We may need to put it in a broader context to see the Shanghai building collapse incident.
Since the beginning of 2 1 century, Shanghai real estate has developed at a high speed in the form of "Great Leap Forward", and the land price has soared with the soaring property prices. One of the major changes is the sharp appreciation of the land in the urban-rural fringe around the Shanghai Outer Ring Road. There are three reasons; First, the stock of land in the central city has been digested almost, and people have to turn their attention to the periphery; Secondly, in order to stabilize the land price and transfer the residents in the central area, the government actively increased the land supply of ordinary commercial housing in the plots around the outer ring road; Third, at the same time, the government vigorously promoted the policy of open land bidding, which increased the intensity of land competition. Of course, behind it is the rigid demand of Shanghai's economic development and the promotion of the growing real estate market. What can prove this phenomenon is that a new "land king" was born in Shanghai on July 23 this year, and the floor price has been raised to 14499 yuan/square meter, with a premium of more than 200%. This new "land king" was not born in the city center, but in Zhaoxiang Town, Qingpu District, which is farther away from the city center than Meilong Town, Minhang District.
This appreciation of the land in Shanghai's urban-rural fringe, or in the words of ordinary people, is like a big pie falling from the sky, which makes those who are "prophetic" and "close to the water and get the moon first" move. Shanghai has no natural resources such as oil and coal, and the land has become a "rich mine" for many people to dig for gold, and they have set foot in the real estate market one after another, among which the township-level cadres who are the direct owners of state-owned land are the first to bear the brunt. If we say that township enterprises controlled by township cadres in the suburbs of Shanghai began to unite with big factories and famous factories in the urban area in the 1980s, and made profits by producing various light industrial products, they were transformed into private enterprises in the 1990s, turned public into private enterprises, and then got some preferential policies from the state, then after entering the new century, there has been a wave of heat wave of restructuring into real estate companies, and the aftermath is still unsettled. Many township officials have either become real estate bosses or manipulated real estate management through agents. For a time, those "three noes" real estate companies with no qualifications, no funds and no qualifications flooded the suburban real estate market. They first expropriated land with various convenient conditions and then developed it on their own. Dumei Real Estate, the protagonist of the falling building incident, is a typical example.
Dumei Real Estate is a subsidiary invested by Xunhao Real Estate, a tertiary enterprise under Meilong Town Government. Although the shareholders are numerous and complicated, they all have explicit or implicit government background. According to relevant media reports, by the end of 2006, there were 2437 real estate development enterprises in Shanghai, including 38 first-class qualified enterprises, 244 second-class qualified enterprises, 300 third-class qualified enterprises, and the rest were 1 855 unqualified enterprises. Dumei Real Estate is one of the unqualified enterprises. Moreover, only the "Lotus Riverside Garden" project, its own funds are less than 10% of the project investment, far below the 35% stipulated by the state. However, it is such a "three-no enterprise" that took over such a "Lotus Riverside Garden" project with a total area of more than 60,000 square meters, a total investment of 654.38+88 million yuan and sales of at least 700 million yuan. This is the root cause of this tragedy. However, what is the secret? Is there any black-box operation? Although the relevant departments have not disclosed it so far, and although Shi Baoqi, the mayor of this town, insisted that "this was a misunderstanding" when asked by CCTV reporter Chai Jing, it is not difficult for people to guess all kinds of tricks in the process of "bidding" from the numerous connections among Meilong Town Government, Town Land Acquisition Service Office, Xunhao Real Estate, Dumei Real Estate and CITIC Building. If it hadn't been for the rare, disappointing and inevitable collapse of this building, those hidden behind Dumet, whether in the open or in the dark, officials or businessmen, would have made a lot of money from this project alone. Because, enthusiastic people have calculated for them: when Dumei won the bid, the total price was only 46 million yuan. At present, the selling price is about 0.5 million yuan per square meter/kloc, and the sales volume is at least 700 million yuan. Even the students in the third grade of primary school can calculate the huge profits!
While the value of suburban land is soaring, the constraints of relevant rules and regulations on township cadres may be the softest. In China's current political system, town-level organizations are the most basic organizations in the government system, and so is the so-called "the sky is high and the emperor is far away". Therefore, in Meilong Town, an "assistant to the mayor" will be appointed privately by the town party secretary, or a "land acquisition service office" that is not in the government series can be set up "for work". This not only opens the door for the misconduct of township officials, but also provides the possibility for their arrows to fall. In recent years, in the real estate development in the suburbs of Shanghai, Minhang Meilong is far from the first. Take only two cases that shook Shanghai at the beginning of this year as examples.
On June+10, 5438, Wang Miaoxing, the former party secretary and chairman of Shanghai New Long March (Group) Co., Ltd., used his position to facilitate the case of corruption of more than 97 million yuan and bribery of more than 6 million yuan. Wang, 1990 has been the mayor and party secretary of Putuo District. The procuratorate found that during his tenure, he accumulated wealth in the process of land transfer, project development, company restructuring and equity transfer, resulting in a large loss of state and collective property. Among them, several reasons are only related to land transfer and development, involving more than 24 million yuan.
In March, Qin Jinlong, the former president of Pudong Zhongxiang Group Co., Ltd., who was brought out by the murder of Zhou Xiaodi, a "peasant real estate tycoon" in Pudong, was publicly tried for allegedly embezzling state-owned assets of 65,438 yuan +0. 1 100 million yuan. Also on trial were Ding Beili, former financial director of Zhongxiang Company, and Zhang Yong, former Party secretary. Qin Jinlong, who only has a technical secondary school education, was originally a cadre of the real estate management department of the Shanghai county government. After the merger of Shanghai County and Minhang District, Qin became the general manager of Shanghai County Real Estate Corporation, and was "popular" by developers because of his large amount of land resources. It is said that he has a solid foundation and considerable voice in the real estate industry in Shanghai. In April, 20001,Shanghai County Real Estate Corporation was transformed from a state-owned enterprise into a private Shanghai Zhongxiang (Group) Co., Ltd., with Qin as the legal representative and president. In the process of restructuring, he embezzled many plots under the name of the original company that were not included in the assets of restructuring, among which the Sanlin Yide plot in Pudong was transferred to Zhou Xiaodi at a low price of 250,000 yuan per mu. This transaction alone embezzled 54.39 million yuan of state-owned assets. The case shocked Shanghai with the amount of corruption exceeding 100 million.
These two cases have several common keywords: urban-rural fringe, land management, grassroots officials, corruption and bribery.
These two typical figures, who become officials first and then do business, and those "Que Jingde" in Meilong Town who have fallen off the horse, not only have a great impulse to use their power to gain benefits, but also think they are smart enough to find ways to circumvent the rules and make the people feel terrible!
As Cao Jingxing, a famous commentator on current affairs, said when commenting on the incident, "The most serious corruption is to turn power into capital." Dumei Company, New Long March Group and Zhongxiang Group were just cases that were put into the sun for various reasons. How many Dumes are there on the beach? How many "New Long March"? How many "auspiciousness"? How deep is the "sea" in Shanghai? People may only know a little about these three situations. If the relevant departments can really take this building collapse as an opportunity to thoroughly investigate the widespread problem of the interest chain between officials and businessmen in the real estate industry in Shanghai and even the whole country, then the people will really celebrate!