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The bright spring of Yanyuan welcomed Dr. Li Jiaming, the best graduate of the university, a world-renowned economist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and visiting professor of Guanghua University.

In response to the strong demand of the majority of students, Professor Li Jiaming's lecture was moved from the large classroom to the centennial lecture hall, and it is still difficult to get a ticket.

The lecture was still thirty minutes away, and the centennial lecture hall was already crowded, all waiting for that god-like man to give a lecture, and they all wanted to hear the success of the world's richest man. Although Li Jiaming's myths abound on the Internet, it is also very exciting to hear from his own mouth.

Time flies slowly, twenty minutes is so long. After ten minutes of absence, an elegant middle-aged man came out of the side of the podium, it was Dr. Feng Gang, an associate professor of the School of Economics, and the classmate of today's protagonist Dr. Li, who was the only student in their class who had not practiced business. This associate professor Feng is also a bull, known as the first of the four young economists in China, and is known for his outspokenness.

However, in front of today's protagonist, Professor Li Jiaming, he is a flag-waving goods, and he himself is proud.

"Please be quiet, Professor Li's lecture will begin in ten minutes, and now two rules are announced. He is the most disciplined, and he has been talking about 'no rules, no circle' for more than ten years, even if their Hanhua Research Institute is the most disrespectful place.

1. There may be different opinions, but he is not responsible for explaining and refuting them.

2. After the lecture, he did not answer any questions, because today's lecture is something that is well known. ”

The students in the audience were in high spirits, and the big doctor was notoriously proud of academics, and the first time he came to his alma mater to give a speech, he stipulated that those who were not majoring in economics or had a master's degree or less were allowed to ask questions. I didn't expect everyone to be lucky enough to see such a thing, you must know that even if a national leader comes to Yanyuan to give a speech, he will not offend these Peking University people who dare to say anything.

After the elegant Feng Gang finished speaking, the title of today's lecture immediately appeared on the projection screen - On the pros and cons of the household registration system, which couldn't help but make the audience burst into discussions.

Just when everyone was talking, Ma Gang on the stage saw Li Jiaming coming out of the back with a black iPad in his hand, and hurriedly took the lead in applauding, and the audience applauded.

Discussion is discussion, and incomprehension is incomprehensible, Li Jiaming's status in the minds of these young students is still very high. In the words of the Internet many years ago, those who are uglier than him can not read, those who can read will not make money, and those who can make money will not treat money as money.

Today, no one in the world is richer than him, and it seems that there are not many people who are better at reading than him, and no one is more distracted from money than him. There is another thing that he can't compare with, there must be someone uglier than him in the world, because this immortal has a strong physique and a very good temperament, but his appearance is a little uglier.

Wearing the same T-shirt and jeans, Li Jiaming, who was more bookish than domineering, held a handout folder, and first bowed to Lord Xiao and Wu Lao in the front row on the podium, which caused thunderous applause from the audience. This is the rule that Li Jiaming keeps saying - respect for teachers, although he claims to dare to challenge authority in the Hanhua Research Institute.

After bowing, Li Jiaming walked to the podium, turned on his iPad, and secretly despised his hypocrisy. Alas, this is also something that can't be helped, people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, whoever makes the family is His Royal Highness the Prince, the sycophants that should be filmed have to be patted.

"Dear Teachers and Students,

Hello everyone, my lecture today is a bit of a surprise, but it is something I wanted to talk about many years ago, because I myself and my family are victims of this system. At that time, you city people ate white rice and wore cold clothes, but my sister and I ate shredded potatoes and wore torn clothes and pants with patches and patches. However, after many years, I can express my opinion on this system with a rational attitude.

Ok, now let's talk about the hukou system. Strictly speaking, our country's household registration system is essentially based on occupation, economic, organizational, and cultural resources, supplemented by the principles of division of labor, hierarchy of authority, production relations, and institutional division.

Mainly for economic and political reasons, first of all, let's talk about economic reasons: in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we imitated the development model of the Soviet Union and practiced the orientation of heavy industry development, which in essence promoted the development of industry through the scissors difference, that is, the price difference between finished industrial products and agricultural products, and the exploitation of the peasants. This is also the real reason why we rural people were poor back then, while you city people were relatively rich. ”

Li Jiaming, who talked eloquently, swiped his fingers with his iPad screen with some resentment, and the projector screen showed various national economic data from the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the 90 years of the last century, and finally concluded: "The household registration system ensures the stability of agricultural employees, that is, the stable access to scissors, the household registration system during this period is the most stringent, and the population migration is only due to school, job transfer, etc." ”

"Ok, let's talk about political factors now." Li Jiaming, who has lived in the United States for a long time, has also contracted some white-collar problems, and he can utter two or three words at every turn, but his analysis is as detailed and sharp as just now.

"The development model guided by heavy industry is destined to have limited absorption of labor, and the large-scale outflow of people from the agricultural sector will not be fully absorbed by cities and industries, which will cause social instability. Therefore, our government would rather lock the peasants into inefficient rural land by means of household registration than cause social instability.

At the same time, the urban population enjoys the support of the rural population, that is, it has better preferences than the rural areas in terms of policies, such as social security, product supply, financial support, etc. Under the circumstances, this situation was also based on the aforementioned scissors gap, which was destined to be unable to supply the huge rural population, so the strict hukou system maintained the relative stability of the social structure.

After the reform and opening up, our development has relied on the demographic dividend, that is, the development of labor-intensive industries, which requires a large number of laborers. However, our government did not take this as an opportunity to break the already outdated household registration system!"

In conjunction with Li Jiaming's explanation, a mathematical model appears on the curtain, which uses binary economic theory to support his arguments.

"You see, this model has fully explained why we are now in the situation where the country is rich and the people are poor. Graphically, the expansion of the scale of production without the rise in wages means that the people's income has not increased, that is, the country is rich and the people are poor. ”

There was silence in the audience, and although the current government is not as strict in its control over speech as it was twenty years ago, the professors in the front row couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when they criticized the government's mistakes in public. But Li Jiaming, who has been teaching for several years, is no longer the doctoral student who forbade students to ask questions, and in an instant, he came back to the circle and praised the government in disguise.

"To sum up, our hukou system is a product of history, which in essence sacrifices the development of agriculture to promote industrial development, and at the same time maintains social stability through the bondage of personnel. This system is politically correct, but morally and morally shameful and profoundly unfair!

Ok, after all, this is in the past. I don't think it makes sense for us to be too targeted and critical of past policies from a rational point of view. The commanding heights of morality are always changing, and standing in the position of those in power at that time, this is indeed a helpless move, who makes our foundation too weak and too poor?

With the passage of time, we have abolished the four taxes on agriculture and begun to give back to the rural areas, which shows that we have now attached more and more importance to the interests of the rural areas and peasants. This is a good change, and the future of the countryside is beginning to brighten. From an economic point of view, only by developing the rural areas and cultivating the purchasing power of the peasants can our economic transformation go smoothly, otherwise there will be no way to talk about it. ”