Chapter 10 Chapter 4 Under Harmony Gold Is Everywhere

On January 25, 2006, Comrade Huang Biaoquan, secretary of the Xiaolan Town Party Committee, said in his speech at the Seventh Session of the Thirteenth People's Congress of Xiaolan Town: "The work tasks in 2006 can be used as 'one, two, three 'To sum it up, the net per capita GDP will increase by 10,000 yuan, the tax revenue will reach 2 billion yuan, and three tasks will be done. The three tasks are to promote comprehensive basic quality education; adjust the industrial structure, encourage technological innovation, and develop the tertiary industry , optimize the investment environment; support ordinary income families to accelerate development and become rich. So as to achieve the goal of improving the comprehensive quality of the whole people, improving the quality of development, accelerating the pace of development, promoting common prosperity, and promoting social harmony and progress.”

Two "number one" files. Since the reform and opening up, the Party committee and government of Xiaolan Town have worked one after another to focus on the construction of new urban areas, the transformation of old urban areas, and the development of industrial areas. Promoted the process of rural urbanization and industrialization.The economic development of Xiaolan Town has reached a new level every year, and gratifying achievements have been made.The life of Xiaolan people is well-off, how will they live in the future?There is a good saying: "Wealth does not necessarily mean harmony." Obviously, the Xiaolan Town Party Committee and government are aware of this.Therefore, they carried out the basic quality education for all in the whole town with great fanfare, and took the basic quality education of citizens as the top priority.

At the beginning of the new year in 2006, the Xiaolan Town Party Committee and the government issued the "Lan Committee [2006] No. 1" document, making the "Decision to Promote Basic Quality Education for All".This is a major measure taken by the Xiaolan Town Party Committee and the government to improve the overall quality of the people, enhance the level of social civilization, adapt to economic and social transformation, and build a prosperous, civilized, and harmonious new Xiaolan. The rapid economic development of Xiaolan Town has brought Xiaolan into an important period of economic and social transformation, and the coordinated economic and social development requires a large number of high-quality talents.However, according to the survey, among the registered residents aged 17 to 40 in Xiaolan Town (excluding school students), those who have not yet graduated from high school account for a considerable proportion, which is extremely unsuitable for the sustainable development of Xiaolan’s economy and society. .The Party Committee and government of Xiaolan Town put forward the requirement of promoting the basic quality education of the whole people and improving the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural accomplishment of the people.Through the organization of the party committee, the mobilization of the community, the cooperation of the departments, the responsibility of the school, and the participation of the whole people, the advantages of human resources are transformed into the advantages of human resources, and the core competitiveness is continuously enhanced to adapt to the adjustment of industrial structure, the construction of a profitable society, the needs of market competition, and the realization of economic development. The rapid and healthy development of society.Its goal and task is: within a few years, let the household registration residents aged 17 to 40 who have not yet graduated from high school in the town learn and master a certain degree of basic cultural knowledge and basic skills by participating in the training of adult high school or adult technical secondary school , reaching the adult high school or adult technical secondary education level.At the same time, similar personnel over the age of 40 are encouraged to actively participate in training and strive to reach the corresponding level of education.

Letting residents who have not reached high school education participate in training courses and make up training courses is simply a fantasy in some places.Not to mention that this kind of activity has not been carried out, even if it is carried out, there may not be anyone who will respond or participate.But in Xiaolan, what we saw was a very hot scene.The town is currently participating in the training of 4130 people, distributed in 6 middle schools in the town, and the class attendance rate reaches 93.6%.There are two classes every night, each class lasts 45 minutes, and individuals have to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees, 380 yuan per semester.

