Chapter 445: The Boy Here

August 1995 was a season of harvest.

Jiangchuan City's state-owned enterprise property rights reform and rural land reform, which were in full swing, have entered the fast lane of development by the turn of summer and autumn, and a series of major industrial policies centered on the private economy have been introduced.

On August 8, the Jiangchuan Municipal Government budgeted 13 million yuan in special funds to officially launch the construction of the Hunan-Guangdong agricultural products supply and marketing docking platform. Liansheng Group reached an agricultural products supply and marketing cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Jujiahuan, Wenxinghang, Jiawoxin Company, Guangdong Agricultural Vegetable Association, etc. Jiangchuan City’s agricultural products thus have an additional large sales channel, which can effectively solve the problem of unsalable crops of farmers throughout the city.

On August 8, under the auspices of the Jiangchuan Municipal Government, Liansheng Group formally signed a cooperation agreement with the governments of Guidong, Rucheng, Zixing and other counties, investing 15 million yuan to build three 1000-acre large-scale breeding bases based on the clear water and organic soil in the three misty mountainous areas, mainly engaged in off-season agricultural products. Li Jilin said at the meeting that the Liansheng Group's "company + cooperative + base + scattered seed purchase" model will be promoted in 2000 districts and counties in the city, gradually benefiting more than 11 farmers in the city.

On August 8, Liansheng Group reached a cooperation agreement on the construction and operation of a rural property rights transfer and transaction market with Jiangchuan Municipal Government, Jiangchuan Municipal State-owned Investment and 18 districts and counties under its jurisdiction. Liansheng Group and Jiangchuan Municipal State-owned Investment jointly established Jiangchuan Rural Property Rights Transaction Operation Company, which will serve as the operating entity to jointly build a four-level rural property rights transaction system at the city, county, township and village levels, that is, a platform for the connection and transfer of urban and rural factors.

The establishment of this platform is crucial for revitalizing assets and resources in rural areas and introducing social capital to develop rural agriculture. It will effectively increase farmers' income and strengthen the village collective economy, and promote the realization of rural revitalization in Jiangchuan City.

On August 8, Yunxi Village collectively invested 21 million yuan to build a villa complex project and held a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony for the groundbreaking.

The villagers, who were no longer satisfied with just having food and clothing and wanted to make a big fuss about the world, once again welcomed this moment with the sound of gongs and drums, singing and dancing.

Yunxi Village also became the first rural area in China to uniformly build a group of villas under the collective system.

This once impoverished village caused a sensation throughout China!
On August 8, at the instruction of Zhang Yunqi, Yunxi Village and Liansheng Group reached a cooperation agreement. The two parties jointly invested to establish the second village-run company, named Yunxing Company, with Yunxi Village holding 22% and Liansheng Group holding 60%. Zhang Haijun, the village party secretary of Yunxi Village and chairman of the Yunxi Village Cooperative, served as chairman, but the company's operating rights belonged to Liansheng Group, and the general manager was appointed by Liansheng.

Liansheng Group took over all the assets and resources of Yunxi and registered the trademark of Yunxi Village. The first business of Yunxing Company was to carry out unified storage, repair and development of idle farmhouses and homesteads in Yunxi. Zhang Yunqi's purpose in doing so was to help Yunxi Village get rid of its over-reliance on the single agricultural operation income of the joint-stock cooperative and start exploring a new development path for diversified rural asset resource management.

On August 8, a team from the National Development Research Center went to Yunxi for an investigation and research. Subsequently, a massive article, "Realizing Collective Property Rights, Strengthening Collective Economy - An Investigation into Jiangchuan City's Exploration of the Development of Collective Economy," was published in the People's Daily.

Over the years, the "Yunxi Experience" consisting of the three-rights separation reform of the "three pieces of land" in rural areas, the construction of an urban-rural factor docking platform, high-standard farmland construction, shareholding cooperatives and village-run enterprises, which Zhang Yunqi has vigorously advocated, has caused widespread discussion in society once it was reported.

This young man has laid the core foundation for Jiangchuan's agricultural and rural development in the next 20 years, and has also created a brand new path for the development of China's agriculture and rural areas!

On August 8, under the leadership of the Jiangchuan Municipal Government, Aihua Electronics Co., Ltd. and Jiangchuan State Investment Group reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement. Yang Jiarong, Hu Zhibiao and Zhao Jianqiang attended the meeting and reached a consensus on the joint venture to establish a subsidiary of Aihua Electronics. The two parties will jointly build a large-scale electronic product production base with a monthly output of 25 in Jiangchuan.

This day should have been remembered by all the people of Jiangchuan City. The implementation of this project will become the largest private electronic industry in Jiangchuan in the foreseeable future, and will completely cure the basic structural problems of redundant staff placement and outflow of young and middle-aged labor force in the city, and will boost half of Jiangchuan's GDP!
Of course, under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Jiangchuan's economic development was not bad after entering the 90s.

1994年，江川市的地区生产总值从1978年10.32亿元跃升至118.99亿元，年增速为16.51%，首次突破了百亿元大关！而江川地方一般公共预算收入从1990年的0.72亿元增至1995年的6.38亿元。

Among them, the most important thing is that Jiangchuan City's non-public economy has developed rapidly from scratch and has become an important force driving the city's rapid economic growth. In 1994, the added value of the non-public economy was 39.38 billion yuan, accounting for 33.1% of GDP, an increase of 1990 percentage points compared with 19.8!

