Agricultural and poverty-alleviation funds must not be embezzled or misappropriated
As of May this year, procuratorial organs nationwide handled a total of 29,000 duty-related crimes in agriculture-related and poverty-alleviation fields, accounting for 22% of the total number of duty-related crimes filed and handled by procuratorial organs during the same period. Duty-related crimes in agriculture-related and poverty-alleviation fields remain at a high level, in a prone and frequent state. (People's Daily, July 22)
Nowadays, the state's preferential agricultural policies are increasing, and large amounts of special funds are pouring into the rural agricultural sector, with ever-larger amounts and ever more projects. This fragrant, big piece of cheese has inevitably attracted “greedy mice”, causing “mouse infestations” in agriculture-related funds and poverty alleviation. Who moved this piece of “cheese”? Most of these “greedy mice” are none other than the heads of village “two committees” and some functional departments involved in agriculture-related poverty alleviation. Plucking feathers from every passing goose and letting things leak and drip away, they extended their greedy hands toward the interests of the masses.
“If the foundation is not firm, the earth will shake.” Corruption in agriculture-related poverty alleviation must be both fought and prevented, requiring improved mechanisms and a strengthened foundation. Strengthen the establishment and improvement of the rural legal system, so that the current good momentum of anti-corruption permeates the lives of ordinary people with a new posture of corruption prevention, creating a new atmosphere of corruption prevention; strengthen policy publicity, so that the mirror-like hearts of ordinary people can see more clearly and fully understand the rights they enjoy; strengthen publicity of the law, raise the people's legal awareness, and let ordinary people know the law, understand the law, and use the law. New ideas under the new situation, with an attitude that prevention is better than cure, inject a dose of preservative into the prevention of corruption in agriculture-related poverty alleviation.
⟦NL> “A dike of a thousand zhang collapses from an ant hole.” Corruption prevention in agriculture-related poverty alleviation must be “coarse” and even more “fine”, requiring strengthened supervision and a solidified foundation. Strengthen ideological education for grassroots cadres and officials, raising grassroots cadres' understanding of the purpose of their work from the level of ideology and awareness; strengthen the improvement of effective supervision mechanisms, from external supervision to internal supervision, so that “greedy mice” have nowhere to reach, and even more so that corrupt ideas are strangled in the bud; strengthen the development of corruption prevention work in agriculture-related poverty alleviation, starting from the grassroots and key areas, and truly bring corruption prevention down to the “fine” details.
“A tree that fills the arms grows from a tiny sprout.” For a small sapling to grow into a towering tree requires our careful care. The protection of this piece of cheese, agriculture-related poverty-alleviation funds, and the expulsion of the “greedy mice” require our constant attention. Polish your eyes to truly distinguish the ugly faces of the “greedy mice”, strangle their corrupt intentions toward agriculture-related poverty-alleviation funds in the bud, keep them away from this piece of “cheese”, and better guard against agriculture-related corruption.