全網封殺，這部影片說出了中國農民的悲慘命運？中國農村7千萬留守兒不為人知的悲劇；1.8億農村老人，2026年養老金每天只有5塊4毛 【新聞看點 李沐陽3.22】

163 yuan — that's the monthly pension the CCP provides to a farmer who has cultivated twice the amount of land — a sum insufficient for a single meal for an ordinary official Even if a farmer catches a cold one medical bill might not be covered and with 180 million elderly people in rural China living on just 5.4 yuan per day for pension expenses the situation is dire The CCP claims this is a people-benefiting policy yet why are Chinese farmers suffering so much Has anyone ever thought about this There's a film still banned by the CCP to this day which reveals exactly what the CCP fears The shocking truth that left everyone stunned Everything I'm saying is being suppressed by the CCP Yet these are the very foundations for change in China Everyone must see it Mainland friends can use One-Click Wall-Breaking for free to access content—convenient secure and impossible for the CCP to block One-Click Wall- Breaking was developed by American Chinese tech elites No technical skills or 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government work report at the Two Sessions that the basic pension for urban and rural residents will increase by 20 yuan per month a move that state media hailed as a major development The ongoing report claims that benefits for the people are being further expanded with an accompanying image showing a group of smiling rural elders as if they had just won the lottery but what is the real situation After adjustments the pension received monthly by elderly people in rural China amounts to only 163 yuan—insufficient to cover a single monthly subway pass in Beijing In Shanghai you can't even afford three cups of coffee In a rural pharmacy that same amount would barely buy two boxes of cold medicine or just one bottle of blood pressure medication then the money runs out again next month According to publicly available data from the CCP China has 180 million rural elderly people who survive on just 163 yuan a month—180 million is more than the entire population of Russia Many of them are already in their eighties or nineties having spent their lives paying grain taxes serving in the military and supporting national development—now in their old age their daily living allowance amounts to just five yuan forty jiao and three fen In fact this 163 yuan is even lower than China's minimum living standard in rural areas meaning that according to the poverty line set by the CCP itself These 163 yuan are in themselves a poverty-level amount do you know how much a retired bureau-level official in Beijing receives monthly The figure officially reported is between 5 000 and 10 000 yuan this is the number that's been disclosed but the actual amount is far higher We're only talking about the reported amount of 5 000 to 10 000 yuan And these people receive nearly full reimbursement for medical treatment with government-funded healthcare remaining valid for life meanwhile everyone thinks about living on just five yuan forty-three fen a day On one side is a pension starting at 5 000 yuan—this is a microcosm of Xi Jinping's constant call for common prosperity Some friends might recall that in 2009 the CCP did introduce a new rural pension system where the basic monthly pension at launch was only 55 yuan Sixteen years have passed and the figure has risen from 55 to 163—that's quite a significant increase isn't it While the percentage rise is indeed substantial the concern is how it compares to the overall rise in prices The real worry is knowing China's inflation rate—it's incomparable Someone might still ask where did all the grain contributions paid by farmers in their youth go All the blood and sweat poured into urban development over the decades—where has it gone The farmland worked by generations past—where has it disappeared to No one dares to answer these questions openly If anyone dared to answer openly— Just like the ending of the movie we're discussing today banned The film we're discussing today is called "卧土 " This is a labor of love that director Wang Xiaoshuai has been preparing for many years Wang Xiaoshuai is part of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers Directed the film "17-Year-Old Bicycle " the ninth feature by the renowned director Qinghong which has been repeatedly nominated for or won top prizes at the Berlin and Cannes film festivals The story follows the fate of a farmer's family from Gansu spanning four generations and covering several decades of modern Chinese history From the land reform of the 1950s all the way to the 2008 migrant worker era October 2022 Wang Xiaoshuai submitted the completed test footage to the CCP National Film Administration for review as part of his application for a supply license But after waiting 15 months with no formal response there were only repeated excuses— requests for incomplete data additional explanations and other delays—until early 2024 The film bureau has finally provided answer — a revised checklist demanding over fifty changes to the movie Fifty changes made to the film Do you all realize what that means The entire movie runs for 140 minutes So fifty revisions mean a cut every less than three minutes on average What was altered Wang Xiaoshuai later revealed in a Berlin interview that he was asked to cut all scenes involving land reform and class struggle on the grounds that the depiction of that