When it comes to the countryside, there is really no end to talk about which has mixed reviews. China is a large agricultural country, the proportion of farmers is also very large. Today I want to talk to you about the rural elderly. In fact, the rural elderly can really say that they are the most laborious group of people. Especially for those who are above 70 years old, they have to rely on their own labor to solve the problem of food and clothing in the countryside. Unlike people in the city, over 60 years of age in the city, many of the elderly is to bring grandchildren, sunbathing, playing Tai Chi, square dancing, living a leisurely retirement life. But rural people are different, their lives believe only rural people know.
In the city, you have seen how many people aged 6-70 still do heavy work every day, work every day? I have not seen, can not say no. But it can be said that the proportion is very small. But in the countryside, especially in the remote areas of the northwest of the countryside, you walk through the countryside everywhere, carrying a hoe still in the ground to do farm work of the elderly. 80-year-old old man is still wandering in the mountains, picking up firewood and so on, there are still 90-year-old old man still have to cook their own food. Why? Because if they don't labor, they go hungry. The young people are all working in the city and can't be counted on. This is too common in the countryside! In the countryside you don't see any retirement life for rural old people at all. In the city, people over 60 years old retire and live a leisurely retirement life; in the countryside, 80-year-olds still have to go down to the ground to do farm work. What is the reason for this? Why can't rural farmers enjoy a comfortable retirement life? Ultimately, the reason is the following reasons:
1, young children in rural areas to make less money difficult to make money
In rural areas of such families in the children of the elderly usually do not have better ways to make money and skills, the old family in order to reduce the burden on the children, people can labor to support themselves. Most of the children in the countryside to make money is to make a job in the city, by selling their own labor to earn money to subsidize the farm, pro and work and wages are very unstable. In the countryside, if the young people do not come out to work in the city, just rely on the rural land to do some farming to feed themselves is a problem, as well as young rural people to marry a wife, build a house is the reality of the problem are still relying on the parents to support to be able to barely maintain, if the elderly parents do not work hard to do at home, then the family really has no hope. Young people have the ability to make a difference outside the skill is good. So in this case the rural 70-year-old can only rely on their own efforts to do the work, but also to help their children to reduce a lot of burden.
2, rural economic development is backward, family economic difficulties
Currently for most of the rural people, rural more or less will face greater economic pressure. Especially in some remote rural areas, rural people do not have too many ways to earn money, can only rely on the family's acres of land barely maintained. For these rural elderly, naturally, can not relax and wait for their children to raise their own, to the children to increase the burden of pressure, so they are able to plant some land on their own, do some work. This is also to support the children have pressure burden.
3, there is no old age insurance protection
Nowadays, the elderly living in the city basically have old age insurance, after they are satisfied with the age of 60, they can still have 2000-3000 per month retirement salary can be received. If the retiree is working in a public organization, it's not unusual for them to receive 6-7,000 dollars a month in retirement pay alone. But what about rural areas? Rural elderly people can only get less than 100 yuan of fixed pension insurance benefits after reaching the age of 60. What can you buy with 100 yuan at today's standard of living? That is to say, if the rural elderly do not work to rely on their children to support, it is also unrealistic. Children get married bride price money, buy a house money, mortgage and so on all kinds of loans can not turn over. Therefore, even if the old man is 80 years old, he has to work in the field, and even to work until the day he can not do it.