Xiaolan is a wealthy town, and every year the government invests a lot of money in social public works.But to carry out cultural education and training for the common people, it is necessary to pay for it personally?The town leaders couldn't help laughing at our doubts.Later, Xin Qunying, the director of the Township Community Culture and Education Office, unraveled the mystery—before the training started, relevant personnel conducted a questionnaire survey to solicit the opinions of the masses. It is better to make friends with individuals or let the government pay for it.The results of the questionnaire were as expected: most people said that it should be handed in by individuals.Go deeper and ask: why?People answer: If you don’t pay by yourself, you won’t be more conscious of learning culture!Listen, this is the quality of Xiaolan people!The town party committee and town government adopted the opinions of the masses along the way.In order to encourage everyone to actively participate in learning and training, they finally formulated a reward method, that is, for those who have a class attendance rate of more than 80%, the tuition and miscellaneous fees paid by the individual will be returned to the individual in the form of rewards at the end of the term.

Director Xin Qunying told us that the town will allocate 1 million yuan per year as training funds for the cultural remedial training for adult high schools (technical secondary schools). Director Xin Qunying said that 90% of the 4,130 comrades currently participating in the training have jobs.The active participation of the masses in the training has something to do with their "practical" curriculum.They carry out adult education in line with the guiding ideology of "emphasizing the foundation and seeking practical results".According to the characteristics of a wide range of learning objects, a large age span, uneven levels, and adults, it focuses on "mass, informative, and practical", and is divided into two types: high school for adults and technical secondary school for adults, and related courses are offered.For example, in adult high schools, they mainly focus on cultural basic courses, and at the same time appropriately offer elective courses in practical professional technology.Cultural basic courses include applied Chinese knowledge, applied mathematics knowledge, applied computer knowledge, and comprehensive courses (current affairs, politics, civic ethics, family education, etc.).Adult technical secondary schools mainly focus on professional courses, and at the same time offer some basic cultural courses.For example, majors include electrician, CNC machining, printing, home appliance repair, fashion design and craft, beauty salon, agricultural planting, agricultural and horticultural design, accounting, business English, business management, administrative management (secretary), etc.The schooling period is two years.Those who pass all the subject examinations will be awarded a graduation certificate and corresponding professional technical level certificate by the town adult high school for adults, and a graduation certificate and corresponding professional technical level certificate by Zhongshan Finance and Trade Technical Secondary School for adults.Nationally recognized degree.

During the interview at the Cultural and Educational Office of Xiaolan Town that day, Director Xin Qunying and several comrades from the Cultural and Educational Office rushed to introduce us to the "interesting facts" of the cultural class: since the adult education training class was launched, there are couples who have signed up, and fathers and sons who are in the same class. Those who study at the table, there are a few people from a family who come to the classroom.There is a family of five in Yongning Community. The elderly man in his 60s brings his youngest daughter in his 20s, and his son and two daughters-in-law are also studying in the classroom.

There is a woman who is very active in training and learning. She comes before midnight every night and never asks for leave, is late or leaves early.Comrades from the Cultural and Education Office asked her why she persisted so well?The woman said that because she could not speak Mandarin, her son refused to let her go to the school's parent-teacher meeting.She said that even her son discriminated against her. If she didn't study, wouldn't she be eliminated by this society early? There is also a parent of a student who said that his purpose of attending the training is to supervise his children.He doesn't know how to use a computer, and his son is tinkering with the computer there. He can't understand whether his son is studying or playing games or chatting online. How can he supervise his son?

These are just a few of the somewhat "special" examples.More people who enter the cultural cram school are to learn knowledge and technology, and improve their competitiveness in society. The Party committee and government of Xiaolan Town, on the one hand, promote the basic quality education of citizens in the whole town, build Xiaolan Town into a learning society, and make learning culture and technology become common practice; on the other hand, encourage technological innovation of enterprises and the development of the tertiary industry; innovation etc.Like the "Decision on Promoting Basic Quality Education for All", a "No. 1" document was also issued at the beginning of the Spring Festival in 2006.However, this "No. 1" document was issued by the Xiaolan Town People's Government, called "Lanfu [2006] No. 1", with the theme of "Xiaolan Town Adjusts Industrial Structure, Encourages Technological Innovation, and Optimizes Investment Environment" Interim Measures". The "Interim Measures" make specific regulations on how to reward and reward those who have made various outstanding contributions to the society and the people in Xiaolan Town.

