The students of the graduating class finally returned, and in addition to Ding Ming, several buddies in the dormitory were also reunited.

Just like when I first entered the school in my freshman year, I went out to the classroom in my dormitory and waited for my thesis defense.

Wang Bo was a head shorter than Peng Shengli, and he leaned his shoulders and asked, "Old Peng, I heard that you went to Ding Ming's company to become a department manager?"

"The main thing is to pull customers," Peng Shengli said, "I assign work to the employees below, and they can handle small orders. ”

"Yes, they're all leaders. Wang Bo said enviously.

Li Yaolin said: "We should envy you, and you will definitely become a big official in the future." ”

Wang Bo waved his hand and said bitterly: "Don't mention it, I'll run errands." This year, the key work of the regiment is to promote reemployment, help those laid-off young workers change their concepts, cooperate with relevant departments, train them in vocational skills, and provide reemployment information services. I am now engaged in the 'Youth Business Leader' project, and I have been assigned to several laid-off young people, saying that they want to open a partnership. Oh, my mom, where are they opening a company, it's like I'm running a company, and I even have to help me run the company license. ”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "Yes, you are very valued by the leader, and this work relationship has not yet turned positive, and the actual task has been assigned to you." ”

"The water here is very deep, but fortunately there is a leader who is a Fudan senior, otherwise I would have to be an old scalper honestly," Wang Bo said. If you have something to do, you will take credit for others, and you will take the blame if something goes wrong. ”

Li Yaolin said: "State-owned enterprises are similar, I have seen it." Fortunately, we are graduates of a prestigious school and registered with the leader, otherwise we would have been an old scalper for the rest of our lives. ”

Wang Bo said with a smile: "That's why I envy Ding Ming and Peng Shengli, they are happy to do things in private companies, and the merits are very clear." ”

"Why didn't Lao Zhou speak?" asked Li Yaolin.

Zhou Zhengyu yawned and said: "During this time, I was busy learning English, practicing speaking with foreign teachers during the day, and memorizing words at night, I was going crazy." As you know, since my sophomore year, I didn't take the English retest? Now let me take the TOEFL, where can I pass it?"

"Did you copy English level 4?"

"Didn't you go to study in the UK? ”

Peng Shengli and Nie Jun asked questions at the same time, and their concerns were obviously different.

"When I took the fourth level, the one sitting in front of me was a master, and I knew him for a long time. I gave him 200 yuan before the test, and promised to give him another 300 yuan afterwards, which was too risky," Zhou Zhengyu answered two questions separately, "As for taking the TOEFL, it was my father's idea." He said that the British diploma was not as good as the American one, so he insisted that I go to the United States to study, and invited a foreigner to be my teacher to practice speaking. ”

During the chat, several people had already come to the outside of the defense classroom, and the other students in the class came over to catch up.

Song Weiyang is naturally the focus of everyone's conversation, and there are still people who are uncomfortable in the internship unit and want to enter Song Weiyang's company.

It was almost noon, and it was finally Song Weiyang's turn to defend.

Song Weiyang bowed and saluted, and said with a smile: "Good morning, teachers! I am Song Weiyang from Sociology Class 1, student number XXXXXX, and the title of my dissertation is "Research on the Relationship between the Economic Situation of Chinese Villages and Towns and the Food Crisis". Here, I would like to first say sorry to Professor Sun, I didn't choose the topic of your dissertation, and I changed to other directions. At the same time, I would also like to express my respect and gratitude to the four teachers present here for their tireless teaching in the past four years, and thank the teachers for their tireless participation in my dissertation defense today. ”

Professor Sun smiled and asked, "This is the first time I have read your paper today, why don't you show it to me in advance? ”

Song Weiyang said: "I spent nearly three months in the countryside and visited three provinces in the eastern, central and southwestern parts of the country, with a total of nine townships and 41 villages. At first, the direction of my dissertation was to explore the relationship between China's rural economic market and the increase of domestic demand, and soon changed to explore the three rural issues. But these topics are too big and too many questions for me to discuss and study as a single student. So, I changed the direction to the food problem, collected data from various sources, and delayed the completion of the thesis until a few days ago, and I didn't have time to show it to the instructor. ”

Professor Sun said, "Let's get started. ”

Song Weiyang said:

"First of all, I would like to introduce to you the main content of this graduation thesis, which is mainly divided into two parts: first, the collapse of China's village and town economic market in recent years. Since the reform and opening up, China's villages and towns have developed rapidly, and village-run enterprises and township enterprises have sprung up, especially township enterprises, which have become an indispensable part of China's economy. However, since 1987, the economy of villages and towns has deteriorated, and the problems of rural areas, peasants, and agriculture have become increasingly prominent...... The peasants have no money in their hands, and their money has already been squeezed out by the three mentions, five unifications, and additional apportionments, and when the costs of seeds, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and irrigation are counted, the peasants' cultivation of staple grains is already an economic behavior that is actually losing money. ”

