Survey: 92.5% of the respondents expect to implement the new provident fund loan policy as soon as possible.

  Housing accumulation fund is a special fund to solve the housing problem of employees. However, in reality, for various reasons, the use of provident fund loans for housing purchases often encounters problems. A few days ago, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance, the People’s Bank of China and the Ministry of Land and Resources jointly issued the Notice on Safeguarding the Rights and Interests of Housing Provident Fund Deposited into Employees’ Housing Loans (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), which regulated the business acceptance period of the housing provident fund management center, the assessment of entrusted banks, and the behavior of developers to restrict housing provident fund loans.

  Last week, a survey of 2010 respondents conducted by the Social Investigation Center of China Youth Newspaper showed that 46.1% of the respondents had been blocked by provident fund loans to buy a house, and 55.8% of the respondents pointed out that second-hand housing owners often refused to accept provident fund loans or portfolio loans because of the long approval time of provident fund. 92.5% of the interviewees expect their places to implement the Notice as soon as possible, and 67.6% of the interviewees believe that the new provident fund loan policy will enable employees to truly enjoy the preferential purchase of houses.

  Among the respondents, 66.9% have occupied their own houses, 22.1% are buying them, and 11.0% have not occupied their own houses. Respondents living in first-tier cities accounted for 30.6%, second-tier cities accounted for 44.9%, third-and fourth-tier cities accounted for 18.8%, towns and counties accounted for 4.5%, and rural areas accounted for 1.2%.

  55.8% of the respondents pointed out that second-hand house owners often refused to accept provident fund loans because of the long approval period.

  "The interest rate of provident fund loans is much lower than that of commercial loans, but the application process is long, and some are as long as half a year." Liu Yang (a pseudonym), 30, is a staff member of Shenyang Municipal Government in Liaoning Province. Six years ago, he bought a new house with a provident fund loan. It took him three or four months to apply for a provident fund loan, and the procedures often could not be completed at one time, so he had to make several trips. "Sometimes I need to go through the next procedure with the approved results, and the processing time is limited. Our family is very anxious and urged for a long time, and finally some things are delayed."

  Wang Yuan, a resident of a town in Tangshan, Hebei Province, just bought a newly opened residential house in full a few days ago. "The developer directly indicated that he only accepts full customers without any discussion. It is also said that the next phase of the new real estate is also sold in this way, and the price may double. I want to buy it as soon as possible. "

  According to the survey, 78.4% of the respondents found that the use of provident fund loans to buy a house was generally blocked, and 22.4% of the respondents bluntly said it was very common. 46.1% of the respondents have been blocked by provident fund loans to buy a house, 46.8% of the existing housing groups have encountered this situation, and 58.2% are buying a house.

  Liao Beibei (pseudonym), who worked in Beijing for two years, bought a stock house at the end of 2017. She recalled that in more than an hour after signing the contract, the intermediary did not ask her which loan method to choose, and directly defaulted to pure commercial loans. "At that time, there were so many things that I forgot to use the provident fund loan. Later, when asked about the intermediary, he said that the house I bought was on the high side, and I could only borrow for 7 years by using the provident fund loan. "

  The survey shows that the most common situation when buying a house with provident fund loans is that second-hand house owners do not accept provident fund loans or portfolio loans because of the long approval period of provident fund (55.8%). Others include: second-hand house owners cannot use provident fund loans because of the age limit of second-hand houses, or the loanable period is short (44.8%), developers stipulate that commercial loans are preferred or discounted (44.6%), developers do not accept provident fund loans to buy a house (35.9%), and second-hand house owners directly indicate that commercial loan customers are given priority.

  Jiang Tao (pseudonym), a broker in a certain district of a national chain housing agency in Beijing, revealed that the proportion of customers who use provident fund loans is lower than that who use commercial loans. First, it takes a long time to go through the formalities of provident fund loans, and owners generally hope to collect money as soon as possible. At the same price, owners usually prefer full-payment customers, followed by commercial loan customers, and finally provident fund loan customers, and customers need to increase their prices to enhance their advantages. Second, the current maximum amount of provident fund loans in Beijing is 1.2 million yuan, and the low monthly deposit may not reach this level, which requires customers to increase the down payment. In addition, the buildings with long building age and brick-concrete structure also affect the use of provident fund loans to some extent. "It is not uncommon for new real estate developers to require a down payment of more than 50%. Some developers will give customers corresponding discounts according to the amount of down payment in order to get the funds back as soon as possible."

  Professor Yi Cong, deputy dean of the School of Economics of Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, pointed out that there are two main reasons for the low efficiency of the use of provident fund at present: first, the approval period of provident fund loans is really too long, the approval procedures are complicated, and the restrictions on purchases and loans will also lengthen the approval time. Second, affected by the long approval time, developers will put provident fund loan customers behind and treat different consumers differently. This is an act of infringing on consumers’ rights and interests.