At the beginning of the new year in 2006, the Party Committee and the government of Xiaolan Town issued two “No. Comparing learning, progress, civilization, and contribution" is a kind of harmony in itself, a great harmony that sings the main theme of "civilization and progress"! Guarantee from the government—we heard a new thing during the interview in Xiaolan Town——Xiaolan Town has a “SME Innovation and Development Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd.”, which specializes in guaranteeing loans and entrepreneurial loans for enterprises and households with ordinary income The institutions it serves have expanded to help needy students guarantee student loans and other businesses.

The government has set up an agency to guarantee loans for enterprises and people in need. We don't know if there is such a thing in other places, at least it is rare.According to Li Jiahao, manager of Xiaolan Town Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation Development Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd., there are no other places in the country that set up a guarantee company in the name of the government in Xiaolan Town to provide loans and start-up loan guarantees for enterprises and people in need. I dare not say if there is one, but it is indeed the only one in Guangdong Province. The credit guarantee company of Xiaolan Township Government was established in 2001 with a registered capital of 50 million yuan.The company deposits this money in the bank as a guarantee fund.As of the end of March 2006, it has accumulatively provided 1.114 billion yuan of guarantee funds for enterprises, entrepreneurs and students in need, with a guarantee amount of 313 million yuan.The biggest beneficiaries of this guarantee fund are a group of entrepreneurs who originally had no funds but wanted to start a new business. The "Lanju" mosquito-repellent incense produced in Xiaolan Town is a famous brand in Guangdong Province, and the share of similar products in the country is the "boss".However, "Lanju" also experienced difficulties. At one time, there was a shortage of liquidity, which made the company unable to operate normally.When "Lanju" was desperate, the credit guarantee company guaranteed the loan for them in time, which solved their urgent need. Why does a company as big as the olive chrysanthemum mosquito-repellent incense still ask the township credit guarantee company to guarantee the loan?We can't help but have doubts. Manager Li Jiahao took over the conversation and said that because of the bank loan, there are many mortgage requirements, and the procedures are very cumbersome.A strong enterprise like "Lanju" mosquito-repellent incense is still relatively good, and it may be possible to do it without going through a guarantee company.However, bank loans sometimes cannot be afforded by the operating time of the enterprise alone.For some private entrepreneurs who have just started their businesses, it is almost "no way to go" to complete a bank loan.Of course, it will be much easier for them to find a guarantee company.The company guarantees the loan for them, which means that the guarantee company has become the "mortgage" of their loan. I see! Of course, the township SME Innovation Development Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd. guarantees loans for enterprises, not blindly, nor can it guarantee all enterprises.Guarantee companies should be treated on a case-by-case basis.For example, in the interview, manager Li Jiahao gave such an example. There is a hardware company whose boss is from Xiaolan.Due to various reasons, he went to other places to develop in the past few years.Restricted by various conditions, his business has not developed very much.The development of Xiaolan Industrial Zone was booming, so he wanted to go back to his hometown to develop.However, he lacked funds for development, so he approached the township government's guarantee company and asked the guarantee company to guarantee his loan.In this situation, the guarantee company adopts a "reverse" method to guarantee the loan for him, that is, the guarantee company assists him in buying land and setting up a factory in the industrial zone as collateral. The guarantee company first guarantees the loan for him, and after he obtains the loan After various procedures, it will be returned to the guarantee company.At present, this enterprise has developed into a medium-sized enterprise. According to manager Li Jiahao, many projects settled in the Xiaolan Town Industrial Zone adopted the above-mentioned "reverse" method to allow enterprises to obtain loans for development. Xiaolan Town Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation and Development Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd. guarantees loans for enterprises all the year round, ensuring the smooth and healthy development of enterprises, so that those small and medium-sized enterprises that want to get rich but have no financial support have a "ladder" to get rich. This is naturally A practical "harmonious" dynamic and mechanism.According to reports, the largest loan guaranteed by a guarantee company for an enterprise is as high as tens of millions of yuan. Generally, the guarantee is less than 5 million yuan, and most of them are between 500,000 and 1 million. In recent years, the most guaranteed by guarantee companies is the "startup loan" guarantee for those in need. Dong Zuwen, deputy mayor