Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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The central government's judgment is well received by state-owned enterprises. Soon, a large number of voices emerged in various media and internal reports, accusing unplanned small factories of competing with regulated state-owned enterprises for raw materials, disrupting market order, and causing huge losses to state-owned enterprises. In short, if the pilot enterprises don't do well, it's all caused by wild birds outside the cage.

The judgment of the situation and the directional decisions arising from it directly lead to a major turning point in reform policies.

In fact, before the beginning of 1981, the policy direction was still moving towards encouraging individual economy.

At the National Labor and Employment Work Conference held in June 1980, the central government still proposed to "encourage and support the appropriate development of individual economy, allow different economic forms to compete on the same stage, and all law-abiding individual workers should be respected by society". At the symposium of the first secretaries of provinces, cities, and districts in September, it was also proposed to allow rural artisans and small vendors engaged in individual businesses to go out for labor and business with certificates after signing contracts with production teams. In October, the State Council issued the "Interim Provisions on the Promotion and Protection of Socialist Competition", proposing to "allow and promote various economic forms and enterprises to play to their strengths and engage in competition". But by 1981, there was a major shift in caliber.