Chapter 147: Recommendations One by One
Treating the greenhouse project as a poverty alleviation project is an idea that Shen Yiyi has considered for a while. Many things, purely from the technical level, are originally very simple things. For example, if you grow vegetables, you will be able to grow them if you have soil, seeds, water and sunlight, and then take care of them according to the original growth laws of plants. So, there are no major problems in terms of technique at all. However, there are often no technical problems with a project, but there will be other factors to interfere with the implementation. One of these factors is economic, that is, the initial investment required for any project; The other is in the sociological sense, that is, the problem of the distribution of benefits. Economists like to speak of the sociological distribution of benefits as a problem that also falls under the umbrella of economics. However, Shen Yiyi believes that such a statement is certainly reasonable, but the problem of benefit distribution is more about something at the macro level.
In the later generations of China's economic development, an important economic and social indicator that successive governments have been focusing on in regulation and control is the Gini coefficient, that is, the problem of measuring the differentiation between the rich and the poor in the distribution of social wealth. At one point, China's Gini coefficient reached nearly 0.5, which belongs to the category of extremely unequal distribution of wealth. Later, the new leaders of the country before her unexpected arrival made great efforts to adjust the structure, in fact, part of the purpose was to reduce the Gini coefficient. The Gini coefficient at the bottom of her impression does seem to have dropped a little, and although it is still significantly higher than the 0.35 indicator that economists claim to achieve social stability, it still works. Of course, as a girl who studies science, Shen Yiyi is definitely not a person who sticks to this indicator like some well-known people on the Internet in later generations. In Shen Yiyi's view, some online celebrities who say that they must criticize China's development model with China's excessively high Gini coefficient are actually as ridiculous as some rotten Confucians in ancient times. As anyone who is not a major in economics, she can see that the Gini coefficient in the United States and China is very high. It shows that for a country with a large population and a large area, it is necessary to revise the Gini coefficient in the usual sense before evaluation. However, those so-called experts cling to some indicators in books and criticize China's development situation on the basis of them. In this regard, some people say that these people have ulterior motives, but in Shen Yiyi's eyes, these people may appear to have ulterior motives because of ignorance.
However, Shen Yiyi is not unaware of the widening gap between the rich and the poor. However, in a market economy environment of free competition, wealth is bound to be unevenly distributed. At the beginning of reform and opening up, one of the slogans was "break the big pot and liberate the productive forces", so uneven distribution was not a problem in the first place. What really deserves attention is definitely not the unequal distribution referred to by the Gini coefficient, but the so-called unfair distribution. Some Internet experts in later generations, whether because of their personal level limitations or ulterior motives, never made it clear about "uneven distribution" and "unfair distribution", which misled the public to a certain extent and created a kind of "hatred of the rich" mentality in society. In fact. This kind of mentality, like the seed of the opium poppy, is an absolute poison for the progress of the country and the nation.
Shen Yiyi believes in the law of distribution in the primary stage of socialism, that is, more work and more rewards. She thinks a good economic policy should be to give hard-working people the opportunity to increase their incomes. However, the value of labor is not measured by the amount of labor you pay, but by the amount of wealth you create. The allocation of resources under the market economy is precisely to guide workers to produce high-value commodities. It is also for this reason that the production of out-of-season vegetables has become a profitable business when there is a general shortage of green leafy vegetables in the winter in Tohoku.
Of course, because she herself lacks some basic means of production and resources. So of course she can't open a company like this on her own or make money on her own. However, this did not prevent her from contributing this idea to Qiao Benran, because she felt that if such a good idea could help others succeed. Then she will feel very happy, too.
Of course, with her actual personality, even if it is a good deed, she can see the benefits. She proposed to treat growing vegetables in greenhouses as a "poverty alleviation project", but in fact, she did it carefully. The first is that the city's annual agricultural budget is fixed, and it has already been headed. It is now difficult to get a new agricultural project on the back of government funding. But each municipality has a certain amount of poverty alleviation funds. The usual practice is to intercept a part of the stream layer by layer, and only a little is left at the end to send warmth to poor households during the New Year's holidays; However, in Shen Yiyi's view, this practice is purely blood sucking and no hematopoiesis. The use of poverty alleviation funds should be hematopoietic to help poor households achieve income growth and success through their own businesses. The achievement of poverty alleviation does not lie in the amount of poverty alleviation funds increased this year, but in the number of people who have been helped out of poverty. Grow vegetables in greenhouses as a poverty alleviation project. It is just a part of the problem of funding. Moreover, the vegetable production period is generally about one month, and the relative return of funds is also fast, which virtually increases the turnover speed of poverty alleviation funds. It can be said that the risk of using funds is also small.
