After Li Tianyi finished speaking, Lu Xiaobin fell into deep thought for a long time.
Although he expressed strong recognition and affirmation of the living standards of the poor in the United States at the beginning, he also knew the living conditions of the poor in the United States. Although many of them own houses and cars, in fact, their
The quality of life is not high, and sometimes I can only buy cheap canned food.
But looking back at China, the introduction of targeted poverty alleviation policies and the formulation of the goal of comprehensively eradicating poverty and moving towards a moderately prosperous society by 2022 will bring a qualitative leap to the living standards of China's poor.
The most important thing is, as Li Tianyi said, the poor people in the United States seem to have been kept captive by the American elite through a series of systems, so that they have no worries about food and clothing and will not resist the rule of the American elite.
, let alone question the growing polarization between rich and poor in the United States.
Although the poor in China are far behind Americans in terms of housing, food, clothing and other issues, the United States does not have targeted poverty alleviation projects, and the so-called elites in the United States will not introduce such policies because they want
It is just lying on the bodies of these poor and middle-class Americans to suck blood. The essence of capitalism is exploitation.
Just when Lu Xiaobin was thinking about the problem, Li Tianyi had already taken Lu Xiaobin into the car. The car sped out of Nanping City and went straight to the northwest of Nanping City. After driving about 50 kilometers, they arrived at Nanping City.
Pingyang County below.
Pingyang County is located in a mountainous area and is an old revolutionary area. It is also one of the counties with many poor towns.
Although Li Tianyi is the director of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, Li Tianyi has a habit of carefully understanding and investigating the situation of each local county, district, town, or even every village, no matter where he is an official, until he masters it. In order to understand this
Problems existing in regional economic development and ideas for solving them.
Therefore, this time, although Li Tianyi said that he brought Lu Xiaobin to visit, it was actually equivalent to him conducting an on-site investigation.
Li Tianyi took Lu Xiaobin to Huangtu Town, Pingyang County. He first took Lu Xiaobin to climb a hill. Standing on the hill, Li Tianyi pointed with his hand and said, "Lu Xiaobin, what do you see standing here?"
Lu Xiaobin looked around and saw that in the town at the foot of the mountain, there was sparkling silver everywhere, dazzling the eyes, and white plastic greenhouses lined up next to each other, which looked very spectacular.
Lu Xiaobin said in surprise: "What are those glowing ones and those plastic greenhouses doing?"
Li Tianyi introduced with a smile: "Lu Xiaobin, this Pingyang County is not only a poor county in our Nanping City, but also a poor county in Hexi Province, and even a national-level poor county. Due to the influence of many factors such as transportation and mountainous areas, as a revolutionary
The overall income level of residents in Pingyang County, an old area, is not high.
Since the country proposed targeted poverty alleviation policies, Pingyang County has been included in one of the pilot counties for poverty alleviation with characteristic industries in Hexi Province.
Based on the geographical characteristics of Pingyang County and local conditions, Nanping City has determined the two leading ideas of targeted poverty alleviation in Pingyang County.
One is poverty alleviation through the photovoltaic industry, and the other is poverty alleviation through vegetable greenhouses.
Poverty alleviation through characteristic industries: Relying on characteristic industries to help farmers get out of poverty accurately
Four years ago, Pingyang County was the first in the province to build a "green photovoltaic + edible fungi" agricultural poverty alleviation demonstration park with an investment of 500 million yuan and an area of 1,300 acres.
This project is invested by Northern Photovoltaic Group, with an installed capacity of 40 megawatts and an annual power generation of 59,688 megawatt hours. It was completed at the end of last year and was connected to the grid for power generation. It can save about 23,100 tons of standard coal and reduce the emission of about 49,500 tons of carbon dioxide and 248 tons of sulfur dioxide every year.
tons, not only improves rural power facilities and clean energy construction. At the same time, the idle land under the photovoltaic power generation panels is effectively used to develop the edible fungus industry and build mushroom sheds for farmers to move in and conduct independent operations. In order to reduce farmers’ production input costs and operating risks,
The park also signs contracts with farmers to provide fungus bags at cost prices, and is responsible for technical guidance and product recycling to maximize farmers' benefits."
As Li Tianyi spoke, he led Lu Xiaobin down the mountain. As he walked, Li Tianyi looked at Lu Xiaobin and asked, "Lu Xiaobin, is there such a poverty alleviation model in the United States?"
Lu Xiaobin shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It is impossible for the United States to have this model, because the United States implements private ownership of land. Even if those large group companies have money, they will only find ways to develop their own business, or
Spend money to do charity, and then improve the reputation of the company, and all of this is for the development of the company."
Li Tianyi smiled and said: "Lu Xiaobin, you know, situations like this are very common in China. Many large enterprises in China, especially large state-owned enterprises, generally have one or more industrial poverty alleviation projects.
On the one hand, through investment in industry, enterprises can obtain certain profits. At the same time, through investment in industry, it can also drive local poor households to become well-off, thereby achieving a double harvest of social and economic benefits.
This is a social responsibility voluntarily undertaken by many large enterprises.
