Chapter 6 Chapter Five: The Flaming Beacon on the Ridge of the Field

In the words of the old secretary of Suzhou Gao Dezheng, the township and village enterprises in Suzhou should have been established by people from Jiangyin and the original Shazhou.Some old comrades added to me: Wuxi County, which originally belonged to the Suzhou area, was the birthplace of earlier township enterprises.The result of my investigation and research is that their words have some basis, but they are not quite complete.If township enterprises in Suzhou include those in townships and towns, it will be difficult to separate them in time.Because the townships in southern Jiangsu generally use market towns as the location of townships from the establishment of townships. These township fairs, in addition to being commodity exchanges and local political and cultural centers, have had some industries since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. up.For example, in the area around Changshu where I was born, at the end of the 19th century, many towns had industries of a certain scale.For example, in Zhitang Town in Changshu, as early as the 30th year of Guangxu, a salt merchant from Jiangxi had a sole investment of 270,000 silver dollars and built a "Yutai Spinning Factory" here, covering an area of ​​200 mu. In 1888, the textile machines manufactured by Dobson and Hanston in England were considered top-notch in China at that time.From the 1920s, another group of Shanghai businessmen set up factories in small towns in the countryside of Suzhou.After the Anti-Japanese War began, more and more such factories moved from Shanghai and other cities to the countryside of Suzhou.

Therefore, before the 1980s, Suzhou people did not call the small enterprises run by rural communes and brigades township enterprises, but commune and brigade enterprises. This is the reason for this.Communal and brigade enterprises specifically refer to small industries established by communes and production teams. They are usually small processing factories or small repair factories at first, mainly for agricultural production or related agricultural tools used in farmland infrastructure construction and water conservancy projects. .However, it was these humble small industries that later became powerful tools, helping Suzhou to advance from a purely agricultural society in a land of fish and rice to a modern city that is attracting the attention of the world today.

More than 30 years of history, with a flick of a finger.I can't imagine that the "small fights" that my parents engaged in at that time on the edge of the fields and in the warehouses would pave a fast track for the comprehensive development of Suzhou's economy and society in the future, and achieve a socialist economic form with Chinese characteristics. - "Southern Jiangsu Model". How did Wu Renbao, one of the pioneers of township and village enterprises in southern Jiangsu introduced by the old comrades and the old party secretary of Huaxi Village, Jiangyin County, originally in the Suzhou area, manage small communal enterprises?What else do you specialize in? In 2005, when I interviewed Wu Renbao, he stood on the "Huagang" base, which can create tens of billions of output value for his Huaxi Village a year, and said to me with a smile: "At that time, our Huaxi Village had a Small hardware factory, it is said that the factory is actually just a few empty houses in the warehouse of the brigade, and more than a dozen people are knocking inside. They have to close the door during the day and light kerosene lamps at night, because people can’t see them at that time. , if you see it, you have to be cut off as a "capitalist tail", so we often have to stop and close, close and stop. When the superiors come to check, we close the door, and the workers return to their production teams I went to do farm work; after the inspectors left, I went back to the factory to beat and beat. The so-called "hardware" is to make some production tools and daily necessities for farmers, but this "hardware" factory has achieved success The development of our Huaxi Village. At that time, the "Small Hardware" factory could make hundreds of thousands of yuan in profits a year. We relied on it to gradually expand the collective economy. Later, we set up large factories, steel factories, and foreign trade companies. Now we Huaxi Village can realize an industrial economic output value of 40 to 50 billion yuan and a fiscal revenue of nearly 3 billion yuan a year, and it started from the 'hardware' factory back then."

When Comrade Deng Xiaoping came to Suzhou in 1983, the person in charge of Jiangsu Province introduced to him that Suzhou had doubled from 1976 to 1982, and this was mainly due to the economy of communes and brigades. There is a fact that needs to be clarified: the development of Suzhou commune and brigade enterprises, or later called township enterprises, was earlier than the reform and opening up in 1978, because the people of Suzhou were already tired of the closed and overly unified economic form in the era of planned economy. They are always looking for new models of life and development.At this time, they found a way out, hope, and real benefits through the establishment of community and brigade enterprises (township enterprises).As a result, it spread to ten or ten to a hundred, and the trend of social enterprises seemed to sweep across the land of southern Jiangsu overnight...

In Suzhou at this stage, there is one person who is particularly eye-catching. He is a leading cadre of a county. His voice and his aggressive slogans for running a business are exciting and awe-inspiring! He was Gao Dezheng, then Secretary of the Shazhou County Party Committee. "I remember that it was 1979. At the 'Three Cadres Meeting' held in the county to learn from the 'two bridges' (referring to Ouqiao and Tangqiao) to strive for wealth, Secretary Gao raised his voice. He talked about liberation from beginning to end. The ideology and bold and cutting-edge topics aroused all the cadres present at the meeting. Many cadres were rigid in their thinking and did not dare to go half a step beyond the threshold. Once, when a meeting was held in Gangkou Township, I asked someone to write two sentences on both sides of the rostrum. Big red vertical couplets: 'Concentrate on getting rich, grab money with confidence'. As soon as those village officials stepped into the meeting place, they were stunned, and someone exclaimed: 'Oh, who wrote it wrong!' Majestic and shocking. Especially his speculative, vivid and powerful agitational language, such as "once the policy is implemented, all the clothes will get wet", "poor will not take root, rich is not born", " The chickens eat rice, eat every grain', 'community and team industries are not capital, only poverty and prosperity can be surnamed', 'the time has come, we only owe the east wind' and so on, still linger in our ears, inspiring us to go Opening up new industries. It is no exaggeration to say that the ideological enlightenment of Shazhou people began at this time, and then Shazhou came out so beautifully, and the liberation of the mind was the first.”

"Emancipate the mind, so that people sow the seeds of hope in the poor hearts, and see greenery on the barren beaches. After the implementation of the household contract system, adjust the rural industrial structure, please enter the God of Wealth surnamed 'gong' Lord, a large number of young and strong laborers walked out of the fields and stepped onto the historical stage of developing township enterprises, starring in scenes of tragic and exciting live dramas. The sudden emergence of township enterprises has brought about profound and great historical changes in the rural economy of Shazhou. Shazhou The life of the farmers began to be rich, happy, and happy. Shazhou people are a little bit more airy." An "old Shazhou man" recorded the situation of Secretary Gao Dezheng's vigorous development of township enterprises in Shazhou in this way.As far as I know, in the next few years, the industrial output value of 20 villages and towns in Shazhou County, which was once looked down upon by people, doubled, and Tangqiao, Leyu, Nansha, Miaoqiao and other multi-billion villages emerged. Yuan Township'.In Ouqiao, Zhashang, Baoji, Juqiao, Huayuan and other "ten million yuan villages", new stars are rising gradually.As a result, Shazhou shocked the world for a while and became a wealthy county in Suzhou.