of the Xiaolan Town government, and Liang Mankun, director of the Propaganda Office of the Town Party Committee, said in an interview with us that in recent years, Xiaolan Town has adopted a series of measures to promote the development of enterprises and improve the living standards of the people.At the same time, a series of measures have been taken to help poor families solve their difficulties, get out of the predicament and gradually become rich, all of which have achieved remarkable results.In order to promote common prosperity and build a harmonious Xiaolan. According to the town leaders, in Xiaolan, the so-called general-income families refer to families with a per capita annual income of less than 30,000 yuan among the registered population of the town.The town party committee and town government encourage ordinary income family members to be self-reliant and self-reliant, work hard, and mobilize the strength of the whole society to give them necessary help for the difficulties they encounter in their entrepreneurial development.One of them is that the government's SME Innovation Development Credit Guarantee Co., Ltd. provides them with entrepreneurial loan guarantees. Guaranteeing entrepreneurial loans, this sentence itself is full of care for disadvantaged groups, families with ordinary income, those who are not satisfied with "small wealth is easy" and aspire to start a business, and those who are determined to start a business but are in short supply , a kind of support, a kind of encouragement and spur.The government is worried about making the masses rich, but there is no "start-up" funds for the masses to get rich. The government guarantees loans for the masses. Manager Li Jiahao told us that in 2005 alone, his company successfully applied for start-up loans for 49 people, with a total disbursement of 2.105 million yuan, an increase of 33 people and 1.535 million yuan in disbursements compared to the same period last year. In 2005, they also guaranteed student loans for 184 people, with a total amount of 1.9078 million yuan granted.In 2006, in the first quarter, 57 people were granted business loans with an amount of 2.455 million yuan, and 186 people were guaranteed student loans with an amount of 2.008 million yuan. This is more than a simple economic guarantee!It is a kind of sunshine, a kind of warmth, a kind of enthusiastic assistance from society and warm care from the party. It is not difficult to imagine that among the many entrepreneurial loan households guaranteed for entrepreneurs, there will be some who are doing well, some are not doing well, and there are definitely those who are not doing well. It is not impossible to lose all their money in the end.However, when talking about this point, Comrade Huang Biaoquan, Secretary of the Xiaolan Town Party Committee, said with a frank smile: "Yes, the real problem is likely to be in the business loan. Because they are a disadvantaged group and have no experience in starting a business. Therefore , we have also launched a tracking service after the loan, and strive to make all entrepreneurial loan recipients as the government wishes, as they wish, to get rich as soon as possible. The main purpose of our approach is to encourage entrepreneurship, The role of promoting employment." At the end, Secretary Huang Biaoquan said: "In order to make more people in Xiaolan Town rich and the society truly harmonious, it is worthwhile for us to pay a small amount of money!" "Three Ones" people's livelihood project - taking the road of rural urbanization, Xiaolan Town has implemented three major reforms.The first is to promote the shareholding cooperative system in rural areas, that is, to "solidify" the original collective economy to each villager, so that the villagers become stockholders, and share dividends every year.The second is to implement village-level economic accounting, which effectively reduces the cost of grassroots management and improves resource efficiency. At the same time, it also solves the problems of unbalanced development among village groups and large differences in dividends for shareholders.The third is that the village committee was restructured into a community neighborhood committee, which promoted the transformation of the town's agricultural society into an industrial and commercial society, promoted the whole town's farmers from "washing their feet to go to the fields" to "washing their brains into the city", and accelerated the process of urban-rural integration. For more than 20 years, the economy of Xiaolan Town has been advancing rapidly. However, the rapid economic development of Xiaolan Town is not without differences between rich and poor.Although most families are living a good life, it is inevitable that some families are still living very tight due to various reasons.According to the survey on the employment situation of the whole town in 2003 and 2004, there are 44 "zero employment families".There is also the phenomenon that the sick cannot afford medical treatment.The establishment of a harmonious society is to reduce or eliminate such discordant voices.For this reason, the town party committee and the town government made a decisive decision to implement the "three ones" livelihood projects in the whole town "Three Ones", that is: let every Xiaolan person (labor force) who has a desire for employment have a job, let every Xiaolan person have a medical insurance, and let every Xiaolan