May Day was supposed to be a holiday for laborers, but there was not a single farmer who won the May Day Labor Medal?
As soon as the list of winners of the 2024 May Day Labor Medal was announced, it quickly caused an uproar, and the list of winners included researchers, senior engineers and senior arts and craftsmen.
The peasants, who are representatives of manual laborers, are only a handful on the list of medal winners.
Is it only the fruits of mental labor that are more evident? If it were not for the hard work of the peasants, how could we have fragrant rice?
Without the hard work of farmers, how could our society develop steadily and balancedly?
Moreover, the contribution of farmers to the country and society is often continuous, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, farmers always work hard.
Sowing seeds in the spring, watering the fields in the summer, and harvesting in the autumn, some farmers in the south will even work hard in the winter.
Farmers' contributions go far beyond that.
The history of blood and tears, how can it be ignored (the great contribution of farmers in history)
During the Anti-Japanese War, if there were no peasant soldiers to join the anti-Japanese war team, there would have been no growth and development of the anti-war team, and if there was no enthusiastic support from the peasant fathers and villagers in various regions for the anti-war team.
Not only food, but also spirit, there will be no final victory in the War of Resistance. Marshal Chen Yi once said that the victory in the Huaihai Battle was pushed by Shandong villagers with small carts.
The great leader also pointed out that the real impregnable wall is the millions of people who sincerely support the War of Resistance!
No matter how modern science and technology develop, the contributions made by the peasants during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are indelible and cannot be forgotten. Thousands of heroes of the Anti-Japanese War, all of whom were born as farmers.
In the early days of the founding of New China, the peasants once again contributed all their net worth, and the land that originally belonged only to them was concentrated in the possession of the state, and the peasants only had the right to cultivate.
You must know that before the founding of New China, land has always been the private property of peasants, but for the better establishment of New China, peasants across the country contributed their land to the state.
Only in this way will there be a smooth process of the transformation of the bourgeoisie into the proletariat. In the early 60s, there was a serious imbalance between food and employment for people living in the cities, and the state mobilized more than 20 million urban people to move to the countryside in a few years.
Subsequently, in 1965, more than 30 million people moved to the countryside one after another, and the peasants living in the countryside accepted batch after batch of urban people in more than ten years.
But it was still an era of collective ownership, and the peasants raised their own yields, reclaimed wasteland, and lowered their food rations to accommodate these city dwellers, helping New China through the most difficult period.
However, the peasants who worked hard to build New China at that time did not get their due rewards after the founding of New China, and after the construction of New China, they still stayed in the rural areas, planting land and harvesting grain, year after year.
But on the other hand, the group of people who have been enjoying the "good policies" of New China in the city have not paid anything.
They can still enjoy the old-age allowance issued by the state after retirement at the age of 60. A stark contrast between the two groups of people. For a while, there was some confusion, who are the people who have worked hard for the construction of New China?
Splendid rivers and mountains all depend on agricultural work (the important role of farmers in modern society)
Farmers have not only contributed their land, their lives, and their children to the country, but have even built almost the country's infrastructure in a matter of decades.
At present, all the national, provincial, county, and township roads are all built by peasants who have carved mountains and stones, and who have shed blood and sweat. At that time, they were in rags, starving, and worked day and night while building national and provincial roads.
But their work and labor are completely zero income. Even the rations and tools for working at that time were brought by the peasants themselves.
The efforts of these peasants who built the infrastructure were no less than every hero during the Anti-Japanese War, and without their free labor day and night, we would not have all kinds of roads in all directions today.
The contribution of the peasants is far more than the establishment of the People's Republic of China, and at the cultural level, the peasants have also made great contributions. In the current era of advanced science and technology.
Many people have forgotten the handicrafts of our predecessors, such as pottery, weaving, folk songs and dances, etc., which are all beautiful cultural heritage left by our ancestors.
As young people in the new era, our attention is focused on technology and the Internet, and we ignore the traditional skills that our ancestors have preserved through generations in order to survive.
Some people will say that there are more and more declarations of intangible cultural heritage, which proves that the traditional culture of farmers has also been inherited.
However, ask yourself whether the people who declare intangible cultural heritage are doing so to inherit the traditional culture and handicrafts left by their ancestors, or for the beautiful name of intangible cultural heritage.
Some people say that farmers' planting is repetitive, and the same work is boring, but farmers are constantly following the footsteps of society to innovate.