Thirty years later, when I met the old secretary Gao Dezheng and asked him about this passionate time, the old man smiled and said affectionately: "I can't forget the development history of township enterprises in those years. The so-called 'Southern Jiangsu model' That's how it came out with 'half the country'..." I, a native of Suzhou, also remember this period of history clearly. It coincided with my middle school days when I was studying in my hometown.Most of my sister and classmates who did not go to high school joined the commune and brigade enterprises and became the first generation of workers who received work points.

Another reason why I have deep memories of that period of history is that my father took the lead in setting up two team-run enterprises, one is an embroidery factory and the other is an optical factory.Compared with Shazhou, Changshu, where I was born, has more advantages in setting up commune and brigade enterprises.Changshu's lace was famous in the past. Even during the "Cultural Revolution", rural women did not stop this profitable handicraft.It is said that during the "Cultural Revolution" we were able to keep such a "capitalist tail" because of the "diplomatic needs" identified by Premier Zhou Enlai--for export.But embroidering lace is not an activity of communes and brigades. It is subcontracted to rural women by the supply and marketing department on behalf of the country's foreign trade department.

The nature of the embroidery factory run by my father is a real commune and brigade small enterprise. It is a small factory that undertakes the business of an embroidery factory in Suzhou and is directly run by the production brigade.The factory I know had about 30 to 40 young embroiderers at that time, most of them were selected by each production team according to the quota, and basically belonged to the handy and beautiful women of the production team.Those young women who were able to enter the embroidery factory were particularly honored at that time, because they could no longer face the sun and face the loess all day long, which made the young women who failed to enter the factory extremely envious of them.Another important reason is that their income is higher than that of farmers, and they can get some cash. In the countryside at that time, they could be regarded as a group of "white-collar workers" who never left the land but did not need to bask in the sun.

My father was also the director of another glasses factory, and the workers were mainly young men. Because of the establishment of the factory, my father became a "popular man" at that time, and everyone in the ten miles and eight towns knew his name.The most important thing is that the income of these two factories is very rich, and the "pioneer brigade" where my father works has really become a vanguard brigade with relatively good economic development in Changshu and even Suzhou.What my father said, "Wu Renbao has come to fetch sutras" is about this time. When the township enterprises in Suzhou were booming, I had already left my hometown and embarked on the journey of joining the army.Four or five years later, when I returned to my hometown after visiting relatives for the first time, China had entered the era of comprehensive reform and opening up. In Suzhou after the 1980s, although I was in a foreign land, I often heard exciting things about my hometown: such as the first peasant band (which was later put on the movie screen), such as the first "100 million yuan village", such as the first farmer's kindergarten, etc., these were big news that could be published in "People's Daily" at that time!And this kind of news in our Suzhou area, almost every year there can be a lot of baskets...

The development of township and village enterprises in Suzhou follows the path of collective economic prosperity; when the collective is prosperous, all kinds of new "agriculture, rural areas and rural areas" that are beneficial to the countryside, agriculture, and farmers will emerge in endlessly. At that time, the vast rural areas of Suzhou could be said to be "no village without factory, no village without industry".Three or five people can form a factory, and factories with dozens or hundreds of people can be seen everywhere. I heard from a "folk in Suzhou" that the earliest and best township enterprises were those from Jiangyin and Wuxi. Arm yourself with the relationship of working in the factory in the city.” What does it mean? Someone explained to me: During the transformation of urban industry and commerce in the early days of liberation and the difficult period of the country in the 1960s, 200,000 to 300,000 urban residents from Shanghai, Wuxi, and Suzhou were sent to the vast rural areas of Suzhou.Although these people have registered permanent residence in rural areas, they are always connected with the city.These people came in handy when the "country folks" in Suzhou wanted to set up some small factories but lacked technology and supplies.They went back to the city to open their mouths to their relatives and friends in state-owned enterprises, and the problem was basically solved.The commune and brigade enterprises in the Suzhou area initially started their business as “hardware” and agricultural tool processing for the daily life of local farmers or agricultural production. Later, they started to make money by helping some enterprises in the city process auxiliary parts and earn small profits. .Without technology, they invited engineers in the city to use Sundays and holidays to go to the countryside to help and guide them. This time, the