Chapter 69: It’s really hard to make a little land

Fan Wubing has always believed that Wenzhou people are very brave, so he never understood why Chen Rong and Huo Sheng, two people from Liushi, Wenzhou who are enterprising and dare to be the first in the world, have never had the idea of ​​land. This is really puzzling.

However, after he carefully studied the terrain of Liushi and nearby, he became a little hesitant.

Wenzhou has a variety of terrain, including mountains, plains, islands and lakes. As for Liushi, it is a small town with mountains and seas. It is said that many people have done business under a large willow tree for a long time, so the name "Liushi" has come from. The registered population of Liushi is 130,000, and the per capita arable land is only 0.4 acres, so the people in Liushi are always overwhelmed by the heavy burden of more people and less land.

Although people in Liushi gradually became rich by opening small electrical appliance factories after the reform and development, the difficulty of small land area has never changed. Therefore, people's attention to land is not inferior to other parts of the country.

In the past, although there were many small businesses in Liushi, they were all very small in scale. They were basically small houses in family workshops and did not have the demand for large areas of land. Basically, they were able to handle their own sites, so the contradiction in land demand was not reflected.

Nowadays, if Fan Wubing wants to unify Liushi's resources into his own through integration, of course, he needs larger industrial land. A low-voltage electrical factory with tens of thousands of people needs at least thousands of acres of land, which is a bit difficult.

However, Fan Wubing still asked the local grassroots cadres specifically, but when the other party heard this problem, he immediately shook his head like a rattle, and kept saying that he could not make decisions.

Even large state-owned enterprises need to obtain land approval first if they want to acquire land, and they still need to report to the province. On this issue, at least no one dares to exceed the rules.

This makes the ambitious Fan Wubing feel a little difficult to deal with. Without territory, how can he develop himself?

Although I wanted to tell the above to see if this problem can be solved, considering that this may be owed favors again, Fan Wubing was a little hesitant and finally decided that he really couldn't solve it and harass others again.

"It seems that this matter still needs to mobilize the power of the masses." Fan Wubing came up with an idea shamelessly in the end.

So the next day, a small story began to spread in Liushi. It is said that a foreign boss wanted to invest in Liushi, acquire the bankrupt small businesses and integrate them into a large formal factory. He is currently conducting field inspections in Liushi. All the companies he likes can come back to life.

As a result, the enthusiasm of the locals in Liushi was immediately raised.

Although they have suffered a lot from counterfeit and shoddy products, if they can be acquired by foreign investors, they will be foreign-funded enterprises in the future, or at least a Sino-foreign joint venture. In that case, they still have to worry about not getting a formal production license and product certificate? With these two magic weapons, Liushi will continue to become popular!

Everyone is very interested in this matter. Not only the local small business owners, but also the village cadres, township cadres, and the cadres in the town are very excited. The recent sluggish economy in Liushi seems to have seen a glimmer of hope!

However, not long after, another news came out, saying that foreign businessmen had been walking around Liu City and felt that Liu City was not suitable for large enterprises. The land use area was too small and there were many mountains. The land rest funds needed to build large factories were too high, which was not cost-effective. And there was another important point, that was, the local government in Liu City was very uncooperable on the issue of land transfer.

If you don’t have land, what kind of business will you build?

Business owners and workers of all sizes immediately felt angry! Under the economic contraction policy in the past two years, they have basically been squeezed and have no room for survival. Finally, they can see such an opportunity to get out of trouble, but they will be wasted due to land problems. No one will be reluctant to feel unwilling to accept it.

So the angry people immediately surrounded the leaders of the town, asking them to consider the collective interests of the people in Liushi and come up with a solution.

The cadres in the town also felt helpless. After all, the land approval power is not in their hands. This time the project they are going to do is too big. Let’s solve it yourself. I am afraid of offending the superiors and not approving them. I want to offend the villagers below. They are really mice in the bellows, and both ends are angry.

Finally, under someone's instruction, someone proposed a solution, which was to directly solve the problem by the farmers who owned the land without going through the town.

The solution is that farmers who have land use rights collectively sign long-term land lease agreements with the enterprise and enter the new factory by changing land positions. At the same time, the town can also receive a compensation for land transfer, which can not only solve the problem that farmers who have lost the land have no dependence on survival, but also obtain a considerable amount of funds in the town.

In fact, the per capita arable land in Liu City is quite small and it is impossible to support individuals at all. Therefore, when this plan was proposed, everyone was very excited, but they didn't know what the town would think, and the foreign business owner might not agree to this proposal. After all, more funds will be invested.

