On the evening of December 1, "Economic Half Hour" reported that Henan Saiteng Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. deceived the subsidy of rice side deep fertilizer applicator in Jiangsu and Guangxi, reflecting the collusion of illegal enterprises and relevant personnel to illegally obtain subsidy funds for the purchase and application of agricultural machinery, and carried out suspected violations of laws and regulations.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs attaches great importance to it, and immediately instructed the agricultural and rural departments of Henan, Jiangsu, Guangxi and other provinces (regions) to set up a working group as soon as possible, jointly with the public security, market supervision and other departments to quickly carry out verification, strictly investigate and punish the enterprises and relevant personnel involved in accordance with laws and regulations, and disclose the results to the public in a timely mannerThe joint discipline inspection department will investigate the verification and inspection of grassroots subsidized products, and find that the problems will be seriously dealt with in accordance with law and discipline. On December 2, the working group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs went to relevant provinces to supervise and guide the verification and handling work.
A review of news events.
In 2022, the government will arrange 21.2 billion yuan of subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery. Agricultural machinery purchase subsidy is an important policy to strengthen agriculture and benefit farmers and rich farmers, the purpose is to allow farmers to enjoy real preferential treatment when purchasing agricultural machinery, and also to continuously improve the level of agricultural machinery and equipment and agricultural mechanization in China. However, recently, the "Economic Half Hour" column has received clues from the masses, and in some places, some people have started the "crooked thinking" of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, and regard this money as a "cash cow".
Agricultural machinery companies only make one product for free.
In fact, it is to defraud the state of subsidies.
In mid-October, all parts of Jiangsu have entered the season of autumn harvest and autumn sowing. However, in some farmers' homes in Daying Town, Xinghua City, the reporter saw that the fertilizer applicator that should have been used in the field was idle in the warehouse.
Villagers told reporters that the machines were sent by local agricultural machinery dealers and had been sitting in the warehouse for more than two years. The reporter noticed that the manufacturer shown on the nameplate of the fertilizer applicator is Henan Saiteng Agricultural Machinery, with a production date of June 2021.
Growers told reporters that this kind of rice side deep fertilization function can rotate, but the efficiency is very low, the normal machine can operate 40 acres a day, this machine is more than a dozen acres, and often stuck machine, so these machines are put on hold, everyone even calls this machine "zombie agricultural machinery".
The market for this kind of rice side deep fertilizer applicator ranges from more than 10,000 yuan to more than 20,000 yuan, but it is useless in the eyes of farmers.
In Fanchuan Town, Jiangdu District, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, the reporter also saw the same fertilizer spreader. The salesperson bluntly said that this is what is used for subsidies.
Similarly, in Dantu District, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, an agricultural machinery machine marked with the words "Saiteng Agricultural Machinery" is also used for "activities".
Jiangsu Zhenjiang Runyang Agricultural Machinery Sales Staff: We engage in "activities" for the state subsidy, this machine to you, you don't have to pay for it, the subsidy is to your personal account, you give me the subsidy.
The dealer told reporters that the farmers who purchased the funds need to return the funds to the dealers after the subsidy is issued.
Although the state has clear regulations on the application and receipt of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and continues to standardize and optimize, these agricultural machinery subsidy funds have become "Tang monk meat" in the eyes of some people, which greatly discounts the country's policy of benefiting farmers.
On the real-time disclosure platform of agricultural machinery purchase and application subsidy information in Jiangsu Province, the reporter found that as of November 2023, 175 Henan Saiteng side deep fertilizer applicators sold by Zhenjiang Runyang Agricultural Machinery have applied for national agricultural machinery subsidies, with a subsidy of 5,000 yuan each, of which 153 have been settled.
Judging from the book of subsidies, the sales of these fertilizer applicators range from 12,000 yuan to 19,000 yuan, and the dealer only got back the subsidy amount of 5,000 yuanThe person in charge of Xinghua Kaisheng Agricultural Machinery in Taizhou City told reporters that Henan Saiteng only produces this product, which is specially used for subsidies, so the factory price given by the manufacturer to the dealer is far lower than the market.
Liu Jian, general manager of Xinghua Kaisheng Agricultural Machinery ***, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province: The machine is honestly just to do subsidies, it is useless, and it is cheaper for me, 3,000 yuan.
