Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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This big debate lasted until 1982. The long-standing melon seed factory had already employed 105 people, producing 9000 kilograms of melon seeds per day and reportedly earning over 1 million yuan. However, the debate about how many people a sole proprietor can hire as exploitation was still unresolved. At this moment, Deng Xiaoping came out to give a speech. At a discussion meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deng Xiaoping suggested adopting a "look and see" policy towards private enterprises, and he cited the example of Nian Guangjiu at that time.

Nian Guangjiu became famous in the history of Chinese reform because of Deng Xiaoping's words. In terms of policies towards private enterprises, this is only the first small opening that has been torn apart, a very small opening that determines the fate of Chinese enterprises. In terms of policy, the real removal of restrictions on the number of employees was not until 1987, when the number of employees in private enterprises was completely lifted in the Central Document No. 5 of that year.



This year, Fu Gaoyi, an American who wrote "Japan, the World's First", went to Guangdong. He found that a large number of small factories were quietly emerging here in a large area. The vast majority of their founders were stowaways in those years, and their form of running factories was locally known as "three processing and one compensation".