person of the right age have a social security. Pension. One of the people's livelihood projects: employment. In order to make every Xiaolan person with employment aspirations have a job, the town party committee and town government established the "Office for Helping Local People Get Employed" as early as 2001.The following year, the town party committee set up a leading group for employment work, with the main leader of the town party committee as the team leader, a deputy mayor and a party committee member in charge.There is an office under the leading group with a number of full-time staff.Various communities have also set up employment offices one after another.There are more than 50 full-time staff in the town.The town party committee also included employment work as one of the important contents of the cadre assessment post responsibility system. In order to increase efforts to help the masses find employment, in October 2004, the town party committee and the town government conducted a general survey on the town's employment situation in 2003 and 2004, and once again surveyed the town's "zero-employment families", families with difficulties and Unemployed persons who are willing to work and have the ability to work have conducted in-depth and detailed investigations, registered and established work files one by one, researched and formulated a "three-step" plan to help them find employment, and adopted strong measures to promote "zero-employment families". The employment of families with difficulties and unemployed persons who are willing to work and have the ability to work combines living security with job security.It not only pays attention to the living security of the economically disadvantaged, but also focuses on helping them find a way out of work; it not only pays attention to the "blood transfusion" function, but also pays more attention to the "hematopoietic" function. The "three-step" plan, namely: the first step, before the end of December 2004, mainly solve the employment problem of "zero-employment families"; the second step, before the Spring Festival of 2005, mainly solve the employment problem of "difficult families"; Three steps, before the end of June 2005, comprehensively solve the employment of those who are willing to work and have the ability to work.By the end of May 2005, the "three-step" plan had been completed ahead of schedule, and the employment problem of 961 people had been solved in the whole town.Among them, among the 44 "zero-employment families", all 42 of the remaining 42 households were employed except for two people who were sick and unable to work.Among the 199 poor families in the town, except for 18 mentally handicapped and disabled people and 4 housewives who have no intention of employment, the remaining 177 people are all employed.Among the 881 unemployed people in the town, except for 51 people who are drug addicts, sick and disabled, and over-age people and 88 people (mainly housewives) who are not willing to work, the remaining 742 people also have jobs.The current Xiaolan Township has been resettled many times, and the unemployed labor force is less than 1% of the total labor force. People's livelihood project two: medical care. With the progress of society, the development of economy, and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the problem of food and clothing is no longer a concern for most ordinary people.What they are more concerned about is the health of themselves and their families, and what they are more worried about is whether they will have medical insurance in case of health problems.Especially after suffering from a serious illness or serious illness...the common people are most concerned about such things! In order to completely solve this problem and make Xiaolan people have medical treatment, the town party committee and the town government decided to start in 2004, on the basis of the original rural cooperative medical care participated by 100,000 farmers, to establish medical care in all communities in the town. The cooperative medical system was established, and all 50,000 residents who did not participate in the cooperative medical care were included in the scope of the cooperative medical care.As of the end of June 2005, a total of 144,452 people in the town participated in the cooperative medical care.The specific method is: take the household as the unit, and the individual pays a cooperative medical insurance fund of 120 yuan per year.Focusing on "insurance for hospitalization and serious illness", 90% of the medical expenses and surgical expenses for hospitalization in the town hospital can be reimbursed, and there is no upper limit (outpatient clinics are not reported).This approach has effectively solved the phenomenon of the masses "being poor due to illness and returning to poverty due to illness".The town's cooperative medical insurance participation rate reached 92.5%, of which farmers' participation rate reached 99.8%.After owning social medical insurance, many residents have participated in cooperative medical care, thus obtaining double protection. In 2004, the town government subsidized 8 million yuan of cooperative medical funds, and in 2005, it subsidized 9.3 million yuan, providing strong medical security for the people in the town. In 2005, 219,000 people in the town participated in cooperative medical care, commercial medical care, and medical insurance, that is, one-third of Xiaolan