In 05, the end of the year came in a blink of an eye.

After returning from Nanxian, Zhou Fangyuan devoted himself to the last part of the year.

The main content is the preparation of the annual meeting, although it has been delegated to the people below to do, but he still has to pay attention to it. Other things don't mean that he can completely let go, he really wants to be a hands-off shopkeeper? It's not that he can't, it's just that he can't do it himself. Unless he's determined to retire, it's not too late to be the shopkeeper.

In 05 years, there was a lot of news at home and abroad, some of which had something to do with Zhou Fangyuan, and some had nothing to do with Zhou Fangyuan.

But what can really be called big news has nothing to do with individual businessmen.

Listing the foreign news this year, there are not many that can be called big news.

First of all, the first is that space exploration has repeatedly reported good news, and Shenzhou 6 has played a triumphant song. On January 14, the Huygens probe successfully landed on Titan and obtained a large amount of valuable data. Since then, the "Deep Impact" comet impactor has successfully hit Comet Temple-1, the space shuttle "Discovery" has returned to space, and the "Venus Express" has been launched into space. On October 12, China's self-developed Shenzhou-6 manned spacecraft was launched, and two astronauts, Fei and Nie, completed a number of experiments in space. The spacecraft landed safely on the 17th after 77 orbits around the Earth, which can be called big news.

This is a big news for both the social press and the domestic press. As far as China is concerned, the further development of manned space flight is a historic step. For foreign countries, the development of China's aerospace science and technology is a kind of Jingheng relationship for them, and the stronger China is, the more nervous they will be.

Secondly, the situation in Iraq can also be regarded as one of the international news.

The smoke of gunfire has not dispersed, and the reconstruction is difficult, and the trial of Saxxy has been questioned.

At the end of January, Iraq held its first multi-party general election since the end of the Iraq war, electing the Transitional National Assembly, and in April, the Iraqi Transitional Government was formed, and on 28 August, Iraq's new constitution was unveiled with great difficulty. On December 15, Iraq held another general election in accordance with the new constitution. Vicious incidents such as bombings, shootings, and kidnappings continue to occur one after another in various parts of Iraq, resulting in the deaths of many civilians. As of December 12, the death toll of US troops in Iraq reached 2,140, and large-scale anti-war demonstrations broke out in Iraq. Since August, the Iraqi Special Tribunal has tried former President Saddam Hussein and seven senior officials of the former Government. However, many people have questioned the legitimacy and fairness of the trial.

In addition, the Security Council has expanded into a focal point, and the four-nation dispute over the Standing Agenda has encountered setbacks. On March 21, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released a report on recommendations for UN reform. The "Quad" alliance, composed of Fuso, Asan, Samba and Germany, wants to take this as an opportunity to become permanent members of the Security Council. However, most countries believe that the reform of the Security Council involves the interests of all countries and should be fully consulted, rather than setting a time limit or imposing a vote. At the UN summit in September, no consensus was reached on the issue of Security Council enlargement, and the four countries suffered setbacks.

The commemoration of World War II has become a day for all peace-loving countries and peoples to mourn the victims and reflect on their mistakes. On May 9, leaders of more than 50 countries and representatives of a number of international organizations gathered in Moscow for a grand ceremony in memory of the 60th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War. On September 3, China also held a grand conference in Beijing to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Japanese War. Various forms of commemoration have also been held in many countries. These activities are intended to demonstrate the will and conviction of mankind to maintain peace and oppose war.

In sharp contrast to the above-mentioned atmosphere, on 17 October, the prime minister of a certain country, under the gaze of the people of the whole world, visited some people who should not have accepted the worship and went to some places where he should not go, which was tantamount to slapping the peace-loving people of the world in the face, which immediately caused an international uproar.

At the end of May and the beginning of June, the EU Constitutional Treaty was rejected in referendums held in France and the Netherlands. On 6 June, the UK announced that it had shelved its plans for a referendum. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced on June 15 that the EU was suspending the ratification process. The blockage of European integration shows that there are many doubts about the construction of Europe. On July 7, the worst serial bombing attack in history occurred in London, England, killing 57 people and injuring more than 700. Around this time, terrorist attacks also occurred in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Russia and other countries. In the face of increasingly rampant terrorist activities, countries have stepped up preventive measures. On July 9, a large number of people gathered in London to mourn the victims of the London bombing.

