said, "Oh?"

Seeing this, Ma Qingyuan looked at Yang Mo sincerely and said, "Boss Yang, although Linyi County is a wealthy county in Dezhou, and its nominal GDP and industrial output value have never fallen out of the top three, you should know that a considerable part of these nominal GDP and industrial output values ​​are contributed by state-owned enterprises such as drilling companies and oil production plants. If this part is deducted, the actual GDP level of Linyi County can only be ranked in the middle and lower reaches in Dezhou."

Yang Mo glanced at him: "Oh?"

Seeing the young man pretending to be ignorant, Ma Qingyuan was not discouraged: "Although Drilling Company No. 1 has had a very pleasant cooperation experience with the county in the past two years, the cooperation between Dahua Company and the city is much larger and deeper than that between Drilling Company No. 1 and the county."

"This situation didn't cause any problems in the past, but it's different now... Dezhou has been upgraded to a prefecture-level city, and the tax-sharing reform is just around the corner. Mr. Yang, you should know what this means for the county."

Yang Mo nodded: "So?"

Ma Qingyuan stared calmly at the young man in front of him who was nominally at the same level as him: "So, Linyi County needs to develop, needs to be self-reliant, and needs to vigorously increase the output value of its primary, secondary and tertiary industries, especially industrial output value and agricultural output value; the kind that does not include the output value of local central enterprises... On this point, I have no disagreement with Executive He and others."

Yang Mo hummed softly, "Relying on the opportunities brought by the light and heavy industrial product exchange plan and the overseas expansion of independent brands, the county has begun to focus on production since last year. The factory is running 24 hours a day, and even the drilling company's autumn and winter electricity consumption for field operations cannot be guaranteed... I know about this."

When Yang Mo mentioned this, Ma Qingyuan's eyes flashed with embarrassment, but his expression remained unchanged: "Although Executive He and I agree on the general direction, there are still very obvious differences between us in specific work."

"Generally speaking, I am focusing on the development of light and heavy industries and service industries in the county, concentrating my efforts on incubating and adjusting a group of star enterprises with development potential;"

"As for Executive He, they rely on their good grassroots relationships, take the townships as their foothold, and use the vegetable basket project as an opportunity to vigorously develop agricultural and sideline farming and breeding, as well as township industrial manufacturing."

At this point, Ma Qingyuan looked into Yang Mo's eyes steadily: "Although I know that with Mr. Yang's information access capabilities, it must not be difficult to know the situation in Linyi County, but as far as I am concerned... I would rather take the initiative to explain the situation in person."

Anyone with a brain would know what Ma Qingyuan meant by what he just said.

Although Yang Mo knew that the other party's intention was not just to absolve himself of responsibility, he had to admit that he was very angry about Tugou's injury. Therefore, when facing Ma Qingyuan's use of his opponent's force, he did not feel much disgust.

After a moment of silence, Yang Mo suddenly asked, "I heard that among the enterprises at the township level in the county, there are many cases where the property rights are unclear and the financial situation is not transparent?"

Ma Qingyuan was stunned, and a burst of ecstasy surged in his heart, but his face was full of worry: "Yes, the experience is immature and there are many problems!"

"Although most township enterprises are collective enterprises of the public economy, the proportion of shares held by the village and the township is all decided on a whim;"

"The share of the factory land is decided on a whim, regardless of whether the land is subleased or allocated;"

"The share of the machinery and equipment is decided on a whim, regardless of whether the equipment is new or old, whether it can be used or not, and the market price is what the price is, and all the shares are discounted according to the market price;"

"The business is run on a whim, without considering whether the projects are competitive or whether the company has the strength to enter the market. They just do whatever looks profitable."

"In addition, whether these companies make money or lose money is all up to the factory director. How much profit or loss is also up to the factory director. The people below can't see the account books at all, and they can't understand them."

"What's even more annoying is that the county has policy support and special subsidies for many industries, and even issues official documents every year, and then transfers the support funds and subsidy funds to special accounts at the township level. But after several investigations, we found that most grassroots people don't even know about this."

Ma Qingyuan sighed heavily, his expression full of sighs: "But you can't accuse grassroots staff of violating regulations. The township level has its own tax base and financial coordination rights. Let's not talk about subsidies for the time being. If you want to talk about the support funds seriously, they are indeed invested in the industry, and they can be regarded as earmarked funds for their intended purposes... The only difference is that the ones who get these support funds are often not the original companies, but the newly established companies... Of course, these new companies are either companies that are engaged in circulation or benefiting farmers, or companies that fill the gaps in the local manufacturing industry, so you can't say there is anything wrong with these companies getting support funds."

