A more sustaining way of motivating and rewarding the people to contribute positively to nation-building

A more sustaining way of motivating and rewarding the people to contribute positively to nation-building

In this blogpost, No News Is Bad News just wants to make a point clear to Malaysians and Malaysia.

We also hope the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) federal government will also heed the point we want to stress here.

We agree with Leland Wong’s Facebook posting sharing a People’s Daily, China’s post that this is a “Constructive and positive way of making money”.

We wish to compare with the billions of ringgit in yearly BR1M handouts that are being given away yearly without any tangible returns to nation-building.

BR1M does not help motivate the rakyat (people) to work and contribute to nation-building.

BR1M is just a political tool used by the BN federal government to pacify the poor and to secure their support or ballots in general elections.
We believe what the mainland Chinese government is doing is one very justified way of motivating the poor to work hard for rewards - instead of depending on handouts. No?

It is definitely a more sustaining way of rewarding and motivating the people to contribute to nation building. And the idea can definitely be improvised to suit other ways of nation-building programmes or projects.

Here’s what was reported in China:

"Farmers receive big dividends for planting trees
(CRI Online) 18:09, August 29, 2016

About 5.6 million yuan (850,000 US dollars) was distributed on Saturday to 80 households who took part in a tree planting scheme in a village in Lintao County, northwest China's Gansu province. [Photo: Chinanews.com]
Zhang Xinhai, getting as much as 100,000 yuan this time, is planning to plant more trees in the scheme.

He finds this way of making money easier than others, as "there is no cost and I don't have to worry about where to sell them," he said.

In 2013, a local company supplied 400,000 plants, free, to each participating household.

Three years later the farmers had to return the trees to the company, in return for a dividend. Taking the survival rate of the trees into account, each household was expected to return at least 380,000 trees.

The company will sell these trees to northern Chinese regions such as Inner Mongolia and Shanxi for greening."