Chapter 1687 A New Beginning
Chapter 1687 A new beginning
"Comrade Zhang Jianxiang, is this Longshan Village under your district's jurisdiction? Compared with African refugee camps, isn't this place inferior? I really don't know how you became the district party secretary and secretary?" There was a smile in the corner of his eyes. Tears, Zhao Jianhui turned his head, looked at Zhang Jianxiang and asked.
"Secretary Zhao, actually... we have done a lot of work on this matter, but the people in Longshan Village are stubborn and have problems with their ideas. The whole village is lazy and the poverty alleviation funds allocated by the district have been lost. They bought food..." Zhang Jianxiang glared at Liu Jun fiercely and thought to himself, "Will you die if you don't say a few words?" Let's settle this account when we go back.
"Secretary Zhao, I think you should lose your temper after seeing the school in the village..." The more you didn't want him to speak, but this damn guy actually said this again.
"Lead the way, let's go over and have a look." Zhao Jianhui snorted and followed Liu Jun towards the primary school in the village.
Longshan Primary School in the middle of the village is just a dozen or so dilapidated stone houses, surrounded by low courtyard walls made of gravel. On a bamboo pole more than ten meters high, one side is almost rotten. Flag of cloth strip.
In the first-grade class, the teacher was teaching the children to learn Pinyin in Mandarin word by word. When they heard the voices outside the window, the children looked out curiously, while still chattering: "These people must be They are from the city. Look at the glasses those people wear are all gold-rimmed..."
The female teacher who was writing on the blackboard turned around and shouted: "Quiet!" At this time, Mandarin changed into the local dialect again.
"I have to say that these teachers are very dedicated." Liu Jun looked at Zhao Jianhui and then said: "All the 301 students in this school are from the same village, and the teachers are also locals. They are helpless. Families with TVs in the village cannot More than 1/20, the Internet is a new thing, native-born Teachers have little exposure to the outside world. Many teachers stay in school to teach after graduating from elementary school. They have only obtained a diploma after teaching for many years. They have long missed the best period of learning Mandarin. Why? Where are the good students I can teach?" After saying this, Liu Jun smiled bitterly and shook his head.
In fact, there was one sentence he didn't say. Even this half-native Mandarin is not something that all school-age children are lucky enough to learn. Although all children in the district have been exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees, some families lack labor and some children have already taken on the burden of supporting their families prematurely. Even hearing this kind of "Mandarin" is a luxury, because they have to get up before dawn to work in the rice fields...
This is not to say that all parents of children do not know the benefits of going to school, but after graduating from primary school, children in the village must go to the town to attend middle school. For the two junior high schools in the town, the boarding fee is 200 yuan per semester and the food fee is 20 yuan per week (provided that you bring your own dry food). This money has become a heavy burden.
More than ten years have passed, and except for the paving of cement on the loess road leading to the village, the village has basically not changed at all. They speak pure local Mandarin, and it has become a "habit" to drop out of junior high school before graduating.
There are 908 households with 3,957 people in Longshan Village, of which 468 households with 2,021 people are below the poverty line, with a poverty rate of over 51%. According to World Bank statistics, the overall poverty rate in the country was about 52% 30 years ago. In other words, the living standard here is still stuck in the 1980s!
Compared with the economic status of Southern Guangdong Province, which leads the country's economic leader, Longshan Village is simply a shame for Southern Guangdong Province. But who can be blamed for all this? Is it really because the villagers here are not living up to their expectations?
Behind their "misfortune" is the ill-fated education in Longshan Village. Education has been underinvested for many years. There are 13 teachers in the school, two of whom share a desk and work in the same classroom. There is no teachers’ dormitory in the entire school, so teachers from outside the school can only live in dilapidated buildings, and teachers from nearby schools can only work as “teachers”.
All the school's financial resources are limited to education funds allocated by the government, which is 144 yuan per student per semester, totaling more than 40,000 yuan. After deducting the fees for teachers’ textbooks, student test papers and other expenses, the remaining money can only be used “one cent at a time”.
After school, all students participated. Teaching tools such as cylinders and compasses were all made by 13 teachers from Longshan Primary School.
Once, the teacher used a homemade compass to draw a circle on the blackboard, but the students said it looked like an "egg"; when a homemade protractor was used in math class, the math teacher measured "different degrees" every time.
There is no sports ground, computer room, or language room. In fact, strictly speaking, Longshan Primary School does not even have walls. The safety of 301 children worries the principal Li Deshan more than test scores.
Even now, students still don’t have “official” toilets. An open-air dilapidated house with walls and no roof stands next to the school. After students urinate here, the urine flows directly into the farmland along the holes under the wall. If students need to defecate, they can only go to the woods nearly 100 meters away from the school. But only on sunny days. When it rains, I have to hold it in. Over time, there was too much poop in the woods - "You can't enter it, you will step on it if you are not a child." Principal Li Deshan said, "Now as long as there is something to cover it, students will deal with it on the spot. In the past, senior girls were still shy. I’m used to it now…”
Facing the senior cadres who didn't know where they came from, although he was still a little cautious, Principal Li finally said what he needed to say very clearly.
