finally realized that Su Mu was different from other investors, and he talked about it all the way, but he didn't talk about the issue that Mr. Hu was most concerned about - investment.

It seems that he is completely here to travel, and the investment promotion policy, industry development, infrastructure and so on are not mentioned, which makes Mr. Hu anxious and a little disappointed at the same time, in order to provide the best investment environment, build roads, make seaports, lay hydropower lines, and come to the policy convenience.

I thought that catching a big fish would be able to drive local employment and improve the living standards of many residents, and that some progress had been made in the economy in the south, but the situation in Zhejiang was still half-dead, and if I didn't really want to do something practical, who would pull down my face and come to intercept people.

It's not far from the Peace Hotel, even with Mr. Hu's cultivation, he was a little breathless at this time, and asked Su Mu: "I heard from a friend that you went back to the motherland this time to inspect the market?"

Su Mu's movements paused slightly, wondering how someone had heard the news so quickly.

If he doesn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are, he has lived in the United States, which is now the most powerful militarily and ranks first in the world in terms of economic strength, where will he know what the current situation at home is.

It is true that the vast majority of areas are not short of food and clothing, but if we want to make the national strength rise to a few higher levels, let the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way be realized, and let the nation stand in the forefront of the world again, it is far from enough to have no shortage of food and clothing, and the era of the planned economy has just passed, and there are cloth stamps, food stamps, and so on in the drawers of every household.

Su Mu, who was born in Chinatown in the United States, did not understand the desire of a group of people of insight to urgently hope that China would become strong again, after Mr. Deng saw it in the United States with his own eyes, he also wanted to make China rise in his heart, so he asked President Carter soon after returning to China, asking him if he could send 5,000 students to study in the United States, hoping that the Chinese people would open their eyes again to take a good look at the world and learn from the strengths of Western countries, Carter agreed, promised to let 100,000 international students go to the United States, and now that group of students has become the main force of reform and opening up, eager to make their country prosperous again。

Mr. Hu wants to do practical things, Zhejiang has an innate development advantage, close to the Pacific Ocean, the quality of workers is generally high, after the college entrance examination restarted, the belt allocated funds to cultivate a group of talents, but only talents are not enough, the factory is too few, the financial funds are too little, many people can not find a job, still counting on a big pot of rice, which is different from the original intention of reform and opening up, in addition to a group of cheap labor factories engaged in the bottom work, there are few companies that really take the shot.

It's not that I don't want to build an area like Silicon Valley, Houston, or Detroit, but now there are too few advantages to attract foreign investment, knowing that it will pollute and know that it will be a sweatshop, but because of the situation, I can only agree to rebuild the market economy system little by little.

This is the situation in the late eighties and early nineties, Su Mu didn't know much about it, nodded and said: "That's pretty much it, I want to buy a piece of land here in Shanghai to build the headquarters of the branch, and I also plan to buy some antiques, my grandfather is more interested in them, in addition, if there is a suitable business, I will also try to invest." ”

The surprise was written on his face, Mr. Hu was not interested in antiques or anything, as long as he didn't take the national treasure out, he could buy whatever he wanted, and he wished to leave some more dollars, as for the land...... Everywhere, how much land can be exchanged for foreign exchange is easy to discuss, he is most concerned about the word "branch", and asked: "I take the liberty of asking, what kind of business do you do in the United States?"

“……”

Not only Su Mu was helpless, but Li Ping'an was also speechless, it turned out that when it came to now, he didn't even know what business Su Mu did, Li Ping'an helped to answer: "Network software companies, computer manufacturing in the IT industry, as well as investment, etc., he has done it." ”

Mr. Hu's expression was dazed, he knew that he didn't know what software was, as for the word "IT", he had never heard of it, so he suddenly realized: "Ah~ The production of computers, a very advanced industry, I just have one in my office, and I will occasionally use it."

Do you make an investment? Do you invest in a business that requires a lot of workers and is best exported to all countries in the world? Our industrial zones are attracting investment, the land can be used for free, and the tax can be reduced by up to five to ten years, and the tax reduction time is longer than that of other countries, which can reduce your production costs, and there are not many others, the most workers, I can help you find 100,000 workers, the labor cost is definitely the lowest in East Asia, and it is cheaper than Southeast Asian countries, and their policies are not as good as ours. ”

There are a lot of bends, maybe I don't understand that I prefer to go straight in the United States, anyway, Su Mu finally understands now when he hears it, this is to invite himself to invest in them, and there are many tax reductions and exemptions, which I have heard for a long time, and a number of labor-intensive and resource-intensive enterprises have come here to open factories.

Su Mu originally thought it was going well, but now it seems that it is not, so he asked curiously: "Mr. Hu, there is a shortage of investment there now?"

Mr. Hu sighed: "It's not that we lack it, it's that there is a shortage everywhere, there are too many laborers, the employment problem cannot be solved, international businessmen are unwilling to invest, domestic businessmen have no money to invest, and now they are standing on the crossroads of development, some people are dissatisfied with reform and opening up, thinking that it is going backwards, resulting in the failure of private enterprises to develop."

Ten years have passed, the reform and opening up has passed ten years, still in the same place, the hope to see the improvement has not appeared, there is a serious shortage of investors, I am not afraid of your jokes when I say it, we have not let go of the strict control of private capital, and have not realized the economic mobilization of the people. The so-called establishment of an industry, and the relationship with the majority of low-level residents, foreign enterprises can apply to come in and set up factories, but if the Chinese themselves dare to open factories and hire more than seven people, it is directly a criminal act, and they will be arrested and imprisoned. ”

Su Mu and Li Ping'an were dumbfounded, unable to figure out how such a thing could happen, especially Su Mu, who had studied economics and felt that this was simply killing the foundation of economic development, and asked again: "Then what do you want, it depends on multinational companies to come and set up factories?"

"That's pretty much it, ten years ago, we started to embark on the road of industrial salvation, and our attitude was extremely resolute, but from the current situation, the results are not good.

Ten years ago, the total number of employed people was more than 420 million, of which only 77 million were employed in the secondary industry, while nearly 300 million were employed in the primary industry. After 10 years of trying to reform and open up, the situation has not improved much, and the total employed population of 630 million, of which more than 130 million are employed in the secondary industry, accounting for only 21 percent, an increase of only 3 percentage points compared with 10 years ago.

The primary industry still employs nearly 400 million people, accounting for more than 60 percent, so it is still a purely agricultural society. The total number of employees in urban private enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households is just over 6 million, and for a large country with a total population of 1.2 billion, the ranking of DP in the world was the eighth place in the world ten years ago, but now it has fallen to 11th.

At present, the public-owned economy accounts for more than 96 percent of the country's private economy, and the total value of the country's private economy in GDP is only 3 percent.

After listening to this set of data, Su Mu was surprised to find that the reform and opening up had been so long, and after ten years had passed, it turned out that the country was still standing still, and the public-owned economy still occupied the main body, thinking that it was no wonder that some time ago he wanted to join the WTO, but was rejected by the White House, and did not meet the requirements for joining the WTO at all, and there were few private enterprises.

Suddenly, I understood the term "big pot rice" that I had heard before, and those workers in the secondary industry were still working for state-owned enterprises, mainly because there were too few private enterprises, and the labor force was wasted, and in the final analysis, it was still not enough to open up......