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Favoring the rich instead of helping the poor betrays the original intent of targeted poverty alleviation
On the one hand, people who are obviously wealthy and should not be assisted are identified as poverty alleviation targets; on the other hand, a large amount of poverty alleviation funds is left sitting idle in accounts rather than being used to help those who are truly poor. Behind the seemingly chaotic poverty alleviation logic of Mashan County are actually tangled interests, a disregard for laws
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The citizenization of farmers must be advanced steadily; never try to help the seedlings grow by pulling them up.
To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following: <p><P> To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following:</P><P> First, there are many worries about the future: the elasticity of urban-rural amphibiousness is great. The vast majority of migrant workers who enter cities lack technology and skills, cannot compete for good jobs, earn little throughout the year, feel uncertain about life in the city, and fear that after being laid off they will return to the countryside with no land to farm. Farmers worry most that after "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion they will lose contracted land and homestead land. Many young and middle-aged people choose urban-rural amphibiousness, retreating to the countryside when going out is difficult and going out to seek opportunities whenever possible. Farmers say that although farming does not bring much income, at least there is food to eat and a house to live in, which is at least a form of security. The city may be good, but without a job one cannot live there.</P><P> Second, real pressure is great: the threshold for settling down in the city is high. In 2014, the average monthly income of migrant workers in the cities and counties of Xiangyang was about 2,000 yuan, and those with monthly wage income exceeding 3,000 yuan accounted for about 15 percent, while in the same period the average sales price of commercial housing in the cities and counties was 3,800 yuan per sq m. Commercial housing prices continued to rise, urban village redevelopment led to a reduction in rental housing supply, and rental housing rents also rose by 20% to 30%. Migrant workers find it difficult to rely on wage income to support a family in the city, pay for their children's schooling, let alone buy a house. A 26-year-old young man surnamed Huang from Wuzhen in Nanzhang County knows how to install water and electricity, so finding work is not difficult, but he can save only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. At this income level, even if he neither ate nor drank, buying an apartment would take one or two decades. Among the several young migrant workers the author surveyed, when buying a house in the city was mentioned, their first reaction was "I wouldn't even dare to think about it." But they have eager expectations about buying a house; in their view, without a house they cannot put down roots in the city. Most of the new generation of migrant workers have a certain amount of education and skills. Unlike their parents' generation, they have a stronger willingness to stay in the city and more employment choices, but buying a house is often a high threshold they cannot cross.</P><P> Third, the imprint of previous experience is deep: "washing one's feet" and entering the city is full of setbacks. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the policy of "selling household registration" was implemented successively in the cities and counties of Xiangyang. A farmer could convert from agricultural to non-agricultural status by spending 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, and those of working age could even be recruited into factories, which led many people to empty their family savings or even borrow money everywhere to "buy household registration." But within a few years, many people were laid off and unemployed before they had earned back the money they spent on buying household registration, and had no choice but to take a "non-agricultural household registration" paper back to the countryside to farm or go out to work. This situation is still fresh in many farmers' memories. Many farmers say, we have contracted land and self-built houses, and can also enjoy the new rural cooperative medical care and the new social security. Now rural water and electricity supply is normal, transportation conditions have improved, housing standards have risen, the living environment is good, and with more and more national beneficial policies for farmers, rural household registration is also very "precious."</P><P> Farmer citizenization involves too many issues and cannot be achieved overnight. Its implementation requires a fairly long process; haste makes waste. Before farmers can obtain a higher level of employment and social security, the process of farmer citizenization cannot be fast. This requires the government to do careful and meticulous work in theoretical argumentation, planning guidance, institutional improvement, and public opinion guidance, and even more requires the government to gradually eliminate farmers' distant worries and immediate anxieties in the process of farmer citizenization, so that farmer citizenization comes about naturally, and it must never transcend reality by using administrative force to pull up seedlings to help them grow.</P></p>
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Rural e-commerce development accelerates, helping to narrow the urban-rural digital divide
State Council executive meeting decides to improve the universal service compensation mechanism for broadband telecommunications in rural and remote areas; accelerate the development of rural e-commerce; narrow the urban-rural digital divide. Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over a State Council executive meeting on October 14, deciding to improve [the mechanism] in rural and remote areas
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China's skills-based poverty alleviation helps rural areas produce new artisans
Xinhua Net Kunming, October 15 (Ji Zhepeng, Zhan Jingjing) - In western China, more and more new artisans created through skills training are escaping poverty, and their skills cover many areas including planting, breeding, construction and even logistics and e-commerce. How to prune,
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Develop One Village One Product to help farmers get rich and increase income
In recent years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly pointed out: we should develop modern breeding, forestry and fruit farming, and horticulture according to local conditions, and develop advantageous leading industries such as one village one product, multiple villages one product, one township one industry, and one county one industry. Several No. 1 Central Documents have also repeatedly stressed: support the development
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State encourages farmers to use scientific grain storage bins, reducing grain storage losses every year
Recently, experts from the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the State Administration of Grain explained knowledge about grain production and grain saving and loss reduction to Lu Tingzhan (center), a large-scale grower at the Tingyuan Family Farm in Fugou County, Henan Province. During the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week
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Green concepts help agriculture achieve sustainable bountiful harvests
Bountiful harvest! Bountiful harvest! At the historic high point of our country's eleventh consecutive grain harvest increase, this year's autumn grain once again enjoyed a bountiful harvest. What is especially valuable is that this hard-won harvest ran the concept of "green" production increase through from beginning to end, most powerfully confirming with facts the correctness of the current shift in mode and adjustment of structure
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Improving the agricultural product price formation mechanism helps enhance market competitiveness
The market competitiveness of China's agricultural products is not strong, which requires operating them by industrialized means; this can improve efficiency and thus make it possible to truly enhance the market competitiveness of agricultural products. At present, the overall direction of reform is to gradually reduce administrative intervention and let the market mechanism
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Innovation in Single-Seed Precision Sowing Technology for Peanuts Helps Improve Quality and Efficiency
Peanut is an important oilseed crop in China and plays a major role in stabilizing the self-sufficiency rate of edible vegetable oil. To effectively solve problems such as the large amount of seed used in peanut production and the insufficient tapping of yield potential, the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, on the basis of years of scientific research, developed a peanut single-seed precision sowing technology centered on fully giving play to the potential of individual plants and building a reasonable population structure, changing the traditional understanding that
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Circular agriculture elevated to a national strategy, helping transform the agricultural development model
On November 10, at the seminar on the implementation effects of circular agriculture among smallholder farmers, jointly organized by the College of Humanities and Development Studies of China Agricultural University and ActionAid (China), Sun Yufang, director of the Resource Protection Division of the Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that developing ecological circular
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