Whether before or after reform and opening up, it is a place for exploration of the economic system of China.

The first state-owned commune, "public and private joint ventures", was the first to launch, the market economy opened up a new situation, and the first foreign-funded enterprise settled here...

Now Shanghai is also the place with the largest number of state-owned enterprises in the country. The Shanghai Electric Motor Factory can produce domestically produced 125,000 kilowatt double-water internal cooling steam turbine generators. The Shanghai Automobile Manufacturing Factory can produce 32 tons of self-loading heavy vehicles. The Shanghai New Shipyard can produce 3200 tons of large icebreakers and videotapes designed by itself. In other places, it can only produce black and white TVs. Shanghai has successfully produced domestic color TVs. Of course, the price of color TVs is 10,000 yuan, and it can only buy black and white TVs.

Director Zhu's visit this time can be said to have seen the world. He has never been to a big city like Shanghai.

Arrived in Shanghai.

Zhang Gaoxing suggested taking a bath in the guesthouse now and buying two decent sets of Zhongshan suits. They were in the truck for days and nights and smelled like they were stuffy.

He also notified the comrades from the Shanghai Crafts Export Company by phone that they had come to deliver the goods.

In 1978, the spring breeze of reform was about to blow all over the ground, and a large number of young people returned home, and fresh graduates also began to integrate into society. This is a very big problem for big cities like Shanghai and Shanghai. Young people cannot find jobs and they have no jobs. So in 1978, China began to advocate the development of individual economy. Many people can start to become self-employed individuals and get business licenses, although most of them are places as big as stalls.

However, a group of people who worked in the early days felt that being self-employed was not ashamed and confused. They opened repair stalls and barber shops to make many residents, but they could earn 200 yuan a month when they opened a confident car repair shop, which was all the time to work for a year in the state-owned business. They felt uneasy...

But they are already addicted to making money.

Just like the streets of Shanghai now, when you are practicing stalls at a glance, it is even more lively than the commune market in Dongyang County.

This is still a while since the individual economy is advocated.

"I'm happy. Looking at the big city, then looking at the market in Pengbu Town, Dongyang County, how I used to look at the sky!

Look at the bicycles on the street, running all over the ground, and there are so many cars on the road. We are all rare bicycles. Not to mention small cars, there are only a few cars in the county.

Looking at the old man who was cutting hair, he was confident that even our workers couldn't buy bicycles.

Director Zhu felt shocked.

In a leather shoe store in a Shanghai Lily Mall.

"Come on, Director Zhu, try these leather shoes."

“This one is very expensive.”

"Comrade, this is not expensive, this pair of genuine leather shoes only costs three or five cents."

"A pair of shoes with three or five in three, too expensive!"

I saw the department store salesmen despise their country dress.

Zhang Gaoxing thought about it and said, "We wholesale this hundred pairs, and the price of these three or five is really expensive. When we go back, we are hard to sell. The price is actually easy to say. The main reason is the quality. A few days ago, we bought shoes and tried them on them all night. The shoes were of quality. This... hey, even if you have money, you can't spend it."

Zhang Gaoxing pulled out a ten-yuan bill, looking helpless.

Director Zhu looked at Zhang Gaoxing with confusion. What, I bought a hundred pairs of them. This Gaoxing gave himself a look, and I don’t know what he sold in the gourd.

"Comrade, our shoes are of quality and are sold directly from the Shanghai Minbao Leather Shoe Factory. Why don't you buy two pairs first? You can check the quality tomorrow and then come to me to order."

"Okay, that's it. I don't care about the price. It mainly depends on the quality. If it is more popular, you won't have to give me quality discounts tomorrow. But I'll give you five dollars to two pairs of shoes."

"Comrades, this is really not OK. We are losing money. Then forget it. The quality is OK tomorrow. I won't order a hundred pairs of them. You will still sell it directly from the manufacturer, and you have no sincerity at all."

"Okay, I'll talk to our manager."

"I'm happy, why do you want to buy a hundred pairs of leather shoes?"

"Director Zhu, I really want to buy a hundred pairs. The lesbian looked down on us just now. I'm teaching her this lesbian."

"You, I thought you really wanted to buy a hundred pairs and go to practice the stall. But these two pairs of shoes cost five yuan, this is still too expensive."

Zhang Gaoxing: "..."

The old man thought Director Zhu wanted to kill the price. Then he thought, he probably couldn't bear to let it go. In this era, a pair of shoes cost several pieces, which seemed to him a luxury.

"Director Zhu, put it on. We are doing big business with other export companies. It's not appropriate for you to wear big cloth shoes."

...

I went back to the guesthouse to take a shower and slept for a few days.

The next day.

The door of the warehouse of the Shanghai crafts company in and out of the warehouse.

"Comrade Zhang Gaoxing, welcome you!"

"Hello, Manager Yang, Hello, Director Wang, I'm very happy to see you again."

"This is Director Zhu of our Woodworking Wood Carving Factory."

"Oh, hello, Director Zhu."

After a gay greeting and greeting.

"Manager Yang's camphor wood box has completed the task ahead of schedule. Please ask Manager Yang and the comrades from the Shanghai Crafts Import and Export Company to inspect it."

"good."

All fifty sets of dragon and phoenix camphor wooden boxes were unloaded from the truck.

"Our camphor wood boxes are still all made of the craft mortise and tenon structures of our ancestors. There is no iron nail. Look at the thickness of all our wooden boxes, they are made of small camphor wood for more than fifty years. The dragon and phoenix carvings are carefully created by many of our Dongyang masters... and the samples sent last time were definitely carved from the same mold."

...

Next, the inspectors of the import and export of handicrafts in Shanghai reported the results of the inspection.

“All acceptance is qualified!”

"I didn't expect that you really made fifty sets of carved camphor wood boxes in such a short time. The speed of your production is this! The quality is also this."
Chapter completed!