The Ministry Of Agriculture Responded To The Official Reception Budget Of 24.6 Million Yuan

The website of the Ministry of Agriculture today released official receptions Statement on the Budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, which pointed out that in 2014, the annual per capita budget for official reception fees for in-service employees of the Ministry of Agriculture was only 263 yuan.

According to the Instruction, the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture for official reception in 2014 was 24.6071 million yuan, 35.3034 million yuan in 2013 and 37.5568 million yuan in 2012. The budget for official reception expenses in 2013 decreased by 2.2534 million yuan, or 6%, compared with 2012, and in 2014 decreased by 10.6963 million yuan, or 30.3%, compared with 2013 Reception fee The budget has been cut by a large margin.

According to the Instruction, in 2014, it was included in the Ministry of Agriculture Budgeting Budget units within the scope include more than 500 budget units at all levels at the ministerial level and Heilongjiang Provincial General Administration of Land Reclamation, Guangdong Provincial General Administration of Land Reclamation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, etc.

The Instruction points out that the total number of people in the Ministry of Agriculture system is 174601, including 93531 employees and 81070 retirees. It is one of the largest and most populous departments in the central state organs. In 2014, the annual per capita official reception fee budget for in-service staff of the Ministry of Agriculture was only 263 yuan.

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The State Administration of Taxation cut reception fees by 200 million yuan

According to incomplete statistics, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences rank among the top three in the budget of official reception fees.

It is worth noting that the budget for official reception fees of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014 was 68049400 yuan, 7.561 million yuan less than the 2013 budget. The Chinese Academy of Sciences explained that it should conscientiously implement the spirit of strict economy and further reduce the budget for business reception expenses.

For the huge base of official reception fees, the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced in 2011 that the official reception fees of the Chinese Academy of Sciences include official reception for domestic guests and official reception for foreign guests. Due to frequent international scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges, the official reception fees for foreign guests are high.

The budget of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development is only 139500 yuan

More than 20 million yuan from the Ministry of Agriculture

Most departments have reduced the official reception fees. The budget for reception fees of the NDRC was reduced from 6.08 million yuan in 2013 to 5.75 million yuan in 2014; The budget for reception fees of the Ministry of Science and Technology decreased from 15.6684 million yuan in 2013 to 11.4881 million yuan; The Ministry of Environmental Protection cut the price from 6.6982 million yuan to 3.309 million yuan.

However, the absolute amount of reception fees varies greatly between ministries. The reception budget of the Ministry of Agriculture is more than 20 million yuan, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology are more than 10 million yuan, the NDRC, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Water Resources and other ministries and commissions are about 5 million yuan, and the official reception budget of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development in 2014 is only 139500 yuan.

According to the results of the reporter's inquiry, the official reception fees of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development are the least among the ministries and commissions of the State Council. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development explained that the budget of official reception fees in 2014 was the same as that in 2013, mainly because of the strict control of "three official" expenditure in accordance with the requirements of the "eight regulations" of the central government, so as to ensure that the budget size of "three official" expenditure in 2014 was only reduced.

Increase in reception fees of individual departments

The official reception fee reflects the various official reception (including foreign guest reception) expenses of the unit according to the regulations.

In some departments, the budget for reception fees has remained unchanged from last year. These departments include the Central Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Administration of Work Safety, the Tourism Administration, the Academy of Social Sciences, the National School of Administration, etc.

However, there are also some departments with increased reception fees. The budget for official reception of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2014 was 240000 yuan, an increase of 180000 yuan over the 2013 budget, because the one-time task of foreign affairs reception for international conferences in China was increased.