The Hualien County Government's general budget for next year will see a significant reduction in subsidies for farmers' associations, palaces and temples, harvest festivals, and community subsidies, with the amount deducted reaching 760 million yuan. (Provided by Zhang Meihui)
The Hualien County Government submitted Hualien County's total budget of 40.8 billion yuan for next year to the parliament for review, but sharp-eyed members discovered that "specific associations" and township subsidies, including temples, societies, farmers' associations, etc., had been deducted by as much as 760 million yuan! Democratic Progressive Party member Zhang Meihui criticized that compared with the previous year, the Hualien County government's general budget expanded this year's election year to include such staking-type subsidies "to help Fu Kunqi's successor election", and the budget will be reduced next year during the non-election year. Is Xu Zhenwei taking profits?
The Hualien County Council is expected to hold its last regular meeting of this term starting from the 5th of this month. The county council working group said today that this regular meeting will review the Hualien County government's general budget for next year, which will include a total of 40.8 billion yuan, which is similar to last year. It will also review 34 cases proposed by the county government and 18 cases of the expansion of county-owned land in the comprehensive development section of Fenglin Town and the establishment of indigenous reservations (a total of 23 land projects).
However, Hualien County Councilor Zhang Meihui of the Democratic Progressive Party said that of the total budget of 40.8 billion yuan for next year, 9 budget items have been reduced by as much as 760 million yuan compared with the previous year. Among them, "subsidy for increasing the financial resources of township offices" will be reduced from 500 million yuan this year to 0 yuan next year, a reduction of 100%. Others include Subsidies for religious temples will be reduced from RMB 160 million this year to only RMB 82.2 million next year, with a reduction of RMB 77.58 million. Subsidies for associations will be reduced from RMB 61 million this year to only RMB 17.27 million next year. Subsidies for traditional tribal sacrifices and harvest festivals will be reduced from RMB 25 million to only RMB 7.7 million.
Zhang Meihui pointed out that the Hualien County government uses subsidies for indigenous rituals, temples, societies, and farmers' associations every year to tie up stakes. As we all know, this year is an election year. In order to help You Shuzhen in the election, she gave an example of the farmers' association's production and marketing class meeting subsidy increased from 400,000 yuan to 6 million yuan. A surge of more than 10 times; the tribal harvest festival subsidy was also increased from 7.7 million yuan in the previous year to 25 million yuan, a surge of 3.2 times. Next year is not an election year, and these funds will immediately shrink and be reduced back to the 2014 budget level, completely confirming the suspicion of staking!
Speaker Zhang Jun also questioned that last year the county government allocated 500 million yuan in financial subsidies for townships, of which the obedient Ji'an Township, Xincheng Township, and Fuli Township all received 20 to 30 million yuan, and even had enough funds to buy a lot of lottery items, but the three mountainous townships only received To 300,000 yuan, Hualien City, the most populous city, only has 6 million yuan. It will be completely canceled next year during the non-election year. Many budgets that should be included in the budget have not been compiled, and the budget for palace and temple subsidies has also been significantly cut.
The Hualien County Council will hold the last regular meeting of this term starting from Monday 5th next week. The agenda includes 12 days of general questioning and review of next year's general budget.