  67.6% of the respondents believe that the new provident fund loan policy will enable employees to truly enjoy the preferential purchase of houses.

  "I have seen dozens of houses before and after last year, and I often encounter the situation that the owners only consider the full amount and commercial loan customers." Cheng Xiao (pseudonym), an employee of a foreign company in Beijing, lamented, "After all, there are only a few people who can buy a house in full in Beijing, and the commercial loan interest rate is high, which makes the ordinary working class very difficult."

  Cheng Xiao noted that the Notice requires the housing provident fund management center and the entrusted bank to standardize the loan business process, and the examination and approval work will be completed within 10 working days from the date of accepting the loan application. She believes that this move has solved the most critical problem of blocked provident fund loans. "In the future, the procedures for provident fund loans will even be faster than commercial loans, and working-class people can really enjoy the benefits of buying a house."

  Wang Yuan said that the "Notice" provides a channel for the masses to report discrimination against provident fund loan customers, which is thoughtful and comprehensive.

  According to the survey, 92.5% of the respondents are looking forward to the implementation of the Notice as soon as possible, and 42.1% of the respondents expressed great expectation. 67.6% of the respondents believe that the new provident fund loan policy will enable employees to truly enjoy the preferential treatment of buying houses, 57.4% of the respondents believe that the provident fund loan channel will be effectively guaranteed, 53.8% of the respondents believe that the new policy can effectively crack down on developers who suppress provident fund loan groups in disguise, and 34.6% of the respondents believe that the new policy can greatly shorten the processing period of provident fund loan procedures and provide convenience for employees to buy houses.

  To make the Notice effective, Yi Cong pointed out: "First, the detailed implementation rules are the guarantee for the implementation of the policy. Around the housing provident fund management center must be around the "notice" as soon as possible to introduce the implementation details, really improve the efficiency of provident fund loans. Second, strictly implement the spirit of the Notice and come up with reasonable market supervision measures. As the supervision department of the housing market, the Housing Authority should supervise all discriminatory behaviors of developers and accept and handle consumer complaints in a timely manner. "

  Yi Cong told reporters that the problem of low utilization rate of provident fund loans has been raised by the government and academic circles for many years, and the traditional provident fund management methods and systems should indeed be improved. "The future provident fund system should be reformed in a more market-oriented direction. Like Germany, the provident fund can be gradually moved to a policy-oriented special savings bank. China now has Sino-German Housing Savings Bank, which is a more market-oriented housing policy savings bank. In the future, it is necessary to gradually improve the efficiency of the use of the provident fund and safeguard the rights and interests of consumers in order for it to play its due role. "

  Liu Yang hopes that all localities will really shorten the processing time of provident fund loans. "The staff of relevant departments should improve their work efficiency, and the service windows should be set as centrally as possible. It is best to explain clearly the procedures and processes needed for handling provident fund loans through language or words, so that buyers can run less errands." (Reporter Du Yuanchun, Zhang Ruobai)

Investigation on the confrontation between officials in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province: pretending to be stupid in the early stage, pretending to be sick in the later stage, and pretending to be crazy at

Recently, a criminal judgment published by China Judgment Document Network revealed the case of Zhang Xuemin, former member of the Standing Committee of Pingxiang Municipal Committee of Jiangxi Province and secretary-general of the Municipal Party Committee, taking bribes.

In 2008, Zhang Xuemin, then vice mayor of Pingxiang City, interceded for a developer who failed to apply for a pre-sale permit for commercial housing and illegally collected a customer deposit, and received a total of 150,000 yuan in bribes from the developer.

This is just the tip of the iceberg in Zhang Xuemin’s huge bribery case.

In May 2015, the Compilation of Typical Cases of party member Cadres’ Violation of Discipline and Law since 2011 compiled by Pingxiang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision (hereinafter referred to as "Compilation") showed that Zhang Xuemin and Yan Dewen, the former chairman of Pingxiang CPPCC, received a maximum of tens of millions of yuan in bribes, setting a record for economic duty crimes in Pingxiang, which is also rare in Jiangxi Province, and can be described as "a snake swallowing like a snake".

On February 28, 2014, the Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced the news that two department-level cadres in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province were dismissed at the same time.Yan Dewen, then chairman of Pingxiang CPPCC.andZhang Xuemin, then member of the Standing Committee of Pingxiang Municipal Committee and Secretary General of Municipal Committee.Be investigated together.

Before that,Chen Anzhong, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of Jiangxi Provincial People’s Congress, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, and Sun Jiaqun, former member of the Standing Committee of Pingxiang Municipal Committee and executive deputy mayor.They have all been investigated. Chen Anzhong once served as secretary of Pingxiang Municipal Party Committee.

