Ten Questions and Ten Answers on the Reform of Medical Insurance Account: How to Protect the Benefits of Retirees by Outpatient Mutual Aid

  At the beginning of this year, many places began to start the reform of employee outpatient mutual aid security. This system, which concerns the interests of 354 million medical insurance participants, requires that the payment of benefits be tilted towards retirees. By the end of 2021, there were 93.24 million retired employees in the basic medical insurance system for employees.

  At present, 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have issued documents to improve the mutual aid guarantee mechanism for local employees’ medical insurance clinics. Among them, many provinces and cities stipulate that the outpatient payment limit and payment ratio of retirees are higher than those of on-the-job employees.

  Even so, among the public opinions received by local medical insurance departments, retirees think that "after the reform, the level of treatment has decreased due to the reduction of the amount of personal accounts", accounting for the majority.

  In the policy explanation, the medical insurance departments in many places clearly stated that after the reform, the personal accounts of most insured persons will be reduced in the current period. At the same time, they also used specific data and cases to explain to the public that for retirees who suffer from chronic diseases at their own expense, the benefits of outpatient mutual aid far exceed the reduction of personal accounts, often by reducing hundreds of yuan, reimbursing thousands or even thousands of yuan.

  Medical insurance bureau, Hunan Province, said in "Interpretation of Policies on Improving Personal Accounts of Retired Workers" that the outpatient mutual aid mechanism is to use the law of large numbers to resolve the risks of social groups. The number of personal accounts for medical insurance is different from that of individuals at present, but in terms of system, mutual aid guarantee has a more risk prevention function. Workers’ medical insurance is not only a personal account and general outpatient co-ordination, but also a series of policies such as outpatient treatment of chronic and special diseases and hospitalization treatment, which constitute a complete security system.

  A few days ago, CBN interviewed many experts in the industry on the hot issues of personal account reform of medical insurance that the public cares about. Experts generally believe that the medical insurance personal account has completed its historical mission for more than 20 years and its limitations are gradually becoming prominent. It is the general direction to gradually replace the personal account with outpatient mutual aid according to the principle of "rights replacement".

  This is a reform that affects the whole body. In the long run, the insured will benefit from the reform, but in the short term, the interests of some people will be damaged. How to improve the supporting mechanism to make the insured more sense of acquisition is a key issue that must be paid attention to in the next step of reform.

  CBN also learned from relevant departments that some targeted measures are being introduced one after another, for example, in order to facilitate patients to enjoy treatment nearby, support patients to settle accounts and dispense medicines in designated retail pharmacies with prescriptions, enjoy the same reimbursement treatment as those in medical institutions, and explore the inclusion of qualified "internet plus" medical services in the scope of protection to improve the convenience of enjoying treatment.

  Q: At the beginning of this year, the reform of outpatient mutual aid was launched in many places. In some areas, retirees reported that the funds in personal accounts of medical insurance were reduced, which affected the daily cost of buying medicines. The reform of outpatient mutual aid is inclined to the elderly, but why do the elderly think that their interests are damaged?

  Zhu Minglai (Director, Health Economy and Medical Security Research Center, Nankai University)The original intention of this reform is to hope that the sick and the elderly with poor health can have more benefits, rather than harming their interests.

  It is believed that only a part of the elderly people have their interests damaged, which does not mean all the elderly people. Different groups of people have different demands. At present, people who feel that their interests are damaged are mainly elderly people who usually have minor illnesses. The funds in personal accounts can cover their daily expenses for buying medicines and seeing a doctor. If the funds in personal accounts decline, it will have an impact on their daily medical payment; However, for the elderly who suffer from chronic diseases, need to take medicine for a long time and go to the clinic for medical treatment, the funds in his personal account are not enough. According to the previous policy, after spending the funds in his personal account, the outpatient expenses have to be paid at his own expense. Therefore, for the elderly with higher outpatient expenses, the benefits will not be damaged, but a higher reimbursement level will be obtained.

  It is also mentioned in the policy interpretation of "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Wuhan Employees’ Basic Medical Insurance Outpatient Mutual Aid Security" that the insured Zhou, a retired person, is 68 years old, with an annual pension income of 50,000 yuan. Before the reform, his personal account was transferred to 2,400 yuan every year. Suffering from cerebral infarction, I went to the outpatient department of a tertiary hospital for medical treatment. This year, I incurred a reimbursable expense of 7,150 yuan. If I reimbursed according to the outpatient co-ordination policy, excluding the threshold fee of 500 yuan, I can reimburse (7,150-500) yuan * 60% = 3,990 yuan according to the reimbursement ratio of 60% in tertiary hospitals. Although Zhou’s personal account was less than 1404 yuan after the reform, he enjoyed more than 2586 yuan.

  twoQ: In April 2021, the State Council issued the guiding opinions on the reform of outpatient mutual aid, and the local authorities received many public opinions when formulating implementation rules and popularizing policies. For example, the Hunan Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau said that the public opinions received recently focused on reflecting that "the level of treatment after the reform has declined", especially for retired employees whose original personal accounts were included in the annual level of more than 2,900 yuan. In your opinion, what problems do retirees’ concerns about the reform of outpatient mutual aid reflect?

