On the first night of the new year, the little kids in the village kept calling Su Ye to go to the movies, and even Su Ye was fed up with their enthusiasm. Gu Xiangqian couldn't find a place to stand, so he could only look at her from a distance and smile implicitly.
"Teacher Su, the projectionist is here again! The Party Secretary wants you to go to the movies."
"Teacher Su, the captain said that these melon seeds and milk candies are all for you!"
"Smell the candy, isn't it fragrant? Uncle Ma exchanged it for orange juice."
Niu Dan gave Su Ye a small bag of Shanghai White Rabbit candies. After tearing off the white candy wrapper, one could easily see the smooth and delicate candy. Su Ye looked carefully and found that Ma Gensheng had found this thing! Gu Xiangqian had bought her candies before, but it was because of this that Su Ye realized that it was not easy to get some candies these days, and you might not be able to buy them even with a ticket.
Su Ye ate one, and her lips and teeth were surrounded by a familiar taste. She shared the remaining candy with the children around her, and they were so happy that their faces turned red.
This was the first time in their lives that they had tasted something as precious as milk candy. The milk candy was fragrant and sweet, and the sweetness went into people's hearts. There was nothing more delicious in the world!
The old branch secretary drove away the group of greedy babies with disdain, thinking that they were careless. Ma Gensheng found Niu Dan to give candy to Su Ye, and let the thief guard the treasure. Isn't this embezzlement? What is it
"Didn't Uncle Niu give each of you one candy? How dare you take these few candies? Ask Teacher Su for them!"
Su Ye waved her hand and said it was okay. She had eaten White Rabbit candy many times, but it was the first time for the children in the village to eat candy. Since Shanggou Village built a juice factory, they have been able to exchange for more materials. From food, cloth, cement bricks to small cigarettes, alcohol, and tickets. I didn't expect that now they can even exchange for White Rabbit for export.
Secretary Ma smiled at Gu Xiangqian and took out a pack of Panda brand cigarettes from his pocket and handed them to him. "Teacher Su is generous and easy-going. All the kids in the village run to her. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. You came to our village two years ago and you know what it was like before. Now, we have factories and grow high-yield sweet potatoes, peanuts, and corn. We can have enough to eat and meat. You can say that these good days were brought by her. Alas... it's just that she has been delayed for the past two years."
Secretary Ma knew that Su Ye was a student from a prestigious university and had even won the top spot in the imperial examination the year before last. She was being delayed by staying in Shanggou Village.
Gu Xiangqian didn't smoke, so he just took the cigarette but didn't light it. After listening to Secretary Ma's words, he said without hesitation: "She applied for a leave of absence, not dropping out, and the school also agreed. When she has time in the future, she can go back to study. Your village is well built, and the leaders of the provincial party committee attach great importance to the construction of your village."
In this environment, it is impossible to achieve this without the green light from the leaders. Although Shanggou Village is just a small rural village, it represents a model that has far-reaching significance for the entire province and even the whole country.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Zhang Ying called Su Ye to inform him to make good preparations, as the leaders of the Provincial Economic Commission were interested in investigating Shanggou Village.
When Shanggou Village was carrying out reforms, it was done in secret. Apart from hoisting the banner of "high-yield grain experimental field", other places did not dare to make a high-profile announcement. When other villages asked them what they were doing, they just said "it needs to be kept secret".
The leaders of the provincial party committee had suffered losses in the Great Leap Forward a few years ago and did not dare to release any "satellite" at will. The province first tried to grow sweet potatoes for a year and only dared to submit the data to the government after personally verifying the success.
At the end of last year, Zhang Ying formally proposed to report the materials of Shanggou Village model to the central government at the work summary meeting of the provincial party committee. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, after the reporter of the provincial newspaper interviewed, the comrades of the Economic Commission heard from somewhere that Shanggou Village was undergoing reforms. They were sensitive to the smell and discovered the work for the new year. Last spring, the central government issued several red-headed documents in a row, "striving to grasp agricultural production, stabilize the overall grain situation, and ensure the people's vegetable basket." If the Economic Commission does a good job in Shanggou Village, this year's performance will be even better. This is not icing on the cake, but timely help!
If this isn't just catching up with the sleepy guy and handing him the pillow, what is this
Zhang Ying called Su Ye overnight and told him to prepare well and be calm so as not to bring shame to the province. Secretary Li joked, "Don't worry, leader! Comrade Su Ye's greatest strength is that he can keep his composure."
She can make up a lot of stories about things that are not true. Secretary Li heard that she had deceived a group of students into going to the countryside to work for her for free with just empty words, and she also kidnapped teachers from their schools during the trip. When she went to the port city, a group of Hong Kong businessmen came to Qingxi County, a remote place, and specifically asked to purchase tea from Shanggou Village. It is said that many of those Hong Kong businessmen are worth hundreds of millions of yuan. She can hold her own in front of these bosses, so how can she be afraid in front of leaders who earn a few hundred yuan a month
Of course, this was also due to her own ability. All the students she taught were admitted to universities, which contributed a lot to the county. To this day, they are always grateful to Su Ye.
Zhang Ying smiled and reminded him on the phone, "The Economic Commission is not in the same system as us. It will be very beneficial to Shanggou Village if we can get the support of the Economic Commission."
