In July, the graduate students of the 84 strategy class ushered in their graduation day.

The eldest Wang Zhenbin came from the Planning Commission to study for graduate school, and after graduation, he still returned to work in the Planning Commission. During his graduate studies, Wang Zhenbin worked hard, and in addition to writing academic papers, he also published several articles in several important newspapers discussing the economic system, one of which attracted the attention of senior leaders. Because of this, as soon as he went back, he was able to get an appointment at the deputy director level, which is equivalent to three years of graduate school without much delay.

Yu Rui is from the Commission for Physical Reform, but she no longer plans to return to the Commission. She negotiated with the Women's Federation and went there to take charge of a department related to economic management, and the other party promised to solve the problem at the deputy director-general level within a year. At present, the work of the Women's Federation is also shifting to serving economic construction, and there is an extreme shortage of talents who understand the economy.

Ding Shikuan and Qi Ruicang both obtained doctorates, but Ding Shikuan studied for a doctorate at the Institute of Strategic Studies, while Qi Ruicang wanted to go to the other side of the ocean to study for a doctorate at the University of Chicago. Ding Shikuan firmly believed that the country's existing economic management system had its superiority, and that reform was only a partial revision of the existing system. Qi Ruicang proceeds from the standpoint of mainstream Western economics and believes that China has only a way out.

In the "Blues Coffee Salon" set up by Feng Xiaochen, Ding Shikuan and Qi Ruicang were the leaders of the "planning faction" and the "market faction" respectively. Because of his staunch advocacy of marketization, Qi Ruicang was specifically warned by the graduate school by name, saying that his views were suspected of bourgeois liberalization. After that, Qi Ruicang didn't make such remarks publicly, he joined the "TOEFL army" that was quite popular that year, and got an admission to the University of Chicago with excellent grades. In his own words, he did not go to the United States to catch up with fashion, but to seek the truth to guide the country's path of reform.

Although they are-for-tat and incompatible in academic views, Ding Shikuan's personal relationship with Qi Ruicang is not affected at all, and even because of their sympathy, the relationship between the two seems to be closer than their relationship with other classmates. After Qi Ruicang confirmed that he had been admitted to Chiba University, he sent a challenge to Ding Shikuan, claiming to bet on who would win the Nobel Prize in Economics first in the future, and Ding Shikuan also gladly accepted Qi Ruicang's challenge.

Shekli had good grades during his studies and was well acquainted with many of the teachers at the institute and abroad. However, instead of staying in graduate school for a Ph.D., he contacted the Ministry of Finance a year in advance and interned there for half a year. When he graduated, he received a letter of dispatch to the Ministry of Finance, and it was said that he would be assigned to be the deputy director of a department with some real power, and his future was extremely bright.

Everyone's whereabouts are not bizarre, and they can basically be seen during their studies. Only Feng Xiaochen's dispatch letter surprised everyone, everyone knew that he was from the Economic Commission's Heavy Equipment Office, and he had been working for the Heavy Equipment Office during his studies, so everyone felt that he should return to the Heavy Equipment Office after graduation, or work in other departments of the Economic Commission through the relationship of the Heavy Equipment Office. Who would have thought that his dispatch unit was actually a newly established enterprise called the State Equipment Industry Group Corporation.

"Boss, why did you send you to the enterprise?"

After Wang Zhenbin got the news, he asked Feng Xiaochen in astonishment.

"Is there something wrong?" Feng Xiaochen asked rhetorically.

"Of course not. Wang Zhenbin responded, "Everyone sees how much work you have done for the Heavy Equipment Office in the past few years." Why didn't you go back to the rearmament office when it came time to be assigned, but went to the enterprise?"

Feng Xiaochen explained: "This equipment industry company is a heavy equipment enterprise. Because of the changes in the national management system, the work of the Heavy Equipment Office is also being reformed, and now it is a set of people and two brands. The rearmament office is one brand, and the industrial company is another, and no unit I go to, isn't it all the same?"

"How can this be the same?" Yu Rui also interjected, "The company is an enterprise, and the reequipment office is an organ, and the difference between the two is great." Even if you are to be sent to work in an enterprise, you should be sent to the Heavy Equipment Office first, get an administrative establishment, and then go to the enterprise to take up a post.

What we usually call "units within the system" actually contains three types, namely organs, public institutions and enterprises, and the corresponding establishments are also called administrative departments, public institutions and enterprise organizations. From administration to business, or from business to enterprise, it is very easy, which is equivalent to a kind of distribution. And the other way around, from enterprise to business, or from business to administration, it is difficult to climb to the sky.

The administrative editor means that you are a cadre, that is, a civil servant in later generations, who will be promoted by seniority in this system, and eventually become a feudal official. Career editors are equivalent to technical personnel, such as teachers, doctors, etc., no matter how well they mix, that is, to be a professor or a leader in their own unit or system, the space for power is very limited. In a few years, when a large number of state-owned enterprises go bankrupt and restructured, enterprise personnel will even rust off the iron rice bowls in their hands, which is really the lowest status in the system.

