Vice Wang said with a smile: "You are a little friend, you are quite studious and patriotic, okay, let me tell you something that I have personally experienced." ”

Chen Wen snapped his fingers, asked the bar waiter for a box of cigarettes, and asked Vice Wang and Yuan Jianguo to smoke together.

Vice President Wang told a story that made Chen Wen very emotional.

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The last time our country joined the WTO was in 1986, and in 1987 the real negotiations began.

Vice President Wang said: This is because Europe and the United States do not recognize our country as a market economy country, while the WTO only accepts countries with a market economy.

In 1987, the WTO began to review China's economic and trade system, and after a year of review, it almost rejected our country's application.

Why is this happening?

Vice President Wang said: "The biggest difficulty in the negotiations at that time was to prove that our country was indeed carrying out economic structural reform, but at that time we could not admit that we were engaged in a market economy, and this was a matter of principle for the surname of capital and society. ”

Wang Weixing held the whiskey bought by Chen Wen and said: "At that time, we called it a commodity economic system that combined market regulation and planned regulation, but where have you heard such a newly invented term in the Europeans and Americans, in their cognition, your country is either a planned economy or a market economy, and there is no third type." ”

Chen Wen asked: "Then how did your delegation talk at that time?"

Vice Wang said: "How to talk about it, explain." We take the textbooks published by the Europeans and Americans and explain to them, saying that this market economy is something of the objective category and reflects the objective law of economic development as a whole, that this plan is nothing but a means of adjustment and a thing of the subjective category, and that this economic system should still be viewed dialectically from the objective law. ”

Chen Wen smiled: "It was really difficult for you at that time. ”

Vice President Wang took a glass of whiskey, and his emotions also came up, and he talked freely: "At that time, foreigners forced us to ask, saying, how do your enterprises in China operate? This question is very serious, enterprises are the cells of a country's economy, and if the questions of enterprises are not answered well, they will make mistakes." ”

Chen Wen complimented: "You must have answered well." ”

Vice Wang said: "We will explain bitterly according to the caliber of preparation. They didn't listen at all, they questioned us, saying that our company has both a factory director and a secretary, what is going on. We had to explain that in our enterprise, the factory director is the core, the secretary is the center, and the two hearts are exchanged for one heart. ”

Chen Wen smiled, he was very familiar with this statement.

Wang said: "Those foreigners refute us, they

According to their investigation and audit, the secretary of our state's enterprise is sent from above, representing the planning and regulation, and the factory director is in charge of production and operation and represents the market regulation. ”

Chen Wen poured another glass of whiskey for Vice President Wang.

Vice President Wang continued: "I remember that in Switzerland and Geneva, a bunch of foreign experts, including people from the WTO, as well as the heads of many foreign banks, pressed us so viciously and asked us who played a higher role in the operation of the enterprise and in the major production decisions, and how they played a role. ”

Vice Wang took another glass of whiskey: "That day, I can't forget it in my life, we are a bunch of experts, pitiful." We're standing in the room, we can't tell, we really can't talk about it. We can only talk hard, and the more we talk, the more confused we become.

In the end, the foreigner interrupted us, didn't want us to speak, and forced us to answer the question: Is Huaxia a market economy?

Chen Wen is from 2019, and he knows that in the 21st century, the term "socialist market economy" has become reasonable and legitimate, but he heard from the narration of Wang Weixing, a witness to history, that in the 80s, no one dared to say it.

Vice Wang asked, "Xiao Chen, do you know what the most important speech of the Great Old Man was on his southern tour in January this year?"

Chen Wen said: "Development is the last word. ”

Vice Wang smiled and said, "That's what he said when he first arrived in Shencheng. The most important thing is that he made a speech in which he proposed that a market economy can also be practiced under socialist conditions. In September this year, the 14 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China officially put forward the goal of our country's economic system to establish a socialist market economy.

At the meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, in October this year, the head of our delegation proudly told the delegates of various countries that China is also engaged in a market economy, and unlike Europe and the United States, we are a market economy under socialist conditions.

You weren't there, you didn't see it, the whole of Geneva was in a stir, and for the first time, we in China happily admitted that we were engaged in a market economy. ”

Chen Wen recalled that in October, he was winning Trump's money at the Zurich Grand Casino, and he had no idea that the Chinese economic and trade delegation had fought a turnaround battle in Geneva, Switzerland.

Vice President Wang said: "For the sake of the market economy, we have been talking about WTO accession for six years but have not reached a successful conclusion. Now that we have solved the fundamental problem, that foreign friend of yours, and many Europeans and Americans, who will soon see the determination of our country. ”

Chen Wen asked: "May I ask Vice President Wang, do you think our country will resume WTO accession talks?"

Sentence?"

Wang said: "That's for sure, it's just that time is hard to say. ”

Chen Wen asked: "Guess what, about when." ”

Vice Wang said with a smile: "Where can I guess this kind of thing, it is a mistake to guess randomly." ”

Chen Wenpin has a taste, and the time will not be very far away, I am afraid that it is not the second half of 1993 as he thought, it is likely to be the first half of the year, or even after the Spring Festival.

Chen Wenzhong could not get along with the second WTO accession talks, and he did not need to worry about it, and he talked about the fact that the talks would definitely be concluded in 1999.

Chen Wen is concerned about the appreciation of the exchange rate of the US knife.

He increasingly had a strong judgment that the sharp appreciation of the US sword was related to China's application for WTO accession, and that the Yankees used the exchange rate change to blackmail China.

This prediction had already been generated when he chatted with Bosa, and now, after Chen Wen finished chatting with Vice President Wang, he was even more sure in his heart.

Whiskey, 800 ml bottle, not small.

The first bottle before was basically divided by Chen Wen and Yuan Jianguo. The second bottle, half of which was drunk by Vice President Wang.

The little old man's amount of wine is okay, 400 ml is equivalent to eight taels, and it is in his stomach, which will start to go up, but his eyes are staring at the wine bottle.

Yuan Jianguo smiled and relieved Chen Wen: "If you can't finish drinking, let's pack it and take it back." Chen Wen, no problem!"

Chen Wen smiled slightly and instructed the bar waiter to take two more unopened bottles of the same whiskey.

The waiter took two bottles from the cupboard and placed them on the bar.

Chen Wen pushed the two bottles of wine in front of Vice Wang Xing: "I've given it to you." ”

Vice Wang said: "For no reason, how can I accept such a valuable wine from you." If this is put on the line, I will be taking a bribe. ”

Chen Wen said: "How can this be a bribe? How can there be such a cheap bribe? You are dozens of years older than me, older than my father, and you have spent so long teaching me the socialist market economy tonight, and I will honor you with two bottles of wine as tuition, as you should!"

Vice Wang said with a smile: "Xiao Yuan, this young friend of yours is very interesting, he is an excellent patriotic overseas Chinese! Xiao Chen, I'm tired today, I won't talk with you more, I have to go back to the house to wash and sleep." ”

Yuan Jianguo hurriedly stood up: "Wang Xing, I'll send you!"

Watching Vice President Wang leave the casino with Yuan Jianguo's support, the two of them took three bottles and walked into the corridor leading to the hotel, Chen Wen's impression of this little old man was getting better and better.

Yuan Jianguo, along with his subordinates Zhang Ziqiang and Zhu Jie, are purely business-oriented employees.