Chapter 7 Chapter Six Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea

The "sudden emergence" of township enterprises not only makes the economy of Suzhou, a paradise on earth with "small bridges and flowing water", bid farewell to the era of small-scale peasant economy dominated by agriculture and handicrafts for thousands of years, but also makes more than 80% of farmers In the 1970s and 1980s, there were buildings to live in. For the first time, I tasted the well-off life of "upstairs and downstairs", "lights and telephones", and also created a group of bosses and CEOs who later became the support of wealthy Suzhou. .Don't think that these people are old-fashioned people who "only recognize money but can't read".Many of them, like Wang Jinhua and Qin Zhenhua, have become leaders at the city and county levels in Suzhou, and a group of talented people have even entered the university gates and become teachers teaching economics to college students born in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Professor of Science.You do not believe?Then let me give you an example——

This man is called Yuan Qinsheng.It was the mid-90s when I met him.At that time, Yuan Qinsheng was already a university professor with seven or eight years of "teaching experience", and he was not only a university professor.He had a lot of air, much more than a real university professor.University professors in the 1990s still belonged to a class that did not get rich.But "Professor Yuan" is different. He not only has the titles of several university professors, but also owns tens of millions of assets. It's full. Without the help of the secretary, he would never be able to keep busy.This situation was only possible for university presidents and famous professors like Mao Zedong at that time.One day when I came to his office, "Professor Yuan" took out five university professor appointment letters from a drawer and showed me.Really, it's true, and they are all prestigious universities.This aroused my great curiosity.

Shanghainese call farmers who work in the fields "country people" or "Ah Xiang". There is only one word difference between "Allah" and "Ah Xiang", but before the reform and opening up, one was in the sky and the other was in the ground. It was impossible to become equal people.This township enterprise has developed, and "Ah Township" has not only been treated differently by the "Allah", but has also been invited to Shanghai to give lessons to their sons and daughters who are studying in college... Haven't you heard of it?However, in the 1980s, this situation was quite a lot.Yuan Qinsheng is one of them.He is a professor who is doing it with gusto, and even secretly proud of it—it can be seen. "I think the face is quite radiant. Farmers can wash off the mud on their legs, wear leather shoes, and sit in the 'Big Lincoln' to teach at the university. If Confucius knew about this, he would be stunned." Yuan Qinsheng Said so proudly.The key issue is that Yuan Qinsheng has not only become a "visiting professor" in several universities, but also his courses are very popular.When I met him, he said that he was invited to give lectures up to 20 days a month.

"What about your business?" I was a little worried. "My company has a certain scale, and it is enough to have a profit of nearly 10 million yuan a year. I don't deliberately want to be the first in the country and the best in the world. But I have experience, especially in management, which can form classroom teaching plans. This is rare for other township entrepreneurs, so I spend half of my time as a professor and half of my time on managing enterprises..." Yuan Qinsheng said that he did not affect the development of enterprises because of being a professor. This is a township entrepreneur with his own pursuit.He said that being able to transfer his experience and knowledge of "farmers running industries" to university lecture halls is more meaningful than running a business itself.

In the 1980s, the “sudden emergence” of township enterprises in Suzhou had unprecedented influence and impact on the city’s traditional state-owned enterprises.That kind of flexible mechanism, flexible management, and flexible distribution forms had a huge impact on the urban state-owned enterprises that had been eating from the big pot for a long time, especially the treatment of employees in township enterprises and the high-speed economic benefits formed by the enterprises. The staff are just incredible. "Ah Xiang" is more popular than "Allah" since that time.The wisdom and aggressiveness of farmers in Suzhou have changed the conceptual differences between urban and rural areas in several eras.This is even more vividly expressed in Yuan Qinsheng.City people are often dumbfounded and drooling with envy after listening to his lectures and money-making experience.At that time, urban workers and citizens did not live a very comfortable life, and just now every household had a TV, refrigerator, and flush toilet.It is absolutely unthinkable to be able to swagger through the market in a "Great Lincoln" like Yuan Qinsheng.At that time, I heard that a famous female actress in a Shanghai theater troupe wanted to "marry" a township entrepreneur in Suzhou, and the conditions were: a villa and a "Crown". "Isn't it three to five million!" Some of the wealthier entrepreneurs in Suzhou's townships were all fantasizing about this.Yuan Qinsheng belongs to a "higher-class person". He does not change his wife, but he wants to change his identity - he is a farmer at home, a township entrepreneur, but in the city he is a professor, drives a Lincoln, and has a secretary by his side. This was the richest family at the time.My fellow Niu Jiuniu is not putting on airs when he is a professor, but a real professor who is really popular with universities.

