After Li Tianyi finished speaking, Lu Xiaobin fell into a long period of contemplation.

Although he expressed strong recognition and affirmation of the living standards of the poor in the United States at the beginning, he also knew the living conditions of the poor people in the United States, although many of them have houses and cars, but in fact, their quality of life is not high, and sometimes they can only buy those cheap canned food.

However, on the other hand, the introduction of targeted poverty alleviation policies and the formulation of the goal of alleviating poverty and becoming moderately prosperous in 2022 will bring a qualitative leap to the living standards of the poor in China.

The most important thing is that, as Li Tianyi said, those poor people in the United States seem to have been raised by the American elite through a series of systems, so that they can have no worries about food and clothing, and will not resist the rule of the American elite, let alone question the polarization of the widening gap between the rich and the poor in the United States.

Although the poor in China are much more backward than Americans in terms of housing, food and clothing, etc., the United States does not have targeted poverty alleviation programs, and the so-called elites in the United States will not introduce such policies, because what they want is to lie on these poor and middle class in the United States and suck blood desperately, and the essence of capitalism is exploitation.

Just when Lu Xiaobin was thinking about the problem, Li Tianyi had already taken Lu Xiaobin to the car, and the car galloped all the way, out of Nanping City, and went straight to the northwest of Nanping City, driving a distance of about 50 kilometers, and then came to Pingyang County below Nanping City.

Pingyang County is located in a mountainous area and is an old revolutionary area. At the same time, it is also one of the counties with more poor towns and villages.

Although Li Tianyi is the head of the United Front Work Department of the municipal party committee, Li Tianyi has a habit of meticulously understanding and investigating the situation in various counties, districts, townships, towns, and even villages in the local area no matter where he goes to become an official, until he has mastered it. In order to understand the problems existing in the economic development of this region and the ideas for solving them.

Therefore, this time, although Li Tianyi said that he brought Lu Xiaobin to visit, it was actually equivalent to that he also did an on-site investigation and research.

Li Tianyi took Lu Xiaobin to Loess Town, Pingyang County, first took Lu Xiaobin to climb a mountain bag, standing on the mountain bag, Li Tianyi pointed with his hand, and said: "Lu Xiaobin, what do you see standing here?"

Lu Xiaobin looked around, only to see that in the township at the foot of the mountain, there was silver shining everywhere, dazzling eyes, and there were white plastic greenhouses one by one, row upon row, which looked very spectacular.

Lu Xiaobin was a little surprised and said: "What do those glowing and plastic greenhouses do?"

Li Tianyi said with a smile: "Lu Xiaobin, this Pingyang County is not only a poor county in Nanping City, but also a poor county in Hexi Province, and a state-level poor county.

Since the state put forward the targeted poverty alleviation policy, Pingyang County has been included in one of the pilot counties for poverty alleviation in characteristic industries in Hexi Province.

According to the geographical characteristics of Pingyang County, Nanping City has determined the two leading ideas of targeted poverty alleviation in Pingyang County according to local conditions.

One is poverty alleviation in the photovoltaic industry, and the other is poverty alleviation in vegetable greenhouses.

Poverty alleviation with characteristic industries: Relying on characteristic industries to help farmers get rid of poverty accurately

Four years ago, Pingyang County took the lead in the province to build an investment of 500 million yuan, covering an area of 1,300 acres of "green photovoltaic + edible fungi" agricultural poverty alleviation demonstration park.

The project is invested by the North Photovoltaic Group, with an installed capacity of 40 MW and an annual power generation capacity of 59,688 MWh. At the end of last year, the grid-connected power generation was completed, which can save about 23,100 tons of standard coal, reduce the emission of about 49,500 tons of carbon dioxide and 248 tons of sulfur dioxide every year, and not only improve the construction of rural power facilities and clean energy. At the same time, the effective use of photovoltaic panels under the idle land, the development of edible fungus industry, the construction of mushroom sheds for farmers to enter the independent operation, in order to reduce the production input costs and business risks of farmers, the park also signed a contract with farmers, according to the cost price to provide mushroom bags, responsible for technical guidance, recycling products, to maximize the benefits of farmers. ”

Li Tianyi said as he took Lu Xiaobin down the mountain, and as he walked, Li Tianyi looked at Lu Xiaobin and asked, "Lu Xiaobin, is there such a poverty alleviation model in the United States?"

Lu Xiaobin shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It is impossible for the United States to have this model, because the United States implements private ownership of land, and even if those large group companies have money, they will only find ways to develop their own business, or take out money to do charity, and then obtain the improvement of the company's reputation, and all this is for the development of the enterprise." ”

Li Tianyi said with a smile: "Lu Xiaobin, do you know, like the current situation, is very common in our China, many large enterprises in China, especially large state-owned enterprises, each enterprise generally has one or more industrial poverty alleviation projects, on the one hand, through investment in the industry, enterprises can obtain a certain profit, at the same time, through investment in the industry, can also drive the local poor households to become well-off, and then achieve a double harvest of social and economic benefits."

