A few days ago, I came to a remote village, at the entrance of the village, I met an old local farmer, his face carved with the traces of time, a pair of rough hands to record his indissoluble bond with the land. After greeting him, I learned that the old man's surname was Zhang.
Since the weather was relatively hot, after chatting with Uncle Zhang, he also warmly invited me to his house to sit, a few low tiled houses, the yard was full of all kinds of vegetables, and a few chickens were leisurely foraging. We sat under the eaves and we started chatting again.
In the process of chatting, I also learned that a few days ago, the village cadres came to the house to do an investigation and asked Lao Zhang if he was willing to participate in the withdrawal and relocation. It is understood that Uncle Zhang's village belongs to a village with a very serious population loss, and meets the conditions for withdrawal and relocation, and the local government has also begun to make overall arrangements, and has also begun to solicit the wishes of the villagers. And after I asked the uncle, he also expressed his opinion.
Under my inquiry, Uncle Zhang also said slowly: In fact, there are good sides and bad sides to the withdrawal and relocation of rural areas. Our village is small, and the young people have gone out to work, and most of the people who are left behind are the old people and children. If you merge with multiple villages, at least the medical and educational conditions will be much better, and the people will be concentrated and lively, unlike now, which is lifeless and very withered."
And after listening to what the uncle said, I continued to ask, "Then what do you think is the bad side?" At this time, Uncle Zhang's eyes turned into the distance, as if recalling the past: "The bad thing is that I am reluctant to leave the land and farmhouses left by my ancestors, I have lived here for a long time, I have long been accustomed to the local life, and I suddenly want to move to a new place." I always feel that it is not a taste in my heart.
There are also those old neighbors, after moving to live elsewhere, everyone is busy with their own things, and I am afraid that the closeness will never be recovered. At the same time, I am also worried that after the relocation, I will not be able to integrate into the new environment and life, and I am afraid that I will not be used to it.
To tell the truth, whether it is the withdrawal and relocation of rural areas, or the merger of villages, if analyzed from the perspective of economic development, it is undoubtedly a good move to promote the integration of urban and rural areas and improve the living conditions of peasants.
However, in the process of piloting this policy, it is worth pondering how to preserve the culture and sentiment of the villages, how to ensure that the interests of farmers are not harmed, and how to help them smoothly integrate into the new living environment.
As Uncle Zhang said, the good and bad of all this is not something that individuals can generalize. In the heart of every farmer, there is his own answer. And this answer, perhaps, it is time to listen and understand in more nuance.
Personally, I believe that the policies mainly related to relocation and merger should solicit the wishes of each farmer and take measures according to local conditions, so as to avoid the different development situations of each village and the different development strategies adopted. For some villages with very serious population loss, it is still necessary to include them in the scope of withdrawal and relocation, and build resettlement areas for the villagers of hollow villages to seek better development.
In addition, it is also necessary to merge and relocate some villages with remote geographical locations, frequent natural disasters, or poor production and living conditions, because it involves the life safety of farmers and the happiness of farmers, so it is also necessary for these villages to be relocated.
Of course, in the newly released measures this year, our country has also finalized again, not against the will of the peasants to live together in large communities, the introduction of this normative measure can also show that our country attaches great importance to the interests and ideas of the peasants themselves.
Therefore, you can also choose whether to participate in this aspect according to your own wishes and needs, and our country will not force everyone to withdraw and relocate, which you can rest assured. Okay, that's all for this issue, what do you think about it? Would you like to participate?