There are several national firsts on his head: the first township entrepreneur hired by a university as a visiting professor; the first township entrepreneur to publish a book.Enough! "My name is Yuan Qinsheng, and I am a real farmer. My current factory used to be a small cement product factory, which made cement floor slabs. In the best year, it had a profit of more than 300,000 yuan. But later everyone When I feel that I have money, I started the "three-light" policy of "eat all, use all, and split all." Today, a customer comes to eat with ten people, you eat and I take it, and I eat you and I take it. In the end, the debt is 150,000 yuan, but the fixed assets are only 130,000 yuan. Later, when I took over the factory, I felt that I couldn’t do this. Township enterprises also need to develop, right? Some people say that farmers who set up factories are mostly Liu Adou who can’t afford it. I refused to accept it, so I tried to take office. The company is good Bad, people are the key. So I slowly explored and formed a set of people-centered integrated incentive work methods. It can be summed up in two sentences: improve the quality of people, mobilize people's enthusiasm. I do not allow cadres to We say 'mobilize' enthusiasm, but ask him to create a positive environment and atmosphere. Our cadres have a lot of power here, unlike state-owned enterprises, where firing a person has to be approved by several levels of organizations. We can open the company with one sentence. He. But I never use such power, I rely on tolerance to soften and educate those who are problematic and unmotivated. I never look at the file when I hire people, I only look at his performance. If he performs well, I reuse him …So I go out to give lectures now, and if I don’t return to the factory for ten and a half months, there will be no problems, and the production of the enterprise is still good. If you don’t believe me, you can ask anyone in my factory...” This is the first time I met Yuan Qinsheng At that time, he said a passage when he was teaching dozens of professors and lecturers in a university.

At that time, I deliberately observed the university professors and lecturers who were attending the class, all of them looked excited and their faces were full of disbelief—— "Be tolerant to people" and "Employers don't look at files", at that time, these words were as fresh as today when we listen to "Shenzhou VII" flying into the sky. Yuan Qinsheng is a very unusual one among Suzhou township entrepreneurs, and people are still controversial about him.Most township entrepreneurs come from purely peasant backgrounds, or in other words, they are people with a little culture and "smart" (smart) minds among the peasants, but they all have the earthy flavor and the honesty and cunning of the farmers, and they have done "famous tricks". "And making more money is the basic goal of their struggle, so they pay more attention to the benefits, that is, the amount of money on the book, and the direct management behavior caused by this kind of thinking is to grasp the "work at hand" of the workers and the "supply and marketing" of the factory. numbers on the ledger".There is nothing wrong with this. Township enterprises are “enterprises” after all, and a market economy cannot do without such basic elements as quantity, quality and efficiency.But "Das Kapital" written by Marx tells us that there are other elements that must be paid attention to in realizing the surplus value and profits of enterprises, and this is the human element.People are the direct and decisive factor to create all benefits and quantity and quality.In the Mao Zedong era, people usually called the fundamental management behavior to realize this element "ideological and political work".In fact, in the development history of township enterprises in Suzhou, some people began to pay great attention to the cultivation of human quality and to play its special role. The most typical one is Yuan Qinsheng.

In 1990, when the township enterprises in Suzhou were in full swing, and "half of the country" presented another socialist economic form that could better reflect Chinese characteristics besides the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone economic model, the "People's Daily" was once in an important position. A long newsletter entitled "Yuan Qinsheng's Enlightened Management" was published, which specifically introduced this township entrepreneur with original management concepts.At that time, people were not familiar with the word "philosophy". In fact, Yuan Qinsheng's "enlightened management" embodied a "people-oriented" management concept.

Township enterprises in Suzhou later developed into an economic model. In addition to the geographical advantages and the traditions of Suzhou people doing business, it is very important that a considerable number of elites among them can, like Yuan Qinsheng, run through the business with the concept of "enlightened management". The whole process of business and economic development. At that time, there were quite a few township entrepreneurs like Yuan Qinsheng in Suzhou. It was these people who were extremely active and their role models that made the township enterprises in Suzhou flourish. The overwhelming momentum has become one of the most shining economic phenomena in the ten years before China's reform and opening up.

