Change 1:
From not having enough to eat from daily farming to eating well without farming
Comparison of the present and the past "Before the Dabaojian (Great Package Drying), my family of five, the production team distributed grain every season, and I could pocket it back home with a lab coat, and I often suffered from starvation." 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, "In the past, I couldn't get enough to eat every day of farming, 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 generally lived in poverty, with an Engel's coefficient as high as 70%, and in the 1980s, with the widespread implementation of the contracted production to the household, China's peasants crossed the line of subsistence at one stroke, with the Engel's coefficient dropping to 60%. After entering the new century, especially with the implementation of a series of policies to benefit farmers, including the abolition of agricultural tax, farmers continue to improve their lives, Engel's coefficient fell to 50%, reaching the well-off line.
Change 2:
From one coat for many seasons to one coat for many seasons
Comparison of the present and the past "In the past, the children's clothes could be worn as long as they could wear them, and one coat had to be worn by several children, and the older brother wore a small one and passed it on to his younger brother. But unlike now, a child's beautiful clothes may have a big box." Ningxia Yinchuan City, Yongning County, Yang and the town of Najiado Village, 81-year-old Hui old man Na Zhibang said that at that time everything was lacking, buy food to food stamps, clothes to do their own, buy cloth but also cloth stamps.
Figures and comments "New three years, old three years, sewing and mending another three years". 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 3:
From dry barriers and brick houses to villa buildings
Comparison of the present and the past "When I was more than 10 years old, the village lived in dry barriers of the house, and could not dream of one day living in a building". Qiu Jili, 54, of Shangwan Natural Village in Qingjiang Township, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province, said this. In recent years, 31 households in the village of Shangwan, all under government support to tear down the old and build new, built a 2 to 4-story ranging from the small building, each building running water, flush toilets, building is hundreds of acres of green carpet like hanging melon, the entire village is just like a villa group of the city suburbs.
Figures and comments 70's "dry barricade", 80's brick house, 90's 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 up to traveling
Comparison of the present and the past "Originally, sunny days are covered with dust, rainy days are covered with mud, everywhere is a yellow mud road, there are leather shoes do not dare to wear." Speaking of the changes in the village road, the 47-year-old villager Liu Shangjia in Anyi County, Jiangxi Province. Now there are cement roads connecting groups and households in the village. 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 self-organized travel 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, small cars began to go into the farmhouse, the farmers go further and further away.
Change 5:
From the "old four" to the "new N"
Comparison of the past and the present With government 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." Some farmers in Shandong have the habit of keeping a diary. The reporter saw, Zouping County farmer Liu Zongshui's diary recorded in the home of the television set of the multiple update process; in Pingyuan County farmer Yang Chunling's diary, the neighbors to buy a "home theater", computers are recorded by him.
Figures and comments Over the past 30 years, China's farmers have constantly upgraded their consumer durables, from bicycles, watches, sewing machines, radios, "the old four", to televisions, washing machines, tape recorders, refrigerators, electric fans, video disc players, "the new six! ", to range hoods, water heaters, air conditioners, computers and other commodities, the grade is getting higher and higher. In Shandong Province, 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 going to school for free
Comparison of the present and the past Zhou Xuexian, a 19-year-old girl from Gaoji Township in Dengzhou City, Henan Province, who works in Beijing, was 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. 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, can be like the city people like medical reimbursement, before I dare not think."
Figures and comments on the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening up of China's farmers, the latest change in their lives, is that they began to enjoy the culture and entertainment and education and health and other aspects of the public **** services. Now, China has completely exempted rural compulsory education students 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 be like urban workers, enjoying reimbursement for medical treatment.