Although the town wanted to solve this problem very much, it did not dare to make decisions privately, so it reported this problem to the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee.

After receiving the news, the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee was also very scratched. After understanding it, I learned about the specific process of the incident. It was because foreign businessmen came to Liu City for inspection, hoping to integrate the resources of Liu City's small enterprise and build a large factory.

"This is a good thing, but it's just a headache." Secretary Wang of the Municipal Party Committee is a very courageous middle-aged leading cadre. When the Eight Kings incident caused Wenzhou's industry and commerce to be unable to raise its head, he still released the Eight Kings with his support, so that Wenzhou's economy would re-enter the track of rapid development.

Then after the past two years of anti-counterfeiting activities, Wenzhou's economy has become a bit slump. Now it's time to revive, and someone has just sent this opportunity.

"Did Mr. Deng say that reform is a path that has not been taken by his predecessors. We can be more courageous. There is no harm in trying it out? If the results of the experiment are not in line with the interests of the people, it is not too late to correct it!" In the end, Secretary Wang and the main leaders in the city reached a consensus.

Six days after Fan Wubing arrived in Liushi, the government finally came to contact him.

The person who came was a deputy mayor of Liu City. He first welcomed Fan Wubing and others to the arrival, and then he was a little confused about what to do.

It's no wonder that the news said that the person who came from abroad was a big boss, but who knew that he was a Chinese boy at first sight. After a while, it was a very different story.

Fortunately, the deputy mayor could see that the little boy was using foreigners. Moreover, the two largest factories in the town, the only bosses of the two factories that were still producing, had already joined Fan Wubing's camp. It seems that they are really powerful bosses. Otherwise, how could smart people like Chen Rong and Huo Sheng be their younger brothers?

So in this case, the two sides had a discussion on the land issue. Finally, in principle, the land was expropriated according to the principle of voluntary farmers. When specific obstacles occurred, the cadres in the town would come to persuade and assist in the solution.

However, during the specific implementation process, there was no such resistance, because in Liushi, people's hearts were actually not on farming, and the land needed by Fan Wubing was quickly collected. In fact, in the later stage, many people came to contact us to see if they could also collect their own land and change their jobs?

The integration work of Davis, Chen Rong, Huo Sheng and others has also been smooth sailing. The sales team has basically been raised, with two or three hundred people, all of whom have practical experience in the past who have traveled all over the country.

Because the industry and commerce in Liushi were basically out of a state of silence a while ago, these people were doing other business. This time, I heard that the low-voltage electrical industry in Liushi was going to be reintegrated, and foreign bosses invested huge amounts of funds to support the formalization of the industry. They immediately felt the huge opportunities contained in it and came to invest in the results, which saved Davis and others a lot of energy.

But things were not smooth sailing, and some people still exposed this problem.

The cause was that a professor of economics at Zhejiang University, whose family is from Liushi. He happened to come back to visit relatives, but he heard that his family was signing land expropriation agreements in exchange for job opportunities. He also heard that the land was collected from the town and provided for private factories.

"This is awesome?! The land has been sold, is it still a farmer in New China?" The professor immediately felt something was wrong.

So the professor conducted an investigation locally and found that the cadres in the town also took the initiative to play the role of accomplices in it. He became even more angry and wrote a manuscript overnight, titled "Who is plundering our land?", which was published directly in the provincial newspaper through his own news channels.

In this article of only 1,500 words, the professor pointed out this problem with great pain. After farmers lose their land, they will only become tools for capitalists to extract surplus value. Then they quoted classics and listed various examples from ancient and modern times, China and abroad to prove the correctness of their ideas. Finally, they asserted that this behavior of selling land is definitely not socialism!

After this article was published, it immediately caused an uproar.

Everyone's eyes were attracted to the land less than 50 square kilometers of Liushi.

Liushi, Liushi, why can't you calm down for a while? After experiencing the anti-counterfeiting storm, less than a year later, now that you have made such a big move, what are you going to do?

The transfer of land is not something that has not been done before, but it is very small in scale or has policy guidance. For example, in the Shenzhen Special Zone, the transfer of land is based on the basis. Because they are special zones, they can enjoy some special policies. But what is Liushi? It is just a small town. The biggest difference is that there have been thousands of small workshop-style enterprises that produce counterfeit and shoddy products in this town. The impression that Liushi left to the people of the whole country is nothing more than a gathering place for fake goods and a sinful concentration camp. When such a thing happened at this time, people really hated them.