After the fall of Yan Dewen and Zhang Xuemin,He Weilin, former chairman of Pingxiang CPPCC, and Chen Weimin, former secretary of Pingxiang Municipal Committee.It also "collapsed" in the "earthquake" of Pingxiang officialdom. For a time, Pingxiang became the "hardest hit" of corruption in Jiangxi.

Zhang Xuemin, former member of the Standing Committee of Pingxiang Municipal Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Committee.

Many people have been sentenced for corruption in Pingxiang.

A few days ago, The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) reporter learned from the judicial department of Ganzhou City that both cases of Yan Dewen and Zhang Xuemin had been decided in the first instance, but because both of them appealed, the relevant person in charge of the judicial department did not disclose the sentence period and related cases of Yan Dewen and Zhang Xuemin in the first instance.

He Weilin was sentenced to five and a half years’ imprisonment by Jiujiang Intermediate People’s Court for accepting bribes and abusing his power. However, after the verdict was pronounced in the first instance, He Weilin refused to accept the appeal.

The verdict held by The Paper reporter shows that the object of bribing Zhang Xuemin is Li Longhui, the chairman of Pingxiang Longfei Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. On September 10th, 2015, the People’s Court of fengcheng city, Jiangxi Province sentenced Li Longhui to one year and four months’ imprisonment for bribing Zhang Xuemin and Rao Benchun, then director of Pingxiang Housing Management Bureau, totaling 270,000 yuan.

Three months after Li Longhui’s case was pronounced in the first instance, in the case of He Weilin, the former chairman of Pingxiang Municipal Political Consultative Conference, which was heard on December 9, 2015, there was another accusation that He Weilin accepted Li Longhui’s bribery.

According to the indictment, Li Longhui, the owner of Pingxiang Longfei Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., gave He Weilin 20,000 yuan in 2011 when he moved. During the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival from 2006 to 2012, he Weilin was given a total of 122,000 yuan 21 times.

At the request of Li Longhui, He Weilin took advantage of his position as the chairman of Pingxiang CPPCC to greet the relevant personnel in 2005, and helped Li Longhui get the tax preferential treatment of Meilun Hua Ting project of more than 580,000 yuan from the Goose Lake Management Office. In 2008, he greeted the relevant personnel and helped Li Longhui get back the deposit of 4 million yuan from the Anyuan Forest Park Management Committee. In 2011, he greeted the relevant personnel and asked them to take care of the Xiubo Garden project developed by Li Longhui.

Around March 2014, He Weilin returned Li Longhui 150,000 yuan for fear of organizing an investigation.

The Paper reporter learned from many channels that in the first trial of He Weilin’s case, the amount of bribes that He Weilin accepted from Li Longhui was determined by the court.

An insider close to He Weilin’s case told the The Paper reporter that in the previous judicial trial of Li Longhui, the judgment did not mention the accusation of bribing He Weilin, but in the first trial of He Weilin’s case, the court found that he accepted Li Longhui’s bribe. This "legal back door" phenomenon is puzzling, and it also shows that the judicial departments concerned have too much discretion and violate the fairness of the law.

Developers regularly send red envelopes three times a year.

The above judgment shows that since July 2007, the Longfei Jinxiu Jiayuan real estate project developed by Pingxiang Longfei Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Longfei Company") has hired an agency to engage in sales, and the customer’s deposit has been illegally charged more than 200,000 yuan without pre-sale permit.

In March 2008, Pingxiang City Real Estate Management Supervision Brigade discovered this situation, and it was necessary to punish Longfei Company according to law. According to the Regulations on the Management of Urban Real Estate Development and Operation, it was necessary to confiscate the house purchase deposit charged by illegal sales and impose a fine of 1% of the sales amount.

In order to seek illegitimate interests, so that the company’s violations can be mitigated, Li Longhui, the legal representative and chairman of Longfei Company, found Zhang Xuemin, then the vice mayor in charge of housing management and urban construction, to intercede. Zhang Xuemin should ask for help to call Rao Benchun, then director of Pingxiang Housing Management Bureau, to intercede for Longfei Company. Later, Li Longhui also found Rao Benchun. The matter was finally punished in violation of regulations, and the illegal income was confiscated for 10,000 yuan.

Li Longhui is engaged in real estate development, and Zhang Xuemin is in charge of housing management and urban construction.In order to thank Zhang Xuemin for interceding for the company and asking him for something in the future, from 2006 to 2013, Li Longhui would send red envelopes to Zhang Xuemin’s office every Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. The red envelope sent every Spring Festival is 10,000 yuan, and the red envelope sent every Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival is 5,000 yuan.Zhang Xuemin received a total of 150,000 yuan in bribes from Li Longhui. In addition, from 2008 to 2012, Li Longhui paid a bribe of 120,000 yuan to Rao Benchun (handled separately).

