China’s local finances are tight, and random fines have appeared in many places. (Archyde.com)
2022/08/30 06:21
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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report]In Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China, it was recently reported that a vegetable vendor was fined 66,000 yuan (about NT$290,000) for failing to pass the random inspection after selling 5 catties of celery, which caused heated discussions in the Chinese society. In fact, in recent years, the situation of indiscriminate fines by local governments in China has emerged one after another, causing a lot of public grievances. Some experts bluntly said that this is due to the tight local finances.
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According to Chinese media reports, in recent years, the “three chaos” situation of “arbitrary fees, arbitrary fines, and arbitrary apportionment (meaning that there is no legal basis and forcibly charging by authority)” has been criticized in Chinese society, and some data show that in recent years, many places in China have been criticized. Income from fines and confiscations has increased significantly. To this end, the State Council of China issued the “Opinions on Further Regulating the Formulation and Management of Administrative Discretion Benchmarks” on the 17th of this month, requiring governments at all levels and their departments to strictly prohibit the use of fines to generate income, and to put an end to the use of fines as performance appraisal indicators.
In this regard, Cheng Yu, a senior researcher at the Chinese think tank “Beijing Understanding Research Institute”, told “China News Weekly” that the current global inflation problem is serious, coupled with the impact of the Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic in recent years, China measures Various indicators of economic growth (such as GDP, PPI, CPI) are declining, and local governments are also in a tight financial situation, so there is a chaos of “fancy fines” to generate income.
Chinese media pointed out that the transportation sector is the hardest hit area for random fines. Some “enforcement” has no legal basis, and some departments even offer “monthly fines”. For example, some truck drivers in Chengwu County, Shandong Province “cooperate” with the local transportation bureau. , drivers pay the fine for the month in advance, commonly known as “monthly pass”, and the transportation monitoring unit guarantees that the “customer”‘s truck, whether it is overloaded or super high, can be unimpeded within one month.
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