China News Agency, Beijing, June 17 Question: Zhou Haijiang: State-supported private enterprises "Always have more solutions than difficulties"
Author Li Hanxue
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Improvement of the Socialist Market Economic System in the New Era." Zhou Haijiang, chairman of Hongdou Group, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Service that the "opinions" were released at just the right time and opened up "broken walls" for SMEs in many ways to resolve "market icebergs", "financing mountains" and "transition volcanoes." "Good recipe.
Zhou Haijiang recalled that in 1993, the Third Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the "Decision on Several Issues Concerning the Establishment of a Socialist Market Economic System." The "Decision" has formulated an overall plan for the establishment of a socialist market economic system, 27 years ago. Over the past 27 years, this document has guided us through an extraordinary journey of increasing prosperity.
Zhou Haijiang believed that the document at that time pointed to the establishment of a preliminary market economic system, and this time the "Opinions" proposed "improving" and "accelerating". "Improving" is to continue to do so in accordance with such requirements, and the orientation of "accelerating" is very clear. Therefore, the promulgation of the "Opinions" has a long-term perspective and has great historical significance and far-reaching impact.
As a private entrepreneur, Zhou Haijiang paid special attention to the establishment of an institutional environment that supports the high-quality development of the non-public economy, as set forth in the "Opinions." He said that "equality" and "fairness" were mentioned many times in the "Opinions", indicating that the central government's determination to remove obstacles and barriers restricting market competition reflects the self-improvement and progress of the socialist market economic system.
In addition, he believes that as an important market supply body, enterprises have vitality, the market has vitality, and the economy has a solid foundation for achieving high-quality development. The "Opinions" mentioned the need to "enhance the vitality of micro-subjects", and in many ways provide a "broken wall" remedy for the development of private enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to resolve the "market iceberg" and "financial mountain" in front of the enterprise. "Transition Volcano".
The "Opinions" also mentioned that reforms should be market-oriented, internationalized, and legalized, and Zhou Haijiang was also impressed. He believes that marketization means that various measures must adhere to marketization; legalization means that China's market economy is a rule-of-law economy; internationalization means that such a market is an open market.
Facing the challenges of the economic situation at home and abroad under the epidemic situation, Zhou Haijiang believes that the system reform proposed in the "Opinions" is the right time. And one of the most important opportunities this reform brings to private enterprises is the "opportunity for fair competition."
He also said that under the current situation, from the level of the enterprise itself, it is possible to turn the crisis into an opportunity by seizing the "eight opportunities", namely the production and sales of epidemic prevention materials, the health industry, the O2O evolution digital economy, cross-border e-commerce, and technology products. Differentiation, independent brands in the domestic market, direct financing from independent capital, and the construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
As far as Hongdou Group is concerned, after the outbreak, the group adjusted its production line as soon as possible, and adjusted the suit production line to a protective suit production line, supplying 650,000 pieces of isolation clothing to Wuhan. Therefore, the medical supplies guarantee group of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council called red beans a "military factory" to fight the epidemic. At present, Hongdou has transformed anti-epidemic materials such as protective clothing and masks into long-term production.
Zhou Haijiang recalled that on November 1, 2018, he participated in a private enterprise symposium held by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The general secretary emphasized at the meeting that he should strongly support the development and growth of private enterprises, and encouraged everyone to "as long as confidence does not decline, the general approach More than difficult".
"I'm very touched with this sentence." Zhou Haijiang said that in the late 1980s, township and village enterprises in southern Jiangsu shouted the slogan "There are always more ways than difficulties" when seeking survival in the cracks. "Now that private enterprises have state support, facing the challenges of the future, our entrepreneurs' confidence cannot be broken down, and morale cannot be lost, because the solution is always more difficult than it is." (End)