Chapter 22 National Retreat and People's Advancement

"The country retreats from the people!"

Reciting this word, Guan Mingtang couldn't help but be stunned. He looked at his majesty in surprise. If he remembers correctly, it was his majesty in front of him who shouted "the country to advance and the people retreat" at the beginning.

At the beginning, it was His Majesty who came up with a "special economic policy" with the "plan" as the core. At that time, not only Guan Mingtang and German consultants, but also some people in the domestic business industry did not agree to adopt that "special economic policy", but in the end, the special economic policy fully proved his advantages.

It can be more conscious and adjust the economy in advance. It can concentrate necessary human, material and financial resources for key construction nationwide, predict and plan the economy, create a national economic development strategy, optimize resource allocation from a macro perspective, adjust the structure of economic heavy forests and rational layout of productivity, and be able to Reasonable adjustment of income distribution can plan the direction of domestic economic development, and concentrate the whole country's efforts to build urgently needed industries. Moreover, the country's unified procurement of equipment and technology introduction is also conducive to reducing procurement and introduction costs. In a word, no matter how you look at it, the Chinese model has many advantages.

In the past nine years, China's economy, especially industry, has produced a miraculous quantitative change. The output of steel has increased from 1.2 million tons in the first year of the empire to 15 million tons, the output of coal has increased from 4 million tons to 60 million tons, the tonnage of shipbuilding has increased from 100,000 tons to 450,000 tons, and industrial production As early as the completion of the first four-year plan, it has exceeded 60% of the gross national product, and China has achieved the transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country.

Nine years of industrial development have enabled China to produce any type of machinery, and even lead the world in some industrial fields, all of which benefit from the special economic policy of "focusing on doing great things". It can be said that "planning" is a visible hand and a powerful driving force for economic growth. .

Although China's industrial development has made remarkable achievements, Guan Mingtang, as the leader of the imperial industry, clearly knows that the series of large and super-large enterprises that were once regarded as industrial achievements, began to fall into a new deadlock when the second four-year plan was completed, that is, from last year.

And this impasse is the deadlock caused by China's special economic system, which was debated at home when the third four-year plan was formulated.

At this time, Chen Moran picked up a report from the desktop and only read the newspaper. Guan Mingtang knew that it was a report written by himself and a report requiring the sale of some enterprises to private enterprises.

"... After the implementation of the second four-year plan, with the continuous expansion of the imperial economy and the complexity of economic ties, some drawbacks of this special economic system have gradually been exposed. Because the allocation of resources by the highly centralized planned economic system is based on two premises: first, the imperial planning department has all the information about all economic activities of society; second, the interests of the whole society are integrated, and there are no separate interest subjects. With the development of the economy, these two premises are becoming more and more difficult to establish.

When reading this report, Chen Moran smiled in his heart. In fact, he has been waiting for this report. The planned economy fully showed his power in the early stage. It can be said that without the planned economic policy he formulated at the beginning, it would be a dream to realize China's industrial transformation, but there are many benefits. There are also many disadvantages.

"With the increase of citizens' income, citizens' needs are extremely complex and change rapidly, resulting in a huge amount of information. In addition, due to the relative reading of the interests of localities, departments and enterprises, there are also distortions in the transmission of information. Therefore, it is not realistic for the central planning department to be accurately afraid of such a huge amount of information and respond quickly. It is not realistic to compile a unified plan that connects all parts, and implement it at the grassroots level.

In terms of interests, it is impossible to require all economic organizations in society to implement the plan without any special interests and requirements of their own. With the changes in the conditions of China's socialist economic construction, the original economic system has become more and more unsuitable for the needs of modernization, which has seriously constrained the development of the productive forces. ......"

In the report, Chen Moran looked at Guan Mingtang.

"When the scale of the economy becomes larger and larger and the social structure becomes more and more complex, the drawbacks of a highly centralized economic system are exposed. It overemphasizes the use of administrative, political and other non-economic means to develop the economy, so that the national economy has repeatedly fallen into the vicious cycle of "inflation-compression-re-re-compression" and it is difficult to get rid of it. Well, so now the time has changed!"

After spitting out a sentence, Chen Moran meditated for a moment.

"In the past nine years, state-led industries have become the industrial pillars of this country, but we have focused on the big and small ones. During the period of the 14th plan, our industrial plan was mainly heavy industry plans. Of the 186 large enterprises, heavy industry projects accounted for 178, of which military industry accounted for half, and the second After the four-year plan, only half of our projects are on food, clothing, housing and transportation to improve citizens' living standards and increase social consumption.