I have to continue to mention the character Gao Dezheng.During the 30 years of Suzhou’s development, every leader has a legendary experience and achievements that are remembered by history. Many of them, like Gao Dezheng, grew up in this hot land and are very familiar with the actual conditions of the countryside and farmers here. The cadres can take the lead and devote themselves to work with enthusiasm for their hometown and the broad masses of the people, so that the sustainable and stable development of Suzhou's economy and society can be achieved. According to the written materials and interviewees about the development history of Suzhou in the past 30 years, I was particularly impressed by the two things that Gaode proposed and advocated during the glorious historical period when the township enterprises were established. .One is the "cow-nosed economy" he proposed, and the other is that the Suzhou Prefectural Committee at that time and later the Suzhou Municipal Committee attached great importance to grasping models.The "bull nose economy" will be elaborated in the next chapter.Now let’s talk about Gao Dezheng’s leadership in Suzhou that paid attention to the advanced and typical things——

The Suzhou cadres of the previous age have all told me that there was a good story about "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" in the development of Suzhou township enterprises.The so-called "Eight Immortals" refer to the eight township party committee secretaries who were very influential in Suzhou at that time and had outstanding achievements in the establishment of township enterprises, or "capable people".The eight people were Qin Zhenhua, the party secretary of Yangshe Township, Zhangjiagang; Wang Jinhua, the party secretary of Chengbei Town, Kunshan; Tao Zurong, the party secretary of Dayi Town, Changshu; Chen Zhongnan, the party secretary of Mudu Town, Wu County; Lu Chunlin, Secretary of the Town Party Committee, Wu Haibiao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shengze Town, Wujiang, and Ji Ruiqing, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xizhang Town, Zhangjiagang. I was interviewing in Xiangcheng District, Suzhou that day, and met Gu Xiangen, the current secretary of the district party committee, at the dinner table at noon.He inadvertently said: He was also one of the famous "Eight Immortals" back then.This inevitably made me seize the opportunity to ask Secretary Gu to recall the development of township enterprises when he was the secretary of the Party Committee of Loufeng Town and the story of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee's "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". Gu Xiangen said that Loufeng Town where he was located was also a place where township enterprises developed relatively fast.The key is that the leaders of Suzhou City at that time were very good at using typical models to encourage other towns to catch up, forming a situation where township enterprises in the whole region "chased after each other and fought bravely to be the first". "I remember the words that the leaders of Suzhou City said the most at the cadre meeting back then were Chairman Mao's words: After the correct political line is determined, cadres are the decisive factor. They are very good at grasping models, and they are good at working from point to point. On the site of Suzhou There are a lot of capable people, and the experience of capable people is disseminated, released and taught to everyone to do, so that ordinary towns can learn with direction, work with goals, or directly pass on the help and guidance, so that township enterprises are like a spark, and quickly into a raging prairie fire." Gu Xiangen said that Loufeng Town, where he lives, initially formed the first climax of the development of township enterprises under the request of the Suzhou Prefectural Committee in the early 1970s to "build industries around agriculture and promote agriculture by running industries well."Later, from 1976 to 1978, on the basis of the previous "local materials, local processing, and local sales", it expanded to the direction of urban industrial cooperative processing.At this stage, the total output value of commune and brigade enterprises in Changshu, Zhangjiagang, and Wu counties exceeded 100 million yuan, and several townships with more than 10 million yuan appeared.Of course, not to mention the speed of development later, it is not surprising that "Yi Yi Yuan Township" and "Yi Yi Yuan Village" can be found everywhere in Suzhou. "From 1979 to 1983, there was another upsurge in the development of township enterprises in the Suzhou area. This was inspired by the spirit of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party that "community and brigade enterprises must have a great development". Suzhou area After the leaders lead us to think calmly, analyze scientifically, and explore new concepts, new ideas, and new methods for development, on the one hand, we will make full use of the favorable location advantages to actively develop horizontal integration with large industries in the city; on the other hand, we will actively carry out self-adjustment and rectification , worked hard to reform the distribution system and improve the management level, making the lower level work harder and harder. At that time, Loufeng Town took advantage of the favorable conditions close to the urban area of ​​Suzhou and adopted the method of joint processing and production of products with some large enterprises, and gained The rapid development of commune and brigade enterprises. The "big size" is getting bigger and bigger, the common people get benefits, and the cadres get more face when they go out. In addition, the leaders of Suzhou City keep promoting our few models in various ways, making us Putting it on