"Assemble!" At 1:30 a.m., the midwinter season in Beijing was cold and windy, and the temperature was minus 15 degrees Celsius, but the playground of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences was brightly lit and full of people.
Because of the urgent task of receiving the special supervision of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on the winter heating guarantee work in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city, the Academy of Environmental Sciences temporarily mobilized and organized 300 people. Buying medicines, preparing luggage... At 1:00 a.m., the cadres and workers participating in the inspection were ready to go on the playground; at 1:30, the ministry issued a notice of the inspection location, and several buses carrying 300 inspectors took advantage of the night to march to the inspection cities one after another.
When called, it can fight. This was unthinkable in the past by the Academy of Environmental Sciences.
Fifteen years lost—"
The "helmsman" was lost, and the Institute of Environmental Sciences was lost
On April 4, 2018, Meng Wei, vice chairman of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the National People's Congress, president of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was expelled from the party and dismissed from public office for serious disciplinary violations.
Meng Wei (infographic)
The fall of this "academic idol" who once stood up to many halos and ruled the Academy of Environmental Sciences for 15 years did not cause too many waves in the hearts of the young people of the Academy of Environmental Sciences at first, and most people felt that Meng Wei was far away from them. The average age of the staff of the Academy of Environmental Sciences is 35 years old, most of them are high-quality students from famous universities, who embrace the ideal of doing a lot of work in the main battlefield of national environmental protection scientific research, but they find themselves in a place called "five small" - doing a few small projects, making a few small money, sending a few small articles, staring at small eyes, playing a small calculation.
The cause is free from the work of the environmental protection center, and everyone has become the "self-employed" of the self-pulling project; there is no room for personal development, and the institute has only evaluated and not hired researchers and associate researchers for ten years; the selection and employment of people is "hilltop doctrine", and the cadres of the entire Academy of Environmental Sciences are broken, and there are basically no post-70s and post-80s cadres. A group of people are trapped in a dilemma, known as the "delayed generation". They often lament that "the road of life is getting narrower and narrower", but they do not link the unhappiness of their careers with Meng Wei's destruction of the entire political ecology of the Academy of Environmental Sciences.
If the young people are confused, the old cadres are angry and cold.
"Meng Wei said openly that you old people are a burden." Speaking of this, Sun Quanwang, a retired cadre and secretary of the party branch of the retirement center, was still somewhat indignant, "Meng Wei turned a blind eye to the old comrades, and he also ignored the opinions of other masses." On the contrary, Meng Wei shielded and connived at his cronies, and his driver, Miao Yong, was known as the "Second Dean", often ran to various second-level units to reimburse his private expenses, and once drove straight into the former Ministry of Environmental Protection and broke the landing poles of the gate, while Meng Wei was sitting in the car, silent about it.
As President Meng Wei, Li Haisheng used the "eight very surprises" for the situation of the Academy of Environmental Sciences at that time, and he was very surprised by the degree of weakening of party building, the degree of ideological slackness of cadres and workers, the degree of loose management, the degree of deviation in the direction of scientific research work, and the degree of tension between the party and the masses.
According to the reporter's understanding, the Academy of Environmental Sciences has not had a party secretary for more than 3 years, no discipline inspection committee secretary for 8 years, the grass-roots party branch is useless, no party fee is paid, and no one has found that the party central committee's key environmental protection campaigns and departmental central work are basically not involved - in these 15 years, Meng Wei has actually built an "independent kingdom", separating the party's leadership, central guidelines and policies from the courtyard wall.
The price is undoubtedly tragic. "I have been in the ministry for more than 10 years, and your work and the central work in the ministry are basically two skins, invisible, more than 1,000 people can't see... It didn't work, it didn't reflect the value, and in the end it delayed everyone. Li Ganjie, secretary of the party group and minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, was heartbroken at the work report meeting of the special education rectification stage of the Academy of Environmental Sciences.
The number of people occupies a quarter of the system of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the Institute of Environmental Sciences, which should be the main force of environmental protection scientific research and the pillar of the platform, has not played a scientific and technological support role in the environmental protection battle, and has been absent for 15 years, and it has also been lost.
Not only that, Meng Wei also turned the "water pollution control special project" that the central government invested more than 10 billion yuan in and started at the same time as the "big aircraft" and "manned spaceflight and lunar exploration project" and other major national scientific and technological projects into a tool for his own private interests, "missing an important strategic opportunity to comprehensively support the prevention and control of national water pollution", causing major losses to the national environmental protection cause.