The mainstream media also began to debate on this issue. Some oppose, some support, and some were watching coldly, and debated around the political stance of the incident, which made the matter big.

No matter what, this incident still reached the top leaders.

"Why did this guy get something wrong again?" a leader scratched his head.

"I'm really an uneasy guy." A leader shook his head.

However, as far as this matter is concerned, the significance represented is very important, which shows that some of the country's policies have hindered the development of the local economy at this stage, and it seems that it needs to be moved.

At the critical moment, an important leader said at a briefing, "Originally, we planned to put this issue in a more stable way next year. It seems that it is a bit too late now! I think this is better. Let's take Liushi as an exception first and send a positive signal to everyone! When the specific policies are introduced next year, everyone will feel at ease!"

So amid the praise or scolding of everyone, Fan Wubing's plan to change land to work successfully withstand various pressures and officially launched.

Finally, a total of 2,000 mu of land was collected, and 3,000 jobs and 40 million yuan of land compensation were paid.

In fact, if the land is collected, it can be collected. However, Fan Wubing felt that the matter could not be too big, otherwise it would be difficult to clean up, so he stopped it, causing Davis and others to immediately fulfill their promise, register the migrant workers who had transferred the land, and immediately pay the land compensation to the account of Liushi Town.

After all this, Fan Wubing felt a little tired himself.

Although there are business opportunities in the face of imperfect policies, the hard work they have put in is too great. Fan Wubing finally decided to do this business this year. No matter what tricks he does, he will have to wait until after Mr. Deng’s southern tour next year. It is really too ostentatious to always jump out and be this pioneer.

I guess my name now appears in the middle of the topic of senior executives, and it’s just a thorn!

In fact, the issue of land transfer mainly involves the status dispute between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, which is the so-called war between birds in cages and birds outside cages.

During the 1980s, there was a dispute over how to reform and develop and how to protect state-owned enterprises. On the issue of the diminishing pilot effect of state-owned enterprises, there were two voices of response in the economic community at that time.

The promotion faction represented by Xue Muqiao, an economist who participated in the overall reform plan at that time, believed that the reform of decentralization and concession had limitations, and advocated focusing on the reform of the price management system and the reform of circulation channels, gradually abolishing the administrative pricing system, and establishing commodity markets and financial markets.

Another opinion believes that the reform of state-owned enterprises must strengthen centralization and unification, and the final focus is centralization and unification of the central government. Some people therefore proposed the theory of "cage and bird", which means that an enterprise is a bird and cannot always tie its wings and let it fly freely. However, the state-owned economic system is a big cage. No matter how the bird flies, it should not fly out of this cage.

These statements ultimately convinced the central decision-making level that the "cage and bird" theory dominated the enterprise reform ideas throughout the 1980s, and the reform of state-owned enterprises became a change in the cage.

Based on this theory, looking at the situation throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, it is easy to draw a conclusion that the reform of state-owned enterprises must be progressive step by step under stability and central control, crossing the river by feeling the stones and taking one step at a time.

The most urgent task is to rectify those private enterprises that do not obey commands and cannot control them, that is, the wild birds outside the cage, which disrupt the entire economic situation.

In media and internal reports everywhere, they are almost the same, accusing those small unplanned factories of how to compete with standardized state-owned enterprises for raw materials, disrupt market order, and cause state-owned enterprises to suffer huge losses. In short, if the reform is not done well, it will be caused by the wild birds outside the cage.

The situation in Liushi is just the target of public criticism. It would be fine if it was produced regularly, but they were all fake and shoddy, which was even more exaggerated. It would be strange if they were not attacked!

However, after restricting private enterprises, another problem arose, that is, state-owned enterprises did not improve because of this, while the overall national economy showed a significant decline.

After thinking about it over and over again, the senior management finally realized that if the problem of state-owned enterprises is fundamentally solved, the first thing to do is to introduce a competitive mechanism, and private enterprises are a whetstone.

However, to develop private enterprises and revitalize the domestic economy, the first thing to do is to loosen policies, and one of the biggest obstacles that affect the development of the private economy is naturally the use of land.

The matter that Fan Wubing did just gave the upper class an opportunity to test the waters. The implementation of the policy always requires an experimental product, and all aspects of the reactions need to be seen. The overall effect of the experiment should be more convincing, allowing the senior management to naturally introduce new policies.
Chapter completed!