city and the countryside were connected. The villagers are warm and hospitable. Whenever the old chef from the city comes over, he always prepares some agricultural and sideline products, such as chicken feathers, domestic chickens, snails in the river, live fresh fish, crabs, etc., which are loved by Shanghai people. When returning to the city, let him take it back.The masters are very happy to accept this "equivalent exchange". On the one hand, they use Sundays and holidays to change the environment in the countryside where the rice is fragrant and the air is fresh, and at the same time they can bring back some fresh food for their families. They are very happy.Some don't even take their wages at all. They come and go, like visiting relatives, and get along very well with farmers in Suzhou.Farmers are also happy. First, they set up a factory with the help of the masters. Second, they learned the technology without spending much money. The products produced can be directly handed over to the big factories in the city, and the profits are real. , Risk-free cash. "Sunday Engineer" was called by fellow villagers in Suzhou. It was once all the rage in the early days of reform and opening up, which promoted the rapid improvement and unprecedented development of township enterprises in Suzhou. This kind of "Sunday Engineer" has greatly promoted urban-rural relations and commodity transactions from another aspect. A boss in Wujiang who is now a "billionaire" told me that his cable factory was initially a village-run enterprise with the help of Shanghai's "Sunday Master". No, those "Sunday masters" who helped him start his business in Shanghai simply resigned from their permanent jobs in Shanghai and went to the countryside to become his engineers. "More than 20 years have passed, and some masters from Shanghai have gone through the retirement procedures in our factory, and some are still in our factory today. Among them, there is a second generation working here, and they even live in their homes. Wujiang..." The development of township enterprises in Suzhou has also enabled local skilled craftsmen to set up factories and shop one after another.Many fellow villagers I knew in childhood and adolescence seized the opportunity at this time and made a fortune.Next to the current "Sutong Bridge" used to be Dongzhang Township, where many of my middle school classmates started to set up mahogany furniture factories one after another. Now the mahogany furniture in the Shanghai market is made by them. from. A classmate of mine told me that he didn’t go to school after graduating from junior high school and joined the wood processing factory of the brigade. Because his father is a well-known local carpenter, his father took the lead as the factory director of this small factory, and his son was regarded as “going through the back door.” went in. "The factory was established in about 1974. At first, there were only six or seven people. It was called a wood processing factory. That is, because the commune built a new auditorium, our factory took over this batch of work, and then began to take over the work of the surrounding brigades. Some sporadic work of the members. One year, a wealthy family said that his son was working in Shanghai and was getting married. He asked us if we could make a pair of mahogany chairs. My father had done it before, so he agreed. Mahogany material That person got it from the unit under the Shanghai Foreign Trade Company, so my father took a few of us to spend some time making this pair of mahogany chairs for marriage. At that time, marriage generally paid attention to the "three major pieces"—— Bicycles, radios, sewing machines, this family got a pair of mahogany chairs more than others when they got married, which immediately caused a repercussion among colleagues. So this Shanghai native kept coming to us, saying that his friends all wanted to make mahogany chairs. In this way, we made more and more. At the beginning, we did it secretly, because during the "Cultural Revolution", mahogany furniture was once regarded as the "Four Olds", and it was an antique that the rebels wanted to smash when they saw it. Later, after the reform and opening up, no one cared about it. , so we openly specialize in mahogany furniture. Over time, we have gained a reputation. The mahogany furniture that first appeared in the Shanghai market were basically made by us in Dongzhang. When we were the most prosperous, even US President Carter invited us Go and order mahogany furniture for his house..." Are old classmates bragging? "Absolutely!" he confirmed to me, pulling out a photo of President Carter sitting on a set of mahogany couches in his Atlanta home. "President Carter's set of mahogany furniture is specially made for him by our factory. His love for Chinese mahogany furniture has reached the point of infatuation. Once one of his mahogany sofa chairs accidentally knocked off a corner The president was very sorry. A famous American craftsman came to please Carter after knowing this, but the president insisted on asking a Chinese mahogany craftsman to help him repair it. Later, our Dongzhang master Chen Yunlai really traveled thousands of miles to the United States to help Carter. The president restored the sofa chair. Several subsequent presidents of the United States, such as Bush Sr. and Clinton, all chose the mahogany furniture made by us." Dongzhang is not far from my hometown, and the vehicles of Shanghai people buying mahogany furniture still often pass by my old house. When I went back to my hometown more than ten years ago, the