Looking down on the self-employed and guarding one-third of an acre of land is the inherent thinking of northerners. It is also this kind of thinking that has made economic development in the north difficult after more than two decades.
Decades later, the economic development of the south was in a mess, and the economy of the north was also backward and in a mess. The two sides were going to two extremes.
Some people say that this is a human problem. Southerners have the gene of struggle in their blood, while northerners stick to the rules and are unwilling to change. Their wives and children are hot on the bed every day. This is the reason for these two extremes. This kind of
This view once dominated the mainstream and became an excuse for many to attack northerners.
Liu Lang has also studied this issue. On the surface, this seems to be correct, but he believes that this is not the root cause. The root cause is that the backwardness of the system has brought about weak economic progress.
In fact, during this period, except for GD and cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas close to the coast and Hong Kong, in central cities or sub-central cities, individual economic activities were still cautious and Liao Ruochenxing, because the long-term planned economy has made people accustomed to living in
Living in a formatted, disciplined and organized environment, once he wants to break away from that inertia, it often requires extremely huge external force or courage.
This is definitely not nonsense. Just look at the identities of the first generation of self-employed people. Most of those engaged in self-employed business activities come from the bottom of society. They are the unemployed, those who have returned to the city, and those with criminal records.
People with low levels of education and low education are excluded from the "warm" and "protected" system, and are forced to embark on the path of business and entrepreneurship when they have no choice.
So Grandpa Liu Lang said that those southerners in Majiapu are all thieves, which is indeed somewhat correct. At least compared to people like them in the system, these people dressed in rags are just beggars. They are not much better. They are not like
Even if the workers in the factory are equally "simple" in their clothes, they at least have some "human appearance".
It is this superficial "sense of superiority" that makes people within the system ignore the underlying problems, especially in northern cities.
The northern region was the place where heavy industry was most concentrated at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. A small city, Fucheng, occupied three of the more than 100 key projects in the country's First Five-Year Plan, not to mention other larger cities.
The earliest reform and opening up was an act forced by the country, and it had a certain experimental nature. Because it was experimental, it would not be tested on the foundation of the country. The three northern provinces are the foundation of the country, and naturally they would not be touched.
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Therefore, during the fastest period of reform and opening up, that is, the period from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, many large state-owned enterprises in the north still followed the characteristics of the planned economy as before, and their products were guaranteed by the state. No matter how much the state wanted,
You just produce as much as you want, and there is no sense of worry or competition. These people just muddle along, and the employees live a worry-free life anyway.
But in the mid-to-late 1990s, with the rapid advancement of science and technology, the things produced by these large state-owned enterprises became waste products. No matter how rich the country was, it could not afford to buy a bunch of waste products, so it was only then that it thought of reforming state-owned enterprises.
, this is great, a large number of workers were laid off, and the heavy burden of life suddenly caused the economy in the north to become depressed.
Some people may say that the reform of state-owned enterprises is correct, just to allow these enterprises to break out of their cocoons and be reborn.
Of course, this kind of reform is imperative. If we don't change it, it will be a dead end. But the key is that many companies after the reform will not be able to survive in the market. At that time, the world's technological development speed has been like a running train.
, those who cannot keep up with the speed of technology will be left far behind.
Those who run slowly will be left behind, not to mention these enterprises that have just undergone reforms, with backward technology, backward equipment, and backward personnel levels. This is simply a dying patient.
I can't even eat dust, but I still say that I want to catch up. Isn't this just a joke?
In Liu Lang's previous life, more than thirty years later, the country also recognized this fundamental problem and proposed a strategy for upgrading the Northern Heavy Industry. This strategy is definitely a win-win, but the key is whether you can upgrade if you want to.
If you want to upgrade, you need to improve technology. But at that time, the world's heavy industrial technology was in the hands of a few developed countries. Can they give it to you? This is the lifeblood of a country. If you have money and can buy equipment, but can
Can you buy a person's life? This is simply a paradox.
In addition, it is self-improvement, but this takes time. It cannot be achieved in a few years, or even in more than ten years. Therefore, the heavy industry upgrading strategy proposed by the country after more than 30 years is correct, but
It's already a bit late. If you want to upgrade successfully, you have to pay too much.
This is also something Liu Lang wants to solve in this life. He does not want this kind of pain to fall on the country again after more than 20 years. Maybe this road is still difficult to walk, and maybe this kind of pain will come again, but he hopes
It can make this road easier and relieve the pain of as many people as possible.
Of course, Liu Lang will not discuss these issues with his grandfather and parents now. He himself is still young. The most difficult thing to change in the world is a person's inherent thinking. He will not change unless his thinking makes it impossible for him to live.
, but in 1982, people’s lives in Fucheng were still “good”.
Majiapu has become a place where southerners "secretly" resell goods. The relevant departments in Fucheng have not taken any measures. After all, this is the scope of the private economy. At the same time, the country also promotes the development of the private economy. Even though many people sneer at these southerners, but
There was still a rush for those goods, and soon, the private economy had affected the local people.
The locals have also begun to sell some small items, of course not "flared pants", single-card recorders and Teng Lijun tapes and other "luxury accessories", but food and non-staple food, such as an old hen, a pound of eggs, etc., although the price is lower than
The prices in department stores are higher, but they don’t require food stamps, and some items are even bartered. You can exchange two pounds of eggs for an old hen. As long as both parties agree, the transaction will be completed immediately. A real farmer’s market has begun to take shape.
These things did not have much impact on Liu Lang. He still went to his father's factory mailroom to read newspapers every day. Every time he entered the room, he was picked up by Li Tie and placed on the kang, and then a large stack of newspapers was placed on the bed.
In front of him, Li Tie was now like Liu Lang's little brother, obeying his words.