residents enjoyed two medical insurances. The third project of people's livelihood: pension. It is the dream of every elderly person to provide for them, rely on them, and enjoy them in their old age, and it is also an important symbol of a harmonious society.For this reason, the town party committee and the town government have proposed that all people who have reached the age of age in the town must participate in social endowment insurance, and a "three-step" plan for the town's social security work has been drawn up.The first step is to ensure that all Xiaolan people working in the enterprise participate in social insurance; the second step is to ensure that all community shareholders who have reached the age participate in social insurance; the third step is to assist other local residents who have reached the age to participate in social insurance. Let every qualified Xiaolan person have a social endowment insurance as a livelihood project, which not only solves the worries of the elderly after retirement, but also creates a good environment for Xiaolan people to live and work in peace and contentment. On March 12, 2006, Luo Shugang, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visited Xiaolan Town and said in an interview with a reporter from Xiaolan TV Station: "You proposed the 'Three Ones' project...the 'Three Ones' ', solved the most basic living problems and living security of the masses, and relieved the worries of the masses. This is the foundation of life, and this is the most direct interest issue that the masses are most concerned about.... This has provided a good experience for the whole country .” Ou Guangyuan, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, said during the investigation in Xiaolan: "You have launched the 'Three Ones' project. I think this fully embodies the people-oriented, and it is of great significance to implement the scientific concept of development and build a harmonious society." You can do so many things without the premise of economic development. Without a strong economic foundation and strong economic support, other jobs are just castles in the air." Yes, nothing is possible without a strong economic foundation.Similarly, without a deep affection for the people, no matter how strong the economic foundation is, it cannot guarantee the harmonious and progressive development of society.When we interviewed Comrade Huang Biaoquan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xiaolan Town, when talking about the implementation of the "Three Ones" livelihood project, he said: "We proposed that every person in Xiaolan have a job, and it was not entirely aimed at 'zero employment. families' and 'difficult families'. We also have another consideration, that is, to mobilize members of wealthy households to actively participate in employment and create wealth for the society. The economic development of Xiaolan Town has made some people who have become richer have created ' The idea of ​​"small wealth is peace" and "a little wealth is full". If Xiaolan Town has developed a group of "lazy big heads" who have no worries about food and clothing, are hungry, idle, idle, well-developed limbs, and simple-minded due to economic development , wouldn’t it spoil the scenery of Xiaolan Town?” Secretary Huang Biaoquan's remarks are thought-provoking. Respect the rich, care for the poor, and help the "four kinds of people" Respecting the rich, caring for the poor, and helping the "four kinds of people" are the active exploration and bold practice of the Xiaolan Town Party Committee and the government of the Communist Party of China to put people first and build a harmonious society.At present, a harmonious society where everyone has their own house, little education, work, medical care, and old age, where "everyone is well-fed, and everywhere is healthy" has begun in Xiaolan Town. form. When it comes to "rich people" and "rich people", some people who have resistance to the rich often think more about "killing the rich and helping the poor", "being rich without benevolence", "rich but not expensive" such words. No wonder. We have read many poems praising roses, doves, and candles, but we have never read a poem praising the rich and the rich. On the contrary, there are quite a few diatribes against the rich and money.Is it that people don't like rich people?Is it because people are born with hatred for rich people?Is it that the rich contribute less to humanity than roses, doves and candles?no!In fact, this can only be regarded as a general "mentality" of people, or a psychological "confrontation" of people to the rich-with such a resistance, how can they write poems praising the rich? What about the money man? However, in Xiaolan Town, "respect the rich, learn from the rich, and catch up with the rich" is a long-established social custom; . At the beginning of 2005, the Party committee and government of Xiaolan Town put forward the call of "respecting the rich and caring for the poor" to the whole town. According to the survey, about 6.4% of the wealthy families in Xiaolan Township have household assets exceeding 10 million yuan.The town party committee believes that these "rich people" rely on the party's reform and opening up policy, give full play to their ingenuity, and live a prosperous life through hard work and hard work.They not only accumulated assets, but also paid taxes to the country, and created a large number of jobs, making