Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

So when necessary, Wei Hongjun still has to step forward.

Wei Hongjun put down the pen in his hand and said, "We must know one thing, that is, the Soviet Union is professional in statistics and has sufficient experience. They have more than 30 years of experience in socialist construction, and their statistical work should be very complete. We must learn from this. But our country has its own reality. The level of our cadres, governments at all levels, and institutions are not enough to support statistics like the Soviet Union. I have carefully studied the tables drawn up for us by Soviet consultants, and they are not suitable for use by our governments and ministries at all levels. We must delete these tables before we can use them. As for which parts to delete, it is not something we can discuss here. We should conduct an investigation, hand over the forms to the local governments and institutions below, let them investigate according to the contents of the forms, and then fill in the forms. Finally, see which parts of the forms are unable to be completed by our local governments and institutions at present.

"Comrade Wei Hongjun is right."

Li Fuchun echoed Wei Hongjun's statement.

"We should learn from the Soviet Union, but we must also base ourselves on our current situation. Things that are not acceptable are simply not acceptable. When we were fighting in the Central Soviet Area, some leaders insisted that we learn from the Soviet Union to fight positional warfare. We all know what the result was. Therefore, everything must be adapted to China's actual situation. This Soviet statistical table is not bad, but it is not suitable for us now. We must make some deletions to the table and create a new one that suits us."

Chen Yun nodded.

A planned economy? To put it bluntly, was China even worthy of a planned economy? However, China's industrial and economic foundations were weak. If it wanted to transition from an agricultural to an industrial nation quickly, it could only emulate the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a model, having rapidly transformed itself into an industrial power under Stalin's leadership. To emulate the Soviet Union and gain its support, a planned economy was necessary.

If China did not learn from the Soviet Union and adopt a planned economy, the Soviet Union would have considered it not a socialist country. The Soviet Union already had many negative views of the CCP, believing that it was not a Chinese Communist Party.

If China were to tell the Soviet Union at this point that it would not follow its planned economy, the Soviet Union would ideologically reject China and might even treat it as Yugoslavia.

This is not good for China today.

Besides, China's current foundation must be used to invest limited funds in industrial construction. Only in this way can we quickly change the current weak situation of China's industry.

But what kind of planned economy is suitable for China is what the State Planning Commission has to do.

Wei Hongjun continued, "However, there is one thing we must understand. The statistical table developed for us by the Soviet advisors is an excellent one. It is the best table for calculating the Chinese economy. After all, the Soviet Union is more experienced than us in socialist construction, and the table is indeed good. The reason we cannot use it is not because there is a problem with the table, but because our own level is insufficient. So our problem now is that we must improve our ability in this area as soon as possible. Just because we cannot use this table now does not mean that we will not be able to use it in the future.

We must have higher demands on ourselves.

The Soviet Union had a very high level of planned economy.

That’s because the Soviet Union had a group of technical talents and the Soviet Union’s mathematics level was very high.

But China has nothing now.

Therefore, the tables must be kept simple, but this doesn't mean China has no ambitions. Statistical tables will undoubtedly be continuously adjusted and improved. Regardless of whether China continues to implement a strictly planned economy or one that incorporates some market elements, national statistics remain paramount.

Because statistical data directly affects national policies.

“I agree.

Zhou Bin said: "Beginning next year, in addition to coordinating Soviet aid projects, we will also have to formulate our own economic plan. By then, the most important thing will be to improve the quality of our cadres and cultivate a large number of talents in this field.

"We are indeed short of talent in finance."

Bo Shuchun also nodded.

Speaking of this, everyone was silent.

Financial talent was truly scarce in New China. Even though New China had established a Finance Committee, many of its staff members didn't major in finance. Those with a modicum of education were given financial training and then assigned to work in the finance department.

This is the status quo.

However, to formulate economic plans and develop the economy, we need financial talents.

This made the central leaders very worried.

Wei Hongjun said: "So my suggestion is that we should start from two aspects. First, we should develop more internal party training schools, including our local provincial, municipal and county party schools, and offer financial courses. We should carry out rotational training for our cadres so that they can master some financial knowledge.

