"The fees handed in by peasants to substitute labor and the agriculture project construction funds were appropriated to pay for the debt and distribute salaries, which resulted in the aging of water conservancy project. You can come to our village and have a look. The irrigation ditches have been silted up, water and air have been seriously polluted, rubbishes have been piled up, most beneficial insets and aniamls like snakes, frogs and birds have disappeared and forests and plants have been completed felled...
All the young men have gone to earn their living. The aged, the weak, the sick and the disabled have been left over to cope and deal with the cadres of the village and the town."
