Chapter 885: The Weather of the New Millennium

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As soon as Fan Heng entered the door, he said to everyone. "It's so cold, but there is no snow, this climate is too abnormal."

The driver took his coat, hung it up, put down the briefcase, said hello to everyone, and left.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, Fan Heng gave his driver secretaries a holiday, at this time everyone rushed back for the New Year, of course, running fast, once a year, the Chinese pay the most attention to this.

"Oh, I can probably catch up with the Spring Festival Gala." Zhang Mei said.

Fan Wuxian said with a smile, "Who still watches the Spring Festival Gala now, it's just a little more background music when chatting." But during the Spring Festival, didn't you members of the Standing Committee do any activities? ”

After Fan Heng sat down, he took a sip of water before replying, "Everyone has their own things, there will definitely be a group worship activity early tomorrow morning, and everyone will not be idle for a moment after that." It is necessary to go to the various mouths in charge of them to have a look and give New Year's greetings to the grassroots cadres and masses. ”

In recent years, the situation of national leaders celebrating the New Year at home is almost gone, and every festival, basically they spend it at the grassroots level with ordinary cadres and the masses, but Fan Heng, as the executive vice premier, is busy with actual affairs, unless it is necessary entertainment, he does not participate in the general scene, of course, the Spring Festival group worship is definitely indispensable.

In addition, the government has recently attached more importance to energy, and tomorrow it will probably fly to a major energy province to inspect the work and greet the grassroots cadres and masses, so they will leave the capital after the morning.

"Oh, as a member of the Standing Committee, I hardly spend a few days at home." Zhang Mei said with some complaints.

Although she is in the Ministry of Education, and her rank is also mentioned as a deputy minister, the actual work is not very much, even if she is often invited to participate in some activities, it is also floating, and she does not necessarily have to participate.

In terms of the number of students, the country has the largest compulsory education system in the world, with 125 million students enrolled in primary schools and 065 million students enrolled in junior high schools, totaling nearly 200 million students.

Running a big education in a poor country is a very difficult task financially. Maintaining the goal of social equity is a constant challenge.

The key to the popularization and development of compulsory education lies in solving the problem of funding for compulsory education, which is the common responsibility of governments at all levels to ensure and develop compulsory education.

Since the introduction of the compulsory education system and the implementation of modern education, it has a history of nearly 100 years, and in these 100 years, the popularization of compulsory education has always been constantly proposed, so compulsory education has become a symbol to measure the degree of modernity of the country.

In the late 90s, both the central and local governments increased their investment in compulsory education, and many provinces completed the popularization of compulsory education at this time, and some impoverished provinces such as Yunnan and Guizhou were also speeding up the pace of universal education 9 and 6.

The importance of education is self-evident, on the one hand, after learning knowledge and skills, the educated can enhance their competitiveness, can obtain a relatively high income in their future work, and can obtain more spiritual enjoyment in life, on the other hand, a considerable part of the benefits of education spill over to the society through the educated. It has improved the labor productivity of the whole society, improved the national culture and moral quality, ensured that the country's best system can operate in a better environment, and promoted social exchanges and economic development.

"The current situation is that although many children in poor areas have received our support in terms of material, such as the construction of Hope Primary School, equipped with a variety of more advanced teaching equipment, but from the point of view of the rationing of teaching service personnel, it is quite insufficient, some schools because of their remote location, there is no teacher who can give full play to the ability of these equipment, but can only be used as a model for the media to watch, as a local government to develop education performance project to the public. In practice, the role played is almost negligible. When mentioning this incident, Zhang Mei said to her family.

Naturally, in reality, the phenomenon of misappropriation of education funds by the local government is also very serious, because education produces both internal and external benefits, which determines that education should not adopt the complete government supply mode, and it is not suitable to adopt the complete market supply mode, and the corresponding level of education expenditure must be arranged according to the size of the external benefits, if it is completely provided by the market, the realization of education industrialization, will inevitably lead to the scale of education provided is lower than the effective level of provision.

Because of the differences in the external benefits of education at different stages, the State provides different levels of expenditure for different stages of education. As far as basic education is concerned, because of its large impact, low unit costs, and large external benefits. In order to encourage the consumption of such products, it must be provided free of charge, which is why most countries in the world have free and compulsory education.

"People's income and status as adults largely depend on the level of education they received when they were young, but education, as an investment in human capital, is obviously limited by each family's budget, so poverty leads to unfair competition in the human capital market, and the unequal educational opportunities will continue the original income distribution gap, further widening the original income distribution gap, which is contrary to the requirements of fairness, which is the market defect in the field of distribution." "The focus on equity goals leads directly to government intervention in income distribution, and furthermore, unequal educational opportunities are also contrary to efficiency requirements, because children from poor families may not be able to give full play to their talents because they do not have basic education, resulting in a waste of human resources." The government provides education from a redistributive perspective and participates in investing in human capital. This is conducive to the country's political stability, to the realization of the goals of equity and efficiency, and to the promotion of sustainable social and economic development. ”

"Regarding this area, the government has been trying to increase funding for compulsory education, but the effect is not ideal." Dad Fan Heng saw that everyone was talking about compulsory education, so he also interjected, after all, although he is now in charge of state-owned enterprises, there are also many problems in running schools in state-owned enterprises, and this part is also under his control, so he can't help but worry about it.

Recently, we have been discussing the issue of running schools by enterprises. It is to reduce the burden on the enterprise, first of all, it is necessary to strip out the various ancillary industries run by the enterprise, such as schools and hospitals, and promote them to the society, so that the enterprise can concentrate on development and no longer have to be distracted by these things.