We cannot allow our cadres to have a bad impression of finance and economics.

This is really a helpless thing.

The low educational level and limited knowledge of cadres in New China are objective facts. However, they are also the heroes who helped New China conquer the world, so we cannot do without them. This is why democrats advocate that governance should be left to them.

That's because it has always been like this throughout history.

As dynasties changed, many of the heroes who conquered the world were humble men. These men, uneducated, seized opportunities during periods of turmoil and became heroes. However, as the saying goes, "conquer the world on horseback, rule it on foot." After dynasties changed, the literati remained the ruling class.

There are historical reasons why democrats look down on the CCP. In feudal China, they were the scholar-officials, and governing the country was their responsibility.

Can a peasant govern the country? But Wei Hongjun is not a cadre who complains about everything.

cadre.

Since the reality is already like this, we must find a solution. The only way is to improve the capabilities of these local cadres. Local cadres must constantly learn. It doesn't matter if you don't have much knowledge now.

As long as you are willing to learn, it is not too late.

A learning atmosphere must be fostered within the Party, encouraging Party members and cadres to actively study and improve their abilities. Some cadres can take time off from work to study, while others can use their evenings to study.

In any case, there must be a learning atmosphere where "learning is glorious".

"For the training of these cadres, there is no need for extremely profound financial knowledge. Their teaching materials can be as simple as possible. The main purpose is to enable our cadres to quickly grasp the basics of finance."

It is simply impossible to make cadres become financial experts through short-term training in a short period of time.

And they don't need to.

What they need is to master the most basic financial knowledge.

"Then, we need to quickly establish a large number of financial and economic technical secondary schools and colleges across the country. Many of our departments are currently lacking talent in this area..."

"That makes sense."

Chen Yun nodded and said, "Comrade Hongjun, you should take charge of these two aspects of work. You already had experience in this area when you were in the North China Bureau.

Wei Hongjun nodded.

Starting from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, the North China Bureau trained too many cadres.

There are also various training methods.

Because the 8th Column was a rising star, Wei Hongjun racked his brains to train cadres. As a result, he gradually developed a set of training methods. There was a set procedure for how cadres of different ranks and roles should be trained.

In fact, the general work of some departments does not require as much knowledge as people think. These people only need a few months of intensive training to start working.

Then you can gain experience at work.

If you still have pursuits, you can continue learning.

Because Wei Hongjun has extensive experience in cadre training, he also has a large number of experienced cadres and teachers under him. In the past six months, the North China Bureau has trained a large number of cadres for the Political and Legal Committee, which has also been well received.

So the first person Chen Yun thought of was Wei Hongjun.

After discussing the statistics, Wei Hongjun continued, "We currently have an increasing number of state-owned enterprises. Once the Soviet aid projects are implemented, we'll need to build hundreds or even thousands of large-scale supporting factories around them. These will all become our state-owned enterprises. So, I'd like to ask, how do we define a state-owned enterprise? Are they self-financing companies, or are they production units that follow government orders?"

Chapter 784 Economic Accounting

What is the position of public enterprises?

After Wei Hongjun's words came out, many people began to think.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were too many new things that the Communist Party of China had never experienced before. Because they were new things, they all needed to be positioned. But positioning was the most difficult. Because the positioning of many new things was directly related to the new China.

If the policy on this new thing is positioned accurately, it will succeed. If the positioning is wrong, it will fail.

Just like during the time of the Central Soviet Area, the Provisional Central Committee made a serious mistake in assessing the current situation. Believing that the revolution was nearing its climax, they urged the Party and the Red Army to attack, attack, and attack again. This resulted in enormous losses for the revolution.

So don’t think that positioning many things is like “taking off your pants to fart”, which is useless.

On the contrary, it is a very important thing because it is the basis for all policy making.

Li Fuchun said, "Speaking of state-owned enterprises, we recently visited factories in the Soviet Union and learned about their operations. We discovered that these factories were independent accounting units, not just production units that responded to orders."

