Chapter 124: The Storm

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In the end, the party school organized a reserve class at the department and bureau level to go around the coast, and after seeing it, it was natural to write down their experiences in combination with the knowledge they had learned. The Party School will carefully select outstanding articles and submit them to the Party School Magazine Department, which is ready to be issued as a separate issue, although the Party School's school magazine is only a publication for students within the Party School. But if the article is very good, it will definitely be presented to the desk of the main leaders of the province.

At this point, the college of the reserve class knows very well that the cadres of the reserve class at the department and bureau level gather the deputy department and bureau level cadres with excellent qualifications in the province, all of whom are the backbone of the long-term work in the party and government organs. There are also personnel of provincial organs such as Zhou Yihua, who made full use of the advantages of people and geography, and went back to the unit to find a pen to create collectively, and the article was of a very high theoretical level.

Lu Zhengdong must also attach great importance to this, he wants to take the initiative, and naturally wants his article to be on the desk of the main leaders of the province.

According to Lu Zhengdong's analysis, it is estimated that the students' experience is also based on how to develop the private economy and development zones, and they have investigated and studied this issue from various fields and angles such as politics, economy, and ideological emancipation, just like writing a proposition essay.

Lu Zhengdong knows that it will definitely not work to write like this, and it must be unique in its concept, so that it will not be the same, and of course, the idea of the article must be in line with the current political trend.

Lu Zhengdong decided to write a big article. We should systematically expound the relationship between the development of the private economy and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, and in fact the two are inseparable and mutually influential.

Lu Zhengdong thought about his idea, thought about it for more than an hour, and finally typed a writing outline, preliminarily listing the original materials that needed to be found.

Lu Zhengdong doesn't have much time to write things by himself, and the idea of this article is relatively high, and it is a bit of a problem at the moment, and it is a big article. So you need to be very well prepared.

The next day, after Lu Zhengdong finished his class, he came to the library, and the first thing he did was the "Decision on Several Issues Concerning the Establishment of a Socialist Market Economic System" and other policy resolutions issued by the Third Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee, and he also found an important editorial in Xihe Bao after Yang Chenggong, secretary of the provincial party committee, took office.

The reason why Lu Zhengdong attaches the most importance to these two is that the first reason is that this decision proposes that "some small state-owned enterprises can be contracted and leased." Some can be reorganized into joint-stock cooperatives, or they can be sold to collectives or individuals. The income from the sale of enterprises and equity is diverted from the state to industries that are in urgent need of development. ”

In fact, the long-standing cult of ownership was broken, and the edge of reform touched the ownership system. This is the result of the emancipation of the mind under the new form, and it is also a major breakthrough in the reform of the economic structure.

Lu Zhengdong would like to talk about the grasping of large state-owned enterprises and letting go of small ones on the basis of this, and this is the most important theoretical basis. As for those editorials, we can see a specific line of thought of Yang Chenggong and other major leaders.

Zhou Yihua came to visit the door, and when he saw the dozen newspaper folders bound into books, he couldn't help laughing:

"Zhengdong, what are you doing. You can't think about transferring the Propaganda Department, right? ”

Lu Zhengdong smiled:

"At my level, the Propaganda Department will definitely not want it, doesn't it want to write about my experience? There is always some theoretical basis to be found. ”

Zhou Yihua said that Lu Zhengdong said this, smiled and said:

"Seeing you so serious, I also feel nervous, forget it. I'm going back to ...... too."

What Lu Zhengdong focused on was that in state-owned enterprises, it is necessary to "grasp the big and let go of the small." "Grasping the big" means concentrating efforts on grasping a number of large enterprise groups that have a bearing on the lifeline of the country and embody the country's economic strength. …,

"Letting go of the small" means, as pointed out in the "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 14 th CPC Central Committee, that small state-owned enterprises that are generally hopeless in turning around their losses and have no market for their products will either be merged, contracted, sold, or bankrupt.

