Poster journalist Liang Wen reports
"Parking fees on high-priced roads cost hundreds of yuan a day, and bicycles and electric cars also have to be charged …" In recent days, the problem of expensive road parking fees in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has continued to ferment. In the face of controversy, from May 21 to 22, many departments in Nanning frequently voiced their voices.
Nanning Municipal Committee decided to suspend five people involved in the memorandum of cooperation for inspection;
Nanning Municipal People’s Government issued the Notice on Soliciting Opinions and Suggestions on Parking Charges in Nanning;
The Nanning Municipal Development and Reform Commission issued the Announcement on Holding a Hearing on the Charging Standard of Parking Service for Motor Vehicles in Nanning Road Parking Spaces;
Nanning Audit Bureau sent an audit team to Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd.;
Subsequently, Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd. stopped operating, closed down for rectification, and was audited. Nanning Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. took over the operation and management of urban road parking spaces.
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As the incident continues to ferment, the management of urban road parking spaces has also begun to attract attention. Who should be in charge of parking spaces on urban roads? How much should I charge?
Citizens report that the high parking fees on roads trigger a chain reaction.
According to many Nanning citizens, there are different charging standards for roadside parking in different sections of Nanning. Some citizens have parking fees as high as hundreds of yuan, and some citizens charge more than 90 yuan for roadside parking for one night.
An online picture shows that many local cars in Nanning owe tens of thousands of yuan, and even some owners owe more than 60,000 yuan at most. Most of the local road parking spaces in Nanning are operated and managed by Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd.
The poster journalist noticed that on September 25, 2021, Huibo Parking official WeChat "Hui Parking Service" announced some vehicles that owed road parking fees, and many vehicles owed as much as 10,000 yuan. This article also pointed out that it is not easy to ask for arrears. A parking toll collector said, "Sometimes when car owners are reminded to pay parking fees, they ignore them and drive away, and sometimes they are insulted." According to statistics, as of April 26, 2021, Huibo parking still has a parking fee of 29.937 million yuan owed by the owner of the city road, which is difficult to recover.
On May 8 this year, the People’s Court of Qingxiu District of Nanning signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Huibo Parking, proposing to jointly build an implementation linkage mechanism of "implementation+smart parking", and on the basis of making full use of the advantages of big data analysis of parking space management, closely weave the "tight encirclement" of property inspection and control.
How to do it specifically? It is to build a platform to implement the linkage and cooperation mechanism, monitor the vehicles that have been seized by the Qingxiu District People’s Court in real time, and take control measures for the corresponding vehicles. At the same time, Huibo parking can analyze the action route of the person subjected to execution according to the parking situation of the vehicle, and the Qingxiu District People’s Court can narrow the search scope of the person subjected to execution and change the current situation of "difficult investigation and control" of the vehicle subjected to execution.
This Memorandum of Cooperation has once again sparked heated public opinion.
On May 19th, according to the news of Guangxi News Network, the Higher People’s Court of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region considered that the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between Qingxiu District Court and a specific enterprise was not in line with the principle of fairness and justice. On May 19th, Qingxiu District Court and Huibo Parking were instructed to cancel the Memorandum of Cooperation.
On May 21st, according to Nanning News Network, upon the decision of Nanning Municipal Committee, five people, including Zhao Hui, member of the party group and vice president of Qingxiu District People’s Court in Nanning, Liang Fangyan, member of the party group and executive director of Qingxiu District People’s Court in Nanning, Liu Xuan, member of the party group and deputy director of Nanning Municipal and Landscape Administration Bureau, Lai Hong, member of the party Committee and deputy general manager of Nanning Public Transport Group Co., Ltd., and Guo Zhihua, secretary of the party branch and chairman of Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd., were suspended for inspection.
The Memorandum of Cooperation has brought the issue of road parking charges in Nanning to the stage again.
