Chapter 199: Walkers Without Borders 9
Chen Feng and his entourage listened to Liu Degui's introduction all the way, even if they knew that this old guy was intentional, they had to pay deep sympathy for their village.
Chen Feng did not express any opinion on this matter at first, but after seeing the stone houses in their village on the way, he said that he was willing to pay for the construction of new houses for the whole village.
Originally, building houses in these impoverished villages was not within the scope of Chen Feng's charity assistance this time, because he mainly wanted to build buildings such as schools and libraries, rather than building houses for villagers.
But now I see with my own eyes that the houses where these villagers live, it is really too dilapidated, there are only a handful of brick houses, most of the mainstream stone houses are leaky and leaky, and there are even a lot of mud embryo houses, this situation is really unimaginable if you don't see it with your own eyes, especially for people in those developed cities in China. It's the 21st century, and there are still such poor places in the country. But in fact, there are still many such poor places in the country.
Moreover, relatively speaking, the situation of this Shangshui village is better than that of the extremely poor villages in the west. Over there, as far as Chen Feng knew, the stone houses were already very good houses, and most of them were mud houses.
Chen Feng brought the engineering planning and design personnel of Xingwang Group over, just to go all the way to build all the way. Although it was not in his original plan to build a house in a poor local village, he decided to build it since he felt it was necessary.
Of course, he won't really build them luxurious and generous small bungalows, and make them villa-style, not that Chen Feng is reluctant to spend money on them, but if they build like that, other villages that are not extremely poor villages will be blushing. And Chen Feng doesn't need to spend this unjust money. After all, this side has begun. Other impoverished villages should also follow the rules here, and if they are built too well, other extremely poor villages will naturally not be bad. Chen Feng didn't want to spend too much money on building a house for them, and more money he had to spend on education and medical assistance.
One of the main policies of charitable aid is to help the emergency and not the poor, of course, this is relatively small in the case of donations, that is, to use limited funds to help those most in need.
However, there is obviously no upper limit on the total amount of donations in Chen Feng's planned charity trip, and Chen Feng intends to spend at least $10 billion on the minimum amount. This is to accumulate merit for him and his whole family, and it is also to pray for the blessing of several children who have not yet been born.
So. Relatively speaking, Chen Feng's charity and public welfare assistance this time does not have any argument that it is urgent and does not help the poor.
Building houses for villagers in extremely poor villages is actually somewhat beyond the scope of charitable assistance. It's just that Chen Feng saw with his own eyes those stone houses and mud houses leaking everywhere, villagers and children with messy hair and dirty bodies, and he couldn't bear it.
Even if he is poor, he hopes to make the adults and children in these areas look better and neater mentally. In addition, he is indeed not short of money now, and he still has to spend money on the places that should be saved, even if it is more than originally planned.
In this way, at least when we can help these people in extreme poverty. It can make you feel good.
Regarding Chen Feng's decision to help them build a house, even though the village party secretary and village cadres had long ago saved their minds about relief and taking advantage. At this time, I also felt a little blushing, and I didn't know whether to accept it.
The reason is that they feel that Chen Feng, a big star, is too kind, honest and generous, even if they are thick-skinned enough, this is to sponsor their children to go to school, give free lunches and scholarships, and to treat people in the village, and now they want to help them build houses, they are also a little embarrassed.
Seeing this, Chen Feng smiled and said to them: "Don't think I'm too generous, I have money to burn, I just think that some families in your village are living too hard." I will not pay for you to build too good houses, I will let my engineering team use local materials, and help people who are still mud houses to build stone houses, but they must be able to protect from the wind and rain, the walls should be painted with cement, and the houses should be covered with tiles. As for the original stone house, I will also ask the engineering team to help repair it according to the standard of shelter from the wind and rain. ”
As soon as Chen Feng said this, the village cadres were secretly relieved, and expressed their gratitude one by one. If Chen Feng builds them brick houses, they may feel that it is too "precious", because building a house is a big deal in the countryside, and most of the family's savings are spent on it, which is a big investment, and it may also cause disputes in the village. After all, there were originally several brick houses in the village, and if Chen Feng built brick houses for the whole village, these households would be a problem. In fact, those who can build brick houses in the village are basically not considered poor households, but if they are not built, these households may cause trouble. But if it is built for them, it is obviously not in accordance with the rules.
Now the standard for building a house explained by Chen Feng is just right, and there are fewer disputes, so they can accept it.
The more they got to the top, the worse they saw the situation of each family, and Chen Feng and his party were even more unbearable. The conditions are also a little too bad. Most of the sick and poor households in the village also live on the hillside, some have cataracts, some of them are only forty or fifty years old, and some have tumors, this kind of disease is basically waiting for death in their village, whether it is benign or malignant, it can be called cancer on their side. However, in fact, it is not said that cancer can be cured if it is treated in a timely manner, but in the case of benign tumors, as long as it is well maintained after surgery, there is no big problem.
However, there are not many people with "cancer" in this village, only two, an old man in his forties and an old woman in his fifties, both of whom have gone to the health center in the township to see them, and the malignant and benign ones have not yet been diagnosed, because the family has no money, which is basically equivalent to waiting for death at home. But what is sad is that when they came to visit, the old man was growing vegetables in the backyard of the house, and the old woman was busy with housework. On the surface, they don't look like they're terminally ill, and they don't seem to be so negative. Mentally, they're really good. But maybe it's a kind of helplessness, since it's all like this. And they resigned themselves to their fate. What to do before. And they just went on doing what they did. Until one day they couldn't do it anymore and then they died.
Before the two of them, the village was seriously ill and had no money for treatment, and this is how they died. Just a few days ago, an elderly woman in her forties who had cancer passed away.