outstanding contributions to the country and society, especially the economic development of Xiaolan Town.Rich people should be respected by the whole society.The town party committee, the town government and the people of the town should create a better environment, make the rich richer, and create more wealth for the society.For this reason, the town party committee called on the people of the town to follow the example of the rich and encourage more people to start businesses, work hard, and embark on the road to wealth.On the one hand, the town party committee and the government organize entrepreneurs to visit other provinces, cities and foreign countries every year, and exchange extensively, so that they can obtain market information, understand the development of the situation, make the enterprise bigger and stronger, and provide support for enterprises with good growth and lack of liquidity. Coordinate with financial institutions to provide loans.On the one hand, it actively guides education and encourages the rich to "be rich and be kind" and "be rich and do good", actively participate in various public welfare and charitable activities, such as poverty alleviation, disaster relief and education, and actively help those in need, Dedicate love to the society, and use practical actions to win the respect of the society and the broad masses of the people.28 cultural and sports associations have been established in the town. According to the hobbies and interests of entrepreneurs, they are invited to the associations and let them take certain leadership positions.For example, the general manager of Vantage Company is the chairman of the Town Photography Association, the chairman of Lanju Group is the director of the Town Youth Calligraphy Association and the consultant of Xiaolan Printing House, the chairman of Huafeng Lock Company is the vice chairman of the Town Basketball Association, and so on.The Township Basketball Association alone gathers dozens of owners of large and medium-sized enterprises.These entrepreneurs are not only active participants in cultural and sports activities, but also organizers and planners, and more importantly, sponsors of cultural and sports activities.For example, the town's traditional three-person basketball game, Chinese chess game, table tennis open game, calligraphy and painting competition and other activities are all voluntarily funded by entrepreneurs. The cultural and sports activities carried out by various associations have greatly enriched the leisure life of the masses, enhanced cultural taste, and created a harmonious social atmosphere. Caring for the lives of the masses, especially the lives of the poor, is an important part of building a harmonious society and maintaining social stability. As of the end of 2005, the poor households in Xiaolan town still accounted for about 3.1%.The difficulties of these families are not caused by "social system reasons", "lack of jobs" or "personal reasons", but "special reasons"—some even "unpredictable reasons" due to.For example, if a family member suffers from a terminal or chronic disease; if an accident leads to incapacity for work; if a family member has a genetic defect... What should we do for these families who are impoverished due to various reasons?While advocating respect for the rich, the town party committee and the town government pay more attention to the work of caring for and helping the poor.The town has invested manpower, financial resources, and material resources in various ways and channels to build and improve the social assistance system: the minimum living security system, the five-guarantee household support system, temporary difficulty assistance, basic medical reimbursement system, education fund system, and employment assistance have been established. Social assistance systems such as legal aid and legal aid have formed a good social custom of caring for and helping vulnerable groups in the whole society. Today, in Xiaolan Town, the minimum living standard is 350 yuan per capita per month.A total of 829 households with 2,439 people in the town handle minimum living allowances. The funds are jointly borne by the city and township governments. The monthly payment of low living allowances is 371,557 yuan, and the township finance bears 73.6% of the amount.The living allowance for disabled soldiers has also been increased from 500 yuan per month per family to 800 yuan per month. At the same time, the government has invested 356,352 yuan to purchase social pension insurance and medical insurance for 48 disabled soldiers, completely solving the worries of disabled soldiers. .The work of temporary difficulty relief has also been done impressively. From 2001 to the end of 2005, the town provided temporary relief to more than 500 people, with a relief amount of 1,578,744 yuan.Since 2003, the town party committee and the town government have decided to implement the reimbursement system for basic medical assistance in the whole town, and formulated a quota assistance system of 35 yuan per person per month for rural low-income households and 42 yuan per person per month for urban low-income households. Reduced the medical burden of low-income families. In 2005, the town adjusted the standard of basic medical assistance to 500 yuan per person per year. At the same time, it purchased cooperative medical care for all 1,675 members of low-income families in the town, which solved the