Chapter 256 The Basics of Winning

At this time, allies such as India asked to send troops to assist the Chinese team in combat, hoping to seize the last chance when they could already see victory and gain a place on the American battlefield, so as to gain greater voice in the post-war world pattern. Win phone bills,

Of course, different countries have different plans.

The Indian Prime Minister stood up first, not taking this opportunity to challenge China, but hoped to consolidate his alliance with China and thus make his position in South Asia recognized by China. At that time, India's basic strategy was not to dominate South Asia, but to become China's spokesperson in South Asia.

To put it bluntly, India has long lost its ambitions and is now willing to act as a regional trader in China.

Of course, it cannot be said that India has no ambitions. It is just that India’s ambition is no longer to become a world power, nor will it provoke China for this. It just hopes to become China’s number one ally in the new world dominated by China and thus become the second in the new world.

In fact, this is very similar to Japan half a century ago.

The one who stood up immediately after India was Pakistan, and Pakistan was not targeting China, but India, that is, it did not want India to grow stronger.

In Pakistan's strategy, pro-China and contain India is the top priority.

In this way, Pakistan has to curb India and prevent India from becoming the second in the Eastern Alliance group. At least it should gain the same status as India. Only in this way can Pakistan's status in South Asia be guaranteed in the new post-war order.

The third one to stand up is Indonesia, whose purpose is similar to India, that is, to become China's spokesperson and the number one regional power in Southeast Asia. While assisting China in controlling Southeast Asia, it can obtain the best interests of the region to maintain its high development.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand why Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines actively proposed to send troops to the United States. Even Singapore proposed as a quasi-alliance and was willing to contribute to the US battlefield and help China achieve its final victory.

At that time, Singapore even established a "family group" composed of well-known folk people, specializing in establishing relations with senior Chinese leaders. There were even several well-known Singaporean businessmen who were fellow villagers with Huang Hanlin, who proposed to return to their hometown to exhibit and help their hometown modernization.

The problem is that China is no longer the China fifty years ago.

In fact, before the outbreak of World War III, China was already the most advanced country in the world. Even if the per capita national output value is calculated, China is not much worse than the United States. If the average value is calculated based on purchasing power as the standard, China has passed the United States. As for the so-called "modernization", China is the benchmark, and other countries have to learn it. For example, China achieved free power supply before the war, and the costs of producing electricity raw materials, maintaining power stations, and building power transmission networks and power infrastructure are all borne by government taxes, and residents are within the national average.

All electricity use is free, and only the part that exceeds the average value needs to pay the "social public resource occupation tax", and this tax of tens of trillions of yuan per year is all used to maintain the national power infrastructure. You should know that before the war, among countries with a population of over 100 million, only China achieved free power supply. In addition, social resources directly related to people's livelihood, such as urban water supply, gas supply for domestic use, transportation and other infrastructure, have either been free or have been free in most areas, that is, the basic consumption of the people is paid through taxes.

What is modernization?

This is called modernization, and it is more thoroughly modernized than Western countries.

Of course, China has set more than these benchmarks.

At that time, China had completely abolished the family planning system and began to encourage the people to have offspring. The reason is simple. After obtaining almost endless energy and agricultural production no longer requires land, how many citizens can a country live a prosperous life is no longer determined by natural resources, but by the country's productivity, or productivity. With China's pre-war production efficiency, a labor force could feed ten or even more people, so population growth has no obvious impact on China.

In order to encourage childbirth, the Chinese government has introduced many policies, such as stipulating that one of the couple can not participate in work after having children, and the government will provide social support funds equivalent to 80% of the local average income through the social public security fund. The fundamental reason for this policy is that the child is not the personal property of the parents, but the future of the entire society, so the society is obliged to bear the responsibility for raising children. If the children raised by a couple reach or exceeds three, then before the youngest child reaches the age of six, the family will receive social support funds equivalent to 240% of the local average income. Moreover, after the youngest child reaches the age of six, one of the couples can continue to receive social support funds equivalent to 80% of the average income of that year within the next six years until a suitable job is found, and the other party can receive reemployment training provided by the government within half a year.