mayor of this town, Jiang, told me that his town had developed from a "one piece of wood" (redwood) in a social enterprise back then into a "one piece of clothing", and then from a "one piece of clothing". One piece of clothing” developed into “one needle”, and later developed from “one needle” to “one vegetable”, which made the collective economy of Dongzhang Town by the Yangtze River more and more prosperous. A "well-off society" has been realized. "The so-called one piece of wood, relying on the establishment of a mahogany factory, triggered as many as dozens of small factories in the town to merge into a mahogany industry group; because of the mahogany business, Dongzhang was inextricably linked with Shanghai, so People from Shanghai who bought mahogany furniture went to Dongzhang to see that the conditions here were good, and there were many girls with skillful hands in the countryside, so they came to set up a clothing factory. In the past few years, the clothing industry in our town has risen again. Once there are more clothing industries, the textile industry must keep up, so "one piece of clothing" drives "one needle"... The sideline business of the communes and teams has gone up, and the villagers' The days are getting better, and the mechanization of agricultural production, technological improvement, and basic construction of farmland and water conservancy have money for large-scale projects. In this way, the collective economy obtained through the establishment of township enterprises has in turn strongly supported agricultural production. We are also targeting Shanghai. The market has popularized the cultivation of special vegetables in rural areas, which is a vegetable. In this way, basically every household has people working in the factory and some people growing special vegetables at home. It makes the life of the people in the town steadily higher." Mayor Jiang is now working in the development zone of Changshu City, recalling that period of the history of township enterprises, he is still full of emotion. "Most of the public facilities, cement roads leading to the villages, and farmers' two-story buildings in Dongzhang Town that you see now were built when the township enterprises developed rapidly." Mayor Jiang's words may be correct. This is an image summary of the most direct and most beneficial changes brought to Suzhou society and farmers by the once brilliant township enterprises in Suzhou.Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist, went to Suzhou many times in the 1980s to conduct research on township enterprises, and the concept of "half of the country" was also spread from his mouth.Mr. Fei commented on the township and village enterprises in Suzhou in this way: the communal teams here and the small factories set up according to local conditions have given some skilled craftsmen a place to use their skills, and through collective strength, the wisdom and economic activities scattered among the people have been formed. Strong collective economic activities have been established, which has played a strong role in promoting local economic construction and accelerating farmers' prosperity. As I write this, I cannot but think of one person—this person is about the same age as me, but he was famous much earlier than me, and his influence is huge both in China and in the world.He is Gao Dekang, the boss of "Bosideng" who is very familiar to the Chinese. Gao Dekang has no blood relationship with Gao Dezheng, the old secretary of Suzhou, and they are not related to each other. They are completely two people of different ages and born in different places.But Gao Dezheng had a great influence on Gao Dekang, because when Gao De was working as the secretary of the county party committee in Shazhou and later as a commissioner in the Suzhou area, he used to shout loudly everywhere, "Once the policy is implemented, all the little shirts will get wet" and "The poor will not Slogans such as rooting, wealth is not born", "community and brigade industry are not capital, only the poor and rich can be named community" had a profound impact on Gao Dekang. Gao Dekang's home is in Shanjing Village, Baimao Township.Baimao Township is a real land of fish and rice in Changshu, the hinterland of Suzhou.The well-known "Bai Mao Folk Song" is not only the representative of Wu culture in my country, but also the originator of Japanese folk songs.The Baimao Pond in front of Gao Dekang’s house is an important spillway from Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River and an important traffic route for water towns in southern Jiangsu. The "little tailor" Gao Dekang also went out to set up his own company when I was in the army.But at that time, going from door to door and going it alone was not what he was after, so Gao Dekang was moved when he heard that people from neighboring villages who run commune and brigade enterprises can also "do a lot in the vast world".Relying on his excellent sewing skills and good popularity, he brought together 11 brothers and formed the Shanjing Village Sewing Group, becoming the first village-run enterprise in the village.At that time, apart from 11 people, there were 8 sewing machines that they carried together from their own homes.At first, the work I did was either processing supplied materials or doing work on behalf of others, but then the situation changed qualitatively.Baimao is located next to the national road from Shanghai to Changshu and Wuxi, with convenient transportation.In the past, many clothing businesses in Shanghai traveled between Shanghai, Changshu and Wuxi