problem of poor people's difficulty in seeing a doctor.From 2001 to 2005, the town subsidized nearly 200 students from outside the town to study in high schools, colleges and technical secondary schools, with a subsidy amount of more than 700,000 yuan.At the same time, the activity of "Sharing a piece of love under the blue sky" was also carried out. More than 500 party members and cadres in the town paired up to help 850 students from families with difficulties... Oh, society is too complicated!All kinds, all-encompassing.Building a harmonious society is easier said than done!It requires balancing and coordinating every section and paying attention to every corner of the whole.Xiaolan people, who are economically booming, politically civilized, and people's livelihood happy, have to devote part of their energy to managing the "four kinds of people"! The so-called "four kinds of people" refer to drug addicts, those released after serving their sentences, people with deviant behavior (including students with deviant behavior at school), and teenagers who have dropped out of school. "Although there are not many of these 'four kinds of people' in Xiaolan Town, if education and transformation cannot be done effectively, it will not only affect their current and future families, but also cause social instability and make them a social burden. Therefore, the town party committee has attached great importance to this work, and included community education and employment work as one of the assessment contents of civilized community construction." Huang Biaoquan, secretary of the town party committee, said. In order to do a good job in the work of the "four kinds of people", in August 2004, Xiaolan Town established the "Xiaolan Town Community Education and Employment Office", which is in charge of a deputy secretary and a party committee member.Each community has also established a "Community Education and Employment Office", and the whole town has established a community education and employment team composed of 159 people. Xin Qunying and Mai Shaorong, two persons in charge of the Township Education and Employment Office, introduced to us that since 2000, in the past seven years, the town has had a total of 283 people who have been released after serving their sentences, 524 people who have been released from drug addiction, and 204 people who have dropped out of school. There are 142 personnel (including school deviation students).The town party committee and the town government require that we must do a good job in tracking the life and thoughts of drug addicts and those released after serving their sentences, and try to find ways to properly arrange suitable jobs for them so that they can reintegrate into society as soon as possible and start a new life.We must enthusiastically and patiently do a good job in the ideological education of people with behavioral deviations, so that they can change their views on society and their outlook on life.We must actively help the dropouts to solve various difficulties and problems encountered in their studies so that they can return to school to complete their studies.In order to do a good job in the work of the "four kinds of people", the comrades of the town's education and employment office "take a multi-pronged approach" and adopt methods such as combining with society, school, and family, combining with employment work, and combining with training work. , received a noticeable effect. Comrades Xin Qunying and Mai Shaorong also introduced us a lot of vivid examples - Li, a girl in the second year of junior high school, was influenced by the outside world, often went in and out of bars, and later she didn't even want to go to school!Comrades from the Township Education and Employment Office sought the school and parents to find out the situation over and over again. After finding out the "specific situation" of the student, they "prescribed the right medicine" and finally made Li return to the classroom. Luo, a social youth, was an only child. After his father passed away, because his mother was a cleaner with a meager income and could not meet his expenditure requirements, he often beat his mother.The comrades of the town education and employment office learned of this situation and took the initiative to come to Luo's ideological work many times.First, he was mobilized to participate in skills training courses, and after graduation, he was helped to contact a company and let him work as a maintenance worker.Now, Luo Mou not only stopped beating his mother, but also gave her money to spend, and even talked about a girlfriend... According to reports, almost all of the 179 dropouts in the town have returned to school.Most of the other "three kinds of people" also repented and rehabilitated, integrated into society, and embarked on a new life. Respecting the rich, caring for the poor, and helping the "four kinds of people" - these heart-warming activities carried out by Xiaolan Town are really touching.These seemingly "little" and "ordinary" things, if not handled properly, will cause endless troubles and bring great sorrow to the society, the family and the individual.For example, those children who drop out of school, if there is no caring activity to help the "four kinds of people", they will fall into the mud, and they will not even be able to extricate themselves.Now they are all back in class... 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