When I was a child, I often heard people say how beautiful my mother was when she got married, and the bride price was three famous pieces: Shanghai all-steel watches, diamond brand sewing machines, and Phoenix brand bicycles. Now after the 90s, maybe you don't want these things to him, but in those days, these things were incomparably arrogant. A family can buy these three things at the same time, which means that you not only have money, but also a scarce purchase index, which is one of the few in a hundred miles.
Reading He Dan's "New Wave of Domestic Goods" today reminds me of the shadow of those old objects in those years. It introduces China's modern business in detail from several aspects, such as the great power style, made in China, the apocalypse of new domestic goods, and the new domestic goods report, so that we can get a clearer understanding of the development of modern commerce.
China's modern history has experienced three domestic goods movements: the first is to revitalize national industry. The domestic movement began in 1905. National industry is the foundation of the people's lives, merchants see the Chinese land where foreign goods are rampant, patriotic feelings arise spontaneously, they are self-reliant, establish domestic goods enterprises, so that the money of the Chinese people does not flow into the hands of foreigners.
Among the industrialists, the more representative one is Zhang Xiao, who, in addition to running an industry, does not forget the great national righteousness, but also engages in education, water conservancy, transportation, and hospitals. In the end, what he does is to pursue the comprehensive sustainable development of society, economy, culture, education and so on. Through the trinity of education, industry and public welfare, local resources are promoted to be transformed into enterprise resources on the spot, and enterprise resources eventually feed back to the local and national areas.
In addition to Zhang Xiao, there are also a number of industrialists such as Zhang Zhidong, Huang Chujiu, Liu Hongsheng, etc., who have added bricks and tiles to China's national industry, and finally opened up a new world for the production of our domestic products.
The second domestic goods movement is reform and opening up. Before the reform and opening up, the material production was fixed and quantitative, and the people could choose so many available things, so whoever bought fresh things would definitely be watched and envied by the neighbors, and today's commodities have long been outdated and eliminated from the commodity market.
Since 1984, a large number of domestic entrepreneurs have completed the leap from products to commodities, laying a good foundation for Chinese manufacturing to go global.
Among them, Ma Shengli contracted Shijiazhuang Paper Mill, Li Jingwei registered Jianlibao, Liu Chuanzhi founded the Beijing Computer New Technology Development Company (future Lenovo), etc., these emerging ups have injected fresh blood and vitality into China's economy and guided the direction for China's economic rise.
The former Silk Road and the Tea Horse Ancient Road also flourished for a while, but due to the qing government's closed country, China's modern economy was crushed and surpassed by the capitalist countries that came after it. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, foreign goods were rampant, and in order to buy other people's goods, our white flowers and silver ran into their pockets. After the reform and opening up, our processing and production and manufacturing went hand in hand, and the trade surplus came into being, driving the rapid development of the national economy.
In the past two or three decades, the degree of eating and wearing of Chinese has undergone a qualitative leap, and the previous watches, bicycles, and sewing machines have gradually faded out of the stage of history, and the color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners that have followed have become essential household appliances.
Mobile phones from the exclusive communication tools of upstarts to the current popularization of the whole people; cars from public configuration, to now private cars everywhere, it can be seen that China's productivity from the production capacity to the consumption capacity is improving in all directions.
The third domestic goods movement is happening, in the Internet era, intelligence and convenience sprint people's lives, China with positive response and rapid acceptance of the ability to apply high-tech technology to various industries.
Saying that the second domestic goods movement is catching up with the developed economic powers, then the third domestic goods movement is that we are striving for an equal dialogue with them, from technology to quality to ability.
China's manufacturing capacity, supply chain and consumption level have undergone earth-shaking changes in this era, and its own strength has attracted the world's attention. Huawei, BYD, Lenovo and other domestic brands also have global competitive advantages and become truly rising economic powers.
The rapid development of China's economy has been envied by a number of capitalist countries such as the United States, who regard China as an imaginary enemy and do everything possible to obstruct China's economic development. A strong economy will bring national self-confidence, and today's Chinese people are actively responding to these problems.
Keeping pace with the times is the most important business model, in the past 100 years of China's modern times, Chinese commodities from relying on imports, to the realization of self-production and self-sales, and then to the well-known goods to the world, is the result of the unremitting efforts of a group of Chinese people, but also the result of a nation's indomitable and hard struggle.
Finally, in the new era, the competition between countries is mainly to fight for business, who is a commercial power, who has the confidence to say no to unfairness, which is a country's rights and interests protection.
"New Wave of Domestic Goods" gives us a comprehensive review of China's economic development in the past hundred years, is an authentic history of China's commercial warfare, and reads and understands China's economy, which is a work worth studying.
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