through this national road.Design in Shanghai—processing in Suxichang area—reselling to the Shanghai market. In the past few decades, the Shanghai clothing market has gone through such a cross-regional "assembly line".This process greatly improved the craftsmanship and technology of small private tailors in Suzhou and Wuxi, because many garments in Shanghai were to be exported, and the quality emphasized excellence.Since Gao Dekang established his own factory with 11 brothers and sisters, what he did at first was to undertake this kind of work.After a long time, he became a little dissatisfied, "It's better to do it for others than to make it yourself and sell it yourself!" It is said that Suzhou people are smart, and this is true.Gao Dekang belongs to the smarter part of Suzhou farmers, especially his business awareness and business skills are outstanding.He didn't want to make wedding dresses for others, so he ventured into the world by himself, and he was very brand conscious.When other township factories have become "billion-dollar enterprises", Gao Dekang had his own "Bosideng" brand when he was still processing materials for others, and it was clearly registered with the industrial and commercial department. The "little tailor" had a mind of his own, and the sewing group of Shanjing Village was renamed "Baimao Clothing Factory" by him at this time.When people from Shanghai came to ask him to "process" clothing, Gao Dekang said: If we want to do it again, it must be counted as the common product of our two factories.The Shanghainese widened their eyes and asked: What do you mean?Gao Dekang replied: It's very simple. The clothes we make in the future must be counted as our common products.If you still trust us, then our factory will be your joint factory in Shanghai from now on.How about it?We give full play to the enthusiasm of two aspects, and the factory is released, we will benefit, and you will also make a lot of money!The Shanghainese looked at this "little tailor" who was born as a farmer for a long time, and suddenly opened his arms and put his arms around Gao Dekang: OK, let's set up a joint garment factory! After the joint operation, the Baimao garment factory is like a village girl sitting in a sedan chair—it has completely changed. The "Bosideng" brand has become a trendy Chinese brand with "full foreign style" through the hands of Shanghainese. It made its mark in Shanghai, then in the Beijing market, and when it landed in the markets of the three northeastern provinces, "Bosideng" has become a must-have item for consumers.At this time, the "little tailor" Gao Dekang made another big deal - raising 30 million yuan to introduce a batch of the world's most advanced numerical control equipment to replace the 8 desktop sewing machines that his feet were stepping on.With a good brand, the most advanced numerical control equipment, and a group of marketing personnel who can operate in the market, Gao Dekang's "Bosideng" has become famous all over the world in just a few years, especially in the northern market. Product sales top. For many years, many Chinese people thought that "Bosideng" was a famous foreign clothing brand just like "Pierre Cardin".But I, a native of Suzhou, know that "Bosideng" is a clothing brand of a village-run enterprise founded by farmers!The three words "Bosideng" on the trademark are not full of "foreign taste", but are extremely earthy!My fellow villager Gao Dekang hadn't studied for a few years, and he hadn't even learned how to hold a pen before he was driven to work in the farmland by his parents.Later, he caught up with the wave of large-scale township enterprises, so he put down his hoe, picked up a sewing machine, and even became a "factory director".The product has a big market, and the brand has been recognized by consumers, so his big hands holding the scissors also grabbed the wolf hair smartly, and brandished the title of his product... How many times when I went back to Suzhou and passed by Baimao and the "Bosideng" factory area, I wanted to visit the "little tailor" I knew when I was a child, but I never stepped into the solemn and luxurious "Bosideng" gate.It is no exaggeration to say that although I have been in other places for so many years, because of the market influence of "Bosideng" in Beijing and the north, Gao Dekang has never disappeared from my vision.Whenever I see him appear in CCTV programs and various news, I am always silently happy for this fellow.When I used to sit on the plane, I could always see the "Bosideng" advertising decoration on the back of the seat. If there is a traveler, I will definitely tell him: "Bosideng" is next to my hometown... Team-run enterprises like "Bosideng" were a major feature of the Suzhou area in the 1970s and 1980s, and such models can be found in almost every village.If you have the opportunity to take a walk in today's Suzhou, when you see some large-scale enterprises that are still rooted in the township land, if you are interested to ask about the history of the enterprises, you will find that almost all of them are It evolved from the commune and brigade enterprises back then, and the path taken is very similar to Gao Dekang's "Bosideng". Before the Wanli Yangtze River enters the estuary of Wusongkou, there is a place where bifurcations begin to appear, stretching as far as the eye can see.In addition to the largest Chongming Island, there are several pearl-like sandy islands. Among them is Shuangshan Island, which is close to the south bank of the Dajiang River and is now part of Suzhou.Standing on the small island and looking