The old king of the village leaned under the old locust tree in his small courtyard, basking in the sun in a daze. He is in his 60s, and his children have settled in the county seat, leaving him and his wife to farm in the countryside. 
could have spent his old age in peace and enjoyed a life of leisure and wildness. However, what worries him is that he still doesn't have a single acre and three points of land. Lao Wang still remembers that in the 80s of the 20th century, the state implemented the household contract system and allocated land to families. The village is so lively, and it is said that finally "the cultivator has his field". At that time, he had just gotten married, and he happily got three acres of good land. However, more than 30 years later, his children were born one after another, and the population increased, but the land was still three acres. 
This is the policy of "increasing the number of people but not increasing the land". According to this policy, the land area is fixed regardless of the change in the size of the family. One is divided.
Second, it is divided into three, and it slowly becomes a situation of "the living have no land, and the dead have land". Some of the old sons and daughters in the village have gone out to work, but they still hold more than a dozen acres of fertile land in their handsAfter some newlyweds give birth to children, they can't even see the shadow of an acre of land. 
This has left many young people in rural areas feeling that their future is bleak and they can only go to the cities to work and earn a living. Wang's wife was feeding the chickens in the yard while wiping her tears. Last year, their youngest son found a city girl to marry, and when they got married, they also made the old couple add a lot of money to the bride price. Now the youngest son's family lives in the county seat, but Lao Wang and his wife still live in a dilapidated thatched house. "I can't live this day," the wife sighed, feeling very uncomfortable. 
At the west end of the village lives Lao Liu's family, who are "black households when the land is divided". In order to have a third child, they did not pay social maintenance fees as required, which became the so-called "super-family planning". In the early nineties, when the village was divided into land, they were not eligible for a share of collective land. The three children have grown up**, and the old couple are getting weaker and weaker, but they can only make a living by planting a few acres of scattered land. 
The eldest son, Liu Ming, often goes out to work as a laminator to earn some spare money to supplement the family. The situation of the Li family in the east of the village is similar. Their daughter, Li Na, married into the neighboring township, and according to the policy of "increasing the number of people but not the land", she lost the land she had in her original family. Now Li Na and her husband rent a small shop in the town to sell daily necessities, and she is living in poverty. Her parents' acres of land were all given to her younger brother, and her daughter became a landless "fake farmer". 
Lao Chen's family was even more miserable, their ten acres of land were destroyed in the huge flash flood ten years ago. Full of hope, they reapplied for three acres of collective idle land and planted tomatoes. A few days later, the village came to the village, and the land was reclaimed to build a reservoir. Lao Chen's family had no choice but to leave their hometown and go to the city to work. 
In the village, there are more and more landless peasant families. Their lives are very difficult, and it is not easy to work in the county. Lacking skills and having to take care of the elderly and children at home, most of them can only do some manual work, and they are often owed wages. This makes many people feel at a loss and anxious about the future. With the passage of time, the first round of land contracts is nearing its end. The young people in the village thought that this time it was time to redivide the land, and they, the new forces who were "born without land", could also share the good land they had been dreaming of for a long time. 
However, the document issued by the county was very disappointing - the state decided to continue the policy of "increasing the number of people without increasing the land, and reducing the number of people without reducing the land", and the second round of land contracts continued for 30 years. "It's over, I don't expect to have my own land in this life!The little chubby in the village said depressedly. He has not been married for a few years and gave birth to a big fat boy, but he has been living in his father-in-law's house and has not even grown vegetables. 
The continuation of this policy made him more and more desperate for the future. His wife was afraid that he would be depressed all day long, so she tried her best to comfort him: "If you have a body, you will work, and if you have labor, you will have income, let's save money slowly, maybe one day we can buy a mouthful of land." The continuation of the policy has undoubtedly cooled the hearts of many landless peasants. However, for village collectives, this is a good time to protect their land property rights and realize large-scale land management. 
In many rural areas, the phenomenon of "village tyrants" has emerged, relying on the land rights and interests in their hands to further merge and occupy the surrounding cultivated land, resulting in a reconcentration of land. Some scholars have pointed out that this policy will continue for at least 75 years, and will inevitably lead to a redistribution of land power and income in the end. A large number of rural laborers have moved to the cities to change their identities, and land has been concentrated in the hands of village collectives and leading agricultural enterprises, and peasants' land rights and interests will continue to be lost.
This is also a hidden danger to the future food security of the country. Many experts have called for further improvements in the land system so that poor farmers can share in the dividends of reform, otherwise this long-term imbalance of interests will not be sustainable, and it will not be conducive to the sustainable development of agriculture and the economy.
The continuation of this policy has caused a lot of repercussions among the villagers. Lao Li's family of three generations and eight people live in dilapidated adobe houses, and they only have three acres of land in their hands, which cannot support so many people. Lao Li looked at the fireworks in the house, and was secretly anxious. The mother-in-law's few acres of land have not been allocated to her daughter-in-law, and now that the policy has continued, I am afraid that this will be even more sad.
Lao Zhao, who is over 80 years old in the village, wants to divide the more than ten acres of land in his hand to his son and daughter, so that they can each have a place to stand. As a result, after hearing that the state does not allow the rescoring of the score, the old man turned gray overnight. Over the years, he and his wife have become worse and worse, and they can barely survive by hiring people to farm the land by their children. Now the days of retirement are even more difficult. There was a lot of discussion among the villagers, and all of them felt that the continuation of the policy was too bad for them. The village cadres were worried that this opposition would cause a catastrophe, so they hurriedly held a propaganda report meeting in the village committee.
He implored the villagers to understand the country's difficult situation, support the continuation of the policy, and promised to seek more benefits for everyone. However, his kind words did not help, and the villagers still complained. Over the years, rural areas have been facing serious problems of population loss and labor shortage. The continuation of this policy has undoubtedly dealt a double blow to farmers - they have lost the protection of their land rights and are facing the dilemma of an aging labor force. This makes people have to worry about what kind of situation will be faced in the future of rural food rations and basic livelihood guarantees. After 30 years of this policy, what kind of future will China's rural areas usher in?
At that time, the first generation of farmers to acquire land may all leave. A large number of people moved to the city to change their identity and form a new class of citizens. The elderly and young people who remain in the countryside are isolated and unable to secure their livelihoods. The hollowing out of rural areas and the "hollowing out of industries" have affected the national economy and people's livelihood. At the same time, the phenomenon of land concentration will become more prominent. Large land owners and agricultural enterprises have acquired more than 70% of the cultivated land in their hands.
They have relied on mechanization and the development of large-scale operations, and their agricultural productivity has increased significantly. However, farmers are increasingly marginalized and disadvantaged, becoming the group that benefits the least. This is likely to further exacerbate social contradictions. In the face of all this, it is necessary to introduce a new land policy and agricultural policy as soon as possible. By appropriately increasing financial subsidies, we should strengthen the construction of rural infrastructure and improve the rural environment, so that agriculture will become a profitable industry.
In addition, we will strengthen the construction of social security networks, so that more farmers can also become beneficiary groups and communities of interests. In addition, we should actively cultivate new agricultural business entities such as family farms and farmers' cooperatives to help them obtain means of production and market channels. and establish a long-term mechanism so that farmers can also obtain income distribution through labor or contract management. This will play a positive role in ensuring national food security, maintaining harmony and stability in rural areas, and building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.