Chapter 81 Preliminary Decision
After resting at home for a day, Guo Yang and Lao Song couldn't wait to run to the county town.
Guo Yang is not a picky person, but he really can't adapt to an environment where fresh water is scarce.
The eldest brother Guo Shan likes to add fennel to the water, and he said with a smile that it would taste better.
Guo Yang looked at his genuine smile, and his heart was suddenly touched.
Historically, Minqin was a lakeside oasis with abundant water and grass, farming and fishing in the Hexi region.
With the changes of history, oasis and desert have become more and more opposite.
Rich geographical endowments and harsh natural environment are painfully intertwined, thus creating the people's tough and rugged character.
China has never been short of heroes for sand control, but some are remembered, but more of them are silently pressing grass squares and planting saplings in the wind and sand. .
No matter how poor Long Province is, it is not the fault of the people. No matter how rich the city is, it is not the fault of the local people.
If you don't like it, leave; if you like it, stay and change.
All the way to the county seat, Guo Yang had asked someone from Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry to make an appointment yesterday.
The county leaders were naturally very happy.
They missed it when they were selecting the site for the 200,000-acre saline-alkali land improvement project of Alfalfa. This time they couldn’t let the fat sheep slip away.
"Mr. Guo, I have long admired your name. I have long heard that Algohe came to inspect Minqin. I didn't expect that Mr. Guo is a local."
"You are young and promising!"
"No matter where or how much land Alfalfa wants to acquire in the county this time, the county will fully cooperate."
"For those who return home to start a business Rich, the county must have strong support!"
Guo Yang was not moved at all when he heard these nonsense.
“Leader, my hometown is in the northern part of the Lake District. I just came back yesterday and I heard that I was going to relocate to Xinjiang Province.”
The county leaders were stunned. Looking at the situation, it was not easy to get this investment.
I had no choice but to complain.
"Mr. Guo, immigrants are also forced by ecological pressure."
"The total area of the lake area is 1.43 million acres, and the cultivated area is 440,000 acres. The actual sown area is only 190,000 acres, and 70 % are deserts and saline-alkali flats. "
"For decades, farmers have mainly relied on groundwater to grow crops, and they are large consumers of water."
"Therefore, in order to save Minqin, traditional water-consuming agriculture must be operated, and only after the people living in difficulty are relocated can it be conducive to enclosure and protection."
Guo Yang also knows that ecological migration is indeed necessary. Only the choice of immigration point remains to be discussed.
“Leader, this time I am here to understand the county’s resettlement plan on behalf of the twenty or so households in the community. The resettlement point is too far away and no one wants to go.”
No. The few people showed a lack of interest, and the leader sighed helplessly.
“Alas! The county’s resettlement capacity is limited. This time the county has prepared three sets of resettlement plans.
“The first is that the county provides subsidies to encourage villagers to immigrate voluntarily, and the villagers move out of their household registration and withdraw from the contracted land.”
“The second is to immigrate to the immigration point in Changning Township in the county, which is a work-for-work settlement in the province. "The last step is to build the Corps Farm, Fangcao Lake Farm, and Corps Farm in Xinjiang Province through labor migration."
Guo Yang thought for a while and asked: "Are there any requirements for relocating to Changning Township?"
"Relocating within the county requires the construction of various living facilities, which is expensive. The government pays the majority, but farmers also need to bear 16,000 yuan, and banks can provide part of the interest discount Loans.”
Guo Yang was surprised. It would take an ordinary farmer more than ten years to save 16,000 yuan.
And this money is mainly for the children's education. If they take out loans for relocation, they won't be able to turn over for many years.
As Yuhe Village and other towns already have high debts, it is no wonder that the county organizes labor migration of these people to Xinjiang Province.
Already so thin that only bones are left, where is the meat for the old man to eat?
The labor immigrants at least have something to drink. Having generally figured out the situation, Guo Yang also had a solution in mind.
There are only about 20 households in the cooperative, and the cost of moving them all to Changning Township is more than 300,000 yuan. He can definitely afford this money.
The only thing that needs to be considered is whether to intervene in the desertification control project.
The desert is definitely one of the harshest natural environments in the world, but once the ecological restoration is successful, the natural energy that can be obtained will definitely be indispensable.
Funds are abundant, but the main constraints are that people and management cannot keep up.
After thinking about it, Guo Yang decided to do it for the sake of natural energy.
After chatting for a while and reaching a verbal agreement with the county, Guo Yang temporarily decided on two investment directions.
The first is a solar greenhouse with water-saving irrigation. Tianhe Seed Industry is the main investor in building a vegetable industrial park base.
The second is pasture desertification and desert control, with alfalfa agriculture and animal husbandry as the main investment body.
Although some leaders have set the tone that ‘Minqin will never be allowed to become the second Lop Nur’, no media has reported the situation here at this time.
The impact on society is still small.
At the same time, the national key projects for the Shiyang River Basin are still planned on paper.
If it is really to be implemented, it will take at least a few years.
Therefore, investments in Alfalfa and Tianhe receive less policy support.
But this also has the advantage that the local government can intervene in fewer matters.
Guo Yang also tried to persuade the county to suspend the plan to immigrate to Xinjiang Province first, and then combine it with Tianhe's agricultural development project to establish immigration points around the project.
In this way, Tianhe gained a labor force, and more than a thousand people did not have to leave their homes.
But the county refused.
To some extent, the implementation of the policy is still unfair.
Not only were the accounts for the construction of the Changning Township resettlement site not made public, but the inspection work in Xinjiang Province before the ecological resettlement also did not involve the participation of mass representatives.
Guo Yang has already foreseen various problems.
Not adapting to the local climate and life, not mastering agricultural cultivation techniques, disputes with local people, children enrolling in school, changing household registration, etc., everything is a headache.
This is destined to be a failed ecological migration.
What follows is the relocation of immigrants. Some people will jump around repeatedly, and some may even hide their cats, making you unsure which village they have returned to.
This will lead to various issues such as water redistribution, land, taxation, public fees, and debt allocation.
Guo Yang also analyzed and discussed these with the county.
But an inspection team composed of various departments in the county has already gone to Xinjiang Province for on-site inspections, the immigration plan has been formulated, and the costs have been spent.
In particular, coordination costs among various departments account for the majority.
For example, the Poverty Alleviation Office is responsible for poverty alleviation and immigration, the Planning Commission is responsible for ecological immigration, the Environmental Protection Bureau is responsible for ecological protection, and the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau is responsible for soil and water conservation.
Converting farmland to forest and grassland requires coordination from the ‘Return Farmland to Forest’ Office, Forestry Bureau, Grain Bureau, Agriculture Bureau, Finance Bureau, Planning Commission and other departments.
However, the immigration plan was eventually implemented as planned, and nearly a thousand people embarked on the anxious journey of immigration.
The only difference is that about twenty households from a certain community in Yuhe Village stayed, and the immigration point became Changning Township in the county, becoming the envy of surrounding villages.
Guo Yang did not let his eldest brother and sister-in-law follow him to Changning Township, as it would be bad for them if he did.
Instead, I temporarily bought a house in the county and lived there.
When the follow-up projects are negotiated, there will be plenty of room for my eldest brother to plant trees.
(End of this chapter)