It's just that the current orientation is still to take GDP development as the first priority, although the funds allocated by the central government are said to be earmarked, but it is difficult to say at the local level, for the sake of political performance, local officials have done everything, let alone embezzled a little appropriation?

As a result, funding for education has been increasing, but the results are getting worse and worse, and leaders can't help but worry about it.

However, Fan Wuxian also said, "Everything has to be talked about with money, now the total economic volume is still relatively low, it seems that Chinese are not worried about food and clothing, but when it comes to spending money, they find that it is not enough, for example, this time the large aircraft project, don't you have to privately fund?" ”

Without an economic foundation, even if you have a good idea, it is in vain, and now Fan Wuxian is also able to understand the thoughts of the high-level, everything needs to spend money, everything needs to reach out, where is it so easy to come out for a private visit? Many simple ideas among the people do not seem very practical.

"You've made a big fuss, and it's hard to say whether it's good or bad right now." When mentioning the large aircraft project, Fan Heng inevitably had to say a few more words, because in the final analysis, this matter should be counted on his performance, state-owned enterprises, although it is a joint venture with a private sector, but fundamentally it is still a state-owned enterprise, but the situation is a little special.

Whether it is from the standpoint of an old military industry or the standpoint of the current national leader, Fan Heng must hope from the bottom of his heart that this project can be done, and finally achieve practical results and rewrite China's aviation industry. The Chinese use the large aircraft developed and manufactured by the Chinese themselves.

This is not only a matter of fighting for a breath, but also involves hundreds of billions of economic benefits every year, and the only way to stimulate domestic demand and maintain a high rate of economic growth.

But there are also bad aspects, first of all, Fan Wuxian has been pushed to the forefront and become the focus of media attention, you must know that within this huge bureaucratic system, not everyone wants the large aircraft project to succeed, and it is not excluded that some people will even do everything possible to obstruct this project for various purposes, which is also conceivable.

After all, once the large aircraft project is successful, then Fan Heng is the other biggest beneficiary in addition to Fan Wuxi, as the direct leader in charge of state-owned enterprises, this is to be counted in his political achievements.

Even if Fan Heng can continue to serve two terms, then in a short term of more than ten years, he can solve such a big system engineering problem, and there are previous successful examples of state-owned enterprise reform put there, Fan Heng's evaluation in the entire modern economic history will be very high.

The family soon sat around and began to eat, and Fan Wuxi's mobile phone made a didi-di-drip sound from time to time, apparently receiving quite a few text messages.

However, after Fan Wuxi picked it up and looked at it, his expression was a little embarrassed.

Shen Ying was a little curious when he saw this, so he asked for a look at his mobile phone, then pursed his lips and smiled, but he didn't say anything, just continued to eat, and a big hot pot in the middle was steaming, which was the most popular with everyone.

After eating, Fan Wuxi sat there and began to reply text message by text message, it was naturally no one else who sent text messages to him on his mobile phone, it was all his girlfriends, at this time Fan Wuxi suddenly felt a little big, although it was said that the harmonious harem was promising, Shen Ying didn't seem to have to be how he was, he only asked for a teapot with only one tea bowl, but the water in the teapot was limited after all, and the monk couldn't share it with more porridge!

After a while, Fan Heng said to everyone, "Well, I will leave early tomorrow morning, and your mother will also go to the ministry for a group worship, and she will also go to the grassroots level to pay New Year's greetings, so this red envelope will be distributed now." ”

"Oh-" Everyone's reaction was not very big, these guys are all rich, compared to Fan Heng and Zhang Mei, although the salaries of their parents are not low, they are really poor.

However, everyone still has to welcome this kind of thing as giving out red envelopes during the New Year, after all, it is an auspicious picture, not that they fancy the little money in the red envelopes.

This time, the red envelope that Zhang Mei sent to everyone was empty.

A few people couldn't help but feel very surprised, looking at each other and wondering which one this was playing?

"Mom, did you forget to stuff money into it?" Fan Wuxian stretched out the empty red envelope, and asked his mother Zhang Mei from the entrance of the hole.

Dad Fan Heng coughed, and then said sternly, "Well, helping others is the foundation of happiness, and the rules have changed a little this year." In previous years, you used to collect red envelopes, but now that you have all started a family, this red envelope should be changed to a feedback type. ”

"What do you mean?" Fan Kang scratched his head and asked.

"In the future, our family will have a theme activity every year, and this year's theme is student assistance, so you all put some money in it, which can be regarded as our family's support for education this year." Zhang Mei explained on the side.

"Your mother and I haven't touched a penny of our salary this year, we just stuffed it in, and you look at it a little bit, anyway, it's all a heart, and tomorrow through the relevant channels, it will be sent to the place where it is most needed."

"Oh, this is something to support, generosity, it's a traditional virtue." Fan Kang first expressed his approval.

Fan Wuxian thought about it and said, "Oh, anyway, there is a lot of windfall this year, so that's it, my parents are throwing bricks and bricks, of course we can't be stingy, how about adding four zeros to my parents' donation?" ”

Fan Kang counted with his fingers, and then said in surprise, "Oh? Isn't that going to be hundreds of millions? ”

"Four zeros!" Zhang Mei immediately smiled and said, "It's a total of 2.2 billion, let's sign the order!" ”

"So many?! When did your wages go up?! Fan Wuxian was also taken aback, and said in his heart, the salary of his parents didn't seem to be so high before, right?

"I've included the money I won from playing mahjongβ€”" Mom said with an unchanging face.

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