Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 533
Chapter 533 Philanthropy is not easy to be a philanthropist
Uncle He’s tone was a bit joking, but Li Weidong knew that he really wanted him.
I just listened to Uncle He explained: “The autonomous regions in the northwest are not only more difficult in terms of conditions, but also more difficult to carry out than in the eastern provinces.
The actual situation in the west is much more complicated than in the eastern provinces. An airborne cadre like me doesn’t know much about the local area. It is not easy to get a firm foothold.
So I, a foreign monk, can’t go empty-handed. Why should I bring a few scriptures? I know a lot about the leaders of large domestic companies, but none of those relationships can be used in this matter. If I think about it, I can only ask you for help! ”
Li Weidong nodded. Compared with the eastern provinces, the western part is definitely poorer and the traffic is very blocked. Poverty plus blockage often means ignorance, which is undoubtedly a difficult copy for economic builders.
What’s more, there are many ethnic minorities in the western region. The cultures of each ethnic group are also different. While focusing on economic construction, they must also take care of the local customs and culture. This is obviously a very unfriendly factor for airborne cadres.
If it’s just for gilding, it’s okay to mix up your resume and go empty-handed. But Uncle He really wants to do things. Of course, he must bring some dry goods at this time, so that he can gain the trust of the local people.
Otherwise, if an outside cadre who doesn’t understand the local situation can’t even stand on his feet, how can he talk about doing things?
So Li Weidong asked: “Uncle, what do you want me to do?”
“I read the newspaper a few days ago and said that you donated 100 million yuan to the Hope Project, and you have to build 500 Hope Primary Schools?” Uncle He asked.
“Uncle, did you let me build a few hope primary schools in the Northwest Autonomous Region?” Li Weidong asked immediately.
“A hundred-year plan, education is the foundation! If education is not done well, economic construction will always be a flower in the mirror.”
Uncle He sighed, and then said: “The education in the west is indeed lagging behind in the east. Hope primary schools should also be built, but what the west needs most now is not the hope primary schools, but a condition that allows children to go to school.”
Li Weidong was stunned, and some did not quite understand what Uncle He meant.
Uncle He explained: “The most lack of talent in the west is talents. Even if you build Hope Primary School, there are not so many teachers to teach. Because the conditions in the west are difficult, people with some cultures are not willing to stay in the west. The rich provinces in the east ran away.”
In order to help the western region attract talents, later generations of countries have introduced various preferential measures, but even so, many people are still reluctant to go to the west.
At that time, the country did not have so many preferential policies for the western region, and of course the western region could not attract talents.
What’s more, the conditions in the west are much worse than those in the east. Those with knowledge and culture must go to the economically developed areas on the east coast to seek a better life. On the contrary, there is a brain drain in the western provinces.
In this case, even if the Hope Primary School is built, no teachers can be found to teach, so students should never be allowed to learn by themselves!
Having figured this out, Li Weidong couldn’t help but sighed: “Talents are indeed restricting the development of the western region.”
Uncle He continued; “The problem of talents cannot be solved in a short while, but the conditions for going to school I just mentioned can be solved in a short time.
I have also visited the western provinces many times to conduct investigations, of course, mainly to investigate the work of the machinery industry, but I also have a certain understanding of some situations in the Northwest Autonomous Region.
According to the actual situation I know, a large part of the children who are out of school there are not because they have not gone to school, but because they cannot go to school.
As you know, the Northwest Autonomous Region has a vast area. It is not an exaggeration to say that the area of a prefecture-level city is larger than that of a province in the east, and the area of a county is larger than that of a city in the east. A township can be several times the area of our capital.
You can imagine, if you want to go to school, but you ride a camel for a day and can’t get to the town’s elementary school, can you still read a book? Objective conditions do not allow it! This is what I said, there is no way to go to school.
The Northwest Autonomous Region is not like our eastern provinces, where the population is not so dense and there are not enough resources. Many village-level units do not have primary schools, and many town-level units do not have middle schools.
