My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 79 Eating and dressing first

When Weidong returned to Jiangzhou, he saw that Sunshine Daily had published a series of articles on reform written by a special correspondent!

First of all, we compared Shangzhou's suppression of the individual economy with Jiangzhou's promotion of an industrial products trade center and its attempt at an open model of free purchase and sale of wholesale markets.

He even bluntly mentioned that the provincial investigation team's cursory visit to the grassroots level did not fully contact the relevant personnel, nor did they solve the actual problems!

This guy is really brave!
Usually, Yu Songhai seems to be slow and only stares at the delicious food.

Even though he was employed by a daily newspaper, his entire family and life still lived in the provincial capital.

This really doesn't take personal gains and losses into consideration.

The following article is about two completely different attitudes in military-industrial enterprises, which is another sharp contrast.

The previous SLR camera companies are now only mentioned in passing, and it is understandable that they have chosen to deeply research international advanced technologies and seek to explore higher peaks in optical equipment.

However, the optical instrument factory, embracing the market, has taken a path of active improvement. It has now launched more than 40,000 domestically produced people's cameras. With a low price of less than 30 yuan, it ensures that everyone can afford it and everyone can record every detail of life. This is the significance of reform and opening up!

The phrases used by Weidong at the Beijing-Beijing university student symposium, which used to describe the economic arteries and capillaries, were changed to state directly: "The pursuit of a better and happier life for all the people has always been our great goal, which we have always strived for."

The debate that might have previously gotten bogged down in different ownership structures and economic forms was skipped.

The key point is that this time he and Lao Feng finally experienced firsthand the business negotiations involving the same military factory, and saw how some units... or even most units resisted change and displayed mediocre attitudes of living a life of idleness and waiting to die.

Therefore, the words and actions of the two electronics factories were highlighted.

It is not surprising that a certain state-owned military-industrial enterprise in northern Chengdu was mentioned without being named, as it has the mentality of waiting for the state to cover everything and eating from the same pot.

It is also prevalent in a large number of related enterprises, which have degenerated from the backbone enterprises that were actively built in the past to stumbling blocks hindering reform and opening up.

Twenty or thirty years of experience has now become a credit for them to lie down and be lazy.

On the contrary, the various street factories, small collectives, large collectives, and school-run factories that have sprung up like mushrooms have strong vitality and are actively pursuing changes.

Here he took a roundabout approach and did not directly talk about how private enterprises and individual economies are the most combat-effective. Instead, he first praised the collectively owned units in the middle situation.

It just so happens that the Sichuan Post and Telecommunications School Equipment Factory can undertake this model promotion.

It became the most important advanced title in the entire series of reports.

Even the real tape recorder has not yet been produced.

Then even the Xishan Factory was not considered a top priority. Weidong couldn't understand the careful considerations behind this.

It was good that he thought that Dong Xueqing might be taken care of by the Post and Telecommunications School because of this.

But when I returned to Jiangzhou, sat in the corner of the Hongguang Factory store, quietly flipping through the daily Sunshine Daily, I was still a little scared.

Because of Yu Songhai's series of reports, three articles were used to discuss various actual situations from the grassroots to the local and provincial levels.

After listing the situations of two different companies, the article suddenly changed its tone and, nearly a week later, the topic suddenly shifted to the panda rescue incident that had touched the hearts of people across the country last year.

In the words of later generations, this felt like riding on the popularity of a topic.

Who knows about the reforms and enterprises mentioned earlier? Most people don’t care about what happens in a certain place or factory, and it has nothing to do with me.

Apart from those who are paying attention to the movements of their superiors in various places, no one will take a close look at it.

However, this major national news event was so popular that even pop singers wrote songs about it, and it became a household hit.

This has gone viral, and anyone who sees this news or comment will take a second look.

Then Yu Songhai chose a very special angle.

"The warning brought to us by the flowering of bamboo" is also a clickbait title, even if it is not shocking enough.

Arrow bamboo blooms widely in spring, but in autumn and winter, large areas of bamboo will wither and die. This is a warning from nature to the survival of pandas.

But shortly after the flowering, an international amendment was passed that restricted international aid exchanges for pandas, which immediately led to a shortage of funds for panda reserves and research and conservation centers.

What kind of warning does this bring to us?
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, natural disasters like the Yangtze River flood in 31, the Yellow River devastating flood in 33, the Yangtze River flood in 35, and the Huayuankou dike breach in 38 wreaked havoc on the nation, precisely at the time when the country was at its most vulnerable, it was invaded by foreign enemies. Was this a coincidence or an inevitable connection?

Isn’t the situation of internal and external troubles due to poverty and hardship, and the inability to carry out large-scale disaster reduction, disaster relief and people’s livelihood infrastructure, which allowed the imperial powers to take advantage of the situation and strike hard?

Are we going to cling to poverty and allow this kind of natural and man-made disaster to happen again?
It is impossible to solve our own problems by relying on overseas aid and international help. Only by relying on our own efforts and working hard can we make our country rich and our people strong.

The panda rescue has received an active response and support from people across the country, and the remittances received are listed, ranging from a few cents to the total amount.

