NANCHANG, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Lin Yanxing Li Meijuan) Walking on flat roads, drinking tap water, going to sanitary toilets, living in neat houses, reading free books and reporting medical bills ...... In the 30 years since the reform and opening up, the annual per capita net income of China's peasants has risen from 134 yuan to 4,140 yuan, and their living conditions and quality of life have been drastically improvement and enhancement of their living conditions and quality of life. Farmers' memories and statistics have witnessed the dramatic changes in their clothing, food, housing, transportation and use. Change 1: From "not having enough to eat from farming every day" to "eating well without farming" Comparison of the past and the present: "Before the Great Patriotic Purchase, my family consisted of five members, and the production team distributed grain every season, so I could carry it home in my coat, and I was often starving. " Qian Yongyan of Qianxi Village, Pancun Town, Mingguang City, Anhui Province, served as a cadre in the village in the 1980s, and began to engage in aquaculture in the late 1980s, and is now a farmer-entrepreneur. He said: "Before every day farming are not enough to eat, now not only eat, and eat well." Figures and comments: from "not enough to eat" to "eat well", reflecting the farmers' life "across the poverty into the subsistence, across the subsistence into the well-off" two major changes. 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. After the new century, especially with the implementation of a series of policies to benefit farmers, including the abolition of agricultural taxes, farmers' lives continued to improve, with the Engel coefficient dropping to 50 percent, reaching the well-off line. Change 2: From "one coat for many seasons" to "one coat for many seasons" Comparison of the past and the present: "In the past, children's clothes could be worn as long as they could, and one coat had to be worn by several children, and the older brother wore it and passed it on to his younger brother. Unlike now, a child's beautiful clothes may have a big box." Najiado Village, Yanghe Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Province, 81-year-old Hui old man Na Zhibang said that at that time everything was in short supply, buy food to food stamps, clothes to make their own, buy cloth but also cloth stamps. Figures and comments: "Three years for the new, three years for the old, and three years for mending". This is the memory of many farmers' life in the past. With the increase of income level and the change of consumption concept, China's farmers' clothing consumption is changing. Take Ningxia as an example, in 2007, the per capita consumption expenditure of farmers in Ningxia reached 2528.8 yuan, of which the per capita clothing consumption of 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" Comparison of the present and the past: "I was more than 10 years old, the village are living in dry barriers of the house, dreaming that one day you can not live on the building! ". Jiangxi Wuning County Qingjiang Township on the Bay Natural Village 54-year-old Qiu Jili so said. In recent years, 31 households in the village on the Bay, all under the auspices of the government to tear down the old and build new, built a 2-4 floor ranging from small buildings, each building inside the running water, flush toilets, the building is hundreds of acres of green carpet like hanging melon, the entire village as if it were a cluster of villas on the outskirts of the city. Figures and comments: 70s "dry barriers", 80s brick houses, 90s concrete, into the new century to build new rural areas, 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, Director of Agriculture Ye Dexiang said that 81% of the province's agricultural housing has sanitation, of which 14% for flush toilets. Change 4: from "catching" to "tourism" Comparison of the past and present: "the original, sunny days a gray, rainy days a mud, everywhere is yellow mud road, have leather shoes do not dare to wear", said the village roads Changes, 47-year-old villager Liu Shangjia, Anyi County, Jiangxi Province, talking about the village road. Now the village is connected by concrete roads between groups and households. In the remote mountainous area of Gannan, the original farmers go out to catch the market, and many people rarely go to the county town once in a lifetime. But in recent years, Xunwu County, several species of navel orange farmers but self-organized trips to the United States, incidentally, to study the United States of America New Chips navel orange production and marketing situation. Figures 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. Roads are good, with the popularity of bicycles, motorcycles, cars began to go into the farm, farmers go further and further. 2007, Jiangxi Province, 2% of the farmers to travel. Change 5: from the "old four pieces" to "new N pieces" Comparison of the past and present: in the government's subsidies, Liu Guoping, a farmer in Yushui District, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, installed a solar water heater not long ago. He said, "With a solar water heater, there is no need to burn wood or consume electricity, which is affordable and convenient." Some farmers in Shandong have the habit of keeping a diary. The reporter saw that Liu Zongshui, a farmer in Zouping County, recorded in his diary the process of updating his family's TV set many times; in the diary of Yang Chunling, a farmer in Pingyuan County, his neighbor's purchase of a "home theater" and a computer were all recorded by him. Figures and comments: Over the past 30 years, China's farmers have continuously upgraded their household consumer durables, from bicycles, watches, sewing machines, radios, "the old four", to televisions, washing machines, tape recorders, refrigerators, electric fans, video disk players, "the new six", and then to the 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, 104 color TVs, 61 DVD players, 57 washing machines, water heaters 23 units. Change six: from "dropout due to poverty" to "free schooling" Comparison of the present and the past: Zhou Xuexin, a 19-year-old girl from Gaoji Township, Dengzhou City, Henan Province, who works in Beijing, is very envious of her younger brother, who is still in middle school. She said: "Because of the family's bad situation, I dropped out of school in the second year of junior high school. My younger brother caught up with the good times and didn't have to pay school fees to go to school." Li Xuefang, 51, from Qiao Liufan Village, Gaobeidian City, Hebei Province, spent more than 40,000 yuan on surgery in Beijing in 2007 for a serious heart condition, and received a subsidy of 12,000 yuan from the New Rural Cooperative Management Center after returning home. He exclaimed, "As a farmer, it was unthinkable to be reimbursed for medical treatment like city dwellers." Figures and comments: The latest change in the lives of farmers in China on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening up is that they have begun to enjoy public **** services in culture, entertainment, education and health. 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. By the end of March this year, 2,679 counties (cities and districts) nationwide had carried out the new rural cooperative medical program, and 800 million farmers had participated in the cooperative medical program, with a participation rate of 91 percent, so that they could enjoy reimbursement for medical treatment, just like urban workers.
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