Chapter 23 10. The eighth of the top 10 surveys: trends in China

China's rural civilization, which lasted for thousands of years, has completely disappeared in the past 10 years. When our public opinion, capital, policy, culture and other factors join forces to fabricate a set of stories about urban advancement and rural backwardness, rural residents who lack the ability to judge are instilled with a new set of values. The catastrophic consequences were incalculable. Topic introduction: The complicated urbanization problem - the disappearance of rural civilization - the trend in China If we go back and select a series of the most serious problems for China's social development in the past 10 years, then we will definitely get countless answers.

Industrialization lags behind urbanization, urban infrastructure construction is insufficient, unemployed population surges, traffic problems are serious... When we are troubled by these complicated and chaotic problems, we can actually attribute the crux of the problem to urbanization. What we can see is that in the past 10 years, the space for all the above-mentioned problems has basically been concentrated in our cities, and the larger the first-tier cities, the more serious the responses to the above-mentioned problems. Since the founding of our country, we have been following a path of promoting industrialization while controlling urban development. However, although our awareness is sufficiently advanced, the actual implementation is just the opposite. What we can see everywhere in China is that a group of millions Large and medium-sized cities with a large population do not have corresponding pillar industries or core industries as economic support.

According to relevant data, my country's current industrialization process is still far behind our urbanization process, especially in most cities in northern my country, the high shortage of industrial enterprises has seriously restricted the development of the local economy, thus A series of difficult urbanization problems have been triggered. The slow industrialization process has directly brought about the stagnation of local government profit and tax revenue. In some northern cities, with the bankruptcy of many old large enterprises, this situation has become more and more serious.

The lack of government revenue directly affects the construction of municipal infrastructure. When the population grows rapidly, the lack of supporting facilities will inevitably lead to the phenomenon of backward city appearance, traffic congestion, and the inability to meet the basic needs of the people. On the other hand, when the industrialization process cannot keep up with the urbanization process, the more serious consequences are that the city's demand for labor will remain in a saturated state, and a large number of laid-off workers will be laid off from northern cities. workers, and then to the large amount of cheap labor in the southeast coastal cities, what we see is a more prominent problem of oversupply of urban labor.

According to the estimates of scholars, in the next ten years, a major challenge China will face is how to create 20 million job opportunities every year to fully absorb the surplus labor force. Therefore, there are voices everywhere, and it is believed that the large influx of rural population into the city has caused today's situation. In order to prove the accuracy of this statement, scholars who hold this point of view cited data as a reference. According to estimates, the number of migrant workers in cities is about 100 million every year, and the number in Shanghai and Beijing alone exceeds 6 million.And it is the influx of a large number of rural population that makes the already very weak infrastructure in the city even more tense.

Therefore, this school of views clamored loudly and demanded that the state implement policy measures to allow the remaining rural population to return to the countryside, so as to completely relieve the pressure in the cities. However, what we want to say is that, judging from the current situation, it is absolutely difficult for those rural population scattered in the cities to return to their homes. To answer this question, we must start from the trend of the past ten years. Find answers in change. If we want to find an answer to the questions in the previous section, then we have to face such a reality.

This is China's millennium-old rural civilization, which has completely disappeared in the past 10 years. When we are faced with all kinds of problems brought about by urbanization, when we are in an economic recession and expect millions of migrant workers to return to the countryside and start their own businesses there to reduce the pressure on the cities, we are surprised to find all this It is already impossible. The reason for this is that in the past 10 years, the rural environment on which farmers depend for survival is suffering unprecedented damage. The vast majority of human civilization originated from agricultural civilization, and the birthplace of agricultural civilization began in the countryside. Therefore, our history is always full of praise for rural life.As praised by many idyllic poems, in the hearts of many urban people, the countryside is a symbol of beauty, and it is also the most fundamental place for human beings to return to.

