Coquettish Rebirth

What kind of article was published in the Southern Weekly newspaper?This article is not a positive discussion of Jia Hongjian's article, but an exclusive interview with an old German man who temporarily went to Shanghai for business.This German old man, of course, is not Schmidt, but an old man named Weberer.

Who is this Weber?Co-chairman of UNEP's Sustainable Resource Utilization Committee, member of the Club of Rome, author of the famous economics book "Five Times", a former member of the German Parliament, chairman of the Environmental Committee, Bren Environment of the University of California, Santa Barbara Dean of the Faculty of Science and Management, Founding Dean of the Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in Wupperta, Germany, Director of the European Environmental Policy Research Institute, Director of the United Nations Center for Development Science and Technology, Founding President of Kassel University, Germany, Biologist of the University of Essen, Germany professor.

A great expert with so many titles, and a foreign expert, when he came to Shanghai to help the relevant departments of the Chinese government to review and arrange issues such as forest cover, soil erosion and the 98 flood, Nanzhou found the old man and let him The old man talked about economic issues.

Then, there was such a title-"Privatization, Too Much Too Much", and then a series of "Story Summary".

"Privatization has been preached long enough since the 1980s, it's time to swing the pendulum back a bit."

"The more important question is what we focus on. If we pay more attention to the interests of the poor, then marketization and privatization should not be. If we focus on innovation, marketization and privatization are better choices."

"In the 1970s, the political power structure in the West was roughly strong government-weak private sector. Thirty years later, after the rapid development of globalization and privatization, the situation was just reversed, becoming weak government-strong private sector. And In China, it seems to be stuck at the earlier situation in the West."

After seeing the three-paragraph summary at a glance, to be honest, Jia Hongjian was stunned at that moment!Because judging from the summary of this article, this article is obviously helping Jia Hongjian to say that private ownership is not perfect!That's right, Jia Hongjian's previous article meant that private ownership is not a panacea, not that private ownership of bad enterprises can make them better.A good business can become better if it is privately owned.Bad companies can become better if they are privately owned.It is because there may be a more capable person in charge to lead, and the person in charge will be more responsible and more subjective-after all, it is a private enterprise, which is different from a public enterprise.But many good businesses do.Privatized does not mean it will be better.Even bureaucracy has nothing to do with the big pot.

This is Jia Hongjian's opinion.And in this summary, isn’t it also said that privatization is not a panacea, and that we should not be too market-oriented and privatized if we want to pay attention to the interests of the poor?This is from a Chinese point of view.Are you still singing the praises of public ownership?Eh?Could it be that Nan Zhou, who has always been thinking in reverse with everyone, actually stood on Jia Hongjian's side this time, and actually stood on the side of the central government to fight against all kinds of public knowledge and bricks?

Seeing this, Jia Hongjian was really surprised!He hurriedly continued to look down, only to see the following: "In the early 1970s, the Club of Rome, composed of scholars and political and business elites from all over the world, published the book "The Limits of Growth", which aroused great repercussions around the world. Now, the new book "The Limits of Privatization" being edited by Weberer and other three professors is another empirical investigation made by the Club of Rome on the privatization trend that has swept the world since the 1980s.

For the first time, this book investigates the issue of privatization on a global scale, outlines the historical events in globalization and liberalization, and analyzes more than 50 privatization cases in various countries and major industries. The successes and failures of culturalization have been analyzed and studied objectively. "

Hiss... It seems that Li Fuju is really helping Jia Hongjian to say that privatization is not a panacea!What is Li Fuju?It is justified and grounded to convince people!

Then, in the following interview, the German old man began to say something that was in tune with Jia Hongjian-"The World Bank, especially the British and American countries, believes that privatization and marketization are better than state monopoly, and can have higher efficiency. and better serve the needs of the people. But actually, if we are talking about examples of public goods, such as public education, police defense systems, drinking water supply, electricity, etc., I personally think it is better to be under the control of the government Next, of course, some private components can also be added. But the government needs to design the threshold of access permits, and then the specific management work can be operated by private companies. Because when a public service product is provided by the government, then Basically, citizens of this country can make various requests to the government. As for whether the government agrees or not, it depends on the number of people who make the request. But if the product is provided by a private company, then unless the shareholders of the other company think so Otherwise, what private companies are willing to do is their own business, and consumers have no right to raise objections, because this is how the market economy is.”

“In the case of privatization of water supply systems in countries such as France and the Philippines, after privatization, under the control of private multinational companies, water prices rose rapidly, and infrastructure investment in the water supply sector was insufficient. But in the case of government monopoly, the situation Not so."

