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Chapter 1265 Don't pretend to be pitiful, okay?

But even if it is considered a bad car in Gan Xiaoying's eyes, she is now driving a white Hyundai. A small car of 10,000+ yuan is economical and fuel-efficient. Although it does not have much face when driving out, it is already considered a good means of transportation for families to and from work.

However, when she took the key that Zhao Jianhui handed her, she couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.Geely Golden Eagle?Although this car looks good, but the popularity of this brand is actually a bit too low, right?Besides, it is said that there are no major problems with this car, but there are many minor problems. What kind of identity is this person to drive such a car?Either stingy or pretending to be poor, what about you?

Back behind the desk, Zhao Jianhui processed several documents, nothing more than signing the word "read" on them, and looked at his watch. It was already time to get off work. Zhao Jianhui couldn't help shaking his head. Governors and mayors are not in the same breath.

For some small and big cases, no one in the provinces and cities below wants to report them to the public. If they can be suppressed and dealt with, they will be dealt with below. It is really unstoppable. The channels for petitioning have been turned upside down, and the local government reported it as a last resort.

In this regard, local governments have at least three ways to "spend money to buy peace".One is to send someone to intercept the interview in Beijing.For a long time, the Beijing Office has been the hub of this work, and local governments and courts have spent manpower and material resources stationed in Beijing.Most of the petitioners who come to Beijing to appeal are sent by the Beijing Office to send them home.

Most of the young male staff members of grassroots government offices, public security bureaus, and courts have to be stationed in Beijing in rotation.

However, the Beijing Office caused confusion in the management and administrative order of the capital, leading to the abolition of the central government.As of now, except for 50 provincial governments and special economic zone governments and 296 prefecture-level and municipal governments that still maintain offices in Beijing, various regions and departments have canceled a total of 625 offices in Beijing.

The abolishment of the Beijing Office has obviously increased the cost of the local government sending people to intercept and receive interviews, making the second method more preferable: outsourcing the interception to security companies.Taking Dingyuan Company as an example, it has signed cooperation agreements with 19 provincial government departments on interception of visits.

The security company intercepts, detains, and repatriates petitioners for the local government. Each project has a clear breakdown of charges, including: stability control fee 200-400 yuan per person, and mandatory fee 200-400 yuan per person.The details of the escort fee are different according to the means of transportation, the escort and the distance.

Tu Xiong's security company was also approached by the local government to negotiate this kind of business. At that time, Tu Xiong was also jealous, but it was Zhao Jianhui who tried his best to prevent him from developing this business.Later, when the Dingyuan Company got sick, Tu Xiong admired Zhao Jianhui's foresight from the bottom of his heart.

Even if the interception of interviews fails, the influence of the petitioners has already been achieved, and the registration with the relevant departments, then the local government needs to help the third way: "cancellation".

After the petitioner appeals to the higher-level department, the petition department will record it and keep it as a record. This is called a "label".According to public information, in 2009, Hebei Province ranked first in the country in the number of petitioners in Beijing, reaching 15700 person-times, followed by Central Plains Province with 5700 person-times, and Liaodong Province ranked third.

However, after 2009, the relevant departments changed the rules and no longer reported normal petitioners, only the number of “abnormal petitioners” was reported. A national ranking was conducted every month and distributed to provincial party committees and governments.

These rankings are linked to the evaluation of local governments, but as long as money is spent to go there, it will not hinder political performance.

Including stationing in Beijing, outsourcing and "selling accounts", the local government's fear of petitions has given rise to a huge "market" for maintaining stability, in which rent seekers, brokers, and thugs of all kinds seek food.Officials from the Beijing Office, the security company, and the Letters and Calls Bureau all share interests in this rent-seeking field, maintaining and expanding the "stability maintenance" pie.With the expansion of this "market", even if it is not directly related to "stability maintenance", it can be "rent-seeking" in the name of "stability maintenance".

One of the reasons for the existence of the gray market of interception, outsourcing, and account sales is the stability maintenance system itself.Taking letters and visits as an example, in the actual operation of letters and visits, either "intercept visits" or "cancellation", the function of "downloading the situation" that letters and visits should undertake is almost invalid.However, from the source of institutional design, due to the delicate relationship between the central and local governments, its positioning itself contains paradox.

