Sichuan Liangshan State Transportation Bureau years ago issued a decision: the state within the territory of all government loan toll roads (excluding highways), to be February 2 at 8 am to February 9 at 8 am, all exempted from the passing vehicle tolls. It is understood that the Spring Festival holiday toll-free initiative, Liangshan State from the Spring Festival in 2009 has begun to implement, the purpose is to give the folks and foreign tourists to create a safe, comfortable and convenient transportation travel conditions.
Compared to some places in the brain of the "wild goose" trick, as well as the unknown sky-high tolls, Liangshan State, the launch of the Spring Festival 7 days toll-free, is undoubtedly a good initiative to benefit the people.
First of all, it reduces the burden of vehicle owners and leads to the prosperous development of the local tourism industry, and at the same time, it also has a chain promotion effect on the local lodging and catering industries. During the Spring Festival, it is the peak season of tourism, Liangshan Prefecture's unique natural scenery and ethnic customs is to make many hobby traveler's heart; free of road tolls, for the owners to save a large sum of money, and strengthened the owners of the belief to come to this tour. In addition, although the toll is exempted, but the other catering industry, accommodation industry, the ticket income is not delayed, it can be said that "the loss of the mulberry outlet, the harvest of the east corner".
Secondly, during the Spring Festival, it is vegetables, meat, eggs and other fresh agricultural products sales season, free of vehicle tolls, reduce the logistics and transportation costs, to control the price of food during the Spring Festival, reduce the cost of living of the residents, there is a great help. According to the World Bank study published in February 2007 disclosed that China's vehicle passage fees accounted for more than 2% of GDP per capita, ranking first in the world, the data also shows that China's current various road tolls, bridge tolls have been as high as one-third of the cost of transportation enterprises, than the developed countries to be about twice as high. So, in a way, to control high prices, should start by reducing highway tolls.
Thirdly, it is conducive to enhancing the government's image and restoring its role in serving the people. The introduction of toll-free policy, from the books, the government revenue reduced, but reflects the essential attributes of the highway for the public. As we all know, in some places, the highway has become a local government and the traffic department enrichment tool, loan highway arbitrarily changed to operating highway is common, operating highway arbitrarily extend the toll period is countless, this time, liangshan state take the lead in the government repayment of the toll road toll-free 7 days, undoubtedly is a reversal of the dial. I dare to suggest: Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day whether it can also be appropriate to reduce tolls, after all, not many holidays, the people out of a door is not easy.
Liangshan Prefecture, as an economy is not developed inland areas of the West, the first, and the continued implementation of the Spring Festival toll-free concessions, it is worth those who want to find ways to pull out the people's pockets of the local government to learn. At the same time, advise those who collect the end of the "road tiger": 365 days a year, month after month, every day to collect, please take a break in the Spring Festival, after all, the year is difficult to spend a lot of places, who are not easy!
Chinese New Year overtime pay is more in the implementation
Spring Festival holiday is coming, there are some workers holiday will also stick to the workplace, employees holiday overtime how to calculate overtime pay? Reporter yesterday from the Municipal Bureau of Human Resources Security was informed that, in accordance with the "Shenzhen Employee Wage Payment Regulations," the provisions of the Spring Festival holiday according to the different statutory holidays and rest days, employees overtime work were awarded "three pay" and "two pay". (January 31, Shenzhen News)
Many employees still have to stick to their posts during the Spring Festival, can not reunite with their families, and can not be free to visit friends and relatives and relax to travel. Other people on vacation, its overtime, in the emotional pressure to bear than usual, and holiday services, the number of people, high demand, its workload is far greater than usual, to the holiday workers to issue overtime pay and feelings and reason are justified.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Spring Festival statutory overtime must be paid at least three times the overtime wages, plus the original normal work wages, in fact, is four times the Spring Festival overtime pay is real shall not be replaced by compensatory time off. The implementation of this provision for state-owned enterprises is not a big problem, but for the private sector employees is not an easy topic, some companies deliberately do not send, or in the form of a shift to replace the phenomenon occurs from time to time, and even appeared to ask for overtime pay to be dismissed phenomenon.
The Spring Festival overtime at three times the salary calculated on the basis of evidence, for issues related to their own interests, who worked overtime have an account in mind, to the department to complain, and do not have to go to who gives directions, will not go to the wrong door, but the real overtime pay for holidays and bosses openly call for the board, but "a very rare corner", the reason for it is very simple, for the sake of a few days of holiday pay. Simple, in order to area a few days of the section of the class fee and the consequences of offending the boss is serious, either to ask you to leave, or reduce your income, or ask you to do the heaviest work, how many people will be for the overtime pay for themselves to bring big trouble?
