Discipline inspection and supervision agencies in various regions strengthen the management of "three capital" in rural collectives
The village collective's "family property" must be guarded every penny (to combat unhealthy tendencies and corruption issues around the masses)
Editor's note: The "three capitals" of rural collectives are an important material foundation for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, and are also a hot focus of the broad masses of farmers. Properly managing and utilizing the "three capitals" of rural collectives is related to the vital interests of the people and the harmony and stability of rural society. In recent years, local disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies have based on their functions and responsibilities, closely focused on outstanding problems in the management of "three capital" in rural collectives, strengthened supervision and accountability, and seriously investigated and dealt with a number of disciplinary and illegal cases that infringed on collective interests, effectively safeguarding the interests of the masses.
Introducing an information platform to supervise funds, leaving traces of all receipts and expenditures
"It was because of my weak legal awareness that I deposited collective funds into my personal account and lent collective funds privately, which was a mistake I made." Facing the interview with the disciplinary inspection and supervision cadres, Qin, the former leader of a village group in Zhimu Village, Boao Town, Qionghai City, Hainan Province, regretted his mistake.
It all started with an inspection of the village. In September 2024, the Qionghai Municipal Supervisory Committee dispatched the Boao Town Supervision Office to conduct a preliminary review of inspection and handover clues and discovered that there were doubts in the fund management of a villager group in Zhimu Village. After investigation, from May 2021 to May 2024, while Qin was the leader of the villagers group, he deposited more than 160,000 yuan of collective funds of the group into his personal account for daily expenses of the village group, which was a private deposit of public funds.
Once the "floodgate" opens, risks will follow. In June 2022, Qin lent part of the group's collective funds to his daughter for turnover. At the beginning of 2023, the amount has been paid off in full. It was not until the problem was exposed that Qin deposited the collective funds back into the village group's public account in two installments. In the end, Qin was punished by the government for misappropriating collective funds and keeping public funds privately.
When handling a case, we cannot “check it out”. How to plug the loopholes from the source? Starting from 2024, Hainan Province will implement the digital reform of "machine management of 'three capitals'", and Qionghai City will enter village collective funds, assets, and resources into the platform and move supervision online. Since the platform was put into operation in early 2025, 209 villages (communities) and 2,639 village groups in the city have used the platform to pay and reimburse, with 120,700 successful payments worth 587 million yuan.
Nowadays, with the click of a mouse by Li Babao, secretary of the Party branch of Zhimu Village, the capital flow, asset ledger, and contract files of each village group can be seen at a glance, and every receipt and expenditure leaves traces throughout. Relying on the "organized finance, village finance and town management", excess funds must be reported online and approved at the town level. When the system captures changes in large amounts of funds or funds remain in private accounts for a long time, it will automatically pop up a warning window, and clues will be simultaneously pushed to the disciplinary inspection agency and the agricultural and rural departments.
Yi Huihua, member of the Standing Committee of the Qionghai Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Director of the Municipal Supervisory Committee, said that we must seriously investigate and deal with the "micro-corruption" around us, make good use of digital tools, tighten the cage of the system, and promote the spread of positive anti-corruption practices to the grassroots.
Find out the bottom line of "three capitals" and improve the discussion and decision-making system
The "three capitals" of rural collectives are connected to the hearts of the masses every cent.
Cadres from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Yunyan District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province went to Jinguan Village to conduct supervision and inspection of rural collective "three capital" management and "look back" on the rectification of previous problems. Many villagers reported: “Now the village’s accounts are much clearer.”
Previously, Chen Shaoxiang, the former secretary of the Jinguan Village Party Branch, reached out to the rural collective "three capitals" and sold the collective land to businessmen at a low price. The businessmen took the land and built factories. The village committee leased the factory buildings at a price higher than the market price. After the businessmen received the rent, they distributed part of the rent to Chen Shaoxiang. In addition, he also engaged in fraud, false claims, and favored relatives and friends to gain benefits from the village. The Yunyan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision seriously investigated Chen Shaoxiang’s case, followed the lead and investigated and punished many village cadres and public officials.
The Yunyan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, in response to problems such as insufficient clearing of the "three capital" bases of rural collectives, inaccurate data, and unclear responsibilities, urged the district's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau to carry out assets and capital verification in 19 villages in the district to fully understand the bases of rural collective funds, assets, and resources.
Yang Jinhai, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Yunyan District Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau, said that the District Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau, in conjunction with the District Finance Bureau and other departments, investigated and sorted out 348 issues, revised and improved 27 systems including the "Three Important Ones", "Four Discussions and Two Disclosures", and the "Three Capital" Management Measures of Rural Collectives to standardize discussion and decision-making.
Oral contracts and low-price contracts have hidden dangers and should be cleared up in time
During a supervisory inspection, staff from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission of Tongwei County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, discovered that three small shops were rented out in a village not far from the county seat. When checking the leasing procedures and documents, the staff discovered problems with the dates and prices - all three shops had signed 50-year leases, but the total rent was less than 10,000 yuan. "This is obviously unreasonable! 50 years is an extremely long lease period, and the rental price is still so low." The County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision immediately set up an inspection team to investigate.
At first glance, the village collective ledger records were "normal" with no obvious loopholes. The staff dug deeply into the documentary evidence, flipping through the village committee meeting minutes, collective asset ledgers, financial accounting vouchers page by page, comparing paper files, and finally found a private lease agreement that had been put on hold and not reported.
After checking and visiting, the staff found out the whole story: Cao Moumou, secretary of the village party branch and director of the village committee, violated the relevant provisions of the "Rural Collective Property Management Regulations of Gansu Province" by privately signing an agreement with others, illegally leasing village collective assets to individuals for a period of 50 years, and illegally used the nearly 10,000 yuan in rent collected. Subsequently, the staff conducted interviews and verifications with the parties involved in the case and relevant village cadres. In the end, Cao Moumou was given party disciplinary sanctions.
Oral contracts, low-price contracts, and ultra-long-term contracts are prominent problems in the field of "foreign capital". The Tongwei County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision urged the agricultural, rural, financial and other departments to conduct an inventory of all economic contracts involving village collective assets and resources, focusing on asset and capital verification, and cleared more than 120 irregular contracts.
Shi Guorong, deputy director of the Tongwei County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, introduced that relying on the Gansu rural collective "three capital" network supervision platform to achieve full coverage of data entry and dynamic supervision, the county's 332 villages' collective funds, assets, resources, contracts and other "three capital" data can be entered online, dynamically monitored, and publicized. (Reporters Cao Wenxuan, Su Bin and Song Chaojun)
"People's Daily" (Page 07, September 16, 2026)
