Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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Liu Guixian is a janitor in a kindergarten with five children. Due to the difficulty of making a living, she came up with the idea of opening a small restaurant. Her restaurant is located in Cuihua Hutong, Dongcheng District, and is named Yuebin Restaurant. There is no information available now to show why Beijing chose this woman without background to open the first individual restaurant. On the first day of opening, the director of the District Administration for Industry and Commerce specifically came to warn Liu Guixian: "This is the first individual restaurant approved by the higher authorities. You must open it well and not tarnish the reputation of the government!" Liu Guixian's opening was not easy. At that time, almost all food - grain, oil, fish, meat, poultry, eggs - were supplied with receipts. In order to help her obtain tofu receipts, pork receipts, and food receipts, Dongcheng District mobilized departments such as the Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Grain Bureau, and the catering service company to specially open a "small stove" for Yuebin Restaurant. Only in this way will Liu Guixian's small restaurant not close down. Because it is the first individual restaurant in Beijing, many foreign journalists come to take photos and interview every day, and the questions they ask are generally the same: "Did you open this restaurant yourself or did the government want you to open it?" "Are you worried about being criticized in the future?" "Will someone else take away the money you earn