"Haha, Comrade Feiyang, since you understand the situation of Fenggang Group, let's talk about it first. What do you think of the current operating dilemma of Fenggang Group?" Shu Qinghua said.

Seeing that Shu Qinghua was going to take the exam, Bao Feiyang smiled slightly. He studied this question for several months, and naturally he was confident in answering it.

"The current operating dilemma of Fenglin Group is actually not Fenglin Group itself, but a historical problem." Bao Feiyang sorted out his thoughts in his mind and began to answer Shu Qinghua's question, "In fact, it is not only Fenglin Group, but the operating dilemma suffered by most state-owned enterprises in Fenglin City should actually be said to be a historical problem. Many people believe that state-owned enterprises in Fenglin City, including Fenglin Group, suffer from the current operating dilemma because the heads of these state-owned enterprises do not have the ability, ability, or enthusiasm for work, and are all over the world.

Put your energy into production and operation; some people say that the workers of state-owned enterprises in Fenglin City have no enterprising spirit and responsibility. They go to the factory every day and do not take their jobs seriously. This has led to the current situation where most enterprises are heavily in debt, insolvent, and on the verge of bankruptcy. I think this view is unreasonable, biased or even irresponsible! On the contrary, according to my understanding, most of the heads and workers of state-owned enterprises in Fenglin City are very dedicated. Almost everyone can be said to be a down-to-earth and hard-working model of Nike!”

Hearing Bao Feiyang say this, Liu Zekai felt his old face burning and didn't know where to put it. The views that Bao Feiyang said do exist and they occupy the mainstream. When many media in Beijing talk about old industrial bases in the three northeastern provinces, they basically put this view. What kind of enterprise management cadres have serious bureaucracy, people are overly erected, and they use internal friction. The workers are too lazy and do not have the hard work of the workers in those southern provinces.

Hard work, etc. Liu Zekai, as the chairman and general manager of Fenggang Group, has not been discussed by others in this way. But at this moment, Bao Feiyang, a cadre from an economically developed province in the south, took the initiative to stand up for them to defend them, saying that these views are biased and irresponsible, how can Liu Zekai not be moved? Thinking about the darkness he had just complained to Shu Qinghua in front of Bao Feiyang, Liu Zekai was naturally ashamed.

Shu Qinghua looked at Bao Feiyang in surprise, but he didn't expect that he would say this, so he nodded and said, "Well, since you said that it is not the problem of the company's responsibility and the workers below, what is the problem? So much so that the economic situation of most companies is so difficult now?"

"I said earlier that it is a historical problem," said Bao Feiyang. "The reason for the current situation is mainly due to the dual-track price system."

The dual-track price system refers to a special price management system in the transition from the Chinese economic system to the market economy.

Before the reform and opening up, China implemented a planned economic system. Under the planned economic system, the material distribution system was bounded by administrative divisions and administrative instructions as a means, through application and distribution through layers of application and distribution, and on this basis, the price was completely controlled by relevant state departments. As a result, the enterprise was controlled and the products were "a consistent system for many years", the turnover of materials and funds was slow, and various wastes were serious.

Since 1981, the state has allowed enterprises to sell some products themselves on the premise of completing the plan, and the prices of the products themselves are determined by the market. This has resulted in a dual-track system that is uniformly allocated according to the national directive plan prices, and the prices of products sold by enterprises are determined by the market.

The price dual-track system has duality, which has both positive and negative effects.

On the one hand, it is a good transitional form to realize the transformation of the Chinese price model. It opens up the path of reforming the price of means of production in a tense economic environment, promotes the transformation of the price formation mechanism, and gradually introduces the market mechanism into the production and exchange of large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, and promotes the rapid development of the production of major industrial means of production.

But on the other hand, the dual-track price system has a very serious negative effect. When the economy is overheated, the contradiction between supply and demand is sharp, and the difference between planned prices and market prices is huge, some illegal people engage in power-for-money transactions, exploit loopholes in the dual-track price system, sometimes converting affordable goods into market sales, and sometimes turning market goods into affordable goods. Through this "equilibrium transfer" or "offer-to-equilibrium", they make profits from it, make a fortune, and become nouveau riche.

With the deepening of reform and the establishment and improvement of the market economy, the country gradually abolished the planned prices of most commodities and sold them uniformly at market prices, and the dual-track system naturally disappeared.

"I remember that the country officially abolished the dual-track system for steel prices and released the price of steel in 1993." Bao Feiyang said this and turned his face to ask Liu Zekai who was sitting in the front seat, "Mr. Liu, isn't my memory wrong?"

"Nothing wrong!" Liu Zekai nodded and said, "The notice issued by the state at that time stipulated that March 1993 was the time node. Except for the national railway-specific steel, the national guiding price still implemented in military-industry special steel, the national guiding price will be cancelled, and the market price will be adjusted."

Seeing that Liu Zekai confirmed his statement, Bao Feiyang continued: "According to what I know in Jiangbei Province, from April 1, 1993, the steel prices of all state-owned steel enterprises in Jiangbei Province have no national guiding prices. They will be sold at the market and will be sold at the market price."

"Originally, I thought the same was true in Fenglin City, but after I conducted an investigation, I was shocked," Bao Feiyang said, "The information I checked, even by the end of 1996, the steel enterprises under Fenglin City allocated steel to the public according to the national planned prices, including Fenglin Group. In 1996, the price of steel on the market was as high as 3,200 yuan per ton, while the amount of steel allocated by Fenglin Group was 95%

Only the national planned price can be implemented, one ton of 1,056. This time, there is a price difference of more than 2,000 yuan per ton. Fenggang Group's steel production in 1996 was 800,000 tons, of which 760,000 tons were allocated at the national planned price. Based on the loss of 2,000 yuan per ton, the loss of 760,000 tons exceeded 150 million. From 1993 to 1996, the total period was four years, and Fenggang Group's steel loss was over 600 million yuan just because of the national planned price."
Chapter completed!