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, leaders from the State Economic Commission came to Shanggou Village. The full name of the Economic Commission is the State Economic Commission, which is responsible for the country's macroeconomic regulation of economic operations, organizing annual plans and coordination.
Teacher He and Zhou Yi and others stayed up all night to compile a set of materials on the Shanggou Village model, reporting in detail its economic changes over the past two years. Fortunately, Teacher He had to attend a meeting at the beginning of the year, so he had sorted out the materials before the New Year. Otherwise, he would not have been able to face these leaders.
Su Ye discussed with them about making a "five-year plan" to tap into the advantages of Shanggou Village and vigorously develop the economy. Teacher He wanted to devote his life to this cause until his death. He only regretted that he did not have enough knowledge. The young men who were temporarily recruited did not have much knowledge. Fortunately, Zhou Yi was in charge of the affairs of connecting with Hong Kong businessmen during this period. He went to the port city several times last year and made up for his economic knowledge. He could be considered to have seen the world to some extent.
Several people racked their brains to write several plans, and Su Ye jokingly called it "crossing the river by feeling the stones." This time, they finally experienced a little bit of the taste of reform and opening up.
Although Mr. He believes that the village has made a lot of progress, after careful writing, he found that they are still far behind. They are still good in the province, but not in the whole country. The disposable income of the entire village is not as good as that of a factory in the city. How can they get the favor of the leaders
However, there are so many things they can do in five years. After five years, their per capita annual income will reach 500 yuan, every household will be able to build a new house, and the GDP of the whole village will reach 1 million yuan. (Teacher Su said this is a concept proposed by Keynes, and Americans use it to measure the level of development and economic conditions)
At noon on the second day of the Chinese New Year, a deputy director of the Economic Commission named Zhu came to Shanggou Village, accompanied by a five-member investigation team.
There was nothing new in Shanggou Village. Su Ye took them to visit the tea garden, pig farm, chicken farm, duck farm, orchard, and the newly built juice factory in the village.
Although these were nothing new in the eyes of the villagers, they were like a violent tsunami in the eyes of the comrades in the Economic Commission.
How could their village have a farm that exceeded the standards
The tea exported for foreign trade is split 40% with the government and 60% with Shanggou Village getting 40%. Normally, the export of agricultural and sideline products is split 30% between the government and the collective and 70% between them. Shanggou Village is still getting a good deal.
The most incredible thing is that the provincial party committee actually acquiesced to their village's decision to "pay enough grain to the state, and the rest is theirs." These actions hit the comrades of the State Economic Commission hard.
Su Ye had a faint smile on his face and slowly explained, "Because our village is a high-yield grain experimental site in the province, as long as there is an experiment, there will be success and failure. If the experiment fails, we will not be able to meet the grain target for this year."
"The experiment was successful. Comrades from the provincial Ministry of Agriculture will also consider the issue of seed preservation to facilitate the expansion of production in the next quarter. We have no say on how much grain to deliver. Everything depends on the provincial plan. The provincial party committee decided that we should deliver enough to meet the national quota, and the rest will be given to us for research."
Several comrades from the Economic Commission nodded after listening to this. The situation in the experimental village was indeed special. The grain handed over by other villages was just grain, but the grain handed over by their village was seeds.
"This initiative by the leadership has greatly stimulated the collective's enthusiasm for production." Teacher He added, "Other research projects require a large amount of funding from the province every year, but our village is basically self-sufficient. We use the ecological cycle to raise poultry and livestock to make green fertilizers to cultivate experimental fields, and the mature meat and egg poultry are supplied to supply and marketing cooperatives and units, and the funds earned are used to cultivate new varieties."
Comrades from the Economic Commission visited the village's juice factory, a row of blue brick and tile houses, clean and tidy. Zhou Yi reported the village's "economic accounts" to them in clear and powerful words.
"Last quarter, we harvested about 30 tons of fruit, made 40,824 bottles of juice and sold them to the local market, making a profit of 38,210 yuan. Village cadres took the lead in fish farming, and last year we harvested 20,000 tons of fish, making a profit of 5,801 yuan... However, the main source of income for the village is still the export of tea. Last year, a Hong Kong businessman in our village signed a contract to export about 2 tons of tea to the port city. Last year, we created nearly 301,234 Hong Kong dollars in foreign exchange and 30,235 yuan in taxes for the government."
"This is just an economic account. In addition, our village produces 600 kilograms of eggs, 900 kilograms of pork, and 600 kilograms of poultry every month... The high yield of sweet potatoes in our village has tripled the sweet potato production in Qingxi County last year. According to the data reported by the Qingxi County People's Commune at the end of this year, this year's sweet potato production is 13,109 tons more than last year, which directly or indirectly alleviates the pressure on the market for grain, meat and eggs."
The comrades from the Economic Commission, who had originally been quite indifferent, took a deep breath after hearing the figures reported by Zhou Yi.
At the same time, He Meimei distributed a "Five-Year Plan" to each leader. The white, brand-new paper was printed with neat handwriting, and it was obvious that it had just been printed not long ago. If you got close, you could still smell the scent of ink. Deputy Director Zhu couldn't wait to open the 50-page plan, and the more he read, the more surprised he became.
No wonder the provincial party committee gave it the green light; this inconspicuous rural area could actually play such a crucial role!