In order to ensure the high growth of the economy and the maximization of fiscal revenue, all local governments do their best to encourage and support the development of local industry and commerce.Wait for behavior.
The growing wolfberry growing in Gelomu, Qinghai, is loved by consumers due to the advantages of large granules and fullness, bright red color, thick flesh, and high sugar content.However, according to China CCTV Finance reports, some familiar with the matter said that some manufacturers and merchants here have the use of sodium coke sulfate for "color lifting" during the production of wolfberry.
Coincidentally, in the villages in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province, merchants said that after the fresh wolfberry was picked up, they must be washed with "sodium sodium water" first.But if it is raining, even the wolfberry washed by sodium coating, the quality is difficult to guarantee.At this time, you can only use a killer -smoking sulfur yellow. Some merchants will choose industrial sulfur in order to save costs; such operations have aroused widespread attention.
The wolfberry that should have been nutritional products use toxic substances such as sulfur during processing.This is obviously inconsistent with the original intention of the production and sales of wolfberry.
The food safety related to food safety is also a consumption oil incident in the meal tank.On July 2nd, a well -known Chinese media Beijing News published a long investigation report.The report revealed that some tankers loaded with liquids were not cleaned in order to save costs. After the tanks were just removed, they were installed with chaos such as soybean oil and other edible liquids such as soybean oil.These residual coal -making oils are likely to quietly come to consumers' dining tables.
Food safety incidents are frequent. For a while, people's fear of food safety issues such as "poisoned milk powder", "ditch oil" and "Sudan Red" were awakened again.Many netizens shocked, their spearrs pointed directly at those companies involved, accusing these companies of lack of conscience.These netizens also call for companies to strengthen moral self -discipline and social responsibility.
Faced with food safety issues and illegal business behaviors related to this company, people instinctively blame enterprises to lack conscience and require them to strengthen moral self -discipline and social responsibility.This condemnation and appeal is undoubtedly reasonable, but it is not allowed.Because the root cause of large -scale disorder is not the personal moral tendency of entrepreneurs, but in the industrial environment.
In a fierce competitive environment, as long as the behavior of fraud, bribery, etc. is not restricted and punished, such as technological innovation and reduction of costs, it will not be promoted and encouraged.Any enterprise in it will naturally join in business activities such as fake trafficking, pollution, pollution, and pitting. Otherwise, there will be only one dead end.
Unfortunately, China's current industrial competitive environment is exactly in the system structure of such a heylonicity.For this disorder, only condemning and appealing the morality of entrepreneurs obviously cannot fundamentally solve this disappointment.
Market loss is related to government functions
The reason is that this large -scale disorder in the market is related to the misplace of Chinese government functions.As an emerging developed country, in the process of decentralization and market -oriented reform at the end of the last century, China's internal logic is concerned, the central government has constructedThe inherent power mechanism of local governments compete.This mechanism gives the local governments as the subject of rational behavior, and the dual identity of the subject with independent interests, so that the local government has a sense of competition in the economic field and the government (sometimes the participation of the superior government).The institutional arrangement is legalized.
As far as the external environment is concerned, the liquidity of competitive objects that is scarce resources (people, things, finance, technology) is greatly strengthened, and the horizontal exchanges between regions are encouraged, and the political performance assessment system with Chinese characteristics also follows.Established.Focusing on the big goal of economic development, cooperating with small goals such as social governance, and giving it actions and institutional incentives or constraints based on the overall institutional environment to choose a means of competition suitable for local development.
Under this system, Chinese governments at all levels have become the subject of pursuing economic growth and maximizing fiscal revenue.This leads to fierce competition between government (especially local governments) around economic growth.In this competition, different competition content -such as political markets, product markets, and factor markets -local governments will adopt different competition methods, such as tax and subsidy competition, regulating competition and public services and items competition.
However, due to the imperfect institutional system, the competition between local governments will also consciously carry out negative strategies and behaviors while adopting positive strategies and behaviors.To maximize fiscal revenue, do everything possible to encourage and support the development of local industrial and commercial, and even indulge in indulgence or at least acquiescence of local enterprises such as fake trafficking fakes and good charges.The current "sulfur wolfberry", the melamine chaos of that year undoubtedly belongs to this category.
In addition to this malignant competition, negative strategies and behaviors include excessive competitive behavior including local protectionism and repeated construction.Although China is a unified country in politics, it lacks a unified large market in China. Domestic local protectionism has divided the unified market of China into a unified market, and artificially divided into the administrative division into a boundary.Small markets.Before the rise of online shopping, it was difficult for market A's products to circulate in market B.
The competition of local governments, from positive behavior to negative, is not only over -quantity, but also a qualitative deviation, which is the dislocation of government functions.The German Economic Ideological School Franz Boehm once visually metaphorized: the market is a garden, the government is the gardener, and what he needs to do is to ensure that the flowers are blooming.Another scholar and politician of the Efforts Ludwig Erhard, it is metaphorical: the government is a referee, a company is a player. What the referee needs to do is to maintain the rules to ensure that the ball is wonderful.Unfortunately, the government who should have actively fulfilled the role of the rules and the maintenanceer, but always has a misplaced role.
The author is a Chinese economist, a financial columnist
