Chapter 4181

As the saying goes, a new official applies three fires. Zhong Yuze, the new mayor, immediately started burning fires after taking office. When Zhong Yuze was the full-time Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee in charge of party and mass work, he was very low-key and didn't make any big moves, just completing his own work every day. Unexpectedly, as soon as he became mayor, he immediately made several big moves.

This day, Zhong Yuze took the initiative to come to Su Xinghui's office to communicate with Su Xinghui. Today, he mainly communicated with Su Xinghui about car reform and the clearing of state-owned assets.

The car reform matter, the central government wanted to implement it a few years ago. This was also a measure to save the "three public expenses."

The cost of official vehicles in China is indeed too high. Raising a car, plus a driver, costs at least tens of thousands a year, and even over a hundred thousand. If the car has more faults and is repaired frequently, it is possible to spend half the price of a car on repairs in a year.

According to surveys, compared with taxis, the efficiency of official vehicles in China is several times lower, but the cost is several times higher. The growth rate of official vehicle expenses every year far exceeds the growth rate of the economy, which also makes the expenditure of party and government organs at all levels in China remain high and difficult to reduce.

What's more, party and government organs at all levels compare with each other in terms of official vehicles. Those leaders like to ride in high-end cars. Even the Secretary or Magistrate of a poor county wants to ride in a good car worth hundreds of thousands. These good cars not only have high purchase prices but also high fuel consumption, and repair costs are ridiculously high. The annual expenditure is much higher than that of ordinary cars.

Just this one item alone wastes an unknown amount of public funds every year.

In the few years that Su Xinghui served as mayor, he had also been thinking of ways to reduce the expenses of official vehicles. The expense reimbursement standards he set were very strict. Now official vehicles cannot be refueled at will, and repair costs cannot be reimbursed at will. Everything is controlled by strict standards, and there is also supervision by the audit department and the Discipline Inspection Commission.

Now the official vehicle expenses in Linshan City have been reduced a lot compared to before, but in any case, the expenses are still very high.

Zhong Yuze served as mayor, and his heart knot was also untied. He naturally also hoped to have some achievements. In terms of economic development, Linshan City was now on the right track, and there were several great generals in the city who were very good at engaging in the economy. Engaging in the economy was not Zhong Yuze's strength, so he simply let them have a free hand to do it, and he set his sights on throttling.

And his first target was car reform, which was also in response to the central government's call.

Now some regions have begun to implement car reform. Some of them have a monetization model, some have a semi-monetization model, and some just strengthen management.

The monetization model is very simple, which is to cancel general official vehicles and issue transportation subsidies to staff to replace official vehicles.

The semi-monetization model is to retain official vehicles, managed uniformly by the government's administrative and logistics departments, issue ride cards to staff at all levels, implement paid use of official vehicles, settle annually, and bear the overruns themselves.

The strengthening management model is for each unit to continue to retain official vehicles, cancel "leader special cars," and achieve the goal of overcoming the private use of official vehicles, waste, and fraud by improving and strictly implementing various rules and regulations for the use and management of official vehicles.

In fact, Su Xinghui had already adopted the third model to a large extent before, which is the model of strengthening management. This model also received good results, but it was impossible to completely eliminate waste.

Therefore, Zhong Yuze now hoped to further deepen the reform and further reduce official vehicle expenses.

Hearing Zhong Yuze talk about the matter of engaging in car reform, Su Xinghui nodded in agreement. He said: "Old Zhong, your idea is very good. Car reform is indeed very necessary. I also wanted to make it more thorough before, but I had various concerns before, so this matter was put down. Now that you can bring this matter up, I personally support it."

Zhong Yuze said: "Secretary Su, it's good that you can support it. I still have some drums in my heart. Now that you've said so, I have a bottom in my heart!"

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "Old Zhong, I admire your courage very much. The matter of car reform indeed involves too deep and too wide, and will involve the interests of many people. If you can get this matter done, then you can say that you have made a great contribution to our Linshan City!"

Zhong Yuze said: "I dare not think about making a contribution. I just think that since I am the mayor, I have to do some practical things. I have been too indecisive in the past, and my personality is a bit soft. I know this myself. This time I can have this kind of courage, it is also because of your support and encouragement, Secretary!"

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "Old Zhong, I am really happy. Don't worry, in this matter, I will definitely support you with all my strength!"

Zhong Yuze said: "That's good, Secretary, then I will report some of my ideas to you."

Su Xinghui said: "Don't talk about reporting or not reporting. Let's discuss it together."

Zhong Yuze nodded and began to tell Su Xinghui about some of his ideas about car reform.

Zhong Yuze's idea was to establish a car reform office in each county and district government, placed under the Government Affairs Management Bureau. The current official vehicles of each unit, except for retaining some necessary vehicles, would all be handed over to the car reform office. Some of the surplus would be auctioned, and the rest would establish an official vehicle platform. When government units need to send cars, they can send cars from the official vehicle platform.

Zhong Yuze said that sending cars requires strict procedures, such as car dispatch orders signed by leaders at several levels of the unit, specifying information such as car use time, destination, etc., and also stamping with the unit's official seal to ensure that official vehicles will not be used for private purposes. The car dispatch cost is cheaper than the car rental cost on the market, settled once a month, which can ensure the normal operating expenses of the official vehicle platform.

The drivers of the official vehicle platform will all be the drivers of the original small car teams of each unit. Of course, since most of the handed-over official vehicles will be auctioned, only a part of the drivers will be retained, and most of the drivers will be dismissed, which can also save a large part of the expenses.

In the past, most of the drivers of each government unit were relationship households, and many were relatives and friends of leaders. Due to the lack of establishment, most of the drivers were temporary workers. Although they were temporary workers, their lives were very comfortable.

This is of course because they are all relationship households of leaders. Driving out with leaders, people below give gifts to leaders, and naturally they have to prepare a copy for them. In addition, they can always get a sum of extra money in refueling and car repair. Therefore, the profession of driver is something many people flock to.

But once this official vehicle platform is established, most of the drivers will be dismissed, and I don't know how many people will be offended. From this point of view, Su Xinghui has to admire Zhong Yuze's courage.