Yang Zaiyu: When the highway was chaotically charged

The original title: "The shocking big case is that the highway has been littered with random fines"

On October 17th, 2010, Pingdingshan City People's Procuratorate of Henan Province accused Shi Jianfeng: from May 4, 2008 to January 1, 2009, in order to obtain illegal profits, illegally purchased forged armed police soldiers, driver's licenses, driving With the certificates and other documents, they purchased two fake military vehicle licenses and hung them on two self-dumping trucks they had purchased. They hired others to drive vehicles and transported sand and gravel along the Zhengshi Expressway, accumulating a total of 3.68 million yuan in tolls.

On December 21, 2010, Pingdingshan City Middle School in Henan Province sentenced Jianfeng to life imprisonment for fraud, deprived him of his political rights for a lifetime and fined him 2 million yuan to recover all the property illegally acquired by Jianfeng Jian.

On January 17, 2011, the High Court of Heping County of He'nan Province jointly held a press conference to inform the latest situation of the case that “Henan Jianye fraudulently defrauded 3.68 million yuan of freeway tolls was sentenced to life imprisonment”. The Henan Provincial High School Party Group held that when Pingdingshan Intermediate People's Court tried the case of Jianfeng of the Henan Province to deceive 3.68 million yuan of expressway tolls, there were problems such as inaccurate examination and lax handling, and it was decided to hold the four responsible persons accountable. . Among them, the presiding judge was dismissed, and the supervisor-in-charge was suspended for inspection.

At present, Shi Jianfeng’s younger brother, Jun Feng, has surrendered himself and has admitted that his brother has been replaced in jail. He was promised to him after the incident that Shi Jianfeng could be released quickly. He also paid bribery to relevant staff members... Pingdingshan Mountain In the case of Jianfeng Fraud at the trial, the court had problems such as inaccurate examination and lax handling, which undermined the dignity of the law and the credibility of the judiciary. At the same time, this bizarre and bizarre case shocked by China and foreign countries also involved corruption scandals involving joint crimes committed by military police, roads, and toll station public officials. However, the Chinese people did not hate the so-called criminals Jianfeng Feng and Jun Feng's brothers for this purpose. Instead, they were full of sympathy, and they all agreed that this was an bizarre and unpredictable case that had been unheard of in ancient and modern times. Tracing the source, this is all the trouble caused by China's highway chaos.

According to relevant reports, during the 8 months of evasion of toll fees, if the normal payment, it is required to pay 900,000 yuan, and its profits are only 200,000 yuan, and have to lose 700,000 yuan; Second, if you want to ensure that there is profit, We must be overloaded and overloaded with high fines. The Henan peasant, in the amount of 3.68 million yuan involved, was fined only 2.78 million yuan. When the two items are added together, the Henan farmers will have to pay an amount of 3.48 million yuan.

Statistics show that at present, the mileage of highways in China has reached 75,000 kilometers, second only to the United States (the United States has about 100,000 kilometers of expressways, ranking first in the world), ranking second in the world. There are 140,000 km of toll roads in the world, of which 70% are in China and China’s toll roads exceed 100,000 km. However, China's highways have high fees, high fines, high oil prices, and high levels of corruption, but rank first in the world, and they have become a new bottleneck in the national economy. In economic development, if the profits and benefits of each link in the industry chain are unfair or the disparity is too large, especially if the profits of the terminal-oriented production link in the market are too low, and if the profits of the intermediary or basic link are too high, then it is particularly important for the overall economic development. The real economy will be a deadly blow.

The National Audit Office conducted audit investigations on 18 toll highways in 18 provinces and municipalities in 2008. Of these, 16 provinces (cities) had illegally collected tolls of 15 billion yuan as of the end of 2005, and the toll income obtained by some roads was 10 times higher than the investment cost. The above... As China’s toll roads have even become a road for private use, which worsens people’s livelihood, it’s no wonder that public opinion “hates” the criminals who have tossed tolls, but they target the more dissatisfied hatred and contempt. There are arbitrary charges for various highways in China.

The main cost burden of transportation owners lies in three aspects: first, oil prices; oil prices in high transportation costs are paid to monopoly oil companies; second, various payment and fines for highways are paid to administrative state-owned highway management companies; It is a huge amount of corruption costs in the transportation industry. At present, a large part of the profits of China's transportation industry are taken away by high-oil-price monopoly oil companies and high-fee state-owned management departments. High oil prices, high charges, and high fines are all due to monopoly pricing by government administrative means. Administrative monopoly measures and corruption erode the interests of the entire national economy and the general public.

Problems such as high charges, high fines, high oil prices, and high corruption costs in China's transportation industry are stifling the production of primary product producers and end consumers, exploiting the profits of the terminal industry, and aggravating the distributional relationship at the primary stage of socialism. It can't be imagined that the countries that had already implemented the "car with the same track and the same book" more than 2,000 years ago have actually been cut into such fine fragments.

According to the National Audit Office’s audit report on expressways, the country’s toll roads exceed 190,000 kilometers, and the country’s officially approved toll stations have more than 6,000, and an average of 30 kilometers has a toll station; but according to google map statistics, the national toll station is There are 86053 highways and 353,306 kilometers above the second-level highway. There is a toll station for an average of less than 4.0 kilometers. Toll road mileage can circumnavigate the Earth by four and a half. With a fee of nearly 10 million yuan per kilometer and a fee of nearly 10,000 yuan per meter, it is a rare second-generation profiteering industry and the second bank of local officials. At the same time, station-based charges can solve many problems in the highway management sector: such as funds and personnel. In this way, some roads have been made toll roads despite stubbornness, irregularities and even illegality. In addition, toll roads, especially highways, have always been a “sweet potato” that all commercial banks compete for. Because of the inherent public nature of the highway, no matter what kind of business it is, it will eventually be pocketed by public finances and there will be no risk.

China’s highways have become high-priced highways, and China’s highways are no longer roads, but have become a veritable private road. Although the “fuel tax” has been introduced, the toll stations throughout the country are not only still not moving, but also have the trend of more construction. The vested interest groups keep a group of toll stations, and the burden on the driver increases. Making the government promises to lose its promise, the ruling party’s credibility and prestige sweeping the public’s heart and public opinion.