  Lou Yu (Professor, School of Civil and Commercial Economics, China University of Political Science and Law, Director of Institute of Social Law)Since the basic medical insurance system for employees was fully implemented in China in 1997, personal account has been an important medical insurance system. Not only have many structural systems become path-dependent, but the reform of one of them will "affect the whole body", and in the short term, the reform will harm the interests of some people. How to make reasonable compensation for those who have lost interests is also a major event related to the success or failure of the reform.

  The reform plan of outpatient mutual aid is to reduce the funds remitted by retired insured persons into their personal accounts every month, and the saved funds are used for outpatient serious illness co-ordination. This plan is in line with the development direction of medical insurance, and its original intention is very good, but it is very important to consider the details comprehensively in implementation, which may affect the insured persons’ acceptance of the reform and the effect of the reform. The first thing is that publicity must be in place. After all, personal accounts have existed for more than 20 years. Although the nature of their personal property has not been written into the law, it has formed a basic consensus in the whole society. Secondly, supporting measures must be kept up in time, such as increasing the allocation of common diseases drugs in primary medical institutions, making insured people run less, improving the convenience of the system and reducing personal burden.

  threeQ: Some netizens said that "the personal account has been transferred less, ‘ Lose money ’ ",for individuals, medical costs will increase because of this reform?

  Liao Zangyi (Associate Professor, School of Politics and Public Administration, China University of Political Science and Law)Generally speaking, for individuals, their medical costs will not increase because of this reform. Everyone should calculate both small accounts and big accounts. After the reform, the overall planning fund has been strengthened, and after illness, it can be reimbursed through the overall planning fund. Everyone helps each other and the protection will be more adequate. It is necessary to calculate both immediate accounts and long-term accounts. Everyone is old and sick sometimes. Although young and healthy people don’t see many doctors now, the economic risks brought by diseases exist for a long time. Everyone should also look at the difference between income mechanism and insurance mechanism rationally. Under the big framework of social medical insurance, the funds in personal accounts are "medical expenses", not salary income or welfare. When people are old and sick, it is always limited to rely on personal accounts and personal accumulation. All of them need solid and sustainable medical insurance to realize social mutual help and help to resolve the disease risk, and they will benefit from this reform in the long run.

  Guangdong Medical Insurance Bureau mentioned a case in the Q&A on the reform of outpatient mutual aid guarantee mechanism, which showed that Hua Jie, a retired employee, paid more than 480 yuan for lung CT in November 2022, and paid for it in full. After the implementation of outpatient mutual aid in Guangzhou, Sister Hua recently went to the hospital for CT and found that she only had to pay more than 140 yuan for the same project, and the overall fund paid 70%.

  According to the calculation of Hunan Medical Insurance Bureau, after the reform, the maximum payment limit of the on-the-job employee pooling fund is 1,500 yuan, and the maximum payment limit of the retirees pooling fund is 2,000 yuan. In 2021, the province’s annual per capita personal account fund income was 1,727 yuan/person, and the personal account fund expenditure was 1,438 yuan/person. At present, the payment limit determined by the general outpatient co-ordination policy, plus the amount transferred from the personal account, can basically meet the outpatient medical needs of the insured.

  Four questions: China’s personal accounts have existed for more than 20 years. Why should we start the reform of outpatient security including personal accounts recently?

  Lou Yu:The original intention of the medical insurance personal account system design is to hope that the insured can share the risk of outpatient expenses through long-term accumulation, that is, pay more to the personal account when they are young, but not when they are old, and the medical insurance account is used to pay for outpatient expenses. However, this original intention has not been well realized in practice: the insured people tend to be short-sighted, and a large amount of funds have accumulated in their personal accounts, which has caused high moral hazard, which not only doubled the pressure of supervision, but also limited funds in each insured person’s account, which can only be used to pay small outpatient expenses, and the high outpatient expenses cannot be paid, which is also inconsistent with the principle of "ensuring the big but not the small" in medical insurance, and unfair to insured patients who really need to rely on the medical insurance system to solve high expenses. Therefore, there are many criticisms about personal accounts in medical insurance practice, and all sectors of society are actively seeking reform plans for accounts.