forward, you can see the magnificent "Sutong Bridge" that has just opened to traffic; looking back, you can see the Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge.There is a piece of hat-shaped land between the two bridges, which is Zhangjiagang City.Historically, many stories about the lower reaches of the Yangtze River have occurred in this hat-shaped land. I found a small riverside village called "Changjiang Village" in this place. The story here is exactly in line with the road of township enterprises in Suzhou that I want to write about—— "Changjiang Village was renamed from the Changjiang Brigade, which started in 1959. There are now 7,200 people in the village, and it was 3,500 before 2004. Because a neighboring village was merged a few years ago, the total population of the village has increased. It has more than doubled.” The old village head Yu Quanhe told me, “Changjiang Village used to be very poor. During the land reform in the 1950s, only one family was rated as a landlord. Even this landlord actually only had dozens of acres of thin land by the river. But There are 80 pirates in our village, rich people don’t know how to become pirates, and only those who can’t afford food and land to farm go to work as bandits on the river, which shows what the past of Changjiang Village is like…” "But I know that your Changjiang Village is amazing now! The total assets have exceeded 2 billion yuan!" From the Suzhou government, I have heard that Changjiang Village is now one of several typical examples of Suzhou's "new socialist countryside". Lao Yu smiled and said, "It all started when we developed township enterprises." After speaking, he said to a beautiful girl beside him, "You can be an interpreter for Writer He!" In fact, Changjiang Village is only twenty or thirty miles away from my birthplace, but I did not understand nearly half of what he said.This is one of the three peasant cadres in southern Jiangsu who need to bring "interpreters" with them. The other two are Wu Renbao and Qin Zhenhua. I can understand, but Yu Quan and the old village head’s words really make it difficult for me to distinguish—this also proves that Yu’s hometown is actually an “immigrant place”, especially in the villages near the Yangtze River, and many people’s ancestors are not descendants of King Wu. , Some of them wandered directly from the sea or the north bank of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River.Lao Yu said that his grandparents belonged to this type of immigrants.This also made me understand one thing: In Suzhou, the city of Wu, the daring character of Zhangjiagang people may actually have inherited more of their ancestors’ non-Wu cultural blood.It's just that the long years have made these wanderers in foreign lands gradually influenced by the peaceful and gentle Wu culture, so that their descendants have completely integrated with Wu culture and become authentic Wu people. However, once they have the opportunity to develop themselves, their blood The kind of bold and courageous personality will naturally burst out.The changes in Changjiang Village can be described as a typical example of this type. All this began to happen from the hands of the old village chief Yu Quanhe. "I officially became the team leader in 1975. At that time, there were 15 production teams with 1147 mu of land, and each person had only 4 points of land on average. There was a revolution on the 4 points of land. This is what Changjiang Village went through before there were no township enterprises. At that time, we also put forward the slogan and goal of building a new countryside, which was called: "The house stands on both sides, and the appearance is completely changed. Free up the land, increase production and increase production again." Learning from Dazhai in agriculture, you can learn from it and learn from it. The people in the village can’t even eat enough. So some people say that Zhangjiagang is the northern part of Suzhou, and our Changjiang Village is “Siberia in the northern part of Suzhou”. People can’t imagine how poor the people are, especially those in the four-point area. Fishermen who don’t have any, their children dare not go ashore in winter, because they don’t even have a pair of decent trousers, so they can only stay on the boat and get into the straw quilt made of reed leaves... From July 15th to August 13th, 1976, Gao Dezheng, the Secretary of our Shazhou County Party Committee at the time, led us to study with Wu Renbao in our neighbor Huaxi Village. At that time, Jiangyin County was also part of our Suzhou area. Huaxi Village and Wu Renbao were the advanced models of agriculture that our Suzhou Shuqi. There are two things to learn from Huaxi Village: One is Wu Renbao’s spirit of leading the masses to change the world, and the other is the experience of changing the backwardness of the countryside through running township enterprises. This month has taught me a lot. I think: If we in Changjiang Village learn from Wu Renbao’s first experience, we will not be able to do it. It can be done because we only have 4 points of land per capita, and if we "revolution" on 4 points of land, I am afraid that we can only save half of our lives, so I want to learn from his second experience-running township enterprises." Yu Quanhe brought Changjiang Village to Guangming Avenue through the road of running township enterprises. From 1978 to 1980, farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui were busy assigning land to households according to their fingerprints, farmers in Dongguan, Guangdong risked their lives to smuggle to Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and some people were talking about setting up "special zones" in circles. When it was capitalism, Yu Quanhe and his Changjiang village had imitated the brothers production brigades around them vigorously, and started the great cause of creating "half of the country" - running large-scale township enterprises. Changjiang Village is somewhat different from other villages in Suzhou. Initially, the township enterprises established in Suzhou were called "diversified management". The "diversified management" of Changjiang Village is based on reality. The Yangtze River Village on the edge of the Yangtze River naturally relies on the Yangtze River to eat the Yangtze River.After the founding of the People's Commune in New China, what Changjiang Village has never disbanded is a fishing team.After Yu Quanhe became the captain of the production brigade, especially after seeing Wu Renbao's small workshop-style hardware factory, he felt that his production brigade had greater potential for "diversification" than Huaxi Village, so he strengthened the fishery team on the one hand, and on the other hand Leverage the capital accumulated by the fishing team to set up bakelite hardware factory and shipyard, and because it is a "special" business, it has the advantage of exclusive operation. In 1980, he had made the team-run economy of Changjiang Village impressive, and he himself was named a model worker in Jiangsu Province. One day, a deputy director of the Organization Department of the Suzhou Prefectural Committee approached Yu Quanhe and told him that his superiors were planning to promote him as a deputy county magistrate, and asked him what education level he had. Yu Quanhe said: Elementary school.The Deputy Director of the Organization Department smiled: Your actual level has reached junior high school culture, and you will be in high school after exercising. How about this, Lao Yu, you go to school to get a certificate, get a high school diploma, and you don’t have to worry about other things .When Yu Quanhe heard this, his face turned red, and he said with a simple smile: "How can this be done!"In the end, the head of the organization had no choice but to tell the leaders of Shazhou County that Lao Yu didn't want to issue a certificate of education, so it was difficult for him to be the deputy county magistrate. "I'm a farmer, how could I ever think of being the magistrate of a county!" Yu Quanhe said without any regret when recalling this incident to me, "My skills and interests are in running township enterprises." In this year, Yu Quanhe accumulated 350,000 collective funds and established the first decent enterprise of a certain scale in Changjiang Village.And put forward the "four borrowing" strategy of "borrowing ladders to go upstairs, borrowing money to make money, borrowing boats to go to sea, and borrowing belly to have children".This coincides with the "horizontal economy" proposed by Secretary Gao Dezheng who sits in the city of Suzhou. Lao Yu is a "swift person" who is good at doing business, plus he has the status of a provincial model worker, so it is very effective to set up a business with a foreign unit. "In those two years, I set up 6 factories at once. The land policy I adopted was: no money for land use, and the original old factories in Murakami were transformed into branches of large enterprises in 'Suzhou' and 'Wuxi'. It becomes the climate." This is the first step for the Changjiang Village to run a township enterprise. "After setting up a branch factory through the back door, and through several years of development, the collective funds have accumulated to a certain stage, and I began to look out." What Yu Quanhe wanted to do at this time was: strive for one or even half of the Yangtze River The "fist product" of the village.Later, he found out that Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator Factory was carrying out a localization project of elevator guide rails.So Yu Quanhe approached the Shanghainese and offered to take the job.People from Shanghai asked: How can you do such a project?Yu Quanhe said: Isn’t the guide rail of this elevator the same as the final acceptance of ships in our shipyard!我们有造船验船的经验，所以来接你们的活。上海人笑出了声：你……你这个乡下人胆子倒是蛮大啊！又说：人家上海冶金研究所是这方面的权威专家，我们还给了他们90万元试制费，结果啥也没成功，你乡下人能行？郁全和不服了，把胸脯拍得“咚咚”响：我一分也不要你们的试制费，但产品要是合格，你就得收下！上海人面面相觑，负责该项技术工程的总工程师是个开明人士，说：“你要敢说这样的话，阿拉就跟你签协议。”“签吧！”郁全和卷起袖子，像上船去打渔。 不知道世界工业史和世界科学技术史到底怎么发展起来的！许多权威和专家没有干成的事，竟然让一些完全不懂行的人搞成功了。 郁全和清楚：长江村百姓和他郁全和可能搞出这个“电梯导轨”玩意会发大财，当然搞不出来也没关系，反正农民嘛，没啥丢脸的。但他想的还是假如能搞成功后的“发大财”景象。郁全和与上海人签完这份协议，心里喜滋滋的。 电梯导轨？那是什么玩意呀？郁全和在这之前甚至连电梯都没有乘过，现在却要来完成一项关于测验电梯的技术工程设备的研制，听起来有些像天方夜谭。 开始几天郁全和拿着那份协议书一直发呆，后来想到了找建筑公司，因为建筑公司给人家盖楼时就会接触电梯的安装。 行啊，你郁老板付钱我们就试试。建筑公司的朋友说。后来公司请了一位上海专业工程师，那个时候苏州很多乡镇开始请“星期天工程师”，这位电梯专家也是属于这个类型的聘用者，每月2000元酬金，但最后没能搞成，便悄悄溜走了。 这前后花去长江村8万元费用，郁全和感到很心疼。他到现场问情况，有人告诉他：公司的院子风水不好，里面有个坟地……“扯淡嘛！”郁全和一甩衣袖，说：“我自己来弄弄看。” 这是一个月亮高挂天际的夜晚。郁全和让几个参与研制的工人不停操作着那台失败了的导轨，左右前后、上下来回地一次次试验，又来回上下、前后左右地再一次次试验…… “问题出在这儿！”突然，俯身钻在试验机下端的郁全和大叫一声，“停！停停！”只见他拍了拍头上的屑尘，吃力地直起身，然后对身边的一位师傅说：“我们一起去做个小附件再试。” 花200元弄来的一个小附件安装上后，电梯导轨一举试验成功！喜讯报到建设部，领导和专家喜出望外：苏州的乡镇企业还真了不得啊！ 上海人不能不服，有协议在先。于是郁全和一举在上海滩出了名，当然最得到实惠的还是长江村的百姓。 进入90年代后，长江村的乡镇企业已有相当规模。郁全和从市场经济的实际出发，成立了“长江润发集团公司”，由于“润发”顺顺当当地发了大财，所以多次被江苏省和农业部评为“明星企业”。之后的十几年里，乡镇企业几经风浪，可长江村的“长江润发”始终激流勇进，一路高歌，企业发展蒸蒸直上。一个重要原因是上海人相信长江村，相信郁全和。宝钢下属的几个子公司搬到了这里，这样的“大块头”来到小村子，你说长江村能不发大财吗？ “长江润发”后来成为“长江润发集团”，还是上市公司。关键是郁全和这位被秦振华誉为“张家港精神的典范，江苏省农村工业的典范，全面协调发展的典范”的长江村领头人思想与作风时时处处显示了共产党员的风范，因而长江村不仅发展快速、健康，而且百姓实惠富足。我去采访所看到的今日长江村，实在令人羡慕。这里家家户户有别墅，村子里有四星级豪华宾馆，昔日海盗出没的小渔村早已变成了热闹繁华的江边小城…… 这首名为《我们是堂堂长江人》的歌曲，是长江村的村歌，它可能是全国惟一的一首村歌。