In addition to the theoretical basis. Lu Zhengdong also found a realistic basis, that is, the state-owned enterprises under the city and county are now losing money on a large scale, and they are weak to recover from the sky, and these enterprises are all "popsicles under the sun" and if they are not restructured, the state-owned enterprises under the city and county that are still struggling will inevitably become insolvent, stop work and production, and have no place for the workers to live, and the final result will be to cause social unrest.

Therefore, in the process of "grasping the big ones and letting go of the small ones," on the one hand, it is necessary to carry out restructuring of such a large number of low-efficiency and even insolvent state-owned enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises at the county level, and spun them out of the state-owned sequence and turn them into private enterprises.

In this way, in the process of restructuring state-owned enterprises, private enterprises have gained new huge space and new development opportunities, and their strength has increased greatly, which will become a very important supplement to economic development.

On the other hand, the government has made great efforts to support the state-owned enterprises in terms of policies and funds, and has implemented many measures such as financial incentives, direct investment, stock market financing, debt-to-equity swaps, debt exemption, resource tilt, access system, and redundant layoffs for state-owned enterprises. Let the state-owned enterprises come out of the historical low tide that began in the nineties.

In this way, it is a matter of mutual promotion and complementarity, so as to form a synergy as a whole and promote faster and better economic development.

In order not to leave a target for others to attack, Lu Zhengdong also made some expositions on how to prevent the loss of state-owned assets in the process of restructuring, especially the management buyout (MBO), and Lu Zhengdong reminded him to pay attention to it.

The so-called management buyout (MBO) refers to the acquisition of the company's shares through financing by the company's senior management, thereby changing the company's ownership structure, control structure and asset structure, so that the original operator of the enterprise becomes the owner of the enterprise. As a new way of asset restructuring. MBO originated in Europe and the United States, and has gradually become an important magic weapon for improving business performance around the world, especially in developed countries. Even in countries such as Russia and Eastern Europe, MBOs are being used to accelerate the transformation of their economies.

However, it is clear that the country is different, and the current domestic laws and regulations on the operation of management buyouts are either absent or lacking. In the case of the "absence of shareholders" within the enterprise, it is difficult to form a constraint on the management buyout, and if the management buyout is implemented rashly, it is easy to think that the management of the state-owned enterprise will try to lower the purchase price to reduce the acquisition cost, distribute the profits of the enterprise to alleviate the repayment pressure, or use high dividends and dividends to make the shares it holds into real income, use the property rights of state-owned enterprises or collective enterprises to be fictitious, and collude with internal and external parties to lower the purchase price. sale of state-owned assets or collective assets; Concealing or distorting information that should be disclosed in order to evade supervision and concealment of the purpose of harming the public and private interests, such as buying and selling for the purpose of harming the public and private interests. As a result, the loss of state-owned assets has been caused.

Now MBO is just in its infancy in China, but in the new century, a controversy called "Lang Gu Controversy" by the media has aroused strong repercussions in society after the media disclosed it, and many scholars, entrepreneurs, stockholders, and netizens have also followed up to participate in the debate. For a time, the wind was surging and treacherous. There is a tendency for the mountain rain to come and the wind to fill the building.

Power domination, black-box operations, incomplete laws and regulations, loss of state-owned assets, and damage to the rights and interests of employees and creditors have become obstacles to the current reform of property rights of state-owned enterprises. Regardless of whether they are "lang" or "down", what they are facing is a fact that no one can bypass and cannot avoid: state-owned assets have fallen into a crisis of loss, and only then did the state regulate and completely stop MBOs of large enterprises, but the controversy has continued for a long time, and some economists who support MBOs have even become "enemies of the people". …,

So Lu Zhengdong is on this issue. It is still very prudent to put forward the standardization.

Although Lu Zhengdong had avoided a lot of sensitive things as much as possible, what he didn't expect was still causing trouble.

Director Luo of the School Magazine Department of the Party School is an old scholar and a loyal supporter of "state ownership is an advanced form of public ownership and a goal that must be pursued"; It is believed that the reduction of the proportion of the state-owned economy indicates the loss of the dominant position of public ownership, the weakening of the socialist factor, and even the "peaceful evolution" of socialism to capitalism. Oppose the state providing equal opportunities for competition for different economic sectors, including state-owned, collective, and individual.

