00:00 The key to running a country is to first enrich the people. This is classic Chinese wisdom.
00:12 Chinese President Xi Jinping quoted this while delivering a speech on poverty alleviation.
00:18 And he stressed during the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that Chinese
00:23 modernization should lead to common prosperity for all. Why has China always placed enriching
00:30 the people as a top priority? First, let's hear what prosperity means to Chinese farmers.
00:39 What is prosperity?
00:41 If you want to spend, spend. If you want to buy, buy. This is called prosperity.
00:47 Bees are the beekeepers from MiYun, a northeast suburb of Beijing and its largest
00:59 honey-producing base. MiYun has a history of over 300 years of beekeeping, but now a new way
01:06 of raising bees is being introduced to bring the industry to a whole new level.
01:11 Professor Gurbani, hello. Hello.
01:13 You know, one young man is trying to introduce or is taking the lead to make it even better
01:19 and sell more. Oh, really? Wow.
01:21 Shall we find out his story? Yes, yes, please.
01:24 Let's go. Let's go.
01:25 Hello, Professor.
01:39 This is Liu Jing Liang, China's first beekeeper to successfully practice multi-box beekeeping.
01:46 What is this technique and how does it improve a bee farmer's income?
01:52 Be careful. This is a temporary set up. This bee hive has about 200 boxes.
02:00 Now we have one box, one box, two boxes, three boxes. This is the least.
02:06 In the traditional way, we only have two boxes. Let's see how this bee is.
02:10 Let's see what honey is on it. Look, it's like this, it's covered. This is mature honey.
02:16 Can this honey be eaten? Yes, it can. Our honey is naturally produced.
02:20 Wow.
02:22 You can try it.
02:24 Yes.
02:26 It's so sweet.
02:28 Professor Ma forgot to wear a hat.
02:30 Yes. In the traditional way, the honey has already been shaken off.
02:34 But now we have to wait for the whole lid to be shaken off. This is the difference.
02:38 How much more can this be sold than the traditional way?
02:42 The price can be doubled.
02:44 This is called honey when it is taken out of the box.
02:48 This way, other beekeepers can see that we can produce honey and increase our income.
02:54 Multi-box beekeeping is the main technique that Mi Wing has promoted since 2016,
03:02 when Liu Jingliang first heard about it and started to practice it.
03:06 It took him five years to fully implement it, and it became the key for his family to increase its income.
03:13 Nonetheless, this technique has been questioned by local beekeepers.
03:18 Liu Jingliang promoted this technique.
03:22 Some people can accept it, but some people can't. Most people can't accept it.
03:26 Many beekeepers are skeptical about this method.
03:29 I think this method is against natural science.
03:32 I have tried it this year and found many new things.
03:36 Liu has been doing beekeeping for several years. Why did you start this year?
03:40 I saw that he was benefited this year.
03:43 You don't believe that this can be done?
03:46 No, I don't believe it.
03:48 It has to be done here.
03:50 Over seven years, about 30% of bee farmers have adopted multi-box beekeeping in Mi Wing.
03:56 Now, such a technique has also been promoted in China.
04:01 I can motivate some people around me, and they can motivate others around them.
04:08 This way, we can all benefit from it.
04:11 The government wants to make beekeepers rich.
04:15 The government has been doing a lot of work.
04:17 We used to go to beekeeping training, and Liu Jingliang would show us how to do it.
04:22 After we succeeded, many people started to learn from us.
04:25 Our country can only be rich if our people are rich.
04:28 This is what we have been pursuing and working hard for.
04:35 President Xi quoted a classical Chinese saying,
04:39 "The way to rule the country is to make people rich."
04:42 It comes from a book over 2,000 years ago, "Record of the Grand Historian."
04:47 How do you understand that?
04:49 Any government that doesn't think about their people,
04:52 then they're not going to be able to run the country as well.
04:56 But in the story of Liu Jingliang, how do you see the approach of achieving common prosperity?
05:02 This goes back to what we in management call "expanding the pie."
05:06 If he tries to make everybody else grow with him,
05:09 the price of honey from his region is going to become higher and higher.
05:14 So that pie is going to expand, and that's the meaning of common prosperity.
05:19 The way to rule the country is to make people rich.
05:25 We must achieve, maintain, develop,
05:31 and promote the most fundamental interests of the people,
05:36 and that is to achieve common prosperity.
05:39 The priority of a government should be to seek the prosperity of its people.
05:46 China is definitely a pioneer in this area,
05:49 because it was able to turn the huge population from a slave to an economic source.
05:55 The Chinese have a saying that it's better to give a man a fishing rod than a fish.
06:01 So here, the increase in prosperity is the rod that the government can give to a man,
06:07 and then the man, with or without the support of the government,
06:11 will be able to fish with this rod.
06:13 Socialism with Chinese characteristics is an example for the West.
06:17 It shows us how it's not possible to advance and make a nation prosper
06:21 if you don't take into account each and every one of its citizens.
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