Chapter 47 There are no peasants in the peasant city

Building a new city, in terms of experience alone, is completely foreign to the first generation of peasants.However, after years of hard work, they have already mastered a simple and practical method, that is: leave all problems to the market. There is no money for municipal construction, and farmers pay for it themselves. Even the program-controlled telephone network with an investment of more than 80 million yuan was built by farmers in the city according to their shares; The money for the road, so that the factory building is built, and the road is also repaired; there is no money for the development of the tidal flat, and the farmers still pay for it themselves, and the 20,000 mu of tidal flat has been renovated in just four years; there are also the introduction of scientific and technological personnel, construction of hotels, Building hospitals, running schools, building cultural and entertainment centers... More than 100,000 Longgang farmers have "contracted" all of Longgang City, and their wisdom and creativity have been brought into full play in this large-scale contract.

It is in this carefree and free investment and construction atmosphere that Longgang has made rapid progress and its appearance has changed drastically. In May 1997, after a five-year absence, we walked on the spacious and straight road of Longgang again. Looking around, we saw street scenes full of modern urban atmosphere: buses moving slowly, pretty and conspicuous The unmanned telephone booths, the traffic lights of the city signs, the high-altitude cable car for amusement facilities, the first private foreign language school in the country... For a while, we sighed that "we meet face to face but don't know each other".

Today's Longgang has an urban area of ​​58 square kilometers, comparable to that of Wenzhou City in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, with a population of 150,000 residents and 800 industrial enterprises in the city. In 1994, the National Bureau of Statistics assessed the strength of tens of thousands of villages and towns across the country. Longgang, a young peasant city "made out of nothing", ranked 17th in the country's comprehensive economic strength of towns and towns, and it can be said to have outstanding performance. Most of the peasants who come to the city are capable people in the market.They not only brought in billions of dollars of capital, but also brought in countless market networks, which made Longgang quickly become an economic center and material distribution base in southern Zhejiang, and formed a regenerative city with its own characteristics. Ten professional markets including blankets, cloth corners, steel products, and industrial products.Among them, the professional market for recycled acrylic blankets has become the highest in the country with an annual sales of 20 million blankets.

However, the pace of building the city of Longgang people did not stop there.At the west end of Farmer City.A Longgang New Town whose scale is equivalent to half of the existing urban area has been put into development.With an investment of 2 billion yuan, this new city takes a 50-meter-wide and 3.4-kilometer-long commercial street as its main axis, with huge buildings of different colors on both sides. According to the current plan, there are skyscrapers with more than 20 floors. There are nearly 20 seats. This is today's Longgang, a "strange" peasant city being built by a group of "strange" farmers.

Just as we were about to leave Longgang, another Longgang news attracted the attention of the national news media. According to the spirit of the 11 ministries and commissions of the State Council on the comprehensive reform of small towns in Longgang, with the approval of relevant departments, all farmers in the urban area of ​​Longgang will turn into urban residents in the near future.After applying for household registration, residents will enjoy the same treatment as other urban residents in terms of enrolling in school, joining the army, and getting a job. Another unprecedented record.

"There are no peasants in the peasant city", countless newspapers and TVs in the city reported this matter in such a tone of praise and envy. In the eyes of all townspeople, what gift could be more precious to their peasant brothers?Longgang people are so lucky. In Longgang, such a true story happened: In 1987, an old man who moved from Yishan village was about to die.He has made a lot of money all his life, but he just doesn't have an urban resident registration. Thinking that what he will leave to his children and grandchildren is a "farm gate" passed down from generation to generation, he can't close his eyes at the end of his life.

For a time, this incident became the spiritual motivation for the people of Longgang to build the city angrily. At this moment, the wish of the old man has finally come true ten years after his death, and we look forward to sharing the joy of Longgang people. However, in those few days, there were not many festive scenes in Longgang.Many farmers only know that they are no longer farmers from the lively newspapers and TV. They smiled, handed each other a cigarette, and went to do their own work separately. We were puzzled at first. But gradually we understood. If it was a few years ago, something like this would have made them jump for joy and hug each other.

But now, when the miracle first appeared and the dream came true, this kind of treatment no longer has much temptation and weight in the hearts of Longgang people. How meaningful is it to Longgang people who have already crossed the barrier between urban and rural areas to spend a few hundred yuan on a food insurance and get back an urban resident registration card? They already have the prosperous city and comfortable life that city dwellers have.However, the entrepreneurial glory and creative passion they possess are not necessarily possessed by urban residents. Perhaps, they prefer to be a farmer and Longgang to be a peasant city. Isn't this more distinctive and eye-catching?