In this way, each machine dealer can earn 2,000 yuan. However, during the interview, Liu Jian, general manager of Taizhou Xinghua Kaisheng Agricultural Machinery, told reporters that the policies on agricultural machinery subsidies are not the same. Taking the side deep fertilizer applicator as an example, some counties and cities have local subsidies in addition to the 5,000 yuan subsidy from the state. In Xinghua City, Taizhou City, where he is located, there has been a local subsidy of 5,000 yuan for the deep fertilizer applicator on the opposite side in recent years, so that he can make a net profit of 7,000 yuan for each machine.
The third best-selling agricultural machinery manufacturing enterprise has "nowhere to be found".
Testing agencies are complicit in abuse.
In the investigation, the reporter found that at the beginning of 2023, among the best-selling lists of agricultural machinery in 2022 jointly released by the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association, China Agricultural Mechanization Herald, and China Agricultural Machinery Circulation Association, Henan Saiteng Agricultural Machinery also ranked third in the best-selling list of fertilizer applicators.
However, when the reporter rushed to the address registered on the national agricultural machinery test and appraisal management service information platform - the agricultural machinery market in Dengzhou City, Henan Province, the reporter could not find this company.
In the company's industrial and commercial registration information, on December 5, 2022, the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Dengzhou City, Henan Province, marked the company as "abnormal operation" because it "cannot be contacted through the registered residence or business place".
The reporter learned from the company's industrial and commercial registration information that on April 1, 2021, Henan Saiteng Agricultural Machinery was changed from Dengzhou Innovative Food, and at the same time, the investor was changed from Han Long to Li Gang.
In May 2021, the Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation Agricultural Machinery Test and Appraisal Station evaluated the consistency, safety, practicability and reliability of the two prototypes sent for inspection by Henan Saiteng Agricultural Machinery. This means that such agricultural machinery can enter the market and apply for subsidies according to the subsidy policy, which is also the basis for dealers such as Liu Jian to sell this agricultural machinery.
During the interview, Liu Jian revealed to reporters an open secret in the industry: the so-called identification only looks at the machine submitted for inspection. As long as the manufacturer takes a few really usable machines to send them for inspection, and the machine can be used, the corresponding appraisal report can be obtained. In the actual sales process, the appraisal agency is not responsible for whether the machine sold can be used or not.
On the public platform, only in Jiangsu, there are currently more than 620 Henan Saiteng machines into the subsidy list, in the public data that can be queried, Henan Saiteng side deep fertilizer applicator has applied for national subsidies has exceeded 1,100 units. According to the national subsidy amount of 5,000 yuan per unit, this agricultural machinery alone will occupy 5.5 million yuan of agricultural machinery subsidy funds.
The reporter's investigation found that there was no financial exchange between the dealer and the farmer to buy the machine, and the invoice was also false, but the dealer had no fear. In practice, how exactly are local authorities regulated?The reporter contacted the local agricultural machinery management department about the problems found in the investigation.
Staff of Yangzhou Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Jiangsu Province: It is useless to look for me, because we do not issue purchase subsidies at the municipal level, we are managing purchase subsidies, and we distribute them by county, and all the country's money must go to the county.
Staff of Xinghua Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province: We are responsible for issuing subsidies, focusing on checking authenticity. As long as the machine is bought back and there are materials, there is no way to define whether the other party is fraudulent or not.
In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and relevant departments have always attached great importance to the implementation of agricultural machinery subsidy policy risk prevention and control, and constantly strengthened management requirements, formulated and introduced a series of systems such as the handling of illegal business practices of subsidized products, the work specifications of subsidized machinery and tools, and the key points of subsidy machinery verification, and guided the provinces to introduce a series of relevant regulations to seriously investigate and deal with illegal activities of subsidized product operations. In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will supervise and guide the relevant provinces to carry out serious verification and processing, and will also organize and carry out special rectification work on rice side deep fertilizer applicator subsidies nationwide, and further promote the implementation of various measures such as verification and identification of subsidy products, resolutely crack down on violations of laws and regulations, and resolutely implement "zero tolerance" for such problems. (CCTV Finance).
(CCTV Finance).