Whether Cen Jianwei specifically wrote Gao Lei's "guidance" into the report is unknown to outsiders. However, two days later, a very sensational article was published in the Workers' Daily, titled "The Little Welder Breaks into the Hall of Academics", with the subtitle "Remembering the Deeds of the Young Welder Du Xiaodi Who Became Self-Taught to Conquer International Welding Experts".

In the article, the reporter first reviewed the process of Du Xiaodi graduating from junior high school and entering the factory as a worker, and quickly becoming an excellent technician through hard work in learning technology, and recorded about the emergency repair of the Yuema River Bridge, the emergency repair of Daying clamp trucks, the welder competition, and the training in Japan, and then how she mastered the knowledge of university courses through self-study, was admitted to graduate school, and published articles in top international journals. Among them, things like when Feng Xiaochen helped her contact the plane, naturally they were skipped in a very spring and autumn style.

Maldo's coming to assess Du Xiaodi is the biggest highlight of the article. In this matter, the reporter did not lie, because Du Xiaodi did impress Maldo with his knowledge.

In the article, there is also a small paragraph saying that Du Xiaodi's success has inevitably aroused the eyes of some people, so much so that some people have spread rumors that she was admitted to graduate school because of her connections. And such a lie, after Mardo's visit to the University of Technology, was naturally self-defeating.

The reporter did not say who the person who created this rumor was, but combined with the Gao Lei report incident that had been widely spread in the organs and schools in the capital, the point of this article is very clear.

In the article, Du Xiaodi is also accompanied by a pretty, sunny, and slightly shy photo, which undoubtedly strengthens the dissemination effect of this article. For almost a month, the communication room of the University of Technology was overwhelmed, and the number of letters received increased fivefold, and every time the members of the life committee of the Department of Materials had to pull a luggage cart to get letters.

Du Xiaodi was not stingy, she donated all the letters she received to the research group. The stamps on it will be divided between teachers and classmates who like stamp collecting, and the back of the letter can be used as a scratch paper for the entire research group.

Half a month later, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions issued a circular calling on young workers across the country to learn from Comrade Du Xiaodi's advanced deeds, strive to improve their own cultural level, and strive to become knowledgeable and educated workers in the new era.

For half a year, Gao Lei did not appear in public again, and many meetings that he liked to participate in were rejected by him for various reasons. Of course, the reason why he chose to hibernate did not all come from Du Xiaodi's matter, but more importantly, the theory of international cooperation put forward by him has begun to gradually decline after the initial scenery.

"Comrade Rong Ru, you have recently expressed a lot of opinions on international cooperation, which have received extensive attention from the comrades of the XX Bureau. I invite you to come over today just to hear your systematic insights on this issue. This is a major issue that has a bearing on the national strategy, and I ask Comrade Rong Ru not to have any reservations. ”

In a small conference room with a small area but very groomed, an old man said to Shen Rongru with a gentle smile.

"Okay. On this issue, I am also writing a report to report systematically to the central government. Today, I would like to state the main contents of the report, and I would like to ask for your criticism and correction. ”

"On economic issues, Comrade Rong Ru is an expert, and I and other comrades are your students. ”

"The leadership is humble. As a matter of fact, my original research on this issue was not profound, there were many theoretical issues that lacked in-depth thinking, and I did not have sufficient information about the practice of various countries in the world in this regard. I was able to put forward some ideas on this issue, largely thanks to the newly established organization called the 'Blues Coffee Academic Salon' among the graduate students of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the students in this organization have given me a lot of inspiration from both positive and negative aspects, and I can even say that they are the real experts. ”

"Blues coffee? ”

"The future is terrifying, it is precisely because they are trendy and have an international vision that they can have innovative ideas. Our generation of scholars has been isolated from the world for too long, and has developed many mindsets that are difficult to break out of. ”

"Everywhere, Comrade Rong Ru has always been known for his open-mindedness. Tell me what your research conclusions are on the issue of international collaboration. ”

"Quite simply, I think the theory of international collaboration is feasible at the micro level, but not at the macro level. Specific to an industry, a region, and an enterprise, we can learn from this kind of thinking to invigorate the economy. But at the level of a country, I mean a country as big as China, and this theory is not feasible. ”

"Let's start by talking about how it works on the micro level. ”

"Its viability at the micro level has been tested in practice. For example, in terms of specific regions, the development of several open coastal cities is mainly based on processing trade with large imports and exports, and the practice of several open cities has been successful, which proves that it is completely feasible to integrate the industries of a region with the international industrial chain.

