Rebirth of the Wild Age

: Three hundred and forty【Rural survey】

   Where is Song Weiyang?

   We set the time back two months ago.

  The title of the graduation thesis selected by Song Weiyang was originally "Survey on the Purchasing Power of Chinese Villages, Towns and Rural Areas." After consulting social science magazines in the library and obtaining market survey data from Xifeng, he changed the title to "Research on the Relationship between the Decline of Purchasing Power in Chinese Villages, Towns and Rural Areas and Insufficient Domestic Demand in China".

   After Song Weiyang stayed in the countryside for a month, he didn't know what to write. There were so many questions that he couldn't finish writing a paper.

   Song Weiyang's first survey target was the hometown of bodyguard Hong Weiguo, an ordinary small village in the central region.

   Borrowed a van from the Xifeng sales branch in the provincial capital, Song Weiyang and Hong Weiguo took turns to drive for 18 hours. From the national road to the county road and then to the village road, the van was almost shaken away and finally arrived at the destination of this trip.

  The seedlings in the fields are lush, and the growth is gratifying. The wheat in the mountains is about to head. This year, the weather will be smooth and there should be a good harvest.

   The village road was flattened out by the farmers themselves and paved with many gravel blocks. However, it had just rained two days ago, and the road surface was pressed into a deep trench by the wheels of the tractor. Together with the rain washed away, it turned into large and small puddles.

   Sometimes the puddle is too deep and the van is stuck in the pit and cannot get out, so the villagers can only be asked to help the cart.

   "One, two, three, hey, put more effort, go!"

   Farmers are simple, at least for the moment. I helped push several pits along the way, everyone was covered with mud, but they didn't bother to ask Song Weiyang for money. In their opinion, if the clothes are dirty, they can go home and wash them. It doesn't matter if they sell their strength. Anyway, they have strength.

   The van drove to the village canteen and stopped, Hong Wei National Road: "You can only park the car here. It takes a few ridges to get to my house and then a small col."

   "Then get out of the car and walk," Song Weiyang took out a banknote and shouted to the owner of the commissary, "Bring out two sodas, everyone is tired. I will treat you and each will give out two bottles."

   The shop owner smiled and said, "Okay!"

   The farmers smiled honestly: "The boss is generous, it's not a big deal to push a car."

   "Weiguo, is this boss a foreigner?" Hong Weiguo's fourth uncle asked.

Song Weiyang took out a packet of Hongtashan, and everyone sent one. He smiled and said, "I am not a boss, I am a market investigator from Xifeng Company. I came to the countryside to do business surveys. By the way, Xifeng Company. The drink, isn’t it sold in your village?"

   The shop owner said, "Don't even mention the village, there are only one or two in the town. The iced tea and Coke from Xifeng cost more than two yuan a bottle, and the farmers are reluctant to buy it. I can't sell the goods when I get them back in."

   Song Weiyang pointed to the glass bottles of soda and asked, "Is this your own property?"

   "It is produced by the county soda factory," said the owner of the commissary. "The wholesale price of this soda is only 2 cents. I bought it and sold it for 2.5 cents."

   Song Weiyang asked: "Boss, when did you start your business?"

   "This shop has been open for more than ten years." The shop owner put the cigarette on.

   "How's the business?" Song Weiyang asked.

The owner of the commissary said: “The goods used to be sold better, but it’s not easy to buy. Now it’s easy to buy, but you can’t sell it. Let’s say beer soda, which can only be bought when the farmers are busy planting seedlings and threshing rice. Whoever has the spare money to waste what."

   Song Weiyang asked: "Do farmers have money before?"

"Of course," the shop owner laughed. "In eight years or so, farmers were the richest. It was enough to pay only 50 catties of grain per mu of land. At that time, they were very active in paying public grain and rushed to contribute to the country. There is still a lot of public grain left. You can sell it to the grain station for money. The farmer has spare money. Now you have to pay a few hundred catties of grain for an acre. Make money?"

   Song Weiyang asked: "What are the specific agricultural taxes?"

The commissary owner said: "There are so many three mentions and five unifications. It is different every year, let alone me. I guess the leaders of the town can't figure out how much agricultural tax is paid. For example, 100 yuan grew out of the soil before. For the grain, 90 yuan belongs to the farmers. Now, if the farmers can save 20 or 30 yuan, they should wake up with laughter."

   "Except for the land?" Song Weiyang asked.

   The owner of the canteen said: “In the past, we used to raise pigs and plant trees by ourselves. Now we charge taxes for selling pigs, and we also charge taxes for cutting trees. The most annoying thing is village-run enterprises!”

   Song Weiyang smiled and said, "There are still companies in your village."

The owner of the commissary said: “It was opened more than ten years ago, and everyone raised money. This one is 10 yuan, that one is 20 yuan, and the rich can collect a few hundred yuan. The company belongs to everyone, and the money earned is distributed according to shares. During the Chinese New Year, the splitting of money was very lively. Later, it didn't work. The company didn't belong to everyone, it was in the village. It became a big pot of rice, and some of the money earned would be taken away by the town. Who did it? The factory collapsed. "

   Hong Weiguo explained: "I know the factory in the village. The real reason for the collapse is that the products cannot be sold."

   Song Weiyang asked: "Where are the products sold before?"

   Hong Weiguo said: “The customers are all farmers when they are sold to the nearby villages and towns fairs. Later, the farmers didn’t have spare money, so fewer people bought the products.”

   Song Weiyang remained silent, but a few words revealed that the market collapsed in China's rural areas.

   China's rural reform began in 1978. The next ten years were the golden age of rural development, and it became the era in which the income of farmers was closest to that of urban residents in China's thousands of years of history-unprecedented.

  In the past ten years, rural areas, farmers and agriculture have promoted the prosperity of China's economy~www.wuxiamtl.com~Farmers have ample food, and countless townships and village-run enterprises have been set up. At that time, although the state's financial resources were not abundant, it not only allocated funds for new water conservancy projects, but also helped rural areas build a medical insurance system and an education system.

   But after 1987, the finances were divided into kitchens and the powers were decentralized. The township government was responsible for all matters in the rural areas. Even the expenses of the military and martyrs were not allocated by the city and above. The actual result was transferred to the peasants. Rural areas, including roads, electricity, telephones, and school building, all rely on farmers to raise funds, but after farmers pay, the property rights of these things are not farmers'.

   Then came the tax reform in 1994. The local government had no money, so the city and county level also made money from the farmers, and the rural burden increased exponentially.

   Rural villages, farmers, seem to be forgotten all at once.

   Song Weiyang's original purpose for this paper was because Xifeng's products can only be sold at the county level, and the income of the village market is almost zero. He discovered from those data that the rural economy in China was collapsing. At this time, there were 900 million farmers. These 900 million farmers lost their purchasing power. What else is there to talk about stimulating domestic demand?

   There is no right to speak without investigation. Through some communication with the owner of the commissary, Song Weiyang discovered that the rural reform in the 1990s did not slow down as he imagined, but accelerated!

   The speed of rural reforms far exceeds that of urban reforms and state-owned enterprise reforms, but the direction of rural reforms has gone backwards.

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