It can be said that this policy has fundamentally improved China's population structure.

You should know that when the global natural disasters ended, China's population had dropped to a very dangerous level, with the lowest point being around 700 million. In the following decade, the population gradually resumed positive growth, and in the five years before the outbreak of the war, it ushered in the first fertility peak in more than half a century.

In addition to encouraging childbirth, China has also carried out comprehensive reforms in other social welfare.

In terms of the education system, in addition to the twelve-year compulsory education of the country, some wealthier regions have also introduced more detailed education policies. For example, in Shanghai and Guangdong, twelve-year compulsory education is divided into three stages. The first two stages are the same as national basic compulsory education, and the third stage is divided into two forms: one is three years of labor skills training and the other is three years of quality training. The former is mainly for social work positions, and the government negotiates with employers to ensure that students who have received labor skills training can find jobs after they come from society, and the employment rate has remained stable at more than 95%. The latter is mainly for advanced education, that is, after the three years of quality learning, students will submit admission applications to the university and participate in the university admission examination.

At the beginning, there were many students participating in quality training, after all, the traditional educational concept was there.

However, around 2050, the social atmosphere changed, mainly because the employment rate of college graduates was not as good as that of middle school graduates who had mastered labor skills. Moreover, the income of college graduates in the first ten years of work was 20% lower than that of middle school graduates. In the following ten years, it was the same as middle school graduates. It was not until twenty years later that middle school graduates passed. After twenty years, most middle school graduates who mastered a skill were already the backbone of their work, and their income would not be much worse.

Besides, who would like to go after the age of forty?

The result is that the balance between quality education and skill education began to tilt. Although the two had not reached a equilibrium before the war broke out, as long as they continued, quality education and skill education could reach a equilibrium, thus avoiding the phenomenon of wasting educational resources.

You should know that most social jobs do not actually require college students, and skilled middle school students are enough.

In terms of medical care, although China has not yet achieved free medical insurance for all people before the war, the system has been implemented during the war, and common diseases are within the scope of free medical insurance, and corresponding medical insurance services can be obtained based on the citizen ID number.

Interestingly, when social welfare is greatly improved, China's tax ratio is not high.

The year before the war broke out, China's tax ratio was 37%, and it included local taxes, which were about twenty percentage points lower than Nordic countries with social welfare, fifteen percentage points lower than France and Germany and five percentage points lower than the United States.

Of course, Western countries think that China's tax ratio is very heavy, and it should actually be between 45% and 55%.

In fact, even if calculated at 55%, it is lower than that of Nordic countries.

The main reason why China maintains low taxes while achieving high welfare is that the production efficiency represented by the fusion nuclear energy belt is greatly improved, thereby reducing the overall cost of social welfare and enabling the government to achieve high welfare while maintaining low taxes.

Of course, there is another thing that cannot be ignored, that is, China is actually using the entire regional economy to support hundreds of millions of citizens.

You should know that compared with local economies dominated by the United States, the productivity level of other countries is much lower than that of local economies dominated by China. Before the war, only China was considered a real Delta country. For example, Pakistan, North Korea, Malaysia and other countries were only considered a quasi-developed country, while India, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries are not yet a quasi-developed country. Among the regional economies dominated by the United States, in addition to the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore and the United Kingdom are all Delta countries, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa are quasi-developed countries, and even the developing countries have a relatively high overall level.

In a sense, China's basic social system before the war was the basis for the country to win.

You should know that when we became rich, almost all Chinese people believe that it was through the past nearly forty years of external expansion that the country was laid a strong foundation, made citizens rich, and achieved the goal of common prosperity. Therefore, the wealthy Chinese people were not satisfied, or they all knew that only by arming can we defend a happy life and gain a happier future.

As a result, after the war broke out, Chinese citizens were the most motivated, far more than the United States.
Chapter completed!