A week later, Lu Xiaobin appeared in the office of Li Tianyi, director of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, with a face full of excitement.
Lu Xiaobin held Li Tianyi's hand and said excitedly: "Li Tianyi, thank you. The medicine you prescribed for me is very effective. Now my stomach pain is much better than before, and my tinnitus has also been relieved a lot. You can see
Can't you help me cure this disease?"
Li Tianyi said calmly: "Let me feel your pulse first, and then I'll talk about it after I've done it."
Lu Xiaobin sat opposite Li Tianyi. Li Tianyi took out a sleeper from the drawer and placed it under Lu Xiaobin's wrist. He put his hand on his wrist and quietly tasted the pulse.
After a while, Li Tianyi said with a smile: "Now it seems that the previous treatment idea is more symptomatic. I will add or subtract a few more medicines for you. It is estimated that you can basically recover in another week. As long as you pay attention to maintenance in the future,
, it should not relapse.”
Lu Xiaobin's eyes were full of excitement and he said: "Li Tianyi, thank you."
Li Tianyi smiled and shook his head and said: "There is nothing to thank you for. I just did a trivial thing within my ability."
Speaking of this, Li Tianyi looked at Lu Xiaobin and said, "Lu Xiaobin, does the bet you promised me before still count?"
Lu Xiaobin said quickly: "It counts, of course it counts, I can go visit with you now."
Li Tianyi smiled and said: "Okay, you go back and prepare. We will set off in two hours."
Lu Xiaobin shook his head and said: "If you have anything to prepare, I can just go with you. To be honest, I am very curious about what you can let me see, but I have something to say first. I never know how to
If you lie, you won’t be ashamed to speak to my conscience, so after reading this, I won’t do anything against my will just because you cured me.”
Li Tianyi smiled and said: "It's natural. I'm just taking you to visit a few places. I won't make any demands on you until your ideas have completely changed."
When Lu Xiaobin heard what Li Tianyi said, his eyes showed appreciation.
Li Tianyi's words sound very simple, but in fact they contain many deep meanings.
The subtext of Li Tianyi's words is that if your ideas change after the visit, I may make some other requests, but I hope you can agree to my requests at that time.
This is a gentleman's bet. Everything is clearly laid out on the table. After seeing Chen Yuandong's capricious villain face, Lu Xiaobin felt very comfortable getting along with Li Tianyi.
Li Tianyi saw that Lu Xiaobin was so cheerful, so he stopped talking and directly called Cao Side, director of the Office of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and asked him to arrange a car to wait at the gate. The driver was still Zhuge Tong.
Li Tianyi admired Zhuge Tong very much. He was a good brother who could live and die together, and he was also a good consultant who was serious and responsible, but also had great things in mind.
Although Zhuge Tong only has the identity of a driver with him now, in Li Tianyi's heart, with Zhuge Tong's talent, being a driver is really aggrieved. Therefore, in Li Tianyi's heart, he has long been concerned about Zhuge Tong.
There was an arrangement, but the time was not ripe yet, so he still wanted to keep Zhuge Tong by his side.
While walking to the car, Li Tianyi looked at Lu Xiaobin and said, "Lu Xiaobin, do you think there are more poor people in the United States or in China?"
Lu Xiaobin said without hesitation: "Of course there are more poor people in China."
Speaking of this, Lu Xiaobin seemed to understand why Li Tianyi asked this question, and immediately said: "Li Tianyi, did you see a message recently released in the Russian media, saying that there are 40 million poor people in the United States?
So you think that there are more poor people in the United States than in China. But in fact, this report is very one-sided because the poverty standards in the United States and China are different.
It is even mentioned in media reports that the poverty population ratio in the United States is 15%, while the poverty population ratio in China is only 2%. If you think that there are more poor people in the United States than in China, then I can only
Let me just say, you guys are so spirited."
Speaking of this, Lu Xiaobin became a little excited and said loudly: "Li Tianyi, did you know that 46% of poor families in the United States actually own their own houses. Their typical houses generally have three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, and a garage.
, a terrace. Only 6% of poor American families live in overcrowded housing.
76% of poor American households have air conditioning.
75% of poor American households own one car, and 30% of poor American households own two cars.
There is almost no difference in protein, vitamin and mineral intake between the children of poor Americans and the children of middle-class Americans. They are generally overnourished and are on average an inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the American soldiers who participated in the Normandy landings during World War II.
The poor can still share the dividends of economic development and social development, and the poor can still get what they deserve. Therefore, the poor in the United States generally do not have strong pressure to survive, nor do they have strong anti-social, especially anti-elite sentiments. Of course, there are some anti-social violent incidents, but they are all
It is a sporadic case and does not have universal significance. The American society has certainly paid a price for this. According to statistics, social welfare expenditures account for nearly half of the federal government’s non-interest expenditures, equivalent to 9% of the U.S. GDP.”
