"Welcome, old man!"

"Thank you, brothers and sisters!"

Six glasses were raised, and six graduate students, five men and one woman, laughed and drank the brown beer in their respective glasses. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This was the first gathering of six master's students from the 84th class of the Institute of Strategy in a small restaurant on Yuetan North Street.

Of these 6 graduate students, 3 were admitted through the graduate admissions examination, and the other 3 were recommended by the ministry, which can be regarded as a commissioned training. Feng Xiaochen and Wang Zhenbin both belong to the latter, and in addition to them, there is also a girl named Yu Rui, who was also recommended by the unit. She is 32 years old this year, a worker, peasant and soldier college student who went to university in 1972, and worked in the State System Reform Commission before going to graduate school. This time, the Commission recommended her to the Academy of Social Sciences for further study, intending to reuse it after she returned from graduate school.

The three students who passed the examination were all boys, named Qi Ruicang, Xie Keli and Ding Shikuan. Coincidentally, all three of them were college students in the class of 78, and they worked for two years after graduation before they were admitted to graduate school. Among them, Qi Ruicang, who graduated from Beijing University, is older, already 28 years old, Xie Keli, who graduated from Renmin University, and Ding Shikuan, who graduated from Puhai University, are both 24 years old, just a little older than Feng Xiaochen, so Feng Xiaochen has become the "boss" in the class.

"Boss, you just said that you used to work in the Heavy Equipment Office, what is this unit for, why does it sound so mysterious?"

After three rounds of drinking, everyone talked about their past work. Ding Shikuan was quite interested in Feng Xiaochen's experience, so he asked him about the background of the Heavy Equipment Office.

"The Heavy Equipment Office is an abbreviation, the full name is the National Major Equipment Office, which is responsible for the development and coordination of major technical equipment in the country. Feng Xiaochen explained.

"Your Heavy Equipment Office has a lot of influence, and a lot of the work of our Planning Commission has to be done around your requirements. Wang Zhenbin commented on the side.

"I've heard of this agency. Qi Ruicang said, "However, I think that there is no need for this institution to exist at all. ”

"Lao Qi, what you said is too much, Xiao Feng is the person who reloads the office, you said that there is no need for other people's institutions to exist, isn't this dismantling the stage in person?" Xie Keli half-jokingly accused.

Qi Ruicang shook his head disapprovingly, and said, "Isn't Xiao Feng already leaving the Heavy Equipment Office? Besides, I'm not right about things and people, and I didn't say that our Xiao Feng can't do it, I just said that this organization is outdated." The product of a purely planned economy is completely unsuitable for the era of the commodity economy. ”

"Haha, Lao Qi, you have beaten me and Lao Wang with a rod. Lao Wang belongs to the Planning Commission, and you say that the product of the planned economy is not good, isn't this the spearhead directed at Lao Wang?" Feng Xiaochen said with a smile.

"It is true that I am a member of the Planning Commission, but our Planning Commission does not only talk about the planned economy. It is said that the state is about to put forward the idea of a planned commodity economy, and the work of our Planning Commission will also be adjusted along this line of thinking. Wang Zhenbin said.

"There is still some debate about whether a planned commodity economy should be based on planning or a commodity economy, and some experts from our Commission for the Reform of the System are also discussing this issue. Yu Rui added.

Ding Shikuan said: "I feel that the direction of the country's reform should be more and more biased towards the commodity economy. At present, township and town enterprises in the rural areas are developing very rapidly, and the operation of township and town enterprises is free from the planned economy. How to manage this part of the economy is a big issue, and I will ask the teachers for advice when I plan to enter the school. ”

Qi Ruicang said: "Xiao Ding, your idea was wrong from the beginning. What is wrong with being free from the planned economy? Why do we always think about managing it? According to the principles of Western economics, the government should not interfere in the business activities of enterprises at all, and let them compete freely in the market, so that their enthusiasm and creativity can be brought into full play. ”

"Everyone for himself, God for everyone, this is the view of vulgar economics, which Marx once criticized. Sheikli reminded him.

Ding Shikuan sided with Qi Ruicang and retorted to Xie Keli: "Marx's views cannot be regarded as dogmas, but should be understood dialectically. Didn't Lenin put forward the theory of giving priority to the construction of socialism in backward countries on the basis of inheriting Marxism? According to Marx's viewpoint, socialism should first be built in the developed capitalist countries. ”

Yu Rui said: "Some leaders of our System Reform Commission also disagree with the mention of vulgar economics. They believe that it is still necessary to actively study the valuable contents of Western economic theories, and they should not deny them all. ”

This is an era when even college students can be called "the pride of heaven", and graduate students, especially those in national think tanks such as the Academy of Social Sciences, can almost be regarded as protégés of the Son of Heaven. Feng Xiaochen and his senior brothers and sisters, without exception, entered important national departments after graduation, and were entrusted with important responsibilities as soon as they entered. In this day and age, having a graduate student in a single office is like a classic car with a Ferrari engine, and it can suddenly be rejuvenated.

