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Different from other mechanical departments under military management.

From its establishment to its abolition, the First Ministry of Machine Building was always responsible for domestic industrial and agricultural industrial construction.

Longguo implemented economic reforms.

It is to improve the country's international competitiveness and strengthen the domestic economy.

Improving people's living standards is one of the important goals of economic reform.

As the Minister of the First Ministry of Machine Building and the main person in charge of the national industrial and agricultural construction, Wang Changsheng knew it better than anyone else.

There is a price to pay for drastic economic reforms.

Stop the old way of state funding during the planned economy period, and let factories take charge of production and unified purchase and sales.

Take the initiative to break the development model of eating from the same pot.

The factory is responsible for its own profits and losses and has to find ways to support itself.

There are thousands of state-owned enterprises of various types under the First Ministry of Machine Building.

Allowing a large number of enterprises to directly withdraw from state funding and to find their own way to make a living will inevitably lead to various problems.

In order to minimize the impact, we must find a more appropriate direction of guidance.

It is obviously not advisable to kick children out of the house directly.

Only by proceeding step by step,

Only by establishing a number of model pilot projects and setting a benchmark for other state-owned enterprises to learn from can they learn to support themselves.

In view of this, several mechanical departments jointly issued a spirit.

Arrange each province, city and region to find a group of collective enterprises to implement the shareholding system.

The higher authorities only have partial guidance power over these pilot enterprises.

As for how the company develops and how it survives, it all depends on their own abilities.

Lin Kaifeng and Northern Machinery Company achieved outstanding results in this pilot project.

Submitted a perfect test paper.

Lin Kaifeng led the Northern Machinery Company to obtain large orders from abroad.

The order goods are further broken down into more than a dozen links.

Each link is handled by a factory that specializes in this field.

More than a dozen municipal enterprises are connected into a huge urban production assembly line.

This method is not only of reference value.

It can also generate good economic value.

Lin Kaifeng talked eloquently, and Wang Changsheng and his entourage listened and took notes in notebooks.

"Comrade Lin Kaifeng, please wait a moment."

"You proposed that only by improving the quality of goods can we obtain more foreign exchange funds and exchange foreign exchange by exporting excellent goods. We all agree with this."

"But the issue of importing some of the materials needed to produce goods from abroad is probably open to question."

About half an hour later, a leader from the First Ministry of Machine Building interrupted Lin Kaifeng's development story.

Just now.

Lin Kaifeng put forward a bold idea.

The Dragon Kingdom is vast and rich in resources, but that does not mean it can manufacture all the production materials itself.

The country needs to import copper, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used to produce electronic components from foreign countries.

About that.

Many people have deep memories.

Longguo does have a serious shortage of nickel production.

Dragon Country has a vast sea territory, and high-strength steel is indispensable for the manufacture of large warships.

Whether it is alloys for making special steels or other non-ferrous metals for building ships, Longguo has to import them from foreign countries.

In response to this, the Soviet Union repeatedly made unreasonable demands on Longguo.

After being rejected by China, the Soviet Union simply stopped exporting all kinds of alloys to Longguo.

Lin Kaifeng said: "We are worried that if we continue to import production materials from foreign countries, we will be restricted by foreign countries one day. They will either strangle us or make unreasonable demands that we cannot accept."

"If we don't agree, the production of goods will be disrupted."

The leader who raised the question nodded and said, "If we want to develop comprehensively, we must achieve self-sufficiency in production materials. If we rely on foreign imports for some materials, it is equivalent to handing the lifeblood of our products to others."

"Once the other party stops supplying, how will you respond?"

After these words were spoken, even Wang Changsheng began to think about this problem.

It's better for me to have it if my father has it and my mother has it.

The production materials of some commodities rely solely on imports from foreign countries.

Foreigners open the door to supply today and close the door tomorrow. What should Lin Kaifeng do?

Hearing this, Lin Kaifeng smiled calmly and said, "I have thought about this issue a long time ago. Please listen to me."

"When I say we import some production materials from foreign countries, I don't mean we rely on them, import cheap primary production materials from them, and then turn them into high-end commodities through deep processing."

"The island nation has already taken this path, and it is an effective development path."

"The island nation itself is short of resources, so why has it become an economically developed country that has attracted worldwide attention? On the one hand, it has received support from Western countries led by the United States. With the strong help of the United States, the island nation was able to recover its vitality ten years after the war."

"On the other hand, companies in island countries have gone abroad to purchase various primary commodity raw materials from underdeveloped countries overseas. They use their own scientific and technological research and development capabilities to further process the primary commodity raw materials, and then transform them into something new that can be sold at sky-high prices immediately."

"Our company imports materials for the same purpose."

“Foreign countries can restrict our technological development and limit our purchase of certain important means of production.”

"But it doesn't stop us from buying huge quantities of cheap materials."

"Whether we are carrying out pilot projects or reforms, we have to cross the river by feeling the stones. Since we are crossing the river by feeling the stones, we should learn from the development ideas of other countries and summarize them into our own development methods. I think this has both reference value and practical value."

After hearing this explanation, many people looked thoughtful.

The wealthy Northern Machinery Company plans to import primary raw materials from abroad.

The company further processes the materials.

Afterwards, they are sold to foreign countries as high-end products in exchange for the difference in price.

The idea is quite novel.

Wang Changshan smiled and said, "Comrade Lin Kaifeng, you have been an educated youth in the production team and have a full understanding of the situation in rural areas. In addition to allowing the vast number of poor and lower-middle peasants to engage in sideline production to increase their income, do you think there are any other ways to improve the economic level of the vast rural areas?"

The First Ministry of Machine Building is not only responsible for industrial production.

Better be responsible for guiding the work of agricultural development.

Lin Kaifeng's suggestions on industrial construction have pointed out many directions that have not been considered before.

Now, Wang Changshan has raised the issue of rural development, and he also needs Lin Kaifeng to provide some reference suggestions for everyone.

Industry needs to develop.

The living standards in rural areas must be improved.

Dragon Country has a population of nearly one billion, the vast majority of whom are farmers.

Only when farmers' living standards improve can the country's overall strength be enhanced.

Lin Kaifeng said: "To improve rural production and construction and increase the income level of the people, we must first solve a key problem."

“What’s the key issue?”

Wang Changshan interrupted and asked.