Chapter 294: One word change saves the whole thing (Thanks to Mr. Chen Changshou, and all the book friends)
Wang Mingzhen is a person who has gotten rid of vulgar tastes.

He eats food, but exhales free thoughts.

In this temple of thought filled with slaves of life, being able to meet such a teacher who has aspirations, ideals and persistence can indeed broaden your life horizons and make some naive ideas mature.

This is a blessing for the students of Class 156.

After the start of the senior year, daily life was like a wound-up clock, rushing forward. Piles of mock test papers filled most of the students' time. Although the entire high school curriculum had reached the second semester of the senior year, in order to reserve enough time for review later, the teachers had to speed up the pace, covering the content of several sections in one class. Of course, for Zhang Yun, it was a bit choking, but he could still eat it.

It is worth mentioning that at the opening ceremony of the new semester, the principal Wang Daozhong brought up the old story and commended Chu Jian for his bravery in taking a knife for Zhang Yunqi at the end of the previous semester.

In fact, this was essentially a vicious incident, and it should not have been publicized in such an occasion. As the golden signboard of Jiangchuan's education sector, the No. 1 Middle School in the city is only slightly inferior to the four famous schools in southern Hunan, and it still needs to maintain its reputation. When the incident happened, the news media in Jiangchuan City did not even mention it.

Zhang Yunqi knew this would happen, but he didn't care. He wouldn't deliberately throw dirty water on his alma mater, but he didn't think Wang Daozhong's praise for Chu Jian was just, which only meant that Zhang Guoxiang was trying to flatter him. Luo Dahai had already been fired because of this, and Wang Daozhong was fine, so his wife must have made great contributions.

After this commendation.

Chu Jian’s reputation in the city’s No. 1 Middle School became even greater.

Her academic performance has always been the best in the school. She has become the face of the city's No. 1 Middle School. During the daily exercises, she is the focus of many people's attention. During the daily breaks, there are always boys from the next class who rush by and blush when they see her for the first time.

There is an aura about this girl, a youthful and pure scent that only exists in memory, like an old photo found in a dusty corner many years ago, blurred due to overexposure, with only the green, slender tips of the grass, the girl's thin calves, and the white hem of her skirt.

Time flies.

After the autumnal equinox, the days become visibly shorter, the autumn atmosphere deepens, the grass on the roadside that has been green all summer gradually withers, and there is a slight chill in the mornings and evenings.

Every day on the way to school, on the streets filled with fried snacks and in the swaying shadows of the camphor trees, you can no longer see the thin and slender outline of the girl who has taken off her skirt and put on trousers.

On the day of Cold Dew, Lin Shiyu wrote an in-depth news report with great effort, which was published in the Xiangnan Daily, the largest media in Xiangnan Province. The title was quite grand: "One word "reform" to revitalize the whole situation - visiting the Longjingyuan Canning Factory in Jiangchuan City to innovate the reform of state-owned assets". It was 4,000 words long, with a clear structure, professional and detailed. It started with the current life of farmers in Yunxi Village as the starting point, and led to three core topics:
1. Inventory and asset verification to get a clear picture of the family's financial situation, property rights reform to introduce new market players, a grain of soybean to activate the Jiangchuan industrial cluster, leading to reemployment of laid-off state-owned workers.

2. Concentrate production and increase capital to straighten the back, reform the mechanism to create a new engine for development, shareholding cooperative + company + base model + land dividends to support the dream of getting rich, leading the farmers to become shareholders. 3. Expansion financing to fill the pockets, operational reform drives new consumption momentum, from canned pilot to the "Jiangchuan model" across the region, guiding the new direction of market economic development of state-owned enterprises in southern Hunan through property rights reform.

The publication of this report caused quite a stir in public opinion in southern Hunan Province.

During those days, Liansheng received several "Inspection Letters on Studying the Reform of the Property Rights System of State-owned Enterprises" from local governments in southern Hunan Province every day. Although city leaders accompanied the inspections, it was always General Manager Li Jilin who came out to receive them.

Zhang Yunqi was reluctant to show his face on this sensitive matter, but he also read Lin Shiyu's in-depth report carefully. While he admired the girl's exquisite writing skills and rich emotions, he was also somewhat alert in his heart. He quoted a sentence from the report materials he submitted to Yang Jiarong: "The reform of the property rights system of China's state-owned enterprises is an inevitable requirement for the marketization and competition of China's economy, and it is a manifestation of the market competition calling for a corresponding enterprise system form!"

Such a grand style of speech is certainly not Zhang Yunqi's original creation. It is the result of China's 40 years of ups and downs in reform and opening up. It is undoubtedly correct after the new century, but it is a bit sensitive now.

The full reform of China's state-owned enterprises was launched in 1998, after the country formally proposed "one guarantee, three in place, and five reforms". The pace of enterprise mergers and bankruptcies accelerated, and more than 2000 million state-owned enterprise workers were laid off in one year. Countless laid-off workers who made a living by picking up rotten leaves in the vegetable market confirmed Liu Huan's song with their actual actions: "All the honors of yesterday have become distant memories. I have spent half my life in hard work, and tonight I am once again in the wind and rain, and I have to start all over again..."

As for the present, last year's Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee pointed out that the socialist market economic system is combined with the basic socialist system, which put an end to the debate on whether reform should be a step forward or a step backward. The document on establishing a modern enterprise system was issued less than a year ago, and the focus has just shifted from internal management reform to the exploratory stage of property rights reform.

However, most state-owned enterprises have the problem of being too big to be managed, and it is extremely difficult to change. Many of those who tried to take the plunge ended up in tragedy. Chu Shijian is a vivid example.

In short, the fact that this report was published in the Xiangnan Daily should have given a clear signal to those who are sharp-minded: the province recognized and approved of Yang Jiarong's achievements and main practices in the pilot property rights reform of the state-owned enterprise Longjingyuan Cannery in Jiangchuan City. That's why so many local leaders came to inspect.

Zhang Yunqi knew that as the driving force behind the scene, he would certainly be more valued by Yang Jiarong, but it was hard to predict whether this would be good or bad. Before Ji Zhong took office, he had already sounded the alarm for him in Yunxi Village. Yang Jiarong was ambitious to vigorously promote the privatization reform of the city's state-owned enterprises. The report on reform experience he submitted was just adding fuel to the fire. Now, with Lin Shiyu's report published, the trend could no longer be stopped. However, not to mention the problem that many state-owned enterprises in the city were too big to be eliminated and had intertwined interests, the layoffs of redundant employees in the city's state-owned enterprises alone would cause a huge storm.

Zhang Yunqi also knew that it was dangerous to be involved, but he had no intention of using this method to cater to Yang Jiarong and gain personal capital. He was just a second-generation man, and he had witnessed capitalists taking advantage of the land level difference to control the declining state-owned enterprises through restructuring and mergers and acquisitions to carry out land development, and like blood suckers, they drilled into the heart of our country to absorb huge wealth. Now, there may be a chance to prevent Jiangchuan City from taking this path. So, besides doing this, what else can he do?
He took a leave of absence the day after the report was published.

He knew Yang Jiarong would look for him.

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PS: Thank you for your support! Finally, I was able to complete this book with the support of my boss Chen Changshou and my brother Tutu YX. I can only repay you the most by working hard to write this book! I will continue to write and update tomorrow.

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