About two months after Zhang Xuemin’s fall, that is, on April 23rd, 2014, Rao Benchun, who was bribed by Li Longhui with Zhang Xuemin, was also arrested and investigated. When the horse fell, Rao Benchun had been transferred to the post of Party Secretary and Director of Pingxiang Archives Bureau.

After Zhang Xuemin and Rao Benchun were dismissed, Li Longhui, then a member of the Standing Committee of Pingxiang Municipal Political Consultative Conference, who paid bribes to them, was also taken away for investigation by the relevant case-handling departments.

The above judgment also shows that Li Longhui, male, was born in Anyuan District, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province in April 1951, with a primary school education. He was a former member and standing committee member of Pingxiang CPPCC. On May 16th, 2014, Li Longhui was placed under residential surveillance at the designated residence of the People’s Procuratorate of fengcheng city on suspicion of bribery. On May 26th of the same year, he was detained by the People’s Procuratorate of fengcheng city, and was arrested on June 6th of the same year. On September 10th, 2015, the People’s Court of fengcheng city, Jiangxi Province sentenced Li Longhui to one year and four months’ imprisonment for committing bribery in the company.

In August 2015, the People’s Court of Anyuan District, Pingxiang City ruled in the first instance that Rao Benchun was sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison for committing bribery and corruption.

After Rao Benchun’s verdict was pronounced in the first instance, the China discipline inspection and supervision newspaper once reported on Rao Benchun’s violation of discipline with the title "No bottom line for undisciplined behavior", sayingRao Benchun even had to reimburse the lost gambling money, promoted the driver to a deputy-level cadre in violation of regulations, and helped his mistress to operate as the secretary-general of the listed real estate association.

Information Daily reported on June 29, 2016 that recently, Pingxiang Intermediate People’s Court made a second-instance judgment on Rao Benchun (male, 54 years old, former director of Pingxiang Archives Bureau, party secretary, director of Pingxiang Real Estate Management Bureau when he was suspected of committing a crime) accepting bribes: Rao Benchun was convicted of accepting bribes, sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined RMB250,000. The court found that from February 2007 to November 2013, Rao Benchun took advantage of his position as the director of Pingxiang Housing Management Bureau to provide assistance for real estate enterprise project development, violation punishment, promotion of subordinate cadres and job transfer of employees, and illegally accepted property totaling 836,351 yuan.

Zhang Xuemin played the fool in the early stage and asked nothing; Then pretend to be sick and scare the case handlers with a "heart disease" that doesn’t exist at all; Finally, pretend to be crazy and interfere with the case handlers by kneeling, kowtowing and urinating in public. Vision china information

Use the deeds of martyrs to "encourage" other officials to make offensive and defensive alliances.

In January this year, Xinhua News Agency published "Sample Analysis of Pingxiang Corruption" in Jiangxi Province ",which reported that,The circles of leading corrupt officials are independent of each other and compromise with each other because of overlapping plates and interest disputes, forming a joint case.

For example, there is a "mentoring relationship" between Yan Dewen and Sun Jiaqun, Sun’s promotion has been taken care of by Yan, and Zhang Xuemin and Yan Dewen have a classmate relationship. These intertwined and complicated interpersonal relationships provide convenient conditions for them to commit crimes together.

This special relationship is also valued by Zhang Xuemin. Before the fall of the horse, he also used the unyielding heroic deeds of a revolutionary martyr after his arrest to "encourage" Yan Dewen to reach an offensive and defensive alliance with himself and confront the investigation.

"After Sun Jiaqun and Chen Anzhong were organized to investigate one after another, Zhang Xuemin and Yan Dewen had a premonition that they would be exposed to the incident and formed an offensive and defensive alliance many times."

The Compilation also states that Zhang Xuemin has repeatedly found co-conspirators for collusion.

Yan Dewen mentioned in his confession: "On February 22, 2014, Pingxiang Municipal Committee organized mass line education and practice activities in the guesthouse to concentrate on learning. Zhang Xuemin told me that there was an article in Gong Quanzhen’s diary (the wife of Gan Zuchang, the founding general). He read it nine times and asked me to read it."

According to Zhang’s prompt, Yan Dewen found that Gong Quanzhen’s diary was about the unyielding heroic deeds of a revolutionary martyr after his arrest. Zhang Xuemin wanted to use this story to "encourage" Yan Dewen to reach an offensive and defensive alliance with himself. On February 25th, Zhang Xuemin found Yan Dewen again, saying that he would never say anything, and that he should be strong and never say anything if he was killed.

According to the description in the Compendium,After being investigated, Zhang Xuemin did his best to perform, playing dumb in the early stage and asking nothing; Then pretend to be sick and scare the case handlers with a "heart disease" that doesn’t exist at all; Finally, he pretended to be crazy, and interfered with the case handlers in extremely boring ways, such as kneeling, kowtowing and urinating in public, in an attempt to divert attention, completely losing the proper image of a departmental leading cadre.