If cadres have problems, the organization is responsible. Deeply learning lessons, a special education rectification of "taking cases as a lesson and reshaping a good political ecology" began to change the Academy of Environmental Sciences.
Receiving an urgent task, he assembled in the middle of the night, packed up, and rushed to the "battlefield."
Scraping the bone to heal the wound ——
"Shooting" at yourself is a painful and courageous thing to do
Shi Xiaojuan, deputy secretary of the party committee of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, recalled that as a member of the supervision group and when he first came to the Academy of Environmental Sciences to supervise the rectification work, he used the phrase "pressure mountain" to describe it, and felt that it was difficult to open the situation for a while.
More than a thousand employees in the hospital, according to their close relationship with Meng Wei, have different reactions to education and rectification.
With an iron relationship with Meng Wei, he stomped on Erlang's legs and said with a big grin: "My growth was promoted by Dean Meng, and my business was guided by Dean Meng, and I am grateful to him." There was even a leader of the academy who said publicly at the general meeting of the whole hospital, "Although Meng Wei has some problems, he still has contributions to the Academy of Environmental Sciences." ”
There are people involved in the Meng Wei case who are worried about being implicated, walking restlessly and in a trance, today I explained some problems, and tomorrow I will turn my head and regret it.
Others were unaware of Meng Wei's problem. Someone said, "Is this his leadership style?" "Isn't that what will happen to anyone who sits in this position?" Others think that Meng Wei is far away from them, "Why do he want me to take medicine when he is sick"?
Different groups of people have different mentalities, and the task of reversing ideological misunderstandings, taking discipline serious, and rectifying their work style is still very heavy.
The special education and rectification activities of the Academy of Environmental Sciences are the "first cannon" of the special governance work of the entire environmental protection system. The head cannon must be fired. "In one year, the leaders of the ministry came to our hospital 24 times. Among them, the minister came 4 times and gave instructions on the rectification plan with two pages; the deputy minister in charge came 8 times, and held a meeting with our team on democratic life from 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.; and the head of the discipline inspection and supervision team stationed in the ministry came 5 times to guide the whole process. Chen Bin, secretary of the party committee of the Academy of Environmental Sciences, said.
According to the plan, the entire activity is divided into study and education, analysis and inspection, promotion of rectification, organization and processing, sound mechanism, "looking back" stage, which lasted for nearly a year, and a total of 132 meetings (activities) such as promotion meetings and symposiums were held.
Among them, the life of the special topic organization will be an important content and carrier of education rectification. The leading group of the hospital saw people and things, did not evade or prevaricate, and dug themselves up and talked thoroughly. The party branches also held meetings, and the supervision group supervised the whole process, of which the property party branch opened three times because it could not pass the closure.
"The first time a group of people sat in the sparse, a newly graduated little girl sat in the C position to record, 7 or 8 party members shrunk on the back row, and some people wore big pants and slippers. At that time, I said that this line of yours is not serious or standardized, and it must be reopened. Stone Scroll said.
By the second time, the form was standardized, but the content still made her angry, criticism and self-criticism were not painful, such as "leaders don't worry about getting angry" and "pay attention to the body", etc. This time the organizational life will be stopped again.
By the third time, the organizational life of this party branch would finally be spicy. At the meeting, the party members and cadres said everything that had been accumulated in their hearts for many years and did not have the opportunity to say in the past, and criticized them very well. For example, a comrade criticized a cadre who had made trouble because of the setback of promotion, "You were pressed by Meng Wei and did not mention his problem, but your emotions and irresponsibility for work are your problems.", this cadre was convinced of this. Everyone has put forward the estrangement in their hearts in this normal organizational life, and the accumulated grievances for many years have been resolved, the knots in their hearts have been opened, and the cohesion of the party branch has been significantly enhanced.
On the one hand, criticism and self-criticism, on the other hand, role models lead. The discipline inspection group also invited Academician Qi Faxuan, an expert in manned spaceflight, to make a special report for the Academy of Environmental Sciences, "let them see what kind of real academicians and real Communist Party members are like, and everyone is not a big temper, but has great feelings," said Wu Haiying, head of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed at the ministry.
Dredging up their sources and encompassing their forests, the spirit of cadres and workers has undergone remarkable changes. "I can clearly feel that in the past year of education and rectification, the cadres and workers of the Academy of Environmental Sciences have experienced a change from resisting, not caring about themselves, scratching their boots and then really putting themselves in it, and have experienced a new ideological rebirth," said Chen Chunjiang, deputy head of the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed at the ministry and head of the Meng Wei special case group. The "ship" of the Institute of Environmental Sciences has finally returned to the correct course.
