The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

When Liu Tao's private plane arrived at the Beijing airport, it was already dawn.

After getting off the plane, I got on the special car directly.

After returning to the courtyard, Liu Tao took a bath and fell asleep.

Around noon, I got up and had breakfast.

The secretary has sorted out the news related to the two sessions for Liu Tao to read.

The Two Sessions are undoubtedly the most common occasions and time for participation in politics and policy-making. It is not just about deputies to the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference speaking freely and actively participating in politics and policy-making, but about the participation of the entire nation.

Many people will actively participate in it through the Internet.

One of the hottest topics this year is clearly food safety.

Since ancient times, food has been the most important thing for people!

If we say that after the reform and opening up, in the 80s everyone was pursuing having enough to eat and solving the problem of food and clothing.

In the 90s, after solving the problem of food and clothing, people began to pursue eating well, eating rich and varied food, and eating rich and balanced nutrition.

After entering the millennium, the trend of eating has shifted towards eating well, eating healthily, and eating safely!

In this era, food safety issues have become increasingly prominent and taken more seriously. The topics on food safety at the two sessions are becoming more and more numerous and hotter.

In this year's two sessions, food safety has become the hottest topic.

How to strengthen legislation, law enforcement, drug supervision and quality inspection in the field of food safety has become a hot topic of discussion.

Then there is another topic this year that is hailed as the most difficult one, which is about educational equity.

Education issues have been repeatedly criticized by deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The issue of "school selection fees" for key schools caused by unequal educational resources has been particularly strong. Many people suggest abolishing the key school system and emphasize that educational resources should be equalized during the compulsory education stage. It is not appropriate to establish a hierarchical system during the compulsory education stage, and to abolish the existing key middle schools, key classes and other systems.

The education problem is not limited to this. The semester housing system that was launched in the past is now also causing various problems. The huge gap between rural education, county education and urban education
Educational issues involve all aspects, and precisely because of this, there are so many educational issues that need to be solved under the current circumstances.

This issue is also known as the 'toughest' topic!

There are so many complicated issues and too many stakeholders involved!
Then there is one that is called the 'most pressing topic' - lowering house prices!
There are increasing voices suggesting that the government strengthen macroeconomic regulation of the real estate market. Many people believe that developers are making huge profits from rising housing prices, the government is making a lot of money from rising land prices, and some people are making money by speculating in real estate. On the other hand, many urban residents cannot afford to buy houses, and people are talking about it on the streets.

Among them, there are also problems such as market distortion and price bubbles.

House prices continue to rise, but the government's regulatory measures have been slow to take effect.

Some representatives even said helplessly: "We are talking about housing prices here, and maybe the housing prices are still rising at this moment."

There is also a topic known as the 'most helpless topic', and that is seeing a doctor and taking medicine!
The problem of difficulty and high cost of seeing a doctor is becoming more and more prominent.

Increased hospital revenues, kickbacks for medical personnel, and an imperfect medical security system have also made the problem of "difficulty in seeing a doctor and expensive medicines" more obvious.

There is also the problem of unbalanced medical resources between rural areas, county towns and cities. 20% of the urban population enjoy 80% of the health resources, while the vast majority of the rural population lacks medical care and medicine.

This topic is a commonplace topic. However, although the price of medicine seems to be falling, the people just don't feel it. Of course, there is also the hot topic that has been going on since the reform and opening up - the "three rural issues"!
A series of burden-reducing policies, such as the abolition of agricultural taxes and direct grain subsidies, are driving the adjustment of the agricultural economic structure.

But even though money has been invested in rural areas for so many years, the gap between rural and urban areas is still widening.

Watching the news, Liu Tao had an idea of ​​what to expect during this year's Two Sessions.

Over the past two decades, problems have been continuously solved, but more problems have also emerged as society has developed.

In the 80s, there was a housing shortage that needed to be solved. Government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises invested money to build welfare housing and carried out internal welfare housing distribution.

In the 90s, welfare housing distribution was put on hold and commercial housing became the mainstream. Driven by the huge market demand, cities across the country built a large number of residential communities, along with supporting shopping malls, schools, etc.

It has been exactly ten years now.

There is not much common area and few problems with construction quality.

However, driven by the market, housing prices have risen very rapidly in the past decade.

Every Chinese person wants to have a home, and a home is only possible with a house; a rented house does not count.

This has made the commercial housing market extremely hot and housing prices have been rising steadily.

The average housing price in Shanghai is 8600 RMB/square meter, in Beijing 6200 RMB/square meter, in Shenzhen 6000 RMB/square meter, and in Guangzhou 5660 RMB/square meter.
The average housing price in the top ten cities in the country is more than RMB 5000 per square meter. The average housing price in the 11th to 20th largest cities is more than RMB 4000 per square meter. The average housing price in the 21st to 30th largest cities is more than RMB 3000 per square meter. The average housing price in the 31st to 50th largest cities is more than RMB 2000 per square meter.

In almost all county towns, housing prices exceed RMB 1000 per square meter!

This is even though the government has built a large number of low-rent housing, and the Panshan Group has built tens of millions of houses, restricting employees of the Panshan Group as much as possible from buying commercial housing. As a result, the prices of commercial housing on the market have still risen to this level.

Ordinary people increasingly want to lower housing prices. In their view, after working hard for a month, they can only buy a house of one or two square meters. It will take them forever to have a house that truly belongs to them.

If you buy a house with a loan, you will have to bear a heavy mortgage loan!

Therefore, ordinary people are eager to lower housing prices.

This problem also troubles the government.

Because the government has built tens of millions of low-rent housing units across the country, the rents are not high and can even be quite favorable, thereby curbing the rise in housing prices, but people still want to buy commercial housing.

But the government cannot intervene too much in the real estate market, because it is market-driven. Everyone has money and wants to buy a house, so house prices will naturally increase.

Those who don’t have a house want to buy one, and those who have a house want to buy a better house.

Liu Tao sighed softly. Governing a country and managing its affairs are just four short words, but it is easier said than done. There are a lot of problems involved, and many of them are not so easy to solve.

But they all have to be resolved, because the longer they are delayed, the more stubborn the problem will become, the more difficult it will be to resolve, and the greater the accumulated public resentment will be.

Picking up the notebook, Liu Tao took off the pen cap and wrote on it. (End of this chapter)