In addition, the Repertory also mentioned that,In addition to He Weilin, Zhang Xuemin and other five people lead corrupt lives and commit adultery with others. In the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals every year, Zhang Xuemin collects 600,000 yuan and 700,000 yuan from units and individuals respectively. Zhang Xuemin’s son started a financial consulting company. Every year, he symbolically went to some private enterprises in Pingxiang to look through the books and got a consulting fee of 150,000 yuan.

Zhang Xuemin also gave tens of millions of bribes to his mistress, Zhang’s younger brother and elder brother for safekeeping, and the agent was not only responsible for safekeeping, but also invested in "whitewashing".

In the Jinxiu Mountain Villa project in Pingxiang City, Zhang Xuemin and Yan Dewen instructed their agents to sign a Cooperative Development Agreement with the developer of the project in August 2005 in order to cover up the fact that they each demanded a bribe of tens of millions of yuan, and the amount they demanded was determined in the form of IOUs and agreements in the name of loan return for project construction, which not only ensured their illegal income, but also carried out "legal" packaging.

Afterwards, Zhang Xuemin also said: "With this agreement, my heart will be practical."

Let researchers concentrate on their research

    Scientific research environment is a general term for all kinds of direct and indirect factors that affect scientific and technological personnel to engage in scientific research activities. A good scientific research environment is conducive to researchers to concentrate on research and stimulate their creative vitality, which is of great significance to promoting scientific and technological progress and implementing the innovation-driven development strategy.


 


    In recent years, the basic situation of scientific research environment in China has aroused widespread concern and debate from all walks of life, and has been highly valued by the relevant national science and technology management departments. In order to deeply understand the cognition of scientific researchers in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) on the scientific research environment in their respective regions, the research group of the Institute of Science and Technology Policy and Management Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the support of the China Association for Science and Technology, selected five types of sites, including universities, research and development institutions, park enterprises, large and medium-sized industrial enterprises and medical and health institutions, and distributed 8,074 questionnaires to scientific researchers directly engaged in R&D activities, with 7,868 returned and 7,691 valid questionnaires. On the basis of this investigation, combined with the statistical data of science, technology, economy and society in 2012, this paper made a comprehensive evaluation of China’s scientific research environment.


 


The researchers gave positive comments on the current scientific research environment as a whole.


 


    First, the conditions of scientific research infrastructure have improved significantly, and nearly 30% of researchers feel that they have sufficient funds and full tasks.


 


    According to the survey, nearly 80% of the researchers think that the basic conditions of scientific research have improved obviously, among which 65% think that the basic conditions of scientific research in their institutions are at the middle and upper-middle level in China, 10% think that they are at a higher level in China, and only a little over 20% think that the basic conditions of their institutions are poor. At the same time, when it is necessary to obtain relevant experimental materials or consult scientific research references in scientific research activities, more than half of them feel convenient or very convenient, and only 20% think it is inconvenient or inconvenient. In terms of scientific research intensity and task fullness, nearly 30% feel full of funds and tasks, nearly 30% spend more than 40 hours a week directly engaged in scientific research activities, and nearly 30% feel that scientific research tasks are challenging. This reflects that in recent years, with the continuous increase in the total amount of scientific research funds invested by the central and local governments, the basic conditions of scientific research work in China have been greatly improved, and the tasks of scientific researchers are generally full, especially those who study abroad, have high academic qualifications, and have high professional titles. The recognition of the basic conditions of scientific research in their units is the highest.


 


    Second, the degree of scientific research cooperation and professional division of labor has been significantly strengthened, and researchers generally recognize the norms of teamwork.


 


    Institutions are equipped with full-time, high-level scientific research assistants, and the formation of a relatively close network of partners among scientific researchers is an important factor to improve the efficiency and level of scientific research work. The survey results show that the cooperation and professional division of labor among researchers have improved to some extent. In the same organization, the frequency ratio of other colleagues to undertake and complete the scientific research auxiliary work reaches 30%, which is higher than the frequency ratio of handling the scientific research auxiliary work by themselves without auxiliary personnel at all; At the same time, the frequency ratio of scientific research collaborators from their own institutions is as high as 44%, and the units where more than 85% of scientific researchers work actively encourage cross-departmental or inter-institutional cooperation. However, it is common for graduate students to help teachers undertake scientific research auxiliary work, which is much higher than the proportion of full-time auxiliary personnel, which shows that there is still much room for improvement in the scale of teamwork in scientific research units. About 40% of the team leaders’ influence comes from their academic level and strategic vision. About 40% of the team members have consultation and communication, and respect each member’s own choice. Another three quarters of the team results are distributed according to actual contributions, and more than half of the researchers have a strong sense of belonging to the team, which reflects the recognition of most researchers on the existing team cooperation model.


