Volume 20 Looking at the World with Cold Eyes, Section 64 Poverty Alleviation
Tan Weifeng also nodded silently. When he arrived in Changxi Prefecture, he truly realized how difficult it was to get rid of poverty and become rich in this area.
He first went to Changxi Prefecture to serve as the deputy secretary of the prefecture party committee and the secretary of the Changxi Municipal Party Committee. Changxi's conditions are the best in Changxi Prefecture. After all, it is the location of the prefecture. However, as the capital of Changxi Prefecture, the GDP of Changxi City is not even worthy of Songzhou Suqiao, Sui'an or Lucheng, and the fiscal revenue is even more terrible. After arriving in Changxi, he deeply realized how big the gap between backward and developed areas is. This developed area only refers to the developed areas of Changjiang Province, and it has not dared to say that it is a developed coastal area. Even after so many years of development, the GDP of Changxi Prefecture is still not as good as that of Songzhou's district and county, and it is not even a top district and county in Songzhou, and it is not even a medium-sized county. The distance between these developed areas makes people feel despair.
For Changxizhou, the biggest task now is to get rid of poverty, but how to get rid of poverty? If you want to write experience in poverty alleviation into a book, Tan Weifeng can at least write a classic like the four classics. However, no matter how many strategies to get rid of poverty, you have to combine the actual situation, develop multiple economies according to local conditions, land transfer, company joining farmers, ecological agriculture, organic agriculture, high-end agriculture, tourism resource development, win-win cooperation, what focus is on cultivating and building advantageous industries, what increase the labor output of vocational training, all of which can list many successful cases, but if you say a thousand words, you will have to implement the specific actual situation of Changxizhou, how to seek development?
This is the case in Changxi Prefecture. The mountainous areas, road traffic facilities are lagging behind, the ideological and folk customs are closed and backward, and there are no mineral resources with mining value. They also belong to the mixed areas of ethnic minorities and Han ethnic groups. They have borrowed a lot of money in terms of investment in various infrastructures and education, medical and cultural aspects. This has greatly restricted the development of Changxi Prefecture.
It can be said that the past twenty years before the reform and opening up, Changxi Prefecture and other regions were more and more than twenty years away from other regions. Even as Lei Zhihu said in recent years, they thought that the team of the provincial party committee and prefecture teams were working together. Everyone was thinking about the same thing and started together. The cadres below could not say that they had not done their work or worked hard. Changxi Prefecture's development was relatively fast, but it seemed that the gap with neighboring cities still widened, and the state's financial situation was still tight every year. I dreamed that there would be a large investor to bring several major projects. This taste really formed a strong contrast for Lei Zhihu and Tan Weifeng, the secretary and governor who had served as the county party secretary in Suqiao.
I remember that there was really no shortage of investment projects in Suqiao, and the projects that came in had to be screened. Not only were they strictly prohibited from taking over high-pollution projects, but even some leading industrial projects that were not in line with the county's planning would be stuck. I would rather recommend them to other districts and counties, but in Changxi Prefecture, there was a project with investment of several million yuan. All the leaders of the state had to accompany them and watch them, fearing that the cooked ducks would fly. For smaller projects, the projects with a smaller size of tens of millions were all personally involved in Lei Zhihu and Tan Weifeng. Even if they could not be arrested personally, at least they would have to arrange for executive vice governors or cadres at the Standing Committee level to follow. This is the gap.
Lei Zhihu also discussed the dialectical unity of poverty alleviation and economic development with Tan Weifeng, and it also involves the dialectical unity of not only green mountains and rivers, but also people to get rich. The dialectical unity of the former is easy to say, while the dialectical unity of the latter is some test students. In areas like Changxizhou, where the economic foundation is relatively poor, you have to rely on projects of high-tech emerging industries to be implemented here. It is not realistic in itself, and some industries transferred from coastal areas have more or less problems, either high energy consumption, high pollution, or they are backward industries that have been eliminated. For the state, there seems to be no choice. If you don’t accept it, people will go to other places, and some places are willing to accept it. In this case, it is a torment for people.
