20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3735 Zhao Chang'an's Teacher Subsidy

Zhao Chang'an believed Qiao Zhanhai's words, because in his previous life, he and Li Shiya had their faces stung by wasps and turned into pig heads. When they had nothing to do all day at the town health center, they would chat and talk about all sorts of things.

Li Shiya talked a lot about the Qiaojiashan Primary School where she taught. Qiao Zhanhai and the others thought Zhao Chang'an didn't know much, but in fact, he knew more and more details than they did in many aspects.

Zhao Chang'an couldn't help but glance at Lin Xiaojie. She had taken off her faux fur white shawl and placed it on the back of the chair, wearing only a red cheongsam. Although only part of her upper body was visible on the table, her delicate beauty was already very captivating.

Because she graduated from vocational school and became a Chinese language teacher, her seniority pay and other subsidies were relatively low, with a monthly salary of only a little over 300 yuan. Of course, if she was careful with her money, she could live a decent life. You should know that nowadays, young people in the city who work as waiters in canteens or in small shops only earn 300 or 400 yuan a month.

During the Spring Festival, he had dinner at Feng Jianfei's house. At that time, Feng Caiwei, who was running a bus contract, said that the salary of a ticket seller at the bus station was only a little over 400 yuan a month. You have to know that these ticket sellers also have to support their families.

However, as Lin Xiaojie's brother said, she earns a little over 300 yuan a month. Besides giving 100 yuan to her family, she also has to give 150 yuan to her boyfriend who is studying at a university in Zhengzhou. That means she only has less than 100 yuan for living expenses each month. I really don't know how she has managed to get through these past three years.

Zhao Chang'an guessed that she didn't buy the outfit she was wearing. Although it wasn't made of good fabric, the style was novel, and a set of cheongsam, shawl, and high heels would cost three or four hundred yuan.

Li Shiya once told a story about a young female music teacher who had only graduated less than a year ago. She suddenly burst into tears while teaching, saying that she had been without food for several days. The next day, the students in her class brought rice, flour, pork, lard, radishes, and cabbage from their homes to give to the female teacher. Li Shiya's eyes were filled with tears as she told the story.

Zhao Chang'an put down his glass after drinking, glanced at Qiao Zhanhai, and then at Xiang Juan.

To be fair, their bold move to launch the new town plan without the county's support was not for their own benefit. The new Qiaojiashan Town is located on a plain, unlike its current state, which is like the bottom of a dead end with no way out for development. The development of the new town in the future has proven the correctness of this decision.

However, the long-term and substantial arrears in the wages of the town's government-funded employees have caused them to bear the pain of this consequence.

Thinking of Li Shiya's tears in her previous life and Lin Xiaojie's reddened eyes just now, Zhao Chang'an felt that since he was here, he might as well do more.

There was a personal reason why I brought Yamakawa Yuki here before: I thought that with an international friend teaching here, the county would give the school in Qiaojiashan Town some financial support.

However, these four international friends have been back in their home countries for more than ten days, and no fax has been sent yet, so it is uncertain whether they will eventually come over.

Zhao Chang'an chose to donate to Qiaojiashan for two reasons: first, because of Li Shiya, and second, because it is the hometown of Xia Wenzhuo's mother, and Xia Wenzhuo hoped to use this method to pray for his mother, Qiao Qinqin.

Now that everything that needed to be done has been done, in addition to donating three million to build a school teaching building, he has also taken out six hundred thousand for scholarships for outstanding and impoverished students from primary to high school over the next ten years.

I don't know when I'll be able to come back again, or I might not even come back at all.

Zhao Chang'an has always believed that teaching and medical care should be two sacred professions, with the former transmitting the crystallization of human civilization and knowledge, and the latter saving lives and prolonging human life and health.

At least this kind of profession shouldn't be a symbol of poverty. Of course, teachers' salaries in county towns and cities aren't high now, but in a few years, with urban expansion and a large influx of rural residents into cities, these school teachers will soon have various ways to earn a decent amount of extra income.

Running tutoring classes, enrollment quotas for non-school district compulsory education, and the unavoidable phenomenon of rent-seeking.

The spring for rural teachers will have to wait more than a decade. By then, the country will be richer and will give rural teachers a significant pay raise. Although it won't be a huge increase, there will be very few students, less work, and a stable salary. In addition, with the convenience of the road network and the widespread use of cars, many teachers will be eager to teach in rural areas.

Many people say that trends come and go every few decades. But if you broaden your perspective, the world is pretty much the same, with trends shifting every thirty years.

Since Zhao Chang'an had already given some help to the students of Qiaojiashan School, he didn't mind doing a little more to help these teachers who were already struggling.

"Although the saying that teachers are the engineers of the human soul may seem a bit abstract, it is an indisputable fact."

Upon hearing Zhao Chang'an speak, everyone at the table stopped to listen.

"Just like Secretary Qiao said, Teacher Lin's monthly salary is only a little over three hundred yuan. Of course, I believe this is only a temporary phenomenon. In the future, as the country becomes richer and pays more and more attention to education, teachers' salaries will definitely be greatly improved, allowing teachers to settle down to do academic research and educate students."

Zhao Chang'an said sincerely, "Therefore, our cultural tourism group is also willing to contribute our modest efforts to the education cause in the five southern townships of Pengzhou. We will provide a teacher subsidy of 300 yuan per month to each primary, junior high, and senior high school teacher in these five townships. Of course, this has a time limit. It can be stopped after a few years when the country has the money to raise teachers' salaries. For now, we will set a time limit of five years and discuss it again after five years. Secretary Wu, this matter requires the cooperation of Pengzhou. Every month, you need to compile the number of teachers, their names, and other relevant information. This should include not only teachers with formal employment status but also those privately-run teachers who are not on the payroll, treating them equally."

Zhao Chang'an's words shocked the people in Pengzhou and Qiaojiashan Town. They stared at Zhao Chang'an in surprise, and after a while, enthusiastic applause rang out in the private room.

Pengzhou is a large county with a registered population of 685,000. The five townships in the south have a population of about 200,000, with Qiaojiashan Township having the largest population. There are about 1,200 primary, middle and high school teachers in these five townships. If each teacher earns 300 yuan a month, that's 360,000 yuan, which is more than 4 million yuan a year.

This is definitely a considerable expense.

"But I have a request."

Zhao Chang'an smiled as he looked at Wu Yudong.

"Please speak, Mr. Zhao."

Wu Yudong was a little confused about what was wrong with Zhao Chang'an. He had already given away 3.6 million yuan in Qiaojiashan Township today, which was already astonishing. Now he was proposing to give subsidies to teachers in five southern townships, and he was offering subsidies for five years, totaling nearly 20 million yuan.

So now he's really afraid that Zhao Chang'an will make some difficult request, putting him in a difficult position. If he fails to get his way, he dares to say that the more than 1,200 teachers in the five southern townships will scold him for years to come.

(End of this chapter)