In June, the roof of the sanyang township government office building in Pingjiang County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, suddenly collapsed. The "service life" of the old building has been more than 50 years. After several repairs and reinforcement, it still collapses. Can a new building be put on the agenda? In accordance with the requirement of "no new office buildings are allowed", Pingjiang County decided to "divide parts into parts" and put 110 cadres in three vacant office buildings nearby, so that they could work in a decentralized way. SAN Yang township head Li Junjie calculated an account: less construction of this building, you can save tens of millions of dollars of financial funds.

Standing in front of the rubble of the old township government office building, Li junjie felt it was "worth it". "Government spending will be reduced, while funding for people's wellbeing will be added. We will use the funds transferred to better use them for more important purposes." In Pingjiang county, which was lifted out of poverty in March this year, Li junjie believes he and his colleagues still have a lot of work to do.

Since this year, from central to local levels, at all levels of government spare no effort to pressure in general, the structure, the requirement of "tight" as the allocation of resources, the concept of "tight" goes through each work always, do not need the rigid spending cuts, budget constraints, a more powerful, key areas spending should defend and defend with practical action to implement the proactive fiscal policy is more positive for "requirement, practice the government contends for the good of the people.

Nothing is spent that ought not to be spent

In recent years, government spending on official overseas visits, official vehicles and official vehicles has been shrinking for years. This year, signs of government tightening are stronger, more demanding and more aggressive. According to the report, the following measures have been adopted in various localities to reduce specific expenditures and strengthen institutional building:

1. Substantially reduce non-critical and non-rigid expenditures. The central government has taken the lead in tightening the screws, reducing non-urgent and non-rigid spending by more than 50%. Local governments have also strictly controlled and reduced their regular expenditures and actually reduced their administrative expenditures. In shenzhen, for example, according to shenzhen city finance bureau chief soup heat kwai, budgeting, in 2020 the city 39%, reduce the rigidity, the key project funds 5% reduce "three fairs", strict controls of new subject, research, meetings, trainings, such as travel, and to repair maintenance, property management, decoration, office equipment procurement spending needs, demands to adjust the department.

2. Harden budgetary constraints. "At present, the chongqing government's tight life has been basically institutionalized and normalized, and the system that covers the whole budget process has more precision and hardness." Feng Yi, head of chongqing's finance bureau, said: "On the one hand, there is a budget gap in the past, in the middle and in the later years. The budget arrangement at the beginning of the year and the addition in the middle of the year must go through public review, budgets and final accounts must be made public, and the unused money must be collected at the end of the year, breaking the concept of base and solidified pattern of expenditure." On the other hand, we should standardize the budget process from the top, the middle, and the bottom, sign and approve the budget, report key projects to the NPC, and establish a rolling project library mechanism. At the same time, the budget arrangement is linked to the performance results, not only the year's rewards and punishment, but also the next year's budget.

3. We will make good use of existing funds. Hunan Province deputy director of the department of Finance he Weiwen introduced, the province's financial overall clean up cargoes surplus funds, the department at the beginning of the budget basic expenditure, "three official" funds, carried forward more than a year of project expenditure surplus funds fully recovered. So far, a total of 1.9 billion yuan has been recovered. For departments and cities and counties that need to increase spending, we first need to integrate existing stocks and adjust the structure, and in principle, no new cuts should be made to increase spending. Slow implementation of expenditures by more than 10 per cent.

Do all departments and units feel overwhelmed by strict budget, expenditure reduction and schedule improvement? "Fully understand, actively adapt and fully implement." The person in charge of relevant department happens to agree with ground response way.

"When purchasing epidemic prevention and control materials after the outbreak of the epidemic, we have one-to-one communication by referring to historical prices, finding out market prices and relevant costs, so as to make sure that enterprises can make profits and strive for the government to spend less money. After the epidemic stabilizes, we will timely reduce the amount of procurement, and the remaining funds will voluntarily apply to the financial department for recovery, so as to reduce the financial burden." Shenzhen market regulation bureau deputy director Huang Shengwen said.

"In this year's publicity campaign on the Civil Code, we have reduced the number of printed books we buy and adopted electronic versions through the Internet and mobile platforms, which has achieved good results and saved money," he said. Sun Qifu, vice President of Chongqing Higher People's Court, said that the research department's budget earlier this year is more careful than any other time in the past, such as the combination of business trips by car, electronic delivery to the province of postage, and the implementation of projects step by step... In a bit by bit, one by one of the "stingy", the hospital's basic operating funds and "three public" funds, compared with last year by about 20%. We should not only look at how much money we earn and spend, but also how much money we reduce and put to good use. Abandoning the big money and big money, careful calculation has penetrated into every stage of budget management, and diligence and thrift has been internalized into the action consciousness of departments and units at all levels.

