Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1615 Visit to Sweden
In mid-July, Duan Yun, Zhao Xiyou, and Liu Donghai, deputy director of the SY Municipal Party Committee Office, met at the BJ Hotel, and immediately got on the plane together and headed for the investigation trip to Sweden.

Duan Yun and Zhao Xiyou are relatively familiar, but it is the first time to deal with Liu Donghai. After the meeting, Liu Donghai was also very enthusiastic towards Duan Yun. When they had dinner at the hotel on the last night, Duan Yun and Liu Donghai chatted a lot things.

Liu Donghai is considered a young man in the SY city government. He is less than 40 years old, and he is smart and capable. It is said that his father is an old Red Army member of the HLJ War of Resistance. He once served as the commander of a certain army. His family style is relatively strict, so Liu Donghai His style of work is relatively thrifty. Due to his excellent work, he was transferred from a clerk in a certain county in HLJ to the municipal government of SY in just over 10 years, and has made many commendable achievements.

What surprised Duan Yun was that this Liu Dong had a very high level of foreign language, which he learned entirely by himself. Apart from English, his level of Russian was also good, reaching the level where he could communicate with foreigners without barriers.

Before the two met, Liu Donghai knew a lot about Duan Yun's deeds. He even used Duan Yun's Tianyin Group as an example at the municipal committee meeting before, advocating more support for the development of local private enterprises in Shenyang. It is believed that the private economy will become a pillar of Shenyang's economy in the future, and the government must give some preference in formulating relevant policies.

In addition, Liu Donghai also proposed to carry out drastic reforms on state-owned enterprises, "releasing" some key state-owned enterprises in this city, allowing them to implement the contract system, operate independently, be responsible for their own profits and losses, and take the road of a market-oriented company system.

It takes a lot of courage to make such a suggestion. After all, the Northeast is the country's heavy industry base. In Shenyang alone, there are millions of employees of state-owned enterprises. In such a city with a deeply rooted planning system, I dare to propose more support for private enterprises. The slogan of the enterprise, which will take a lot of political risk.

But in fact, in the 90s, calls for reform of state-owned enterprises became more and more loud, and the operating conditions and external environment of state-owned enterprises in many places changed greatly. These factors together contributed to the reform of state-owned enterprises in a new direction.In a nutshell, the most notable feature of the property rights reform of state-owned enterprises during this period was "grasp the large and let go of the small."

In the 20s, the dividends of gradual reforms such as "decentralization and transfer of profits" and "management contracting system" were fully released, and the operating performance of state-owned enterprises began to deteriorate from the early 80s.

In the 80s, many state-owned enterprises obtained huge market returns through the implementation of the "contract system", and legends such as Ma Shengli and Bu Xinsheng emerged.

In 1984, Ma Shengli took the first step of "state-owned enterprise contracting". He led the SJZ Paper Mill to turn losses into profits and double its profits.By the end of the 80s, the factory that had been losing money for years had transformed into a large profit maker, and SJZ Paper Mill had also become a national star enterprise through reform.It is said that Ma Shengli, the director of the factory, created the myth of "one package works".All over the country put forward the slogan "Learn from Ma Shengli".

However, by the end of the 80s, the dividends of "enterprise contracting" gradually disappeared, including the bankruptcy of Ma Shengli's paper-making group. Four years later, Ma Shengli was dismissed and retired early by a verbal order from his superiors. The contracting myth of state-owned enterprises Also completely broken.

Liu Donghai also conducted an in-depth analysis on this matter. In his opinion, Ma Shengli's failure mainly stemmed from his blind expansion, loopholes in management, and lack of continuous innovation. It is precisely because of this that Liu Donghai proposed the state-owned Reform of corporate corporatization.

The so-called reform of the corporate system of state-owned enterprises mainly refers to the reorganization of traditional state-owned enterprises into corporate enterprises that meet the requirements and norms of the modern enterprise system.

In Liu Donghai’s view, this reform is conducive to clarifying the ownership of state-owned enterprises, promoted a series of follow-up reforms such as joint-stock reform and mixed ownership reform, helped state-owned enterprises truly become the main body of the market economy, and greatly improved the internal governance level of state-owned enterprises .

In fact, at the national level, the necessity of the corporatization reform of state-owned enterprises has also been realized, and relevant discussions and pilot projects have been carried out.

Just this year, the State Economic and Trade Commission and the State Restructuring Commission first identified 100 large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises and 3 holding companies to carry out pilot projects of the modern enterprise system.

Among them, the State Economic and Trade Commission is in charge of the pilot program of 30 state-owned enterprises and 1 holding company, and the State Economic and Trade Commission is in charge of the pilot program of 70 state-owned enterprises and [-] holding companies.

It can be said that people who can propose such reforms in this era are very advanced and bold, and it is precisely because of this that after talking with Liu Donghai and learning of his thoughts on corporate reform of state-owned enterprises, I felt the same in my heart. Feeling shocked, I couldn't help a little more admiration for him.

In the same way, Liu Donghai, who has a lot of research on the development and deeds of Tianyin Group, was very excited and respectful after seeing Duan Yun. Although it was the first time for the two to meet, they soon met a little bit. Hate the feeling of being late.

On the matter of visiting Volvo in Sweden, Liu Donghai advocated joint ventures with foreign companies. In his opinion, although compared with the introduction of foreign production lines, foreign companies have to share half of the profits, but considering the current domestic automobile production technology is backward, R & D In terms of ability, if you can get the support of Volvo, you don't need to invest a lot of money in product research and development, which is the most in line with the current actual situation and the safest way.

On this point, Duan Yun and Liu Donghai have the same opinion. He also believes that if Volvo can be persuaded to set up a joint venture factory in China, it is the best choice. Also an option.

After more than 20 hours of flight, the plane finally landed at the Swedish capital Stockholm Airport.

Sweden pursues the policy of building a country through science and education, and the investment of the government and enterprises in scientific research has always been among the top in the world.

Sweden's annual investment in scientific research reaches 3-5% of the total government expenditure, which is quite high and ranks among the best in Europe.

Ericsson, Volvo, ABB and other well-known multinational companies spend more than 20% of their profits on research and development.

It is precisely because of this that Sweden has a population of less than 1000 million, but it is such a small country that has many world-renowned manufacturing companies and has long been at the top of the list of the most creative countries in the world.

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