"Of course, if you have any other ideas, then just pretend I didn't say anything. But I'm warning you, if you're going to date, you'd better be careful..."
Wang Zhitao's face immediately turned bright red, and he quickly explained, "I didn't, how could I have such thoughts? I just felt that we hadn't known each other for long enough, so I didn't think much of it. I'll arrange for Tingting to meet my parents later."
"Haha, that's right. Don't be too direct, like saying you've met the girl's parents and therefore you have to meet the boy's parents. Be more subtle and say your parents have heard about it, have a good impression of it, and would like to meet them," Li Xiuyuan suggested.
In fact, the process of blind date marriage is generally very short. There are quite a few people who get married within a few months. Li Xiuyuan doesn't want the two of them to rush into marriage, but it would be fine to settle this matter first.
Don't bother with all that dating stuff, which can easily last a year or two. Not only might it fall apart, but it won't do you any good either.
"Okay, I understand." Wang Zhitao nodded, then asked with some doubt, "Li Zhen, you're not married, how do you know so much about this kind of thing?"
"Even if I haven't eaten pork, I've seen pigs run, haven't I? What's the point of having a brain? Use it more!" Li Xiuyuan said with a dark face.
Wang Zhitao shrank back and left.
At 2 p.m., the town government held a meeting, mainly to summarize the "returning farmland to forest" work. This work started in 2002 and has been carried out four times so far.
According to the reported data, the situation is excellent. The province has converted 17.19 million mu of farmland back to forest, accounting for 46.9% of the total afforestation area in the same period. However, Li Xiuyuan does not know the actual situation in other places, but the situation in Huangyuan County is complicated.
However, the Loess Plateau suffers from severe soil erosion, making the work of converting farmland back to forest even more important. But the conditions are not good; the land is arid and water-scarce, and in many places, the harvest depends entirely on the weather. It would be even more impossible to irrigate the seedlings after the farmland is converted to forest.
So often, in the process of converting farmland back to forest, the farmland is converted back to forest, saplings are planted, and then the land dies from drought. Then the villagers see that the land is just sitting empty anyway, so they might as well plant crops on it.
The end result was that the paper data for the Grain for Green program came up, the money was spent, but the final effect was not significant.
During the meeting, Wang Zhixing, who was in charge of this work, kept complaining about the lack of manpower and funds, saying that all kinds of work were difficult to carry out. The two people from the town's forestry station also kept their heads down and remained silent.
Hou Peng sat in the main seat, looking at Wang Zhixing who kept complaining. He was also a little angry. This guy was not very capable. Whenever there was a good thing, he would rush forward faster than anyone else, but in the end he would take the benefits and fail to complete the task.
This program of returning farmland to forest also involves subsidies and saplings. Wang Zhixing is in charge of this work, which is not without its perks. He took the benefits, but now he can't get the work done and all he does in meetings is complain.
Moreover, this complaint was quite well-reasoned.
"Mayor, the conditions in our Huangyuan County are what they are. It's simple to do this job well. First, we need to increase the subsidies. The subsidy standard of 170 yuan per mu was based on the corn price in 1999. How much was corn back then? Seventy cents a pound. This spring, the price of corn has risen to one yuan and one pound."
In addition, there are direct subsidies for grain, which makes farming seem more worthwhile to many people, making them unwilling to convert farmland back to forest. Furthermore, the subsequent costs of irrigation and other expenses further increase the cost of converting farmland back to forest. Either the subsidies need to be increased to motivate everyone…
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