When will the rural power supply problem be solved? Farmers hope they no longer have to worry about electricity
Recently, this writer returned to his rural hometown. His elderly parents, talking about electricity for rural residents, could not help sighing again and again, saying that problems with household electricity occurred often, and finding someone to repair them was not easy. Most young people had gone out to work, and even among those who stayed in the countryside, few understood electricity. When they finally found one, they had to beg and plead and say every good word they could. Hearing his parents' complaints, this writer, as a son working away from home, felt ashamed for not having fulfilled his duty of filial piety, and also felt that rural electricity services really should be improved.
As rural households' economic conditions get better and better, they have more and more home appliances, so electricity consumption has risen sharply. But old circuits cannot keep up, which often leads to power failures. Rural areas generally have no full-time electricians, so once a problem occurs, farmers can only fret helplessly. In theory, they can contact the township power supply service department, but farmers often do not know the service phone number. Even if they call for help, with high mountains and long roads, the staff may not be able to arrive in time. If a repair fee is also charged, farmers accustomed to being frugal feel it is even less worthwhile, so they can only find someone themselves to do the repairs. Because the people helping are mostly laymen when it comes to circuit work, it is hard to solve the problem at its root, and safety hazards may even be left behind. Therefore, having townships or villages uniformly organize the replacement of old circuits for farmers, and staffing rural areas with full-time electricians so that the growing demand for electricity services can be met, is the eager hope of many farmer friends.
This writer has learned that in some places the government now subsidizes the uniform replacement of aging rural lines, but generally only the public lines outside the house are replaced, not the indoor ones, and many appliances still cannot be used. In addition, because projects are contracted out level by level, problems of substituting inferior materials for good ones and cutting corners also exist during construction, and relevant departments lack oversight of this. Farmer friends in this writer's village generally report that before long, the newly installed meters either burned out or broke down, with problems constantly arising. This writer's parents' home even had its television burned out because of a short circuit in the wiring.
To build a new socialist countryside, let the elderly and children left behind live with peace of mind, and let young people striving far from home have no worries behind them, better electricity services need to be provided in rural areas so that farmers no longer have to worry about electricity.