a competition platform and conducting an annual evaluation is very effective. We Suzhou people pay attention to face, we put together, whoever develops faster and who has achieved what indicators will be announced at the end: those who work in the front, Glorious and proud; those who were left behind were eager to catch up and made up their minds to catch up next year. This was the case at the time. I was the secretary of the town party committee and was rated as the most advanced in Suzhou. Leaders at the city's three-level cadre meeting As soon as I was praised, I went to the stage to receive the certificate, hung up red flowers, and my heart was warm. But when I looked back, there were so many advanced people around me who did better than me. Before the meeting was over, I hurriedly assigned new combat tasks and development ideas to my family. .It's really hot, you chase after me!" Obviously, in the thriving township enterprises, the cadres of Suzhou have many superhuman leadership skills. One of them is that they do not easily deny any kind of characteristic exploration that is beneficial to development. "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" is good at finding, capturing and summarizing typical experiences that have guiding significance for special and individual, overall and local economic development.Qin Zhenhua, Gu Xiangen and other "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and their demonstrative and exemplary roles have enabled those township communes and teams following them to learn direction, work with goals, chase after each other, and strive to be the first to be proud. During this period, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government also did a very important job in promoting township enterprises. In the words of scholars, it was the "government driving force".What kind of economic form township enterprises are? No ready-made answer can be found in Marxist classic political economics, nor can it be found in other world economic histories and economics.The western economy advocates a free market economy. Adam Smith, the founder of this kind of economics, established a point of view more than 200 years ago, that is, the market economic mechanism is an "invisible" and irresistible "hand". This "invisible hand" dominates the market economy, and believes that this is the entire driving force and internal cause of the economy.The Western world is particularly superstitious about this economic form and often uses it to attack another economic form that rose in the 20th century—the planned economy of socialist countries.Compared with a pure free market economy, a socialist planned economy can be said to be an economic form under pure government leadership.During Stalin's period, it achieved an unprecedented speed and level of development beyond any capitalist economy, but later this economic form proved to have its inherent fatal flaws, which eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet socialist state.China has also gone through a long period of years of planned economy, but our party and government corrected and adjusted this unitary economic system at a critical moment in history, thus avoiding the bad luck like the Soviet Union.A new type of economic form formed by the development of township enterprises in southern Jiangsu with Suzhou as the center played a particularly important role in correcting and adjusting the rigid, single and command-based economic form of the planned economy in my country to a large extent.From the birth of the original township enterprises in Suzhou, it can be seen that the earliest impetus for the Huaxi-style "opening a factory behind closed doors" was not to complete any kind of economic model, but to change the poor face of farmers. And had to come up with a local solution.At that time, they set up township enterprises or commune and brigade enterprises out of an unconscious need for survival, which can also be understood as "industrial liberal revolutionism." What to produce, what to sell, and who to sell to were neither government-oriented nor the enterprise itself. I don't know, but it's purely based on demand to decide what to produce and what kind of factory to set up.This stage is similar to free marketism, and the development of township enterprises or commune and brigade enterprises at this stage basically depends on the "invisible hand" at work.If there are people in the market who want what I produce, and if there are many people who want it, my business may succeed, otherwise it will die.At this stage, a considerable part of the township enterprises in Suzhou achieved rapid development. The reason was that during and after the “Cultural Revolution” the Chinese market, especially the daily necessities of the common people, was so scarce that they almost had nothing to ask for. Most of the things produced by the enterprise are daily necessities such as small hardware, furniture, farm tools, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, clothing, hats and shoes. "Smartness" and "fine workmanship" are the secrets of the rapid development and broad market of Suzhou township enterprises during this period. However, my parents and folks know a simple truth: the piglets put in pens are not big enough to raise.As a unique form of economic enterprise in China, township enterprises are rooted in the fertile soil of the free market, but their ownership is "state-owned" or collective.The common people know that when a pig is young, you can put it in a pen to let it grow freely, but if it grows to a certain stage and then don’t let it be raised in a pen, under normal circumstances it will not grow very well, or even grow at all. not big.Township enterprises are a bit like this "pig grows" theory. In the early and mid-1980s, my country's rural reform was