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The Mayor's Poverty Alleviation Policy

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By JackmamaPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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The city implements key poverty alleviation projects, stipulating that cadres above the division level are required to package villages and households, and the secretary-mayor has also taken the lead in identifying contact households.

Before the Spring Festival, the mayor finally took a day off to visit relatives at the home of the contact household he was responsible for. This look, the mayor felt very shocked, but also very saddened.

This family is really poor, two 10-year-old children have dropped out of school at home. The village chief said: the original family is not so poor, just because a child had a major surgery, costing more than 30,000 yuan, only to become so.

The mistress of the family, a mute, saw the mayor and knew that a big official had arrived, so she dragged the child who had undergone surgery, lifted up his clothes and pointed to a long scar on his back to show the mayor. Then, she gestured and said she would cook for the mayor to eat.

The mayor had no desire to eat, but his heart was moved, he emptied his wallet, and let his secretary and driver empty their wallets, think about it is not enough, he said to the village chief: you have to help his family think of a project, so that his family as soon as possible from the root of poverty. The village chief said: "The project is there, but there is a lack ...... of money. Besides, the results are not that fast.

The mayor thought for a while, he said to the man of the family: I want to take these two children to my home for the New Year.

The man gestured with the woman for a while, and then they finally agreed. The mayor then drove the two dirty children back to the city.

Back home, the mayor first had his wife and nanny give the two children a bath, cleaned them up, and then took them to the zoo and the casino to play in person. The two children were too restrained to say a word, but within half a day, they were already calling each other uncle.

The mayor is the mayor, everywhere can meet acquaintances, people surprised to ask: Mayor, whose children this is? The mayor then said: relatives of the family ah!

The mayor accompanied the two children to play all day, and returned home in the evening, he saw his wife packing things, so he said: you do not need to pack, this year's New Year's Eve, we will not go back to the countryside, we spend in the city.

The lady asked inquisitively: how, this year you do not clean government?

The mayor said: this you still do not understand, this year our family is not from the countryside guests? For them, do not go back.

The next day was the Chinese New Year, the mayor was busy going out to condolences until late at night, before rushing back to eat New Year's dinner with his family. At the dinner table, he and his wife and the girl's son-in-law, all gave red envelopes to those two children.

The first day of the New Year is the day of New Year's worship. In previous years, this day, the mayor's house is always closed, no one is seen. Today, the mayor is at home as an exception, and immediately the door is full of people. New Year's guests this batch has not gone, the next batch has arrived.

Every guest enter, their first look at the mayor sitting next to two children, they almost immediately reflexively like hands into the coat pocket or handbag, take out two red envelopes on the two children handed over, some also incidentally ask a question who this is, some simply do not ask anything. But the red packets are bulging.

The mayor also did not resist, and sometimes help to do the work: children, take it, uncle to, you take it, do not be polite, ah!

A day down, the two children each received the size of red envelopes twenty to thirty, the mayor asked his wife to help count a total of 28,000 yuan. The mayor wrapped the money as it was, and had his driver send it back with the children. He also personally gave a letter to the village chief, instructing him to help the child's family to spend the money on the edge. And he said he would travel to inspect it some time later.

That year, the mayor's contact household quickly out of poverty.

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