Chapter 186: A meeting is held! People all over the country stood up, and some...
Chapter 186 Meeting
This is destined to be a turbulent year.
The National People's Congress of Xuan State was held in March.
Yan Jiuru formally attended the National People's Congress for the first time as a representative of the Yancheng Municipal People's Congress. At the same time, Chen Yin also attended the conference as a representative of the science and technology community.
It’s just that the couple are not in the same group.
After the grand and solemn opening ceremony, the meeting officially began its agenda.
All representatives submit their own proposals.
Yan Jiuru submitted his own proposal that 'all economies pay special national defense construction taxes in proportion'.
No matter how poor we are, we cannot be poor in national defense; no matter how lacking we are, we cannot be lacking in weapons and equipment.
Yan Jiuru proposed setting up this special tax, which would go directly to the defense department after being collected, without the need for the Ministry of Finance to make a budget again.
There is no longer a need to allocate a portion of the national budget from fiscal revenue to national defense and military modernization.
Of course, the existence of the national defense construction tax does not affect the state's continued allocation of funds for national defense construction. Instead, the special tax guarantees the basic financial support for national defense construction.
A far-sighted scholar once said: Truth is only within the range of cannons, and dignity is only where the sword points.
A country cannot gain a foothold in the international community without key weapons that can determine victory, and having only nuclear bombs is obviously not enough.
After all, no one can just go into a fight and say, "Destroy the world!"
There must be some powerful weapons that can hit hard and hurt the opponent, so that they will remember who they cannot bully.
To this end, continued military investment is necessary and must be unwavering.
It has to be said that Yan Jiuru's proposal received strong support from the military, and at the same time, the corporate representatives below did not reject it.
Anyway, all enterprises are state-owned now, and profits and taxes must be turned over. The specific distribution makes no difference to factories and mines.
Of course, it would be better if it could be used to develop national defense.
***
Chen Yin's proposal is about vigorously developing Xuanguo's semiconductor and lithography machine industries.
Based on Comrade □□'s words, "It is better to have it yourself than to have it by your own," she emphasized that Xuanguo should vigorously develop its own semiconductor industry and lithography machine industry, rather than the idea of purchasing from abroad and replacing production as many scholars or some people are keen on now.
"The lithography and semiconductor industries are one of the most important and critical industries in the future. It is no exaggeration to say that they are the throat of our destiny.
No matter whether others are dumping products at low prices to squeeze us out, or controlling the output of key technologies, in short, we should not let others control our own destiny.
Let go of others when they are happy, and hold them tight when they are unhappy."
"I know that some comrades think that we can buy it from other developed countries now, so there is no need to spend a lot of money on R&D and industry ourselves. How much more convenient is it to buy ready-made products?"
"But comrades, do you know what the future holds if we rely on others for such crucial technologies and industries?
Not to mention the distant past, just look at the hardships that our big brother brought us when he suddenly turned against us and withdrew his aid more than a decade ago.
I believe that some of the older comrades here have a deeper understanding of this.
I don't need to say much about this.
Comrades, let us recall the national anthem we just sang. After more than ten years of bloody battles and the sacrifice of countless martyrs, our country and people finally stood up.
Do we have to live at the mercy of others and depend on their wishes in the future?"
Chen Yin's words were not passionate, but they were so powerful that they could not be ignored.
Especially the old comrades who had experienced Big Brother’s fall from grace, their faces became heavy.
Yes, if you rely on the mountain, the mountain will fall; if you rely on the water, the water will flow.
How long has it been since then? Have you forgotten it?
***
After the first day of the meeting, the two returned home, feeling both excited and tired.
After all, it is a national-level meeting. As a representative, expressing the opinions of the masses you represent is a very different feeling.
"Are you tired? How is the baby?" Yan Jiuru did not forget to care about his wife's health. After all, the three-month safe period had not yet passed.
Chen Yin took a slow shower and sat on a chair, letting Yan Jiuru help her dry her hair.
Chen Yin raised her head slightly and said, "My proposal today is likely to offend some people."
Yan Jiuru said 'hmm', "So what? Those people are plotting something in their minds, don't they have any idea?
The entire nation has stood up, yet some people prefer to kneel. If you offend such people, don't worry, I'm here for you.
"Um."
***
On the second day of the meeting, a proposal on "strictly controlling the birth population and implementing the family planning policy to reduce the burden on the state and the people, develop socialist civilization and economy faster and better, and achieve double progress" caused a strong response.
During the group discussion, there was a huge response, and opinions were divided into two clearly opposing camps:
One group wholeheartedly agrees with it.
They cited many disadvantages of having too many children, ranging from the various inconveniences women face due to fertility risks and pregnancy and breastfeeding, which are not conducive to childbirth, to the livelihood difficulties caused by having too many children in a family, and then expanding it to the reduction in the allocation of various resources such as land in a region, and finally to the various burdens caused by the rapid population increase at the national level. It can be said that their arguments are reasonable and well-founded.
The other group holds an opposing view.
They believe that with the current level of medical care and the risks involved in a child's growth, if each family is only allowed to have one or two children, once a child dies on the battlefield or in an accident, the parents at home will most likely not be able to have another child, or even if they do, the child will be too old to be raised.
