Two departments: water conservancy development funds shall not be used for land acquisition and resettlement expenses.
CCTV News:According to the website of the Ministry of Finance, a few days ago, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources formulated the Measures for the Administration of the Use of Funds for Water Conservancy Development of the Central Government. The measures specify the expenditure scope of water conservancy development funds in detail, and point out that the funds shall not be used for land acquisition and resettlement, urban landscape, personnel expenses and operating expenses of financial subsidy units, purchase of transportation and office equipment, construction of buildings and halls, etc. The full text is as follows:
On the issuance of "the use of central financial funds for water conservancy development"
Notice of the Administrative Measures
Cainong [2016] No.181
The Ministry of Agriculture, the finance departments (bureaus) and water conservancy (water affairs) departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning, and the Finance Bureau and Water Conservancy Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:
In accordance with the relevant requirements such as the State Council’s Opinions on Reforming and Perfecting the Central-local Transfer Payment System (Guo Fa [2014] No.71), the State Council’s Notice on Printing and Distributing the Plan for Promoting the Overall Use of Financial Funds (Guo Fa [2015] No.35) and the Administrative Measures for the Central-local Special Transfer Payment (Cai Yu [2015] No.230), in order to standardize the use of funds for water conservancy development by the central government, It is hereby issued, please follow it.
Ministry of finance Ministry of water resources
December 2, 2016
Attachment:
Measures for the administration of the use of funds for water conservancy development by the central finance
Article 1 In order to strengthen the management of water conservancy development funds of the central government, improve the standardization, safety and effectiveness of the use of funds, and promote the reform and development of water conservancy, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Budget Law, the Administrative Measures for Central-local Special Transfer Payment (FB [2015] No.230) and other relevant laws, regulations and system provisions.
Article 2 The central financial water conservancy development funds mentioned in these Measures (hereinafter referred to as water conservancy development funds) refer to the special funds arranged by the central financial budget to support relevant water conservancy construction and reform. These Measures shall apply to the allocation, use, management and supervision of water conservancy development funds.
The use and management of water conservancy development funds follow scientific norms, openness and transparency; Make overall plans and give prominence to key points; Principles of performance management and strengthening supervision.
Water conservancy development funds included in the central department budget shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of departmental budget management.
Article 3 The funds for water conservancy development shall be managed by the Ministry of Finance jointly with the Ministry of Water Resources.
The Ministry of Finance is responsible for compiling the capital budget, reviewing the capital allocation plan and issuing the budget, organizing the budget performance management, and guiding the local governments to strengthen the capital management and other related work.
The Ministry of Water Resources is responsible for organizing the compilation and review of relevant plans or implementation plans supported by funds for water conservancy development, studying and putting forward suggestions on fund allocation and work list, coordinating the budget performance management, and guiding local governments to do a good job in project and fund management and other related work.
The local financial department is mainly responsible for the budget decomposition and release of water conservancy development funds, the audit and disbursement of funds, the supervision and inspection of the use of funds and the overall work of budget performance management.
Local water conservancy departments are mainly responsible for water conservancy development funds related planning or implementation plan preparation, project review and screening, project organization, implementation and supervision, etc., study and put forward suggestions on the decomposition of funds and work lists, and do a good job in budget performance management.
Article 4 The expenditure scope of water conservancy development funds includes:
(a) irrigation and water conservancy construction, mainly used for irrigation and drainage engineering facilities construction of farmland and grazing land (including "five small water conservancy", dredging and remediation of rural ponds, etc.) and supporting the construction of tractor roads, agricultural irrigation and drainage power facilities and irrigation metering facilities.
(two) the comprehensive management of groundwater over-exploitation area, mainly used for water conservancy project construction and institutional mechanism innovation.
(three) the management of small and medium-sized rivers and the comprehensive improvement of key counties are mainly used for the flood control of small and medium-sized rivers and the comprehensive improvement of water systems in key counties of small and medium-sized rivers.
(four) the construction and reinforcement of small reservoirs, which are mainly used for the reinforcement of new small reservoirs and small dangerous reservoirs.
(five) the construction of soil and water conservation projects, mainly used for comprehensive control of soil erosion.
(six) warping dam treatment, mainly used for dangerous warping dam reinforcement.
(seven) the project of connecting rivers and lakes, which is mainly used for the construction of connecting rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
(eight) water conservation and protection, mainly used for national water resources monitoring capacity building and other water resources conservation and protection.
(nine) the prevention and control of mountain torrents, which is mainly used for the construction of non-engineering measures of mountain torrents and the flood control of key mountain torrents.