  Once any system is fixed, it will be very difficult to reform, because any reform is a redistribution of interests. It is easy to reform a specific system, but a comprehensive and comprehensive evaluation of the system and a systematic solution to the problem test the wisdom of the reformers. No matter from the medical insurance practice in China or the system implementation in other countries, it is difficult for a purely accumulated personal account to play the role of the law of large insurance numbers, and it is impossible to share the disease risk and help the funds in a larger scope. It has reached a social consensus that personal account funds should be used for the overall planning of high outpatient expenses, which should be the general direction of reform. However, this reform needs a systematic system design, and necessary supporting measures must be introduced in time to reduce the proportion of medical insurance account allocation.

  Five questions: The reform of outpatient co-ordination is a systematic project, in which reducing the funds allocated by personal accounts should be the simplest to operate, but if the supporting policies can’t keep up, there may also be cases of damage to rights and interests. In your opinion, the outpatient mutual aid system should really protect the interests of the insured, which supporting reforms are indispensable?

  Zhu Minglai:I think one of the important reasons why some retirees are concerned about the reduction of personal account funds is that some supporting policies have not kept up in time. The biggest supporting policy of outpatient mutual aid reform is medical care and medicine, such as the accessibility of medical services. Some elderly people have reported that things that could be solved by taking medicine and swiping cards at pharmacies are now going to the hospital. If he does not trust the first-and second-level hospitals, he may have to queue up for a long time at the third-level hospitals. And sometimes when you get to the hospital, the hospital may be short of medicine, and you have to go to the pharmacy to get medicine. This will add a lot of burden to the elderly in running errands.

  This is also the direction to further improve the supporting policies. Specifically, efforts can be made in three aspects: First, support patients to settle accounts and dispense medicines in designated retail pharmacies with external prescriptions, enjoy the same reimbursement treatment as in medical institutions, and give full play to the convenience of designated retail pharmacies. The second is to explore the inclusion of qualified "internet plus" medical services in the scope of protection, so as to improve the convenience of enjoying treatment. The third is to explore and promote the circulation of electronic prescriptions to better solve the needs of drug purchase settlement.

  Six questions: The level of economic development and welfare varies from place to place, so does the level of outpatient co-ordination. If the overall level of outpatient service in a region is relatively low, can it make up for the welfare loss caused by reducing the funds in personal accounts?

  Liao Zangyi:Local governments will encounter some difficulties in establishing outpatient co-ordination. First, the medical insurance information system should keep up, and all designated pharmacies in the co-ordination area should be opened to ensure that patients can enjoy real-time settlement without manual reimbursement. Secondly, medical insurance supervision and intelligent audit should keep up. After the outpatient service is improved, many people will definitely try their best to gain benefits by reselling drugs, which puts forward higher requirements for the refined management and intelligent monitoring of medical insurance.

  For the welfare loss that may be caused by the low level of overall planning, we can start from three aspects. First, after the implementation of the outpatient mutual aid system, the deductible line for outpatient reimbursement should be appropriately reduced, and the proportion of reimbursement can be appropriately increased. This needs to be dynamically adjusted by the medical insurance department through actuarial science to effectively enhance the people’s sense of gain; Second, the coverage of outpatient mutual aid should be improved, from the existing two diseases, renal dialysis, outpatient radiotherapy and chemotherapy, etc., and gradually expanded to most diseases can enjoy reimbursement treatment to reflect fairness; Third, we can refer to the guarantee policy of hospitalization treatment. If the insured person’s annual outpatient expenses exceed a certain proportion, it can be classified as large medical expenses, and should be guaranteed twice or matched with the corresponding bottom-up mechanism.

  Seven questions: Many retirees are used to going to designated retail pharmacies to buy medicines. After implementing outpatient mutual aid, what support measures are there for designated retail pharmacies?

  Zhu Minglai:The reform puts forward that the drug guarantee service of qualified designated retail pharmacies should be included in the scope of outpatient service, and the payment of the overall fund should be extended to qualified designated medical insurance pharmacies, with the purpose of facilitating patients to submit reimbursement nearby and reducing the cost burden. Insured patients can only use personal accounts to pay for drugs purchased at designated retail pharmacies. After the reform, they can use personal accounts or enjoy reimbursement from the overall fund with external prescriptions. According to the relevant data, since the implementation of the reform, the scale of personal accounts used in designated retail pharmacies has increased, which also shows that pharmacies have benefited from the reform measures such as personal accounts helping families and expanding the scope of personal accounts.

  However, we can’t ignore the violation of laws and regulations in the operation of designated retail pharmacies. For example, it is very common for some city pharmacies to use medical insurance funds to pay for health care products and daily necessities. We must strengthen supervision over this kind of misappropriation and application of medical insurance funds.

  Eight questions: after the implementation of outpatient mutual aid, will it increase the number of hospital outpatients and labor costs?

