Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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The previous year, Han Qingsheng and three other engineers from the state-owned 181 Factory designed two sets of drawings for the production of sewage purifiers for Jiufeng Agricultural Machinery Factory, a township enterprise in Wuhan. They also wrote over 20000 words of product technical specifications. This agricultural machinery factory was on the brink of bankruptcy, but it was revived with the help of Han Qingsheng and his team, achieving a profit of 50000 yuan that year. The director of the agricultural machinery factory, Huang Congliang, is very grateful to these engineers and will distribute 600 yuan per person to four people by the end of the year. It was this 600 yuan that sent Han Qingsheng to prison. After the relevant leaders of Factory 181 learned about this, they immediately reported it to the Public Security Bureau. Han Qingsheng was found guilty of using national technology for personal gain, which is the crime of "technology speculation and profiteering". He was sentenced to 300 days in prison in the first instance, which is equivalent to "two yuan in prison for one day" in Han Qingsheng's words.

At that time in China, there was not only Han Qingsheng who secretly transmitted technology to private enterprises. There were reportedly 8 million domestic scientific and technological personnel, of which one-third were idle and idle. Emerging township enterprises are in short supply of talent and urgently need scientific and technological personnel. Therefore, many engineers from state-owned enterprises are taken away by township enterprise owners on weekends and secretly go to these factories to help with scientific research. At that time, there was a specialized term used to refer to this group of people, called "Sunday engineers", who worked for state-owned enterprises from Monday to Saturday and were then transferred to township enterprises outside the city on Sundays to provide technical assistance to factories there. Han Qingsheng is an inconspicuous member of this group. Because he was the first technical personnel in the country to be sentenced for this, he gained widespread attention and became a landmark event of the year.