Chapter 692 (1/2)
The planned ufms family community covers an area of 30 hectares, which directly delimits a large area of wasteland in the western suburb of Livni City, so there is no need for very troublesome demolition.
Simon and his party arrived at their destination. It was already a busy scene.
Thousands of workers and various engineering vehicles are preliminary leveling the vast land that can't be seen at a glance.
Because the land resources are very rich, 30 hectares of land is expected to accommodate only the first batch of 500 soldier families. Except for roads, schools, hospitals and other public facilities, each family will get a unified 500 square meters independent courtyard.
If it is in the United States, Simon can't afford such a standard.
At the present stage, the 500 square meter independent courtyard in Los Angeles costs US $2.3 million even if the location is poor. If it is the prime location of Beverly Hills, it may cost more than US $1 million. But here, the whole ufms family community, including all the costs of land acquisition, housing construction, road construction and so on, the average budget input of each courtyard is only 3000 US dollars, and the total budget of community construction is 1.5 million US dollars.
One and a half million dollars is not enough for Simon to buy a mansion in some big cities.
However, for Ukraine, where the average monthly income of its residents is less than US $30 at this stage, this is a very large sum of money.
The simplest calculation, 3000 dollars, based on the average monthly salary of 30 dollars, is equivalent to the total income of a Ukrainian resident for eight years.
In fact, most Ukrainians earn less than $30 a month.
Therefore, the two-story European style small building with an area of about 200 square meters per courtyard in the plan has been rated as a luxury house in livny. At present, many communities in the city are still large areas of cheap wooden houses.
Livni is different from Los Angeles, which is like spring all the year round. This inland city of Ukraine, which is in the same latitude as northeast China, has a long and cold winter, and the temperature is often minus 20 or 30 degrees. It is absolutely a kind of suffering to live in the wood structure houses with extremely poor thermal insulation performance, so it can also be seen the living condition of the residents of this country.
It is said that this trend of recession has been going on since the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, but in recent years, it has completely fallen into hell.
Community site.
Simon walked on a plot to be built into a school. After listening to komorov's introduction, he asked, ”how are you preparing for recruiting teachers? I remember I said, ”we must have the best.”
Sergei komorov motioned to Celia and said, ”Ms. Miller is in charge of this, but I think it's going very well.”
In recent months, Celia has been working hard to learn Russian, roughly understand what komorov is saying, and then said to Simon, ”boss, the recruitment of teachers has been started since last month. Now many schools in Ukraine are closed down because they can't pay, including some universities. If the boss wants, I can even recruit them A full Faculty of professors. ”
Simon knew that the domestic situation in Ukraine was very bad, and he was surprised to hear that schools began to shut down: ”is it so serious?”
Celia said: ”the former Soviet Union attaches great importance to education, especially in economically developed Ukraine. At its peak, there were more than 1000 higher education institutions in Ukraine. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many schools are closing down one after another because of the financial constraints of the government, which has led to a large number of senior teachers with profound qualifications falling into a state of unemployment. ”
Simon didn't know what to say for a moment.
If the education system of a country starts to collapse, it will have no future at all.
China's rapid rise after the reform and opening up is closely related to the resumption of the college entrance examination and the rapid provision of a large number of highly educated talents for the country.
Think about some things in Ukraine in my memory. National treasure level aircraft design experts were beaten in the street. Old scholars in their 70s and 80s had to work for the most basic livelihood. The former fighting heroes did not get the respect they deserved. The fighting troops who carried out the orders were forced by politicians to kneel down in the street in order to calm the public anger In such a country, it is really difficult to say anything about hope and future.
Celia didn't understand what Simon was thinking. Seeing that the boss didn't speak, she continued to add: ”when we were in Kiev the day before yesterday, I received a letter from a retired professor of physics at Kiev National University. He read our recruitment inspiration in the newspaper and sincerely hoped to try to get back to work. He is 67 years old and said that he is still in good health, But since last year, he has not received a minimum pension of 1 million gohs per month for half a year in a row, and his family's life is very stressful. ”
Gobi is the Ukrainian monetary unit after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its full name is ”gryvna”.
Simon stopped, calmly listening to Celia's story, and finally asked, ”how much is a million quid?”
During the exchange in recent days, when it comes to currency, in order to facilitate understanding, people around him will automatically help Simon convert it into US dollars. He doesn't care much about the exchange rate of Ukrainian currency.
Celia took out her wallet from her Hermes satchel, looked for it, took out a 200000 GOP note and handed it to Simon, saying, ”this one, about 95 cents, Ukrainian GOP fell into severe inflation with the Russian Ruble last year, but the Kiev authorities have not issued a new currency like Russia.”Simon took Celia's ”large” banknote. 200000 gohs was only 95 cents. A retired professor's monthly pension of 1 million gohs was overdue for half a year, which was less than $5.
I don't know why, Simon's heart suddenly rose a strong sadness.
Looking at the busy crowd around the construction site, Simon asked, ”what about them?”
Celia understood what Simon was asking, and replied skillfully, ”the average daily salary is about 100000. Different types of work will vary. In addition, we will provide a lunch.”
Simon nodded, thought a little, and said to Celia, ”recruit according to the scale of 1000 teachers. As you just said, choose the best one as possible. It's better if you can all be university professors.”
Celia said, ”too much, boss?”
Although the educational benefits of ufms will benefit all soldiers' children, many soldiers are still single. Even if the average child of 5000 soldiers is calculated, 1000 teachers teach 5000 students, and the teacher-student ratio of 1:5 is unmatched by many of the world's top universities.
What's more, it's only a primary education from kindergarten to high school, and too many teachers are unnecessary.
Simon insisted: ”not only the children of soldiers, but also umfs soldiers will continue to receive education in the future. They need to master at least one foreign language, which is taught by our team of teachers. In addition, schools need not only limit the children of soldiers, but also recruit students from the whole society. However, in this respect, we will only accept very smart and hardworking children. As long as they meet these conditions, the westero system can provide them with the same tuition free treatment as the children of soldiers. ”
Simon doesn't believe in people's hearts, but he firmly believes that any effort will be rewarded to some extent.
Education is actually the most rewarding investment.
Maybe there are some illiterate heroes who climb to the top of the pyramid in this world, but on the whole, those who have received good education and have high education occupy the majority of the top of the pyramid.
Now that the country has completely lost its direction, Simon doesn't mind cultivating more elites for them to gradually master the country.
In the morning, I went to umfs family community company, and in the afternoon, I visited several factories owned by alderk company. Simon and his party still returned from a quarry in the south of livny after sunset.
The motorcade entered the urban area from the main road in the south of the city. It just turned left to pass through a residential area, but suddenly stopped because of some obstacles.