On May 21st, the Nanning Municipal Development and Reform Commission issued the Announcement on Holding a Hearing on the Charging Standard of Parking Service for Motor Vehicles in Nanning. According to the announcement, it is planned to hold a hearing on the charging standard of motor vehicle parking service in Nanning on June 21, 2023, and listen to the opinions of consumers, operators and relevant parties extensively.
On May 22nd, the Nanning Municipal People’s Government issued the Notice on Soliciting Opinions and Suggestions on Parking Charges in Nanning. According to the notice, from now until June 5, we will listen to the people’s plans and wisdom, and further optimize and adjust the charging standards for road parking spaces in Nanning. The main collection contents include what adjustments need to be made to the roadside parking fee standard, which sections and areas have unreasonable parking spaces or need to add parking spaces.
The Loss Mystery of Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd.
In the problem of road parking fees in Nanning, Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd., which "holds the operation authority of a large number of road parking spaces in Nanning", has been pushed to the forefront.
On May 21, Nanning Audit Bureau issued an audit notice: According to the provisions of Article 29 of the Audit Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the decision-making arrangements of the municipal party committee and government, Nanning Audit Bureau sent an audit team to Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd. from May 21 to June 15, 2023 to conduct a special audit investigation on the operation and management of road parking spaces in Nanning.
On May 22nd, official website, the government of Nanning, issued a notice that Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd. stopped operating, closed down for rectification and accepted the audit, and Nanning Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. took over the operation and management of urban road parking spaces.
According to public information, Nanning Huibo Parking Service Co., Ltd. was established in 2017 and is 100% owned by Nanning Public Transport Group Co., Ltd., which is an indirect 100% owned subsidiary of Nanning State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. Since January 2018, the company has managed the on-road parking spaces in Nanning, managing a total of 30,535 on-road motor vehicle parking spaces with a parking zone of 36,908 meters and operating 82 non-motor vehicle storage points. On August 26th, 2022, the registered capital of Huibo Parking was changed from 2 million yuan to 502 million yuan.
Although "holding" more than 30,000 parking spaces in Nanning, the income of Huibo Parking in 2022 is not good. According to the financial report of Nanning Rail Transit Group, by the end of 2022, Huibo’s parking net assets were 495 million yuan, with a net loss of 12.08 million yuan in 2022.
Before being audited, the special audit investigation report of Nanning Audit Bureau in 2021 also pointed out some problems about parking spaces. According to the report, from January 1, 2018 to March 31, 2021, the parking fee income of parking berths and public parking lots managed and operated by Nanning Transportation Investment Group Co., Ltd. totaled 205,513,400 yuan. As of March 31, 2021, the group company and the Municipal Finance Bureau failed to jointly formulate the corresponding detailed management plan for parking fee collection in accordance with the relevant requirements of the Municipal People’s Government, and the parking fee income failed to be turned over to the finance.
In this regard, since April 2021, Nanning Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. has worked with the Municipal Finance Bureau for many times to formulate a plan for the payment of paid parking fees in Nanning. In April 2021, it took the initiative to prepay the parking income of motor vehicles on the road to the municipal financial non-tax revenue account.
Who is in charge of parking on urban roads? What’s the charge?
When the high cost of road parking in Nanning triggered a discussion, some citizens questioned the unreasonable planning of road parking spaces in Nanning, whether the charges were reasonable, why electric bicycles should be charged, and why there was no upper limit on the charges.
In this regard, Nanning has responded in many ways. Huibo parking customer service said that the charging standard for road parking was formulated by the Nanning municipal government and recorded by the price department..The Development and Reform Commission of Nanning responded that the charging standard for road parking in Nanning was formulated according to the spirit of the document Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Transport of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the National Development and Reform Commission on Further Improving the Charging Policy for Motor Vehicle Parking Services and the actual situation in Nanning. The implementation of differentiated parking fees by time and region in the city has been implemented since March 2017. Compared with similar cities, the parking fees of motor vehicles in Nanning are at a moderate level.
The reporter found that as the city ranked first in GDP in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the road parking fee in Nanning is at a high level in Guangxi.
