People's Daily: The word "happiness" has been mentioned more and more frequently, and many cities have clearly proposed to build a happy city. How should happiness be measured?
Wang Chunyan: From a material point of view, people's happiness mainly comes from two levels: society and individuals. On the social level, it means that the social economy should develop rapidly and create and provide a good social security and service system for the people. At the individual level, individuals enjoy the development conditions created by society, such as children can study hard, they have better employment opportunities, parents have good medical care and old-age security, and the family lives and works in peace and contentment. Therefore, individuals can feel happy for the local economic and social development from the heart and have full confidence in the future.
As a county official, we should try our best to create happiness for the people, and the growing happiness of the people is our greatest happiness.
People's Daily: As the old saying goes, "A county governs the world", which shows the importance of county development and stability to the long-term stability of the country. However, it is not easy to make people in a county generally feel happy. How did Song Ming do it?
Wang Chunyan: First of all, accelerating the development of county economy is an important basis for improving people's livelihood. Songming established the overall goal of "enriching the people and strengthening the county by ecology" and formed a new pattern of coordinated industrial development of "one city" (Kunming Airport New Town) and "four parks" (Yanglin Industrial Park, Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park, International Eco-cultural Tourism Resort Park and Vocational Education College Park). During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, the county's gross domestic product grew at an average annual rate of 14%, the per capita disposable income of urban residents increased at an average annual rate of 12.8%, and the per capita net income of farmers increased at an average annual rate of110.4%, forming a new pattern of county economy with agriculture as the foundation, industry as the leading factor and rapid development of service industry.
Secondly, the implementation of people's livelihood projects as a specific starting point to enhance people's happiness to co-ordinate. With the acceleration of urbanization and park construction, many landless peasants appeared in Songming. We rely on the park to solve the employment problem, and Yanglin Industrial Park alone can provide thousands of jobs every year.
In addition, Songming opened a "reimbursement through train" for medical expenses. In 20 12, the reimbursement rate of farmers increased from 30% to 70%, and the participation rate of "new rural cooperative medical system" reached 99%. Carry out the earthquake-resistant reinforcement and reconstruction of rural houses in an all-round way, and open a solid "earthquake-resistant umbrella" for more than 1000 rural residents; The construction of public rental housing extended to the industrial park, and the public rental housing put into use solved the accommodation problem of more than 1000 employees for the settled enterprises.
People's interests are the core of happiness.
People's Daily: Songming is located in the west, and its fiscal revenue is not plentiful. How to solve the financial pressure and protect people's livelihood?
Wang Chunyan: Although compared with the developed areas in the east, the development of Songming is not enough, but we can't reduce people's livelihood investment just because it is still underdeveloped. The core of happiness is people, and the goal of our development is to benefit the people. Leap-forward development can't lose its historical mission, can't wait until the economy reaches a certain level to solve the people's livelihood problems, but must let the people enjoy the fruits of development simultaneously.
Song Ming has been strengthening the financial security of people's livelihood projects, and regards the matching funds of people's livelihood projects as the compulsory projects of county-level finance. Every year, with the increase of financial resources, the financial budget arrangement is continuously increased to ensure that key livelihood projects are put in place. Songming's expenditure on education, medical care, social security, re-employment, agriculture, forestry and water affairs accounts for more than half of the county's fiscal revenue.
For example, investment in education, since 2007, Songming has raised nearly 700 million yuan to complete the construction of 44 rural standardized schools and build 287,000 square meters of new school buildings. The per capita education in the county has reached 9.2 years. However, the Songming County Party Committee and the county government are still working in this old building built in the 1970s.
"Poetic habitation" improves happiness index
People's Daily: Protecting the environment and developing the economy are difficult choices faced by many regions. We have noticed that Song and Ming put ecology in the most important position when determining the overall goal, even giving priority to enriching the people. How is this considered?
Wang Chunyan: Now, people's quality of life has improved. Eating enough and wearing warm clothes is no longer the whole of happiness. People pay more and more attention to a good living environment. If the ecological environment is destroyed, it will do harm to people's health. No matter how good the economy is and how much income there is, people will not feel happy.
Song Ming has a mild climate and beautiful scenery, and is a poetic dwelling place. Therefore, when we develop the economy and attract investment, the first thing we emphasize is science and technology and environmental protection. Even if we lose some big projects at present, we will never go to industries with high pollution and high energy consumption, and we will leave this green mountains and green waters to future generations.
At the same time, Songming launched the "Forest Songming" action plan, urban and rural landscaping, comprehensive environmental improvement and energy conservation and emission reduction in an all-round way. Songming has completed afforestation of 1.42 million mu, closed hillsides for afforestation of 55,000 mu, and started the greening and beautification work along abandoned railways and highways; Country parks, riverside parks, garden parks and county sewage treatment plants have been built one after another. Today, the per capita area of public green space in Song and Ming Dynasties has reached 12 square meters, and the people not only enjoy high-quality urban life, but also lose the pleasant rural scenery. After dinner every day, in the major squares of the city, citizens who take a walk, relax and play gyro are leisurely.
Respect the wishes of the masses and the masses will be more satisfied.
People's Daily: During the period of social transformation, many contradictions broke out in concentration, which easily affected people's happiness. How to alleviate these social contradictions?
Wang Chunyan: First of all, we should fully respect the wishes of the masses. While insisting on increasing the government's efforts to build people's livelihood projects, we must rely on the masses and mobilize them to form a benign mechanism for people's livelihood work that "the masses have the final say and take the satisfaction of the masses as the standard". For example, it is a good way to implement "one thing, one discussion" in rural areas.
Secondly, we should consider the problem from the standpoint of the people and make every effort to improve their living standards and increase their happiness. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, we will strive to increase the per capita disposable income of urban residents by 10% and the per capita net income of farmers by 12% annually. At the same time, increase the support for people's livelihood projects, ensure that the rural labor force will transfer employment10.4 million during the year, and realize the transfer income10.50 billion yuan; Construction of 324 1 set of affordable housing was started, which provided a strong guarantee for the scientific and harmonious development of Songming.
Third, take the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of the masses as the ultimate standard, take serving the masses and improving people's livelihood as the greatest responsibility, and implement the system of direct contact between cadres and the masses around "changing work style, serving the grassroots and promoting leapfrogging" to realize, safeguard and develop the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people.
It must be emphasized that there is no unique and fixed standard for happiness, which is constantly changing with the development of economy and society. Therefore, creating happiness for the people and making people's happiness stronger and stronger is endless. (Hu Hongjiang finishing)