Xie Yun pretended to think for a while and then expressed some ideas that he had thought of a long time ago.
"I think we can do this. Let's first clarify the purpose of the country sending educated youth to the countryside. I think there are two points: one is to allow young people to gain experience, and the other is to allow educated youth to help rural development. We both need to reach a consensus on this issue first.
The educated youth must understand that they went to the countryside not to idle away their time, not to enjoy themselves, and certainly not to show off their sense of superiority as city dwellers. They came to train!
Now that you're here, you should truly integrate with the farmers. Work in the fields, carry manure, and don't say you can't do it. No one is born knowing how to work; farmers are trained. As long as the educated youth are willing to practice, they will quickly adapt.
Several educated youth in our brigade did a fantastic job! They worked alongside farmers during the day and studied with everyone at night. Their outstanding performance earned them great respect from fellow members. It was a mutual relationship.
If they find all kinds of excuses to be lazy and slack off, it means that their ideological understanding is not in place. We will not accept such people here. We will contact their place of origin and send them back, and send them back when they have been educated.
If you can't help, why go to the countryside? Are you going to cause trouble for the poor and lower-middle peasants? We poor and lower-middle peasants have suffered enough in the old society. Now that we're finally living a better life in the new society, do we still want the educated youth to look down on us and harm us?
That is definitely not possible!
So, when the educated youth arrive, they must first correct their attitude and clarify their own position. Don't look down on rural people after you arrive, saying things like, "If you don't want to come, you don't have to come. Find a way to stay in the city. We didn't ask you to come, right?" Don't be a coward in the city and then show off in the countryside!
The educated youth have corrected their attitude, and we, the members of the commune, must also correct our attitude. They are here to help us, so we shouldn't treat them as a burden. We should find ways to make them feel a sense of belonging here, to make them feel like their second home. We should let them create value, and we should make sure that the value they create is greater than the grain they take from the team.
Isn't this easy? The value each of us creates far exceeds our share of the economy. Otherwise, how would we pay our taxes?
We can sit down and discuss what our development goals are for the new year and the next five years. The country has a five-year plan, and our brigade can also make its own five-year plan.
To give a simple example, our Liushu Village aims to increase grain production by 10% this year. Then I can think about what I should do to achieve this goal. First, scientific planting should be used to increase per-mu yields. Second, reclaim wasteland and expand the planting area.
If I set another goal, to increase total income by 20%, or even per capita income by 20%, how would I do it? Besides increasing grain production, I'd also need to plant other cash crops and perhaps even find a way to build a factory. How to achieve this goal requires everyone to work together and come up with solutions. When educated youth arrived in the countryside, they not only had to work, but they also had to use their brains.
When they come to our commune, we need to understand clearly what they can do and what their specialties are. We cannot simply say "I am an educated youth". Your knowledge must be useful and contribute to this society. It is not just a simple junior high school diploma or high school diploma. Having a certificate does not mean anything.
Our brigade can now run a middle school. Let me say something inappropriate, but if we issue a junior high school diploma to every member, does that prove that we are all intellectuals?
No way!
Who knows how city kids get their certificates? I didn't attend classes much in junior high and high school in the past few years, so the knowledge content of these diplomas is questionable!
It could just be a piece of waste paper!
So, if you put yourself in a positive position and think carefully about how you can contribute to rural development, your journey to the countryside will be worthwhile, and you'll have spent the best years of your life there. If you can return to the city, you'll be able to proudly say your youth wasn't wasted. If you lack the ability, can you seek help from others? Does your father have the skills? Does your mother have the skills? What about your brothers and sisters, your neighbors, your neighborhood? Can they offer some assistance?
Let's all focus on development. Don't dwell on the differences between rural and urban residents, and don't create confrontation. The Premier said, "We should seek common ground while reserving differences." This principle applies not only to diplomacy but also to our situation. Rural residents and educated youth share the same goals and work together.
The educated youth went to the countryside to work together with the members of the commune to build a better countryside. The educated youth were trained, and our rural community also benefited.
Director Zhong said, "Sending educated youth to the countryside is a national policy. Can they go back?"
"Why not? It's national policy, and we're not rejecting them. But the people you send here have to be at least qualified, right? You can't send hooligans, scoundrels, or street urchins here, right? What do you think of our countryside then? You should educate them before they come, and then send them here after they've been educated. We can't accept just anyone. We have to have principles and a bottom line. Even if we really send someone back, it's unlikely, unless the person is truly unfit. But we can speak out to scare the educated youth and make them behave themselves."
Secretary Li said, "Simply put, we need to set a development goal that will keep them busy from morning till night, even when they are asleep, thinking about development issues. They should focus all their attention on building the countryside and the country, so that they won't have the energy to do other things."
Xie Yun smiled and said, "Yes! That's what I mean! We also need to let them know that if they mess around, we can punish them. Don't think that rural people have to flatter and respect them and not dare to do anything to them. That's not the case. We are all human beings and are equal. Speaking of which, we poor and lower-middle peasants are even more powerful. After all, the Chairman said that they should come and learn from us.
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