Even in developed European and American countries, rural civilization has not been destroyed due to the process of urbanization, but has always represented the solid foundation of the national spirit, ranging from political ideas and social structures to personal values ​​and cultural life. Determined by the unilateral civilization of the city, it can even be said that the city represents the flower of civilization, while the countryside is the foundation of civilization. In the United States, the president can invite politicians to the countryside to share barbecues, and capital tycoons also have their own farms. It is based on this that people in these countries always have sincere envy when it comes to rural life, so let the cities The residents in the village have always maintained this organic connection with the countryside in spirit.

However, in China in the past 10 years, the last vestige of the rural society is also quietly dying. Originally, we could preserve this kind of rural civilization to the greatest extent in the future social structure, so that when we encounter excessive pressure from urbanization, we have enough room to make concessions and transfer the population pressure to the countryside.Unfortunately, under the intrusion of urban civilization, all kinds of weird distortion theories gradually affect the concept of each of us. In the eyes of the vast majority of people in China today, the countryside represents backwardness and ignorance. Conversely, only the city is a symbol of advancement and civilization.

When countless experts and scholars paid attention to this and exaggerated the inevitable transformation of human society from agriculture to industry, and from rural civilization to urban civilization, this concept was further strengthened and became more popular. As a result, things took a turn for the worse, and many pretentious people began to spread the so-called advanced urban culture to the countryside, fabricating the myth that urbanization equals modernization; land prices, and then turned their attention to the countryside, demolished the villages that carried a strong rural civilization, and drove the rural residents into rigid concrete buildings.

When our public opinion, capital, policy, culture and other factors join forces to fabricate a set of stories about urban advancement and rural backwardness, rural residents who lack the ability to judge are instilled with a new set of values. The catastrophic consequences were incalculable. Rural civilization has become a representative of backwardness, and rural residents are labeled as backward. This situation is unbearable, so the inferiority complex of rural people becomes more and more intense. In their hearts, the ultimate goal of personal struggle It is to leave the countryside as soon as possible, leave the countryside forever, and permanently leave the homeland that is scorned as a backward place, and the residents of the city have all kinds of arrogant emotions because of this. The rural population flocks to the city, but the urban population will never transfer to the countryside, and the city's capacity to accept is limited. When thousands of rural population flock to the city collectively, it will inevitably bring unprecedented pressure to the city. problems that we described in the first section. On the other hand, with the one-way flow of population to the city, the resources of the countryside are rapidly lost until they are extinct, and these rural population who have entered the city have not been able to quickly adapt to the unfamiliar urban civilization. When they are wasting time in the city, When they want to return to the countryside, they find that the rural civilization they used to survive has been reduced to an empty shell in a short period of time. In the current Chinese society, trend has become a term we are familiar with.The reason why this term is repeatedly mentioned in the media, public opinion and our lives lies in the characteristics it contains. As far as trends are concerned, their forms and contents are diverse. Whether we pay attention to trends or not, we can feel its existence anytime and anywhere, and this is determined by the characteristics of trends. The so-called trends, whether they are cultural phenomena or social trends, or even clothing styles and public tastes, all have in common that they have an extremely fast speed of transmission, an astonishing range of influence, and an astonishing influence on the bottom of the society. When we understand the content of urbanization and the demise of rural civilization, we will find that the problems we mentioned above are the best reflection of the trend of an era. Whether it is a large number of rural population moving into the city or the demise of rural civilization, the speed is astonishing. As far as the scope of the impact is concerned, in every village in China today, there is a considerable proportion of the population moving into the city. In turn, maintaining There are very few villages with rural civilization in the true sense, because of the wide spread of the trend. More importantly, the public's judgment and group thinking ability are absolutely incapable of resisting and resisting the trend. As the French psychologist Poller?As Gustave said, how people can behave depends entirely on the nature of the currents affecting them. When this nature is positive, progressive, and meaningful, then the public's performance will be correspondingly positive and beneficial.Conversely, if the cues that govern the behavior of the populace are negative currents, then the behavior of the populace will be dire. In this sense, over the past 10 years, our citizens have been manipulated into throwing themselves into a trend that is completely contrary to our national conditions. Such a reality makes us sad, but it does exist. In this process, individual power will do nothing. The only hope that can be pinned is that in the near future, society will automatically complete the reversal of the trend.