In terms of specific industries, the State Heavy Equipment Office has recently carried out a large-scale foreign cooperation work, and they have put forward a concept called 'industrial grafting and development', so that domestic enterprises that currently lack the ability to export complete sets of equipment can cooperate with large foreign enterprises and undertake the business subcontracting of these large foreign enterprises. In this way, first, we will be able to obtain a part of the production tasks and reverse the situation of large-scale losses of equipment enterprises; second, we will be able to further study and master advanced technology in the course of cooperation; and third, we will be able to train export-oriented personnel and make good reserves for going to the international equipment market in the future.

This approach is completely in line with the idea of the theory of international cooperation, and combines China's advantages with those of foreign countries, so as to achieve sound development. ”

The old man nodded and said, "Regarding the last thing you said, I have already read the materials reported by the Economic Commission, and it is indeed very good. In particular, the Heavy Equipment Office requires all equipment enterprises to make unified quotations and avoid price reduction cooperation, which has been praised by many comrades. ”

"This approach is worthy of being used as an experience for our country to carry out foreign cooperation, and in other foreign-related economic cooperation, the overall coordinating role of the state should be played. ”

"Yes, the ECE has already put forward such an idea. You just said that you are a successful example of international cooperation, so why do you think this theory is not suitable as a strategy for the whole country?"

"There are a number of points made by the current blues coffee students on this point, as well as other scholars who have similar views. I haven't thought it through so far, but to summarize it preliminarily, I think it should be analyzed at three levels. ”

"Oh, there are three levels? The old man smiled, spread out a notebook in his hand, took a pencil and began to write it down.

Shen Rongru often communicates with the old man, and he does not feel nervous about the importance shown by the old man. He tread through his thoughts in his head, and then said:

"First of all, at the product level, a big country and a small country implement a big in, big out strategy, and the results are different. The production and demand of a small country does not have much impact on the global market. As a big country, if we want to engage in a strategy of big in and big out, it will inevitably have a serious impact on the raw material market and product market.

The processing capacity of a large country is very large, in the garment industry, if we want to engage in garment processing trade, we will be able to monopolize more than 90% of the world's garment production. In this way, the amount of cloth we need will be astronomical, which will lead to a significant increase in the price of the international cloth market, and at the same time, the amount of clothing we sell will also be astronomical, which will lead to a significant decrease in the price of the international clothing market.

To put it simply, the price of what we buy will go up, and what we sell, the price of what will go down. It turns out that the huge profits that these small economies can get from processing trade can only make small profits in China. ”

This is already evident in several open cities along the coast. The old man commented.

Shen Rongru said: "This is the theoretical analysis of our students, and later some students went to the coastal processing trade enterprises to do research, which confirmed the correctness of this view." ”

"Well, your students are much better than some scholars in being able to go from the library to the production line and find the truth through practice. The old man seemed to say casually, but Shen Rongru could clearly guess what hints were contained in the other party's last sentence.

"The second level is the macroeconomic level. The four Asian tigers are all small economies, with the largest population of 50 million and the few of them only a few million. The economic revitalization of such a small economy only needs one or two industries to support it. They adopt the form of international cooperation, not only out of the need to give play to their comparative advantages, but also because they themselves cannot establish a complete industrial system and can only occupy one link.

The situation in China is different. China is a large country with a population of 1.1 billion, and even if all the world's clothing, home appliances, household goods and other industries are handed over to China, it will not be enough for 1.1 billion people to get rid of poverty and become rich. If China wants to become a moderately developed country, it needs to have dozens of industries to support it, which means that we must occupy the majority of the entire industrial chain, including competing with developed countries for high-end industries. ”

"That's right!" the old man praised, "South Korea and Singapore, which are small countries, can also eat enough with the little soup and water left over from Europe and the United States." And if China wants to become rich and strong, it must go to the bowls of European and American countries to grab meat to eat. According to the viewpoint of international cooperation, we must consciously and voluntarily give up eating meat, so isn't that just eating?"