Speaking of this, Lu Xiaobin stared at Li Tianyi and said, "Li Tianyi, do you know all this?"
Li Tianyi smiled slightly and said: "Lu Xiaobin, it seems that you are very familiar with the data in the United States, so do you know what the situation is like in China?"
Lu Xiaobin said: "Although I don't know much about the situation in China, I know that the poverty line in the United States is equivalent to the standard of your Chinese middle class. As for the purchasing power of your Chinese poor, it is worse than that of Americans."
A lot.
In China, the living standard of more than half of the Chinese people exceeds the poverty line in the United States. This is a very remarkable achievement compared to 40 years ago when more than 95% of the population was below the international poverty line."
Li Tianyi, still smiling, said: "Then I would like to ask, how does the United States treat these poor people in the United States?"
Lu Xiaobin said very proudly: "Of course we should give them unemployment benefits and various benefits so that their low income will not affect their anger against the elites.
America's welfare is the best in the world."
Li Tianyi nodded slightly and said: "It is undeniable that the welfare of the United States is indeed one of the best in the world, but I want to ask you, is there any targeted poverty alleviation in the United States?"
Lu Xiaobin shook his head and said: "No, in the United States, I have never even heard of the concept of targeted poverty alleviation. What on earth is this?"
Li Tianyi said: "The so-called targeted poverty alleviation refers to a poverty alleviation method that uses scientific and effective procedures to accurately identify, assist, and manage poverty alleviation objects based on different poverty-stricken regional environments and different conditions of poor farmers. Generally speaking, targeted poverty alleviation
Mainly for poor residents, we will support those who are poor.
Our poverty alleviation work in China implements a targeted poverty alleviation strategy, increasing investment in poverty alleviation, introducing preferential policies and measures, adhering to China's institutional advantages, focusing on six precisions, insisting on classified policies, implementing policies according to people and places, implementing policies based on the reasons for poverty, and implementing policies based on the type of poverty.
Through supporting production and employment development, a group of people will be resettled through relocation, a group of people will be lifted out of poverty through ecological protection, a group will be lifted out of poverty through education, and a group will be provided with subsistence allowance policies, and the entire society will be mobilized to participate in poverty alleviation."
Speaking of this, Li Tianyi said confidently: "Lu Xiaobin, do you know that although the welfare of the poor in the United States is good, the high welfare in the United States also means that the chance of the poor turning over is very small, because for the poor in the United States,
For them, it is very difficult for them to reverse the situation of poverty. On the one hand, they cannot ultimately achieve a reversal of their destiny through studying, because in the United States, the best schools are private universities, and going to private universities requires huge sums of money.
, the average poor simply cannot afford to go to those private universities.
Moreover, the United States appears to be very relaxed about education. Students can go home from school at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the courses are very relaxed. However, in fact, this kind of relaxation is tantamount to chronic suicide for the poor.
Because many poor people are unable to participate in various extracurricular tutoring classes and improve their knowledge level due to their low income levels. Therefore, when it comes to entering college, the gap between the poor in the United States and the children of the rich is relatively large.
Big, but the chance that poor Americans can reverse their destiny through their own efforts is very low.
But it is different in China, because we in China have the college entrance examination.
The college entrance examination is fair to all students. Whether you are a child from a rich family or a student from a poor family, as long as you study hard and have enough IQ, you will have the opportunity to be admitted to a prestigious university and change your destiny.
In fact, there are indeed many poor students in China who have changed their destiny by going to college."
At this point, Li Tianyi suddenly laughed and said, "Sorry, I got a little off topic. What we are discussing now is the problem of the poor.
The reason why I put forward the points just now is because I think that in the United States, all social classes have been solidified, and it is very difficult to change the class you are in. In addition, the United States has such good welfare, objectively
As a result, many poor people in the United States do not want to make progress because they can enjoy free lunches.
But there is a saying in China that it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. To understand this sentence literally, fish is the purpose and fishing is the means. A fish can relieve temporary hunger, but it cannot relieve long-term hunger. If
If you want to always have fish to eat, you must learn how to fish.
What China's targeted poverty alleviation needs to do is to teach and drive the poor people to learn how to fish, thereby changing their destiny and realizing the transformation from a poor population to a well-off population."
Speaking of this, Li Tianyi said excitedly: "Lu Xiaobin, do you know that China will lift all its poor people out of poverty in 2022, which will be a feat that shocks the world.
Do you think it is better to live a mediocre life like the United States, where poor people are raised like pigs so that they can live a mediocre life without any worries or resistance, or is it better to lead poor households to find a way out of poverty and become rich through targeted poverty alleviation like ours in China?