So in the Northwest Autonomous Region, many rural children must live in the town if they want to go to elementary school. If they want to go to junior high school, they must live in the county.
The income of farmers in remote areas is inherently low, and the cost of having their children stay in the town or county is also very high. Even if tuition and miscellaneous fees are exempted, many families cannot afford this cost, which ultimately leads to children Out of school.
To solve this problem, the best way is to build a dormitory for the school. With a dormitory in the school, the children have a place to live, so they can naturally look forward to staying in the school for a long time, and they can learn steadily.
But the cost of building a dormitory is much higher than building a school building. The country’s educational resources are inherently scarce, and the western region is relatively poor, with limited financial capacity, and many elementary schools do not have student dormitories.
Weidong, I hope you can use a part of the 100 million donation to help elementary schools in the west build dormitories. This is tantamount to giving more children a chance to go to school. ”
Listening to Uncle He’s introduction, Li Weidong finally realized it.
It turned out that Uncle Ho was staring at this one hundred million donation, not to let himself build Hope Primary School, but to build a dormitory for the existing primary school.
The northwestern region is vast and sparsely populated. The population density of many places is indeed not suitable for the construction of village-level primary schools. Even if they are built, there are not many students, which is a waste of teacher resources.
After all, in poverty-stricken areas, teacher resources are also scarce. It is impossible to put limited educational resources on a few people.
In this case, it is common to go to the township when going to elementary school and the county or district when going to junior high school.
With the area of the Northwest Autonomous Region, commuting time to school has become a cost that students cannot afford.
There, it’s not new that you can’t get out of the village on foot for a day. A trip to the town takes several days back and forth. How can children go to school?
The situation in the mountainous areas of southwest China is similar, where there is no vast land, but there are rugged and winding mountain roads, which also increase the cost of commuting.
The children climbed over a dozen mountains to go to school. School was over before anyone arrived.
The road to the northwest is too far, and the road to the southwest is not easy. In the final analysis, it is a problem of commuting time. Even with the subsidies and exemptions provided by the state for book fees, tuition and miscellaneous fees, the commuting time still restricts children’s schooling.
The best solution is naturally to build a dormitory for the school and let the children live in the school, so as to avoid the cost of commuting.
Although I live in elementary school, it sounds cruel, but there is no other way.
Many children in remote areas in later generations use this method to study. Some are in the first or second grade in the village, and then go to live in the town school.
Some simply let the children grow up. For example, when they are about ten years old, they have a certain degree of self-care ability, and then go to the town’s elementary school to study.
In the future, many hope primary schools to be built in remote western regions will be equipped with special canteens and dormitories to provide guarantee for children’s food and accommodation.
The state uses this method to ensure that every child can receive compulsory education when educational resources are limited.
In the late 1990s, the country was not rich yet, and funding for education was not that much. In remote or poverty-stricken areas, it is not easy to build classrooms alone, and building dormitories is even more extravagant.
Uncle Ho is obviously aware of the problem of commuting costs, and also thought of a solution.
Now Uncle Ho is about to take a post in the west. If he can bring dozens of elementary schools to the dormitory, this souvenir should be enough to make Uncle Ho, an airborne cadre, gain a foothold.
Uncle Ho’s official career is related to the future of the He family, and Li Weidong naturally wants to help.
What’s more, this one hundred million was originally intended to be donated to the Hope Project, whether it was to build Hope Primary Schools or to build dormitories for primary schools in remote areas, all for the purpose of allowing more children to study in schools.
So Li Weidong did not refuse. He nodded and said: “Uncle, then I will contact Project Hope and change the plan. Give priority to schools in the western region and build some dormitories!”
Uncle He let out a sigh of relief, and he said: “Wei Dong, with your words, I can take office in peace!”
Li Weidong remembered another thing, he asked: “Uncle, there is something, I also want to ask you to advise.”
“What’s the matter?” Uncle He asked.
“As far as I know, this time the country will no longer retain more than a dozen ministries and commissions during institutional reforms, and there will also be many cadres, facing job adjustments. I don’t know if any of them will work in companies?” Li Weidong said. Asked.
