Chapter 1325 Rural Current Situation
"The village is raising funds to build a road. How much should we donate?"
At night, after playing crazy, Xiao Wenchen was already asleep. Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya also went to bed.
"Just give according to the village's fundraising standards, and count our father and Grandpa Xuan's share. Then donate another 100,000 yuan, that's all."
"It's almost what I thought." Zhou Ya nodded, "However, raising funds to build roads to increase traffic is right for Yangjia Village.
But my mother called me before and said that Xiaowu and Daliang took the lead in raising funds to build roads. I understand the development of urban and rural areas in China. It seems that simply building roads is not enough. After all, Yangjia Village is not on the main road and has no geographical advantage. Moreover, it is only the village chief, not a township. It has natural shortcomings."
At present, the development of urban and rural areas in China has actually shown signs of later generations. For example, after the Chinese New Year, the entire countryside is almost empty. Only when the summer harvest, autumn harvest and Chinese New Year are over, can the traffic become active.
The market in Yangjia Village is good. Although it is no longer on the main road, there is an asphalt road connecting the main road. In addition, people in Yangji Village rarely go out to work, and people in nearby villages and towns do not have to go out to work to earn less by growing herbs.
Therefore, the flow of people in the market is still good throughout the year, and the farther towns and villages. Farmers no longer go out to work to survive in their hometowns. Basically, after the New Year, the people leave, and the market like Yangjia Village is empty in an instant. Except for the elderly and left-behind children, no one can be seen. This business is naturally not good.
So many shops have to close and wait until the end of the year to open, which forms a vicious circle. When rural people go to work in big cities, some people will no longer return to their hometowns during the holidays after their jobs are fixed. The rural population begins to flow out on a large scale, not to mention the market, the entire rural market will decline rapidly.
"It's not enough to just build roads. First of all, growing herbs brings income, and rural people stay in the countryside. This provides a foundation for the flow of people in the market.
But if we want better development, in addition to building roads, we also need to build a primary school, preferably a middle school, and even better if we can have a high school.
Finally, we need to build a hospital with good supporting facilities, which can be considered as complete basic facilities. In this way, even if Yangjia Village is no longer on the main lines of some provincial and municipal roads, with these basics, the flow of people is not bad." Yang Dongxu said.
"Merge villages and towns? I seem to have heard that someone above has proposed this idea, and a meeting has been held to study it. But the merger of villages and towns should also be merged with Wuli Town, right?"
"It's not just a merger of villages and towns. Simply merging villages and towns without an economic foundation and failing to increase the source of income for farmers is wrong.
We can only say that we are developing Yangjia Village to the size of a town. After all, from the perspective of distance alone. Yangjia Village is a certain distance away from Wuli Village, so there is room for development.
Although we are not close to the main road, there is a river and it is possible to build a dock. So even if we don't merge the town level of Wuli Village into Yangjia Village, it is not impossible to simply develop Yangjia Village to the size of a town without the administrative level."
"So you are going to invest?" Zhou Ya looked at her husband.
Yang Dongxu rubbed his chin and pondered: "It can't be considered an investment, it's just an idea. For example, if we expand the Robinia River to form a better waterway, this city and the cities upstream and downstream will definitely support it. After all, this can also be regarded as increasing the driving force for urban development.
As for schools, Huaxia University has been developing its own affiliated middle school and even attached primary school in recent years. It doesn't seem abrupt to build one in Yangjia Village.
After all, we are surrounded by herbal medicines. Yangjia Village has such a foundation, right? At that time, in addition to studying cultural courses, children can also go to the fields to see the planting and harvesting of Chinese medicines with their own eyes.
So the biggest problem here is actually the hospital. After all, the hospital must have its own environmental protection system and underground drainage and sewage treatment system, etc., so as not to cause pollution to the surrounding land and prevent the spread of some unnecessary germs.
Such facilities are only available in cities, and even towns are a little worse. Not to mention Yangjia Village, which is not even a town."
Yang Dongxu knows too well the speed of rural population loss in the future. The idiom "nine out of ten houses are empty" is a bit exaggerated when used in this matter. But if the house is replaced by a person, this idiom is not exaggerated at all.
In short, at the beginning of the year, the elderly are the ones who stay in the countryside. Some families with poor conditions leave their children behind, and those who work outside and have a stable environment will take their children to receive better education.
In recent years, although the countryside is still very lively during the summer harvest and the Spring Festival, don't forget that Yangjia Village is a market. If you go to other villages, you will find that many families have given their land to other people to grow crops and only come back once at the end of the year.
Occasionally, there will be people who don't come back at the end of the day, or even for several consecutive years, and the number of people who don't come back is increasing every year.
