Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 533 It’s not easy to be a philanthropist

Uncle He's tone was a bit joking, but Li Weidong knew that he really wanted something from him.

Just listen to Uncle He explain: "Not only are the conditions in the northwest autonomous regions more difficult, but the difficulty of carrying out work is also much more difficult than in the eastern provinces.

The actual situation in the west is much more complicated than in the eastern provinces. As an airborne cadre like me, I don’t know much about the local area, so it is not easy to gain a firm foothold.

So I, a foreign monk, can’t go empty-handed, why should I bring a few scriptures with me! I know a lot of leaders of large domestic companies, but those connections cannot be used in this matter. After thinking about it,

, I can only ask you for help!"

Li Weidong nodded. Compared with the eastern provinces, the west is definitely poorer and has very congested transportation. Poverty and isolation often mean ignorance. This is undoubtedly a difficult dungeon for economic builders.

What's more, there are many ethnic minorities in the western region, and the cultures of each ethnic group are also different. While focusing on economic construction, we must also take care of local customs and culture. This is obviously a very unfriendly factor for airborne cadres.

If you just want to go for gold plating and build your resume, it’s okay to go empty-handed. But if Uncle He really wants to do something, of course he must bring some practical information with him at this time, so as to gain the trust of the local people.

Otherwise, if a foreign cadre who does not understand the local situation can't even stand firmly, how can he do anything?

So Li Weidong asked: "Uncle, what do you want me to do?"

"I read the newspaper a few days ago and it said that you donated 100 million to the Hope Project and built 500 Hope Primary Schools?" Uncle He asked.

"Uncle, how many hope primary schools do you want me to build in the Northwest Autonomous Region?" Li Weidong asked immediately.

"A century-old plan is based on education! If education is not done well, economic construction will always be a mirror image."

Uncle He let out a long sigh and continued: "Education in the west is indeed lagging behind that in the east, and Hope Primary School should be built. But what the west needs most now is not Hope Primary School, but a condition for children to go to school."

Li Weidong was stunned, not quite understanding what Uncle He meant.

Uncle He opened his mouth and explained: "The most lacking thing 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, anyone with some education is not willing to stay in the west, and they all go there."

The rich eastern provinces ran away."

In order to help the western region attract talents, later countries introduced various preferential measures, but even so, many people were still unwilling to go to the west.

At that time, the country did not have many preferential policies for the western region, so 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 knowledgeable and educated people will definitely go to the economically developed areas along the eastern coast to seek a better life. On the contrary, there is a brain drain from the western provinces.

Under such circumstances, even if a Hope Primary School is built, teachers cannot be found to teach. We cannot let students study on their own!

After thinking about this, Li Weidong couldn't help but sigh: "Talent has indeed restricted the development of the western region."

Uncle He continued; "The talent problem cannot be solved in a short time, but the conditions for schooling I just mentioned can be solved in a short time.

I have gone to the western provinces for research many times before. Of course, I mainly investigated 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 out-of-school children there are not because they are not in school, but because they have no way to go to school.

As you know, the Northwest Autonomous Region has a vast territory. It is no exaggeration to say that the area of ​​a prefecture-level city is larger than that of a province in the east of our country, and the area of ​​a county is larger than that of a city in the east of our country. A town can be our capital city.

Several times the area.

You can imagine, if you want to go to school, but you can’t reach the primary school in the town after riding a camel for a day, then can you still study and become a book? Objective conditions do not allow it! This is what I said, no

Way to go to school.

The Northwest Autonomous Region is not like our eastern provinces. The population there is not so densely concentrated, 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.

Therefore, in the Northwest Autonomous Region, many rural children must live in towns if they want to attend elementary school, and in counties if they want to attend junior high school.

The income of farmers in remote areas is not high, so the cost of letting their children live permanently in towns or counties is also very high. Even if tuition and miscellaneous fees are exempted, many families cannot afford this cost, which ultimately leads to the loss of children.

Out of school.

The best way to solve this problem is to build dormitories for the school. If the school has dormitories and the children have a place to live, they will naturally be able to stay in school for a long time and study in a down-to-earth manner.

However, the cost of building dormitories is much higher than that of building school buildings. National education resources are already tight, and the western region is relatively poor and has limited financial capabilities. Many primary schools do not have student dormitories.

Weidong, I hope you can use part of your 100 million donation to help primary schools in the west build dormitories. This will give more children a chance to go to school."

After listening to Uncle He's introduction, Li Weidong finally came to a realization.

It turns out that Uncle He was eyeing this 100 million donation, not to build a Hope Primary School, but to build dormitories for existing primary schools.

The northwest region is vast and sparsely populated, and the population density in many places is indeed not suitable for building village-level primary schools. Even if they are built, there will only be few students, which is a waste of teacher resources.

After all, teacher resources are also scarce in poor areas, and it is impossible to focus limited educational resources on a few people.

Under such circumstances, it is common for students to have to go to towns to go to elementary school and to counties to go to junior high school.

Given the size of the Northwest Autonomous Region, commuting time to school has become a cost that students cannot afford.

There, it is not a new thing to walk out of the village in a day. It takes several days to go to the town and back. How can the children go to school?

The situation is similar in the mountainous areas of southwestern China. There is no vast land there, but there are rugged and winding mountain roads, which also increases the cost of commuting.

The children climbed over a dozen mountains to go to school, but the school was over before anyone arrived.

The roads in the northwest are too far, and the roads in the southwest are difficult to walk. In the final analysis, it is a problem of commuting time. Even if the state provides subsidies and exemptions for book fees, tuition and miscellaneous fees, etc., commuting time still restricts children's schooling.

The best solution is naturally to build dormitories for the school and let the children live on campus, thus eliminating the cost of commuting.

