A deputy mayor of Yunnan was suspected of hiring a water army to brush tickets and was reported to the official response.

　　 Zhongqing Online, Beijing, August 6 (China Youth Daily, Zhongqing Online reporter Fu Xiaoling) Recently, an online forum broke the news that a deputy mayor of shizong county, Qujing City, Yunnan Province was suspected of using the "network water army" to brush tickets for rural selection, and then refused to pay. This incident quickly triggered a hot discussion on the Internet, and Xu Zhiping, the deputy mayor of Zhuji Town, shizong county, Qujing City, who was suspected of looking for a "network water army" to brush tickets, was pushed to the forefront.

　　 On the evening of August 5th, in response to the recent concern of all parties on the Internet, the propaganda department of Qujing Municipal Committee, the organizer of this selection, made the latest response to this public opinion on its official platforms "Weibo Qujing" and "Pearl River Network" respectively: online voting only accounts for a quarter of the selection activities, and the organizing committee will recommend the units that will enter the next round of selection according to the comprehensive scores of the three platforms "Pearl River Network", "Qujing M" and "Pocket Qujing"; At the same time, the organizer said that the selection was aimed at improving the popularity of Qujing village, but a few netizens and leading cadres used abnormal means such as canvassing and brushing the screen, which violated the original intention of the selection. The organizing Committee will seriously check it and also check the votes of other participating villages. Netizens are welcome to continue to supervise.

　　 Professor Peng Zhenhuai, Dean of the Research Institute of the New Normal Think Tank, said in an interview with Zhongqing Online reporter of China Youth Daily that the deputy mayor was wrong, but this kind of rural appraisal was not worth promoting, and seven organizers, including the Propaganda Department of Qujing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, were also to blame, and the grass-roots selection system still needed to be improved.

　　 The first person who posted the news on the online forum was a college student studying in a university in Changsha. According to him, he and his classmates found a part-time job in a voting company in Changsha. Only by completing the task of brushing tickets assigned by the company can they earn income. On June 10th, the first "livable Qujing beautiful countryside" village selection was officially launched in Qujing City, Yunnan Province. Around July 14th, the Changsha voting company got in touch with Xu Zhiping, deputy mayor of Zhuji Town, shizong county City, Qujing City, and the two reached a cooperation agreement worth 9,000 yuan: the company will brush tickets for Shuji Village, Zhuji Town, shizong county, one of the 135 participating villages, to ensure that it will enter the top three online voting platforms. After the transaction was confirmed, the company hired people from different regions to vote on the official platform with the network IP of their respective regions, and this student was one of them. In order to complete the task, the student even changed his mobile phone, computer and internet cafe to obtain different network IP, so as to achieve the goal of investing more in one day.

　　 However, in the end, Xu Zhiping refused to pay because the voting company did not vote on the other two online platforms. Because the agreement between the two parties was reached by SMS and orally, it did not have legal effect, and the wages of the student and his classmates also went up in smoke.

　　 After the network exposure, Xu Zhiping was taken away by the shizong county Commission for Discipline Inspection for investigation. On August 3rd, a reporter from China Youth Daily, Zhongqing Online, dialed the phone number of the Party and Government Office of Zhuji Town. Li Yongjun, director of the Party and Government Office, said that he and Wang Fujian, the mayor of Zhuji Town, only learned about the matter after the incident. "I don’t know about the behavior of finding someone to vote and the grassroots selection activities. Now the county commission for discipline inspection has been involved in the investigation."

　　 On the same day, the publisher of the news changed his attitude and left a message under his own post: "We are ashamed to ruin the future of an official for a few hundred dollars." At present, the classmate and the reporter of the online voting company involved in Changsha can’t be contacted.

　　 China Youth Daily Zhongqing Online reporter learned from the Propaganda Department of Qujing Municipal Committee that the first "Livable Qujing beautiful countryside" selection campaign was jointly launched by the Propaganda Department of Qujing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Agricultural Office of Qujing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and other Qujing municipal units under the background of building "beautiful countryside" in Yunnan Province, and online voting portals were built on platforms such as "Pearl River Network" and "Pocket Qujing", aiming to provide more benefits for Qujing locals to travel on weekends by discovering and launching a number of beautiful countryside with local characteristics.

　　 "When these villages really have ‘ Eat, live, travel and buy entertainment ’ After the conditions, we will select it as ‘ Beautiful countryside ’ And build rural brands in an all-round way by means of capital operation and excavating historical and cultural resources, and promote the development of all aspects of rural undertakings. "Fu Erhua, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Qujing Municipal Committee, said that this kind of village voting is the first time in Qujing City.