Gang Mingtang, Huang Huiyun and Xiong Xiling nodded slightly. Unlike any other country, the modernization of China's industry focuses on developing the economy and strengthening armaments. It can be said that China's industry is basically a military industry. It is to make every effort to develop and maintain a huge army, and promote China with the help of the army. Industrialization.

In a series of industrial projects led by the political axe, the proportion of military industry is too high, while the second and third industries with consumer surnames are relatively backward, which is a problem that the domestic consumer market is sluggish. A large amount of capital was invested in the non-renewable military industry, which limited the development of domestic industry and commerce until after the second four-year plan.

"The only thing to be happy about is that in the First Four Plan, we handed over food, clothing, housing and transportation to private capital. When we concentrated on development, although the private industrial and commercial industry was regulated by the foreign exchange necessary for the purchase of machinery and equipment, so the development was restricted, they still made great achievements. In the fourth plan, when state-owned machinery companies can sell machinery to the market, their achievements are not inferior to the second and fourth plan of the political axe. Therefore, it's not that there is no chance for the country to retreat from the people this time!"

"Your Majesty, what do you mean..."

Under the ecstasy in his heart, Xiong Xiling asked tentatively. As the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce of the Empire, he is more inclined to support the development of private enterprises, but state-owned industry accounts for the vast majority of the resources of society. However, even so, the achievements of private enterprises are still not inferior to those of state-owned enterprises.

And now His Majesty's words undoubtedly indicate that the political axe will at least withdraw from the consumption field of "clothing, food, housing and transportation". Needless to think about it, he knows that if this news spreads, the private industrial and commercial stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange will definitely rise sharply.

"I mean,"

Turning to Huang Huiyun, Chen Moran's expression became serious.

"Provide loans to private enterprises and marketize production resources. Then, if their funds are OK, they can sell state-owned enterprises to them, just like in the past. Anyone who recovers construction costs can be transferred to private enterprises cheaply, thus promoting them to become bigger and stronger!"

Although China's industry and commerce are now far more developed than in the past, unlike other countries, even those so-called giants in the industrial and commercial industry are not developed from handicraft workshops as in the West, but are supported by political axes. In return, these private enterprises in the industrial and commercial industry also need to take over. Under the guidance of the Imperial Industrial Council, and in return, they can get some small and medium-sized enterprises for sale. In the past nine years, the political axe dominates the industry and the political axe dominates the economy. In the past nine years, it has already penetrated all aspects of China.

And now is the time to put an end to the political axe. Let those enterprises fully develop freely and let the market test Chinese enterprises, instead of using politics to help enterprises. This is at most the last time to help!

"Your Majesty..."

Within waiting for Huang Huiyun to speak, Chen Moran said solemnly.

"Nine years, nine years of planned economy, it can be said that the mission of planned economy has been completed. Now China has got rid of the poverty and weakness during the period of industrial creation. This time, it is not only necessary to sell the light industrial enterprises in the February 4th plan, but also to sell them. If the private capital is enough, the Anshan Iron and Steel Enterprise Association can be sold!"

What!

As soon as his eyes were opened, Guan Mingtang, Huang Huiyun and Xiong Xiling looked at His Majesty in surprise. The Anshan Iron and Steel Enterprise Complex is the largest steel enterprise complex in China, and in terms of a single factory, it is also the largest steel plant in the world. The First Four Plan and the Second and Fourth Plan took eight years to complete the Anshan Iron and Steel Enterprise. The two phases of the construction project of the consortium, and now Your Majesty is actually going to sell Anshan Steel!

"Your Majesty..."

"It's just a matter of saying,"

shrugged his shoulders and Chen Moran smiled.

"There are a lot of rich people in China now, but I'm afraid they can afford Angang..."

Angang is too big. It produces two-thirds of China's steel, and has a large iron mine and two large open-pit coal mines. This unprecedented super industrial enterprise is by no means affordable for ordinary people.

"Yes!"

Xiong Xiling interrupted.

"Who?"

Hearing that someone could afford Angang, Chen Moran was stunned.

"Your Majesty!"

Me?

Xiong Xiling's words only made Chen Moran smile bitterly. Now he is still the richest "individual" in China, but... "But Your Majesty is not a private entrepreneur. Even if he wants to sell enterprises to the private sector, he should mainly focus on private enterprises. The reason why His Majesty wants to sell enterprises is to cultivate real enterprises. The only real industrialist is qualified to get a state-owned enterprise!"

Huang Huiyun, who rarely spoke from beginning to end, expressed his own opinion, and Chen Moran smiled deeply after hearing his opinion.

"You should know that what we lack most in China now is entrepreneurs!"

(to be continued)