As Hong Kong announced the cancellation of hotels in Hong Kong, and South Korea, such as multiple countries such as the dismissal of masks, there is a news that is particularly noticeable in mainland China that continues to strictly implement epidemic prevention measures.Some areas of Chongqing and Yunnan have recently announced that they need to charge for people who are separated.The local government also states that those who refuse to pay will be held accountable.
According to the news released by the official WeChat account "Zhenxiong County" of Xiong County, Yunnan, starting from Wednesday (21st), all newly -occupied isolated personnel are charged.According to different places, the cost ranges from 100 yuan (RMB, the same below, about 20 yuan) to 150 yuan.The isolated people who refuse to pay the fee will be held by the public security accountable.The WeChat public account of "Zhenxiong County" has not been searched for this notice, but the news has been widely reposted on the Internet.
Chongqing Changshou District, which also adopts isolation charging measures, allows local residents to apply for cost reduction and exemption, but the specified isolation costs are high.According to the news from the WeChat public account of Changshou District, the persons who areolate the isolation point in the second phase of public rental houses in the second phase of the Yan family may pay 300 yuan per day, including 60 yuan meal.In the hotel isolation, the room fee is charged at the hotel's guest room price, and the meal fee is charged by 60 yuan per person per day.
However, Chongqing Changshou District is clear that six types of personnel who have registered in the longevity area, the actual work in the longevity area and paying social security, and buying a house in the Changshou District can apply for accommodation and lodging costs during the isolation period.But that is, foreigners in the longevity area cannot be exempted from isolation.In terms of accountability, the wording of the Changshou District and the consistency of Zhenxiong County: If you refuse to pay or deceive it with false information, it will be held accountable.
Local governments are openly illegal?
In response, Chinese netizens questioned that the local governments that claimed to be held legal responsible were illegal?
Sohu News revealed the China Infectious Disease Prevention Law (amended in 2013).Chapter 41 of the Act Chapter 4: Article 41 stipulates that: "During the isolation period, the people's government that implements isolation measures shall deal with the provision of living security by the isolated persons."There are three main cases that need to be at their own expense: immigration personnel; individuals who do not comply with epidemic prevention regulations lead to compulsory isolation personnel; personnel who return home in the mid -to -high risk zone.
There are also precedents for isolation charges.The charging standards implemented by Longshan County, Hunan Province have stipulated that the charging standards implemented on May 18, 2022 stipulated that local personnel who were confirmed to be secretly connected, sub -secret and other reasons were charged for the food fees in accordance with the 60 yuan per day.If the personnel who return to the county (including the secret and sub -dense) go to the hotel isolate, the accommodation fee is charged at 160 yuan per person per day, and the party school of the county party school will be charged at 100 yuan per person per day.Not This time, Chongqing Changshou District and Xiong County, Yunnan Town announced that they would charge for isolation personnel, and vowed to be held accountable and were strongly opposed by Chinese netizens.
Some netizens have pointedIt is difficult to earn; the government has tight finances, and the people can also eat tightly. The government can reach out to ask for money. Where can the people make money?Based on the charging standards of Chongqing Changshou District, the isolation of public rental housing is to pay 300 yuan per person per day, and it is 3,000 yuan for 10 days.It is also criticized that once ordinary people are isolated, most of the monthly income and even all monthly income have to be used to pay the isolation fee, not to mention, the rent of public rental houses is 300 yuan per day, which is simply "the price of the sky and the food is ugly."
Some netizens questioned that local finances were tight, and whether local governments were creating revenue through concentrated isolation.If the method of isolation charges is not added or implemented in China, it is likely to be abused; the local governments will beolate people to create revenue, and the situation will be more terrible than the epidemic.
Hu Xijin, former editor -in -chief of the Global Times, also posted that the Chinese people generally give the biggest cooperation with epidemic prevention.At this time, some people who are obviously reluctant to enter the concentrated isolation will pay the accommodation costs by themselves, which is not good for the steady advancement of prevention and control.At a very sensitive moment, this approach has touched the public epidemic prevention policy, which can easily increase people's overall misunderstanding. I believe that most regions will not follow suit.
Caixin.com also pointed out in a comment that charges are by no means trivial, and they are directly related to individual rights. It may also affect the overall situation of epidemic prevention.A paper file.How to charge and how to use it, let alone a mess.
The comments also wrote that forced centralized isolation, as an administrative coercion, from the delineation of the isolated staff to the standard formulation, implementation, and the use of fees, etc., all of which are led by local governments. IfThe lack of clear rules, exceeding legal constraints, can easily generate a series of governance risks.
Reminder: "If the forced isolation charges are for profit, not only violate the basic principles of epidemic prevention, but also may give some local governments to more motivation to force more people -especiallyWho should be isolated, local governments often have more autonomous space. "
Flowing accounts of resistance
This isolation charging storm also shows that long -term consumption in epidemic prevention preventionIt has made China's local finance stretched.
Since the Chinese State Council in May requested the provincial capital and tens of millions of large population cities to establish a 15 -minute walking nucleic acid "sampling circle", China has implemented normal testing for four months.The National Medical Insurance Bureau requires that the test costs of normalized nucleic acids shall be borne by local governments, and all local financial departments provide financial support.
In the four months of normalized nucleic acid detection, some cities have reduced the frequency of nucleic acid detection, and some cities will no longer check negative proof.Test frequency in Hangzhou, Hefei, Zhengzhou and other places needs to be high and low with the prevention and control of the epidemic; even the most important economic center in China also proposes free testing for "limited time" by month.
Public data shows that in the first half of this year, in addition to Changsha, Xiamen, Hefei, Xi'an, Shijiazhuang, Haikou, Yinchuan, Hohhot, general public budget revenue in key cities in China has generally decreased.In the first half of this year, a large -scale outbreak of fiscal revenue in the first half of this year showed a huge price of static management in the area under the epidemic.
At the same time, local governments not only need to pay huge anti -epidemic expenses, but also have to respond to the significant decline in their land sales revenue under the downturn in the real estate market, as well as tens of trillion yuan in taxation and exemption.
According to Bloomberg report on the 19th of this month, the 31 provincial administrative regions in China appeared deficit in the first seven months of this year.Taking the mayor of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province as an example, the district spent 32 million yuan in epidemic prevention in the first half of the year, 5.6 million yuan more than the beginning of the year.Commercial and residential land transfer income is zero.
For the local government of China, "external prevention input, internal defense and rebound" is the requirement of hard bar, but fiscal tightness is also an unavoidable problem.With the continuity of the clearing policy, how long can the free nucleic acid detection last, and how long can the free centralized isolation last?Local governments may pass the cost to the people, and there may be more and more in the future.