Common some departments before and after the holidays to remind, such as: "legal holidays and rest days are calculated separately, can not offset the legal holiday overtime", and so on, and even the formula for calculating overtime pay details are also listed; but also common some strict words, such as: "not allowed! ", "severe penalties"; but some enterprises are "mentioning" and "do not wake up", you say your, I do my, as a whisper.
Whether it is the Spring Festival or other statutory holidays can not get overtime pay is not new, is a very old topic, the general reaction is very strong, such as not long ago, according to a survey: nearly 90% of the two overtime employees reflect no overtime pay. The reason lies in: only reminders, the lack of strict inspection and implementation, no initiative to understand, and live in the office waiting for people to complain.
The Spring Festival many employees overtime pay is difficult to cash, not do not know how to calculate, but a kind of helplessness, this kind of helplessness is the supervision is not effective, the implementation of the relevant decrees is not strict due to, such as the relevant departments not only is a reminder, and focus on the implementation of the aftermath of the grasp, may be able to prompt some enterprises to wake up.
Police donations to the orphans of the story why y moved
Several police officers, dozens of Hangzhou police, a group of good people in the community, a donation of three orphans to the story of the love of the spontaneous continued for several years, so that people read all the "can not help but clattering tears". This story can be so y moved, because the expression of love throughout the story, not only warm, but also elegant.
China Youth Daily published this story on January 26th under the title of "Police and Orphans". The spontaneous expression of love by the "iron blooded policeman" without losing his tenderness, and the warm feeling of the public towards this kind of love, all stem from the most precious understanding and sympathy between people. It is this understanding and sympathy, penetrate the world of indifference and contempt, with a kind of heart to heart, push yourself to others, to feel the pain and suffering of other people's lives, to get a kind of empathy.
The father of the three orphans died in a car accident, and the mother was later killed in a robbery and murder case. 4 years ago, the police officer in charge of the case met the mother to do the aftermath of the oldest daughter, the heart is full of pity: "This family is really unfortunate," "three children will certainly drop out of school! "Can we help these three children?" More such understanding and care in the world will inspire more sincere love, and everyone will be surrounded by warmth.
More often than not, we may not lack of love, but lack of love the right way to express. Some expressions of love are a bit ostentatious, some high-profile, bringing embarrassment and even hidden harm to the recipient. In a civilized modern society, we can have some elegant expression of love. In this story of the policeman and the orphan, we see this elegance. The main ingredient that makes up this elegance is not really any rare element, but the kind of true equality and respect between people. It is this equality and respect that allows people to feel a dignity of character, a dignity of love. In a certain sense, love actually needs to be expressed more equally, because it not only makes the recipients grow up healthily, but also promotes the expression of love in the society towards maturity.
Faced with three orphans, how to protect their self-esteem and care for their healthy growth? The police took a lot of trouble. First, a special call to one of their relatives, please convey their willingness to donate to see if they are willing. And calculate the annual tuition and living expenses of the three sisters, according to the money to the bank card, just because the children feel that "money comes too easily", not conducive to their growth. Donation of things known by the media, afraid of them being hurt, only to "Xiaomei", "Xiaohong" and other pseudonyms instead. Worried that the children would learn bad habits when faced with temptation, they carefully hinted that they should rely on their own efforts to earn money and not envy other people's wealth. Donations and contacts everywhere in the process of this equality and respect, let us feel a love of elegance, charity higher realm.
Love and charity, in essence, is not a kind of charity, not condescending to meet the needs of others, nor is it the pleasure of watching others rely on their own funding. Its true essence lies in the warmth of respect, so that one maintains dignity in receiving help and does not feel inferior. In this way, the recipient will learn not only to be grateful, but also to be human. And the philanthropist will also gain a kind of sublimation of the soul, as Wu Renxian, a policeman in the above story, said that although he was the one giving money to the children, he often felt that "he was the one being helped."
Why the OU has been criticized as a "case of injustice"
While experts and scholars have stated that "the OU is the most important" of the many hazards, and despite the ban on the OU classes ordered by the Ministry of Education, the OU classes are still on the market, and OU fever is still hot! The heat is still hot. Why is the vitality of OU so tenacious? Recently, the principal of a famous middle school in Beijing complained about the OU: "The OU is not a counter-revolutionary", in other words, the OU has been criticized as a "case of injustice".