On April 10th this year, members of the Development and Reform Commission of Liuzhou issued the Announcement on Public Solicitation of Opinions on Optimizing and Adjusting the Parking Service Charge Scheme for Urban Road Vehicles. The draft for soliciting opinions mentioned that the charging time of temporary parking spaces for motor vehicles is from 7: 30 to 22: 00 every day, new energy vehicles can be parked for 2 hours free, and other motor vehicles can be parked for the first 30 minutes. Vehicles parked in Class I areas will be charged every 30 minutes in the first 2 hours in 2 yuan, and every 30 minutes in 3 yuan from the third hour. Non-motor vehicle parking spaces take 12 hours as a charging unit, and continuous parking for more than 12 hours is accumulated circularly, and the charging standard is 1 yuan/vehicle. Motorcycle parking is implemented with reference to non-motor vehicles.
According to local media reports in Guangxi, at present, there are 11 cities in Guangxi that charge for road parking services. Among them, the charging standard for first-class roads in Nanning is: 1.5 yuan /15 minutes (6 yuan/hour) for the first two hours, 2 yuan /15 minutes (8 yuan/hour) from the third hour, and there is no maximum price limit; Class I section of Guilin: 1 yuan/15min (4 yuan/hour) at the first hour, 2 yuan/15min (8 yuan/hour) at the second hour, 2.5 yuan/15min (10 yuan/hour) at the third hour, with the daily maximum price limit of 60 yuan.
From a national perspective, road parking charges have become more common. For example, according to the convenience question and answer issued by official website, Beijing Municipal People’s Government on July 4, 2022, according to the Notice on Relevant Issues Concerning the Charging Standards of Road Parking Occupancy Fees in Beijing (J.F.G.J. [2018] No.2770), the parking hourly charges of urban occupied parking lots are subject to government pricing management, and differentiated charges are implemented according to three types of areas (not adjusted since April 1, 2011). That is, the first-class area is the area within the Third Ring Road (including) and four key areas such as the Central Business District (CBD), Yansha District, zhongguancun west and Cuiwei Business District. The 2.5 yuan for small cars is every 15 minutes in the first hour, and it is 3.75 yuan every 15 minutes after the first hour.
For another example, in April 2022, Jinan Static Traffic released "Interpretation of Problems Related to Road Parking Management in Jinan City", saying that according to the Notice on Adjusting the Charge Standard of Parking Watch Fees in Urban Areas of our City (J.J.F.Zi [1999] No.381), Notice on Regulating the Parking Charge of Motor Vehicles in Urban Areas (J.J.F.Zi [2015] No.27) and About Daytime period: 8: 00 am-20: 00 pm, 2 yuan/hour; Night time: 20: 00 pm-8: 00 am the next day, 2 yuan/hour, capped in 5 yuan.
According to media reports, at present, in some cities in China, such as Beijing and Guangzhou, urban road motor vehicle parking fees are administrative fees, which belong to government non-tax revenue and are managed by "two lines of revenue and expenditure". The charging standards of road parking spaces in each city are different according to their actual conditions.
The traffic police department in a certain place once gave such an explanation to the question of why urban roadside parking should be charged: on the premise of giving consideration to the interests of motor vehicles, non-motor vehicles and pedestrians, the main purpose of planning on-street parking spaces on qualified urban roads is to meet the temporary parking needs of citizens. As a public parking resource, the main purpose of on-street parking is to realize the short-term parking of drivers and encourage them to stop and go. However, the phenomenon of "zombie car" and advertising vehicles occupying parking spaces for a long time or even for a long time is not uncommon, which makes it difficult for on-street parking spaces to play the role of temporary parking, and "intelligent management+price leverage" is an effective method to realize the standardized management of on-street parking spaces in many cities in China. Improving the turnover rate of parking spaces is a long-term mechanism. The purpose of charging motor vehicles parked in on-road parking spaces is to exert the price lever adjustment function, improve the utilization efficiency of parking resources, guide drivers to "stop for a short time and go quickly", avoid occupying road parking spaces for a long time, and smooth the static order of the city.
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