Although Ma Qingyuan spoke obscurely, anyone with a little social experience would be able to immediately understand the underlying meaning.

Yang Mo frowned: "Newly established... company?"

Don't mistake bean buns for dry food. Although Ma Qingyuan's position is not very high, his authority and actual weight are definitely not as simple as what everyone sees in movies and TV dramas. When you are in a position like him, you have to be extremely careful and particular about the words you choose. In the system at that time, the words "unit" and "enterprise" are clearly different from "company".

As expected, Ma Qingyuan nodded gently after hearing this, and there was no sadness or joy in his tone: "Most of the companies that received the support funds are private enterprises, or mixed-ownership enterprises of public-private partnerships... Last year, the output value of domestic township enterprises and non-publicly owned enterprises exceeded that of state-owned enterprises in one fell swoop. After three years of rectification, the state has loosened up again and given these enterprises positive evaluations. Therefore, under the arguments of He Changzhang and others, the county can't say anything about it."

After connecting the dots, the matter couldn't be clearer. Although Yang Mo had expected this, he couldn't help but frown when he heard Ma Qingyuan lay out the details in front of him so straightforwardly.

Although he generally prefers localized governance, to be honest, there are many considerations when it comes to how to "localize" it.

He did not want to comment on whether it was right or wrong for some local people to eat meat by taking advantage of the "information gap", but this practice of letting the meat rot in the "small pot" was undoubtedly not what he wanted to see;

The most crucial thing is that once this kind of thing forms path dependence, it will seriously affect the local cultural environment... The reason why the problem of local sages in Linyi area was so serious in later generations and even made the news was that in the process of this path dependence, a large number of local powerful people emerged, and they were the kind of one-way dependent powerful people.

To be honest, as a reborn person, he already knew the subsequent evolution process, so he didn’t have much feeling about this kind of thing... or rather, he was always very self-aware, and he always had an ambiguous attitude towards this "trend" that was like ecological evolution.

But now that classmate Tugou is involved, Yang Mo's mentality naturally changes when he thinks of a silly girl lying on the hospital bed in pain and sweating.

Nodding without comment, Yang Mo took a sip of the tea brewed by his secretary. After staring at the fully expanded tea leaves in the cup for a while, he suddenly asked, "I heard that several biotechnology companies and trading companies were newly established in Shahe Town and Shuangbao Town at the end of last year... I heard that these companies are somewhat related to the sons of Director Zhao and Director Chen?"

Ma Qingyuan's expression remained unchanged. After thinking for a moment, he nodded slightly. "It seems that a few companies have received support grants... But as far as I know, they are said to have filled the technological gap in the region, but that biotechnology company is actually a small pesticide and fertilizer factory that mixes potassium dihydrogen phosphate and brassinolide. Strictly speaking, it does not have any special technical content;"

"As for the trading company, it is nothing more than using its resources to get to know several supply and marketing cooperatives in other parts of the province to sell agricultural and sideline products including vegetables. Although these two companies do play a certain positive role in promoting the vegetable basket project, in terms of importance, it seems a bit reluctant to be listed as a support target."

At that time, domestic township-level enterprises were relatively primitive, and most of them were engaged in businesses that did not require much technical content.

Just as Ma Qingyuan said just now, purchasing potassium dihydrogen phosphate raw materials and brassinolide from other regions and blending them is something that an ordinary farmer can do in the future, but nowadays a special company can be established to engage in related businesses. This shows how closed and poor the industrial technology information at the township level in China is today.

As for the trading company mentioned above, that's even more ridiculous. In this era when materials are not extremely abundant, T1-level commodities such as vegetables and side dishes are so easy to sell. As long as you offer the right price, people will come to you to buy them. Why would you need to go to such great lengths to find sales channels like in later generations?
So, as Ma Qingyuan said, are these two companies necessary? Of course they are.

