A week later, Lu Xiaobin appeared in the office of Li Tianyi, head of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, with an excited face.

Lu Xiaobin held Li Tianyi's hand and said very excitedly: "Li Tianyi, thank you, the medicine you prescribed to me is very effective, now my stomach pain is much better than before, and my tinnitus has been reduced a lot." Do you want to help me cure this disease?"

Li Tianyi said lightly: "I'll help you check the pulse first, and I'll talk about it after I finish taking the pulse." ”

Lu Xiaobin sat opposite Li Tianyi, Li Tianyi took out a sleeper from the drawer and put it under Lu Xiaobin's wrist, put his hand on his wrist, and quietly savored the pulse.

After a while, Li Tianyi said with a smile: "Now it seems that the previous treatment idea is more symptomatic, I will give you a few more flavors of medicine, it is estimated that you can basically recover in another week, as long as you pay attention to maintenance in the future, there should be no recurrence." ”

Lu Xiaobin's eyes were full of excitement and said, "Li Tianyi, thank you." ”

Li Tianyi shook his head with a smile and said, "There is nothing to thank, I just did a trivial thing within my ability." ”

Speaking of this, Li Tianyi looked at Lu Xiaobin and said, "Lu Xiaobin, does the gambling contract you promised me before count?"

Lu Xiaobin hurriedly said: "Count, of course count, I can go to visit with you now." ”

Li Tianyi smiled and said, "Okay, you go back and prepare, and we'll set off in two hours." ”

Lu Xiaobin shook his head and said, "If you have anything to prepare, I'll just go with you." To be honest, I'm curious about what you can show me, but I have something to say first, and I'm a person who never lies, let alone speak to my conscience, so after reading it, I won't do anything against my will just because you helped me heal. ”

Li Tianyi said with a smile: "This is natural, I will just take you to visit a few places, and I will not make any demands on you until your concept has changed completely." ”

Lu Xiaobin heard Li Tianyi say this, and his eyes showed appreciation.

Li Tianyi's words sound very simple, but in fact, they imply many deeper meanings.

The subtext of Li Tianyi's sentence is that if your perception changes after the tour, I may make some other requests, but I hope that you will be able to agree to my request at that time.

It's a gentleman's bet. Everything is clearly laid out on the table. After seeing Chen Yuandong's capricious villain's face, Lu Xiaobin felt very comfortable getting along with Li Tianyi.

Li Tianyi saw that Lu Xiaobin was so refreshing, so he didn't bother with it, and directly called Cao Side, director of the Office of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and asked him to arrange a car to wait at the gate, and the driver was still Zhuge Tong.

Li Tianyi admires Zhuge Tong very much, this is a good brother who can live and die together, and he is also a good staff officer who is serious and responsible, but has a splendid chest.

Although Zhuge Tong only has the identity of a driver by his side now, in Li Tianyi's heart, with Zhuge Tong's talent, being a driver is too wronged, so in Li Tianyi's heart, he has already made arrangements for Zhuge Tong, but the time is not yet ripe, so he still wants to keep Zhuge Tong by his side.

While walking to the car, Li Tianyi looked at Lu Xiaobin and said, "Lu Xiaobin, do you say that there are more poor people in the United States or more poor people in China?"

Lu Xiaobin said without hesitation: "Of course, there are more poor people in Huaxia. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Xiaobin seemed to understand why Li Tianyi asked this question, and immediately said: "Li Tianyi, have you seen a recent news published in the Russian media, saying that there are 40 million poor people in the United States, so you think that the poor population in the United States is more than the poor in China, but in fact, this report is very one-sided, because the poverty standard in the United States is different from the poverty standard in China.

Even in media reports, it is mentioned that the poverty rate in the United States is 15%, while the proportion of poor people in China is only 2%, if you think that the poor population in the United States is more than the poor population in China, then I can only say that you are too Ah Q spirit. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Xiaobin's emotions were a little excited, and he said loudly: "Li Tianyi, do you know that 46% of poor American families actually own their own homes. A typical house generally has three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, a garage, and a sundeck. Only 6 percent of poor U.S. households are overcrowded.

76% of poor U.S. households have air conditioning.

Seventy-five percent of poor American households own one car, and 30 percent of poor American households own two cars.

There is little difference between the children of the poor and middle-class Americans, who are generally overnourished, and who are on average one inch taller and weigh ten pounds than the American servicemen who participated in the Normandy landings during World War II.

The poor can still share the dividends of economic development and social development, and the poor can still get what they want, so the poor in the United States generally do not have strong pressure to survive, and do not have strong anti-social and especially anti-elite sentiments. Of course, there are some incidents of anti-social violence, but they are all sporadic cases and are not of universal significance. Of course, American society has paid a price, and according to statistics, social welfare spending has accounted for nearly half of the federal government's non-interest expenditure, equivalent to 9% of US GDP. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Xiaobin stared at Li Tianyi and said, "Li Tianyi, do you know all this?"