“In some cases, the government is obviously more effective than the market. One example we found in our investigation is the house fire insurance in Germany. This area was run by the government 15 years ago and was later privatized. Although Economists predicted that the introduction of competition would drive down market prices, but it had the opposite effect. As several private companies competed with each other, and each of these companies competed to send more agents to compete for customers, consumers still had to foot the bill. As a result, the price of insurance has risen by 50% to 70%. So in this example, the government is more effective than the competing private sector.”

Hey!wipe!This German old man is indeed Li Fuju, right?Taking these examples one by one is definitely easier to convince people than the simple "preaching" in Jia Hongjian's article!Jia Hongjian was still talking from the standpoint of ordinary people.As for this old man, he really needs facts and facts, and data and data!This is simply helping Jia Hongjian!It was like saying that Jia Hongjian and Li Dewei were fighting against each other. Here, after Jia Hongjian knocked Li Dewei down with three or two punches, Li Dewei just got up when he was knocked unconscious by Nan Zhou who came to "struggle the fight"!

There are even words like this below, which is almost declaring Jia Hongjian's victory-"In the 1970s, Western civil society organizations were more inclined to the private sector and opposed the public sector, because the power of the public sector was too great; Now the situation has changed. We see civil society organizations leaning more towards the government. Because the power of the private sector is too strong. The whole political power structure needs a new balance.

In short, the existence of civil society space is always to protect the weak and oppose the powerful.In China, the current government is more powerful.The private sector is weak.I personally speculate about the few growing civil society organisations.For example, NGOs seem to be closer to the interests of the private sector, and together with the private sector, they become a balancing force that restricts government privileges. "

How well said!That means the group of people in China who are calling for privatization.It’s not that privatization is good at all, but that the Chinese government is too strong, so they want to fight against the government—or to put it more bluntly, they want to manipulate public opinion, and then seize power from the government!Isn’t this just a slap in the face of Li Dewei’s gang, isn’t this just helping Jia Hongjian charge forward, and even theoreticalizing and digitizing the words that privatization is not a panacea?

However, after the previous passages that seemed to help Jia Hongjian passed, Jia Hongjian soon discovered a new problem-after the old man talked about the bad privatization , This is the beginning of privatization!For example, the following paragraph-"In the 1970s, the political power structure in the West was generally a strong government-weak private sector. Now the situation is just the opposite, and China still seems to be stuck in the situation in the West at that time. Because of my understanding of China The situation is unfamiliar, so I want to talk about it with reference to the Mexican example.

Mexico's privatization of the telecommunications sector has reduced the price of telecommunications services, and consumers are more satisfied.In some respects, I personally feel like China's telecommunications sector, and it is not impossible to privatize it.Of course, there may be many public service aspects of telecommunications, such as signal problems in sparsely populated areas, then the government can establish an access mechanism, which is equivalent to issuing licenses or signing contracts.Only private companies that are willing to spend a lot of money each year to build signal towers in sparsely populated areas for free according to government regulations can enter China's telecommunications market.This is what I said before, the government sets the rules, and then specific private companies are responsible for the operation. "

"I don't know whether China's state-owned sector is efficient. According to my observation, the balance between public and private power in China is still a bit unbalanced. There are too many state-owned enterprises in the market. In fact, there is no need for so many. I think generally speaking The public-private comparison is about half to half, which is a fairly balanced stage...Although I am not an expert on China issues, I am not suitable to say more on this issue. But I personally rely on my experience in many countries in the world. Feel like China now needs a privatization movement to balance the weight between the government and private business..."

Hiss...Jia Hongjian was a little confused when he saw the end of this article!What do you mean by this article published by Nan Zhou?Are they in favor of Jia Hongjian, or are they waving the red flag against the red flag?If it is agreed with Jia Hongjian, but how could the old man's last telecommunication privatization issues be published?You must know that one of the most unlikely to be privatized in China these days is the telecommunications sector-by 2012, China's telecommunications sector has not been privatized, and no private companies have entered this field!Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, which of these three is private?

Although, according to the plan of the central government, China will start a trend of privatization from the end of this year, but the matter of China's need for privatization was mentioned by the German old man, and it was also published on the Southern Weekly, in order to cooperate Considering the above proposal of telecommunications privatization, why did Jia Hongjian feel that this Southern Zhou Dynasty was both an enemy and a friend?What is the meaning of this Southern Zhou Dynasty?Are they for or against Jia Hongjian? (To be continued..)