But are they worth supporting? That's definitely nonsense.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Qingyuan seemed to remember something and patted his knee as if he had suddenly realized something: "I almost forgot. According to the information I got on the road, Liu Laogen, who injured Manager Lu, is from Shahe Village, and their village happens to be one of the business partners of that trading company;"

"It is said that the trading company felt that the market for cucumbers and broccoli was very good in the second half of last year, and the prices were much higher than other vegetables. Therefore, under the guidance of the "high-yield" principle of the vegetable basket project, it applied for the county's "new vegetable promotion subsidy funds". I don't know what method it used to persuade a number of villages, including Shahe Village, to switch to planting a series of new vegetables including these two varieties. "

"However, I don't know what went wrong. We couldn't reach an agreement on the purchase price of cucumbers and broccoli with the supply and marketing companies that we had originally established contact with. It is said that the purchase price of the other party was much lower than the price that the trading company wanted. As for the other new varieties of vegetables, the other party was unwilling to purchase in large quantities out of caution;"

"Seeing that sales were sluggish and the vegetables were about to be shipped out of the greenhouse, the trading company had no choice but to persuade Liu Laogen and other growers to come to Dahua Company for help. But the result was unexpected..."

Without sufficient digestion and guarantee capabilities, blindly guiding farmers in planting would be a joke.

The trading companies are not like Dahua, which can use a large number of channels and satellite companies to realize various deep-processing product usage scenarios, and use brand premium to ensure the high-input and high-quality output planting model they require... Their only way out is to directly sell primary agricultural products.

But the problem is that now is the season for seasonal cucumbers and broccoli beans to be on the market. Without Dahua Company's guarantee, it would be strange if those cucumbers and broccoli beans could be sold at a high price.

However, vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus, kale, and cabbage, which are now everywhere on the streets, are real new varieties of vegetables. However, because they have not been verified by the market, those supply and marketing companies dare not purchase them in large quantities... You have to understand that the trading company is only a township enterprise after all, and it is not the competent authority of Linyi County. There are no documents to support it. How could those supply and marketing companies be so stupid as to put themselves at great risk just because of a few second-generation young people?

Hearing Ma Qingyuan mention the injury of Tugou, Yang Mo looked at him deeply and suddenly sighed: "Yes, the vegetable basket project is not as good as the rice bag project. After all, the importance of agricultural and sideline products is half a step lower than that of staple food. After the promotion of greenhouse planting technology, the output of the two is also incomparable... With the substantial increase in output, the commodity attributes of these vegetables will become more and more obvious. Under the market mechanism, if they are not reasonably planned and guided, there will be problems with sales!"

As he spoke, a look of pity and compassion welled up on Yang Mo's face: "Once there is a problem with the sales, the vegetables will rot in the fields due to the natural defects in storage... A good project that benefits the people has turned out to be a project that hurts the people. The impact is too bad, and we will be criticized by the organization!"

Ma Qingyuan was delighted, but his face showed a deep worry: "Boss Yang is right... Whether it's work or business, it's not a good idea to make decisions based on your own ideas without prior planning!"

Yang Mo nodded slightly: "Secretary Ma is right. This accident, in the final analysis, is caused by the lack of unified planning among the towns and villages, and the decision-making made on the spur of the moment... To put it more deeply, it is caused by the towns and villages doing their own thing in order to expand the tax base and become rich all at once!"

After a slight pause, Yang Mo suddenly laughed: "I heard that Secretary Ma has been trying to flatten the fiscal and taxation hierarchy since the beginning of this year, and proposed an experimental idea of ​​county management of township finances, but... it has not been effectively implemented?"

! ! ! !
When Ma Qingyuan heard Yang Mo suddenly mention this, his heart almost jumped out.

hiss~
The rumors are indeed true, this Yang guy is a vengeful person, he just beat up your childhood friend by accident, and you actually plan to dig up his roots! ?
Be good~!

If there can be any substantial results, today's trip will be well worth it!

It was difficult to suppress the ecstasy in his heart, and Ma Qingyuan showed a proper bitter smile on his face: "After all, I am just an outsider. Even if I always have the hundreds of thousands of people in Linyi County in my heart, but with Executive He and others... no matter how good the idea is, it is difficult to really implement it."

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PS: 1. I was discharged from the hospital this morning. I don’t know why, but after the test positive this time, I felt that the symptoms were more severe than any previous time. The experience of spending these few days in the hospital was not really a wonderful one.

2. It is recommended that all teachers wear masks during this period. If you are unfortunately reinfected like me and have severe muscle soreness symptoms, it is recommended that you purchase the Tongtian oral liquid produced by Tai Chi... My acupuncture + roasting did not show much improvement, and it was even difficult for me to get up. However, after taking this thing orally, the soreness symptoms improved significantly in just two days. This once again proves that there are still many good things in traditional Chinese medicine.

3. Although the symptoms have been basically alleviated, I still don’t have much energy. I forced myself to write more than words, mainly because I wanted to inform all the teachers that the author seems to be still alive.

(End of this chapter)