Research funding is losing hundreds of billions of "return points" into unspoken rules every year.

A few days ago, when the Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang mentioned the "malignant problem" of research funding at the press conference of the State Council, he even said two "angers" and said "distressed" and "wrong".

According to the survey of the China Association for Science and Technology, the amount of scientific research funds lost in China may reach hundreds of billions of yuan. The loopholes in the management of research funding have led the science and technology sector to become a high-risk place for rent-seeking and corruption. These are calling for the arrival of a reform in the field of research funding.

How to use 1 million?

Zhang Yuan (a pseudonym) Zhang Yuan, a person in charge of a new building materials company in Shandong, told this reporter that his company has invested less than 10 million yuan in research and development in recent years. "We have to borrow loan sharks."

He has calculated that he has applied to the local science and technology department for more than a dozen research support funds in the past few years, but they have not succeeded. The application "rebate" he had encountered was not a case. A university researcher told this newspaper that his university had applied for a project of 1 million yuan, and the introduction fee was 600,000 yuan, and the remaining 400,000 yuan were divided into two cooperative teachers.

There are even more incredible cases. The Guangdong Provincial Audit Office audited the implementation of the provincial-level major science and technology special funds from 2008 to 2010 and found that the two project undertakers of a certain city had a special fund of 450,000 yuan, one of which It has been closed for nearly two years, and all sorts of reasons are intriguing.

Li Bing (pseudonym) is a staff member of a well-known accounting firm in Guangdong. Her job is to help companies apply for high-tech projects. She told this reporter that there are many kinds of research funding. First of all, the light level is divided into district, city, province and national level. Generally speaking, the higher the level, the greater the amount of funds, and of course the difficulty of application increases.

In order to apply for support for high-tech projects, some companies that did not have a special R&D department will temporarily set up R&D under the guidance of “Li Bing”. Li Bing told this reporter that due to the large amount of research funding, almost every company will set up a person to be responsible for the filing of research and development materials and the declaration of science and technology projects. One of their daily important tasks is to brush major government departments such as the National Development and Reform Commission and technology. The official website of the bureau and the letter committee can find out whether there are project funds related to themselves that can be applied for.

A former LED industry veteran told this newspaper that there are more than 6,000 LED companies in Guangdong, and only about 2% to 3% can get subsidies, most of which are listed companies and state-owned enterprises. Some enterprise projects are doing very poorly, but with good relations with the government, they will brag and get tens of millions of government subsidies.

How much is 1 trillion used?

In recent years, China's research and experimental development (R&D) expenditures have grown at an average annual rate of more than 100 billion yuan, and in 2012 it exceeded 1 trillion yuan. However, according to the survey of the China Association for Science and Technology, China's research funds are only about 40% of the project itself, and a large amount of research funding is lost outside the project. Based on the total amount of about 1 trillion yuan, the amount of research funding for non-scientific research may reach hundreds of billions of yuan per year.

This is roughly equivalent to the data disclosed by Wang Dong, the deputy mayor of Guangzhou. At a news conference in late July, he said that a piece of information he had read showed that about 40% of the country's research funding was actually spent on technology research and development, and fifty-six percent was used for business trips. At that time, the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection issued a message that Li Xinghua, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, was under investigation for serious violations. This has exposed the government subsidies in the LED industry to a certain extent.

The above cases and more cases of audit report exposure show that some researchers and managers have become "conventional" improper use of research funds, and some localities and universities have also formed a chain of interests: experts and scholars compete for the topic "required funds", the project The members of the group made a name for "flowers", and the managers used the power to seek private "grant funds."

Li Bing revealed a news circulating in the industry that the director of the Science and Technology Bureau of a certain district of the Pearl River Delta received a benefit fee of 200,000 yuan before the enterprise applied for a project fund. After the successful application of the 2 million yuan fund, the Lions’ mouth again requested half of the fee from the enterprise. . As a result, the company was angered and things were finally exposed. The director was "double-regulated."

The Xinhua News Agency recently issued a commentary saying that the money-sending and spending money has become a community of interests. Who is willing to really change the current management of scientific research funds?

The Guangming Daily published a publication that the current general research fund reporting model is: According to the recommendations of the expert committee, the government has formulated a project declaration guideline for fixed research directions, and the scientific research workers will apply for fund declaration according to the application guidelines. The declaration of scientific research funds that should reflect the scientific spirit and scientific laws has become the "propositional composition" of the government departments. In this process, from project project establishment, fund allocation to achievement appraisal, it is inseparable from the shadow of “human rule”, which eventually leads to the distribution of research fund may become a derivative of power and human condition.

How to reform in the future?

The local government has realized that reform of the research funding model is imperative. Wang Dong said at the above-mentioned press conference that Guangzhou has already begun to study how to issue financial funds. He said that he is also thinking about whether to distribute money to each company or to put more on the technology service platform.

“The use of technology funds cannot be simply established.” On October 12, at the first China Science and Technology Finance Promotion Summit, Ye Jingtu, deputy director of the Guangdong Science and Technology Department, said that Guangdong Province has recently reflected on the past in technology management. In the future, the mode of use of existing science and technology funds will be adjusted.

A member of the Political Science and Technology Association of Guangdong Province, who did not want to be named, told this reporter that there may be a lot of trouble in the project. There may be false reports when the grassroots projects are reported. In fact, the project of 1 million yuan is written to write 2 million yuan. After that, there was a lack of supervision.

He believes that in China, research funding is reviewed and issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Science and Technology Department, and the Science and Technology Bureau. There are too many levels and problems. Moreover, the Science and Technology Department is an administrative department, not a scientific research department. It is unreasonable for them to grasp the funds and the distribution of projects.

The above-mentioned members of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference suggested that China's research funding model reform can be studied in some developed countries. For example, in Germany, an association co-ordinates all research institutes and manages the issuance of all research funds. There is no artificial administrative role. The president of the association is a scientific researcher who knows where money should be spent.

"The main problem now is that the science and technology departments in China are both athletes and referees," said the CPPCC member. "If supervision is in place, the issuers must be separated from the regulators. Money people concentrate on doing projects."

Wangang also disclosed the idea of ​​perfecting the supervision of research funding at the above-mentioned press conference. "We should make the use of funds for each scientific research project at least in this topic, in this unit, to be open and transparent, so as to avoid some vicious problems, so that our research funding can be more efficient," he said.

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