Chapter 24 New Year's Storm
*********** It’s the weekend again, I wish you all a good meal and a lot of money. Although the economic crisis is coming, the price of pork has also dropped. Please work hard! If you have all kinds of votes in your hand, it would be better to just vote for Little Wolf! ************
"Wubing, how about brother discussing something with you?" Fan Kang grinningly peeled an apple and handed it to Fan Wubing.
Hearing this, Fan Wubing immediately turned his attention to his elder brother Fan Kang, and saw that his face was frank, as if he couldn't find any clues, so he took the apple, took a bite hard, and asked, "What's the matter?" Son?"
"How about the two of us changing rooms?" Fan Kang said with a chuckle.
why? Fan Wubing felt a little strange, turned his head to look at his own room, and then at his brother's room, but found no big difference. After all, Fan Kang's room was two square meters larger than his own. It doesn't make sense at all.
The only difference is that Fan Wubing's room is on the south side, while Fan Kang's room is on the north side, that's all.
Um? There must be something weird in it! Naturally, Fan Wubing would not believe that Fan Kang would change rooms with him for no reason. Although the ancients advocated respect between brothers and brothers, Fan Kang would not be so generous. It is not necessary for a child of his own to occupy such a large room.
Fan Wubing looked out along the window of his elder brother Fan Kang's room, and he could see the opposite side at a glance, and then looked out through the window of his own room, it was a staff family building, and he could just see the balcony on the opposite side. It was noon, and I saw people coming and going inside, obviously making lunch, and a touch of red flashed past.
"Oh——" There was a flash of inspiration in his head, and Fan Wubing immediately understood why his brother Fan Kang wanted to change rooms with him.
"Hey hey hey - okay, brother! Tell me, whose girl do you like?" Fan Wubing smiled and questioned Fan Kang with a bad face.
Although Fan Kang was fourteen, but in terms of the thickness of his skin, he was far inferior to Fan Wubing, and when he heard the words, he immediately blushed and fled, saying, "Kids, don't talk nonsense! "
"Oh! My son is getting older, and his thinking is complicated!" Fan Wubing shook his head and sighed old-fashionedly.
After Fan Wubing's smile faded, his heart was full of worries.
Last year was the election year in the United States. On November 4th, the Republican Ronald Reagan defeated the Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter in one fell swoop, becoming the fortieth president in the history of the United States. White House career.
The American president, who was born as an actor, not only opened the first place in American history for an actor to successfully advance to the presidency, but he is also the oldest president among all previous presidents.
In Fan Wubing's view, President Reagan has undoubtedly successfully combined his previous and previous careers. Before entering politics, Reagan worked as a sports broadcaster, lifeguard, newspaper columnist, film actor, TV show actor, and motivational lecturer, and is a leader of the Screen Actors Guild of America. His speech style is brilliant and persuasive, and he is praised by the media as a "great communicator".
But the most worth mentioning is that during his eight years in power in the White House, he threw out the Star Wars plan, which was identified by later generations as a false plan specifically aimed at the Soviet Union, and finally succeeded in dragging another superpower into the armament The quagmire of the competition, until it completely collapsed and fell into pieces.
Fan Wubing still remembers clearly today that President Reagan said on the day of his inauguration, "Government is not the solution to the problem, the government itself is the problem."
The domestic situation is still in a cloud of fog. 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 sprung up. They either fight independently or form alliances to compete with state-owned enterprises for market and raw materials.
Compete for employees and compete for profits.
How to protect state-owned enterprises has caused domestic disputes.
The promotion group, represented by Xue Muqiao, an economist who participated in the overall plan of the reform at that time, believed that the reform of delegating power and transferring profits had limitations, and advocated that the focus of the reform should be placed on the "reform of the price management system" and "reform of circulation channels", and gradually cancel Administrative pricing system, establishment of commodity market and financial market.
Another opinion is that the reform of state-owned enterprises "must strengthen the centralization and unification" and "the final foothold is the centralization and unification". A bird cannot keep its wings tied and let it fly freely. However, the state-owned economic system is a big cage, and no matter how the bird flies, it should not fly out of the cage.
The latter argument finally convinced the central decision-makers that the "cage and bird" theory dominated the thinking of enterprise reform throughout the 1980s, and the reform of state-owned enterprises became a "reform in a cage." Starting 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 step by step under the stability and control of the central government. How to reform can be "crossing the river by feeling the stones" and taking one step at a time. The most urgent task is to rectify those "birds outside the cage" that do not obey orders and cannot be controlled. It is they that disrupt the entire economic situation.
This judgment of the central government is likely to be echoed by state-owned enterprises. Soon, a lot of voices appeared in the local media and internal reports, all complaining about how those unplanned small factories competed with the regulated state-owned enterprises for raw materials, how they disrupted the market order, and how they caused the state-owned enterprises to suffer huge losses.
All in all, if the pilot enterprises fail to do well, it is all the fault of the wild birds outside the cage. The judgment of the situation and the resulting directional decisions directly lead to a major turning point in the reform policy.
On January 7, the State Council issued a document "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 administrative department for industry and commerce," and "rural communes and brigades collectively, The second and third types of agricultural and sideline products that are not purchased by the state and that are redundant after the completion of the national procurement tasks and the fulfillment of the negotiated purchase contract by the commune team and nearby communal teams can be trafficked. The sale of first-class agricultural products is not allowed", "private purchases of cars, tractors, motor vehicles are not allowed large means of transport such as boats”.
On January 30, the State Council issued a document, "Several Regulations on Adjusting the Industrial and Commercial Tax Burden of Rural Cooperatives and Team Enterprises," which clearly stated that "in order to limit the competition for raw materials with large and medium-sized advanced enterprises, the cooperatives and team companies will be exempted from industrial and commercial tax at the initial stage of establishment." The two-to-three-year regulation of the Industrial and Commercial Income Tax has been changed to treat it differently according to different situations... All communal and brigade enterprises that compete with large advanced enterprises for raw materials and make more profits, whether they are new or existing enterprises, shall be taxed according to the regulations. income tax".
These two documents are strict in tone and detailed in measures, and both are required to publish reports on the front pages of major media. For a time, "cracking down on speculation" became the most important economic campaign this year.
"Alas! It seems that the wind direction is about to change again!" Fan Wubing flipped through the newspaper and threw it on the desk, not without worry.
*********** It’s the weekend again, I wish you all a good meal and a lot of money. Although the economic crisis is coming, the price of pork has also dropped. Please work hard! If you have all kinds of votes in your hand, it would be better to just vote for Little Wolf! ************