郁全和告诉我，村里的乡亲们和这些年成为长江村新村民的几百名外地籍大学生都会唱这首歌，并且以此为骄傲。 我还知道一件事：在长江村的乡镇企业发展非常好的时候，他们以“长江人的胸怀”，伸出双手热情帮助过许多贫困地区的农民兄弟，其中有为“18个农民按手印分田到户”的安徽凤阳小岗村修建了1000米长的村庄大道，并给每家每户送了一台电视机。至于长江村在江苏自己的省里帮助穷兄弟的事就更不知其数。郁全和对我说：长江村能做这些事，都是在当年创办乡镇企业时确立的“立村宗旨”——“艰苦创业，八方相助，效益为上，永不自满”指引下取得的。 长江村是上世纪80年代苏州乡镇企业潮中涌现出的一朵绚丽之花。这朵绚丽之花一直没有凋零过，越开越艳丽，成为万里长江流域的万个村寨中最著名的“长江名花”之一。再说常熟的城东，这里也有一片气魄非凡的工业开发区，前些年它的名字叫“李桥村工业城”。有一次我路过那儿发现改叫“申大工业开发区”了，现在还真不知道它是不是又有了新名字。但我知道这块地还是叫李桥村，常熟市郊的一个农民开发的工业园区。 这片开发区创业者的名字叫杜根根，很土的一个农民的名字，可这个人很了不得。1980年时，这位庄稼汉站在村头的那片低洼地上，面对远远隐约可见的常熟县城，对村民们说：“我们要修一条通往县城的康庄大道，否则就永远富不起来。” “杜书记啊，你看看天，还亮着呢！你是不是在白日做梦？哈哈……”当时有村民这样嘲讽杜根根。村民们这样嘲讽自己的村支书不是没有道理。常熟城已经有几千年的历史了，处在县城十几里路外的李桥村也有几千年的历史了，这一城一乡就差那么十几里路，可在农民看来就是两重天——城里是天堂，我们农民只能过“头冲黄土背朝天”的苦日子。 李桥村处在一个十年九涝的低洼地，除了种水稻外，别他选择。虽然这里与县城近在咫尺，但就是这隔田隔村的十几里路，将李桥村人与常熟县城分成两重天。农民们不是没有想过要改变面貌，可就是想了也没有办法呀！ 杜根根说：“你们嘲笑我也罢，讽刺我也罢，路我是修定了。只要我这个村支书不下台，你们就看着我修这路有没有道理！” 杜根根毕竟是村支书，群众中的威信摆在那儿。后来村民们听他细细一说，也就都过来支持他的修路计划。不过通往县城的路真的不那么容易修，除了李桥村穷得丁当响之外，这条路还必须经过邻村的地盘，这可是一件比没钱更难的事。 “行啊杜根根，你要修路，拿钱来吧！”杜根根刚刚做完本村的思想工作，踏进邻村还没怎么开口，人家就把手伸得老长老长的——他们也是在讥笑杜根根“白日做梦”。 “这路修好了，你们上县城比我们李桥村还近，最得利的是你们。噢，你们不仅不谢我，反来敲我的竹杠！岂有此理！” “嘘——你老杜要这么说，那你就别修这路！你既然要修路，你就是占我们的地，你不赔行吗？”人家回敬他。 “好！路我肯定是修定了！不过我们李桥村是穷得出名的，大队上就那么一点家当：一张办公桌，一间旧房子，你们随便搬。如果你们要，可以马上去搬！”杜根根说。 “那值几个钱？不行，你修路占地，不补偿十万八万的，我们怎么向村民交代？” “你话说到这儿，我也只能如实告诉你：我李桥村确实拿不出其他值钱的东西，可有低洼水稻田里打出的大米！” “这不就得了，大米也是钱嘛！” 李桥村跟邻村的条件就这么谈定了。于是杜根根便率领全村所有壮劳力包括妇女在内，开始了一场前所未有的修路大战。那情景对农民来说十分熟悉——“大跃进”、“人民公社”时的学大寨都是这么干的，但这回李桥村百姓干的劲头比过去大不一样，他们心里清楚：这回杜书记是诚心诚意让咱乡下人往城里奔——虽然他们并不全然明白杜根根修这路的根本意义，可有一点实实在在的眼前利益农民们是清楚的：至少路修好了，不用再像从前骑自行车总往稻田里倒而沾一身泥水！ 路修到一半，杜根根说：“我们李桥村穷，但这路是为我们李桥村子子孙孙修的，所以大伙儿干活的工分就不记了。” 村民们说：“不记就不记，只要你杜书记领我们走的路对头就行。” 杜根根听到这话，泪水直在眼眶里转，于是这位铁塔似的庄稼汉弯下腰，深深地朝众乡亲鞠了个躬…… 不计报酬——但李桥村人照旧你追我赶，比学赶帮。 不给饭吃——他们自带饭盒，另加一壶凉开水。 路终于修好了，从年初一开工一直修到大年三十。来年新春，村民们穿着崭新的衣服，骑上崭新的自行车，喜气洋洋地进了城，大伙儿见面的第一句话都说：“这哪里像是进城！倒像是在自家屋里跨门槛——抬下腿就得了！” 哈哈哈，这路修得值！ 值——这时的杜根根也在说值，但他的心里却并没有村民们轻松。为这路，他跟交通部门不知磕了多少头才办好了那些报批手续；为这路，他还得带领村民连续三年给人家邻村送去8000斤大米——赔人家的！还有许多许多冤屈的事杜根根就不想提了。总之你们看着我杜根根以后的日子怎么过—— 路修好了，杜根根马上将村上那个又破又烂的布厂改成了与县城内大纺织厂可以抗衡的新厂。后来又与大名鼎鼎的县城内的色织四厂办联营的“四联染纱厂”。与此同时，又在村上集资24000元办了一个汽修厂——别看这个小汽修厂，后来它利用城郊优势，像滚雪球似的发展，没几年就成了江苏省挂牌的“一类企业”，年修客车量达7000余辆次，成为李桥村的一棵“摇钱树”……李桥村的村办企业就是这样发展起来的。后来苏州地面上把李桥村的“想致富，就修路”的经验当做一条法宝，迅速形成了环市区、县城的“城镇郊区经济带”——农民们拉近与城镇之间的距离的结果是，很快获得了经济新生命。 杜根根带领村民修的那条路后来成了常熟城郊的“黄金之路”，尤其是他通过多方引资后办起的“李桥村工业城”，吸引了众多有钱没地的国营、合资和私营企业到那里投资落户，没用几年就初具规模，成为我国最早的一批农村经济开发区。后来他又将自己的村办企业扩大成一个集纺织、机械、化工、房地产、商业和贸易等十几个产业于一体的“申大”集团。 “申大”公司今天已经是全国著名的企业了，“李桥村工业城”现在已经属于常熟市区的“城中城”了，当年的那条“李闸路”上今天来来去去的人也已经都是穿着时尚的市民了…… 杜根根和李桥村所走过的路，是苏州千千万万乡镇企业和农民们所走过的路。这路从梦想到修建完成时间并不长，但之后的二三十年里所发生的变化则是惊人的。它改变了农民们几千年来的命运，同时也影响和改变了传统形态下姑苏的命运。 2007年的金秋时节，我应邀到苏州各地采访。一日我被宣传部的同志带到长江边的一块广阔的金色田野上。这里离长江很近，可以看到一望无际的江面，坐在车上都能听到东去的大江之水的奔腾声响…… “你看，前面就是永联村了！”同行的苏州老乡拍拍我的肩膀，指着一片望不到边的“钢城”这样对我说。 “这……这是永联村？这不是一个大型钢铁厂吗？”在我眼前，明明是一片足有几十平方公里的钢铁之城嘛！ “对，是钢铁厂，可也是永联村呀！”主人解释说，“这钢厂就是永联村的。” “一个村子办这么大的一个钢铁厂啊！”我无法相信，但这是明明白白摆在我面前的事实。今天的永联村就是这个样，它是由“十里钢城”和十里绿原组成的一个现代化的社会主义新农村。 为了让我目睹村办钢城的完整雄姿，苏州老乡驾车足足用了半小时在钢城里转了一圈。老实说，我还是第一次感受如此雄伟的钢铁企业，而一路走的时候，内心一直在想着一个问题：为什么一个村子能办起这么大的钢铁企业？一年能赚多少钱呀？ “永联钢厂2007年的年销售收入是160亿元，上交税收为13亿元。” “永联村村民有多少？” “本籍村民有5330多人，这也是新永联村的编制。” “怎么理解？” “过去老永联村只有2000来人，现在的永联村是兼并了永新、永南等邻村后新组建成的。” “原来如此。”我又问，“那这钢厂职工有多少？” “比村民总数要多。大约有上万人吧！” “那么这里到底是钢城还是农村呢？” “我们这是田野里的钢城，钢城里的花园。你看看，我们的农村像不像一个绿色花园？” 我笑了，可不是：近处，是连绵十里的钢城；举目远眺，我看到的是金色田野里花红草绿，树木葱葱……好一个田野里的钢城，钢城里的花园。 “永联村现在还有一半农田和一半从事农业的村民，这里是个农工结合非常和谐的地方。钢厂的厂长还是村党委书记，村干部有相当一部分还是钢厂的董事，永联村现在是苏州市社会主义新农村的典型之一。”苏州老乡很自豪地告诉我。 我们随后走进“永钢”办公大楼。钢厂里的“永联村民”、钢厂副董事长带我登上大楼顶部的“望江阁”——在这里，几里外的滔滔长江尽收眼底……“十里钢城”和绿色田野更是气势磅礴地呈现在眼前。 关于永联村的故事也是从这一刻我才渐渐知晓。原来永联村的生命很短，是我1975年底离开苏州的前5年才诞生的一个江边小村子。最初它的名字叫“七零圩”，其意是1970年才在长江沙滩地上围垦成陆的一块沙地。永联村先天不足，它的地势非常低，平均海拔只比长江入海口的吴淞水平面高出0.9米。1970年成为围垦地后，它是苏州地区沙洲县的一块新添陆地，当时政府动员了附近几个村搬来200多户农民成为第一批永联村“土著”居民，由此开始了永联村的历史。 永联村初创时的几年，水灾不断，惟一能种植的水稻，产量十分低下，农民们的日子很难过。到1978年时，全村的人均分配水平才只有68元，是全苏州收入最低的村子之一。由于收入低，新村民人心不稳，许多人不愿再留在这块低洼地上。上级党委每年要派一个工作组到村里，而且连换了四任党支部书记，结果情况依旧没有改变。1978年8月，当过学校老师和生产队副业队长的吴栋材被派进永联村，担任第七个工作组组长和第五任党支部书记。 面对一片沙滩地，吴栋材这位曾经在朝鲜战场上受过伤的老战士，心潮起伏。他将班子成员叫到长江边，迎着炽烈的太阳，掷地有声地立下三条规矩：一、要深入了解群众思想脉络，群众想什么，急什么，我们必须心中有数；二、要作好长期扎根打算，不当“飞鸽”牌，以免让群众一次又一次失望；三、要当好一个农村干部，干点实实在在的事业，不改变永联面貌，谁也别想走。 吴栋材就这样开始了他的“永联村”履新。经过调查了解，他和新的党支部感到，永联村千差万差，最差的还是人的精神面貌。走马灯似地更换领导班子，领导干部一无干劲，二无信心，三无凝聚力，群众人心不涣散才怪呢！另一个主要原因是地薄利少，百姓看不到过上好日子的希望也是根本。针对这些情况，吴栋材提出：当务之急是必须找出永联村的致富门道来。 是啊，永联村的致富门道在哪里呢？走高德康那样的“波司登”之路？可永联村既不靠国道，又连个“小裁缝”都找不出来！走杜根根的路？可永联村通往县城最近的路至少也有三四十公里，再者，永联村不足千个劳力，能把自家的地种好已经够全村人一年忙到头的了！如此边远，如此贫困之地，那些聪明的上海人和城里人别说让他们把钱投到这里，就是诚心诚意拉他们来永联看一眼也不会有人心甘情愿。 “我们自己干！干好了是我们自己的！”吴栋材在全村干部会议上这样说。 “俗话说：靠山吃山，靠水吃水。我们永联村不是离水最近、地势低洼嘛？那我们就挖塘养鱼！”于是在吴栋材的带领下，村里将150多亩“锅底田”，开挖成120亩精养鱼池。第七个工作组进村的第一年，全村就实现了“水中生效益，岸上增产量”的初步目标。第二年吴栋材趁热打铁，着手建起几个作坊式小工业项目，虽说小打小闹，但也有几万元的收益。如此三年下来，全村积累了近20万元的集体经济收入。 “20万元？你那村子，连狗都不愿拉屎的地方，我们没啥想法！”当吴栋材带着这么一点实力走出村子去跟人家谈合作时，人家这样笑话他。 “我不信发财就是你们的事！”他重新寻找出路，结果分析当时的市场认为：国家各行各业都在大建设，肯定缺钢材。钢材生意一定好。于是他回来将自己想办轧钢厂的想法跟支部一班人说了。“那得多少钱呀？我们这么个穷村能干得了吗？”有人听了直发懵。 “我请人估计了一下，办一个小型轧钢厂大约30万元。我们自己筹点，再通过政府贷点。永联村要想翻身，就得有自己的工业！”吴栋材心中早已有数。 "agree!" “我也同意！只要吴书记你的心留在永联，我们就支持你！” 干部们纷纷举手。 Just do it!永联村办轧钢厂的消息让百里长江沙滩奔腾起好一阵热浪。十里八乡的老百姓和干部们都在关注这个过去穷得连年底分红都要靠借钱来“意思意思”的江边小村。那个时候他们多数是持怀疑态度，因为他们认为吴栋材和永联村民有点“不知天高地厚”，但是谁也没有想到，永联村下出的这一着棋竟然是迈向幸福天堂的高招。办厂的第一年，永联村就收回了投资成本。第二、第三年……产值连年翻番，到1985年，全村工农业总产值达到1024万元，跨入全苏州百个“千万元村”的行列。 “这么一个穷地方，也能蹦出个'千万元'的富裕村，我们苏州就没有一个村子再可以说没有条件上了！”一位苏州市领导听说永联村的事后，在全市三级干部大会上挥动着右臂，冲台下的干部说，“我要的就是永联这样的精神！既然永联村在芦苇滩上都把村办企业办到这个水平，那么我们全苏州就没有一个地方不能了！向永联学习！” “向永联学习！”全苏州上下一片呼应。永联村靠办轧钢厂，比滚雪球还见效地壮大了集体经济。有了钱，百姓的生活就像芝麻开花节节高。村里很快有了自来水，昔日靠点煤油灯过日子的村民家家户户也有了电灯，什么“电视村”、“电话村”……永联样样走在别人的前头。常熟的杜根根不是修了一条通向县城的黄金致富路吗？我们也修！于是村里出资90万元，修通了永联村到张家港市区的一条30公里的公交汽车线路。城里人能上电影院看戏，我们为什么不能？修个更高级的电影院！孩子读书不要钱了！老人退休也拿退休金！沙滩地上为什么不能建个大花园？建！ 哈哈，有钱的永联村，想干啥事就干成啥事！不几年，永联村完全变成了一个田野上的花园式新农村。而钢厂也几