(ten) the maintenance of water conservancy facilities, mainly used to subsidize the maintenance of farmland water conservancy facilities and public welfare water conservancy projects at or below the county level, comprehensive reform of agricultural water prices and other related expenses.
Water conservancy development funds shall not be used for land acquisition and resettlement, urban landscape, personnel expenses and operating expenses of financial subsidy units, purchase of transportation and office equipment, construction of buildings and halls, etc.
The county level may, in accordance with the principle of strictness and strictness, pay the expenses of survey and design, project supervision, project bidding and project acceptance in the water conservancy development funds. The upper limit ratio of the expenses shall be determined by the provincial financial department in conjunction with the water conservancy department, and the provincial and municipal levels shall not extract the above expenses from the water conservancy development funds.
In principle, water conservancy development funds shall not be used for water conservancy projects for which central infrastructure investment has been arranged.
Fifth water conservancy development funds to implement medium-term financial planning and management. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources shall, in accordance with the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the medium-and long-term development goals of water conservancy, the overall requirements of national macro-control and the need for cross-annual budget balance, prepare a three-year rolling plan and annual budget for water conservancy development funds.
Article 6 The relevant plans or implementation plans with water conservancy development funds as the main funding channel compiled by the Ministry of Water Resources shall be issued and implemented after consultation with the Ministry of Finance. Local water conservancy departments should fully solicit the opinions of local financial departments at the same level when preparing the relevant planning and implementation plan of water conservancy development funds in the region.
Article 7 When the central government allocates funds for water conservancy development to provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning, hereinafter referred to as provinces), it mainly adopts the factor method. Fixed subsidies can be given to key construction projects defined by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, as well as municipalities directly under the central government and cities under separate state planning with fewer water conservancy construction tasks. The distribution factors and weights of factor method are as follows:
(a) objectives and tasks (50% of the weight), based on the objectives and tasks of water conservancy development determined by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources according to the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and the provincial tasks (or investment) are calculated through relevant planning or implementation plans.
(two) the policy tilt (weight 20%), based on the number of poverty-stricken counties, old revolutionary counties (including central Jiangsu counties), ethnic counties and border counties.
(3) Performance factors (weight 30%) are based on the assessment results of the most stringent water resources management system in the State Council, the relevant performance evaluation results organized by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources, the results of supervision and inspection, and the progress of budget implementation.
The specific measures for allocating water conservancy development funds at the provincial level to the municipal or county level shall be determined by the provincial finance and water conservancy departments themselves.
Article 8 The Ministry of Finance shall, before October 31 of each year, issue the estimated amount of water conservancy development funds and the preliminary arrangement of the work list for the next year to the provincial financial department in advance, and send a copy to the Ministry of Water Resources, the provincial water conservancy department and the local financial Ombudsman offices of the Ministry of Finance (hereinafter referred to as the Commissioner’s Office). The Ministry of Finance shall, within 90 days after the examination and approval of the central budget by the National People’s Congress, issue the budget document for water conservancy development funds, issue the official budget and work list of water conservancy development funds to the provincial financial department, and approve the regional performance targets as the basis for performance evaluation, and send a copy to the Ministry of Water Resources, the provincial water conservancy department and the local Commissioner’s Office.
The work list mainly includes the annual key work, expenditure direction and specific task indicators supported by water conservancy development funds. For the key tasks or pilot projects defined by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the amount of funds can be defined.
The provincial finance department shall, jointly with the provincial water conservancy department, decompose and issue the budget according to the relevant planning or implementation plan, and on the basis of giving priority to ensuring the completion of the key tasks, pilot projects and work lists determined by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, make overall arrangements for the amount of funds in each expenditure direction according to the local situation; According to the requirements of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources, within the specified time, the summary of the province’s performance objectives and the arrangement of funds in the direction of expenditure will be reported to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources, and a copy will be sent to the local Commissioner’s Office.
Commissioner’s Office urges local finance and water conservancy departments to decompose and issue budgets, audit regional performance targets, and report the audit opinions of regional performance targets to the Ministry of Finance within 20 days after receiving the regional performance targets copied by provincial finance and water conservancy departments.
Ninth local water conservancy departments at all levels shall, in conjunction with the financial departments at the same level, take the form of competitive project establishment, establish and improve the project library, etc., and timely implement the funds into specific projects. At the same time, urge the project unit to do a good job in the early stage of the project and speed up the project implementation and budget implementation.