On 26 July, the fourth round of the Six-Party Talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula was held in Beijing and concluded on 19 September after two stages of consultations. The participants adopted the first joint statement since the launch of the Six-Party Talks process, and achieved important interim results. Subsequently, the first phase of the fifth round of the Six-Party Talks was held.

On August 8, Iran restarted its uranium conversion facility in the central city of Isfahan, and Iran's nuclear negotiations with the European Union were suspended. The IAEA Board of Governors adopted a resolution urging Iran to suspend uranium conversion activities. Concerned that Iran's nuclear program could be used for military purposes, the United States has repeatedly stated that it will refer the Iranian nuclear issue to the UN Security Council.

On October 8, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck northern Pakistan, killing 86,000 people. The earthquake also affected neighbouring Afghanistan and Indian-administered Kashmir. On February 22, an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck the Zalande region of south-central Iran, killing and injuring more than 2,000 people. In late August, Hurricane Katrina struck six southern U.S. states, killing more than 1,000 people, and it is estimated that at least $200 billion will be needed to rebuild.

On October 24-25, the Global Ministerial Meeting on Influenza Prevention was held in Ottawa, Canada. The meeting called on the international community to establish a joint action mechanism as soon as possible to closely monitor the avian influenza outbreak. From 7 to 9 November, the International Conference on Avian Influenza was held in Geneva. Since January 2005, there have been successive outbreaks of avian influenza in a number of countries. To date, more than 120 people worldwide have been infected with the avian influenza virus, and more than half have died. This time the damage caused by the bird flu was not huge, but the impact was significant.

Avian influenza was first isolated from distempered chickens in 1878, and in 1901 this "chicken plague pathogen" was called "filtering factor" or chicken plague virus. Later, it was discovered that Newcastle disease virus can also cause chicken plague-like disease in poultry, which is commonly known as "chicken plague" in China. To distinguish between the two, the former is called true chicken plague or European chicken plague virus, and the latter is called pseudochicken plague or Asian chicken plague virus.

In 1955, FPV was identified as a member of the influenza A virus based on the characteristics of the nucleoprotein antigen of the virus particles. The vast majority of poultry do not cause chicken plague, and even show silent infection or healthy carrier, such as the H7N9 avian influenza virus newly discovered in China in 2013, which basically does not cause disease among birds. The H5N1 subtype was first identified on Hong Kong Island in 1997 to directly infect humans. As of March 2013, a total of 622 human cases of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza have been reported, including 371 deaths. Cases are distributed in 15 countries, of which 45 have been detected in our country and 30 have died. Among them, the majority are elderly, and there are more males than females.

Based on the findings of existing human cases of avian influenza H7N9 and H5N1, the incubation period for avian influenza is generally less than 7 days.

Patients present with flu-like symptoms at the initial stage, including fever, cough, headache, muscle aches, and general malaise, as well as runny nose, nasal congestion, and sore throat. Some patients have severe lung lesions or rapid progression, with symptoms such as chest tightness and dyspnea. Respiratory symptoms appear early, generally within 1 week after the onset of the disease, and last for a long time, and some patients still have more severe cough and sputum production after 1 month of treatment.

Chest tightness, shortness of breath, and dyspnea in the early stages of the disease often indicate rapid progression of intrapulmonary lesions, which will rapidly progress to severe hypoxia and respiratory failure. Severe patients have rapid progression, most of them have severe pneumonia in 5~7 days, most of them have body temperature above 39 °C, dyspnea, and may be accompanied by hemoptysis, which can rapidly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, septic shock, and some patients may have mediastinal emphysema, pleural effusion, etc. A considerable proportion of critically ill patients have damage or failure of multiple other systems or organs at the same time, such as heart failure due to myocardial injury, individual patients also show digestive symptoms such as gastrointestinal bleeding and stress ulcers, and some critically ill patients develop coma and impaired consciousness.

In general, this disease can cause deaths in Russia, so don't look at the speed of the spread is not fast, but the damage caused is not small, so once the epidemic is discovered, the national and local governments will still control the situation as quickly as possible.

That's all for international news.

In China, there is also a lot of news, such as the smooth realization of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" and the proposal of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan". For example, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs through the entire line. For example, the successful completion of the Shenzhou-6 manned space flight. Another example is the successful conclusion of China's first national economic census, China's total GDP is 159878 billion yuan, and the total economic output ranks sixth in the world.

