Chapter 20 Chapter 4 Breakthrough in the Dawn

October 28, 1986 was a memorable day for Yiwu Small Commodity Market and even the entire Zhejiang Professional Market. On the same day, the most authoritative domestic news media "People's Daily" made an eye-catching report on Yiwu's market experience on the front page. At the same time, it distributed a commentator's article longer than the news itself. A loud call; "Daxing Folk Commerce". The article reads: "Yiwu County's practice of developing private markets, cultivating market mechanisms, and guiding farmers to rely on the market to invigorate the economy is very enlightening for us to develop the rural commodity economy in the next step.

"After completing the first step of reform in rural areas with the household contract system as the main symbol, how to guide farmers to develop commodity production? Obviously, the old method of relying on command planning and directing production from top to bottom is no longer acceptable. We are now What we are facing is nearly 200 million farmers who have obtained the status of independent commodity producers. They have independent decision-making power and can have horizontal contacts with all aspects of society. Under such conditions, only by cultivating market mechanisms can farmers be guided to gradually enter the market , To promote commodity production through market exchange. That is to say, we must actively change the planned economy that was highly centralized and only relied on administrative orders in the past to a planned commodity economy based on diversified and multi-level markets.

"In rural areas, the active development of private markets composed of farmers and groups of farmers should be advocated in particular. "...Yiwu's experience proves that the development of private commerce is conducive to the cultivation of market mechanisms. This is a big article for the second step of rural reform." This commentator’s article does not regard the rural commodity market as merely “filling in the gaps.” It raises the development of the rural commodity market to an unprecedented height: "The strength of a strong country and rich people comes from millions of people. The fundamental significance of developing the private market is to enable millions of farmers to actively participate in the economic development process of the entire country and share the benefits brought about by economic development, so that economic development It has strong vitality and forms a development pattern full of vitality.

"It is easy for the private market to connect the commodity production of thousands of households with the ever-changing social needs of F, which is difficult for the state-owned business alone. "Minwen Commerce, as a circulation channel that is not restricted by administrative regions, closely combines interests and benefits, and is regulated by the relationship between supply and demand, will speed up the connection between urban and rural areas and the exchange of commodities, and it will help promote the formation of the entire market network." The reports and comments of the "People's Daily" made Yiwu a national celebrity overnight. In the next few months, farmers in many counties and cities in China took this newspaper and found Yiwu.Under the guidance of this newspaper, many local leaders rushed to Yiwu and experienced the new landscape of the first market economy.And many business owners in Yiwu also cut out this newspaper, pasted it on the wall, and carried it in their arms.So far, this newspaper is still treasured in the homes of many business owners.

The miracle that happened in Yiwu——a small county town in the mountainous area without geographical conditions and resource advantages was able to open a big market that caused a national sensation and attracted tens of thousands of people flocking to it—this scorching fact can be seen on the Internet. A dazzling dawn flashed in front of the eyes of thousands of Zhejiang farmers. The market is like a hope within reach, quickly igniting the fire of people's poverty alleviation.It was at dawn like this that farmers hoping to get rich began to break out. An era of great change has arrived unexpectedly.

They broke through the geographical constraints; they broke through the shackles of ideas; they broke through, and even broke through the deep gap between urban and rural areas.