 


    Third, researchers give positive comments on the scientific research management ability of their units and are optimistic about the career development space.


 


    The survey shows that about 90% of researchers give positive comments on the overall impression of the scientific research management department of the unit, among which nearly 60% think that the auxiliary scientific research services and the overall innovation atmosphere of the unit are "generally acceptable" or "very good", and nearly 70% think that the current performance evaluation mechanism is reasonable. At the same time, most researchers have remained relatively stable in their work. From the observation of the flow of researchers in their own units in the past two years, more than 80% of researchers have not felt the frequent outflow of other researchers, and they are satisfied with the career development space in their own units. Only less than 15% researchers are "not satisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with the career development space in their own units, hoping for other better development opportunities. The work of the party and government organs is still attractive to a considerable number of researchers. If there is an opportunity to transfer to the party and government organs at the same level or to start a business, more than 50% of researchers will consider moving. Generally speaking, good working environment, personal development space, stable work, more learning opportunities, and giving full play to their abilities are the main reasons why most researchers choose to stay in their current work units.


 


    Fourth, the scientific and technological innovation policy has been well received by researchers, and the implementation and implementation need to be further strengthened.


 


    In recent years, the central and local governments have issued a series of policies and supporting measures to encourage scientific and technological innovation, attract high-level talents and promote the development of high-tech industries. Researchers generally recognize these incentive policies, and nearly 40% of them think that the policies are good and fully affirm them. More than half of the researchers still hope that the government will increase its encouragement and support. For the implementation of these policies, 8% of researchers think that the effect is very good, and 38% think that "some encouragement policies have been implemented, and the overall effect is ok", which is basically the same as the overall proportion of "the implementation is not good, the effect is not great, and these policies are basically not felt". This shows that the implementation of relevant science and technology policies has not been widely recognized, and the urgent task is to enhance the scientific nature of policies and further increase publicity and implementation.


 


Six outstanding problems reflected by scientific researchers


 


    First, a large number of institutions lack systematic and efficient innovation management capabilities.


 


    All kinds of institutions in Industry-University-Research generally don’t know enough about the law of creative activities in scientific research, which is manifested in the weak ability of specialized division of labor and cooperative management of scientific research organizations, and they are used to managing scientific researchers by means of administrative management and engineering management, and lack of supporting for truly valuable "creative" work, which makes a large number of scientific researchers’ enthusiasm consumed in low-level repetitive daily chores. On the one hand, scientific researchers frequently work overtime, on the other hand, about 70% of scientific researchers directly engage in scientific research activities for less than 40 hours a week. According to the survey, only 16% of the researchers think that the unit attaches great importance to innovation, and about 50% of the researchers think that the incentive effect of scientific research and innovation in their unit is not good; 34% of the respondents think that although the company has formulated some incentive measures, the overall incentive atmosphere for innovation has not yet emerged, and 8% of the respondents think that there is basically no difference between innovation and non-innovation in the company.


 


    Second, the investment and allocation of science and technology funds are not targeted to people.


 


    In recent years, China’s investment in scientific research has increased rapidly, and it has become the third largest country in the world. These greatly increased scientific and technological funds have achieved remarkable results in improving the basic conditions of scientific research and other "hardware facilities", but they are insufficient in investing people, especially young and middle-aged researchers with more innovative vitality. The survey shows that the current research funding, task pressure and work intensity basically present three "one-third" situations, that is, in terms of sufficient research funding and full tasks, there are one-third of people who feel full, average and lacking; In terms of the pressure and challenge of scientific research work, one-third of the people feel very stressed, less stressed and more moderate; At the same time, the proportion of people who spend more than 40 hours, less than 20 hours, and between 20 hours and 40 hours is also one-third of three. In addition, researchers with different professional titles have significant differences in their cognition of individual environment. The actual working time intensity and the proportion of challenging scientific research work of deputy senior and intermediate researchers are higher than those of senior researchers, but their satisfaction in scientific research activities, funding commitment and academic exchanges is lower than that of senior researchers, which also shows that the allocation of scientific and technological resources is insufficient to support this group.


 


    Third, most researchers still lack high-level and international academic exchange opportunities.


 


    It is found that the internationalization level of scientific and technological research in China has become an important factor that restricts the improvement of scientific researchers’ ability. 44% of researchers "mainly participate in academic conferences or scientific and technological group exchanges organized by domestic organizations", and two-thirds of researchers choose to publish their scientific research results in China because "there will be some language or channel barriers abroad". Less than 15% of researchers can publish their academic research results internationally without obstacles, and only 11% can participate in foreign academic exchanges relatively freely and conveniently. More than 40% of researchers said that they "seldom have academic exchanges" and "lack relatively high-level academic exchange opportunities", and 16% of researchers still have obvious obstacles in terms of regions, institutions or languages even if they publish their scientific research results in China, reflecting that some researchers’ channels for participating in academic exchanges are not smooth enough, and their academic exchange ability needs to be further strengthened.


