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Let go of your pride and prejudice, and have more respect and gratitude for rural people!
Nowadays, some urban people often have an inexplicable sense of superiority in their hearts when talking about rural people, with unconcealed contempt in their eyes and disrespectful language. These people's sense of superiority is due to forgetfulness and ingratitude.
Urban people should have more respect and gratitude for rural people!
Why?
First, today's urban dwellers, pushing back generations, more than a dozen generations, or even longer, had ancestors who were farmers. The countryside is the root of the city and the origin of many urban people's lives. To be disrespectful to the peasants is to forget where their lives came from. It's forgetting one's ancestors.
Second, the rural areas, agriculture, and peasants have made tremendous contributions and sacrifices to the country's industrialization, urbanization, and modernization through the form of "poor industrial and agricultural products." Without the contributions of the peasants, the rapid development of China's cities in the decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China would not have been possible.
Third, over the past 40 years or so of reform and opening up, a large number of young and middle-aged rural laborers have entered different industries in the cities, becoming industrial workers in the cities and an important force in the rapid expansion, development, and expansion of the cities.
Fourth, while the gap between urban and rural areas still exists, cities have attracted the best labor resources in rural areas with their many comprehensive advantages, such as university graduates, master's students, and doctoral students whose household registration is originally in rural areas, and these people's roots are also in rural areas.
Fifth, without the peasants' hard work in planting and breeding, and without the ecological conservation of the vast rural areas, what do urban people eat and drink? Do they rely on imports for everything?
Sixth, without the raw materials provided by agriculture, many enterprises in the cities that use agricultural products as raw materials for processing will not be able to operate normally, and is it possible to rely entirely on imports of raw materials? Is it safe? If these enterprises go bankrupt, the workers will also lose their jobs. Aren't the countryside, agriculture, peasants important to the cities?
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The countryside is the origin of many urban people's lives. The countryside is the root of the city, and agriculture is the foundation of the country.
Shouldn't we have more respect and gratitude for rural people?
Both rural and urban residents are the masters of the country and the builders of the country, and both should enjoy the benefits brought about by the country's development, reform and opening up. Therefore, it is the unswerving direction of the country to promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, promote the common prosperity of urban and rural areas, and let urban and rural residents live a happier and better life. The implementation of the policy of industry feeding agriculture and cities feeding the countryside and the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy are the concrete practices to achieve this goal.
Written on the morning of April 18, 2024