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Public Enterprise Power Operation Supervision Mechanism Actively Promoted in Qinhuangdao District Heating Co. of Hebei Province

Public Enterprise Power Operation Supervision Mechanism Actively Promoted in Qinhuangdao District Heating Co. of Hebei Province

Write: Mayon [2011-05-20]
In recent years, Qinhuangdao District Heating Co. of Hebei Province has established the decision-making, implementation and supervision mechanisms of power operation in line with the company s reality with strong feasibility under the principle of scientific power allocation, systematic risk prevention, transparent power operation, institution-based power supervision and electronic supervision measures.

I. Classified risk prevention and supervision mode in line with the characteristics of public enterprise and the reality of the company has been established.

First, based on the post description manual, 177 posts were divided into three power layers of decision-making layer, management layer and implementation layer. Each work was rated into three levels of A, B and C regarding their risks. A total of 651 items of A-level risks, 552 items of B-level risks and 255 items of C-level risks were clarified. A post supervision system targeting work powers has been established.

Second, a total of 79 comprehensive and key works in six categories with high risks were affirmed to be the supervision items and were divided into three levels of A, B and C according to their risks. These items include 52 A-level supervision items, 22 B-level supervision items and five C-level supervision items. An object supervision system targeting important work items has been established.

Third, the workflow chart for 50 supervision items have been formulated and were rated into A, B and C levels according to risks in key links. A process supervision system targeting work tasks has been established.

Fourth, the power operation supervision chart has been formulated centered with the responsibilities shouldered by various departments, which were divided into three risks levels of A, B and C according to their responsibilities risks. An organization supervision system targeting department responsibilities has been established.

During the process of mechanism construction, efforts were made to formulate clear risk prevention requirements for individuals and organizations in six aspects of work standards, workflow, supervision manner, supervision measures, responsibility undertaken and work control according to the three power layers of decision-making layer, management layer and implementation layer, targeting the different risk levels of work contents and different risk levels of supervision items depicted in the Manual of Post and Power Allocation.

The efforts have established the level-based supervision mode of individual prevention + organization prevention, and embodied the management concept of managing affairs through supervision and managing people through self-discipline.

II. Effective supervision on the powers of public enterprises has been realized focusing on supervisions on public powers and company power.

One of the characteristics making a public enterprise differ from other companies is the integration of its public service duty with enterprise operation and management, and the coexistence of social profits and economic profits. Thus, the company conducts power operation supervision in two categories of public power supervision and enterprise power supervision:

-- Public power supervision

The items of public power supervision mainly include fee-charging projects and heat supply service, covering project construction of collective heat supply grid, reform on separate heat supply, heat fee, costs of suspension and recovery of heat supply equipment, and supervisions on heat supply equipment repairs, heat supply quality and heat supply fee collection.

The focuses of supervision are the publicity and implementation of charging standards, settlement of accounts and fund utilization, efficiency of responding to repair demands and heating supply quality. Thus, the company publicized information such as charging standards, technical requirements and procedures of accessing heat supply network, demonstration text of standard contract, repair demands from users and temperature of heat generated and supplied; realized Chunhui Hotline online service and retrieval of fee payment of users; and launched online service so that users can pay fees and handle business affairs such as consultation and complaint online.

-- Enterprise power operation

1. Supervision on important decision making

Targeting the problem of making arbitrary and unscientific decisions that may emerge during the important decision-making process, the company adheres to the democratic centralism according to the principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation and making decisions at meetings, and the management institutions such as the Institution of the Party and Government Across-the-Board Meeting and Regulations on Affairs Discussion and Decision making, and breaks down the risks into members of leading groups according to their levels to strengthen responsibility.

Summaries of important decision-making meetings are publicized online so as to supervise all the people online.

2. Supervision on important cadre appointment and removal

In the appointment of cadres in public enterprises, problems such as setting posts for some specific people, seeking private profits by using power, injustice and unfairness usually emerge. Thus, the company formulated many management institutions such as Supervision and management of Measures of Cadre Recruitment, Institution of Fostering Reserve Talents, Shifting-Exchange System for Cadres, Standards on Leading Cadres Behaviors and Institution of Joint Responsibility Investigation.

Other efforts include doing a good job in democratic recommendation, organizational investigation, pre-post demonstration and tryout before official recruitment; launching all-transparent competition through publicizing standards, procedures and results so as to prevent corruption caused by human factors; putting cadre recruitment, post adjustment, technical title recruitment and mechanic recruitment under A-level supervision through supervising the whole process on the internal information platform of the company.

3. Supervision on important project arrangement

Problems such as under-table dealing, eroding state-owned assets, unqualified construction process and low project quality may emerge in the process of project bid invitation and submission, funds examination, approval and allocation, and project construction in the project of thermoelectricity power construction grid launched by the company.

Thus, the company strictly abides by bid invitation and submission institution in important projects such as project construction and material procurement, has established archive for qualified construction units and suppliers, adheres to the principles of professional audit, mutual restraint in different levels, being faithful in contract implementation and balanced payment, launches three-level audit of company-accountant firm-engineer cost administration, invites discipline inspection commission, supervision departments and procuratorates to supervise the whole process of project construction and bid invitation and submission of material procurement, launches managements in different items and levels in project construction and material procurement according to different contents and importance, formulates different examination and approval forms, determines examination and approval departments and risk levels, initiates online public joint signing and supervision, and publicizes the work of bid invitation and submission via biding agents and the portal website of the company.

4. Supervision on utilization of large amount of funds

Improper utilization of large amount of funds of public companies may lead to losses of state-owned assets and corruption. The company began to execute budget management in 2008, and according to the management, formulate budgets of important expenditures such as reception fee, office expenditure and maintenance expending early every year.

The utilization of large amount of funds follows the principle of recording every single project and discussing every single affair. Organizing units and departments first propose utilization plans, and qualified design organizations will be invited to conduct scientific feasibility research of related projects.

The expenditure of large amount of fund should be examined and approved by every level of authority and adopt the mode of active payment and balanced payment of various parties according to agreements in various contract clauses. Measures were taken to establish and improve the institutions such as audit and financial investigation for outgoing leading cadres.

Internal audit and audit from professional organizations have been adopted to ensure reasonable and legal utilization of large amount of funds.

The company also effectively combined power operation supervision with the performance evaluation system established during the salary reform in 2009 to conduct quantity-based evaluation on different risk levels based on the principle of post clean governance prevention early warning beforehand, power operation publicity during the process and performance evaluation afterwards.

(From the CPC Qinhuangdao Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Qinhuangdao Municipal Supervision Bureau of Hebei Province)