Of course, these are not the most important, the most important news is that on December 29, the 19th meeting of the 10th National Senior Officials' Conference voted to repeal the "Agricultural Tax Regulations" with effect from January 1, 2006.

Abolish the agricultural tax!

As soon as this news came out, it was really a national sensation.

The agricultural tax, which has been pressed on the heads of the people of our country for thousands of years, has finally disappeared, and has finally been completely removed from the heads of the people through legislation.

Agricultural tax originated very early, especially in China, in the past, it was called land tax, and in Western countries it was called land rent tax or land tax. In feudal society, agriculture was the most important sector of production, the most important tax revenue of the feudal state, and the main body of fiscal revenue. However, with the development of capitalist society, with the development of industry and commerce, the proportion of agriculture in the national economy has been declining, and the agricultural tax in most countries in the contemporary world is no longer the main tax, but as an auxiliary means of fiscal revenue. At the beginning of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, China had already begun the reform of rural taxes and fees, with the reduction of peasants' burdens as the center, the abolition of extra-tax fees such as the "three mentions and five reunifications," and the reform of agricultural taxation as the main content.

According to historical records, the agricultural tax began in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Lu State of the "initial tax per mu", and formed a system in the early Han Dynasty. This ancient tax has a history of 2,600 years. Historically, the "imperial grain and national tax" has always affected the rise and fall of our country. Although there have been reforms in the history of China, such as the "Two Taxation Law", the "One Whip Law", and the "Appraisal of Taxes to Mu" in order to expand the scope of tax payment and allow those who have real estate and wealth to pay more taxes, due to the corruption of officials, the burden was eventually passed on to the peasants. Even the "rule of Wenjing", "the rule of Zhenguan", and "the prosperity of Kangqian" that have been mentioned many times are only short-lived and light-hearted, and the feudal rulers of successive dynasties have never been able to jump out of the "Huang Zongxi's law" in which the burden on the peasants is getting heavier and heavier.

During the revolutionary war, the vast number of peasants "rolled out" the victory of the revolution in our country with small carts full of grain; after the founding of New China, they made tremendous contributions to the cause of socialist construction. Agricultural taxes have been an important cornerstone of the nation's finances for decades. According to statistics, in the 52 years from 1949 to 2000, peasants paid more than 700 billion kilograms of grain to the state, and agricultural taxes have always been an important pillar of the state's financial resources.

In 2004, the State Council began to implement the policy of reducing or exempting agricultural taxes to benefit farmers. According to statistics, the exemption of agricultural taxes and the abolition of taxes on special agricultural products other than tobacco leaves can reduce the burden on peasants by about 50 billion yuan, and by 2005 nearly 800 million peasants have directly benefited. In 2005, the policy of exempting farmers from agricultural tax at the end of the year was fixed in the form of law, so that 900 million Chinese farmers completely bid farewell to the history of paying agricultural tax.

This was a liberation for the peasants.

In our country, the cost of taxing and paying taxes on agriculture is too great, and sometimes it even exceeds the tax itself. With the agricultural tax as the carrier, the variety of derived taxes and fees from farmers, rural areas, and agriculture is dizzying. The abolition of the agricultural tax has brought about a fundamental change in the system of reaching out to the peasants everywhere; more importantly, the current rural tax system has been established under the dual structure of urban and rural areas. This two-pronged tax structure, coupled with the imbalance in the level of urban and rural development, has formed an extremely unfair tax burden on China's peasants.

China's agricultural tax rate is 8.4% from the main tax of 7% and its surcharge of 20%.

It is understood that the taxation of specific groups of people, such a situation exists only in our country. Therefore, the proposal to abolish the agricultural tax policy is more of a systemic change, a major adjustment made by the government to the policy of unbalanced economic and social development between urban and rural areas, and a restoration of the equal status of peasants and urban residents in terms of tax burden.

Overall, this is a great thing, a great thing that looks over thousands of years of history.

For Zhou Fangyuan, the profit margin of distant agriculture can be increased in an instant, of course, he attaches more importance to the benefits of this policy to the majority of farmers. There is no need to go far, just his grandfather's family is still a farmer's household registration, and after ten years of rewinding, the family is still farming. Of course, he also knows the hardships of life. So when the news was broadcast in the news, grandpa and grandma were stunned.

It took a long time for Grandpa to exhale heavily, and a relieved smile appeared on his face. And grandma's, quietly wiping her tears, but her face was also smiling happily.