Best Guide to Sunzhuang Village, Zhuangtou Township, Weishi County, Henan Province

On June 15, 2004, our newspaper once again received a report from people in Zhuangtou Township, Weishi County, Henan Province. It was reported that Liu Changliu, the village party secretary of Sunzhuang Village in this township, had been returning farmland to forests and Under many pretexts such as buying peach saplings, he embezzled and sold collective property amounting to hundreds of thousands of yuan. After receiving the report, the reporter quickly rushed to Sunzhuang Village, Zhuangtou Township, Weishi County, and investigated the problems reported by the villagers. As the investigation deepened, more situations surfaced that shocked the reporter

Zhuangtou Township is located in the northwest of Weishi County. It has 35 administrative villages and is a provincial-level poverty-stricken township. Sunzhuang Village, located in the northwest of Zhuangtou Township, is an economically backward village. In June 2000, villager Liu Changliu took office and became the village party secretary.

In the spring of 2001, Sunzhuang Village responded to the call of the township party committee and government, vigorously adjusted the agricultural industrial structure, and planted peach saplings on more than 500 acres of hilly land in the west of the village. According to villagers, it was village party secretary Liu Changliu who was responsible for purchasing peach seedlings for the masses this time. He charged an additional 0.5 yuan on top of the original price of 3 yuan per peach seedling. *** planted 150,000 peach trees in the village's 500-acre peach grove, and *** overcharged 75,000 yuan, which was not included in the village's financial accounts. Facing reporters' questions, Sunzhuang Village Party Secretary Liu Changliu told reporters unabashedly: "I spent more than 70,000 yuan when I went traveling, and I didn't spend it alone."

During the investigation, the reporter also discovered that during the process of returning farmland to forestry in Sunzhuang Village in 2003, the village overreported the conversion of more than 300 acres of farmland to forestry. Liu Changliu also included 19 acres of farmland planted by his family from 1998 to 2002. The forest land was reported to the police, and the compensation for returning farmland to forest was defrauded. Sun Taicheng, a group of villagers in the village, told reporters: "I did not return farmland to forests, let alone plant trees. However, when I returned farmland to forests in 2003, the village forced me to fill out a report stating that the area of ????converting farmland to forests was one acre. Now I still have food. I have never seen any subsidies at the village committee. "Among the more than 300 acres of farmland returned to forest, there are 158 acres of compensation money and materials. The village finance does not show that the 15 yuan should be paid to each villager. The compensation was actually only 7.5 yuan. The village party secretary Liu Changliu explained to the villagers: "The remaining 7,000 yuan has been used as the village's office expenses." According to the reporter, since Liu Changliu has been the village party secretary for 40 months, the village has spent as much as 260,000 yuan on food and drinks alone. , which is undoubtedly a huge sum of money that the poor Sunzhuang Village cannot bear. In April this year, the Weishi County Agricultural Economic Station sent people to conduct an investigation and found out other illegal activities by Liu Changliu, secretary of the Sunzhuang Village branch, and took away 13,000 yuan of "problem" money.

The reporter casually visited seven other administrative villages and found that other villages also had false reports to varying degrees on the issue of returning farmland to forests. During the interview, many vegetable farmers in the township reported to reporters that the township party committee and government had committed fraud and falsely reported the per capita net income of vegetable farmers. An official from the township who participated in the transportation of vegetables told reporters: "Our township is a key township that Kaifeng City is paying attention to, because the party committee secretary of our township is a typical figure established by the Kaifeng Municipal Committee in May last year. The reason why he is a typical person is that he optimizes It has changed the agricultural industrial structure, but in fact, this so-called image project has not brought much benefit to the masses as everyone said. The villagers have been talking about how much profit we can make in a month by shipping vegetables directly to Hong Kong. This is not true. Many times, after the vegetables were brought to Xinzheng Airport, they were resold to local vegetable sellers at a low price. Each time, the villagers kept a lid on such information, not only because they were afraid of their superiors. The leaders know it, and they are even more afraid that the vegetable farmers will know it.”

As a township supported by the county and the city, why have the problems reported by the people in Sunzhuang Village not been solved? Is this inseparable from the existence of a community of interests? Is there anything wrong with Liu Changliu? Who is acting as a "protective umbrella" for Liu Changliu? What is the current social reality in Zhuangtou Township? This newspaper will follow up and report.