Chapter 34 Social Effects



After returning from Huohongyu, Li Jianguo took the issues raised by Sun Zongyuan and came up with a preliminary plan. He communicated with the county's civil affairs, disabled persons' federation, agriculture, armed forces, women's federation, poverty alleviation departments, and proposed a package of relief plans for revolutionary heroes, disabled people, and poor families. After the materials were reported to the county party committee, a special standing committee meeting was held to study them. The standing committee was shocked by the plan proposed by Honghua Township. Secretary Li Jianguo attended the standing committee meeting and reported on the actual situation of poor families at the grassroots level and the measures to be taken. Secretary Shen Congde said:

"Comrades, I want to make a profound self-criticism to the Prefectural Party Committee and the County Standing Committee. We have been liberated for so many years, but there are still people living below the poverty line, hungry and cold. We have forgotten that they are our parents who provide us with food and clothing, that we have forgotten the revolutionary heroes, and even more so, that we have forgotten our roots. I deeply regret this."

"I suggest exempting revolutionary heroes, the disabled, those over 65, and those from impoverished families. Reduced exemptions are also available for some other circumstances. The Deputy Secretary of the County Party Committee will lead the implementation of the specific details by various functional departments. They should come up with specific implementation plans for the entire county. We must act quickly and report to the Standing Committee within three days. For those who have already paid, I recommend returning them. Our county's fiscal revenue has already exceeded 10 million yuan, over 2 million yuan more than last year, and we'll have another 1 million yuan in the bank by the end of the year. We have the financial resources to fill this gap. Any opinions? Okay, then let's vote!"

Passed unanimously!

This Standing Committee meeting was very short, but had a huge impact. Relevant functional departments in the region came to hold discussions and study, and evaluated the problems encountered, work measures and social effects. Several departments in the region also held on-site meetings attended by counties to promote the experience of Honghuo Township. The provincial newspaper also published a report on Anyang County's preferential treatment and relief practices for poor families, and sent the experience to Xinhua Internal Reference for circulation by national leaders.

Anyang County, Honghua Township, Shen Congde, Li Jianguo and Sun Zongyuan became famous overnight!

Honghua Township has done a good job in the "Three Improvements and Five Unifications" campaign, but its family planning activities have been relatively average. In the county's weekly reports, Honghua Township's performance often ranks around 15th or 16th among the 21 townships, neither rising nor falling.

According to the arrangement of the county head in charge, the Party Committee assigned all the members of the "Three Improvements and Five Unifications" collection team to the family planning work. As a result, Honghua Township's ranking moved up three places and stabilized.

China's population birth rate is very strange. The more strictly the family planning work is enforced, the more extra births there are. The more the second and third child policies are relaxed, the fewer children there are. Those experts who get high incomes by lying to get professional titles have failed to provide good advice to the government.

Anyway, statistics have shown that among famous politicians, scientists, artists, and military strategists throughout history, both Chinese and foreign, the third child is the most common, followed by the second and fourth children. Isn't the eldest child the firstborn? Most of them are good at maintaining the status quo but lack innovation!

Of course, it was necessary to implement family planning in the 1980s and 1990s, otherwise society would not be able to bear a family with four or five children. Isn’t black Africa an example?

Sun Zongyuan was similar to the other members of the Three Recommendations and Five Unifications Group. They just showed up to check in and then went about their own business.

After completing the export orders, Qianhe Food Factory began to focus on production to catch up with the winter and Spring Festival sales peak season. Thanks to the implementation of sales incentive policies, the number of orders is increasing. Several production lines have been installed in the past few days, and three shifts are working to ensure the order fulfillment.

There are more and more people living in Honghua Township, and more and more vehicles delivering goods back and forth.

In the factory office, Ma Bin and Zhang Xuetong calculated for a while and said to Sun Zongyuan:

"There is still a month until New Year's Day. Based on the production capacity estimates in recent days, our factory can achieve an output value of over 50 million yuan and a profit of around 20 million yuan. The profit mainly comes from export orders. It's very profitable."

"We have over 1,000 workers in our factory, and we've rented out all the houses of the people around us, and the rent keeps going up."

"How much tax have we paid?" Sun Zongyuan asked.

"We have already paid 2.3 million yuan, and we will be able to pay about 1 million yuan by the end of the year. According to our production capacity, we expect to achieve an output value of 150 million yuan, a profit of 24 million yuan, and a tax payment of 4 million yuan next year, not counting export earnings. If there are more export orders, the profit will be more than 40 million yuan, and the tax payment will exceed 5 million yuan. I am afraid we are the enterprise with the highest output value and the highest tax payment in the entire region," said Ma Bin.

Calling Xu Mei over again, Sun Zongyuan asked:

“Are our finances functioning properly?”

"It's running very well. All sales units come with cash to pick up goods. There's no supply of goods for those who buy on credit. Even those who come with cash have to queue up to get the goods."

"Thank you for your hard work! How much cash can you come up with besides normal production? Will it be useful to me after the New Year?"

"Although the profits seem high, a lot of them are used to purchase equipment and expand the factory, and a part is used for emergency purposes. Around the Spring Festival, I estimate that I can take out 10 million. However, some places have also started to build canneries. Next year's profit margin will not be as high as this year. You have to clear it out!" Xu Mei reminded.

Sun Zongyu knew that someone would calculate the benefits of canned food this year. The production equipment was not very complicated and the technical threshold was not high. More and more people would invest in building factories. Sun Zongyu would only enjoy the profits for two years. It was estimated that in three or four years, the domestic canned food companies would face severe internal competition and their profit margins would become lower and lower.

"So I need to reinvest the money. We can't just rely on producing this one variety. We also need to improve the technology content of canned food production to maintain our market advantage."

Back in his office, Sun Zongyuan picked up a pen and made notes on his notebook. The 1980s was a period that could be well written in the history of China's reform and opening up. Around 1985, companies such as Chundu Ham Sausage, Wuzheng Tricycle, Haier Refrigerator, Huawei, Honda 125 Motorcycle, Santana Car, and Hope Feed were successively established in these years, and continued to thrive into the 21st century. Xiwang Group, which processes corn, Chenming, which makes paper, Weichai, which makes cotton and aluminum, Mudan Television, and Gree Group, which produces air conditioners, all implemented state-owned enterprise reforms in recent years and gained great vitality.

Nowadays, as long as you have money, you can invest in any industry and make a fortune while you sleep. It was too easy to make money in that era. It was a seller's market. As long as you produced it and the quality was not too bad, you could sell as many as you could. This opportunity will only exist in the real estate industry after the 21st century. Apart from that, there is no other chance to get rich quickly.

The profits generated by the food factory, a cash cow, are far from meeting Sun Zongyuan's requirements. How can he achieve a rapid increase in funds?

Sun Zongyuan leaned back in his chair and turned, suddenly remembering the Hong Kong company. Oh, there was still $3 million lying dormant in the company's account. This money couldn't be remitted back to China. Once remitted, it couldn't be taken out. With foreign exchange currently scarce in China, why would a small factory need a foreign exchange quota? It could earn foreign exchange, but there was no quota to use it.

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