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recently, chenzhou city in hunan province has introduced a "one-card pass" for dining in canteens of government offices in the city, which has attracted widespread attention. the city has introduced a new "way to eat" for official meals: 1,205 canteens at the city, county and township levels are connected to the internet. official meals are not accepted, and canteens are used to swipe the "one-card pass". when you come, you do business, and when you are done, you leave.

the code scanning device for the "office canteen card" (source: xiangban wechat official account)

in response to this, many netizens left comments and liked the post, believing that this move can severely curb the "eating and drinking trend" in official receptions and is worth promoting!

significant reduction in official dining expenses

"when it's time for lunch, we always have to find a place to eat." for cadres and employees, it is very common that they cannot return to their original unit for meals when they are on official business trips. there is a real need for off-site work meals, but the financial reimbursement procedures for dining in off-site canteens are complicated, which brings a lot of trouble.

the person in charge of the party and political style supervision office of the chenzhou municipal commission for discipline inspection and supervision said, based on the case, that illegal official receptions have made grassroots cadres miserable, and some leading cadres who have not changed their "hearts" have become corrupt and even ruined their lifelong "rice bowl" because of "a meal", which is a pity.

official meals are related to the dining guarantee for official activities, and also to the party and government style. how to solve the problem of dining in other places while preventing possible corruption risks?

starting from the end of 2021, chenzhou city has promoted the construction of clean canteens in party and government agencies, using digital technology to connect the three-level canteens of "city, county, and township" to form a virtual "big canteen", which provides a technical support platform for the pilot. in terms of operating mechanism, chenzhou city has opened a virtual bank account for each cadre and employee, and cadres and employees can scan the code to consume in the canteen of the agency through the app.

on march 14, 2024, cadres and staff of the anren county administrative center lined up to use the "one card" to swipe their cards to eat in the cafeteria (source: xiangban wechat official account)

in 2022, chenzhou city selected anren county and jiahe county, where conditions were relatively mature, to carry out a pilot program for the "canteen card system". after a period of trial operation, it was found that the dining expenses for work in 13 townships in anren county decreased by about 26% year-on-year.

on the basis of the comprehensive construction, pilot operation and sufficient research and demonstration of the digital system, the chenzhou municipal party committee widely solicited opinions from various counties (cities, districts), municipal units and members of the municipal party committee standing committee, and the municipal party committee standing committee held a meeting to review it.

at present, chenzhou city’s “canteen card” has covered 1,679 government agencies, 1,205 government canteens, and 83,600 cadres and employees throughout the city.

on april 30, 2024, a comprehensive inspection team consisting of six departments including the suxian district party committee inspection office and the district commission for discipline inspection and supervision came to the liangtian town canteen to swipe cards for meals (source: suxian district commission for discipline inspection and supervision)

"official meals are a huge expense. now we can make 'this meal' convenient and economical while preventing corruption risks," said gu xiaoming, party secretary and director of chenzhou municipal government affairs management bureau.

in the canteen of lingguan town, anren county, cadres and employees are queuing in an orderly manner. they can pick up their plates and eat by scanning the code through the bank's mobile app (source: hunan daily)

on the surface, it is to solve the small problem of "eating", but in fact it is a big issue related to the implementation of the spirit of the central eight regulations and the construction of cadre style. after the pilot was fully launched, some superficial research activities lacking substantive content were significantly reduced, and the frequency of grassroots official receptions was significantly reduced. from june to august this year, the official receptions hosted by the rucheng county government affairs service center decreased from 45 batches and 1,771 people in the same period last year to 20 batches and 868 people, and the total number of receptions decreased significantly.

at the same time, leaders at all levels in chenzhou city took the lead in strictly implementing the requirements of the document. during their official activities such as guidance, inspection and research at the grassroots level, the leaders of the municipal party committee consciously scanned the code to eat at the relevant canteens, leading the city to change its work style and set a new trend.

many places in china are exploring the reform of official meals

as early as 2019, yuhang district of hangzhou city began exploring the reform of official meals.

in their daily work, many town and street cadres and employees who often have to attend meetings or travel across regions often worry about meals due to tight official duties and long distances. "our yuhang district is large in area. for example, it takes 40 minutes to travel from huanghu town to the district one way, so there is still a great demand for dining in other places," said lv jianbin, deputy director of the yuhang district office affairs service center in hangzhou.

in 2023, yuhang district will continue to promote cross-regional interoperability of meal cards on the basis of achieving full-area interoperability of meal cards, and realize cross-level interoperability of meal cards with canteens of linping district, hangzhou municipal government, and zhejiang provincial government. business travelers from the same city who come to yuhang can use their personal meal cards, face scan, or use the dining code of the yuhang logistics official account to dine in any interconnected canteen, which is convenient and fast.

source: zhejiang online

at present, the municipal pilot areas included in the official meal reform in zhejiang are quzhou city and zhoushan city, and there are 18 county pilot areas, including yuhang district and linping district of hangzhou city, yinzhou district and yuyao city of ningbo city, longwan district and taishun county of wenzhou city, deqing county and anji county of huzhou city, nanhu district and tongxiang city of jiaxing city, keqiao district and shangyu district of shaoxing city, wucheng district and yiwu city of jinhua city, huangyan district and tiantai county of taizhou city, suichang county and longquan city of lishui city.

"the reform of official meals is an important measure to implement the eight central regulations, and it also solves a practical problem encountered by government officials during official travel." zhang lingbin, director of the policy and regulations department of the zhejiang provincial government affairs management bureau, said that the implementation of the official meal reform has reduced expenses for official receptions, and government officials using their own card to dine in the canteen can also reduce the occurrence of illegal receptions.

at present, the reform of official meals in zhejiang province is being vigorously promoted. "according to our current time node, the 18 pilot counties will realize the interoperability of meal cards before the end of this year," said hu weiping, director of the catering management center of the zhejiang provincial administrative center.

jimu news reporters also noticed that in order to implement the relevant spirit of the central eight regulations and the relevant provisions on practicing economy and opposing waste, and to strive to provide catering services for the travel, meetings, and work exchanges of cadres and employees, on june 17 this year, the jiujiang municipal government affairs management bureau of jiangxi province also held a city-wide pilot work meeting on the networking of meal cards in government canteens. relevant responsible persons from 7 units in the city that use the china merchants bank e-meal smart canteen system attended the meeting. liu jun, member of the party leadership group and deputy director of the municipal management bureau, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

source: official website of jiangxi jiujiang municipal government affairs management bureau

liu jun emphasized that using informatization to change working methods, promote the digital transformation of office affairs management, insist on data empowerment, and enhance digital performance capabilities has been an important task promoted by provincial and municipal bureaus in recent years. it plays an important role in innovating office affairs management concepts. office affairs departments must follow this historical trend, accelerate the process of digital transformation of all elements of office affairs, seize the initiative, improve management, service and guarantee efficiency, and help the high-quality development of office affairs work.