Editor's note:
The 100-year history of the party's united front has left behind countless classic stories of working hand in hand. If cultural relics can speak, the old **, old objects, and former residences of old sites ......After years of baptism, it is still telling the story of the Communist Party of China making friends, uniting people's hearts, and gathering strength, condensing the thick and splendid history and culture. "*Xinyu" launched the column of "Telling History with Objects", allowing cultural relics to speak, telling the story of the Communist Party of China uniting and leading the united front of people from all walks of life to work together through thick and thin, and drawing the strength of unremitting progress in the new era from history.
When it comes to the history of the National Democratic Construction Association, the story of meeting the five elders has also been widely circulated. The conversation recorded on a few thin sheets of scratch paper in the exhibition room of the office building of the China Democratic National Construction Association changed the fate of China's private economy.
On January 17, 1979, ** met with five veteran comrades of the China Democratic Construction Association and the Federation of Industry and Commerce in the Great Hall of the People, including Hu Jiwen, Hu Ziang, Rong Yiren, Zhou Shutao and Gu Gengyu. As soon as he came up, he said straight to the point: "China wants to open up and attract foreign investment, and I want to hear your open and honest views and opinions." ”
As a result, Hu Jiwen proposed to take off the capitulationist hat on the heads of industrialists and businessmen, Hu Ziang said that it was necessary to tap technical and managerial talents, and Rong Yiren said that there should be a full-time department ...... to introduce foreign capitalThe opinions of the five elders were sincere and practical, and the dialogue lasted until noon, and everyone was invited to eat shabu shabu together and talk while eating.
Soon, three companies, including the China International Trust and Investment Corporation, chaired by Rong Yiren, Wang Guangying, and Hu Ziang, were established one after another, becoming the forerunners of China's opening up to the outside world and attracting investment. At the second session of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held in June of the same year, ** delivered a famous opening speech, and officially announced on behalf of *** that the majority of former industrialists and businessmen would "take off their hats" (take off the hat of the bourgeoisie) and "crown" (add the crown of laborers). Industrialists and businessmen all over the country cheered and enthusiastically threw themselves into reform and opening up.
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