There is nothing wrong with the OU itself. However, anyone who knows a little about the subject knows that it is not suitable for general education, and is only suitable for a small number of children. Let the majority of elementary school students with a lot of time and energy to learn OU, not only can not cultivate children's creativity, but will make them fear of mathematics, inhibit or even kill their interest in learning. This is where the harm of "learning OU for all" comes in. The fact is that the government has not been able to stop the practice of "Ao class" and "Ao school", which is a way of following the law of cognitive development of children and adolescents and thinking about the healthy growth of children, and the significance of the practice is not in doubt.
Some people have said that the reason for the ban is because there is a social demand for it, and the parents are the ones who have a strong demand for it. This is not an unreasonable statement. But why are parents so attracted to OU? Are they really "hardcore fans" of the OU? In fact, most parents have no choice but to let their children learn OU. Their real purpose is not to train their children to become math enthusiasts, but to use it as a knock on the door for their children to enter prestigious schools. Therefore, parents' demand for OU is created by the pressure of promotion.
Imagine if those famous schools, high-quality schools, model schools do not use the results of OU as the criteria for selecting students, there will still be so many parents "obsessed" with OU? The answer is self-evident. However, a number of prestigious primary and secondary schools very much recognize the OU, that compared with other subjects, the OU in the examination and evaluation of the more differentiated, OU good indicates that students have the potential for development. Therefore, some famous schools are still trying to find ways to do in the OU, through a variety of ways to the "OU top" selected in, and secretly set up experimental classes, "small stove", hoping that these children can help the school to improve the rate of advancement.
This shows that the reason why the OU is in full swing is that some people are unwilling to let it be delinked from the promotion, and insist on using it as a tool for "selecting the best" and "pinpointing the best". In the basic education sector, this "unspoken rule" has long been no secret.
Some schools, while holding up the banner of quality education, talking about advanced education concepts, but the real effort is in the selection and promotion of students on the examination. In some people's minds, the reason why the famous school is famous, relying on the high rate of advancement; quality education is to say to the leadership to listen to, is to do to others to see, only the score and the rate of advancement, only is the real work, the hard truth. Under the guidance of such a concept, how can education and teaching not slip into the wrong zone of the test?
The fundamental purpose of education is to achieve a flesh and blood, the heart healthy people, rather than training a number of exams, high scores of the "machine". No matter what kind of social environment, no matter what kind of educational ecology, principals can not forget their responsibilities and mission; can not forget, successful education is never only do this thing.
Chongqing's first case of property tax into the reservoir explains what
January 30, 10 a.m., Chongqing's first individual housing property tax in the city's northern new area of the Local Taxation Bureau of the people and the deed tax collection point declared into the reservoir, the buyer purchased the house floor area of 202.73 square meters, excluding the exempted area of the levy of property tax of 6,154.83 yuan. (January 31, First Financial Daily)
Chongqing started the pilot project on the 28th, and it took less than two days for the first property tax to be deposited on the 30th. From the report, Chongqing, the tax generated in a high-grade community second-hand housing transfer, residential type for the garden house, construction area of 202.73 square meters, the transaction unit price of 13,071.57 yuan / square meter, floor area transaction unit price of the last two years in the main city of the nine districts of the average price of the new commercial housing transactions building 2 times, belonging to the taxable housing. The first property tax into the coffers at least three problems.
The first in the regulation of the real estate market has been the first effect. At present, the real estate market vacancy phenomenon is very serious, many people buy more than one set of real estate after waiting for value-added holding and not to sell, the main reason is that the holding link cost is low, or even no cost. Now, Chongqing is the first to levy holding property tax to the stock of housing, for holders to increase the cost of holding. Therefore, it will lead investors to choose to sell instead of holding all the time.
Secondly, it will play a positive role in regulating secondary income distribution. Although this tax in Chongqing comes from the second-hand property transfer market, the nature of the tax is a levy on private property, a form of income redistribution. Therefore, the Chongqing version of the property tax has begun to regulate income redistribution set sail.
Thirdly, from 28th to 30th, less than two days, and suffered a double holiday, but a tax in a timely manner into the treasury, which shows that the Chongqing side of the collection and management to do active preparation, full service to taxpayers. For the citizens of Chongqing, they have also set a positive example in terms of tax compliance. The Chongqing version of the property tax program has been in line with the taxpayers, will slowly get the taxpayers to comply with and agree.
In my opinion, the property tax should be based on the regulation of secondary income distribution, improve the tax system, rather than specializing in regulating the real estate market, the Chongqing version of the property tax is playing a role in these aspects.