Dang Guoying, a senior researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is an expert on peasant issues, and he proposed: "At present, it is not appropriate to raise the minimum standard of rural pensions, because for the finance, there is a lot of pressure to increase the pension level of more than 700 million members of collective economic organizations."
China's history is inseparable from the development of the peasant masses, and the contribution of the peasant masses to the country and to society cannot be expressed in words, including the former encirclement of the cities by the countryside, revolutionary activities all began in the countryside, the countryside is inseparable from agricultural production, the countryside is inseparable from the peasant masses, and only if the rural masses are rich, then the people of the whole country will become rich.
The peasant masses are bitter, the peasant masses are tired, this is everyone knows, the income of the peasant masses is not high, this is also a big problem that needs to be solved, the Central No. 1 document also pointed out that to comprehensively promote rural consumption, the income of the rural masses is not very high, but the rural masses have a large base, there are about 700 million, only to promote rural consumption, can promote the consumption of the whole country.
Although the state's standard for pensions is increasing every year, they are rising, and they have achieved 17 consecutive years of increases, but because the gap between urban and rural areas is too large, some urban residents have been able to receive a pension of more than 1,000 yuan, but the pension of the rural masses, most of them are around 100 yuan, although the rural living consumption is low, but the pension of more than 100 yuan still cannot promote rural consumption.
According to Dang Guoying, according to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in 2020 is 17131 yuan, the growth rate income of the peasant masses is higher than the growth rate of urban residents, and there are many income channels for the peasant masses, including migrant income, agricultural operation income, property income, and transfer payment income, and the state will implement a 5-year transition period in the next step of rural revitalization, so the income of the peasant masses is growing steadily.
Therefore, he believes that raising the pension standard of the peasant masses, there are more than 700 million peasant masses, has increased the current financial expenditure, so his point of view is that it is not appropriate to raise the minimum pension standard of the rural masses at present, in my opinion, his statement is that it is not appropriate to raise the pension of the peasant masses, and it is necessary to continue to maintain the very low pension standard level of the peasant masses.
From the above data, it can also be seen that the minimum pension in the countryside, most places is about 100 yuan per month, the minimum standard of pension is not too high, appropriately to raise the minimum pension standard of the peasant masses, in my opinion, it should still be feasible, after all, our national fiscal revenue, are steadily growing rapidly, for raising the minimum pension standard of the peasant masses, should still be able to bear.
As for Dang Guoying, he also said that to raise the minimum standard of rural pensions, that is, only to achieve agricultural modernization, to solve the problem that the income of the peasant masses is not high, and the wool is out of the sheep, so he believes that if the minimum standard of rural pensions is raised, then the standard of pensions paid by the rural masses will also be raised, which may have a certain reason, but to achieve agricultural modernization, it will take a long time, so the road to raising the minimum standard of pensions for the peasant masses is still very long.
Last year, member Wang Xuekun proposed that peasants over the age of 60 should wash their feet and go to the fields and provide for themselves in the old age; the peasant masses have suffered all their lives and are tired for a lifetime, and when they are over 60 years old, they should also enjoy their old age in peace.
For the effective improvement of the minimum standard of rural pensions, the majority of people are in favor, only a few people are opposed, and many people agree with Dang Guoying's statement that the income growth level of the rural masses is too fast, higher than the growth rate of urban residents, is this right or wrong?