Calibrate the heading ——
We should reinvigorate our morale and move in the direction that the party and the people need
At this year's two sessions of the National People's Congress, there is an exciting news that has attracted national attention, that is, experts from the National Joint Center for Air Pollution Prevention and Control said that the causes of heavy air pollution in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and surrounding areas have been basically clarified. This joint center is located in the Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences, with the Academy of Environmental Sciences as the main body, organizing more than 200 units to jointly tackle key problems.
"This project was proposed by Premier Li Keqiang at the two sessions of the previous year, and the scientific research funds used are also the prime minister's fund, and in the past two years, we have organized more than 2,000 of the best experts in the field of air pollution prevention and control in the country, running through 2+26 cities, without the slightest hesitation, and taking it as an important political task to complete." Chai Fahe, deputy director of the Atmospheric Research Center, has long retired, and when the country needs it, he resolutely devotes himself to this cause.
There is a place for doing things. After the rebirth of the Academy of Environmental Sciences, in the national environmental protection battlefield to show a strong mission, professionalism and scientific research strength, the state has entrusted more and more important tasks to them, the national key project Yangtze River Economic Belt Ecological Environmental Protection Research Center was also established last year in the Institute of Environmental Sciences.
Scientific research ability, personal development and service to the overall situation promote each other. Last year, the ESI international ranking of the Academy of Environmental Sciences moved forward by 55 places, and a large number of young backbones and party members and cadres grew up in practice. In 2018, 3 batches of 21 cadres were promoted, and 11 young cadres in the fourth batch were also planned to be promoted in the near future.
One of the cadres promoted last year was Wang Lijing. Wang Lijing wears sneakers on her shoulder bag on weekdays, looks like a student, and can't imagine that she is the chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation and Restoration Center. She said, "I am the beneficiary of this open selection and education rectification." "Before, we never knew how leading cadres were created, but this time I saw that the whole hospital was in an open competition, so I wanted to sign up, but I didn't expect to really become one."
There is a sense of achievement in serving the overall situation of the country, a platform for officials to start a business, and opportunities to rise, there is hope and hope in life, and the enthusiasm of cadres and workers has been mobilized.
Blue Sky Defense War, Clear Water Defense War, "Green Shield" Operation, 2018 Waste Clearance Operation... On the main battlefield of the national environmental protection attack, the staff and workers of the Academy of Environmental Sciences, especially the party members and cadres, rushed to the front, and a large number of touching deeds emerged for everyone - the lover of Liu Lusan, the head of the Yangtze River Center, suffered from the terminal stage of cancer, he hid the situation from the organization, still fighting in the front line, after the party branch learned, everyone took turns to help him take care of his sick wife every night; Wei Dahe and comrade and wife of the Institute of Water Environment both participated in the environmental protection inspection work, and the two could not even meet for a long time... From falling into the "five small" to having the overall situation in mind, the scientific research workers of the Academy of Environmental Sciences have found the value coordinates of life and found the feeling of serving the country and the people.
While feeling the changes, the people of the Academy of Environmental Sciences are also soberly aware that the purification of the political ecology cannot be solved overnight, and the work of consolidating development and continuous deepening still has a long way to go, but they have such an active consciousness and confidence.
Wang Lijing, who was busy until late at night, walked out of the center of the Yangtze River and remembered what Comrade Li Ganjie said at the youth forum, "People's suffering is not hard work, but suffering in the lack of a platform and opportunity for officials to start a business." At this moment, she suddenly understood the meaning of this sentence -- because she felt unprecedented fullness and happiness in her heart. (Reporter Huang Yue)
[Link] Meng Wei case
With the approval of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, the discipline inspection team of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission stationed in the Ministry of Ecology and Environment conducted a case review of Meng Wei's serious violations of discipline.
After investigation, Meng Wei violated political discipline and political rules and demanded that his subordinates report on the contents of the inspection and talks; violated the spirit of the eight provisions of the central authorities and entered and left private clubs in violation of regulations; violated organizational discipline and used his power to provide assistance and accept money and property for the promotion of others; violated honest discipline and accepted gifts; violated the discipline of the masses, and did not solve relevant problems that the masses strongly complained about for a long time, causing a negative impact. Taking advantage of one's power and the influence of one's position to seek benefits for others and accept money or property is suspected of accepting bribes; abusing one's power and illegally transferring equity, causing huge losses to state-owned assets, and is suspected of committing the crime of abusing one's power.