The property right of rural collective assets should not be left empty.

One of the important reasons for the frequent occurrence of "village official corruption" is the false property right of rural collective assets. Under the background of comprehensively promoting the rule of law, promoting the reform of joint-stock rights of rural collective assets will help to curb "village official corruption" and strengthen the collective economy, which is not only related to the present but also long-term benefits.

Recently, procuratorial organs in various localities have successively announced a number of "village official corruption" cases, ranging from "million-level village officials", "10 million-level village officials" to "100 million-level village officials". However, a common feature is the use of power in their hands to embezzle public property belonging to all members of the village collective.

The incidents of "corruption of village officials" occur frequently for many reasons. In addition to the lack of internal supervision and the lack of external supervision, there is also an important reason, that is, the virtual property rights of rural collective assets. Due to the false property rights of collective assets, these assets seem to belong to the collective ownership of the village, but in fact all the villagers have no one. Villagers have no say in whether and how collective assets can be used, let alone supervision. There are only a few "village officials" or even one or two "village officials" who really have a say. Collective ownership in rural areas has become the de facto ownership of "village officials" in some places. If the collective consciousness and legal consciousness of "village officials" are weak, corruption is easy to occur.

According to the current laws and policies, rural collective assets cover a wide range: some are resource assets, such as cultivated land, woodland, mountains, grasslands, beaches, water surfaces, etc., and the other part are operating assets. such as factories and facades built on collective construction land, various business organizations invested in the name of the collective, and so on. Most of the resource assets have been granted to each villager by household contract management, and some of them are retained in the village collective in the form of mobile land, and the use mode is decided by the village collective. For operating assets, most places operate in the name of the collective, benefit from it in the name of the collective, and also use it in the name of the collective.

In reality, a lot of "village official corruption" occurs in the name of collective assets. Most of the "village official corruption" cases exposed in various places are related to land compensation, disaster relief, as well as the rental, transfer and contracting of cultivated land, woodland, mines, beaches, wasteland, projects and factories. The reason why these links are prone to corruption is that they all involve collective assets, and it is not only difficult for villagers to participate and supervise, but also because they are irrelevant and hanging high, and there is more room for "village officials" to manipulate.

Therefore, an important way to curb "village official corruption" and let the development of collective economy benefit all villagers is to speed up the reform of shareholding rights of rural collective assets on the premise of promoting "villager autonomy" and strengthening legal supervision. We should clarify the property rights of rural collective assets and give farmers more property rights. According to the spirit of the central government, one of the important contents of comprehensively deepening rural reform is to actively develop farmers' joint-stock cooperation and explore and clarify the ownership of property rights in accordance with the goal of the pilot reform of giving shareholding rights to collective assets. we will establish a new mechanism for the operation of the rural collective economy that meets the requirements of the market economy. Along this direction, through the reform of the shareholding rights of collective assets, we can promote the collective economy to embark on the development road of clear property rights, and let all the members of the village collective become the direct beneficiaries of the development of the collective economy.

Of course, there are various ways to realize the share rights of collective assets, but no matter which form of shares, we must protect the property rights of the members of farmers' collective organizations from infringement. Only on the basis of the clear property right of collective assets and the effective realization form of collective ownership economy, can the rights of every villager as a member of collective economic organization be guaranteed and can he really become the master of collective assets. exercise the right of participation and supervision over how collective assets are used and how the collective economy develops. Only on this basis can the collective economy develop and grow further.

Under the background of comprehensively promoting the rule of law, promoting the reform of shareholding rights of rural collective assets will help to curb the corruption of village officials and strengthen the collective economy, which is not only related to the present but also beneficial to the long term.