But what really solved the urgent problem was the results of commercial sales from the economic reform in Shuchuan area, which donated 300,000 yuan!
A good cook cannot cook without rice. When facing natural disasters and external forces with ulterior motives, only when we become strong and prosperous can we have the confidence to face them.

Therefore, the root cause of this panda crisis is poverty!
When everything was going well for us, there was plenty of international aid and scientific research cooperation to add icing on the cake, but when the arrow bamboo bloomed, they all added insult to injury.

Because this is the only way to maximize their benefits and control us.

So if we extrapolate from the panda’s situation, we will only shudder!

The series of reports lasting nearly a week, including the final review of the panda incident, has already caused a great social response.

The three stages have different focuses, but the core of them all is to call for vigorously promoting the pace of reform, liberalizing thinking and revitalizing the economy.

The first two parts have positive and negative comparisons, and the last part only compares China and foreign countries.

But just mentioning the word "natural disaster" will make everyone who has experienced it in recent years feel a surge in their sense of crisis.

Yu Songhai has said it very subtly, but the awareness of hunger that will be left behind by several decades and generations to come, and the mentality of not wanting to waste any food, have been engraved into their bones since these years.

Because before Jie Fang, the only thing he had to deal with was surviving the chaotic times, and once things stabilized, he had to have enough food and clothing.

We must not allow this danger to happen again.

Just seeing this made Weidong's stomach growl.

Lao Rang, who was busy coming and going, saw this and mocked him, "You think you're a learned man just because you graduated from high school? You sit in a corner reading a newspaper all day. If you have the ability, go to college and read books and newspapers!"

Rural people are particular about being busy. They have to pick corn and pig grass whenever they want to chat.

Weidong used to be used to sitting in a corner anywhere because he didn’t have claws.

I heard someone laugh dumbly and stood up: "Hey, I'm running around outside. If you think I'm not home, why don't you come back and sell spicy hot pot with me? I really can't stand staying at home anyway. Okay, okay, I'd better go out."

The old man watched his son get on the truck and drive away, then he slapped himself in the face. How could he be so speechless?

I told my busy wife about it and got slapped in the face again.

After confirming that the Post and Telecommunications Equipment Factory had already started "research and development" of reverse design and was ready to produce results as soon as possible, Weidong asked two young men to stay and sleep in the plastic factory warehouse next to the provincial capital office of the Xishan Factory to help the Rongdu sales work by moving things.

Bring Goudan and the others back to Jiangzhou.

He had originally planned to accompany his parents and then go back to Shangzhou to stay put, but Dong Xueying said on the phone that everything was the same as before, and Old You and the others seemed to have been forgotten, so it would be better for him to stir up more trouble in Jiangzhou and the provincial capital to see if he could find a place to rescue You.

Wei Dong was a little helpless. The first thing he did after returning was to go to the Jiangzhou Industrial Products Trading Center.

But I knew there was no hope at first glance.

It was a typical official project, a brand new seven-story building with temporary cement walls, and it felt like it was built in a hurry.

The place is covered with slogans, and there is a sense of face-saving work everywhere.

It's okay to use it in the news or in newspapers.

Each floor corresponds to seven trading halls including department stores, knitwear, hardware, etc.

Then the relevant departments of the Commerce Bureau will be in charge of each category and receive manufacturers and department stores from all over the country, which means that they can do business face to face, eliminating the previous traditional one, two, and three-level distribution method.

It is indeed much more advanced than the planned economy.

But it is still a model that may have been imagined by those involved sitting around the conference table.

The market has already skipped this stage.

Those who came were those state-owned enterprises, supply and marketing cooperatives, and department stores from all over the country that were relatively rigid and beyond saving.

Those who are truly flexible in producing and selling their own products and establishing wholesale and retail channels in various provinces simply look down on this model that is still controlled by official channels.

To put it bluntly, the current reform is to completely break away from the planned economy controlled by the government. Who would be willing to be controlled by relevant departments when doing business?

And Weidong's more flexible sales model, which has already jumped to the popular internet celebrity hot spots thirty years later, is even more despised.

So these days after I came back, I asked a few idle country girls to sort out thousands of phone records by province.

He was considering whether to travel around the country and establish university sales branches like those in Pingjing and Shuchuan.

To be honest, this step alone puts him ahead of all the current god-level business tycoons in the country.

Now we are thinking about entering the national market. It would be great if we could get a bunch of experienced salesmen to run sales in various department stores and shops.

Electrical appliance factories like Yanwu and Haier, and clothing factories like Bushen and Meiliya, which have taken this path, can basically become listed companies in the future.

But Weidong was led by some strange coincidence to choose college students, who were still extremely rare these days, to do this job.

This means that his sales system has been of high standards from the outset and will not need to be updated in the future. It is directly the constituent gene of a modern commercial company.

Those old sales systems will inevitably have to undergo a replacement every few years, otherwise they will collapse if they fail to keep up.

Of course, the boss didn’t think so much and thought that these important things still had to be done by a great person like You Qili.

What worries him now is his brothers and sisters in the rural area.

(End of this chapter)