Principal Li said that there is a huge "gap" between their teaching quality and that of primary school students in big cities. What worries him more is that sooner or later, children on both sides of the "gap" will compete on the same scale. On the surface, Longshan’s “primary to junior high school” enrollment rate reaches 100%. However, children in rural areas go to school late. It is "still early" to enter first grade at the age of 8. Most of them are over 16 years old when they enter junior high school. Compulsory education is normative education and must follow common norms. However, the personality development of people after the age of 15 "blows out", and rebellious psychology appears. "If you are 18 years old and still in the third grade of junior high school, it will be difficult to find the sense of accomplishment that children of normal age should have, and dropping out of school is inevitable."
The villagers' logic is: if they go to school too early, they will not be able to work after graduating from junior high school. There are currently about 130 people studying in junior high school in Longshan Village, but more than 100 of them will drop out before completing three years of junior high school.
As a result, batches of older junior high school students who spoke pure local Mandarin dropped out of school and walked out of their homes to follow the path of their parents. No matter how many difficulties there are in reality, they cannot stop their desire for the outside world. However, batches of Longshan people who went out still returned home with tears like their fathers after struggling for a year or two outside.
Take the calculation of the salary of a child named Ashan who works outside. His piece rate salary is 1,135 yuan + 300 yuan food subsidy = 1,435 yuan. He works a total of 25 days in a month and works 11.5 hours a day. Not counting overtime pay, Ashan’s daily salary is 1,135 yuan. The income per hour is: 1435÷25÷11.5=5 yuan.
The current monthly minimum wage standard in Fofeng City is 1,100 yuan. Based on working 22 days a month and 8 hours a day, the hourly minimum wage standard is 6.25 yuan. In other words, Ashan's salary for part-time work is already lower than the current minimum wage standard in Fofeng City. If overtime pay is included, the salary level will be even lower.
And Ah Shan is not the only person working outside Longshan Village with such a low salary. Ashan himself said that there are a total of 6 people in his group and about 30 people in the large group. The average salary in March is about 1,100 to 1,300 yuan. Except for the group leaders and supervisors, all the employees in the factory basically get this. number.
People like him are considered good, but more people in Longshan can only take over the hoe from their fathers, get married and have children, and live a poor and ordinary life.
This is a vicious circle. Although everyone knows it, there is no strong hand to break it.
"Zhang Jianxiang, Liu Jun, I suggest that you convene a standing committee in this school now and come up with a feasible plan. You have no idea how to lead the villagers to get rich, but how to solve the problem of children going to school, you can't and don't have it. What's the solution? I'll just wait here..." After Zhao Jianhui finished speaking, he took out a cigarette and gave it to Principal Li: "I'm sorry, Principal Li, I'm too bureaucratic to know that your school is still like this today. It looks like..."
"Hey, it's a good smoke. You'll know it when you smell it..." It seems that Principal Li is also an old smoker. He took the cigarette given by Zhao Jianhui and put it under his nose, smelled it, and took out the lighter with a smile. He clicked on it, took a nice puff, and then said: "Leader? Are you from the city? Our requirements are really not high. As long as we build a few sturdy tile-roofed houses for our students and build a toilet for the teachers, we will be satisfied. When it is cloudy and rainy, the children can be blocked and solved on the spot. Those of us who are teachers are really embarrassed to do this..."
Looking at Li Deshan's simple face, Zhao Jianhui's eyes became moist again. He nodded heavily, held his hand and said: "Principal Li, don't worry, the leaders of the district are here, and they are meeting to study this matter now. If they can't solve it, I will live in I won’t leave here…”
With the personal attention of the Provincial Party Committee Secretary, Longshan Primary School finally entered the "cement era" two months later. On the day Zhao Jianhui returned to the provincial capital, Longshan Primary School was pushed to reconstruction... On June 28, 2013, Longshan Primary School's new teaching building of 308 square meters was completed.
The completion of this two-story concrete bungalow-style teaching building finally ended the 58-year "ancient" history of the old classroom of Longshan Primary School, a dozen tiled houses.
Of course, these are all things for later. Zhao Jianhui returned to the provincial capital and was very busy. All his energy was spent on launching a new leadership evaluation system. In this document, Zhao Jianhui finally decided to use Dongkang District as a pilot to implement the cadre appointment system. As expected, the proposal of this system has attracted everyone's attention and discussion, including the incomprehension and resistance from some of Zhao Jianhui's political allies.
That night, Zhao Jianhui wrote furiously on his desk and wrote down a famous saying of the revolutionary martyrs: "The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard."
The book is finished, but the story is not the end. There will be several chapters published one chapter at a time. Friends who don’t want to read it can see this as the end, and friends who are willing to continue watching it can continue watching it for a few more days. The story of the security guard has been written to this point. In fact, due to the restrictions of the protagonist's position, he cannot write any more, but You Long always feels that there is more to it. Maybe I will write a few extra chapters to explain some people and things that I didn't have time to explain clearly in the book, but now my mind is so confused that I don't even know where to start. If I want to be lazy and rest for a while, maybe I won't Wrote. But no matter what, I will remind everyone when the time comes.
This book was first published on Kanshurim