Nothing can be done that ought to be done

Move into bright and clean new home, it is Lin Liqiu of impoverished household of Qing 'an village of 3 Yang xiang of pingjiang County two years is one of the most happy things. He paid 10,000 yuan for the new house himself and 40,000 yuan in policy subsidies. Now, in addition to planting more than 1 mu of land, the family also raised a cow, son hospitalization expenses have greatly increased the reimbursement rate. "A big change, eighty or ninety percent better than before!" Lin Li Qiu feel, not only housing bright, life also has a new hope, new head.

Township government offices collapsed first shelved, the renovation of dilapidated poor households to efficient, high-quality completion. Since the beginning of this year, local governments have, based on their actual conditions, allocated funds to fight against the epidemic and provide relief services, resume work and production, tackle three major challenges, and improve people's livelihood, in an effort to make the government live a tight life in exchange for a better life for enterprises and people.

-- Supporting epidemic prevention and control. In the first half of this year, Longgang district resolutely implemented the state, provincial and municipal requirements on living on a tight budget, effectively reduced regular expenditures and recovered a total of 327 million yuan of financial funds budgeted at the beginning of the year, said Chen Zhou, director of the Finance Bureau of Longgang District of Shenzhen. Among them, 183 million yuan was allocated for epidemic prevention and control, including 135 million yuan for food and accommodation at street health stations, procurement of epidemic prevention and control materials, emergency response, disinfection and disinfection, and 48 million yuan for procurement and subsidies of epidemic prevention and control materials from regional medical institutions.

-- Encouraging enterprises to resume work and production. "This year, Jiangbei has adopted 10 measures to tighten the belt, strictly control general expenditures and save about 200 million yuan in financial funds, with the focus on increasing support for trade and service industries that have been greatly affected by the epidemic and provide more jobs." According to Wan Chuanjiang, director of Chongqing's Jiangbei District Finance Bureau, the district government also collaborated with businesses to offer 30 million yuan in promotional activities such as "enjoying the gift of Jiangbei". In the first half of the year, the total retail sales of consumer goods in the region increased by 3.5 percent year on year. "This year, shenzhen budget implementation reduce co-ordinates many amounted to 3.43 billion yuan of funds, mainly used to micro, small and medium enterprises on the affected by the outbreak of severe discount loans 2 billion yuan, investment income, the city's industrial and commercial enterprise basic electricity in February of 690 million yuan, six months town sewage charge 340 million yuan subsidies enterprises, support for epidemic prevention materials enterprises to expand production capacity and technical renovation subsidies of 400 million yuan." Shenzhen Finance Bureau budget office director Huang Yun said.

-- Ensuring the success of the three key battles. Xia Hai, director of the Finance bureau of Pingjiang County in Hunan Province, told reporters that a "ten-point uniform" regulation was issued at the beginning of this year to reduce regular expenditures by 110 million yuan. To make good use of 64.32 million yuan of carryover and surplus funds; Renewal and purchase of official vehicles were all suspended, a decrease of 5.3 million yuan over the same period last year. There are no new projects without funding sources, and none of the projects under construction have been changed. Freeing up financial resources for poverty alleviation and strengthening weak links is one of the major investments. The specific items include subsidizing 29,585 registered students from poor families, involving 29.414 million yuan. A total of 141,501 people with medical insurance premiums and 25.765 million yuan of subsidies were registered for the poor. We provided 43.3 million yuan in medical assistance to the rural poor, and lowered the threshold for serious disease insurance and increased the reimbursement rate.

In Chongqing, the municipal government recently increased 770 million yuan in special poverty alleviation funds, an increase of 20% for the whole year, in order to better cope with the impact of the epidemic and accelerate poverty alleviation. We increased government funds at a faster pace, effectively promoting the construction of poverty alleviation projects, the resumption of work and production in poverty alleviation industries, and the increase in income of the poor population through employment. For example, the city allocated some funds from the special poverty alleviation fund to subsidize the transportation and living expenses of the poor workers who went out for work. In the first half of this year, the number of migrant workers exceeded that of the whole of last year.

