Supporting professional cooperatives should not be "hot before cold"

In a recent interview in a county in Shanxi Province, the author found that a former model cooperative in that county is now at a standstill. When asked why, the chairman of the cooperative said: "it was lively for a while to report in Beijing and receive people from all walks of life. Later, there was an on-the-spot meeting, but the meeting was over." With the transfer of the main leaders of the local government and the credit union, the bank will no longer renew the loan to the cooperative, and the members will no longer repay the loan because of liquidity difficulties. Cooperatives not only failed to continue the momentum of development and brought more benefits to the common people, but also left a lot of sequelae.

As an important new type of business body, cooperatives are the main new force in the development of modern agriculture. In recent years, government departments at all levels have also issued a lot of support policies conducive to the healthy development of cooperatives. However, there are also incoherent or even unfulfilled policies in individual places, which is not only not conducive to the healthy development of cooperatives, but also harmful to farmers.

Development requires reform and innovation, and good grass-roots experience needs to be commended, encouraged and popularized, but for these grass-roots cooperatives, apart from commendation, it is also necessary to institutionalize support for grass-roots innovation achievements, rather than "hot before cold". It is necessary to put an end to people's political interest and create a more sustainable development environment and policy motivation for new business entities.