Since we want to use poverty alleviation funds, we have to really start from poor counties. Shen Yiyi's idea was to find the poorest poor township to start with. Of course, this township has to be accessible by road, because the output of the demonstration greenhouse must be transported out in time. Usually, experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences go to guide them, and there are also traffic problems. Therefore, traffic factors cannot be left unconsidered. In addition, there are also requirements for the quality of township leaders. You may not be smart, but you must have a backbone. In Shen Yiyi's words, it is necessary to be a staunch Communist Party member. Many of the leaders of impoverished townships are limited by natural conditions, or their ideas cannot keep up with the trend of economic development. But none of this is a problem in this project. Because Shen Yiyi had already helped them figure out what to do and how to do it, all they needed was their persistence. But for a project to get rich, the leader must think about his own people, not just self-interest. Even if a selfish leader can lead the masses out of poverty at first, he will definitely fail the whole project because of the unfair distribution of benefits when he gets rich. Shen Yiyi had read many NGO poverty alleviation reports in her previous life, and she was very impressed.
In fact, the night before, Shen Yiyi was writing a "small paper" for the two old experts, as a form of rest, changed his brainstorming, wrote some of his own thoughts on this issue, and formed a dozen pages, mainly about his thoughts on the greenhouse vegetable planting project, and what he felt should be paid attention to. When she handed over the words to Qiao Chusheng, the joy in the latter's heart was overflowing. The young man thinks that Shen Yiyi cares about his father like this, which proves that the other party treats him differently in his heart. So he immediately said that he would go home and give it to his father.
So when Qiao Benran opened Shen Yiyi's "Poverty Alleviation Plan" in the study after dinner under his son's repeated reminders, he still felt very funny in his heart. He seemed to see the courtesy of a girl he admired when he was also at his son's age. However, as he watched the lines of the handwriting on the book unfold in front of his eyes, as more and more words leaped into his eyes, he couldn't help but admire the wisdom of this girl.
Shen Yiyi's analysis of the benefits of treating "greenhouse planting" as a "poverty alleviation project" can be described as divergent but logical. The analysis of the strengths and key tasks listed in the plan book also inspired him a lot. He could indeed see the need for such an operation. Even the little girl, in order to strengthen his conviction, focused on a theoretical concept at the end of the book, the so-called marginal utility. The principle of diminishing marginal utility is emphatically introduced. In fact, I also talked about this concept when I was studying in the party school, so I also have an impression. Therefore, it is easy for Qiao Benran to see that Shen Yiyi's annotation is actually biased. Because she just said that if the income of the villagers is 100 yuan, but it increases by 200 yuan, then the increase in income is 200%; But if the income is 1,000 yuan, but the increase is 200 yuan, the increase in income is only 20%, and the difference in this number has become an example of diminishing marginal effect in Shen Yiyi's mouth. He's secretly funny, so even if it's a prodigy, it's impossible to understand everything.
However, what Shen Yiyi wanted to express, Qiao Benran completely understood. In fact, he was also thinking about how to justifiably intervene in this greenhouse planting project during this time. Since after Shen Yiyi mentioned it one by one, he thought about it clearly during his return home for the New Year, this is indeed a project that can make political achievements, so with his political experience over the years, of course, he will not easily let go of such an opportunity. But after all, agriculture has never been in charge of itself, so how to get involved is a problem. And Shen Yiyi's plan mentioned that the project should be done as "poverty alleviation", but it suddenly gave him a revelation. Poverty alleviation happens to be an inconspicuous part of the work that the executive vice mayor is in charge of, and this just gives himself a clear reason to intervene. He thought about it for a while, sorted out his thoughts, and decided to go to Lao Meng tomorrow and blow the wind to him on this issue. Now that the Spring Festival has just passed, the winter in the Northeast is relatively long, and the spring comes relatively late. Among my achievements at the second session next year, one of them will depend on this. (To be continued......)
PS: What's that, everyone knows that the wind has been tighter recently.
So I'm writing cautiously now, for fear of stepping on thunder.
However, I feel that my three views on words are still very correct. So self-estimation is not a big problem.
Let's have a show.