Rebirth in 1976 begins with educated youth

Chapter 387 The gap between urban and rural areas [Updated before 0:[-]...

Among the crowd, there was a man in his 50s who seemed to have seen some of the world.

He asked Zhou Haiyang: "Who are you looking for? What are you doing in the village?"

Secretary Xiao Tang quickly and cleverly pointed at Zhou Haiyang and introduced: "This is Director Wang of the Provincial Rural Working Committee.

We are here to understand the real situation in rural areas so that we can write a research report and report to our superiors when we return. "

Upon hearing that it was a leader from the province, the villagers immediately became active.

You said something to me, and reported to Zhou Haiyang the situation at home and the corruption of village cadres and township cadres.

Villager Lao Li specially took Zhou Haiyang to his home.

Lao Li lives in a three-room brick house. When the flood came this year, it was soaked to a depth of two meters.

After the flood receded, after some simple disinfection and tidying up, Lao Li moved in again.

Lao Li has two sons, both of whom married wives and lived separately.

Lao Li used to live with his wife, but his wife fell ill and died two years ago.

Zhou Haiyang asked: "What disease do you have?"

Lao Li said: “When you get old, your body becomes like that.

We farmers, unlike city dwellers, have a low life!

There was a person who had a cold and a fever. He just went to the market to buy some medicine and took it.

Almost all the elderly in the village are suffering from minor illnesses and waiting to die from serious illnesses.

Going to the city to see a doctor is not only time-consuming, but the cost of the examination alone, including the equipment and equipment, costs several hundred yuan.

We farmers don’t have that spare money either.

It's pretty good for me. My two sons and daughter-in-law, although they can't be said to be particularly filial, are still pretty good. Every year during the Spring Festival, I give them 100 or [-] yuan.

Those who have no children are even worse.

Old Liu in the village was a five-guaranteed household with no children. He had been ill and died in bed for several days, and no one knew about it.

It was a neighbor who came to his house to borrow something. When he opened the door, he discovered that he had been dead for several days and his body was as hard as wood.

Now only the elderly and children are left in the village.

As long as they were able to move around and have the ability to work, they all went out to work.

How much money can I make to support myself?

There is little land in the village, now less than 8 cents per capita.Farming alone is just enough to fill our stomachs.

If there is an errand, there will be no way to deal with it.

Zhou Haiyang asked again about the conditions of the roads in the village.

As soon as the road was mentioned, Lao Li became even more excited and angry.

He told Zhou Haiyang: "On this road in the village, the township cadres collected money three times.

For the first time, seven years ago, the township called on the villagers to pay 7 yuan per person to build a road, and the villagers all paid.

But the money was collected, but no roads were built. It was said that the money was misappropriated by the township party committee secretary to develop township enterprises.

What a waste of development, all of them ruined it.

If you go to Zhanglin Town and take a look, the several large yards surrounding it are the factories that were opened at that time.

Now only a few empty houses remain.

Millions of dollars were wasted like this!

But just like that, the township party committee secretary was still promoted.

I heard that a few years ago, he was transferred to another county and became the deputy county magistrate. "

Lao Li took a drag on his cigarette and continued, "Three years ago, another township party committee secretary was changed, and everyone was mobilized to pay for road construction, and it cost 50 yuan per person.

The agreement was that farmers would contribute part, the county would subsidize part, and the township would take part to build asphalt roads.

But after collecting the money, all I saw was that the autorickshaws were pulling bricks, slag, mortar, and not even a trace of asphalt.

The bulldozer simply rolls it over and it's done.The money given above also disappeared.

Last year I heard that something happened to the township party committee secretary.

He used embezzled money to keep a mistress in the provincial capital and bought her a house. In the end, his wife exposed him.

The relevant superior departments wanted to investigate him, but when he heard the news, he refused to do anything and simply ran away.

I no longer have a job, I no longer serve as an official, and I go to other provinces to do business.

Anyway, he had embezzled a lot of money, and now that he had capital for business, there was nothing he could do to take it away, and he couldn't find anyone.