 


    Fourth, the publicity and transparency of the allocation mechanism of scientific and technological resources are not enough.


 


    For the research funding mechanism of local government departments, except for 32% researchers who did not give a clear judgment, less than 5% clearly chose "the whole funding mechanism is open and transparent", while the proportion that "the process is very opaque and all kinds of hidden rules are very serious" is as high as 13%, and 30% researchers think there are some unfair and unreasonable places, "but not very serious"; Another nearly 20% of the staff think it is not bad on the whole, which has greatly improved compared with the past. In addition, some researchers specifically mentioned the problem of "unfair project application" in the allocation of scientific research funds, which is reflected in the prevalence of "learning hegemony" in the formulation, application and evaluation of project guides. I hope that the setting and funding mechanism of related scientific research projects will be more open and transparent.


 


    Fifth, the academic community and scientific and technological associations have not played a sufficient role.


 


    Academic communities and scientific and technological societies are important carriers to strengthen the education of scientific values and integrity of researchers and promote academic exchanges. According to the survey, nearly one-third of the researchers’ overall impression of the scientific and technological associations in this region said that they seldom contact with scientific and technological organizations, more than half thought that the scientific and technological organizations in this region were not active enough, nearly 8% said they knew something about a certain scientific and technological association, and less than 3% of the researchers had a better understanding of the society and gave a "good impression" evaluation. It can be seen that the majority of scientific researchers have obviously insufficient understanding and participation in scientific and technological associations, and the scientific and technological associations that should play an important role as carriers and intermediaries in developing academic norms, shaping scientific values and promoting academic exchanges have not fully played their roles at present. Strengthening the self-construction of "academic communities" and enhancing the value recognition of scientific researchers are the weak links in the current development of China’s scientific community.


 


    Sixth, the overall cultural atmosphere of social innovation is not ideal.


 


    A good social innovation atmosphere is an important prerequisite to stimulate the innovation enthusiasm and vitality of researchers, and it is also an important aspect that researchers pay attention to. It is found that the atmosphere of social tolerance failure, challenge to academic authority and academic independence, which are necessary for creative work, is not highly evaluated by researchers. Nearly half of the researchers think it is general, and the proportion of ideal or unsatisfactory is about 20%. In terms of improving the social image and political status of scientific and technological personnel, 50% of scientific and technological personnel think that there is no obvious difference from other occupations. Among them, only 19% think that the social status of researchers in this area has been greatly improved, and nearly a quarter of researchers think that despite a lot of publicity in various aspects, there has been no substantial improvement; Generally speaking, most researchers think that compared with other groups, the social status has not improved much.


 


    Analysis of the crux of the above problems mainly lies in the lack of creativity of scientific researchers and the low level of independent management of scientific research activities.


 


    First, the substantial increase in investment in science and technology has improved the working conditions of researchers, but it will not automatically bring about the same improvement in the satisfaction of researchers with the scientific research environment.


 


    According to the survey, the higher the level of researchers, the more scientific and technological resources they occupy, and the higher the quality requirements for the scientific research environment. Senior and senior researchers who have studied abroad and are at the top of the group of researchers are significantly superior to other groups in terms of basic conditions for scientific research, research funds, publication of achievements and opportunities for academic exchange, and they are also in a dominant position in teamwork. At the same time, they attach great importance to the norms of teamwork and have higher requirements for the scientific research management level of their units. This situation shows that innovation management and cultural issues are replacing the lack of investment in science and technology, and become the main problems restricting the improvement of the current scientific research environment in China. It requires government management departments and various scientific research institutions to explore macro-and micro-management mechanisms that are more in line with the laws of scientific and technological innovation activities.


 


    Second, the conflict between the increasing demand for scientific autonomy and the administrative science and technology management system has become one of the main contradictions in the macro-management system of science and technology in China.


 


    The intervention of too many external administrative forces makes the degree of independent management of scientific researchers, scientific research institutions and scientific communities insufficient, which not only reduces the efficiency of scientific research and management, but also affects the enthusiasm and sense of accomplishment of scientific researchers as knowledge workers. In particular, some scientific research institutions and management departments lack of attention to the laws of scientific research and innovation activities, and the management methods focus on planning and administration. There is a big gap between the management ability of creative activities and the actual needs of scientific researchers, which leads to the phenomenon of simple management methods, repeated work by scientific researchers and a lot of work in vain to some extent. In addition, the imperfect public participation mechanism in the allocation mechanism of scientific and technological resources leads to the insufficient participation of the scientific community and the public in public scientific and technological affairs, and the low recognition of the fairness and impartiality of the government in allocating resources is also an important reason that affects the positive evaluation of the scientific research environment by researchers.