particular era was one-sided No scenes or dialogue depicting famine or deaths from starvation shall appear in the Great Leap Forward segment the migrant worker compensation storyline must include active involvement and coordination by the relevant authorities This scene reflects the government's concern but the film's overall tone must shift from heavy criticism to hope amid suffering progress amid hardship and resilience in the face of adversity Hope in hardship progress in adversity — this is the typical CCP propaganda theme a standard party talking point In other words the film bureau isn't about changing this movie But rather than making a film that speaks for farmers turning it into a propaganda piece that keeps farmers silent—after reading the list Wang Xiaoshuai immediately refused saying "I won't make propaganda films " In February 2024 he brought his film to the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany as soon as the premiere ended the audience's applause lasted for several minutes A European media outlet at the time commented: This is the most shocking Chinese film at this year's Berlin Film Festival It showed the world a China that had been forgotten The film begins in a rural village in Gansu Province in 2008 when Beijing was hosting the Olympic Games and the entire nation was filled with jubilation proclaiming that China had become powerful The Chinese nation has stood up yet in a village in Gansu there is a 10- year-old boy named Wotu whose greatest wish is to own a plastic water gun Just a little thing to city kids is just a cheap toy worth a few dollars But at Wotu's home this is nothing short of an unattainable dream Wotu's father A Chuan works year-round on construction sites in distant provinces He is one among hundreds of millions of Chinese migrant workers doing the heaviest dirtiest and most dangerous jobs yet without urban household registration or access to urban health insurance There's no way for the child to study in the city let alone live in the modern high-rises helped build— he's a builder of the city yet forever an outsider Mother Mu Yue of the fertile land is one among millions of left-behind women in China—tending fields alone raising children by herself caring for her dying father -in-law and constantly dealing with unexpected visitors The local officials tasked with accelerating land development youth was thus gradually worn down between barren fields and dilapidated houses the grandfather of the fertile land is now elderly The film opens with this old man digging desperately in the cracked yard every day no one knows what he's searching for one time while digging he broke his leg Wo Tu rushed over to ask Grandpa what are you looking for The old man didn't answer Wo Tu asked his father for a water gun His father said "Wait until Dad gets back then I'll buy it for you " They waited and waited His father kept breaking his promise again and again Later Grandpa told Wotu When Grandpa dies he'll become a ghost and come back to give you a water gun An old man with a promise made after death prepares to make up for the helplessness he felt while alive The fertile soil symbolizes not the child in the film but rather the 70 million left-behind children across China whose parents work in cities while they are left in rural areas raised by their grandparents They even have to take care of themselves and according to public surveys over 40% of children in China in such situations face varying degrees of mental health issues including anxiety and depression Autistic tendencies and so on and so forth But in the CCP's performance reports such children number seventy million yet they seem to not exist at all They are merely a number casually overlooked Caught between GDP growth rate and urbanization rate The fertile soil waited through his entire childhood— neither the water gun nor the expected joy arrived only the devastating news of a shattered family his father injured and the film's story unfolds not in a linear fashion Director Wang Xiaoshuai uses the dreamlike approach of "Wasteland" to transport viewers back to eras deliberately buried by the CCP the first dream in Wasteland takes place in the early 1950s Land reform At that time Grandfather of the fertile land was still a young man After the CCP entered the village it brought slogans like "rising up to become masters of our own destiny" as well as class distinctions and mass meetings to struggle against landlords Landlords and rich peasants were dragged one by one into the square for public struggle yet the violence of the land reform was far from simple confrontation with landlords—people went to great lengths to demonstrate loyalty to the collective Keeping his revolutionary群众 identity meant everything to the young man's grandfather who did something that haunted him for the rest of his life— he led people into his own courtyard He dug up the two inherited jars of gold silver and jewelry from underground turned them all in then personally picked up a thick hemp rope He put the rope around his own father 's neck and dragged him up onto the struggle platform Why Because Grandpa Wo Tu had once been helped by a landlord The component designated as problematic necessitated the grandfather publicly distancing himself from his father so the son placed the rope around his father's neck Amid the angry shouts of the crowd he walked step by step toward the square—scenes like this