Geng Sitong is a graduate student at the China Rural Research Institute at Central China Normal University. I read an article before about the story of the county** and local residents working together to set up a high-speed rail station in the local area. During the chat on my way home for the Chinese New Year, I noticed the different psychological impacts of the high-speed rail station and the high-speed rail land occupation, and pondered why the compensation for the high-speed rail land occupied area is upsetting and related to human feelings.
The high-speed rail station that will be set up on the South Expressway in the urban area will inevitably involve the issue of compensation for the farmland crossed by the high-speed railway. According to the national standard, villager A should be able to receive 90,000 yuan in compensation directly, but in the township, the policy has changed: half of it will be given first, and the rest will not be received until after the age of 60. Most of the villagers were only occupied with one or two acres of land, and the amount of compensation was only one or two thousand yuan, although they were dissatisfied with this, but the benefits from negotiating with the village party secretary to complain seemed to be insignificant. However, three of the companies had a large amount of land occupied and the amount of money involved was relatively large, which made it more difficult for them to accept the compensation policy of the township.
1. Compensation game: The policy of everyone is bitter has been agreed a year ago, and after the village party secretary notifies the villagers of their consent, they must report their personal account information and wait for the compensation to arrive. The consequences of not agreeing to report your bank account are obvious. The village party secretary could only answer "what was said above", which led to a dispute between villager A and him. Villager A said: "We all need to go out to work, who will go to the county to petition because of this?" Why don't you go to the city or province and go to the ** complaint? It's not worth it. In this regard, the author believes that even if the villagers' expression is reasonable, what can the village party secretary do? The village party secretary and the village committee are the organizers of the village, responsible for uploading and distributing tasks, and are also the intermediaries for the villagers to communicate with the village. However, the county's decision-making and the allocation of compensation funds cannot convey the wishes of the villagers upwards. Considering that there are only three affected villagers, the number is small, and they cannot form a politically influential group, the villagers' ** has become a kind of weak **, which is manifested as not cooperating, complaining with the villagers in private, just like a stage, can only stay "behind the scenes", and in the front desk where power exists, the villagers can only be obedient. Reminiscent of Professor He Xuefeng's point in "New Rural China", before the abolition of agricultural tax, village public utilities still need to charge farmers, and village meetings still need to do the work of villagers and negotiate and coordinate with villagers, but after the abolition of agricultural tax, village cadres no longer rely on villagers, resulting in a weakening of the motivation for consultation with farmers. What is Villager A angry about? In fact, what the villagers want is a definite and *** document, detailing when and how the remaining half of the money will be given. The villagers also understand that the village party secretary itself also has difficulties, "The last village party secretary resigned and quit, because he also knew that some policies were unreasonable but there was no way, and the villagers were making trouble, so they really couldn't do it." However, the lack of institutional documents is unreassuring, and the village party secretary is changed every few years, and it is uncertain whether the account can be denied at that time. This reminds me of an incident that occurred in a city last year, the birth subsidy policy formulated by the city to encourage childbirth, two months after the implementation of the public reported that they could not apply, and the departments shirked each other, and the response was that "the relevant implementation rules have not yet been issued and are being formulated". Therefore, institutionalized policies and channels are crucial for villagers.
Second, the favor is also light: why does money make the favor weak, "to tell the truth, the favor is also weak", villager A talked to me about the quarrel with the village party secretary, mentioned, "Who quarreled with whom in the past, many things can be taken and put down, and they have passed, but now it is different." Having money and making money makes people less favorable, but that's only one of the reasons. Why does having money alienate people? Before the trend of "part-time work and half-farming" to work in the city, they relied on the land for their livelihood all year round, and their leisure time became an opportunity to strengthen their relationship. In the spare time, the house needs to be bricked and tiled, friends come to the house for a meal, and it is common to carry a cigarette, anyway, they usually come when there is nothing to do. Nowadays, however, there is less time to farm, as many people are working outside the home to earn money. This kind of farming time provided an opportunity for general reciprocity, but this opportunity gradually disappeared. From mutual aid to earning their own money, human affection has become weak over time.
Poor and happy", because there is no money, so there is no need to consider material etiquette, "I didn't think much about how many gifts to bring and how many red envelopes to send in the past" villager A said, there is no money, so I won't think too much about these, "It's different now, you go to the door and see a bunch of children shouldn't give red envelopes." The standard of living of migrant workers has improved, but it makes them afraid to visit the door during the New Year, and they are indeed not rich enough to give gifts, but they can't say that they don't give it, so they don't go out less. This can also be said to be an unintended impact of part-time work and half-farming in the city.
At the end of the article, the "reaction channel" is mentioned, in fact, the author noticed that although the Internet is not a new topic, it has always not connected the public with this word, and sometimes people have the impression of "no practical use", when mentioning the "county magistrate's mailbox", villager A heard for the first time that he could write a letter directly to the Internet to ask for an explanation, and the author also tried it last year because of the need to collect information only to find that this channel is not an empty shelf, and there are few channels for farmers' struggles. How to solidify the institutional response channels so that the standardized and legal channels are not empty shelves and are trusted by the villagers also need to continue to be considered.