　　 According to the person in charge of the project of "Pearl River Network", "The management right of the platform belongs to the organizers such as the Propaganda Department of Qujing Municipal Committee, and we only open windows according to its voting rules and activity procedures, and do not participate in the voting process." By the end of the voting, Shuji Village in Zhuji Town ranked second among the 30 participating villages and towns with 11,034 votes.

　　 "Online voting only accounts for a quarter of the selection process", Fu Erhua told Zhongqing Online reporter of China Youth Daily that this activity will last for four months, and it will go through four stages of selection: recommendation by counties and cities, online voting, reporter’s interview and expert evaluation, and finally the results will be produced according to the comprehensive scores of the four items. "Once shizong county’s situation is verified, we will immediately cancel all his qualifications."

　　 "If the agreement between Xu Zhiping, the deputy mayor, and the online voting company has not been exposed, will this appraisal go smoothly? Is it possible for 135 villages to be manipulated by network companies? " Professor Peng Zhenhuai, Dean of the New Normal Think Tank Research Institute, expressed concern when interviewed by Zhongqing Online reporter of China Youth Daily. Although the organizers said afterwards that they would verify the votes of other villages, in Peng Zhenhuai’s view, they ignored the applicability of online voting to rural residents, and the act of hiring the water army to brush tickets was in a blank area of the law, "making the selection activity a tool for collecting money from the ticket-brushing company."

　　 "There is a big problem in the online ticketing system itself." Yu Jianrong, a professor at the Institute of Rural Development of China Academy of Social Sciences, told the China Youth Daily that the virtuality of online voting and technological loopholes made this village selection entertaining and could not reflect the real problems at the grassroots level, so it was difficult to produce practical effects.

　　 Zhu Lijia, director of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the National School of Administration, said that the students and the deputy mayor who participated in the ticket brushing were hard to blame. He suggested that "it is beyond reproach to improve the village environment and promote economic and social development through selection activities. The key lies in the scientific, objective and true evaluation procedures, so as not to mislead the formulation of relevant policies."

　　 In addition to the loopholes in network evaluation, experts also questioned this activity. “‘ Beautiful countryside ’ The selection activity itself is a formalistic act divorced from reality. Peng Zhenhuai believes that in this incident, Xu Zhiping, the deputy mayor, is certainly wrong, but the relevant organizers should reflect on it. On the one hand, they did not disclose the specific assessment criteria for the participating units at first, and the selection lacked actual survey data and public opinion; On the other hand, participants don’t know the weight of each appraisal link in the results, which leads to the grass-roots staff being exhausted and operating illegally. As a result, the utilitarian tendency has played down the actual effect of the beautiful and livable villages and towns participating in the evaluation. This appraisal activity should not have been advocated.

　　 At present, there are not a few such grassroots appraisals, and the appraisal results in many places are even directly linked to the performance appraisal of cadres. Peng Zhenhuai pointed out: "The high-profile selection consumes administrative resources and distorts the local political style. In the end, it may not really solve the problem for the people. Grassroots performance appraisal should still be pragmatic. "

　　 In Zhu Lijia’s view, although the village selection results can be used as one of the evaluation criteria for grassroots leading cadres, it is not all. All localities should improve the system of cadre promotion and government agency evaluation based on specific conditions, and whether the people are satisfied is the most important basis.

　　 How to prevent the selection of grass-roots units from starting with great vigour and ending with nothing? Zhu Lijia believes that online participation can bring positive pressure and motivation to village governance, but relevant departments still need to implement the selection effect through specific publicity and promotion according to local conditions.

　　 "beautiful countryside is really doing it, not judging it." As one of the original proponents of the concept of "beautiful countryside", Peng Zhenhuai emphasized the importance of problem awareness and hard work spirit for rural construction. "It is better to let farmers feel the improvement in front of the house than in the back."

　　 Peng Zhen Huai suggested that various counties and districts can set up several "beautiful countryside" models through field visits, so that each village can learn from the models around it. "At present, there are about 900 million farmers in China. Local governments should focus on improving agricultural production and operation conditions and increasing farmers’ income. Relevant departments in Qujing City should make great efforts to make a fuss about accurate poverty alleviation. Only by finding out the actual problems in rural areas through investigation can we achieve ‘ Beautiful countryside ’ Good wishes. "