Wang Zhenbin and Yu Rui have been in the system for many years, and they have seen this problem very thoroughly. In their minds, even if the Heavy Equipment Office wanted to put up another sign and set up an industrial company to perform some economic management functions, Feng Xiaochen should go to the Heavy Equipment Office, instead of directly entering the company in one step. To work in the company as a cadre of the heavy equipment office can be said to be attacking and retreating. If you have made achievements, you can be promoted within the system, and if you can't achieve results, you can also pat yourself on the back and leave, go back to the office to read the newspaper and drink tea, and live a life of drought and flood protection. On the other hand, if you go directly to the company, it will be difficult to transfer to the administrative agency in the future.

"I think your Director Luo is too unkind, how much work you have done for him before and after the saddle, why doesn't he help you? Even if you can't get you to work in the better department of the Economic Commission, it's always okay to directly recruit you back to the rearmament office, right? How can there be any reason to let you go to the company? Yu Rui said indignantly.

Wang Zhenbin said: "Xiao Feng, I think this matter can be recovered, your ability, everyone knows." Your mentor, Mr. Shen, also has a lot of connections, so it is not difficult for him to come forward and find individual ministries and commissions for you. Like the Ministry of Finance where Xiao Xie went, it is a good unit. If you want to come to the Planning Commission, I will find someone to recommend it to you, and it should not be a problem. ”

Feng Xiaochen smiled, he understood the good intentions of the eldest brother and the eldest sister. Not to mention standing in the time and space of 1987, even in the later generations, to work in large ministries and commissions with real power, it is also the first choice for many highly educated talents, and to go to the enterprise can only be regarded as the second best. Nowadays, all ministries and commissions lack highly educated talents, and a master's degree is a sweet spot in any ministry and commission, which everyone is vying for. Feng Xiaochen doesn't need to find any relationship if he wants to work in any ministry or commission, just submit a resume.

However, Feng Xiaochen is not an ordinary person after all, he has his own business, and he has already become one of the top richest people nowadays, so there is no need to bend his waist for five buckets of rice. As a traveler, his ideal is not to pursue what kind of scenery he has in front of people, but to do something he wants to do in a down-to-earth manner, and to be able to make some contributions to this different time and space. In this case, what is the difference between going to an enterprise and going to an institution?

In fact, letting Feng Xiaochen work in the company was also the result of Luo Xiangfei's discussion with Zhang Kejian, and Feng Xiaochen's opinion was sought. Feng Xiaochen's companies under his parents' names are his hard wounds. It is very taboo for a government cadre to have too much to do with commercial companies, not to mention that he is in fact the real owner of these enterprises. It didn't matter when Feng Xiaochen's position was low, if he could be promoted and move to a higher post, then the business problems of leading cadres would become his Achilles' heel.

As long as Feng Xiaochen does not harm the public and private, under normal circumstances, no one will make trouble about him running a private enterprise.

In addition, Feng Xiaochen acts eclecticly, and sometimes it is inevitable that he will say some out-of-the-ordinary things and even do some out-of-the-ordinary things. This kind of work style is also quite taboo in the organs, but in the enterprise, it belongs to the "pioneering spirit" and is worth advocating.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Luo Xiangfei proposed to let Feng Xiaochen work in the enterprise, not to intervene in the officialdom, and to concentrate on doing those things that promote the development of the industry. As for whether the establishment of the enterprise will restrict his development, this is actually a man-made matter. He has really made achievements, and when he can be promoted to the ministry to take charge of himself, will he still be subject to any constraints?

Regarding these things, Feng Xiaochen was inconvenient to talk about them to his classmates, but his mentor Shen Rongru was observant and understood the painstaking work behind Luo Xiangfei's arrangement, and he also talked to Feng Xiaochen once, hinting that he said that there were high-level leaders who were also quite interested in him, although he let go of his hands and feet and displayed his skills, when it was time to be promoted, someone would naturally come to clear the obstacles for him.

At the Capital Airport, Qi Ruicang pushed his huge suitcase and walked to the security channel under the eyes of his classmates. Before saying goodbye, he held the hands of each of his classmates and said confidently:

"I'll be back, history will prove me right. ”

"History will prove us right. When Feng Xiaochen shook hands with Qi Ruicang, he smiled and made a small correction for him.

"Haha, it's impossible. I and you, only one side can be right. And I firmly believe that the right one must be me, and the future China must be a market-oriented China. Qi Ruicang insisted.

"The future of China will be a market-oriented China under the leadership of the government. Feng Xiaochen continued to correct.

"Uh-huh, then let history test it!"

"History will test!"

The Boeing 747 took off into the sky, carrying the ideal of a generation to explore the road to a strong country and fly into the distance......

(End of Volume 1)