"Secretary Lei, the central government should also realize this. The transfer payments to poor areas are also increasing, but in general, it is not enough, and it is far from enough." Tan Weifeng also sighed, "The backwardness in poor areas has both historical reasons and practical difficulties. It is said that it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. In poor areas, people should also teach people how to fish, but how can this teach people how to fish? Capital also needs to be rewarded. You say that you want to take the project here to implement it. You don't have qualified skilled labor, second, insufficient energy guarantee, third, no good transportation basic conditions, and others will have to benefit. You have all kinds of costs. How can others make money? Even if you come reluctantly, you will see that you can't make money, he will still leave."
"Yes, so this is why we teach people how to fish. First of all, we have to have good fishing nets in backward areas, so that we can talk about how to teach people how to fish. If there is no fishing net, no matter how good you teach fishing skills, we are empty-handed. How can we fish?" Lei Zhihu continued, his tone was even heavier, "But how can we get fishing nets? We don't even have the ability and materials to weave fishing nets now, so we have to rely on the central and provincial support. First, we can have a few fishing nets that can beat the fish and support ourselves. Then we can learn to weave nets by ourselves, and then develop to weave nets with better results. This is how to say that the market is a virtuous cycle, otherwise everything will be empty talk, like Wei
Feng, what you said just now, qualified skilled labor requires increasing investment in education. Ten years of trees and a hundred years of cultivation. Our basic education requires investment, and vocational education requires more investment. Energy guarantee. Our Changxi Prefecture is not short of energy, especially hydropower resources. The problem is that our hydropower resources are scattered and require multiple investments. To develop these hydropower resources, road traffic in the early stage requires investment. This is not suitable in terms of cost, and this becomes a deadlock. The improvement of basic transportation conditions cannot be solved by our state-level finance, and even the provincial-level finance cannot fully support it. This requires the central government's comprehensive consideration."
"After all, in the end, it is still the investment problem. The reason why backward areas are backward is just these problems: one is the investment in education and the other is the investment in transportation. These two investments are big problems. In the event that local finance cannot solve the problem, the central government must consider this problem." Tan Weifeng agreed: "Only by solving the most basic bottleneck problem, we backward areas can be said to be on the benign track of development."
The discussion between the two continued until they arrived at the place they had made an appointment with Lu Weimin.
Lu Weimin chose to be a business club near the Ministry of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Lu Weimin was still a little surprised at the joint visit between Lei Zhihu and Tan Weifeng. Although these two people were in contact when they were working in Landao, they did not have such a way to visit them. Perhaps because they felt that they were working in the central government? But Lu Weimin did not think that he could work in the Central Political Research Office or the Central Political Department, which was related to local work.
Lu Weimin arrived first and opened a business-type private room, which was actually a small reception room. In such a club where meetings often received, there were many such small reception rooms, which were simple and generous, but also equipped with all the equipment.
"Zhihu, Weifeng, it's been a long time since we've seen you two. Look at the work in Changxizhou, you can feel relieved." Seeing Lei Zhihu and Tan Weifeng come in, Lu Weimin smiled and joked from afar.
"Director Lu, do you think we are red and refreshing? Changxizhou has a beautiful environment and fresh air. It may lack the atmosphere of a big city, but it is of great benefit to health care."
Lei Zhihu is not Wu Xia Among, he is calm and generous, and it is just right to deal with Lu Weimin's jokes. Tan Weifeng has to restrain himself a lot, just nodding with a smile, but this restraint can better reflect the other party's ability.
"Haha, Zhihu, just by your words, I know you have resentment in your stomach. I have to remind you first, I am only the deputy director of the Central Political Research Office and the deputy director of the Universal Department of the CPC Central Committee. Don't think that this position is in charge of policy research. You should understand this meaning. Moreover, the work I am in charge of is also focused on foreign and domestic affairs, and there are special leaders responsible for it." Lu Weimin could also feel something.
"Director Lu, we are here to give advice. We understand that the central think tank cannot be said to be limited to one corner, right? Which aspect is also related to the overall situation, right?" Lei Zhihu ignored Lu Weimin's vaccination and said to himself: "We are here this time, first, to visit your old leader, and second, to report the truth to your old leader. You came to Changjiang for inspection, but did not come to our Changxi Prefecture. We must also know the specific difficulties of our Changxi Prefecture. Weifeng and I are planning to tell you about these difficulties."
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