New crops one after another, new planting methods again and again, all sign that farmers are also trying to follow in the footsteps of the country.
So it's not that the peasants stick to the rules and abandon the country, but that the peasants are afraid that they can't keep up with the pace of the country, so they have been trying to innovate and run hard.
The farmers' dedication and contribution to agriculture should not be overlooked. From the earliest period of the Anti-Japanese War, to the period of the founding of New China, the period of transformation of New China, and then to the development and growth of China.
In every period, there are farmers who pay silently. Their contributions cannot be erased.
Because their contributions are spread in every corner of the country, their contributions have long been written on the splendid land of China.
But why are the peasants, who have contributed so much to the country, now neglected?
Whether it is personal experience or on the Internet, we can see that the difference between cities in the country is not big, they are all high-rise buildings and shopping malls and supermarkets.
However, when we go to the rural areas of various cities across the country, we find that the difference is not the slightest bit. Most of the rural areas are in a relatively poor and backward state.
Cattle and Horses (Constraints on Farmers' Development)
According to 2023 data, mainland farmers feed nearly 20% of the population with 8% of arable land, and the total area of cultivated land suitable for cultivation is only 1.9 billion mu.
The per capita cultivated land area is only 1.5 mu, and even if the peasants sweat and work their own one-third of an acre, the output is relatively small, and the land ownership belongs to the state or the collective.
Peasants cannot enjoy the added value of their land, and for example, in the recent Kailu "stop farming" incident, we only took out one point, when the contractor contracted the land.
The leaders and contractors follow the principle of the three-three system, that is, 120 acres of land, of which one-third is divided into grassland, one-third is divided into forest land, and one-third is divided into arable land. However, some local villagers reported that their family contracted more than 120 acres of land that year, and 24 acres of forest land.
Nearly 100 acres are grassland, and only 0.9 acres are irrigated land, which can be cultivated, and the land division at that time did not follow the principle of the three-three system.
After the three adjustments of the national land, 0.95 acres of irrigated land became 46 acres, but the new 45 acres of irrigated land was the result of farmers turning the grassland into irrigated land through their years of hard work, turning the land for fertilization and irrigation.
The state policy has been clearly displayed in the deception of the peasants again and again, but the inaction of certain cadres, the failure to manage and even the pursuit of benefits from the peasants in some areas have resulted in the peasants still being oppressed.
The second reason is that the price of grain is too low, the price of other materials is too fast, and the peasants have no profit at all in production, and the price of goods has risen by an average of five times in recent years, while the price of labor has increased by 10 times.
Nowadays, young people basically go out to work, and those who stay in the countryside are some old people, and the elderly are unable to farm the land themselves, and the benefits of farming are very small, so the rural areas are becoming more and more backward.
The third reason is that the country is growing stronger and the direction of development is gradually inclined towards industry, commerce and services, and there has never been a large-scale entry into agriculture, and some agriculture cannot be promoted because of some constraints
Therefore, at the level of smart agriculture, the state has invested very little in it.
Governance does not highlight the agricultural foundation (poor implementation of support policies)
The last reason, and the most important, is that the state's vigorous support policy for rural areas has not been well implemented.
In fact, there are many policies that can play a very good role in rural development.
However, most rural areas are not sustainable now, so farmers' efforts are not proportional to their returns.
Suddenly Returning to the Guard (Calling for Facing Up to the Achievements of Farmers)
It is the neglected and humble group of Chinese peasants who have contributed their indelible strength from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the development of the country, and we should not forget the peasants when we are sitting in the car and driving on every road, from the national highway to the village road.
When we take up the rice bowl, whether we lament that the current materials are too high or rejoice in the good quality and low price, we should not forget the farmers.
When we enjoy the convenience brought by oil and gas, whether it is airplanes and high-speed trains, we should not forget about farmers.
When we enjoy the state's preferential policies and facilitation policies, we should not forget the peasants. When we lament the prosperity and development of the motherland, we should not forget the peasants!
We don't sing about suffering, but we should give them respect, peasants are two words that have been ignored or even spurned by countless unscrupulous people, but our country is the accumulation of the blood and sweat of thousands of peasants.
But there are few names of farmers on the May Day Labor Medal winners, which will be released on April 30, 2024.
Is it because of the judges' "why not eat minced meat" and "self-touched", and ignore those farmers and migrant workers who have made practical contributions?