With such a bright future, graduate students are naturally complacent and regard themselves as the future national elite. Such a group of people, even if they are chatting together, the topic is so lofty, and there are quite a few points to the country, and the dung was domineering back then.

The mid-80s was a time when Western political ideas were pouring into China. In the face of the highly developed material civilization abroad, there is an instinctive inferiority complex in China, from officials to ordinary people. The fact that the moon in a foreign country is rounder in China is not a joke at this time, but a view that many people agree with. As for the academic circles, there is a very mixed feeling: on the one hand, they feel that they should fully absorb foreign academic paradigms and achieve international standards, and on the other hand, they are worried that they will deviate from the past and embark on an evil path.

Wang Zhenbin and Yu Rui were both recommended by their units to study, and they still had to go back to their original units after getting their degrees. Therefore, all they can do about this kind of theoretical dispute is to talk about what they have seen and heard, and as for whether it is better to study in the West or to learn in middle school, they are not sure, and everything is guided by the country's policy.

Qi Ruicang and the three of them are all college students in the new era, and the schools they study are also famous, which cultivates their spirit of courage to explore. During their time at university, Western economics was labelled "vulgar economics" and was on the margins of the curriculum. When teaching, the teacher must repeatedly emphasize that these theories are not correct, and the purpose of learning is only to criticize.

However, having said that, those teachers who have been immersed in the field of economic theory for many years still understand the value of Western economic theory, and they have made such a course an enlightenment course in Western economics, opening a theoretical window for young students to receive the influence of Western economic theory.

Qi Ruicang is a very hardworking person, he was already 22 years old when he was admitted to university, and in his own words, he has lost a lot of precious time. He read a lot of books in college, especially books on Western economic theory. The exquisite graphics and mathematical models of Western economic theory gave him a sense of soul sublimation, and he believed that such theories represented the truth of the world, compared to the "one sheep for ten pieces of cloth" metaphor in traditional political economy.

"The current mainstream view in Western economic theorists is a return to the Smithian tradition. Smith, everyone knows it, it's what we usually call Adam Smith, the one who wrote "The Wealth of Nations". Smith's view was that the government should only act as a night watchman and should not intervene in economic activity. After coming to power, Margaret Thatcher of Britain did the most thorough work, greatly reducing government intervention in the economy, privatizing a large number of state-owned enterprises, and cutting welfare spending, so that the British economy got out of the crisis and returned to the track of healthy development. ”

Qi Ruicang waved his arms and told his new classmates about his experience.

"Xiao Qi, don't you want to suggest that our country also privatize state-owned enterprises?" asked Yu Rui a little teasingly.

"Why not?" Qi Ruicang took it seriously, he said: "Sister Yu, you haven't worked at the grassroots level, so you don't know the situation. At present, there are too many problems in local state-owned enterprises, and more than half of the hundreds of state-owned enterprises in one region are in a state of loss. What does this mean that our country has been engaged in construction for so many years, and its development is not as good as that of a small country like South Korea? I think that privatizing state-owned enterprises will help stimulate their vitality, and this is good for the country. ”

Wang Zhenbin shook his head and said, "Xiao Qi, your kind of thinking is very dangerous. These words, that is, we classmates talk to each other, and you must not say them in a formal setting. Otherwise, it is not a question of whether you can graduate successfully, but you may commit a serious ****, which will ruin your political future, and if it is serious, it is possible to be sentenced to prison. ”

"Alas, who says it's not?" Qi Ruicang sighed and said, "I was in my original unit, that is, because I expressed such a viewpoint, I was listed as the target of key monitoring by the leader, for fear that I would say something inappropriate and discredit the unit." I thought about it and felt bored, so I decided to jump out of graduate school. ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "Old Qi, I think your idea is a little reasonable, but it is also a little extreme. State-owned enterprises have the advantages of state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises certainly have the advantages of private enterprises. It is certainly not possible for a country to have only state-owned enterprises. But to privatize all state-owned enterprises, as Margaret Thatcher did, I am afraid that there will be more problems. Margaret Thatcher's reforms have only just begun, and it is too early to say how effective they will be. ”

"I'm convinced of this!" Qi Ruicang said, "If you don't believe it, we can make a bet." ”