Chapter 3 Chapter 1 Top Secret Plan

When the dawn of the new century illuminates the land of China, people are pleasantly surprised to find that this ancient oriental country has really changed, and it has become rich, powerful, and full of vitality. China has returned to the role it played in the millennium before the 19th century!This year, China achieved a GDP of 8.9 trillion yuan, and its economic aggregate ranked seventh in the world.China has grown into a country capable of determining its own destiny and influencing the world.China's economic giant will continue to advance rapidly in the international environment of "peace and development".Huang Yuchuan, director of the World Bank's China Business Bureau, said in the "2000 Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries" report: "In 20 years, China's GDP will rank second in the world, second only to the United States."

China's economic achievements have attracted worldwide attention.However, we should also be aware that China is still a developing country. Various contradictions in China's social transformation period, including corruption, unemployment, environmental pollution, state-owned enterprise restructuring, social security, industrial structure imbalance, widening gap between rich and poor, etc. They all need to be solved urgently; China's economic order needs to be sorted out and reconstructed... In the first year of the new century, after China successfully cracked down on smuggling and fraudulent foreign exchange, it launched a heavy blow again, pointing the sword of justice at a crime that seriously disrupted the economic order - fraudulently obtaining export tax rebates!

On August 7, 2000, the beautiful Beidaihe. On this day, the State Council held a working meeting of the Prime Minister.As the prime minister of a big country, Zhu Rongji made a major decision on behalf of the State Council: the establishment of the "State Council Leading Group for Combating Fraudulently Obtaining Export Tax Rebates".Wu Yi, an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and State Councilor at the time, served as the team leader. Jin Renqing, then director of the State Administration of Taxation, and Qian Guanlin, director of the General Administration of Customs, served as deputy team leaders.The office of the leading group is located in the State Administration of Taxation.

The key target of cracking down on fraudulently obtaining export tax rebates - the Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong Province. Because this day is August 7, the leader of the working group proposed to name the case "807". August is the hottest day in Beijing, while Beidaihe is the best season of the year.The green trees are swaying, the sea breeze is blowing, walking barefoot on the beach by the sea, or swimming in the water, this is a wonderful enjoyment for urbanites. Mason was walking on the beach.Ma Sen loves the mountains, but loves the sea even more. The frankness of the sea, the broadness of the sea, and the magnanimity of the sea... The sea can broaden your heart and relieve your worries.When you are depressed, look at the endless sea, and your heart will become more open; when you are sad, go to the beach, and the scars in your heart will be healed by the waves...

Mason likes to swim, but this day, he didn't go into the water.Although he was dragged to the beach by his colleagues, he kept walking on the beach alone... He was thinking about every word, every instruction, and even every expression and gesture of Premier Zhu.The Prime Minister's tone is sometimes calm and sometimes fierce.Mason still clearly remembers that that afternoon, he was sitting in the fifth row of the conference room, and this was the first time he listened to the Prime Minister's instructions so closely.When the Prime Minister spoke, he paused and faltered, every word was full of strength, and every sentence contained the essence.Mason listened carefully to the Prime Minister's speech and the deep meaning behind it.Mason understands that cracking down on fraudulent export tax rebates is not an isolated action, it is an important step in rectifying the economic order in our country, and it is a manifestation of the will of the country...

Mason walked silently on the beach. He looked up, the wind gradually subsided, and the sea was as calm as a sleeping baby, breathing evenly.The fiery red sun quietly emerged from the clouds, and after a while, the entire sea turned a beautiful orange.A long wave of light stretched from the feet to the sky, shining brightly like amber. "It's so beautiful!" Mason sighed secretly, with a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time appeared on his face... As the director of the Import and Export Tax Management Department of the State Administration of Taxation, he must take on the burden of this fraudulent campaign, and he already felt the pressure on his shoulders.

He raised his head, looked at the colorful clouds flying in front of him, and his thoughts flew to the background of fighting deception. In the late 1990s, my country's economy continued to grow at a high speed, and its economic vitality was greatly enhanced.However, problems in the period of social transformation also emerged, and the economic order urgently needed to be rectified and standardized.As a result, the Chinese government focused on development with one hand and rectification with the other, and the prelude to rectify the economic order gradually began. First started the anti-smuggling campaign.

In July 1998, the China Anti-Smuggling Work Conference was held in Beijing.The meeting, which was originally scheduled to be held in the name of the State Council, was upgraded to a joint meeting between the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council after the Political Bureau of the Central Committee agreed.When almost all the leaders of the central government appeared at the Jingxi Hotel meeting in Beijing, people not only saw the determination of a country, but also saw the seriousness of the situation. China's anti-smuggling campaign has achieved the expected results.Soon, a major smuggling case with symbolic significance was cracked, which was the famous Xiamen Yuanhua "420" extraordinarily large smuggling case.The case involved more than 50 billion RMB. It was the largest smuggling case since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the most extensive level of suspicion, the largest amount of tax evasion, and the most smuggling methods.

What followed was the battle against foreign exchange fraud. In July 1998, under the deployment of the State Council, relevant departments such as customs and foreign exchange management organized and carried out national foreign exchange inspections. Behavior was severely punished. In October of this year, the SAFE issued a decision to give a lighter punishment to companies with a cumulative amount of less than 5 million US dollars, who can voluntarily explain their problems and recover fraudulent funds.By the 30th, nearly a thousand companies took the initiative to explain the problem of fraudulent foreign exchange.

At the end of December, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the "Decision on Punishment of Fraudulent Foreign Exchange Purchases, Foreign Exchange Evasion, and Illegal Foreign Exchange Trading Crimes", which provided a basis for cracking down on fraudulent foreign exchange behaviors in legislation. In 1999, under the strong leadership of the central government and the concerted efforts of various departments, the fraudulent foreign exchange activities that had been rampant for many years almost disappeared. It should be said that the current series of strategic planning is the third battle to be carried out.

This will be a national action aimed at cracking down on fraudulent export tax rebates, with the tax system playing the leading role.