The room was filled with smoke, and the secretary in charge of conference services got up and opened the windows of the room, which gave everyone in the room a little breather.

It's just that although the air is circulating, several large smoking guns have also snuffed out the cigarette butts in their hands. However, at this time, the atmosphere in the conference room was still so heavy that it seemed to freeze.

"Shall we report the situation to a few old comrades......

At the conference table, the gray-haired leader of the Constitutional Revision Group frowned slightly, and looked at the person sitting in the first position on the left. As the convener of the meeting, this person did not say a word today, and his attitude was really interesting.

He pondered, organized his language, and said tentatively: "I won't say whether this plan is feasible for the time being, but the theoretical issues and political factors involved in some major premises cannot but be fully considered. In this respect, a few veteran comrades will have more experience. ”

"I don't think it's better to ask for advice on everything, we also have to give our own opinions. ”

On the other side, Director Zhu of the Economic and Trade Office shook his head, closed the document in his hand and said: "Theory and policy always lag behind practice, black cats, white cats, and those who can catch mice are good cats." What we want to ask is whether this plan can catch mice, and if it can't catch mice, it will naturally be all about it. If you can catch a mouse, it's not too late to ask your old comrades for advice. ”

"And I don't think there is much theoretical problem with this plan, and theory should be linked to practice, rather than being subordinated to theory. From our current situation, it is already very illustrative. Engaging in a market economy is not the same as capitalism, and we can also engage in a market in socialism. Capitalism has a planned economy, and in the early years it was completely free market, and now no country is engaged in it. In the current situation, it would be too inappropriate to dwell on these issues. ”

Mr. Yue, who was sitting on the right, knocked on the table and corrected the direction of the discussion: "Let's take a look at the plan itself, among the plans that have been gathered by all parties at present, this one is the most controversial." The analysis provided by the economic sector shows that the benefits are not small, but the pressures are no less high. ”

"From the analysis of this plan, we have now realized that the significance of China's resumption of GATT in the past is still a small estimate. The resumption of customs clearance is not only beneficial to China's foreign trade and exports, but also an important policy decision that has a far-reaching impact on the world situation, and cannot be ...... cautiously."

"There are opportunities and dangers. An old comrade sitting across from him nodded, and said calmly: "The question now is here, if we can join the World Trade Organization as a founding country according to the proposal of this plan, will our market be ready at that time? Our products can go to the world, but at the same time, we must also face the competition of the whole world at home." Don't make much money, and this little thing at home is not your own. ”

"Not exactly, even if we participate in the World Trade Organization (WTO), which is being formed, we will certainly join as a developing country. Taking the current GATT situation as an analogy, developing countries still have considerable institutional flexibility. ”

Director Zhu shook his head and said eloquently: "As long as China adheres to the positioning of a developing country, even if it is an open market, it can also protect our industry to a certain extent." This report also lists some situations, we can flexibly use government procurement, indirect policies and regulations, industry regulations, incentive policies and other means to achieve self-market protection within the rules of the game of international trade. ”

"That being said, the strength of international capital is so strong that it has abandoned direct management and regulation, and if these means fail in the end......"

"I think we still have to change our minds!"

Mr. Yue simply interrupted the other party's speech and said categorically: "Since it is already a market economy, we must first establish a concept, that is, the government can no longer be a nanny for enterprises." We can buy some more time for domestic companies, but we can't take care of them for the rest of our lives. ”

"It's a mule or a horse that has to be pulled out and slipped, a group of horses that never have to go to war, and the rider has no incentive to train it well. Only when you know that you must count on it to save your life on the battlefield will you have the motivation to raise it well. Our business is the same, it is always so comfortable in China, and it seems that there is no less money to be made. But how competitive it really is, who knows?"

"Joining the World Trade Organization and setting a timetable for opening up will force these companies to really work hard to tap their competitiveness. There are opportunities and dangers, I think it should be said, there are dangers, but they are opportunities!"

"That being said, but what if it's really Adou who can't be supported, and the industry ends up being a meal for foreign capital?"