  Liao Zangyi:In the short term, it may increase the number of outpatients in hospitals, such as many minor illnesses such as colds and coughs. Before the reform, many patients will carry on and recover by their own immunity, which can save money after all. After the reform, considering that medical insurance can be reimbursed, some people will have the mentality of "not spending money and not spending money", and there is indeed a risk of increasing the number of hospital outpatients and labor costs in the short term, but with the passage of time, after the market gradually returns to rationality, this phenomenon will gradually fall back to the state before the reform.

  Question 9: What is the nature of the funds in the medical insurance personal account?

  Lou Yu:According to the Decision on Establishing the Basic Medical Insurance System for Urban Workers promulgated by the State Council in 1998, the combination of social pooling and individual accounts is the basic principle of basic medical insurance for employees. The principal and interest of individual accounts are owned by individuals and can be carried forward and inherited. This is the basis for the general public to believe that the legal nature of personal accounts is personal property. However, this decision has a low legal rank, and it is not an administrative regulation with external legal effect. It is only a normative document for building a medical insurance system within the administrative organs of people’s society, and it has only guiding significance for the provisions on the nature of individual accounts. The Social Insurance Law promulgated in 2010 didn’t stipulate the unified account as the financing principle of basic medical insurance, and didn’t stipulate the legal nature of individual account, which is considered that legislators don’t recognize the financing rules and payment methods of individual account, leaving enough room for future reform.

  Question 10: The Social Insurance Law promulgated in 2010 did not mention the personal account of medical insurance. Does it mean that the general direction of future reform is to replace the personal account with the outpatient mutual aid guarantee mechanism?

  Liao Zangyi:The general direction of future reform can consider gradually reducing personal accounts until they are cancelled. On the one hand, gradually reduce or stop the proportion of unit contributions to individual accounts; On the other hand, gradually abolish the regulation that individual contributions are transferred to individual accounts, and include individual contributions in the overall fund, such as establishing outpatient mutual aid system. Although there may be great resistance in actual operation, in fact, some areas have already tried this method and achieved good results.

Direct attack on the truth of Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily large smuggling and bribery case

  Since the 1990s, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, has been a frequent and high-risk area for smuggling cases. In the meantime, although the State Council, the CPC Central Committee, constantly increased its anti-smuggling efforts. However, since 1996, smuggling activities in this area have not only been repeatedly banned, but have intensified and become a "smuggler’s paradise".

  Among the leaders of criminal gangs, Chen Lisheng, known as the "king of car smuggling", has the deepest "water" and the most background, because his father is Chen Tongqing, the former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee. After Chen Lisheng graduated from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1987, relying on Chen Tongqing’s power and influence, he first went to Hong Kong for fake formalities, became a Hong Kong resident, and then returned to Zhanjiang to set up a fake joint venture company, smuggling wildly, and earned hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years. At the beginning of 1996, Chen Lisheng and Deng Chong ‘an conspired with Li Shen and others to smuggle cars in Hong Kong and make profits from them. Deng Chong ‘an is responsible for organizing the supply of goods, Chen Lisheng is responsible for customs declaration in Hong Kong, export, shipping and picking up smuggled goods in Zhanjiang, and handing them over to Deng Chong ‘an, while Li Shen and Zhang Yi are responsible for clearing the relationship and customs declaration, and collecting customs clearance remuneration of HK$ 70,000-100,000 per container. What they often use in smuggling is to falsely report the name and quantity of the goods. For example, on December 29th, 1996, they shipped 68 cars to Zhanjiang Port in 12 containers, and declared them as auto parts. Only this sum evaded the tax payable of more than 13 million yuan. From May 1996 to April 1998, Deng Chongan participated in the smuggling of more than 2,900 car bodies and evaded the tax payable of 230 million yuan. Chen Lisheng participated in the smuggling of 1,905 car bodies, and smuggled more than 10,000 tons of diesel oil, and evaded the tax payable by 170 million yuan.

  Chunhua Lin is the most nouveau riche among the leaders of criminal gangs. He was a salesman of a company in the 1980s, and within a few years he became the "king of oil smuggling" in Zhanjiang, accounting for more than 85% of the smuggled oil in Zhanjiang. In order to make huge profits, Chunhua Lin built his own wharf, which realized Jackie Chan’s matching of transportation, storage and sales of smuggled oil. The amount of refined oil smuggled by him was equivalent to 1/10 of China’s total import of gasoline and diesel in 1997.

  Li Shen and Zhang Yi gangs are the most arrogant among the smuggling gangs in Zhanjiang. Li Shen’s car number plate in Zhanjiang is "11111", and these five "1s" show Li Shen’s arrogance and strength. At the beginning of 1996, Li Shen and Zhang Yi met Cao Xiukang, the Commissioner of Zhanjiang Customs, in Zhanjiang, and used Zhang Yi’s hue to pull Cao into the water.

