Chapter 166 Reform and Opening-up

Jia Youwei couldn't help but naturally think of the true portrayal of the corresponding literary works during the difficult period of the national economy.

Lu Yao wrote in "Ordinary World" that during the Cultural Revolution, a 20-year-old girl in a remote village didn't even have pants to wear, and the whole village was dying of hunger.

Yang Xianhui's "Chronicle of the Sandwich Ditch" is even more bloody and extremely cruel. The group of more than 1,500 rightists who were "re-educated through labor" lived an inhumane life and had more than 10 hours of heavy physical labor every day.

Even if he was tired and lay on the ground panting, he could not rest, and was even whipped and tortured in various ways. After they died unnaturally, the cause of death was artificially written in the file, and all of them died of illness.

Even a Beijing-style artist like Wang Zengqi wrote about the romance of small people, but he still wrote about the long-term hunger and suffering brought to the common people during the Cultural Revolution in "Butter Pancakes".

The canteen is divided into two canteens, north and south, and the cadres "have a meeting" to go to one canteen to eat butter pancakes, stewed mutton and other good things, while the common people go to the other canteen and smell the fragrance there, but they can't eat it, so they can only eat the wild vegetables that are brought in and mixed noodles.

In Jia Youwei's view, those who say that the past is good are not only uneducated, but also brainless. Could it be that the days of not having enough to eat, not wearing warm clothes, and not having half a tile on your head for a long time are better than the life of having meat and fruits every day?

Without reform and opening up, there is only a dead end. At present, the focus of the contradiction lies in the fact that the relationship between the national strength and the people's wealth, and the gap between the rich and the poor, has not been properly handled.

"Almost at the same time in time, my sworn enemy, the island nation, was in a different situation. On August 15, 1945, the island nation officially surrendered.

Just a decade after its capitulation, marked by 1958, the economic recovery began. At that time, how high was the standard of living of the people of the island country?

This can be referred to Vogel's famous book "Japan's New Middle Class". The time span of the content in the book is from 1958 to 1960, which almost corresponds to the most difficult three years of our economy.

The ordinary working-class people of the island countries have gradually begun to change from frugality to food and clothing. They could already afford black-and-white televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, what they called the trifecta.

By the mid-sixties, they could afford color televisions, cars, air conditioners, and the new triumph. In 1964, the island nation hosted the Tokyo Olympics.

The Olympic Games are not only a sports event, but also a sign of national prosperity and self-confidence. There are already many vending machines on the streets of Tokyo.

The island country's national income doubling plan has well balanced the country's GDP growth and the growth of people's wages. The country is strong, the people are rich.

Only then will the island countries have the confidence to put forward a series of good measures such as a 100 million middle-class plan, lifelong employment, and a series of good measures such as the annual merit sequence system on salary income.

In the seventies and eighties, the economy of the island nation took off completely, until the economic bubble appeared. Even at the end of the 80s, the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 90s did not make the island country completely collapse, and thus let the world see that its strong industries such as automobiles and electronics are still strong. Jia Youwei began a comparison between China and Japan.

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Although the island country is also poor and white after the surrender, and started from scratch on a ruin, it has the greatest advantage that we did not have at the beginning of the founding of the country, a large reserve of talents, professionals, senior workers, and technicians.

Even if they lost the war, they produced a large number of high-quality talents and industrial workers during the war, unlike when we were short of car drivers.

It was particularly tragic in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, when the Volunteers intercepted the US military's material transport convoy, and as soon as the Americans dropped the car and ran away, we stared at the car and couldn't drive away. Not long after, the convoy was completely blown up as soon as the US planes arrived.

The Korean War of 1950-1953 brought a huge opportunity to the island countries, not only did the United States increase its investment in the island countries, but also purchased a large amount of wartime materials from the island countries.

Enterprises in the island countries have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the number of jobs has increased exponentially, which has solved the problem of difficulty in finding employment for people in the island countries in the past. Not only that, but a large amount of advanced technology from the United States at that time was also given to the island nation.

From 1955 to 1975, the United States fought the Vietnam War, and once again inadvertently provided a huge boost to the economic construction and development of the island countries. The island nation serves as a large rear and transit station for the concentration of US military supplies.

Looking back, our country is either in a foreign war or in foreign support. Otherwise, after a long period of civil strife, it is not at all like after the surrender of the island country in World War II, there was no foreign war, military spending was also small, and there was no long-term civil strife.

Even if the incident at the University of Tokyo Medical School or the Narita Airport incident occurred in the island country, it would be small-scale and short-lived, and the impact and damage caused would be limited and would not change the overall direction of the country's overall economic development. ”

"Listen to what you say, in 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee determined that since the beginning of reform and opening up, my country will be 40 years old. If the island nation is counted after its surrender in 1945, it will have been in development for more than 70 years.

In this regard, I am also reminded of a recent report on the European poor published by the European Union. By their high standards, Sweden has the least number of poor people, probably a little over 5%.

The country is also amazing, the political system is a constitutional monarchy, the mode of production is capitalism, and the mode of distribution is socialist.

Before, I didn't understand much, but now I understand why Sweden is not one of Britain, France and Germany. In World War I and World War II, Sweden was not directly involved in the war.

In more than 100 years, Sweden has not been destroyed. In the past, we always said that the United States made a big war windfall, and Sweden didn't miss it!

I remember clearly that during World War II, Sweden exported a large amount of iron ore to Germany. From Sweden it showed me why you have problems on the spiritual level because you are rich.

The suicide rate among Sweden is also among the highest in the world. As for the reason, it is that there are too many people who suffer from depression. Because the country is so rich, there is no sense of crisis in the survival of the people.

Now it seems that it is not a good thing, it is a good interpretation of Lao Tzu's sentence, born in sorrow and died in peace. A Swede can't live if he holds a piece of paper and writes.

As long as he stands in a conspicuous position on the street, in that short time, there will be multiple organizations running to grab people and offer love. Jane smiled.