Chapter Twenty-Four: The New Year's Storm
It's the weekend again, I wish you a lot of fun and money, although the economic crisis is coming, but the price of pork has also dropped, you work hard! If you have all kinds of votes in your hand, it's better to vote for a few little wolves! ***********
"No disease, how about my brother discuss something with you?" Fan Kang smiled and peeled an apple and handed it to Fan Wuxi's eyes.
When Fan Wuxian heard this, he immediately turned his eyes to his brother Fan Kang, only to see that he had a frank face, and he didn't seem to be able to find any clues, so he took the apple, took a bite of it, and then asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"How about the two of us change rooms?" Fan Kang laughed.
Why? Fan Wuxi felt a little strange, turned his head to look at his room, and then looked at his brother's room, and didn't find much difference, counting, Fan Kang's room was two square meters larger than his own, which made no sense at all.
The only difference is that Fan Wuxi's room is on the south side, while Fan Kang's room is on the north side, and that's it.
Well? There's got to be weird in that! Fan Wuxian naturally wouldn't believe that Fan Kang would change rooms with him for no reason, although the ancients advocated brotherhood, friendship and brotherhood, but Fan Kang would not be so generous, and there was no need for a child to occupy such a big room.
Fan Wuxian's eyes looked out along the window of his brother Fan Kang's room, and he had an unobstructed view of the opposite side, and then looked out through the window of his room, but it was a staff family building, and he happened to be able to see the balcony opposite.
"Oh-" A flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and Fan Wuxi immediately understood why his brother Fan Kang wanted to change rooms with him.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, okay, man! Tell me, whose girl do you like? Fan Wuxian smiled and interrogated Fan Kang with a bad face.
Although Fan Kang is fourteen years old, when it comes to the thickness of his face, it is naturally far inferior to Fan Wuxi, and when he heard this, his face immediately turned red, and he fled, while leaving a sentence, "Children, don't talk nonsense!" ”
"Alas! The baby is big, and the thoughts are complicated! Fan Wuxian shook his head and sighed old-fashionedly.
After Fan Wuxi's smile faded, his heart was full of worries.
Last year was the year of the U.S. election, and on November 4, Republican Ronald Brown. Reagan defeated the Benjo Party's nominee, Jimmy. Carter, who became the 40th president in U.S. history, is about to begin his eight-year career in the White House.
The American president, who was born as an actor, not only set a precedent in American history for an actor to be successfully promoted to president, but also the oldest to take office among previous presidents.
Before entering politics, Reagan served as a sports broadcaster, a lifeguard, newspaper columnist, a film actor, a television actor, a motivational lecturer, and a leader of the Screen Actors Guild. His eloquent and persuasive style of speech led him to be hailed by the media as a "great communicator".
But the most noteworthy thing is that during his eight years in charge of the White House, he threw out the Star Wars program, which was later recognized as a false plan specifically aimed at the Soviet Union, and finally succeeded in dragging another superpower into the quagmire of an arms race, until it collapsed and was reduced to zero.
To this day, President Ronald Reagan said at his inauguration that "the political axe is not the solution to the problem, the political axe itself is the problem." ”
The domestic situation is still in a fog, and after two full years of reform and opening up, while the economy has recovered, problems have also surfaced.
In addition to state-owned enterprises, hundreds of thousands of small enterprises have emerged, and they are either fighting on their own or forming alliances to compete with state-owned enterprises for markets, raw materials, workers, and profits.
How to protect state-owned enterprises has been controversial in China.
The promoters, represented by Xue Weiqiao, an economist who participated in the overall planning of the reform at that time, believed that the reform of delegating power and giving profits had limitations, and advocated that the focus of the reform should be on the "reform of the price management system" and the "reform of circulation channels," gradually abolishing the administrative pricing system, and establishing a commodity market and a financial market.
On the other hand, the reform of state-owned enterprises "must strengthen centralization and unification" and that "the final foothold is centralization and unification." Some people have therefore put forward the theory of "cage and bird," to the effect that an enterprise is like a bird, and it cannot always tie its wings and let it fly freely, but the state-owned economic system is a big cage, and no matter how much the bird flies, it should not fly out of this cage.
The latter argument finally convinced the central decision-makers that the "cage and bird" theory dominated the thinking of enterprise reform throughout the eighties in the future, and the reform of state-owned enterprises became a "change in a cage". Proceeding from this theory and looking at the situation in 1981, it is very easy to draw conclusions.
The reform of state-owned enterprises must be carried out in an orderly and gradual manner under the control of stability and the central authorities, and how to change them can be "crossing the river by feeling the stones" and taking one step at a time, and the most urgent task at the moment is to rectify those "birds outside the cage" that do not obey the command and cannot be controlled, and it is they that disturb the entire economic situation.
This judgment of the central authorities can be echoed by the state-owned enterprises. Soon, there was a flood of voices in the media and internal reports accusing the small, unplanned factories of competing with regulated state-owned enterprises for raw materials, disrupting the market order, and causing huge losses to state-owned enterprises.
All in all, if the pilot enterprises do not do well, it is the wild birds outside the cage that are to blame. The judgment of the situation and the resulting decision-making on the direction of the situation have directly caused a major turning point in the reform policy.
On 7 January, the State Council issued a document entitled "Instructions on Strengthening Market Management and Cracking Down on Speculation and Smuggling Activities," stipulating that "individuals (including private partnerships) are not allowed to sell industrial products without the approval of the industrial and commercial administrative departments," and that "rural social teams may trade in the second and third types of agricultural and sideline products that are surplus to their own and nearby social teams after they have completed the state's procurement tasks and fulfilled their purchase contracts, and which the state does not purchase." It is forbidden to sell a class of agricultural products" and "it is not allowed to buy cars, tractors, motor boats and other large-scale means of transport for trafficking".
On 30 January, the State Council issued a document entitled "Several Provisions on Adjusting the Industrial and Commercial Tax Burden of Rural Cooperatives and Contingent Enterprises," which clearly pointed out that "in order to restrict competition for raw materials with large and medium-sized advanced enterprises, the stipulation that cooperatives and contingent enterprises shall be exempted from industrial and commercial tax and industrial and commercial income tax for two to three years in the initial stage of establishment shall be treated differently according to different circumstances...... All social and team enterprises that compete with large advanced enterprises for raw materials and make more profits, regardless of whether they are newly established or existing enterprises, shall be subject to industrial and commercial income tax in accordance with regulations."
Both documents were harsh and detailed, and both were required to be featured on the front pages of major media outlets. For a time, "cracking down on speculation" became the most important economic movement of the year.
"Alas! It looks like the wind is about to change again! After Fan Wuxian flipped through the newspaper, he threw it on the desk, not worrying.
It's the weekend again, I wish you a lot of fun and money, although the economic crisis is coming, but the price of pork has also dropped, you work hard! If you have all kinds of votes in your hand, it's better to vote for a few little wolves! ***********
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