Originally, I felt uncomfortable when I saw so many articles on the development of the private economy, and I also read the book of 10,000 words, and I deeply thought that all state-owned enterprises should not be moved. I thought that the central authorities had realized the drawbacks of reform and opening up, and that they were gradually reining in this aspect, and seeing that Lu Zhengdong was still talking about grasping the big and letting go of the small, he was even more angry, and although more than a dozen articles on Lu Zhengdong's experience were published in the new issue of the school magazine, he published an article criticizing Lu Zhengdong in his own handwriting at the beginning:

"The reform of the property rights of state-owned enterprises is actually a cheap transfer of state-owned assets, and it is the transfer of state-owned assets accumulated by workers and workers with painstaking efforts and sweat over the past 40 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China into the hands of a very small number of powerful people, and some officials and entrepreneurs have partnered to steal state-owned assets. Recently, a deputy mayor of a prefecture-level city named Lu Zhengdong couldn't wait to jump out......"

After the reform and development, the party school has always paid attention to the four no's policy of not grabbing braids, not wearing hats, not beating sticks, and not putting bags in the party school, which can be discussed in the party school, and some views can be expressed, so as soon as Director Luo's article came out, the whole school was in an uproar, and with the circulation of this issue of the school magazine, even most of the leaders of the Long Beach Municipal Party Committee knew about it, and Zhou Tianfang called to ask what was going on.

Lu Zhengdong laughed at himself:

"I don't know, hehe, and directly named my name, now I'm famous in the whole school......"

Zhou Tianfang said:

"You're not famous in the party school, I guess the leaders of various cities and even the leaders of the provincial party committee have read this article, you are famous in the whole province, Zhengdong, don't underestimate these people, there are not enough successes, but there are more failures, in reality, theory is always for the service of reality, you are named, it's not a good thing, you still have to pay attention to some ......"

As soon as Lu Zhengdong heard Zhou Tianfang's words, he understood that someone in the city must have said cool things, and it is estimated that Liu Jianzhong even thought that he was in the limelight and caused trouble for him.

This article caused such a storm was really unexpected by Lu Zhengdong, he was already very careful to avoid many sensitive issues, but he didn't want to be in the limelight. But in this way, he originally wanted to be low-key, but this time he can't be low-key.

Lu Zhengdong couldn't help but think, he didn't expect to take the initiative to attack, but he was hit by someone on the head, and he was actually criticized like this in the party school, Zhou Tianfang's guess is really good, this article has even been read by Yang Chenggong, secretary of the provincial party committee, when he met Liu Zhenqiang, the minister of organization, Yang Chenggong raised the school magazine in Yang's hand and said:

"Zhenqiang. I'm sure you've read this stuff too, what do you think? ”

"Secretary Yang, I have read the article several times, I think there is nothing wrong with Lu Zhengdong's article, it is basically based on the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and I think some of the views on state-owned enterprises put forward in the article make us think deeply......"

Liu Zhenqiang is not familiar with economic affairs, but there are signs from Secretary Yang and Governor Chen inviting economists to take the pulse of Xihe's economy. I also have a general idea of what Secretary Yang and Governor Chen of the Provincial Party Committee think, so I still tend to Lu Zhengdong's views.

"I still know Lao Luo, a comrade, who has lived in a cowshed and endured hardships, and his starting point is good, but Lao Luo should not take young comrades under the knife. Reform is to cross the river by feeling the stones, and young people have some new ideas, even if they are immature, they still have to protect them......"...,

Secretary Yang laughed and said:

"I can't see where Lu Zhengdong's article is taboo. The restructuring of state-owned enterprises was formulated by the central authorities, and it was not something that Lu Zhengdong could do if he wanted to......"

As he spoke, he smiled and his tone became heavy:

"Promote the reform of state-owned enterprises. I think some of Lu Zhengdong's mentions in this article are very good, and the article answers our long-standing doubts, and also provides some ideas on how to develop the private economy and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, and also points out some problems that may arise in the process of restructuring. It should be said that such an article is still very beneficial to our next step, but some of Lu Zhengdong's articles only mention the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, and it should be said that they are very objective and insightful.