Chen Feng showed them a rough look, but he didn't give them a pulse or anything abruptly, and he didn't bother to explain to everyone that he knew Chinese medicine. It can be seen that the old woman's condition is milder and is likely to be a benign tumor. And the old man looks vicious, and this cannot be delayed. Therefore, Chen Feng immediately asked them to pack up their things immediately, and when the time comes, go back to the county seat with them and pay them for treatment.
No one really wanted to die, and the two of them had children, daughters, and grandchildren, so they naturally didn't want to want to die so early, so after thanking Chen Feng excitedly, they went to prepare things with a thousand thanks.
After walking inside and outside their village, and returning to the village office building, Chen Feng learned some about the main livelihood of their village from the old branch secretary and others.
One of the main characteristics of poor areas is the small area of arable land, the lack of water or water conservancy. Coupled with the large population, a couple has several children. In the long run, this per capita arable land area will be even less, and if you rely on farming alone, you will not be able to support your family. In the past, they could hunt to support their families, but now there are fewer and fewer prey in the mountains, and the country prohibits hunting. Therefore, in addition to farming, everyone now generally goes to the mountains to collect some mountain treasures and medicinal herbs to sell in the township, or to do some short-term work. This is mainly the choice of the slightly older people in the village who have families. Younger people, such as those in their teens and early twenties who have not yet started a family, have mostly gone out to work, and most of them have gone to developed cities in the south. It's rare to go home once a year.
As for the Camellia oleifera planting that Chen Feng understands, they don't have it in their village, and the reason is very simple, because they can't afford to plant it because they don't have money. And where they have money to grow Camellia oleifera in their county, for example, a neighboring town has planted Camellia oleifera trees on a large scale, and their economic development level is much better than that of their township. The young girls in their township now are willing to marry in the wealthy town next door, not the other way around.
The reason why the town next door developed was because more than ten years ago there was a good official with ability and vision, and vigorously developed the planting industry, of which the cultivation of camellia was the largest scale, in addition to the cultivation of medicinal materials.
There were also people on their side who wanted to engage in camellia planting before, but there was no leader, and there was no corresponding technical support, and those who made some small attempts did not make any money, but lost money There are not a few, so now there are not many people who go to camellia planting.
Camellia oleifera, along with oil palm, olive and coconut, is known as the world's four major woody edible oil plants. The content of unsaturated fatty acids in camellia oil is as high as 90%, much higher than that of vegetable oil, peanut oil and soybean oil, and twice as high as vitamin E content of olive oil, and contains specific physiologically active substances such as camelliin, which has extremely high nutritional value. Even at this time, tea oil is very affordable, and in a few years, people who pay attention to health care and what organic food will pay more attention to these plant edible oils, and the price will be higher.
Therefore, if the Camellia oleifera is now invested in intensive planting, it is a green industry with good development prospects and investment potential.
After Chen Feng slightly revealed that he was very interested in Camellia oleifera planting, the first and second leaders in the county, who had been following him who didn't talk much, immediately cheered up, and vigorously introduced to Chen Feng the unique natural conditions in their county. And the village cadres are also very excited. After all, there are examples to follow, the town next door has made a fortune because of Camellia oleifera planting, and they can only look greedy and red all these years, but there is no good way. Everyone is also human, and they are not very far away from each other, of course, they have always been unconvinced and longing in their hearts.
What's more, if people leave their hometowns, if they have better development and can make more money in their hometowns, who wants to go all the way to work in other places and suffer from white eyes and discrimination?
The good money for Camellia oleifera planting is visible, there are examples to see, and they naturally have no reason to hesitate and support.
Seeing that they cared so much, Chen Feng did not deliberately hide it anymore, so he clearly proposed to concentrate on the large-scale development of Camellia oleifera planting here. Their Huateng Food Group's main focus is green food, of which the main focus is organic edible oil, but mainly soybean oil, because of his celebrity endorsement of the five elements, the market share has been continuously increasing, basically with the big brand of Arowana in the market. It's just that now the Chinese people's understanding of genetically modified is still very limited, and Huateng did not focus on pointing out that most of the edible oil of the Arowana brand is genetically modified edible oil, and of course they themselves will not deliberately point it out, but continue to make a lot of money, otherwise there may be vicious competition, but Huateng here has highlighted the non-GMO edible oil on its own brand. Therefore, in terms of price, Huateng is more expensive than similar brands of edible oil.
But even so, because of Chen Feng's invisible endorsement and more and more people realizing the possible harm of genetically modified edible oil, there will only be more and more non-GMO edible oil that will eventually choose Huateng.
Therefore, there is a large market for non-GMO edible oil in the future, and soybean oil alone may not be satisfied, and it is necessary to expand other vegetable edible oils. For example, tea oil, olive oil.
Now Chen Feng is investing in poverty alleviation here, which can be regarded as laying the foundation for the future edible oil pattern of Huateng Food, and laying out the edible oil market for the future.
Chen Feng is not purely to make money, but he himself has no good impression of the brand Arowana. Because he has been using genetically modified soybeans to extract oil for a long time, and then sell it to the Chinese people, occupying the domestic market to the greatest extent through various unspeakable means, and making a fortune quietly. In fact, Arowana is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a fully controlled foreign capital. The boss behind it is a foreigner. Even if they are Chinese, they are foreigners after all.
With such a large edible oil market in China, a product related to the people's livelihood of the whole country is almost monopolized by a foreign-funded holding company, which is a situation that is difficult to imagine in other countries, but it happened in China.
And even if it can't be said that Arowana has been making black money, it can't be said that they are making conscience money, because they have been intentionally or unintentionally concealing the use of genetically modified soybeans to extract oil all these years. Genetically modified edible oil, even if there is no clear evidence that it is harmful to humans, there is no clear evidence that it is harmless. (To be continued.) )
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