surging.Several "No. 1 Documents" issued by the central government greatly encouraged and promoted the development of agricultural productivity, especially the implementation of the household contract system, which liberated the majority of farmers from the framework of "taking grain as the key link", and it was possible to free up agricultural production. They devoted their time and energy to setting up factories and doing business, so the township enterprises in Suzhou, which originally had a large number of skilled craftsmen active among the people, took the lead, striding ahead of other regions and forming their own models.This "pattern" has become such a theory in the writings of the famous economist and my Suzhou fellow Mr. Fei Xiaotong: "The "pattern" we are talking about refers to the characteristics of a certain region under certain historical conditions. process of economic development.” The economic form formed by township enterprises in Suzhou is called the "Southern Jiangsu Model".Later theorists summarized this "model" into the following famous theory of "four mains and one common": In terms of ownership structure, the collective economy should be the mainstay, and the development should rely on the accumulation and investment of villages and townships themselves; In terms of industrial structure, the township industry is the mainstay, driving the comprehensive development of multi-level, multi-industry, and multi-economic forms in the countryside (all-round development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline fishery, and comprehensive management of industrial, commercial, transportation, construction, and service); In terms of economic operation mechanism, we should take the market orientation as the main factor and take the lead in exploring and practicing relying on the market to guide the development of the economy; In terms of benefit distribution, adhere to the distribution method of getting remuneration according to work, more work, more pay, and taking into account the interests of the country, the collective, and individuals, and follow the path of common prosperity.From the 1990s to the beginning of this century, as my country's market economy became more and more mature, the commodity economy achieved unprecedented prosperity and development, and the commodity market began to completely shift from the seller to the buyer, and the competition became increasingly fierce.At this time, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government came forward to carry out a larger-scale "big thrust"-commanding the township enterprises to implement a comprehensive transformation, guiding them to develop an export-oriented economy, a private economy, and a transformation to a modern enterprise system.As a result of this "big push", the original "four main and one common" characteristics of township enterprises have undergone some qualitative changes.As in the first sentence, "focusing on the collective economy" has changed to "a pattern of coexistence of collective economy, private capital economy and joint-stock economy and other diversified economies", and has changed from "relying on the accumulation and investment of villages and townships" to "Diversified capital investment"; in terms of industrial structure, it has also shifted to "simultaneously developing inward-looking and outward-looking, and the pattern of coordinated development of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries"; in terms of economic operation mechanism, it has also changed from "mainly market-oriented" to It has been changed to "operate in accordance with the constantly improving socialist market economic system theory and domestic and international market economic laws"; in terms of benefit distribution, it also highlights the establishment of a long-term mechanism for increasing farmers' income and increasing government transfer payments. Farmers get rich together.At the same time, at the level of government management, it has changed from the original comprehensive promotion type to the withdrawal of direct control and management of enterprises, actively guiding enterprises to operate in accordance with the laws of market economy, and the government is committed to developing the economy, coordinating urban and rural development, and increasing farmers' income provide services.This practice of adjusting the government's management functions according to the development of township enterprises has greatly stimulated the development of township enterprises in a healthy direction, and prevented Suzhou township enterprises from being eliminated when the private economy boomed and the global economy hit the Chinese market. Or collapse, but quickly turned the rudder, riding the wind and waves again, showing the heroic qualities of the Suzhou people in steering the economic ship. That's another story. But no matter what form, the general direction that the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government adhere to in the process of promoting the development of township enterprises has not changed, that is, to do everything possible to help the development, to make the collective economy grow continuously, to make social undertakings flourish rapidly, and to let the people Shared enjoyment of the socialist wealth brought about by economic development is a common feature of Suzhou's previous leadership groups. The influence of the concept of "road" on future generations is so profound. Some people often compare Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The former is developed by township enterprises, while the latter is developed by the private economy. Both have their own strengths.In the ten or twenty years before the 1990s, Suzhou had no doubts about its advantages, but in the decade from the 1990s to the beginning of