Looking down on the self-employed and keeping their own one-third of an acre of land is the inherent thinking of the northerners, and it is this kind of thinking that makes the economic development of the north difficult after more than 20 years.

A few decades later, the economic development of the south is a mess, and the economy of the north is also a backward mess, and the two sides are going to two extremes.

Some people say that this is a human problem, southerners have the gene of struggle in their blood, while northerners are conformist and unwilling to change, and they are hot kang heads for their wives and children every day, which is the reason for these two extremes.

Liu Lang has also studied this issue, and on the surface it seems to be correct, but he believes that this is not fundamental, and the fundamental reason is that the backwardness of the system has brought about the lack of economic progress.

In fact, during this period, in addition to GD and cities near the coast and Hong Kong in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in the central cities or sub-central cities, the activities with individual economy were still cautious and Liao Ruochenxing, because the long-term planned economy has made people accustomed to living in a formatted, disciplined and organized environment, and once he wants to get rid of that inertia, it often requires extremely huge external force or courage.

This is definitely not nonsense, you can see if you look at the identity of the first generation of self-employed people, the vast majority of those who engage in self-employed business activities come from the bottom of society, they are unemployed, returnees, people with criminal records and people with low education level, these people are excluded from the "warm" and "secure" system, and they are forced to embark on the road of business and entrepreneurship when they have no choice but to do so.

So Grandpa Liu Lang said that those southerners in Majiabao are thieves and thieves, which is really correct, at least compared with the people in the system, these people are not much stronger than the tattered beggars, not like the workers in the factory, even if the clothes are also "simple", but at least there are some "humans".

It is this outward sense of "superiority" that makes those within the system ignore the deep-seated problems, especially in the northern cities.

The northern region was the place with the highest concentration of heavy industry at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and a small Fucheng accounted for three of the more than 100 key projects in the country's First Five-Year Plan, not to mention other larger cities.

The earliest reform and opening up was an act of last resort that the state had to do, and it was of a certain experimental nature, because it was an experimental nature, so it would not be tested with the country's roots, and the three northern provinces were the country's foundations, so they naturally would not move.

Therefore, during the period of the fastest period of reform and opening up, that is, the period from the 80s to the mid-90s, many large state-owned enterprises in the north still followed the characteristics of the planned economy as before, and the products were guaranteed by the state.

But in the mid-to-late nineties, with the rapid improvement of science and technology, the things produced by these large state-owned enterprises became waste, and no matter how rich the country was, it could not buy a bunch of waste products, so I remembered to carry out the reform of state-owned enterprises.

Some people may say that the reform of state-owned enterprises is the right thing to do, in order to let these enterprises break out of the cocoon and be reborn.

Of course, this kind of reform is imperative, not to change that is a dead end, but the key is that many enterprises after the reform can not survive in the market, at that time the world's scientific and technological development speed has been like a running train, and those who cannot keep up with the speed of science and technology will be left far behind.

Those who run slowly will be left behind, not to mention these enterprises that have just undergone reforms, backward technology, backward equipment, and backward personnel levels, this is simply a dying patient, you can't even eat the dust behind people's buttocks, and say that you want to catch up, this is not a joke.

In Liu Lang's previous life, that is, more than 30 years later, the country also recognized this fundamental problem and put forward the strategy of upgrading heavy industry in the north.

If you want to upgrade, you have to upgrade science and technology, but at that time, the world's heavy industry science and technology was in the hands of a few developed countries, can they give it to you? This is the lifeblood of a country, you have money, you can buy equipment, but can you buy a person's life? This is a paradox at all.

In addition, it is self-improvement, but it takes time, it is not a few years to be able to do, or even more than ten years can not be done, so more than 30 years later, the country's heavy industry upgrading strategy is right, but it is already a little late, to upgrade successfully, the price paid is too much.

This is also what Liu Lang wants to solve in this life, he doesn't want this kind of pain to fall on the country again after more than 20 years, maybe this road is still difficult to walk, maybe this pain will come again, but he hopes to make this road easier, as much as possible to alleviate the pain of more people.

Of course, Liu Lang will not talk about these issues with his grandfather and parents now, he himself is still young, the most difficult thing to change in the world is a person's inherent thinking, unless his thinking makes him unable to live will change, and in 1982, the life of people in Fucheng is still "good".

Majiapu has become a place for southerners to "secretly" resell goods, and the relevant departments in Fucheng have not taken any measures, after all, this is the category of private economy, and the state also advocates the development of private economy, even if many people scoff at these southerners, but they are still eager for those goods, and soon, the private economy has affected the locals.

Locals also began to sell small things, of course, not "bell bottoms", single-card tape recorders and Teng Lijun tapes these "luxury jewelry", but food and non-staple food, such as an old hen, such as a pound of eggs, etc., although the price is higher than that in department stores, but there is no need for food stamps, and even some things are bartered, you can exchange two pounds of eggs for an old hen, as long as both parties agree to make a deal immediately, the real farmers' market has begun to form.

These things did not have much impact on Liu Lang, he still went to his father's factory mailroom every day to read the newspaper, every time he entered the house, he was picked up by Li Tie and put on the kang, and then a large stack of newspapers was placed in front of him, and now Li Tie seemed to be Liu Lang's little brother, obedient to him.