This brings us to the second point of the paper, which is the food crisis. This time, I will mainly investigate the provinces with large yields in the Yangtze River basin, and the situation of cultivated land abandonment has become more and more serious. Because these areas are close to the Yangtze River waterway, information and ideological concepts are relatively open, and many peasants choose to go out to work when they are actually losing money in growing grain. ”

"The more developed the rural area, the more serious the situation. For example, in XX Village in XX Province, there are a total of 1,106 young and middle-aged people in the village, of which about 400 people work in coastal provinces, and they only need to work for 4 to 6 months to buy back a whole year's grain, and they can also bear the public grain retention. If the husband goes out to work, the family land is basically cultivated by the wife, and if the two of them work together, then the land can only be abandoned or lent to relatives and friends for cultivation, and the cultivated land in this village is about 0.6%. Statistically, it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it's trending scary. Because just three years ago, the area of cultivated land abandoned in this village was only 0!"

"If we look at XX Village, which is closer to the coastal area, there are a total of 967 young and middle-aged people in this village, of which about 500 people choose to go out to work, and the area of cultivated land has reached 1.4%. The village is mostly filled with old people, women, and children, and is nicknamed 'Unit 386199' locally, and most of the young and middle-aged men have left. There are two main reasons: the cadres of this village are village tyrants, the assessment fee is very high, and the land in this village is not fertile and the output is low. Under the guidance of the consciousness of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, farmers can make choices very easily, and such choices have snowballed. Three years ago, there were fewer than 200 migrant workers in the village. The forerunners gained a foothold in the city, made more money, and soon more villagers joined them. ”

"We might as well speculate that in two years, if the central government does not abolish the agricultural tax, it will not reduce the burden on farmers. How many peasants are still willing to farm? If they go out to work for half a year, they can earn more money and buy more grain, so why do they still have to stay in the land to dig food? When more and more young people go out to work, and even women go out with them, only the old people and children will be left in the countryside. ”

"The abandoned area of cultivated land in rural areas will not increase little by little, but will increase geometrically. If too many young and middle-aged people go out to work, and those who remain in the countryside cannot be planted, the area of abandoned land will suddenly reach the red line. In XX Province, which is close to the Yangtze River Delta, although the government has announced that the area of cultivated land abandoned is less than 1%, according to the field survey data I obtained, the abandoned area is likely to be close to 2%, or even more......"

The four teachers looked at each other, this topic is very large, and it is enough for a graduate thesis.

If Song Weiyang makes up the solution in the thesis, it will be a doctorate-level thesis, which is proper.

Yes, Song Weiyang only studied the status quo and did not give a solution. But it is clear between the lines that if there is to be a change, the agricultural tax must be abolished.

Professor Sun asked, "Your paper involves several provinces in the Yangtze River basin, is the data accurate? Do you have any field investigations?"

Song Weiyang said: "I spent 150,000 yuan to organize an investigation team. ”

Professor Hu couldn't help laughing: "Boss Song is really magnificent, my annual research fund is less than a fraction of 150,000 yuan." ”

"Teacher Hu laughed," Song Weiyang said, "I will sponsor 500,000 yuan to our Department of Sociology when I go back." ”

Professor Pan suddenly said, "You want to bribe us?"

Song Weiyang said: "Then I won't sponsor it?"

"Don't," Professor Pan hurriedly said, "If you don't sponsor it, I'll become a sinner in the sociology department!"

This thesis defense has been made into a chat, which shows that Song Weiyang has a good relationship with the teachers, and his thesis is so good that it is impossible to fail.

Professor Sun asked, "Has the countryside really become what you said in your paper?"

Song Weiyang said: "The more open the area, the less important the land. And the more isolated areas, they are still the same, and some people even fight for land. I remember that Professor Sun also went to the countryside to be an educated youth before, and the scene of 'Qianmo traffic, chickens and dogs smelling each other' in your impression may not be seen again in a few years. Some of them work along the coast, and some work in local counties, resulting in the seasonal abandonment of arable land. For example, the staple grains of corn and wheat were harvested, and farmers used to grow peanuts, potatoes and other auxiliary crops. But now farmers don't grow peanuts and potatoes, but go out to do odd jobs nearby. The more idle the farming, the less people are seen in the countryside. Maybe when you go back to the countryside where you used to be educated youth, all you see are old and weak women and children, there is no harvest and bustle, only desolation and dilapidation. Land abandonment is not only an economic problem, but it is only a food crisis, and it will also bring about changes in the social structure of rural areas, as well as the growth and education of left-behind children, which is another issue. ”

Professor Pan said: "I am not qualified to comment on your paper, and I have not done much research on rural issues. However, your actions deserve to be commended, and sociology students should pay attention to practical social issues. ”

Professor Sun said: "You said too much when you reported yourself, and it has overtimed, let the next student come in." By the way, remember to submit a manuscript to the social science edition of Fudan Journal, and I will also help you submit it, and this paper should receive enough attention from the relevant departments. ”