Wang Jue, a former special professor at the Central Party School and a famous economist, died at the age of 95

Wang Jue, a former special professor at the Central Party School (National School of Administration) and a well-known economist, died at the age of 95 at Peking University International Hospital at 22:30 on September 3, 2021 due to illness.

Wang Jue, male, Han ethnicity, member of the Communist Party of China, born in May 1926, from Shenyang, Liaoning Province. A well-known economist who has long been engaged in the study of the basic theory of Marxist political economy, has made pioneering achievements in the study of Capital, and is one of the pioneers of the theory of China's economic system reform and the theory of modern enterprise system. Awarded the National Special Allowance Expert. He has published 13 million words of books and papers, presided over the research results of the project "Outline of Economic System Reform (1988-1995)", won the Sun Yefang Economic Science Paper Award, and organized the writing of the book "On Modern Public Ownership" to win the 12th National Book Award. After retiring, he still actively helped the poor and donated 100,000 yuan to the China Marxist Research Foundation. Since 2011, he has donated 1,000 to 2,000 yuan per month to the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation's Love Parcel Project for 8 consecutive years. A total of 200,000 yuan has been donated for many times, and more than 50 poor students have been funded.

Comrade Wang Jue has long been engaged in the study of the basic theories of Marxist political economy, persistently used Marxist positions and viewpoints to study and answer major theoretical and practical issues raised by China's reform and opening up, and put forward a series of innovative theoretical viewpoints, making outstanding contributions to promoting the party's theoretical innovation and practical innovation.

I. He has long been engaged in the study of the basic theories of Marxist political economy, especially in the study of Capital

Wang Jue has long been engaged in the teaching and research of Marx's "Capital". Pioneering work has been done in the teaching, research, dissemination and application of Capital. Bold explorations and innovations have been made in teaching methods and teaching contents, and the basic theory of Capital has been taught in a simple and concise manner, so that the vast number of high- and middle-level party members and cadres can quickly understand and systematically grasp the ideological essence of Marxist classic works. He summarized the materials, lectures and teaching experience accumulated in the teaching process of "Capital", and wrote a 900,000-word "(Capital) Interpretation", which became an authoritative tutoring textbook in China.

Second, the viewpoint of a planned commodity economic and socialist market economy was put forward relatively early

In 1980, Comrade Wang Jue put forward the view that socialist economy should be a planned commodity economy at the annual meeting of the National Party School System Economics. In the same year, when he taught at the Party School of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, he proposed that the commodity economy is an intrinsic feature of the socialist economy, and the commodity economy is the intrinsic attribute of the socialist economy, breaking through the forbidden area of traditional socialist economic theory, and emphasizing in particular that there is an essential difference between the socialist commodity economy and the capitalist commodity economy. The socialist commodity economy is based on public ownership, embodies the economic relations among the people, and the purpose of development is to meet the material and cultural needs of the people. At the time, this view of his caused great repercussions in the field of economic theory.

In 1985, Wang Jue further put forward at the National Party School System Economic Theory Seminar that a planned commodity economy is a planned market economy, capitalism has a plan, and socialism has a market. On this basis, we further proposed that our reform is to establish a socialist market economic system with public ownership as the mainstay, so that the market can play a basic role in the allocation of resources under the state's macroeconomic regulation and control. At the same time, it is also necessary to establish a modern enterprise system that meets the requirements of the market economy; establish a unified and open market system throughout the country; establish a perfect macroeconomic regulation and control system with indirect regulation and control as the mainstay; establish an income distribution system with distribution according to work as the mainstay, giving priority to efficiency, and taking into account fairness; and establish a multi-level social security system. The above links are an organic whole that is interrelated and mutually restrictive, thus constituting the basic framework of the socialist market economic system. These views have had strong repercussions in the economic community and society.

Third, the viewpoint of establishing a modern enterprise system was put forward relatively early

In 1986, in view of the bottleneck encountered in the reform of the contracting system of state-owned enterprises at that time, he proposed that the reform must be changed from policy adjustment to institutional innovation, and the shareholding system should be the direction of the reform of state-owned enterprises. After the mid-1980s, he devoted himself to the study of the theory and countermeasures of the reform of state-owned enterprises, especially the reform of the joint-stock system, organized a research group of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and took the lead in putting forward the viewpoint that the target model of state-owned enterprise reform is to establish a modern enterprise system.

In the early 1990s, in view of the problem of adjusting and quantifying the capital structure of state-owned enterprises in the course of reform, the central government put forward the proposal of "grasping the big and letting go of the small".

Fourth, it is proposed to actively explore various forms of realization of public ownership, establish modern public ownership, and promote the view that "laborers have their shares"

In the early 1990s, Wang Jue successively proposed to actively explore various forms of realization of public ownership, establish modern public ownership, and promote the view that "laborers have their shares". He believes that public ownership as the essential feature of the socialist system cannot be changed, but with the development of social productive forces and changes in the economic operation system, the realization form of public ownership can be diversified and actively explored, and the core of this exploration is to establish a modern public ownership system that meets the needs of modernization, and to ensure that workers have property rights (that is, "the laborer has his share").

Fifth, help the poor and the needy, selfless dedication, as always, for the cause of the party and the country to do their best, conscientious, conscientious, and do their best

After retiring, Wang Jue still paid attention to the study of Marxist theory. In 2016, he donated 100,000 yuan to the China Marxism Research Foundation to cultivate and support more young scholars to participate in the research of Marxist theory. Since 2011, Wang Jue has donated 1,000 to 2,000 yuan per month to the "Love Parcel" project of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation for eight consecutive years. In March 2016 and May 2018, he donated a total of 200,000 yuan in two consecutive personal names to Wuyi County, Hebei Province, and Anyuan County, Jiangxi Province, two designated poverty alleviation counties of the former Central Party School, to support poor students. The sponsored students have also achieved good academic results, including 5 of the 19 sponsored students who took the 2017 college entrance examination in Anyuan, Jiangxi, and 7 were admitted to the second university. Comrade Wang Jue once said, "The work of poverty alleviation has been listed as one of the three major battles, which reflects the great importance that the party and the state attach to the work of poverty alleviation. I saved my own retirement funds to fund those poor children, and did my best to make a little contribution to the party and the country. Although I am older, I will lead and educate my children, and as always, do my best for the cause of the party and the country." Comrade Wang Jue's righteous act of donating to poor students has been praised and admired by the central party school (national school of administration) school (academy), teaching staff, and local cadres and masses in poor counties.

Source Central Party School (National School of Administration)

Edited by Yang Meng

Process Editor Liu Weili