And this is the most fundamental gap between our Chinese cultural genes and that of the United States. What we in China value is win-win cooperation. We should worry about the world's worries first, and then enjoy the world's happiness. The world is for the common good, while the United States'
The culture is self-interest, hypocrisy, and pragmatism.
Therefore, targeted poverty alleviation methods can only appear in China, a socialist country with excellent traditional cultural heritage and Chinese characteristics."
While talking, Li Tianyi and the others had already reached the foot of the mountain and walked forward for about a kilometer. At the same time, they saw two distinctive houses on the roadside.
The house to the east is a two-story building, decorated simply but very grandly. The couplets in front of the door are full of wealth and peace.
The house to the west is closely adjacent to the two-story building. Its height is only 1/3 of the two-story building. The house looks shabby. Several pieces of glass in the windows have been broken, and the door panels are broken.
It's still a very old kind of two wooden doors facing each other.
The courtyard wall is very short and made of fences. There is a car parked in the courtyard.
Seeing this, Lu Xiaobin pointed with his hand and said: "Li Tianyi, have you seen that the poor people in China live in this kind of place, while the poor people in the United States live in villas of 200 to 300 square meters. This is
There’s a difference.”
Li Tianyi was also very surprised. He did not expect that in this day and age, there are still people living in such a shabby house.
Thinking of this, Li Tianyi shouted inside through the fence: "Is there anyone inside?"
Li Tianyi shouted for a long time, but no one answered.
In desperation, Li Tianyi could only knock on the door of the two-story building next door. The person who opened the door was a woman about 50 years old. After opening the door, the woman looked at Li Tianyi and the others and asked: "What are you looking for?"
who?"
Li Tianyi looked at the woman and said, "Sister, we would like to ask where the family members in the house next door are?"
The woman looked Li Tianyi up and down and said, "Are you referring to the house to the west?"
Li Tianyi nodded.
The woman laughed and said, "Are you foreigners?"
Li Tianyi and Lu Xiaobin both nodded.
The woman then said: "The house to the west is mine."
Lu Xiaobin said with some surprise: "Don't you live in this two-story building? Why do you keep the house on the west side?"
The woman said: “The house to the west is the house my family lived in two years ago, and the house we live in now was just completed in May this year.
The reason why I didn’t knock down the previous house was because I wanted to keep this house in stark contrast to the house we live in now, so as to remind my children and let them never forget that it is the country’s targeted poverty alleviation policy.
It has enabled our originally poor family to get rid of poverty and become rich and embark on the road to prosperity."
Li Tianyi and Lu Xiaobin were both shocked when they heard this, and started chatting with the woman.
This woman is called Zhao Sufen. She is one of the poor households who settled in this photovoltaic agricultural poverty alleviation demonstration park. She has a family of four. Her husband works part-time outside, her children are in college, and her uncle is seriously ill.
My husband works to earn money, and after deducting schooling, medical treatment and daily household expenses, there is very little left.
Two years ago, she saw a poverty alleviation park built in the town. She made up her mind to rent four mushroom sheds. With the help of the edible fungus cultivation cooperative in the park, she obtained a small guaranteed loan. She also raised some money from relatives and friends.
, and finally collected 120,000 yuan. Now, the mushrooms in the four mushroom sheds have entered the peak season. Zhao Sufen travels between home and the park every day, ventilating, watering, picking, and selling.
In the first year after renting the mushroom shed, she made a net profit of more than 100,000 yuan. The profit in the second year was still very good, so last year, her husband no longer went out to work, but came home to work with her.
They built a mushroom shed. In September last year, they started building this two-story building next to the old house. They moved in in May this year.
Lu Xiaobin suddenly asked: "Are there many people like you in your village?"
Zhao Sufen said: "There are more than 500 households renting mushroom sheds in the town. According to the mushroom market in the past two years, these 500 households have basically earned an average of more than 100,000 yuan.
It is said that the second phase of the photovoltaic power generation factory is about to start construction. The area of the second phase of the project is larger than the first phase of the project. By then, more people will rent mushroom sheds. My family is planning to rent two more mushroom sheds by then.
"
After hearing what Zhao Sufen said, Lu Xiaobin fell silent.
He suddenly realized that the targeted poverty alleviation policy with Chinese characteristics was indeed full of Chinese wisdom.
As he walked along that day, he had already felt the huge changes that were taking place in this town. There were construction sites everywhere in the town, and two-story or even three-story buildings were rising from the ground. It was obvious that these
It is the villagers who have escaped poverty and become well-off who are improving their living conditions.
And large trucks filled with mushrooms and various products also passed through Huangtu Town and outside, and the whole town was full of vitality and vitality.
At this moment, Lu Xiaobin began to recall the poor people he had seen in the United States. They did not lack food, clothing, and housing, but they could only live at the bottom of society forever. They had no chance to get rid of poverty and become rich.
, they can only rely on hard work and dedication to earn meager living expenses, or receive social relief.
Although the income level of the poor in the United States is higher than that of the poor in China, which kind of poor is happier?