Li Tianyi smiled slightly and said, "Lu Xiaobin, it seems that you know the data from the United States very well, so do you know what the situation is on our Huaxia side?"

Lu Xiaobin said: "Although I don't know much about the situation in China, I know that the poverty line in the United States is equivalent to the standard of your middle class in China, and the purchasing power of your poor people in China is much worse than that of Americans."

The living standards of more than half of the Chinese people in China have exceeded the poverty line in the United States, which is a very remarkable achievement compared to the history of 40 years ago, when more than 95% of the population was below the international poverty line. ”

Li Tianyi was still smiling and said, "Then I want to ask, in the United States, how does the United States treat these poor people?"

Lu Xiaobin said very arrogantly: "Of course, it is to give them unemployment benefits and give them all kinds of benefits, so that they will not affect their anger against the elite because of their low income."

The welfare of the United States is the best in the world. ”

Li Tianyi nodded lightly and said: "It is undeniable that the welfare of the United States is indeed one of the best countries in the world, but I want to ask you, in the United States, is there any targeted poverty alleviation?"

Lu Xiaobin shook his head and said: "No, in the United States, I haven't even heard of the concept of targeted poverty alleviation, what is this?"

Li Tianyi said: "The so-called targeted poverty alleviation refers to the use of scientific and effective procedures to accurately identify, accurately help and manage the poverty alleviation targets according to the environment of different poverty-stricken areas and the conditions of different poor rural households. Generally speaking, targeted poverty alleviation is mainly for poor residents, and those who are poor will be supported.

In China's poverty alleviation work, we have implemented a targeted poverty alleviation strategy, increased investment in poverty alleviation, introduced preferential policies and measures, adhered to the advantages of China's system, paid attention to the six precisions, adhered to classified policies, implemented policies according to people and places, implemented policies due to poverty reasons, implemented policies according to poverty types, and widely mobilized the whole society to participate in poverty alleviation through supporting production and employment development, through relocation and resettlement, through ecological protection, through education, and through the subsistence allowance policy. ”

Speaking of this, Li Tianyi said confidently: " Lu Xiaobin, do you know, although the welfare of the poor in the United States is good, but the high welfare of the United States also means that the probability of the poor turning over is very small, because for the poor in the United States, it is very difficult for them to reverse the situation of poverty, on the one hand, they cannot finally achieve the reversal of their destiny through studying, because in the United States, the best schools are those private universities, and it costs a lot of money to go to private universities, and the average poor people simply cannot afford to go to those private universities.

And on the surface, the United States is very relaxed about education, students can go home from school at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the classes are very relaxed, but in reality, this relaxation is tantamount to chronic suicide for the poor.

Because many poor people are unable to participate in various extracurricular cram schools and improve their knowledge level because of their low income level, the gap between the poor in the United States and the children of the rich is relatively large when they go to college, and the probability that the poor in the United States can achieve a reversal of their fate through their own struggle is very low.

But in Huaxia it is different, because we have a college entrance examination in Huaxia.

The college entrance examination is fair to all students, whether you are a child of a rich family or a student from a poor family, as long as you study hard, as long as you have enough IQ, then you have the opportunity to be admitted to a prestigious university, and then change your destiny.

In fact, there are indeed many poor students in China who have changed their destiny by going to university. ”

Speaking of this, Li Tianyi suddenly smiled and said, "I'm sorry, it's a bit off-topic when I talk about it." We are now talking about the poor.

The reason I make those points is because I think it's very difficult to change the class you live in in the United States, where all classes of society are solidified. Coupled with the good welfare in the United States, it objectively leads to many poor people in the United States who are not motivated, because they can enjoy a free lunch.

But there is a saying in our Chinese that it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. Literally understand this sentence only, fish is the goal, fishing is the means, a fish can solve a temporary hunger, but can not solve a long-term hunger, if you want to have fish to eat forever, then you must learn the method of fishing.

What China's targeted poverty alleviation needs to do is to teach and drive the poor to learn to fish, so as to change their destiny and realize the transformation from poor people to well-off people. ”

Speaking of this, Li Tianyi said excitedly: "Lu Xiaobin, do you know that our Huaxia will achieve poverty alleviation of all the poor people in 2022, which will be a feat that shocks the world."

Do you think it is better to raise the poor people like pigs in the United States and let them have no worries about food and clothing without resistance, or is it better to drive poor households to find a way to get rid of poverty and become well-off through targeted poverty alleviation, as we do in China?"