Talking about the new countryside: poverty alleviation should not be counted as utilitarian account.

It is difficult to help the poor with a utilitarian and speculative heart, and it may even tarnish the moral light of the word "poverty alleviation".

Recently, I went to the poverty-stricken counties in the western region for an interview and asked grass-roots cadres whether they had confidence in getting rid of poverty and taking off their hats as scheduled. The answer they got was surprisingly consistent: absolutely no problem. After getting familiar with it, a township cadre "told the truth" to the author: if, through assistance, the income of some poor households does not reach the standard of getting rid of poverty, they can coordinate the minimum security to make up for the gap, so that they can "steadily get rid of poverty."

The author found that in the poverty alleviation work in some places, the tendency to get rid of poverty for the time being, regardless of the long-term tendency, is still quite serious.

In the first year of poverty alleviation, progress has been gratifying. However, in the process of implementing the strategy of accurate poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, there are also many problems. Formalism is quite serious in some places. The "day study" and "nominal" assistance of the cadres stationed in the village are not devoted to helping the poor people to become rich through hard work, but are spent on how to "calculate" the poor people out of poverty by "skillfully calculating" the income account. As the main body of responsibility for precise poverty alleviation, local governments do not seriously think of ways and practical measures to help poor people increase their income and get rid of poverty, but carry out "digital poverty alleviation" in order to accomplish the task. Some poverty alleviation subjects have serious utilitarianism. For example, some enterprises that invest and start up business in poverty-stricken areas need preferential policy support in the name of poverty alleviation, but in fact, they "help the rich but not help the poor" and put a label on their face as a "model of poverty alleviation" and a "model of social responsibility". The impulse to grab the poverty cap to highlight political achievements also exists in some places to varying degrees: a deep poverty county in the west, where the poverty rate is still as high as 30%, proposes to "take off the cap" this year.

Of course, there are many reasons for the tendency and emerging problems in these areas of poverty alleviation. However, the author believes that some people lack due awe for the cause of poverty alleviation, and utilitarianism is one of the important reasons. To help connect the family's firewood, rice, oil and salt, to see a doctor and go to school, even after decoupling, watching the former aid object return to poverty again because of the lack of ability to develop, how can those helping cadres who only teach people with fish but not fish feel at ease? Under the guise of helping the poor but not doing practical work, how can such enterprises bear the moral weight of helping the poor?

To be honest, for individuals, poverty alleviation is destined to be a job with more pay and less reward. When it comes to reward, it is more about the satisfaction gained by helping others at the spiritual level. For enterprises, poverty alleviation is not destined to be counted as the economic account of input and output, and output is more the realization of social responsibility and value. It is difficult to help the poor with a utilitarian and speculative heart, and it may even tarnish the moral light of the word "poverty alleviation". Only with a heart of awe and giving up the idea of utilitarian account to help the poor, can poverty alleviation really see practical results.

The awe of poverty alleviation mainly comes from two aspects: publicity and education and system construction. Helping the poor and helping the poor is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism. At present, it is a glorious work and a noble act to build consensus among the whole society through publicity and education to help the poor accumulate virtue and do good. It is necessary to enhance the understanding and feelings of all sectors of society towards the poor people and strengthen their sense of responsibility and mission to help the poor people by visiting the poor and asking about their hardships.

In addition to flexible educational guidance, a strong institutional guarantee is also needed. In recent years, the relevant departments have severely punished corruption in the field of poverty alleviation with a zero-tolerance attitude, and have continued to exert pressure to make some people who "once had ideas" not dare to "reach out" and "lose their ideas." In the next step of work, help cadres who are not concerned about poverty alleviation work should strictly implement the recall system; those responsible for "digital poverty alleviation" should be strictly investigated; and enterprises that enjoy preferential poverty alleviation policies but falsely help the poor should be put on the integrity blacklist while being punished in accordance with the law. Only by setting up a "high-voltage line" of the system can we guide all kinds of poverty alleviation subjects to really give up utilitarian thinking, help the poor and help the poor.

The effectiveness of poverty alleviation reflects the moral conscience of a society, and with a heart of awe, the goal of getting rid of poverty and building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way can be better achieved and more positive energy can be injected into the whole society.