 


    In short, although the scientific research infrastructure conditions of various units have improved significantly in recent years, all units and government scientific and technological management departments are also vigorously strengthening scientific research performance management, promoting scientific research cooperation, and actively introducing a series of incentive policies for scientific and technological innovation; However, the survey found that researchers still generally feel that it is difficult to give full play to their creativity, and their units and scientific and technological management departments lack systematic and efficient innovation management capabilities, which has become the main obstacle to improving the scientific research environment. This also means that innovation management and cultural issues are replacing the overall lack of investment in scientific and technological resources, becoming an important factor affecting researchers to judge the quality of scientific research environment, and further requiring government management departments and various scientific research institutions to explore macro-and micro-management mechanisms that are more in line with the laws of scientific and technological innovation activities.


 


Suggestions on respecting the law of scientific research activities and promoting the process of independent management of scientific research institutions and researchers


 


    To improve the scientific research environment, we must strengthen the regular understanding of scientific research activities and management, give full play to the initiative and creativity of scientific and technological personnel, and greatly expand the participation scope and discourse power of scientific communities and the public in government scientific and technological affairs. The research group suggested that:


 


    Efforts should be made to ensure the time for scientific researchers to directly engage in scientific research activities.


 


    Increase the steady support for public scientific research institutions, simplify the scientific research management and evaluation mechanism, and shorten the time for scientific researchers to participate in administrative affairs and other social affairs activities; With the positive attitude of "releasing water to raise fish", we will support scientific researchers to concentrate on their scientific research work, and guide front-line scientific researchers to gradually increase their time directly engaged in scientific research activities to three-fifths or even more than four-fifths of their normal working hours.


 


    Piloting the reform of the comprehensive supporting system of different types of scientific research institutions.


 


    Actively explore the governance model of public scientific research institutions in the new period, and select some basic and public research institutes with high scientific research level to carry out pilot reform of comprehensive supporting system. The pilot work focuses on rationalizing the operating mechanism of scientific research institutions in terms of personnel, finance, materials, activities and comprehensive management, and establishes a coordinated scientific research management system of personnel-post-funds-activities-evaluation; While fully mobilizing the initiative and enthusiasm of researchers, we should strengthen the independent management of scientific research at all levels and stimulate the creativity of researchers.


 


    Strengthen the right to speak of scientific community in scientific and technological affairs of the whole society.


 


    Give full play to the academic norms and value guidance functions of the scientific community. Gradually reduce all kinds of scientific and technological awards led by the government; Strengthen the leading role of professional societies, trade associations and other professional groups and social organizations in academician selection, scientific and technological awards and evaluation, suppression of academic misconduct, establishment of academic journals, and dissemination of scientific and technological news; Strengthen peer review in scientific research organization evaluation, project evaluation, talent recruitment and other matters; Let the scientific community rebuild academic norms and innovative values.


 


    Establish a more transparent and higher social participation mechanism for the allocation of scientific and technological resources.


 


    Reform the allocation mechanism of public scientific and technological resources, improve the participation of scientists and the public in the process of public scientific and technological decision-making and project organization and implementation, and reduce the direct intervention of government departments in the process of scientific and technological project organization and implementation. Strengthen the construction of social supervision and management mechanism, and promote the opening of all kinds of scientific and technological projects and scientific and technological infrastructure supported by public finance to the whole society.


 


    Significantly increase the budget for supporting scientific researchers to "go global".


 


    Implement the strategy of "going out" for researchers, and rapidly improve their research vision and international communication ability. Significantly increase the amount of international scientific and technological cooperation and exchange funds of the National Scholarship Fund Committee, China Academy of Sciences and other departments, while building a high-level international academic exchange platform, increase support for front-line scientific researchers and young and middle-aged scientific research management backbones, and maintain the growth rate of more than 30% for three to four consecutive years.


 


    Explore the implementation of "inclusive" science and technology policies and encourage "mass innovation".


 


    Taking generate, which encourages and stimulates the creativity of the whole society, as an important part of the construction of innovative cities, we should not explore and implement the "inclusive" all-staff innovation project for all kinds of enterprises, institutions and the public based on the qualification theory of innovative subjects; Continue to promote the work deployment of "Several Opinions on Strengthening the Work of Innovative Methods" by the four national ministries and commissions, and constantly promote and popularize the knowledge of innovation methodology such as TRIZ in society and various enterprises and institutions; Increase the creative methods and scientific aesthetic education content in primary and secondary education, vocational education and training, and higher education, and form a pluralistic and inclusive mass innovation culture atmosphere for all social subjects. (Author of research group of Institute of Science and Technology Policy and Management Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Leng Min, Song Qi) 


 


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