Very Secretary

"Chairman Park is really willing to put down the capital. 20% of the profit is not small." Lu Jianhong sat up straight, tapped the envelope with her finger, and said suddenly, "President Park, do you think I am a secretary of the municipal party committee?" ,busy or not?"

  Pu Zhiqian was a little puzzled by Lu Jianhong's question, but he understood the truth that good things are not too much, so he naturally flattered him: "Secretary Lu has a lot of things to do every day, so he is naturally very busy."

  Lu Jianhong laughed: "To be honest, I'm really busy. Do you know how busy I am? I don't even have time to spend money. So—"

"What do I want so much money for?" Lu Jianhong's tone was a little more serious, "Pu Dong, as I said, I'm very busy and I've finished talking about work, so I don't have time to chat with you about private matters. , please go out."

   At this time, Pu Zhiqian knew that Lu Jianhong was making fun of him, and the jealousy in his bones was immediately aroused: "Secretary Lu, are you losing face?"

  A stern light flashed in Lu Jianhong's eyes: "Pu Zhiqian, you have to find out who you are talking to. Just because you bribed me just now, I can call the police and arrest you!"

  Pu Zhiqian was stunned. What Lu Jianhong said was the truth, not false threats. Of course, he couldn't sit still.

  Just as he was about to leave, Lu Jianhong said, "Take this envelope away."

Pu Zhiqian sighed in his heart, this Lu Jianhong was really incorrigible, so he had to grab the envelope, and Lu Jianhong said again: "I can pretend that what happened today didn't happen, but your company must follow the city government's punishment statement Execute, rectify as soon as possible, after half a month, if the people that your company is responsible for supplying still can’t drink clean and sanitary tap water, don’t blame the law enforcement agencies for acting according to the law and shutting down the company.”

   Facing Lu Jianhong's words, Pu Zhiqian thought it was a threat from Lu Jianhong's Chi Guoguo. He was annoyed for a moment, and then lost his composure: "If you don't have money, you can do whatever you want."

Seeing Pu Zhiqian push the door away, Lu Jianhong was so stunned that he couldn't speak. No one dared to talk to him like this for so many years, especially if he was the boss of a company who challenged him openly. He really didn't know how much he weighed. Two.

The pollution of tap water is not a small matter. Although it has been properly dealt with, both Lu Jianhong and Qi Jiaping believe that the alarm bell must be ringing, so a meeting was held to summarize the cause of the incident. Lu Jianhong It is pointed out that the high risk of the water supply industry comes not only from the hidden dangers of water source and water delivery safety caused by environmental pollution and unreasonable urban layout, but also from the poor mechanism and chaotic management of water supply and other public utilities. This incident of benzene exceeding the standard is a concentrated expression of the staged contradictions in the development of my country's water supply industry, exposing the severe challenges facing the safety of drinking water in cities.

  In order to avoid similar incidents from happening again, Lu Jianhong believed that it was necessary to establish a market-oriented detection mechanism. Both the government and enterprises should strengthen the management and control of potential risk indicators according to the local tap water sources, soil covered by pipes, groundwater pollution, etc., and strengthen the detection of source water and the monitoring of potential pollution sources. Monitoring characteristic pollutants in the water supply process cannot solve the problem.

  Water companies, regardless of their public or private names, safety and efficiency are the requirements of the water supply industry, and supervision cannot be relaxed just because they are private enterprises. In the field of water supply, due to the existence of natural monopoly, it is impossible to carry out sufficient market competition. Drinking water safety must be led by the government, and complete marketization will bring some problems that enterprises cannot solve.

  Lu Jianhong said, first, in the municipal public sector, marketization is never an end but a means. The root cause of the current problems in the local water system reform is the local government's misunderstanding of marketization.

  No matter what mode of cooperation between the government and enterprises, in essence, it cannot change the social welfare attributes of municipal public infrastructure that require capital investment to maintain construction and operation. From the experience of developed countries, the government invests in infrastructure such as water supply and drainage, and the required funds come from water resources fees, taxes paid by related enterprises, and urban public utility surcharges. However, in recent years, many local governments in China regard the restructuring of water affairs and the reorganization of water supply companies as a fiscal burden or even a financing tool.

  In some places, not only high premiums are required when bidding, but also companies are required to be responsible for their own profits and losses after restructuring. The long-term absence of water source protection, management construction, and transformation that should have been invested by the local government is the root cause of weak supervision, lagging infrastructure, and inadequate security work. Jinyuan Water Company is an obvious example. However, the local government’s excessive demand for capital in the restructuring of the municipal sector not only occurs in cooperation with foreign companies, but also in cases of state-owned and private enterprises. Therefore, the cooperation between the government and enterprises can return to the original source, that is, the government should not give more financing functions to enterprises, but should focus on giving full play to their professional expertise.

  Second, safety and efficiency are the basic requirements for the water supply industry, regardless of public or private. There are also problems in the public sector, and they all need to strengthen supervision and social supervision. On the one hand, local governments have the ability and means to supervise and restrict franchise enterprises. The government has the power to take back the franchise rights according to the law, and also has the power to use the security deposits of franchise companies. Local governments should pass laws and regulations to require water supply companies to disclose costs and water quality, and at the same time introduce third-party testing mechanisms to increase social supervision. On the other hand, for water supply enterprises with redundant personnel and backward management, they cannot be allowed to stand on the national signboard and not think about improvement. It is also particularly urgent to introduce advanced production, management, and assessment models.

  So how to ensure the safety of drinking water? Lu Jianhong believes that in the future, the government's finances will not be absent in improving the infrastructure of the water supply industry and ensuring the safety of water sources.

  By paying taxes and fees to the city government, it has undertaken the obligation of urban infrastructure construction, and the government has the responsibility to use the collected taxes and fees for the construction and maintenance of urban public infrastructure such as urban water supply and garbage disposal. However, at present, most city governments still require water supply companies to raise their own funds for the development and construction of new urban water sources, water supply pipeline construction, and investment in energy enhancement and transformation. It is suggested that local government finance, development and reform (price) and other departments should fix the subsidy funds for urban infrastructure in a certain proportion from the local financial budget.

  Lu Jianhong's words were undoubtedly a boost to public welfare, not only in the tap water, but also in other public welfare. At the same time, it also set the tone for the investigation and punishment of Jinyuan Water Company half a month later.

   (to be continued)