  Later, Li and Zhang Cheng set up "Zhongzheng Company", specializing in smuggling activities. They used various means to get through all the key positions of important law enforcement departments such as customs, frontier defense, commodity inspection and port affairs. After the smugglers’ cargo ship arrived at Zhanjiang port, Zhongzheng Company was fully responsible for customs declaration, and Li Shen and Zhang Yi shared the spoils and collected customs clearance fees. According to statistics, Zhongzheng Company has almost monopolized the customs declaration business of smugglers in Zhanjiang in the past two years. Li Shen is known as the "King of Customs Declaration", be worthy of the name. Li Yong, a subordinate of Li Shen, even started an auction house in partnership with the smuggling office and the public security frontier branch of Chikan District of the city. In this way, Li Shen’s gang formed a one-stop operation of smuggling, customs clearance and auction of confiscated smuggled goods.

  To be fair, before 1996, despite the frequent smuggling activities in Zhanjiang, it did not reach the serious point of opening the country, and smugglers did not dare to do whatever they wanted in front of a relatively solid country.

  Some municipal leading cadres headed by Chen Tongqing, secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee, and the heads of key departments are seriously corrupt and act as umbrellas for smugglers. Some leading cadres are directly involved in smuggling, which is one of the reasons for the rampant smuggling activities in this area in the past two years.

  Since Chen Tongqing was in charge of Zhanjiang in 1992, he has been pursuing pleasure, not enterprising, and gradually degenerated. He is known as the "blue ribbon" secretary because of his drinking and drinking. Over the years, he has also tried his best to use his power, selling officials and titles, and trading power and money. From October, 1994 to July, 1998, Chen Tongqing took advantage of his position to accept other people’s property, totaling more than RMB 1.1 million, by means of promotion, transfer and job arrangement. How can such a greedy party secretary seriously deploy and ask about smuggling activities?

  In addition, in the activities of smuggling, Chen Tongqing is not hard-backed, and his son Chen Lisheng is known as the "king of smuggling". In recent years, Chen Tongqing has actually played the role of an umbrella for Chen Lisheng’s smuggling activities: in order to find an outlet for Chen Lisheng’s smuggled goods, Chen Tongqing has the cheek to call and make connections everywhere; In order to make his son have sufficient smuggling funds, he exerted influence and asked the Zhanjiang municipal government to come forward to guarantee a loan of 40 million Hong Kong dollars to Chen Lisheng’s company in an overseas bank.

  "fish begins to stink at the head", under the influence of Chen Tongqing, some government officials in Zhanjiang have also joined the "get rich quick" smuggling crime. Yang Quqing, the former vice mayor, participated in smuggling, and he personally got 400,000 yuan in stolen money. During his tenure, he also accepted a bribe of 540,000 yuan from Li Shen; Binglin Zheng, director of the Municipal Anti-smuggling Office, personally coordinated the privatization and accepted the bribe of Li Shen’s partner Li Yong with peace of mind; Xiashan district State Taxation Bureau and smuggler Chunhua Lin set up a company in partnership, providing them with false VAT invoices, so that smuggled oil can be legally sold.

  As we all know, customs, frontier defense, public security, commodity inspection, port affairs and other administrative law enforcement departments are all guardians of the country to ensure the normal import and export trade. They jointly guard the Great Economic Wall, and any department with loopholes will bring endless disasters to the country. Facts have proved that the weakness of law enforcement and supervision departments, and even collusion with smugglers, is another reason for the proliferation of smuggling in Zhanjiang.

  Cao Xiukang, Commissioner of Zhanjiang Customs, was transferred from the General Administration of Customs to Zhanjiang Customs in August 1995. At the beginning of 1996, I fell at Zhang Yi’s pomegranate skirt. He gave Zhang Yi everything he wanted, listened to everything he said, and left party spirit and revolutionary principles behind him. Li Shen and Zhang Yi’s "Zhongzheng Company" was established less than 10 days ago, and Cao Xiukang agreed that it enjoyed the preferential policy of "putting it first and collecting it later". Over the past two years, "Zhongzheng Company" has smuggled nearly 100 times, but only two or three times were seized by Zhanjiang Customs. When the smuggled goods of "Zhongzheng Company" were seized by other customs, Cao Xiukang went to the door in person or pleaded by phone, and actively ran for Zhang Yi.

  Due to the fall of Cao Xiukang, the heads of some key positions in Zhanjiang Customs have followed suit. For example, Zhu Xiangcheng, director of the investigation department, not only showed extra-legal kindness to smuggling gangs, but also revealed to them the deployment of the General Administration for smuggling.