"right."

Chen Yun nodded.

During their trip to the Soviet Union, in addition to negotiating with the Soviet side, they also visited many Soviet factories.

Understand the workings of Soviet industry.

Of course, a quick look at the museum won't give you a complete picture of Soviet industry, but a thorough inspection can certainly help you gain a deeper understanding of the industry.

"Those factories in the Soviet Union not only produced under state orders, but were also self-financing and independent accounting production units. After all, enterprises are production units composed of many people, with their own interests, not machines, and cannot just accept orders. My idea is,

Our state-owned enterprises still need to learn from the Soviet Union in many aspects and become independent production units.

The CPC attaches the most importance to the subjective initiative of frontline commanders.

Not to mention that the Chairman and his colleagues were promoting the "people's line" and it was impossible for them to treat each state-owned enterprise as just a unit that produced materials.

The same is true for Chen Yun.

Although Chen Yun did not participate much in the debate between Gao Gang and Peng Zhen when he was in Northeast China, he was a very capable person and had a good understanding of the industrial and agricultural conditions in Northeast China.

There are many considerations for the economy of New China.

After serving as Vice Premier of the State Council and Director of the Finance and Economics Committee, he considered these issues.

Wei Hongjun raised this question not because he necessarily wanted to know the positioning of state-owned enterprises, but because many policies in the early days of the People's Republic of China were subject to frequent changes due to lack of experience.

The transition from the New Democratic Revolution to the Socialist Revolution was a period of great changes.

The positioning of state-owned enterprises will be constantly adjusted over time and it is absolutely impossible to decide in one or two meetings. Therefore, Wei Hongjun raised this question mainly to discuss how to develop state-owned enterprises in the next step. So Wei Hongjun said: "I agree with Director Chen.

Comrade Li Fuchun agrees that we should learn more from the Soviet Union, especially regarding the independent accounting of state-owned enterprises, which I believe is of paramount importance.

When talking about independent accounting, Wei Hongjun became very serious and earnest.

Because this is not a small matter.

In the early days of the People's Republic of China, a major problem with state-owned enterprises was independent accounting. The government treated state-owned enterprises as units that simply followed orders to produce, rather than independent production units.

"Although the new China was founded, our cadres' thinking is still in the war era. That is, once an order is given, the task must be completed no matter how much it costs. This spirit is very good and is very necessary for our subsequent production and construction. Our country is a backward agricultural country.

If we want to become an industrial country in a short period of time, we must have this kind of fighting spirit. However, some of our mature state-owned enterprises cannot have this kind of thinking and should not go down this path. Because our state-owned enterprises are state property, we cannot use war thinking to deal with them.

This is a waste of our country's property. Therefore, our state-owned enterprises must have independent accounting in terms of finance. We must know how much money the country has invested, how much cost it has spent in the middle, and what the final output is. This must be made clear so that we can be fair.

Only by mobilizing national investment can we protect our country's property from being wasted.

This is what Wei Hongjun is going to focus on at this meeting.

In the early days of the People's Republic of China, we learned from the Soviet Union in every aspect.

The same is true for the construction and management of state-owned enterprises. However, Soviet state-owned enterprises have one thing that Chinese state-owned enterprises cannot compare to.

That's economic accounting.

The Soviet Union already had its own complete economic system and its own complete methods for the management of state-owned enterprises. Soviet state-owned enterprises attached great importance to economic accounting, and even many Soviet enterprises had begun to be responsible for their own profits and losses. Although bureaucracy was very serious in Soviet state-owned enterprises,

There was also considerable corruption and waste, but these did not affect the excellent accounting of Soviet state-owned enterprises.

However, China's state-owned enterprises were a complete mess when it came to economic accounting. After liberation, the government conducted a nationwide statistical survey of state-owned enterprises, keeping a record of the original data. Based on this data, they then calculated costs and outputs.

But things got worse afterwards.

Not only are the original files riddled with errors, but the subsequent statistical calculations are also riddled with errors. From these original files and economic calculations, you can't get a clear picture of the company's production situation.