No matter what the situation is, once a family becomes extinct, it is definitely the most serious blow to a family, no doubt about it.
This may make these families unwilling to let their children join the army, or reluctant to let their children go to the front line. Then who will defend the country at all costs?
Also, shouldn’t economic development be about finding ways to develop the market?
Looking at the five thousand years of history of Xuan Country, and from the United States to the Soviet Union, which one achieved great economic development by having fewer children or no children?
Even Empress Catherine of the Great Goose and Empress Xiao of the Liao Dynasty knew what they lacked and so they raised armies to rob other countries, while the people of their own country must be as numerous as possible.
Bah, you’re not even as good as that good old woman!
***
Yan Jiuru did not participate in the heated debate.
He asked the staff for a small blackboard.
After writing and drawing for a while, raise your hand to speak.
Taking the average generation of 25 years as an example, he listed the population situation in the next 50 years after the implementation of compulsory family planning.
He stood in front of the blackboard, his face not red as when two parties were arguing.
"For example, let's say a newlywed couple surnamed Ma gives birth to a son or daughter next year, and that's the only child. I call them the first generation of only children.
If the first generation of only children grows up healthy and free of illness to the age of 25, which would be 2013, this child would be of marriageable age even if he or she married and had children late.
At this time, if the Ma couple had married in response to the call for delayed marriage and childbearing, they would have been 25 years old when they got married. By 2013, they would have been 50. Their parents and grandparents, if still alive, would have been around 70 to 80 years old.
Following the same logic, when the first generation of only children gives birth to the second generation of only children and Ping An grows up to 25 years old, it will be 2038.
At this time, the Ma couple were about 75 years old. If their parents and grandparents lived long lives, they would be in their nineties to a hundred years old.
Of course, this is an ideal situation.”
"So let's look at this chart. What will the second generation of only children face?
A young couple has to raise a newborn baby, even if it’s just one, and take care of their elderly parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents...”
"Because they are all only children, it is their responsibility to support both sets of parents, and there is no one to share the burden with them. So, a pair of second-generation only children will have at least four elderly people to support, and more likely eight or even ten..."
"If you don't mention anything else, you're bound to get sick as you get older. If one or two elderly people feel unwell and need to be taken to the hospital every week, you'll have to go to the hospital four or five times in a month.
This is still a relatively mild illness. If by chance, three or four of four or eight elderly people fall ill at the same time, the young couple will have to take care of the child while taking three or four elderly people to the hospital.
We've all been to the doctor before. Imagine how these two people can treat three or four elderly people without missing work or delaying their treatment.
He then deduced the possible situation fifty years from now from the perspectives of conscription, housing, jobs, etc.
Now, the person who was originally jumping up and down with noise fell into deep thought.
Because Yan Jiuru's deduction is definitely not pure theory, and it can be foreseen under relatively ideal conditions.
Moreover, in reality, there are often more situations that are less than ideal.
That would only make things worse.
Yan Jiuru glanced at the representatives at the meeting and said, "Because the proposal has just been circulated for discussion, I don't have much to prepare. In fact, this deduction can be analyzed and modeled more intuitively using a computer."
"It's easy to conclude whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the benefits."
At this time, someone shouted from the audience: "Stop talking so much nonsense and just say whether you support or oppose it."
"Yes, what we need now is for all the representatives to express their attitudes, not to make deductions."
Yan Jiuru's eyes swept over and fixed on the faces of the two people who were shouting.
He glanced at the two of them deeply and chuckled, "This is a discussion of national policy, not my personal preferences. Everything is based on the national interest."
He glanced at the city leaders who were writing furiously below, "It depends on whether the national level is focusing on the short-term development of the next twenty years or the longer-term national interests in the future.
In my personal opinion, anything that has both advantages and disadvantages can be promoted by the state, but should not be mandatory."
At this time, other representatives also spoke up, saying that in order to meet targets, some pilot areas forced pregnant women to have abortions, and even caused several cases of pregnant women dying from heavy bleeding.
Others said that the enforcement was distorted after being forced, and became a bargaining chip for some people's power, etc.
The entire venue was in chaos again.
***
After the meeting, Yan Jiuru felt his head buzzing.
It was as if there were fifteen hundred ducks quacking in there all the time.
In the following days, various proposals were brought up for discussion.
During the National People's Congress meeting, a shocking event occurred in Yancheng: someone detonated a bomb at the Yanjing Railway Station!
Almost within a few days, an even more infuriating piece of news came: a serious forest fire broke out in the largest virgin forest in Northeast China, affecting millions of hectares of virgin forest resources!
The cause of such a serious forest fire was actually the migrant workers recruited by the local forestry department who smoked in the dry forest and discarded their cigarette butts carelessly.
What is even more infuriating is that after the wildfire broke out, these ignorant migrant workers actually used their clothes to fan the fire, but the fire grew bigger and bigger until they could no longer control it and ran away.
The local forestry department did not report the fire until it reached the town.
Yan Jiuru was ordered to leave the People's Congress and rush to participate in the fire fighting!
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