"I am willing to gamble and lose, and the future will be long. Director Zhu grabbed the conversation and replied: "Whoever is responsible for the problem, I don't believe that our enterprise will be wiped out." In war, it is always easiest to find talents, and there are people who have lost land, and people and places have survived. As long as a competitive team is tempered in the competition, those lost positions can be regained at that time. And if you refuse to compete for fear of losing ground, the final result can only be that everyone dies together in the same boat. ”

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The heated discussion among the old people in the conference room lasted for more than an hour, which was really a great thing for these people. At their level, money, wealth, or wisdom are no longer the most valuable resources, only time is the most valuable.

It is undoubtedly a very, very luxurious thing to waste more than an hour on an issue without achieving results.

The meeting reached a stalemate, and although the attitudes of all parties gradually converged, some key issues could not be discussed. On the surface, it seems to be a matter of attitude towards the handling of state-owned enterprises. But in the final analysis, it is actually a problem of "surnames and surnames". In the absence of a theoretical breakthrough, there is no doubt that the government has unlimited responsibility for state enterprises.

If we have to make up our minds to give up some of our state-owned enterprises and control over domestic industries, many people will inevitably fail to turn this corner.

The new leader on the left was even more silent, and he did not make a decisive speech for a long time. He's waiting, he's just getting here, and he's going through some process to establish his authority.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door of the conference room. After a short while, Secretary Qing, who was holding a folder in his hand, pushed the door and walked in after getting permission.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a material I got from Qiaoban. ”

Secretary Qing opened the folder and put it in the hand of the person on the left: "Qiao Ban is preparing a speech, Qiao Lao agrees very much with the mention of 'socialist market economy', and he made a special comment on this sentence, 'More planning or more market is not the essential difference between socialism and capitalism. ’”。

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"A little more planning or a little more market is not the essential difference between socialism and capitalism......

Tong Guangzhi and the members of the negotiation team sat in front of the embassy's television set, staring intently at the videotape that was being broadcast.

A box of videotapes transported by air through diplomatic channels recorded yesterday, no, it should be said that the United States today, China's yesterday, the important speech delivered by Qiao Lao broadcast on the news.

"The market economy is neutral, and in foreign countries it is surnamed capital, and in China it is surnamed she. China can also engage in a market economy, and the market economy we are engaged in is a socialist market economy!"

"Socialist market economy?"

Hearing this word, almost everyone present couldn't help but look at each other. As the actual person in charge of China's resumption of customs negotiations, Tong Guangzhi stared at him and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He knew all too well what the value of that sentence was.

In the negotiation process for China's resumption of GATT, the United States is the biggest hurdle. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a trade organization, has become a tool for the United States to interfere in China's political situation. In addition to the specific terms of the negotiations with the United States, China's political system has also been repeatedly used as a pretext for bargaining.

Among them, the shield that Americans are most willing to use is to doubt whether China is a market economy country. Every time he faced this question thrown by the United States, Tong Guangzhi would feel a pain that penetrated into the bone marrow......

This is because before this speech, China had theoretically affirmed the thesis that "the socialist economy is a planned commodity economy based on public ownership." According to this official definition, Tong Guangzhi certainly did not dare to admit that China is a market economy.

In this way, the Americans can proudly declare that because China does not practice a market economy, they cannot support China's restoration of its status as a signatory to the GATT.

Just such a sentence has become an insurmountable barrier in China's negotiations on the resumption of GATT. Five years have passed since China applied for the resumption of GATT in 1986, but few results have been achieved.

It is conceivable how excited Tong Guangzhi will be when he hears this sentence on TV. At this point, the biggest obstacle to China's GATT resumption negotiations no longer exists, and what will be in front of him will be a broad stage on which he can show his strength.

In particular, the timing of the above statement is too critical, and in the context of China-US large-scale procurement, it has removed the biggest obstacle to China's resumption of customs relations. How the Americans have made things difficult for us in the past few years, we can return them as they are.

No, it's not enough. Anyway, let's double the reward!

"Minister Tong, Mr. Ambassador is waiting for you. ”

An embassy secretary waited until the videotape was played, quietly walked into Tong Guangzhi's side, and whispered in his ear.