Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 5 For Yonghao
Almost all Chinese people have heard this song, "In 1979, it was a spring, an old man drew a circle on the South China Sea, and cities rose up mythically, and golden mountains gathered miraculously, Chunlei awakened both inside and outside the Great Wall, and Chunhui warmed both sides of the river..."

What circle did you draw in 79?That is, the four cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, and Xiamen are designated as export special zones, and three of them belong to Guangdong.

Guangdong took the lead in enjoying various preferential conditions of the reform and opening up economic policy, and became the forefront of investment and business introduction. Enterprises from Hong Kong and Taiwan came to Guangdong to invest and set up factories.

Most of these enterprises set up labor-intensive factories with "three to one compensation", which require a large amount of labor. The population of Guangdong Province is far from being able to meet such a huge demand for labor, thus providing a prerequisite for young people from the mainland provinces to go south to Guangdong. condition.

As a result, millions or even tens of millions of migrant workers from inland provinces such as Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hubei went to Guangdong to seek their dreams.

Many personnel working in government agencies, enterprises and institutions have also given up their positions in the traditional system and traveled all the way to Guangdong in search of better opportunities for development.

Wang Shi, the founder of Vanke, Duan Yongping, the founder of BBK, Liu Chuanzhi, the founder of Lenovo, and Li Dongsheng, the founder of TCL, were all members of the southward army.

Later, some media gave this phenomenon a very poetic name "peacock flying southeast", but at present, the folks use the more popular "east, west, north, south, get rich to Guangdong" to describe this phenomenon.

Li Lei chatted with them, and one of them received a letter from a relative about to go to work in a factory in Guangdong, "My cousin works in the factory of Xiangjiang people, and he can get 300 yuan a month, and he even got [-] yuan at the end of last year. For the bonus, I begged him three times during the Chinese New Year, and he reluctantly agreed to ask for it for me."

"Take so much? Isn't it bragging?" Someone next to him didn't believe it.

If this body hadn't changed, Li Lei would not have believed it, because he works in the Agricultural Bureau and only pays 56 yuan a month, thanks to the fact that he is an undergraduate.

"Why don't you believe it? The people in Xiangjiang are very rich, and my cousin got a little. I heard that the biggest bonus in their factory is 1000 yuan! It's more than our county magistrate!" The voice continued. A little older, blushing with excitement and thick neck.

In fact, the comparison with the county magistrate is still conservative. In 1984, when the chief designer visited the south, he went to the home of Wu Bosen, a fisherman in the Special Economic Zone. The children of Wu Bosen’s family worked in a joint venture factory. 500 yuan.

After listening to Wu Bosen's introduction, the chief designer's daughter said loudly in his ear, "Master, your salary is higher than yours!"

During this period, the wages of personnel in the special zone system were similar to those in other places, but with various subsidies, it would be great.

A staff member of a special zone newspaper recorded in his diary his income list for the first month in the special zone, “on June 6, I received my salary for the first time after coming to the special zone, and I was very excited. This month’s salary was 2 yuan, of which Level 178.5 salary is 19 yuan, the price subsidy is 86.5 yuan, the border defense subsidy is 2 yuan, and the frontier defense living subsidy is 20 yuan."

Such a huge income gap attracted a large number of people to go south. After getting on the bus, according to their conversation, Li Lei estimated that at least half of them wanted to go to Guangdong to find opportunities to make a fortune.

Speaking of it, Li Lei is actually the same, but he doesn't plan to work in a factory. The monthly salary of more than 100 is certainly high at the moment, but it is not very attractive to him.

Li Lei sat on the innermost seat, which was quite worry-free. He put his bag inside and fell asleep on the small table. He slept from four in the morning to one past one in the afternoon without waking up.

I went to wash my face to wake myself up, took another glass of boiling water, returned to my seat, took out some dry food and started to eat. After eating, I asked the elder brother sitting next to me, "Where is this?"

"Just passed Wuchang, the next stop is Yueyang!"

"It's still early, and I have to stay up for sixteen or seventeen hours." Li Lei moved his joints, and the long-distance hard-seat car felt uncomfortable.

"At least you have a seat, my legs are swollen!" a big brother in the aisle joked.

"Come and sit for a while, I'll get up and take a few steps." Li Lei got up and gave him the seat. It's hard to sit for a long distance, and it's uncomfortable to sit all the time.

The neighbor moved in and left the end to him. The eldest brother thanked him repeatedly, took out a cigarette from his pocket and scattered it around, "Thank you, brother, smoke one?"

These days, there is no rule that you can only go to the train junction to smoke. The big guys took it with a smile and started to smoke. Li Lei was caught in a tangle. Should I smoke first-hand or second-hand?
After thinking about it, even smoking first-hand smoke seems to not delay second-hand smoking, so I politely declined and walked to the connection to breathe.

At 46:10 p.m., the train stopped at Yueyang Station, and the stop time was [-] minutes. People in the train rushed down to breathe the fresh air.

Li Lei saw that there was a newsstand at the station, so he went to buy some newspapers to pass the time, and when the train restarted, he went back to his seat and looked through them.

In these newspapers, two articles aroused Li Lei's interest, one calling for learning from Zhang Haidi, and the other about Feng Aiqian.

Zhang Haidi is from Shandong. She suffered from high paraplegia due to a hemangioma when she was a child. She did not give up on herself because of her physical disability. She taught herself all the courses of primary and secondary schools, as well as college English, Japanese, German and Esperanto, and started literary creation and translation work.

Known as the contemporary Paul, in March this year, the League Central Committee held a naming and commendation meeting, awarded Zhang Haidi the honorary title of "Excellent Communist Youth League Member", and made a decision to learn from her.

Feng Aiqian is from Yiwu. She used to be a chef in a restaurant in Yiwu, but she resigned from public office and started a small commodity business. Now she is the first merchant in Yiwu market to receive a business license.

The article about Zhang Haidi is full of praise, but Feng Aiqian's report is somewhat controversial. The current policy is better than that of previous years, but the view on the private economy is still conservative.

After another two hours, the train arrived at Changsha Station. Someone got off the opposite side of the train, and a thin, black young man in his thirties came up.

After getting in the car, he took out a copy of Xu Chi's "Goldbach Conjecture" from his bag, and when he was about to read it, he caught sight of a photo of Feng Aiqian holding a business license in Li Lei's newspaper.

"Hey, little brother, can you lend me the newspaper?" the black and thin young man asked.

"A newspaper, do you want to borrow it or not? I've read all of these, so take it and read it!" Li Lei handed the newspaper over.

"Thank you, why don't you read my book first?" The young man handed over "Goldbach's Conjecture".

Li Lei opened the book, only to see the words "For Yonghao" written on the title page.

"Yonghao is your name?"

"Yes, my name is Liu Yonghao!"

(End of this chapter)