Although it may sound cruel to live on campus when you are in elementary school, there is no other solution.

In later generations, many children in remote areas studied in this way. Some studied in the first or second grade in the village and then went to live in schools in towns.

Some simply let the children grow up a bit. For example, when they are about ten years old and have a certain ability to take care of themselves, they can go to a primary school in the town.

Many hope primary schools to be built in remote areas of the west in the future will be equipped with special canteens and dormitories to provide food and accommodation for children.

The state uses this method to ensure that every child can receive compulsory education despite limited educational resources.

In the late 1990s, the country was not yet wealthy, and there was not that much funding for education. In remote or poor areas, just building classrooms was not easy, and building dormitories was even more of a luxury.

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Uncle He is obviously aware of the problem of commuting costs and has thought of a solution.

Now that Uncle He is about to take up a post in the west, if he can bring dormitories to dozens of primary schools, this souvenir should be enough for Uncle He, an airborne cadre, to gain a foothold.

Uncle He's official career is related to the future of the He family, so Li Weidong naturally wants to help.

What's more, this 100 million was originally intended to be donated to the Hope Project, whether it is building a Hope Primary School or building dormitories for primary schools in remote areas, the purpose is to allow more children to study in school.

So Li Weidong did not refuse. He nodded and said, "Uncle, I will contact Project Hope later and change the plan. Give priority to schools in the western region to build some dormitories!"

Uncle He took a deep breath and said, "Weidong, with your words, I can take up my post with confidence!"

Li Weidong remembered another thing, and he asked: "Uncle, there is something I would like to ask you to give me some advice."

"What's the matter?" Uncle He asked.

"As far as I know, this time the country carries out institutional reform, it will no longer retain more than a dozen ministries and commissions, and there will also be many cadres who will face job adjustments. I wonder if any of them will work in enterprises?" Li Weidong said.

asked.

Uncle He thought for a while and said, "There will definitely be people who want to work in enterprises. The purpose of this reform is to promote the development of the socialist market economy and end the system of direct management of enterprises by professional economic departments as soon as possible.

Therefore, almost all industrial and professional economic departments have been abolished. These industrial and professional economic departments are products of the planned economy era. At that time, these industrial and professional economic departments were the carriers of resource allocation and the basis for the implementation of economic plans.

But now it is a market economy system, and the existence of these departments is not conducive to giving full play to the basic role of the market in resource allocation, and is not conducive to giving full play to the status of enterprises as microeconomic subjects. Therefore, they were abolished to eliminate the organizational fortress that does not distinguish between government and enterprises.

Since government and enterprises are to be separated, some resources will inevitably be decentralized to enterprises, institutions will be abolished, and some people will inevitably be diverted to enterprises.

In fact, in these industrial ministries and commissions, many people are promoted from the company. Some cadres themselves still have part-time positions in the company, but now they are just returning to their original units!"

"Is there anyone willing to join a private enterprise?" Li Weidong asked again.

Uncle He was stunned for a moment and immediately understood Li Weidong's intention.

"You Li Weidong, you are so brave! You think of poaching people from these places!" Uncle He said.

"Anyway, these institutions are going to be abolished, and a large number of people are going to be transferred to enterprises, so why not come to me? Our private enterprises are also contributing to the country's economic development!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

Uncle He frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "What kind of person do you want?"

Li Weidong explained: "My Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory was originally just a county-level collective enterprise, and it used the same management team at that time for so many years.

In the past, when the company was small, it was easy to say, but as the company grew, the management team at that time could no longer meet the needs of the company's progress. So I have always wanted to adjust the current leadership team.

I know that there are many talents in the ministries and commissions, many of whom were promoted from enterprises. Not only have outstanding abilities, they also have experience in managing enterprises. Moreover, they have worked in the capital for a long time and have accumulated many connections.

This type of talent is what I urgently need now. If there are such talents willing to come to our Fukang Agricultural Machinery, I am willing to hire them at a high salary!"

"It's best to have connections with the Ministry of Agriculture. This will make it easier for you to sell agricultural machinery!" Uncle He asked.

Li Weidong nodded calmly: "Then it would be better if they are talents in agricultural machinery and have professional counterparts!"

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 go back to the original enterprise. They may not be willing to go to a private enterprise like yours."

Enterprise!"

"It all depends on people. There are always a few people who are greedy for money. If I give the money, I can kidnap one or two people! Besides, those who eat public food are just like carrots and pitfalls. Some people even return to their original enterprises.

, there may not be a suitable location anymore. If you move the trees and move the dead, maybe someone will be willing to come." Li Weidong said.

"That's the same truth." Uncle He nodded and continued: "Okay, I'll help you keep an eye on such talents. But whether you can abduct people depends on your own ability!"

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With a donation of 100 million, Li Weidong's daily life suddenly became busy.

Invitations have been sent to Li Weidong for various public welfare activities, hoping that Li Weidong can participate, and even more hope that Li Weidong can donate generously.

Among them, there are many national charity organizations such as the Charity Federation, the Red Cross, the Disabled Persons' Federation, the Youth Foundation, and the Ms. Song Foundation.

The activities held by these organizations were also very positive and of an official nature. Li Weidong could not refuse due to his face, so he could only bite the bullet and participate.

As a donor who easily donates 100 million yuan, Li Weidong will be invited to the C position at every event, and this C position means that he has to spend money, and a donation of at least six figures is indispensable.

Fortunately, Li Weidong's family has a strong foundation and can withstand his troubles.

Sitting in the prize-giving guest area of ​​an award ceremony, Li Weidong couldn't help but sigh as the young and beautiful hostess kept looking at him.

“It’s not easy to be a philanthropist!”

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