This is the social responsibility of many large enterprises.

And this is the most fundamental gap between our Chinese cultural genes and the American cultural genes, our Chinese pay attention to win-win cooperation, the first worries of the world, the joy of the world after the world, the world is public, and the American culture is selfish, hypocritical, and pragmatism.

Therefore, the method of targeted poverty alleviation can only appear in our socialist country with excellent traditional cultural inheritance and Chinese characteristics. ”

While speaking, Li Tianyi and the others had already walked to the bottom of the mountain, and walked forward for about a kilometer, and the two of them saw two houses with distinctive characteristics on the side of the road at the same time.

The house on the east side is a small two-story building, the decoration is simple but very atmospheric, and the couplets in front of the door are full of wealth and peace.

The house on the west side was next to the two-story building, only 1/3 the height of the two-story building, and the house looked dilapidated, with several pieces of glass in the windows shattered, and the doors were still very old with two wooden doors facing each other.

The courtyard wall is low, made of a fence, and a car is parked in the courtyard.

Seeing this, Lu Xiaobin pointed with his hand and said: "Li Tianyi, have you seen it, you poor people in China live in this kind of place, while the poor people in the United States live in villas and bungalows of two or three hundred square meters. That's the gap. ”

Li Tianyi was also very surprised, he didn't expect that in this era, there are still people living in such a dilapidated house.

Thinking of this, Li Tianyi shouted inside through the fence: "Is there anyone inside?"

Li Tianyi shouted for a long time, but no one answered.

In desperation, Li Tianyi could only knock on the door of the two-story building next door, and the door was opened by a woman about 50 years old.

Li Tianyi looked at the woman and said, "Eldest sister, we want to ask, where is the family in the house next door?"

The woman glanced Li Tianyi up and down, and said, "Are you referring to the house in the west?"

Li Tianyi nodded.

The woman laughed and said, "You are strangers, aren't you?"

Li Tianyi and Lu Xiaobin both nodded.

The woman continued: "The house on the west side is mine. ”

Lu Xiaobin said with some surprise: "Aren't you living in this two-story building, what are you doing with the house in the west?"

"The house on the west side is the same house my family lived in two years ago, and now we live in a house that was just completed in May this year," the woman said.

The reason why I didn't tear down the previous house is because I want to keep this house in stark contrast to the house we live in now, so as to remind my children that they should never forget that it is the country's targeted poverty alleviation policy that has allowed our originally poor family to get rid of poverty and embark on the road to prosperity. ”

Li Tianyi and Lu Xiaobin were all shocked when they heard this, so they started talking to this woman.

The woman's name is Zhao Sufen, and she is one of the poor households in this photovoltaic agriculture poverty alleviation demonstration park. She has a family of four, her husband works odd jobs outside the home, her children go to college, and her uncle suffers from a serious illness.

Two years ago, she saw that the town had built a poverty alleviation park, she made up her mind to rent 4 mushroom sheds, with the help of the park's edible mushroom planting cooperative, obtained a small guaranteed loan, and raised some from relatives and friends, and finally scraped together 120,000 yuan. Now, the mushrooms in the four mushroom sheds have entered the peak season of mushrooms, and Zhao Sufen goes back and forth between her home and the park every day, ventilating, watering, picking, and selling non-stop.

In the first year of renting a mushroom shed, she made a net profit of more than 100,000 yuan, and the benefits in the second year were still very good, so last year, her husband no longer went out to work, but went home to work with her. In September last year, they started building this two-story building next to the old house. I moved in in May this year.

Lu Xiaobin suddenly asked, "Are there many people like you in your village?"

Zhao Sufen said: "There are more than 500 mushroom sheds in the town for rent, and according to the mushroom market in the past two years, these more than 500 households have basically earned an average of more than 100,000 yuan."

It is said that the second phase of the photovoltaic power generation plant is about to start, and the area of the second phase of the project is larger than the first phase of the project, and more people will rent mushroom sheds at that time. My family is going to rent two more at that time. ”

After listening to Zhao Sufen, Lu Xiaobin was silent.

He suddenly realized that the targeted poverty alleviation policy with Chinese characteristics was indeed full of Chinese wisdom.

As he walked all the way that day, he had already felt the tremendous changes that were taking place in this town, the town was full of construction sites, and two-story or even three-story buildings were rising from the ground, and it was obvious that these were villagers who had lifted themselves out of poverty and become well-off to improve their living conditions.

And large trucks loaded with mushrooms and various commodities also pass through the Loess Town and outside, and the whole town is full of life and vitality.

At this moment, Lu Xiaobin began to recall the poor people he had seen in the United States, they did not lack food, clothing, or housing, but they could only live at the bottom of society forever, they had no chance to get rid of poverty and become rich, they could only rely on hard work and dedication to earn a meager living expenses, or receive social assistance.

Although the income level of the poor in the United States is higher than that of the poor in China, which poor person is happier?