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February 16, 2010 at 9:25 am
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From the bottom of Xianyang
Apple is no longer the cash cow the villagers (Xue Fang)
The cells of a country village, any policy, macro-control, if cells can feel that strength is great.
Shaanxi by the natural geographical environment is divided into three large, south of the Qinling Mountains in southern Shaanxi, as related in the Weihe Plain, the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. My home is 800 years Guanzhong Plain of Shaanxi and, 800 in Qinchuan called "Mi Liangchuan." "30 acres of land, a cow, a wife doll white picket fence," is that people in the past a vivid portrayal of life comfortable.
Today, the "meet", "comfortable" on the Xianyang Liquan Consciousness in South fangzhen in four groups are more than 300 villagers, seem to be the term of the last century.
This small village in history, there have been triumphs and there have been lost.
Village from its brilliant location, at the end of the Weihe Plain, with hilly landscape features, higher than 1,500 meters above sea level, so, here planted fruit (mainly apples) high in sugar.
Memory, in my elementary school and middle school, Apple's price is climbing, the most brilliant, Apple 3 dollars a pound. At that time the village, each household's annual income from one million to hundreds of thousands range. It now appears that this money is not that much, but for such a village, it spawned a number of phenomena.
Not canceled then forestry tax, as Apple prices rose year by year, forestry tax, prices are rising year by year, the maximum time an acre of land required to pay 600 to 700 yuan of tax, therefore, when the government from village to town government to the very wealthy county.
Take our village for more than 300 villages, most of the time officers, 8. Village organization officials to travel, there are various shops and tourism, the most exaggerated when the village's 30 million deficit. There are many claims in the village is also very popular, such as officials got a little like the social disease.
In the village level, suddenly become rich, and many villagers spine are straight up, to County, to the city, province or even to buy things are never haggle. A while, in the county, the city, province, when shopping, only to speak and say that they are Liquan, that is certainly one piece object, if the South fangzhen, and that certainly is one piece dead.
In the village, the divorce rate has increased, gambling, losing tens of thousands of night when things are heard ... ... use the current of a catchphrase: the rich get only money.
Soon, the boom-bust days to. 1998 financial crisis, the price of apples into a parabola, the rapid decline, from a few dollars a pound into a few cents a pound, the income of the villagers by the Jiucheng. Reduction in revenue caused panic, rich people seem difficult to return to the previous day the poor.
Villagers eager to find out why the price of apples in the year for such a big change? How long this time? Apple prices next year will not return to previous levels? To discuss to discuss, not to discuss why they come out of one.
However, Apple sold each year to the season and usher are disappointed, disappointed year after year. Then some villagers began to cut off part of the fruit, since once he has planted wheat. However, wheat can only solve the problem of food and clothing, Apple's prices at the low end, can not let them back in time, live a prosperous life.
Was not willing to abandon the poor villagers become rich live, so they set off with the influx of workers. Men chosen building site, the girl went to the garment factories, restaurants. Some of the girls married to city people, for such people, the villagers are somewhat envious.
Migrant workers encounter problems in the city have also met the villagers, such as wages did not get live, such as on site as long as the young man, such as more than 40 years of age to go out to wage total is denied. Girls working in the city will encounter some problems increase with age, had a very realistic account of marital problems.
People from the village can not be reconciled with such a poor, they had been considering a variety of changes, also seek some kind of breakthrough, such as Apple's worthless, they try to change the trees, increased technical content, but only a few successful economic benefits; some villagers are trying to plant grapes, but grapes higher technical requirements.
The financial crisis in 2008 to abandon the land of the villagers had another cold heart pound of apples a penny, the price of a few kilograms Apple also thousands of dollars, even though the land tax and forestry tax relief already, but the count labor , pesticide, fertilizer costs, they are a year income is negative.
When the end of the year 2009, guarding the land of the villagers did not too disappointed, the price of Apple's more than 6 per catty hair, working outside the village also satisfied. Mother told me that she and her father last year, medical expenses are reimbursed sick a few. Always felt that the village is a national cell, any policy, macro-control, if the cell can feel that strength is great.
These years, my folks may not know what happened the level of large, but they have been in hard labor with, in the hope that the disappointment, the disappointment in the continued hope.
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