Only by eradicating poverty can child labor be banned

It can be confirmed that the "child labor" exposed this time is not alone.

From the standpoint of families and villages that send out "child labor", they may have reasons to convince themselves to make this choice, but they must realize that this choice is illegal and even more dangerous: allowing children in physical and mental development to participate in high-intensity physical labor early and enter a complex society too early, the price may far exceed the income earned as "child labor".

There is no point in legal and moral persuasion and condemnation. It is impossible for rural parents to understand whether wealthy urban families send their children to expensive extracurricular training or their hesitation to buy school district houses. it is also difficult for urban parents to understand the pain behind children of desperate families who lose a pencil and are beaten and scolded by their parents.

Different living standards correspond to different philosophy of life. "Child labor" is illegal, but it is also worthy of sympathy.

The reporter himself grew up and studied in rural areas, and has continued to pay attention to rural areas for more than 10 years. This in-depth visit to "child labor" families has made the reporter more deeply aware that the problem of "child labor" is more complex than imagined. To solve the problem of "child labor", the word "ban" alone cannot get to the root of the problem.

The root of the problem of "child labor" lies in the poverty of some families and the lack of path and hope to get rid of poverty; at the same time, these families do not have enough understanding of the significance of learning and do not have a firm belief in "knowledge changes fate". Some parents are unable to pay the full cost of their children's education from childhood to childhood, and even expect their children to earn money to support their families as soon as possible, so once they are faced with the choice of studying and working, they will abandon the former and choose the latter.

It can be said that as long as poverty has not been fundamentally changed, it is difficult to stop some children from becoming "child laborers". To solve the problem of "child labor", the most fundamental thing is to improve the income and cognitive level of families with the lowest income. They need help, and with their own ability, they are almost unable to complete the "turnaround".

To this end, we first need to vigorously promote "accurate poverty alleviation".

For those families who are extremely "ischemic", they should carry out appropriate "blood transfusion", help the really poor and help the poor, engage in less "bonsai", shout fewer slogans, and promote poverty alleviation in a practical and realistic manner in accordance with local conditions.

They are more eager than anyone to implement the decision of "supporting the development of production and employment, relocating a batch of immigrants, supporting a group of people through the minimum security policy, and supporting a group of people through medical assistance" as soon as possible. Once the family comes out of the quagmire, children do not have to assume the obligations of adults, but enter the campus and write their own future.

Second, we should continue to promote urbanization and allow qualified children to enter cities and towns.

We will gradually settle part of the agricultural transfer population in cities and towns, so that more farmers can increase their income through the transfer of employment, and enjoy better public services through conversion to citizens.

Adhere to industry back-feeding agriculture, cities support rural areas and "give more and take less", strengthen the overall planning of urban and rural development, gradually narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and promote the coordinated promotion of urbanization and new rural construction.

Third, it is necessary to promote industrial transfer so that farmers can have the opportunity to work nearby and take care of their families.

We should guide the orderly transfer of some industries in the east to the central and western regions, promote a new type of urbanization in the central and western regions, give poor areas more ways to get rich, expand employment opportunities, attract workers to return to their hometown to work nearby, and at the same time take care of their families. reduce the emergence of intergenerational education for "left-behind children".

Rural areas look forward to a higher level of infrastructure construction, and look forward to urban-rural networking, co-construction and sharing of infrastructure such as water, electricity, roads and gas. Farmers look forward to a higher level of social security so that basic public services in urban and rural areas are roughly equal.

Fourth, it is necessary to promote moderate management so that farming families can get roughly the same income as other industries.

The scale operation of land is difficult to carry out and the traditional mode of production is difficult to change, which is the root of the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers in our country.

In China, the per capita cultivated land is only 0.1 hectares, and the average land management scale of peasant households is about 0.6 hectares. if farmers stick to their "one mu and three mu of land", they can only make ends meet and cannot get rich, and fall into poverty in the event of major diseases or events. this is an unavoidable realistic problem.

To this end, we should try our best to promote the common development of household management, collective management, cooperative management and enterprise management, and encourage the transfer of contracted management rights to large professional households, family farms, farmers' cooperatives and agricultural enterprises in the open market. develop various forms of scale operation, so that agricultural families can also earn roughly the same income as other industries.

At the same time, in view of the rising phenomenon of "hollowing out" and land abandonment in some rural areas, more relaxed policies and measures should be introduced to make use of the value of these land and increase the total amount of farmers'"cake".

Fifth, change the thought of "reading is useless".

Nowadays, people generally pay more attention to education, but at the same time, the theory of "the uselessness of reading" is also on the rise in some backward rural areas. Because, they can not "fight for their father", they not only lose in the first step, but almost in every step.

But this should not lead to despair of knowledge. These parents should realize that the value of knowledge is not only reflected in the present, but also in the future. With the passage of time, the value of simple manual labor will become lower and lower, once there is no knowledge and skills, not only will be maintained at a low income level for a long time, it will be more and more difficult to find "rice bowls".

Sixth, strengthen the balanced development of urban and rural compulsory education, so that rural children can see the future.

Today, the gap in the level of education between urban and rural areas is already very large, coupled with the gap in economic strength and educational concepts between urban and rural parents, the "scissors gap" in urban and rural education is becoming more and more obvious, and "it is difficult for children from poor families to take part in the examination." some rural children have lost their interest and confidence in participating in examination competition. Once their minds are separated from school, the phenomenon of "child labor" will become inevitable.

To this end, practical measures should be taken to ensure that funds and teachers are tilted to rural areas, so that the actual expenditure of rural families for their children in the stage of compulsory education accounts for a relatively low proportion of total household income, so that every family can afford to go to school, so that children can stay in school.

Seventh, it is necessary to promote "free" and more "useful" secondary vocational education.

China's secondary vocational education has gradually implemented a wide range of free policy, so that "poor children" with low input or even "zero input" can become qualified workers and provide timely help to the children of poor families in rural areas.

However, secondary vocational education should avoid being reduced to "inferior education" because it is "free". Its function is not that "poor children are brought up by teachers without spending money", but that "students can really learn one or two skills." Otherwise, once "learning is the same as not learning", some rural children will think that "working early can earn two more years of money."