Article 10 The funds for water conservancy development shall be encouraged to adopt the methods of first building and then subsidizing, awarding instead of subsidizing, and assisting by the local government, so as to increase the support for the implementation of projects by new agricultural business entities such as farmers, village collectives and farmers’ professional cooperative organizations; Encourage the use of government and social capital cooperation (PPP) model to carry out project construction and innovate project investment and operation mechanism; Follow the principle of "building the mechanism first, then building the project", adhere to the principle of paying equal attention to construction and management, and support the comprehensive reform of agricultural water price and the reform and innovation of the construction and management system and mechanism of water conservancy projects. Specific measures shall be formulated by the local authorities themselves.
Eleventh financial departments at all levels shall, jointly with the water conservancy departments at the same level, strengthen the overall integration of water conservancy development funds in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Ministry of Finance on the overall integration and use of agriculture-related funds. The water conservancy development funds allocated to poverty-stricken counties shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Supporting Poverty-stricken Counties to Carry out the Pilot Project of Integrated Use of Financial Agriculture-related Funds (Guo Ban Fa [2016] No.22).
Twelfth water conservancy development funds shall be paid in accordance with the relevant provisions of the centralized treasury payment system. Belong to the scope of government procurement management, in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations of government procurement. The balance of funds carried forward shall be handled in accordance with the Budget Law and other relevant provisions on the management of balance funds carried forward. Belong to the government and social capital cooperation projects, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.
Thirteenth financial departments at all levels shall, in conjunction with the water conservancy departments at the same level, strengthen the budget performance management of water conservancy development funds, establish and improve the whole process budget performance management mechanism, and improve the efficiency of the use of financial funds. Measures for the performance management of water conservancy development funds shall be formulated separately.
Article 14 The Ministry of Finance shall disclose the allocation results of water conservancy development funds to the public within 20 days after the budget document is issued.
Fifteenth financial departments at all levels and water conservancy departments should strengthen the supervision and inspection of water conservancy development funds. The Commissioner’s Office shall, in accordance with the job responsibilities and the requirements of the Ministry of Finance, carry out the budget supervision of water conservancy development funds. Departments, units and individuals that allocate, manage and use funds for water conservancy development shall accept the supervision of auditing, discipline inspection and supervision departments according to law, and formulate and implement rectification measures in time for problems found.
Article 16 If there are financial violations such as fraud, misappropriation, and retention of funds in the application and management of water conservancy development funds, the relevant units and individuals shall be punished in accordance with the Budget Law and the Regulations on Penalties and Punishment for Financial Violations, and legal responsibilities shall be investigated if the circumstances are serious.
Finance, water conservancy and other relevant departments at all levels and their staff in the allocation of funds for water conservancy development, project arrangements, there is a violation of the provisions of the allocation or use of funds, as well as other abuse of power, dereliction of duty, corruption and other violations of law and discipline, in accordance with the Budget Law, the Civil Service Law, the Administrative Supervision Law, the Regulations on Penalties and Punishment of Financial Violations and other relevant provisions of the state shall be investigated for corresponding responsibilities; Those suspected of committing a crime shall be transferred to judicial organs for handling.
Article 17 The provincial finance department shall, jointly with the provincial water conservancy department, formulate detailed rules for the use and management of water conservancy development funds according to these measures and the local conditions, focusing on the responsibilities, expenditure scope, fund allocation, payment management, performance management, fund integration, mechanism innovation, supervision and inspection, accountability, etc. of provincial and below departments, and send a copy to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Water Resources and the local Commissioner’s Office.
Article 18 These Measures shall come into force as of January 1, 2017. Interim Measures for the Administration of the Use of Funds for the Comprehensive Improvement of Rivers, Lakes and Reservoirs (Cai Nong [2016] No.11), Measures for the Administration of the Use of Subsidies for the Construction of Farmland Water Conservancy Facilities and Soil and Water Conservation (Cai Nong [2015] No.226), Measures for the Administration of the Use of Funds for the Prevention and Control of Mountain Torrential Disasters by the Central Government (Cai Nong [2014] No.1), and the Central Committee of the Small II Dangerous Reservoir Reinforcement Project The Measures for the Management of Key Small Dangerous Reservoirs’ Reinforcement Projects and Funds (Caijian [2010] No.436) and the Interim Measures for the Management of Financial Special Subsidies for Key Small Dangerous Reservoirs’ Reinforcement Projects (Caijian [2007] No.619) shall be abolished at the same time.




