At present, in Jiangchuan, the most powerful non-public economic industries have formed three carriages that are about to gallop across the world. They are the modern agricultural industry with a full industrial chain of advanced agricultural products headed by Liansheng Group, the specialty restaurant chain brands under Zhangji Catering and the Yuxianli tourism and consumption industry, as well as the super-large new electronic industrial industry that is about to rise from the ground by Aiwa Electronics.

Driven by these three carriages, Jiangchuan has embarked on a bright and smooth road! The 438.21 million people of Jiangchuan have a foreseeable bright future!

Zhang Yunqi, who created all this and was driving three carriages, had already packed his bags and was ready to leave.

After entering August, the pace of life slowed down. Although there were a lot of things to do, including a large number of cooperation agreements and subsidiary establishments, Zhang Yunqi basically did not attend the company's external meetings. Aiwa Electronics' operation center in Lijin was still under renovation and recruitment, and the city had already entered the substantive land acquisition stage for the large-scale production base.

One morning in mid-August, Zhang Yunqi was jogging in the quiet back hills of Shuixie Yundu when he received a phone call.

The call was from his wife.

The teacher's wife said in a calm voice, "Your teacher has passed away."

Wang Mingzhen passed away.

Zhang Yunqi didn’t know what illness the teacher died of, because the teacher seemed to be sick all over.

His death was like the passing of day and the coming of night, very natural and very ordinary.

The burial time is set at the beginning of autumn.

All the members of Class 156 were present, not one was left behind. Wang Xiaokai took a leave of absence and rushed over, still wearing his work clothes from Aiwa Electronics. He knelt in front of the mourning hall, knocking his head heavily on the ground, and did not get up for a long time.

That day, it rained heavily in Jiangchuan, and the dark clouds from the Hengduan Mountains blocked the sunlight over the city. The autumn wind swept through the branches, and the leaves fell one after another, some flowing eastward with the water, and some turning into mud, and the green life was gone forever.

On that day, after reviewing the prosecution, the Jiangchuan Intermediate People's Court publicly pronounced a verdict on the case of Wang Daozhong, the former principal of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, sentencing Wang Daozhong to 12 years and 6 months in prison and a fine of RMB 580,000.

That day, Zhang Yunqi kept thinking about what his teacher often said: "As you move forward with your life carrying an increasingly heavy burden, do not lose the ability to feel happiness and freedom."

The funeral ended in heavy rain.

After returning to the city, Zhang Yunqi had lunch with Yang Wei, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wang Xiaokai.

While eating, the four buddies were still chatting and talking nonsense like they did in high school, but there were sighs in their conversations, and they were hesitant to talk, and they were filled with thoughts that were difficult to resolve.

Especially for the two brothers Wang Xiaokai and Yang Wei, from the moment they walked out of the school gate early, they consciously or unconsciously carried the invisible shackles on the road of life.

A lot of things are like that.

This is how many things can only be.

Youth ends in a mess and will never be seen again.

Sometimes, when Zhang Yunqi was so tired that he didn't want to do anything, he and Tian Zhuangzhuang would wear flip-flops, eat two-cent popsicles, and wander around the streets of Jiangchuan City, walking on the streets and looking at pretty girls.

The two brothers lived and wandered like this, spending the long midsummer season, and in the blink of an eye it was the end of August in early autumn. Zhang Yunqi attended several graduation banquets and saw off his friends one by one. At the parting scene, he did not get drunk and cry.

I will accompany you through 30,000 drunken and laughing nights without telling you about our separation!

9 month 1 number.

An ordinary morning.

There are three or two plum-shaped stars in the sky.

Yang Wei and his partner Yan Shi had just finished a busy night of barbecue business. On the way home on a tricycle, Yan Shi sat in the open-air carriage and excitedly counted the night's income. Yang Wei picked a chrysanthemum from the roadside and handed it to Yan Shi, saying that this is also the season for flowers to bloom.

Wang Xiaokai had already gotten up. After eating the big pot meal at the Aiwa Electronics Production Base, he buried his head in the assembly line that seemed to have no end day after day, and began to doubt where his future lay.

Tian Zhuangzhuang carried a lot of luggage and, under the eager gaze of his parents, he squeezed his fat body onto the green train with the crowd heading south to Guangdong.

Li Yufei stood in front of the window at 28° north latitude, looking east to the Xiangjiang River.

I first met him when he was the leader in literature and sang out of southern Hunan, and then went to Peking University in the north.

Zhang Yunqi drove a Mercedes-Benz with Ji Ling westward to Lijin.

Ji Ling leaned on the car window, looking at the river that was getting farther and farther away among the receding buildings, her neat short hair swaying in the wind.

It was the fall of 1995.

The wheel of time rolls forward, the wave of reform and opening up is spreading across this ancient land, many grand Chinese histories of glory and ideals have begun, and the heroic dreams in ordinary life have never stopped.

When Zhang Yunqi drove to the edge of Luoxiao Mountains, he reached out and touched the hair of the sleeping Ji Ling, stopped the car and got out to urinate on the side of the road. A hot and humid monsoon blew from the South Pacific. He lit a cigarette and saw that the sky in the distance was sometimes rainy and sometimes clear. An airplane bound for the capital passed through a colorful rainbow, which looked very much like a military training ground in a certain year and month.

The eighth month of the lunar calendar is known as the harvest season. Although my hair is not yet grey, I am still a young man in my heart!
Volume 7: The Boy Here: Final Chapter
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