this century, the rapid rise of Zhejiang's private economy made Suzhou's economy dominated by the collective economy once Confusion and wandering appear.After the previous 20 years of gaming and the transformation and adjustment in the past ten years, supplementing the private economy and vigorously developing the export-oriented economy, Suzhou and Zhejiang have reopened the distance.Many people who visit Zhejiang will have a clear feeling when they go to Suzhou: public utilities in Suzhou, such as roads, transportation, urban construction, rural facilities, including grassroots cultural facilities, etc., are much better than most areas in Zhejiang .This so-called good, I know that the wealth accumulated by Suzhou through township enterprises in the 1980s was used in the construction of social undertakings, such as building bridges and paving roads, building museums and streets, and building new socialist countryside. Suzhou has been walking in various regions of the country. This is because they have a very clear foothold when developing township enterprises, that is, to "take the road of common prosperity". The Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government's governance philosophy are closely integrated with the actual interests of the people of the city to create a beautiful and powerful Suzhou.This beautiful and powerful Suzhou is the harmonious unity of the cultural Suzhou rich in history, culture and regional characteristics and the new Suzhou full of modern style. From actively encouraging all kinds of unique tricks, making small troubles to "release water to raise fish" and "full bloom"; , has shown the second "sudden force" trend.By 1987, the number of employed people in township enterprises in Suzhou had reached 1.24 million, and their labor productivity had reached a level of 3,400 yuan per capita.At this time, the net income of farmers increased from 102 yuan/year per capita in 1978 to 395 yuan/year.Farmers who have started to get rich, in addition to buying "three turns and one sound" (bicycles, sewing machines, watches, TVs, radios, electric fans, etc.), each household in each village is building houses and buildings. Houses are built." However, one of the most dazzling features of the development of Suzhou township enterprises at this stage was the rapid growth of a large number of township entrepreneurs with management experience and business experience represented by the "Eight Immortals".They followed behind the "Eight Immortals", worked hard, seized the opportunity, jumped up, or came from behind, or pursued closely, like ten thousand horses galloping, forming a torrent, promoting the economic development of the whole Suzhou.Leaders of companies such as Huaerrun, Liangfeng, and Aoyang in Zhangjiagang, Bosideng and Qiuyan in Changshu, and Yingxiang, Yongding, and Hengtong in Wujiang were all excellent township entrepreneurs who grew up at that time.The vast majority of them are local educated youths returning to their hometowns, demobilized soldiers, outstanding grassroots cadres, and Communist Party members. Therefore, it can lead the peasant brothers to create a brand-new economic form with Chinese characteristics on the vast fields of "leaving the soil without leaving the hometown", and adds rich material wealth to the rich and beautiful Suzhou and provides a higher and faster development goal. gained valuable experience. Several years later, at the beginning of 2008, I went to Kunshan for an interview, and the owner insisted that I visit their "good boy".This is a well-known company that I have heard about a long time ago. Only when I got there did I know that their boss was also a "tycoon" who grew up from a township entrepreneur. "Good Boy" was the school-run hardware factory of Lu Middle School in Kunshan before 1972. Before Song Zhenghuan took over, it was losing money year after year.After Lao Song took it over, he took advantage of the township enterprises at that time who were good at "marrying" with Shanghai, and joined hands with a certain company in Shanghai to start the baby carriage business. After doing it for more than 20 years, he has been able to become the world's largest baby carriage "Big Mac" "The current annual sales volume of the manufacturer is close to 10 billion yuan, with more than 20,000 employees at home and abroad, and the tax paid for the country has reached billions of yuan... The boss of Yongding Group, Gu Yunkui, is an entrepreneur who was born as a farmer. He started with 20,000 yuan and led a group of farmer brothers to develop a small township factory of injection molding parts, which was too ordinary, into a company with assets of 5.5 billion yuan. Group company, his "Yongding" is the first township enterprise in Jiangsu Province to be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Zou Baoru, the former Secretary of the Party Branch of Weitang Village, Weitang Town, Wuxian County, is a demobilized soldier. After returning to his hometown, he took over a small hardware factory in the village. In less than 20 years, he developed this small hardware factory into 170. Village-run group enterprises of enterprises.Now 100% of the villagers in the village have become shareholders of the group company, and two-thirds of the people in the village have become bosses. There are nearly 600 private cars in the village, and the annual per capita income of farmers is nearly 20,000 yuan. All facilities are basically modern. But Zou Baoru, who is the chairman of the group company, has never been paid in the group company. In Suzhou, enterprises like "Good Boy" and entrepreneurs like Gu Yunkui and Zou Baoru can be found everywhere. It's no wonder that township enterprises in Suzhou don't become "half of the country"!It's no wonder Suzhou doesn't develop much!No wonder people in Suzhou are not rich!