The questioning of the Minister of Finance was scheduled for the next day, and Chen Qingyun spent a lot of time thinking.
Chengdu is a well-known affluent city in the country, but the financial book capital of Chengdu is only under 100 million. If it were not for human factors, Chen Qingyun would not believe it even if he were beaten to death.
After checking the financial budget at the beginning of the year, Chen Qingyun discovered the secret: if the budget was implemented, the money left on the books now would be at least nearly 10 billion.
Chengdu needs to build a subway, which is something that several municipal committees and governments have been preparing to do. During the annual budget, a certain amount of funds will be set aside every year.
There are essential differences between the fiscal budgets of local governments and the central government. The budget principle of local governments is to live within their means, while the budget policy of the central government is to live within their means.
In other words, if Chengdu wants to do big things and do big things that exceed the annual fiscal revenue, there are only two ways to raise funds: one is to accumulate strength, and the other is to spend future money.
When the National People's Congress reviews the annual budget, it adopts the method of accumulating strength. The accumulated funds in the past few years have reached nearly 10 billion, and the funds for building a subway are almost enough.
But at present, there are only 100 million left in the financial book. If there is no problem between Zhou Chuan and the Director of Finance, Chen Qingyun will never believe it. Based on this consideration, Chen Qingyun really spent a lot of time on the report of the Director of Finance.
Chen Qingyun guessed right, the Finance Minister and Zhou Chuan were wearing the same pair of trousers, because when Chen Qingyun took over, the financial book still had nearly 20 billion.
Zhou Chuan used a tactic to draw money from under the cauldron and spent all the fiscal money, making it impossible to implement the 12th Five-Year Plan goals proposed by Chen Qingyun.
As long as it is delayed for a year or two, it will be very difficult for Chen Qingyun to implement these plans. If the Finance Minister and Zhou Chuan are tightly tied together, Zhou Chuan can put Chengdu's finances in a difficult situation at any time.
The Minister of Finance must be defeated. This time, Zhou Chuan gave Chen Qingyun the best opportunity to report on his duties.
It was decided after planning. After the meeting that day, Chen Qingyun and several directors unified their thoughts and arranged an action plan. The next day, they held a meeting to attack the director of the Department of Finance.
Zhou Chuan and the Minister of Finance also anticipated this move and responded calmly.
Seizing one point but not the rest, Lao Ma and others just asked the Finance Minister why he did not implement the annual budget approved by the National People's Congress.
Chen Qingyun once watched two children quarreling: one child was very stupid and only knew one curse word. No matter what his opponent cursed, he would just use this curse word repeatedly to deal with him. His opponent was particularly smart and used all kinds of curse words smoothly.
, greeting all eighteen generations of the opponent’s ancestors.
As a result of the quarrel, the smart child ran away crying loudly, but the stupid child didn't know how he won.
If you stimulate the same place repeatedly, you will either be extremely excited, so excited that you get goosebumps all over your body; or you will be extremely uncomfortable, feeling very awkward or depressed.
When questioning the Minister of Finance this time, Chen Qingyun used this trick: everyone can ask questions, but any questions must focus on the annual budget.
In the past two months, more than 10 billion have been spent on urban infrastructure construction and village-to-village connectivity projects. Many village-to-village connectivity projects have not yet been completed, and the project funds have been fully disbursed.
The village-to-village project is a requirement of the provincial government. Every village must be connected to a road within two years. The road must be hardened with cement.
The Finance Minister argued that providing access to every village was a requirement of the provincial government, and the municipal government allocated funds based on the actual needs of the project, so the Finance Department had no reason to refuse.
For such a concentrated payment of project funds, no matter how good the reasons given by the Finance Minister are, they will never be able to deal with the NPC, a group of sophisticated old sparrows.
Zhou Chuan never thought that the National People's Congress had such great power. He also helped the Finance Minister to defend himself. The Standing Committee members only grasped one point: What authority did the Finance Minister have to not implement the annual budget approved by the National People's Congress?
In Lao Ma's words, the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee is equivalent to the shareholders' meeting, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is equivalent to the board of directors, the mayor is just the general manager, and the director of the Department of Finance is equivalent to the manager of the finance department. The manager of the finance department must unconditionally implement the board of directors' deliberations.
The Finance Minister blushed with anger. He knew nothing about the modern enterprise system, especially the corporate governance structure. He did not know that the municipal government and any limited liability company were on an equal legal footing.
Lao Ma's words greatly stimulated the Director of Finance, who had a particularly serious official-oriented mentality. When Lao Ma finished speaking, the Director of Finance protested loudly: He only listened to the city government, because the Finance Department is a component department of the government.
The annual budget was a pet peeve of the Minister of Finance, but the old guy from the National People's Congress took hold of him. The angry Minister of Finance finally couldn't bear the repeated stimulation and said something he shouldn't have said.
The Minister of Finance is appointed by the National People's Congress. If the Minister of Finance publicly declares that he only listens to the government, the National People's Congress has the right to remove the Minister of Finance.
This is what Chen Qingyun wanted. The Finance Minister successfully stimulated this group of old sparrows in the National People's Congress.
Zhou Chuan realized that something was wrong, and was about to step forward as a peacemaker, but Lao Ma took the opportunity to propose a motion: a case of no credit against the Minister of Finance.
The motion had already been put forward, but it was too late for Zhou Chuan to say anything. He was so angry that he almost rushed out of the meeting room.
If Zhou Chuan rushed out of the conference room, today's meeting would be even more exciting.
There was no doubt that Lao Ma's proposal was unanimously supported by the Standing Committee members, and the result of the vote made the Finance Minister slump in his high-backed chair.
The matter is not over yet. The main reason for the financial difficulties is that the municipal government does not consider financial resources and ignores the annual budget approved by the National People's Congress. Lao Ma once again proposed that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress needs to strengthen financial budget management.
Simply put, the National People's Congress is about to take over power. Expenditures exceeding one billion must be discussed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Budget expenditures exceeding 100 million must undergo a credit evaluation organized by the National People's Congress.
This is not the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, but the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Zhou Chuan is only the subject of deliberation here and has no voting rights.
The rise of the National People's Congress allowed Zhou Chuan to see the huge power of this group. Zhou Chuan underestimated the results of the National People's Congress and shot himself in the foot.
Zhou Chuan's tactics against Chen Qingyun were not only resolved by Chen Qingyun, but Chen Qingyun took advantage of the situation and directly intervened in the specific work of the government.
Regarding the more than 10 billion yuan spent on the village-to-village project, when reviewing the performance report of the Audit Director, the National People's Congress instructs the Audit Director to complete the audit of the village-to-village project before next year's National People's Congress and submit it to the National People's Congress.
Detailed audit report.
This move was even more powerful than dealing with the Finance Minister. Chen Qingyun interfered in government work, not in the name of the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee, but in the name of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, which made Zhou Chuan even more angry.
In the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhou Chuan has more say. After all, he is the deputy squad leader of the Municipal Party Committee. It is different in the National People's Congress, he has no voting rights.
This time the government's annual performance report revealed several monsters one after another: the future of the director of the National Development and Reform Commission was uncertain, the director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission was directly replaced, and the director of the Department of Finance became the first untrustworthy director in Chengdu in decades.
Winning down several very important department heads seems insignificant compared to the National People's Congress reviewing specific budget expenditures.
Next came the performance report of the mayor and deputy mayor. All the informants stared at Chen Qingyun: What should this tricky secretary do next?