Xinhua Nanchang, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Walking on a flat road, drinking running water, going to a sanitary toilet, living in a tidy house, reading free books, reporting medical bills ...... reform and opening up 30 years, China's farmers' annual average per capita net income has increased from 134 yuan to 4,140 yuan, and their living conditions and quality of life have been substantially improved and enhanced. Farmers' memories and statistics bear witness to the dramatic changes in their clothing, food, housing, transportation and use.
Change 1: From "not having enough to eat from farming every day" to "not farming but eating well"
Contrasting the past with the present: "Before the Great Patriotic Purchase, my family consisted of five members, and the grain was distributed by the production team every season, and I could carry it home in my coat. I was often starving." In the 1980s, Qian Yongyan of Qianxi Village, Pancun Township, Mingguang City, Anhui Province, served as a cadre in the village, and in the late 1980s, he began to engage in aquaculture, and is now a farmer-entrepreneur. He said, "In the past, I couldn't get enough to eat even if I farmed every day, but now I not only get enough to eat, but I eat well."
Figures and comments: from "not enough to eat" to "eat well", reflecting the life of farmers "across the poverty into the subsistence, across the subsistence into the well-off," the two major changes. Before the 1980s, China's peasants had to make a living. Before the 1980s, China's farmers generally live in poverty, Engel's coefficient as high as 70%, starting in the 1980s, with the package production to the household widely carried out, China's farmers crossed the line of subsistence, Engel's coefficient fell to 60%; into the new century, especially with the implementation of a series of policies to benefit the rural community, including the abolition of agricultural tax, farmers continue to improve their lives, Engel's coefficient fell to 50%, reaching the line of well-off. The well-off line has been reached.
Change 2: From "one coat for many seasons" to "one coat for many seasons"
Contrasting the past and the present: "In the past, the children's clothes could be worn as long as they were able to wear them, and a piece of clothing had to be worn by a number of children, and the older brother wore it for a small time and passed it on to the younger brother. The first time I saw this is when I was a little girl. But unlike now, a child's beautiful clothes may have a big box." Najiadu Village, Yanghe Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Province, 81-year-old Hui old man Na Zhibang said that at that time there was a shortage of everything, to buy food stamps, clothes to make their own, and to buy cloth but also cloth stamps.
Figures and comments: "Three years of new, three years of old, three years of mending". This is the memory of the previous life of many farmers. With the improvement of income level and the change of consumption concept, China's farmers' clothing consumption is changing. In Ningxia, for example, in 2007, the per capita consumption expenditure of farmers in Ningxia reached 2528.8 yuan, of which the per capita consumption of clothing 184.3 yuan, 28.8 yuan than in 1983, an increase of 155.5 yuan, an increase of 5.4 times.
Change three: from "dry barriers", brick houses to "villa building"
Contrast between the present and the past: "When I was more than 10 years old, the village are living in dry barriers of the house, can not dream of the day to live in the building. I can't dream of living in a building one day." Jiangxi Wuning County, Qingjiang Township on the Bay Village, 54-year-old Qiu Jili so said. In recent years, 31 households in the village of Shangwan, all government support to tear down the old and build a new, built a small building ranging from 2-4 floors, each family building running water, flush toilets, the building is hundreds of acres of green carpet outside the hanging melon, the entire village as if it were a cluster of villas on the outskirts of the city.
Figures and comments: 70s "dry bases", 80s brick houses, 90s concrete, into the new century to build a new countryside, farmers began to live in villas. Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics figures show that in 2007, Jiangxi farmers per capita housing area of 11.8 square meters in 1980 increased to 36.8 square meters; of which the brick structure and reinforced concrete structure per capita housing area of 34.26 square meters, accounting for 93% of the housing area. Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics Agricultural Division Director Ye Dexiang said that 81% of the province's agricultural housing has sanitation equipment, of which 14% for flush toilets.
Change 4: from "catching" to "tourism"
Contrast between the past and the present: "Originally, sunny days, a gray, rainy days, a muddy, yellow mud everywhere, have leather shoes do not dare to wear! ", said the village road changes, Jiangxi Anyi County, 47-year-old villager Liu Shangjia endless. Now the village groups and groups, households and households are connected by concrete roads. In the remote mountainous area of Gannan, the original farmers go out mostly to catch the market, many people are rare to go to the county town once in a lifetime. But in recent years, Xunwu County, several species of navel orange fruit farmers, but the spontaneous organization of travel to the United States, incidentally, to study the production and marketing of the U.S. New Chips navel orange.
Numbers and comments: At the end of 2007, the townships in Jiangxi Province, the basic through the asphalt or cement roads, administrative villages through the oil (cement) road rate and through the highway rate of 71% and 93%, respectively, nearly 1/4 of the natural villages through the oil and cement roads. The road is good, with the popularity of bicycles, motorcycles, small cars began to go into the farmhouse, farmers go further and further. 2007, Jiangxi Province, 2% of the farmers to travel.
Change 5: from the "old four pieces" to the "new N pieces"
Contrast between the present and the past: under the government's subsidies, Liu Guoping, a farmer in Yushui District, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, recently installed a solar water heater. He said, "With a solar water heater, there is no need to burn wood or consume electricity, which is affordable and convenient."
Figures and comments: 30 years, China's farmers continue to upgrade household consumer durables, from bicycles, watches, sewing machines, radios, "the old four", to television, washing machines, tape recorders, refrigerators, electric fans, video disk players, "the new six! ", to range hoods, water heaters, air conditioners, computers and other commodities, the grade is getting higher and higher. In Shandong, at the end of 2007, the province has realized the village electricity, telephone, per 100 rural households have 39 refrigerators, color TV 104, 61 DVD players, 57 washing machines, water heaters 23.
Change 6: From "dropping out of school due to poverty" to "free schooling"
Figures and comments: The latest change in the lives of China's peasants on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up is that they have begun to enjoy public **services** in the areas of culture and recreation as well as education and health. **services. Now, all rural compulsory education students in China are exempted from school miscellaneous fees, benefiting 150 million primary and secondary school students and their families nationwide. With the introduction of a new type of rural cooperative medical care, the level of medical protection for farmers has also entered a new phase. As of the end of March this year, 2,679 counties (cities and districts) nationwide have carried out the new rural cooperative, 800 million farmers participated in the cooperative medical care, the participation rate of 91%, they can enjoy the same as urban workers, the reimbursement of medical treatment.