occurred countless times throughout the entire land reform movement Between 1950 and 1953 there is no exact figure for how many people were killed estimates range from one to two million And those who were forced to expose and denounce their own family members—though they survived their hearts never knew peace again from that moment on because this was not merely a denunciation of a single person Instead of shattering the ethical foundations of a millennia-old steel mill it tore a family apart into two halves—the great-grandfather of the fertile land the very elderly man paraded in public Survived the land reform but didn't make it through the Great Leap Forward The second dream of the fertile land was the Great Leap Forward of 1958 Mao Zedong issued a command and the entire nation embarked on mass steel production farmers laid down their hoes and felled trees All the iron pots farming tools and door hinge chains from home were thrown into the earth kiln the fields lay abandoned and the grain rotted away The figures reported from各地 to the central government were consistently rising but Grandpa Wo Tu was now mentally deranged wandering aimlessly all day muttering to himself Unable to distinguish reality from illusion in a scene from the movie at the现场 of a massive steel rally his great-grandfather suddenly appeared amidst the blazing flames He glanced around at the flickering flames then at the excited shouting crowd and without a word without any music leapt into the steel furnace Only the flickering flames and silence remained— this shot when seen by anyone with a conscience left them speechless for a long time The grandfather watched helplessly as his father vanished into the fire And that piece of hemp rope became the heaviest枷锁 of his second half of life at the film's end grandfather desperately dug into the earth in the courtyard on his deathbed In truth what he was digging for wasn't treasure at all but his lost conscience— he had betrayed his own father and that guilt had weighed on him his entire life When it comes to the Great Leap Forward famine many might think it wasn't a natural disaster but that's not true—there was still food available at the time and it wasn't caused by a natural disaster From 1959 to 1961 national grain reserves across various regions still had stockpiles but farmers themselves could not eat Local officials in their relentless pursuit of increasingly inflated grain procurement targets stripped farmers' homes bare leaving not a single grain of their daily food supply Farmers went hungry while watching their grain loaded onto trucks and hauled into storage The granaries were full yet people starved to death Historian Yang Jisheng recorded the case of Fengyang County in Anhui Province in his book Tombstone In 1959 the grain procurement volume reported by Fengyang far exceeded the actual harvest for that year yet the procurement continued unabated That year one-fifth of Fengyang County's population died of starvation in Tongwei County Gansu one-third perished in some communes in Sichuan the mortality rate even exceeded 50% Yet on Mao Zedong's desk reports of victory continued to arrive—grain production set new records year after year and the steel-making campaign consistently exceeded its targets From the grassroots up through the central leadership lies piled upon lies ultimately leading to the deaths of tens of millions It left an indelible mark in history historians estimate that between thirty million and forty-five million people died of starvation during the Great Leap Forward Chinese demographer Feng Ke's research indicates that the number of unnatural deaths exceeded 45 million marking the largest man-made famine in human history during the 20th century But so many people have died—yet in the CCP's textbooks this period of history is reduced to just a few lines citing natural disasters and the withdrawal of Soviet aid along with some mistakes made in work China has gone through temporary difficulties — in fact even today Xi Jinping is using such mechanisms to layer new lies on top of old ones and local officials dare not report bad news Data keeps getting revised GDP growth is always meeting targets history just repeats itself like this—now I’d like to share something with you A viewer wrote me a letter He said his father came from a rural area in Gansu endured great hardships in his youth and suffered serious health damage later he started taking Hei Gaozi recommended by me Her mental state has been improving day by day with proper care That black high-quality supplement has received dual certification from Canada's Health Department and the FDA and is manufactured under strict government supervision in Canada Sugar-free and free of Western medicine ingredients it provides gentle nourishment without causing heatiness especially suitable for middle- aged and elderly individuals under stress those with weak constitutions and people who frequently stay up late Take one small spoonful daily 相当于六根西洋参的火性成分 convenient and efficient one bottle lasts about three months after one woman took half a bottle her overall health improved noticeably The discomfort in her knees eased sleep improved noticeably and her husband's sleep became even more significantly better So before finishing the first bottle she rushed to repurchase a second one Paul a 46-year-old company supervisor takes Hei Gao Zhi whenever he feels his body is about to hit a wall