According to Ying Xing, Dean of the School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law, the adoption of the "Provisional Regulations on Complaints and Visits by Party and Government Organs (Draft)" in 1982 marked a turnaround in the petition system: Unlike Mao’s era, which served mass mobilization and class struggle, petitions The service object of the system in the new period is 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 raise the issue of “maintaining stability.”Since many local governments are dominated by economic construction, they are not representatives of public interests, but rather a subject with their own interests in issues such as farmers' burdens, land disputes, laid-off workers, and compensation for house demolition. Tendency to direct conflict.

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

Ying Xing believes that, on the one hand, letters and visits highlight the order demands of stability and unity, and require that conflicts be left at the grassroots level;

The conflict between these two goals puts letters and visits in a paradox that cannot be justified: on the one hand, the central government hopes to have a mass line to supervise the localities, so it insists on the letter and visits 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 letters and visits, so as to "nip unstable factors in the bud" and digest them at the grassroots level.Under this kind of thinking that focuses on "blocking" and does not expand 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 effects, it is difficult for the petition system to effectively terminate conflicts and disputes; the deep reason behind it is the arbitrariness of power.At the same time, the mechanism of conflict termination in the judicial process under the domination of power is also weak.

The "stability maintenance" system adapts to the problems faced by the country during the transition period, and expands with the intensification of social contradictions.To break the vicious cycle of "the more stable the more stable the less stable", as pointed out by Sun Mou, a professor at Tsinghua University, it is necessary to transform government functions and establish a limited government; improve the rule of law mechanism to resolve social contradictions and conflicts; establish a balance of interests under the conditions of a market economy mechanism; promote the development of civil society organizations.

Those who choose what is important can be summed up in the word "rule of law".Governing the country by law and building a socialist country ruled by law are exactly the direction of political system reform proposed in the report of the 2011th National Congress of the CPC Central Committee. On March 3, 10, the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress announced that a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics had been formed.

However, the reform of the political system, especially the reform of the judicial system, still needs to be accelerated.For a truly stable society, reform of the judicial system is the first to be promoted.A judiciary that is fair, efficient, credible, and capable of restricting public power is the "relief valve" of society.Promote the reform of the judicial system so that the courts can truly exercise their functions and powers independently in accordance with the law, and social conflicts can also be brought into the track of the rule of law.

Second, democracy should be gradually expanded.Democracy, the citizens are the masters of the country.As big as a change of government, as small as an increase or decrease in water prices, citizens hold votes, participate in hearings, have the right to vote, express themselves well, and unstable factors, most of them will naturally go away.

Thirdly, the ruling party should change its ruling thinking and enhance its ability to govern.The experience of various countries in the world shows that social conflicts in modern society are not only inevitable, but also an inevitable phenomenon of the healthy operation of society.In this regard, on the one hand, the government sets its own laws and does not cross boundaries, do not break the law, and do not create unstable factors; Mediation, natural stability and unity, social stability, long-term peace and stability.

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

However, it is not known how many years it will take to reach this step.From Zhao Jianhui's point of view, this leap forward is really very difficult.It is not difficult to establish several systems, but the ideology of the people who implement the systems.

Now my level has not reached that height, and I can only get off work when I should get off work.

After packing his small bag, Zhao Jianhui went out with the bag in his arms. Seeing that Gan Xiaoying was also packing his own things, he asked a lot: "Go home? How about we eat together?"

"Okay, I happen to be fine." Gan Xiaoying replied very simply.Zhao Jianhui couldn't help but smiled wryly, thinking, why should I say this more?Originally, it was just a polite word, but Gan Xiaoying would really go along with it.

Walking out of the gate of the office building, Zhao Jianhui met his driver named Wu Yucheng for the first time. The person Zhang Caiping called Xiao Wu was actually in his 30s.As soon as he drove Zhao Jianhui's car into the parking lot, he saw Zhao Jianhui and Secretary Gan coming out of the office building, so he ran over to ask Director Zhao whether to drive that Audi or a Geely.

Zhao Jianhui thought that since the secretary was invited, the driver should not be left out in the cold, and it was a good time to try the driver's "skill".So he smiled and said: "Let's go out for dinner, you can drive any car you want, you can choose the place, today I will invite Secretary Gan and you..."

Gan Xiaoying couldn't help but glanced at her lips: "Leader, don't be so pitiful, okay, you have entertainment fees, just like you go to work like this, you can't finish eating..."