"In fact, I often hear such questions." Xia Yuhong, a CPPCC member from China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said, "Although I am a CPPCC member, it seems difficult to tell them clearly what the money recovered from anti-corruption has to do with everyone. I hope all the members on the scene can teach me. "
Lin Yifu, a CPPCC member and economist, took the initiative to answer the question: "Anti-corruption has a lot to do with ordinary people. The government has a fixed budget for administrative expenses, education funds and public construction funds. If you eat and drink or embezzle from your personal pocket, you will spend less money on public construction and education. "
"Some people may say that some corruption is that enterprises send money to officials. This is not from the government budget. Does it have nothing to do with ordinary people? " Lin Yifu assumed another situation and explained: "Think about it, what is the purpose of bribing government officials with this money? Power rent-seeking. And that bribe became part of the project budget, and cutting corners came into being, which indirectly affected the lives of ordinary people. "
Member Lin Yifu told a personal experience: he recently went to a county in Guangdong for investigation and found that a village road had been used for 20 years, but the quality was very good, while a dilapidated village road in the village next door had only been repaired for one or two years. "The budgets of the two village roads are similar. The problem is that corruption breeds and cuts corners."
On the issue of power rent-seeking, this year's government work report specifically pointed out that a common feature of corruption is power rent-seeking. In order to strengthen the power of building a clean government, we should slim down, tighten the institutional fence, resolutely destroy the rent-seeking space, and strive to eradicate the corrupt soil.
"But why can't people feel the benefits of anti-corruption in a more direct way? For example, invest the money recovered from anti-corruption in rural education, or use it to control rural pollution, and return the people's cream that these corrupt officials have searched to the people? " Committee member Tian Zhongqun interrupted Lin Yifu's words and directly threw out his own suggestions.
"It is a good thing to increase transfer payments to the people, but not at the expense of project quality. Although the money saved by implementing the eight regulations may not be distributed to the people, anti-corruption can ensure that the money is spent on the original budget items. " Lin Yifu said, "But your suggestion is very good. It is really necessary to increase the people's livelihood budget to solve the public dissatisfaction caused by corruption. "