  While the customs is out of control, with the help of the smuggling gangs, some people from other law enforcement and supervision departments at Zhanjiang Port, such as frontier defense, public security, marine police, commodity inspection, port services, shipping and other important departments, have also accepted bribes for their own interests, let them go private, protect them, and escort the smugglers. In more than two years, Li Shen, Zhang Yi, Chunhua Lin and others paid bribes to public officials amounting to more than 7 million yuan. After the smuggled ships are seized by Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, they can be released smoothly as long as they pay a certain amount of sponsorship fee and give some extra benefits to Director Deng Ye and Political Commissar Chen En. After accepting bribes, the person in charge of the port and dock dared to let the smugglers take all the smuggled goods off the dock and sell them without any customs clearance certificate. After being bought, the salesman of the shipping company took the initiative to change the manifest and bill of lading for the smuggling gang, falsely reported the name and quantity, deceived the customs, evaded the license management and paid less taxes. A few people in the commodity inspection department issue false certificates for smuggled goods to make them legally sold in China.

  As a result, the door of the Great Economic Wall is so open that it exists in name only.

  The successful detection and investigation of the extra-large smuggling bribery case in Zhanjiang once again shows that no matter who he is, he will be severely punished as long as he ignores the party discipline and tries to break the law.

  In recent years, Zhanjiang smugglers colluded with local public officials to engage in power and money transactions, which were sometimes reflected by local cadres and the masses.

  At the beginning of September 1998, shortly after the Central Conference on Combating Smuggling, the masses exposed the rampant smuggling activities in Zhanjiang. The CPC Central Committee and leading comrades in the State Council attached great importance to this and decided that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection would take the lead, and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and Guangdong Province would jointly form an on-site command leading group (hereinafter referred to as the leading group) to investigate and deal with the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery cases in Zhanjiang.

  Immediately, discipline inspection, public security, procuratorial, customs, auditing and other departments formed a working group with the participation of relevant central and local departments, and a batch of case handlers went to Zhanjiang, and one investigation and evidence collection work started rapidly, which opened the prelude to the detection of extraordinarily serious cases.

  On September 16, 1998, according to the arrangement of the leading group, the public security and procuratorial organs of Guangdong Province launched the first major action in this case, and arrested smugglers Chunhua Lin, Li Shen, Chen Lisheng, Zhang Yi, Li Yong and others in Shanghai, Guangxi, Guangdong and Zhanjiang respectively. At the same time, the procuratorial organs took compulsory measures against six people, including Cao Xiukang, former director of Zhanjiang Customs, and Deng Ye, former director of Zhanjiang Frontier Branch, which laid an important foundation for breaking through the whole case.

  There are more than 300 people involved in the extra-large smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang, so it is extremely important to pay attention to the handling strategy. After the working group entered Zhanjiang, according to the actual situation, it adhered to the principle of proceeding from reality, and clearly focused on the leaders and backbones of gangs and leading cadres among law enforcement and supervision personnel who took bribes and colluded with smuggling groups; For most ordinary people who have made such mistakes, as long as they truthfully confess their problems to the organization and withdraw from illegal income, they will implement a lenient policy.

  On October 8, 1998, Zhanjiang Customs held a general meeting of all cadres, and the leading group and the relevant responsible persons of Guangdong political and legal organs announced on the spot that they would honor the leniency and strictness policy. Zhan Rirong, deputy section chief of the Customs Container Supervision Department, voluntarily confessed the problem and actively returned the stolen goods. Although he received a large amount of bribes, he was still treated leniently and announced on the spot that he would be released on bail pending trial. Three other customs officers were found to have serious economic problems, concealed the situation and had a bad attitude, and were announced on the spot to be accepted according to law. As a result of the correct decision to crack down on the minority, educate the majority and get rid of the majority, more than 160 people have voluntarily confessed their problems and collected more than 16 million yuan, which fully won the time to handle cases and won the initiative.

  Break the routine practice of case breakthrough and carry out classified investigation as a whole. In the past, cases were usually handled by one person, one case, one case and one case breakthrough. At the beginning of investigating this case, this traditional method was also used.

  However, with the continuous expansion of the results, people discovered that the iceberg of Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily large smuggling and bribery case has just revealed a small corner. This case involves many party and government departments, many gangs and a wide range of people. If we still use the old method, we will get twice the result with half the effort and delay the fighter plane. Faced with the complicated situation, with the consent of the person in charge of the leading group, the working group decided decisively to break away from the routine and investigate a single smuggling activity. In order to go deep into Zhanjiang Customs, the "master gate" gathered by various smuggling gangs, it conducted a unified investigation and evidence collection according to the general categories of goods such as automobiles, steel products and refined oil products, which enabled the investigation and handling of the whole case to break through quickly and achieved twice the result with half the effort.

  Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case involved more than 300 people, reflecting all aspects of the problem. When investigating this case, the task force concentrated its fists, highlighted key points and concentrated on private investigations. Grasp the problem of smuggling and smuggling, and fight hard; As for other economic problems and abuse of power for personal gain exposed by smuggling, we should pay attention to collecting information and suspend the attack. It is precisely because the investigation and handling of the whole case has been carried out in an orderly, step-by-step and strategic manner that despite the large number of departments and personnel involved, there have been no problems, which is really rare.

  The leaders of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to investigating and handling the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang. The central leading comrades specifically instructed that the Zhanjiang smuggling case is the biggest and most serious smuggling case since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Thoroughly detecting and severely sentencing criminals according to law is of great significance to the party style, the national movement, the reorganization of economic order and the restoration of people’s trust. Please make persistent efforts, pursue hard and win the final victory.

  The Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attach great importance to the investigation and handling of this case, regard it as a major event in the construction of a clean and honest government in Guangdong, give full support to the handling of cases in terms of manpower and material resources, and deploy a number of business backbones from the provincial discipline inspection and supervision, public security, procuratorial and other departments to enrich the handling team. The main responsible comrades of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee often ask about the progress of the case, personally preside over the on-site office meeting, adjust the leadership of Zhanjiang, solve difficult problems, and provide financial support for the development of Zhanjiang.

  It took more than seven months to investigate and deal with the extra-large smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang. During these more than 200 days and nights, the case handlers who fought in the front line suffered a lot and endured a lot of hard work with a high sense of responsibility and selfless dedication, and they just gnawed this "hard bone".

  In order to fully and accurately grasp the situation and command and make decisions quickly and efficiently, a member of the Standing Committee of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has been stuck in Guangdong Province for a long time and has been fighting with everyone, always insisting on front-line command. From October to December last year, at the critical stage of the case, the combatants fought hard day and night for three months and gave up all holidays. Everyone’s National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival were spent in the task force. Some gay wives were in a car accident, but they couldn’t get home to cook because they were involved in the case. The investigators of Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau who go out to arrest fugitives often go all the way around the clock, and sometimes they "stare" at the waiting point for dozens of hours. Among them, two investigators died gloriously while chasing fugitives in Hainan. On the Mid-Autumn Festival night last year, when thousands of families were reunited, the case handlers who stuck to the front line once wrote such a simple poem of self-encouragement: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people are affectionate, but this year is different. The lights of the leisurely family are bright, and the soldiers are evil in Jiangcheng. "

  In April this year, after the case was brought to court by the procuratorate, due to the large number of people involved, according to the law, the Guangdong Provincial High Court appointed five intermediate courts in Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Maoming, Shenzhen and Foshan to be responsible for the trial of the case respectively. Each hospital arranges the competent vice president as the presiding judge, and selects competent judges to form a collegiate bench to conduct trials in strict accordance with the law to ensure the quality of handling cases. Thanks to effective leadership and effective measures, the trial of Zhanjiang’s extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case fully embodies the principles of legality, openness and fairness, and the criminals involved have been severely punished by the law, and the people applauded.

  In Zhanjiang, there are more than 200 cadres involved in this case. Their violations of law and discipline are shocking, and their corruption is thought-provoking:

  -We must conscientiously carry out the education of "stressing study, politics and healthy atmosphere" and comprehensively strengthen the team building focusing on the construction of leading bodies.

  The root cause of this extraordinarily serious smuggling case in Zhanjiang is a problem in the construction of leading bodies. This is the most profound lesson left by this case. Facts have shown that "stressing study, politics and righteousness" is not an empty slogan or an abstract concept, but a concrete and tangible requirement for leading bodies and leading cadres. In recent years, the central government has repeatedly applied to crack down on smuggling, but a few leading cadres in Zhanjiang City have been perfunctory, indulgent and even involved in smuggling activities, and they have lost their way in the face of right and wrong, resulting in this evil result today.

  The leading cadres of the party hold the power entrusted by the people and play a decisive role in the success or failure of a place or a department. Chen Tongqing doesn’t talk about learning, politics and righteousness. He usually craves what is in the cup, which not only drinks his prestige, but also drinks the image of the party and the government. He developed from "anyone dares to drink wine" to "anyone dares to accept any kind of money", and then "anyone dares to use it" Pang Guoguang, the contractor who paid bribes to him, suddenly became the director of the Municipal Construction Committee.

  -leading cadres should effectively manage their spouses, children and staff around them and make friends carefully.

  One of the major problems exposed by the extraordinarily serious smuggling and bribery case in Zhanjiang is that many leading cadres involved in the case relaxed their self-demands and ideological vigilance on the issues of spouses, sons and daughters, and were gradually broken through the defense line and gradually embarked on the road of illegal crimes.

