China News Service, Beijing, July 14 (Reporter Kan Feng) Rong Yiren is known as the "red capitalist", and his legendary life can outline the history of changes in China's modern national industry and commerce.

More than 40 years ago, when he was over 60, he "adventured" and chose to start a business again and explore the way for the country.

　　In 1979, in the early stage of reform and opening up, all industries were waiting to be developed in China.

At the beginning of this year, Deng Xiaoping met with Rong Yiren and other famous figures in the industrial and commercial circles, and proposed that "money should be used and people should be used."

Rong Yiren, who was over 60, said, “As long as the country gives me a job, I will do it. I can find me at any time during the day or midnight. I am only in my early 60s and I can still do some work before I am 80.”

　　After many considerations, Rong Yiren, who accepted the trust, decided to reject the invitation to become a minister. He planned to learn from Western experience and set up a trust company to develop the economy. He wrote a report and submitted it to Deng Xiaoping.

　　At that time, many people thought that Rong Yiren's ideas were too risky.

"Leaving the Minister improperly, but to engage in this'risky' new thing, he has not eaten enough of his suffering!" Someone said.

　　However, Rong Yiren's ideas were affirmed by Deng Xiaoping. He entrusted Rong Yiren, "You choose people, you manage business, and you take care of things", "We must eliminate interference and don't turn into a bureaucratic enterprise."

　　Rong Yiren was deeply moved by Deng Xiaoping's full trust and full support.

　　After being ordered to form and lead the China International Trust and Investment Corporation, Rong Yiren personally formulated the company's first articles of association, emphasizing that "the company adheres to the principles of socialism, acts in accordance with economic laws, and implements modern scientific management.

　　Starting a business again after 60 years, Rong Yiren often said: "The wasted ten years must be recovered in the next ten years!"

　　At the beginning of the preparations, there was no office space, so he contributed part of his small courtyard; in 1979, the start-up funds allocated by the State Council were spent, and the follow-up funds were not yet in place, so he took out his own deposits to lend to the company as working capital.

　　In the first year of its establishment, the company received more than 4,000 guests from 40 countries and regions, and more than 3,000 domestic guests came to negotiate business, breaking a new path in the introduction of foreign capital, technology and equipment.

　　Deng Xiaoping has always been a staunch supporter of Rong Yiren.

In October 1984, Deng Xiaoping pointed out that "China International Trust and Investment Corporation can serve as a window for China to open to the outside world", and wrote an inscription for the company: "Be brave to innovate and make more contributions."

　　These eight characters embodies Deng Xiaoping's encouragement of being the first and boldly innovative spirit, and also embodies the firm attitude of the Communist Party of China towards the historic decision of reform and opening up.

Later, Rong Yiren wrote in a memoir article, "These eight characters run through the whole process of Comrade Xiaoping's creation and construction of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics."

　　Reform and opening up is a great awakening of the Communist Party of China. For more than 40 years, the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people to blaze a new path with the courage and self-innovation. It has not only profoundly changed China, but also profoundly affected China. world.

　　Those who are aware change with time, and those who know are governed by things.

The courage to change and to innovate is the most distinctive national endowment of the Chinese nation, and it is also the genetic code of the Communist Party of China to maintain its vitality.

　　As General Secretary Xi Jinping said, “Change and innovation are the fundamental driving force for the advancement of human society. Whoever rejects change and who rejects innovation will fall behind the times, and whoever will be eliminated by history.” (End)