Last year, the village called on the people to pay money to build roads. No matter how hard they mobilized, no one believed it.

Zhou Haiyang casually walked around the village again, and the situation was similar.

Families with people working outside live better lives and build more elegant houses.

Zhou Haiyang visited the primary school in the village and found that the house was not bad, but there were only about 60 children in class in the whole school.

Parents with connections have moved their children to go to school in the city.

It seems that within two years, this elementary school will be closed.

Zhou Haiyang couldn't help but think of the primary school in Yaolin Town, Boxing County.

In the 80s, there were hundreds of children studying in a primary school, and the children were very lively.

But when I went back a few years ago, I saw that it was in a dilapidated state.

It seems that the gap between urban and rural areas has become wider and wider in recent years.

The dream of graduating from college was just like a dream.

For so many years, the country's education funds have basically been concentrated in cities, causing rural education to lag behind to an unimaginable level.

At that time, Liu Yan led everyone to establish the Yinghe Rural Education Poverty Alleviation Fund, but the meager salary was only enough to be used in Yongfeng County.

Although the original grand idea was very beautiful, it was difficult to realize in reality.

The gradual widening of the education gap between urban and rural areas will lead to very serious social problems.

Such as unfair education, intergenerational inheritance of poverty, etc.

If this continues, many rural children with poor family conditions will have to grow up in this environment.

When they grow up, they have to compete with urban children in society, and their disadvantages are obvious.

Because their parents are farmers, if they cannot afford to send them to school in the city, they will never be able to escape the fate of being at the bottom of society for a long time.

How unfair this is to them!

Whether it was during those years in Huaining or when he arrived in Yongliang, Zhou Haiyang had deep feelings every time he went down there.

I feel that there are too many problems currently existing in rural China.

There is no way to build a harmonious society unless the issues of social security, medical treatment and schooling are solved.

Judging from the feedback of villagers, social security has been much better than before after the last large-scale crackdown.

But for farmers to truly feel a sense of security, they must be able to afford medical treatment, go to school, and have enough to eat.

In a backward area like Yongliang, these problems cannot be solved in one step.

We must be down-to-earth and solve problems one by one without any pretense.

Zhou Haiyang felt that the burden on him was too heavy.

Back in the city, Zhou Haiyang has been thinking about how to establish a universal minimum living security system and a medical security system in Yongliang rural areas as soon as possible.

It was at this time that a special news item from Yongliang Daily and Yongliang TV caught his attention.

It turns out that these days, newspapers and TV stations are promoting the touching story of a rural boy.

This boy's name is Qiu Xiaoming, 15 years old.

When he was only 2 months old, his mother ran away from home.

My father was already suffering from mild mental illness. He couldn't bear the stimulation of his wife running away from home, so he went crazy again in anger.

Wandering around all day long, seeing no one alive or dead.

The family members searched for him but couldn't find him despite running around.

A few-month-old child was left behind, and the three of them depended on each other under the care of their elderly grandfather and grandmother.

With the help of his grandfather and grandmother, Xiao Ming finally grew up to 9 years old.

However, disaster once again struck this unfortunate family.

First, grandma suddenly became paralyzed and lost the ability to walk.Then my grandfather's eyes contracted glaucoma.

Because I had no money for treatment, I dragged on day by day until I was completely blind.

When I went to the hospital for examination, I had lost the best opportunity for treatment and had no therapeutic value.

In this way, a child who was only nine years old took on the task of taking care of his paralyzed grandmother and blind grandfather.

On a daily basis, I have to farm and grow vegetables.

Growing vegetables is still a trivial matter. When he was a child, Xiao Ming went to the fields with his grandfather and grandma and learned to grow vegetables.

But farming is not possible, because he is still a child who has not grown up and is not strong enough to do it.

So, during the harvest season, he swapped jobs with people in the village.

He helped others with ordinary farm work, and they helped him harvest the crops.

People in the village saw him as pitiful and helped him from time to time.