and his symptoms quickly subside with noticeable improvement in fatigue so if you're in need You can give it a try — use my promo code XWKD and get two bottles for just $260 while each bottle costs $300 on the mainland and we also offer free shipping across the entire region No problem if you can't shop online —just call our hotline at 800-368 -8878 mention the promo code XWKD and you'll still receive 15% off At this point let's rewind to 2008—Wotu' s father A Chuan suffered a construction accident in which both of his legs were completely crushed by machinery yet he survived But with both legs gone the construction company presented a compensation plan offering 500 000 RMB Fifty thousand seems like a substantial amount but in reality it's among the lowest compensation levels in China For a Beijing urban resident injured on duty the same incident would result in a significantly higher payout The compensation amount is typically between 1.2 million and 1.8 million So why did the father of the fertile land receive such a small compensation Under the legal framework of the CCP state compensation for personal injury is calculated under two separate standards —keep this in mind: urban residents are compensated based on the per capita disposable income of urban residents Migrant workers' compensation is calculated based on the per capita disposable income of rural residents that is the same injury the same body yet the value of your life depends on your household registration book A rural household registration is worth so little in the eyes of the CCP This isn't an unwritten rule It's explicitly written in black and white in the CCP's legal statutes It wasn't until 2022 that the Supreme Court began gradually piloting a unified compensation standard but enforcement has remained inconsistent to this day Nearly 300 million migrant workers across China face the same potential situation when confronting business and industry Akagawa lost his legs and the ability to work after losing 500 000 yen the fertile soil he waited for throughout his childhood received not a water gun but his father in a wheelchair The film ends with a heavy rain pouring from the sky the old house 承载ing the blood and tears of four generations of a family collapses abruptly in the howling storm The ruins lay silently on the yellow earth no music no narration no one weeping the fertile land was forced to leave that place heading toward the city that had swallowed his father's legs He too went out to work to make a living continuing his father's fate remaining an outsider That land is called Fertile Soil the child is also named Fertile Soil both the land and the child have lost their own futures That's the plot summary of the film "Fertile Soil " Wang Xiaoshuai made no changes to it Naturally he therefore did not receive the dragon label— the official theatrical release permit in China Without this theater distribution license supply is impossible naturally resulting in no box office revenue and all investments would be wasted Why didn 't Wang Xiaoshuai accept the 50 requested revisions Why would he sacrifice the entire film's commercial prospects Actually he wasn't without options—he could have cut the land reform segment and framed it as historical inevitability or altered the Great Leap Forward section Translating the spirit of mutual aid among people during natural disasters could also give Ak川's story an additional ending where the government actively steps in to resolve the issue if rewritten this way the film might be approved for release and potentially achieve box office success Maybe it wouldn't have been banned the But if we change it like that is this still fertile ground for a film After its premiere in Berlin Soil sparked intense international attention with major media outlets across Europe delivering in-depth coverage and hailing it as one of the most significant Chinese films of the year It portrays the fate of four generations to reveal a face of Chinese peasants beyond official propaganda of course the CCP has banned Soil so most people in China cannot see it So much has already been censored by the CCP but there are still many things the CCP cannot suppress A Chuan lies on the construction site staring at the spot where his legs have vanished—this reality is widespread across mainland China and it cannot be silenced The trembling footsteps of my father being tied with hemp rope by his grandfather as he was led toward the struggle platform—people have memories The gaze of the old patriarch of the fertile land cast toward the crowd just before leaping into the steel furnace still lingers in many hearts —and especially so under the rule of Xi Jinping 163 pension payments — the shame behind them — how can it be silenced As long as humanity remains as long as people still have a shred of conscience the truth can never be suppressed Alright that concludes everything I wanted to share with you today I’d like to remind everyone that Shen Yun is currently on a global tour For friends in New York keep an eye on the schedule—performances begin on the 25th with 18 shows in total When are you going North American friends purchase tickets online You can use my promo code MY2026 to waive the processing fee but only when purchasing through the Shen Yun official website Only by doing so can you enjoy the discount Alright let's uncover the truth The shepherd speaks the facts Dear viewers see you tomorrow