  According to the masses, Chen Tongqing, former secretary of Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee, came to visit local leading cadres with his son and relatives on the first day of his transfer to Zhanjiang. People say that on the surface, it was his son and relatives who saw Chen Tongqing off, but in fact it was the new secretary who paved the way for them to make a fortune in Zhanjiang in the future.

  Cao Xiukang’s daughter was going to study abroad. He found Zhang Yi, and Zhang Yi asked Li Shen to help him complete the procedure of studying in Canada at his own expense, and Li Shen ‘an arranged a villa for his daughter to live in. Yang Quqing, the former vice mayor of Zhanjiang City, took advantage of his position to accept a bribe of 540,000 yuan from the smuggler Li Shen, in order to apply for his son’s residence permit in Hong Kong …

  Cao Xiukang, who once listened to the smuggler Zhang Yi’s words and regarded him as a confidante, wrote in his Confession: "When those so-called friends frequently expressed their’ true feelings’ to me with money and things, I was timid and wavered, stretched out my sinful hands, and gradually fell into the mire of crime and became a sinner of the party and the people."

  -We must strengthen the education, management and supervision of cadres and earnestly implement the responsibility system for building a clean and honest party style.

  The case of smuggling and bribery in Zhanjiang once again proves the truth that "power without restriction will inevitably lead to corruption", and it also shows that our current system of supervision and management of cadres can not fully meet the needs of the anti-corruption struggle under the conditions of socialist market economy. Cao Xiukang did some work when he first arrived in Zhanjiang. Later, the General Administration of Customs heard some reflections about him, that is, he sent working groups to investigate and inspect many times. In recent years, he also audited Zhanjiang Customs every year, but failed to find problems in time. What is particularly shocking is that in this case, the "top leaders" of Zhanjiang Municipal Committee, Customs, Commodity Inspection, Frontier Defense, Port Affairs and other departments were all corrupted, and the supervision of Zhanjiang Port was out of control, and the country was opened and even a "black channel" where smugglers could freely enter and exit appeared. (Xinhua News Agency)

  

The 17th anniversary of Leslie Cheung’s death, Reed in Song Xiaochuan, Zhang Ziyi, mourned.


1905 movie network news On April 1st, the 17th anniversary of actor Leslie Cheung’s death, Zhang Ziyi and others recalled their memories of Leslie Cheung and told their thoughts about this outstanding actor.


Zhang Ziyi described himself in Weibo when he heard of Leslie Cheung’s death 17 years ago, but he still couldn’t hide his inner sadness. "On April 1st, 17 years ago, I was filming in Shanghai, when the SARS epidemic was very serious, and only we were left in the whole shooting base. I heard the news in the car that went to the scene. I kept my head out of the car all the way, tears kept flowing and the wind kept blowing. "


Although the two have never cooperated, Zhang Ziyi has always publicly acknowledged that Leslie Cheung is the "only idol" in her heart. She also deliberately forwarded her commemoration of Weibo in Leslie Cheung in 2014, bluntly saying, "Because of you, this time of year has become so special!"


Leslie Cheung’s friend Tang Hede also took an old photo, in which they shared an umbrella and Leslie Cheung smiled at the camera. Tang Hede commemorates Leslie Cheung on April 1st every year, which has lasted for 17 years. Tang Hede wrote: "You left us 17 years ago, but I know that you miss us all the time in another country, and you will give us encouragement and encouragement, especially in this severe time. I hope that we can work together to tide over this epidemic. “


Song Xiaochuan, a Peking Opera actor, is accepting the China Film Report.During the interview, I also recalled the friendship between the film and Leslie Cheung.


Song Xiaochuan revealed that a few months before filming Farewell My Concubine, Leslie Cheung came to Beijing to learn Peking Opera and Peking Opera with his teachers. In the process of getting along, Leslie Cheung’s professionalism left a deep impression on him. Although the outside world has a variety of comments on Leslie Cheung, in Song Xiaochuan’s mind, he is always easy-going and childish.

The screenwriter reed is in the repair edition.Farewell my concubineAfter the screening date was confirmed, he recalled his impression of Leslie Cheung. Reed said, "When filming, I visited the class several times. Leslie Cheung is an actor that you can rest assured of. He works very hard and is serious. When filming, he ponders over the drama by himself, brewing emotions, so sometimes we don’t want to disturb him. At that time, the actors were very simple, and there was no star posture now. Even Leslie Cheung didn’t follow the class, including Gong Li and Ge You. They all came by themselves. "


In order to cope with the epidemic prevention and control, this year’s Leslie Cheung memorial activity was also held online, and fans commemorated their "forever brother" by taking photos.