State-owned enterprises in our province are losing money on a large scale. Although the restructuring of state-owned enterprises is in progress, but on the whole, the progress is very limited, fundamentally speaking, there are cadres holding the old ideas, resulting in great resistance, and such resistance also makes some cadres have doubts, can not move the step, Governor Chen also complained to me, the province is ready to set up a leading group to speed up the development of the county economy, in fact, it is to figure out the development of the private economy, promote the county-level regional restructuring zuò as a key point to promote the development of the county economy, the team leader and deputy team leader members are slipping, But it is a bit difficult to find someone who has the courage, ability, and ideas to promote this work concretely......"

Liu Zhenqiang listened to Secretary Yang's words, nodded, and accelerated the county-level economic development leading group This is a new thing made by Xihe, the team leader is naturally the governor, and the deputy team leader has him, the organization minister, the propaganda minister and the executive vice governor, and the team members are the heads of various departments in the province, the lineup is very strong, and the expectations are naturally very high.

Liu Zhenqiang pondered for a while, and the secretary of the provincial party committee said this in front of him, the head of the organization, and he was also moved in his heart, thought for a while and said:

"Or, let Lu Zhengdong also join this group to be responsible for some specific work?"

Yang Chenggong was stunned when he heard this, obviously, he had never had such a plan, or that such a thing as a deputy department level was not within his consideration, and he thought for a while:

"Comrade Zhengdong is very young, can he hold down the position?"

Liu Zhenqiang smiled and said:

"Isn't there still a team leader, deputy team leader and a big team member? Comrade Zhengdong has served as secretary of the county party committee and deputy mayor, and I am afraid that those secretaries of the county party committee will not be able to put their old qualifications in front of him......"

Yang Chenggong couldn't help but smile when he heard it:

"Although Comrade Zhengdong is young, he is also a young veteran leader in front of the cadres in the county. Okay, I agree with you in principle, but we still have to seek the government's opinion on this matter, so let's do it, Lao Liu, you take the time to meet Comrade Zhengdong and persuade him, so as to calm his mind, and by the way, ask for his own opinion, in principle, do not pull out the seedlings and help them grow. ”

Liu Zhenqiang, as Yang Chenggong's personnel manager, naturally knows more or less the relationship between Yang Chenggong and the Yun family, and knows the meaning of his words......

A few days later, Lu Zhengdong received a call from Xin Wushan, asking him to report to Liu Zhenqiang on his ideological work, and Lu Zhengdong also knew that it was a matter of reporting articles, and when he entered Liu Zhenqiang's office, he saw that Liu Zhenqiang had no expression, and he did not know whether it was a blessing or a curse. Lu Zhengdong knows the direction of development, even if the leaders of the province have some opinions about him in a short time, but as time goes by, it will definitely change, so he is very calm.

Liu Zhenqiang took off his glasses and pointed to the seat, saying:

"Sit down, do you know what you're coming for?"

Lu Zhengdong sat precariously and said:

"Minister Liu, I think it's because of the article I published at the party school."

Liu Zhenqiang nodded and said:

"Well, then let's have a good discussion about your article, is your article affected by Chen Sellout in Dongshan Province? ……”

Chen Maiguang and Lu Zhengdong naturally knew that Chen Maiguang of Dongshan Province had sold out almost all the enterprises in the city from '93 to this year, and there was still some time before the highest level affirmed his exploration and reform, and some people scolded him for selling state-owned assets, which was an extremely heinous and unforgivable crime.

Lu Zhengdong thought for a moment and said:

"I agree with some of his views, but I think it's too extreme to sell out, such as water and electricity, which are related to the lives of thousands of people, and the state has to control them, and they must be in the hands of the government, such as natural gas, if they are in the hands of private individuals, once these private companies feel that the price is not suitable, they want to stop gas supply, that is a big problem, so we must not only talk about reform, but also talk about stability, unstable people, and the people are suffering. From this point of view. The country must master the lifeblood of the economy

……”

With such an opportunity, Lu Zhengdong naturally still has to defend himself. (To be continued)