He has experienced it personally. At the beginning, he couldn't get involved in the game and could only sit on the side and watch the fun. As a result, more than ten years later, he couldn't get enough hands to play cards together, and half of the families locked their doors and didn't turn on the lights during the Spring Festival.
And the reason for this is a very accurate summary of a sentence on the Internet in later generations: "My hometown can't accommodate my flesh, and my foreign land can't settle my soul."
In summary, it is to make money and live.
So if we want Yangjia Village to continue to prosper and be as lively as it is now, the only way is to make the output here higher than working outside. If we can solve the food and clothing and living consumption of the whole family in our hometown, no one likes to leave their hometown.
In the morning, Yang's mother started to load things into the trunk, complaining that the sedan looked good, but the ability to carry goods was really incomparable to that of a pickup truck.
Apart from other things, only half of the pork that was killed first was put in, and basically there was no space in the trunk.
Before the New Year, every relative visited each other. This was a rule formed since Yang Dongxu was able to make money. It was not to show off how well he lived, but Yang's mother wanted to help his relatives at the beginning.
In fact, although Yang Dongxu had no worries about food when he was a child, his material life was far less rich than it is now. Children like to visit relatives because they can have a good meal. But adults don't want to visit relatives for fear of burdening others.
Since Yang Dongxu started making money, every year at the beginning of the year, Yang's mother would buy a lot of things, go back to her parents' home first, then visit a few sisters' homes, and give some things to friends, hoping that they would have a better year.
So this rule was set, especially when Yang Dongxu just had money, he was afraid that his parents would not be willing to spend money on food and clothing, so he saved the money he gave them, so he started to bring new year goods home in trucks. Things will go bad if they are not eaten, so parents can eat more.
"Mom, don't put the fish in it. My little sister will go there soon, and she must have brought a lot of fish." Seeing that the trunk was basically filled with gifts, and Yang's mother still had two big fish in her hands and had nowhere to put them, Yang Dongxu said.
"Year after year, year after year, is it reasonable to give gifts without fish? Your little sister gave it to her, we can give less, but we must not give it." Yang's mother glanced at her ignorant son.
Yang Dongxu touched his nose and stopped talking. Seeing that Xiao Wenchen was having a lot of fun using a bamboo stick as a sword, he went up and slapped his butt twice.
"Go play over there. You're so close to the car. If you get scratched, I'll have to punish you, you loser."
Xiao Wenchen stared at his father blankly. Although he had a reason to be beaten, he always felt that his father was venting his anger on him.
However, the child was tough and wore more clothes in winter. Anyway, it didn't hurt much, so after looking at his father outside, he took the sword and walked towards the intersection.
While there was still some time before visiting relatives, he was going to compete with his friends in swordsmanship. Yesterday, he learned two moves from the hero that the grandfather liked to watch.
"Dongxu, did you see where the clothes I bought for grandpa and grandma were placed? And the non-slip snow shoes." Zhou Ya's voice came from the room.
Although the older generation can wear a new set of clothes for several years, every time they go to bring clothes and shoes, grandma and grandpa say it is a waste. But they would buy clothes every year. Sometimes Yang's mother bought them when she went to the county town, and sometimes Yang Dongxu and Zhou Ya bought them and brought them back.
"Look at the black box for clothes. When Ran Feifei and you packed your luggage, she put the clothes of the little grandpa and his family directly into the red box and took them away. The clothes of grandpa and grandma seemed to be put into the black box.
The box for shoes is not in the old house, but in the suitcase in the room on the street. When you just came back, you bought shoes for the family and prepared to share them. Did you forget to take the box over directly?"
Sometimes women are a little flustered when looking for things. In fact, it's not that they really forgot, but they just forgot in a hurry.
There are gifts for grandma and grandpa, and of course there must be gifts for grandpa and grandma, as well as for my uncle's family. So sometimes the clothes and shoes are given to someone in a suitcase, and sometimes the shoes and clothes are packed separately, and then they are unpacked and divided one by one when they return home.
"There are still a few bags of clothes and shoes. How about changing to a pickup truck?" Yang Dongxu said as he watched his mother put the fish aside and began to organize the trunk, trying to squeeze out a little space to put the fish in.
"It's not good to drive a broken pickup truck during the New Year. You have nothing to do. Stay away." Yang's mother said impatiently without even raising her head.
Yang Dongxu left tactfully and went to the street to get the shoes. By the way, he looked at where the naughty boy Xiao Wenchen had gone. There were many people on the street at the end of the year. The boy was still in front of him, but he disappeared in a flash.