Uncle Ho thought for a while and said, “There will definitely be people who will work in the company. The purpose of this reform is to promote the development of the socialist market economy and to end the system of professional economic departments directly managing enterprises as soon as possible.
As a result, almost all the economic sectors of industrial specialties have been abolished. These industrial specialized economic departments are the products of the planned economy era. Back then, these industrial specialized economic departments were the carriers of resource allocation and the support for the implementation of economic plans.
But now it is a market economic system. The existence of these departments is not conducive to giving full play to the basic role of the market in the allocation of resources, and it is also not conducive to giving full play to the role of enterprises as the mainstay of the microeconomic economy.
Since the government is to be separated from the enterprise, some resources will inevitably be delegated to the enterprise, the organization will be abolished, and some people will inevitably be diverted to the enterprise.
In fact, many of these industrial ministries and agencies are promoted from enterprises. Some cadres themselves have part-time positions in the enterprise. Now they are just returning to their original units! ”
“Will anyone be willing to come to a private enterprise?” Li Weidong asked again.
Uncle He was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood Li Weidong’s intentions.
“Well, you Li Weidong, you are so bold! Thinking of digging people from these places!” Uncle He said.
“Anyway, these institutions will be abolished, and a large number of people will be diverted to enterprises, so it’s better to come to me. Our private enterprises are also contributing to the country’s economic development!” Li Weidong said with a smile.
Uncle Ho frowned for a while and asked, “What kind of person do you want?”
Li Weidong explained: “My Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory was originally a collective enterprise at the county level, and the management team at the time was used for so many years.
It was okay to say when the company was small in the past, but with the development of the company, the management team at that time could no longer meet the needs of the company’s progress. So I always wanted to adjust the current leadership team.
I know that there are a lot of talents in the ministries and committees. Many of them are promoted from enterprises. Not to mention their outstanding ability, they also have experience in managing enterprises, and they have worked in Beijing for a long time and have accumulated a lot of contacts.
This kind of talent is what I urgently need now. If there are such talents who are willing to come to our Fukang Agricultural Machinery, I am willing to hire them with a high salary! ”
“It’s better to be at the Ministry of Agriculture, with some contacts, so that it will be convenient for you to sell agricultural machinery!” Uncle He asked.
Li Weidong nodded calmly: “If it is talents in agricultural machinery, professional counterparts would be better!”
Uncle He thought for a while and said, “Don’t tell me, there are such people. But they were all transferred from state-owned enterprises back then. Even if they return, they will return to their original enterprises. They may not be willing to go to private enterprises like yours. Enterprise!”
“It’s human, there are always a few people who are greedy for money. If I give the money in place, how can I kidnap one or two people! Besides, everyone who eats public meals is a radish and a pit. Some people even go back to the original enterprise. , There may not be a suitable place. If the tree moves the dead and the others live, maybe someone is willing to come.” Li Weidong said.
“The same is true.” Uncle He nodded, and then said: “That’s OK, I will help you pay attention to such talents. But whether you can abduct people in the end depends on your own ability!”
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One hundred million in donations fell, and Li Weidong’s daily routine suddenly became busy.
All kinds of public welfare activities have sent invitation letters to Li Weidong, hoping that Li Weidong can participate, and even hope that Li Weidong can donate generously.
Among them, there are many state-level charities such as the Charity Federation, the Red Cross, the Federation of the Disabled, the Youth Foundation, and the Ms. Song Foundation.
The activities held by these institutions are also very positive and official in nature. For the sake of face, Li Weidong has no choice but to refuse, so he can only bite the bullet to participate.
As a benefactor of one million donations at hand, Li Weidong will be invited to the C position for every event, and this C position means paying for it. At least six-figure donations are indispensable.
Fortunately, Li Weidong’s family has a solid foundation and can withstand his toss.
Sitting in the award-giving guest area of an awards ceremony, Li Weidong couldn’t help but sighed as he felt the young and beautiful lady of etiquette constantly looking at himself.
“It’s not easy to be a philanthropist!”
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