Chapter 79 Decoding the "black" income of officialdom in Shanxi

"I would rather take off my official hat than withdraw my capital." This is the private statement of some local coal officials after being asked by their superiors to withdraw their equity capital from coal mines. They naturally understand the importance of official hats and money.A "genuine" official hat has the upper hand in the game of whether to divest or not. How will this affect their "money"?So, how did their "black" income come from? We might as well replace the "black" income of Shanxi officialdom with "skin color", let's call it "gray income", because only by proposing this concept can we start from the perspective of studying social phenomena and describe the nature and characteristics of this phenomenon more accurately and completely .

We know that in modern society, it is very difficult to count a person's income status, because this kind of income has many channels and its structure is very complicated.We propose to "decode" the "black" income of officialdom in Shanxi, but in reality we can only do a macro analysis. The first type of "income" in local "official circles" refers to "public office income".Another interpretation of this kind of "income" is that some staff members of power organs use government resources and the influence of their positions to do business secretly.

For example, these people try to use some public office conditions (such as communication conditions, venue occupancy, official event reception channels, etc.) to talk about business, so that if the business is successful, the money will be stuffed into their pockets.If the business is not completed, then all the invisible expenses will naturally be in the public domain, and you will not lose anything. The second type of "income" in local "official circles" refers to "part-time income".Officials have various "part-time jobs" in real life. In some places, coal mines often employ "county magistrate part-time consultants" and "township heads part-time mine managers".Some insiders said that these people don't have a "part-time job" in the mine all year round, but they receive a lot of "consulting fees" and "part-time jobs" on a regular basis.

The third type of "income" in local "official circles" is "intermediary income".This mainly refers to the "windbreakers" who wander among the coal bosses in the coal-producing areas. Most of the practitioners in this industry are glib, sarcastic, and sophisticated. They often use their government background and network resources to dissociate between the coal bosses and the government. between. They are neither "middlemen" nor "brokers", but in any case, we should face up to the "fact" that this group exists under the current coal policy and economic background.Anyway, this group is people who are "useful" to the coal bosses' business, and they are also a group of people who rely on the coal bosses for their income.

The fourth type of "income" in local "official circles" refers to "gift-type income".In daily life, people in our country give gifts in many ways and to many objects. In the past, they were gifts, but later they simply donated money.As we all know, money is something that gentlemen are ashamed to export, so someone changed it to a "elegant name", collectively referred to as "red envelopes", such as the "travel expenses" given to relevant leaders during the opening of coal mines and anniversary celebrations, some full-time shuttles to inspections, appraisal meetings, and seminars "Conference fees" in the hands of leaders of meetings and on-site meetings.