Zhuzhou city of Hunan Province focuses on the overall planning and integration in the source of budget preparation and the use of special funds. In the first half of this year, the municipal government collected and integrated 1.03 billion yuan of special funds for industrial development, 1.37 billion yuan of special funds for pollution prevention and control, 130 million yuan of funds for poverty alleviation, etc., so as to concentrate its limited financial resources to accomplish great events. "Such a large amount of funds can not be arranged this year without the implementation of measures such as strengthening overall planning of funds, putting existing funds to good use and reducing regular expenditures." Zhuzhou City bureau of Finance director Li Nengbin said.

-- Investing in education, old-age care, housing, medical and health care, social security and other areas related to people's livelihood. Li Jia, director of the Finance Bureau of Jiangjin District, pointed out that this year, the district has reduced the general expenditure and project expenditure by 420 million yuan. When formulating the budget plan at the beginning of this year, it gave top priority to the expenditure in the field of people's livelihood and allocated 110 million yuan for the renovation of dilapidated rural houses. We will increase government spending on improving people's wellbeing. We will do our best and act within our means. "We insist on precise input, how much money we have and how much we do. "Playing the piano with ten fingers", we will not arbitrarily expand the scope of policies or raise subsidies. We should not go beyond the development stage and financial resources to carry out our work. We should avoid 'treating the provincial government and paying the municipal and county bills'. "At the same time, we need to take account of the long term, anticipate the difficulties ahead and allow for policy flexibility." Hunan Provincial Department of Finance budget director Hu Yungui said.

"As an enterprise, we are not aware of the specific scope and standard of government expenditure, but our service efficiency is high on a daily basis, and our assistance during the epidemic period is strong, so we recognize that the enterprise has a real sense of gain!" Eternal Asia Supply Chain Management Ltd. The government's tight budget has benefited market entities and the people, and this has won valuable recognition.

Government austerity is a long-term policy

In recent years, these requirements have been written into the government work reports. "The government is tightening its purse strings. This is a long-term policy, not a short-term response." In this year's two sessions of the minister channel, Liu Kun minister again stressed.

"The government's tight living is a long-term policy determined by the CPC Central Committee after fully reviewing the current and future severe and complex situation." Shi Jianhui, director of hunan Provincial Department of Finance, said frankly that considering the situation in Hunan province, the tax reduction and fee reduction policy continues to be implemented internally, local government debt repayment pressure is greater, people's livelihood security and other rigid expenditure continues to rise, some cities and counties "three guarantees" pressure still exists; Externally, the economic development has been impacted by factors such as the continued spread of the global epidemic. The downward pressure on the economy and operational risks are still not small, and the financial operation of the whole province will be in a state of "tight balance" for a long time.

"At present and for some time to come, tight budgetary constraints and tight balance will be the norm." 'In Shenzhen, the growth of local fiscal revenue has slowed down significantly with the implementation of policies such as replacing business tax with VAT and reducing taxes and fees,' Mr. Tang said. As a major foreign trade market and the location of key enterprises, the impact of the epidemic, china-us economic and trade frictions and other adverse effects bear the brunt. At the same time, the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the pilot demonstration area has been rolled out in an all-round way. Major reforms and projects have been carried out in a concentrated manner.

"To adhere to the old tradition of industry and thrift requires that we still apply such thinking to the management of our wealth; The eternal conflict between income and expenditure, between need and possibility requires that we manage our money wisely." Feng Yi introduced that the chongqing government has two ways to tighten the living conditions: to tighten the living conditions and tighten the living conditions; It not only solves the specific problems facing the current income reduction, but also improves the long-term mechanism to enhance the government's governance capacity. In terms of specific operations, at one end of the scale, general expenditures and non-urgent and non-rigid special expenditures have been reduced in a uniform manner this year. So far, the municipal government has reduced expenditures by 3.4 billion yuan. At one end, a mechanism has been established to shift the budget from "controlling dishes" to "controlling standards" and "judging performance". More than 60 expenditure standard systems, such as conference training and project planning, have been established, forcing departments to change the concept of spending.

"We will stick to the idea of living a tight life for a long time, stick to the principle of collecting revenues and spending according to our ability, practice strict economy and thrift, take all factors into consideration, focus on key areas, use money where it is most needed, ensure sustainable development of people's livelihood, and ensure that important decisions and plans of party committees and governments are carefully implemented. "Said Tang Sunshade.

The eastern, central and western regions have different conditions and different tasks of economic and social development. However, they have the same and firm determination for the government to live a tight life for a long time, which is also the aspiration of the national financial system: make the government live a tight life on a regular basis, and make the people's life more secure.

Source: Ministry of Finance, PRC