Nanjie Village, a small village in Luohe, Henan Province, was once built into a model project of collectivism and planned economy in the 80s of the last century, under the background of the country's vigorous reform and opening up.
In the early stage of development, they all had a young village chief who dared to think and do, and with loans and policy support, they all developed well for a time. Nanjie Village and Huaxi Village became famous as 100 million yuan villages in the early 90s. It is a national communist demonstration village and once became a model for the whole country to learn.
All kinds of honors flew like snowflakes, and policy loans were given the green light, and at this time, the leader inflated himself. thought that he was building a small kingdom by himself, and overestimated his own ability.
The so-called is Xiao He who succeeds, and Xiao He who fails. As the leader of the development of Nanjie Village, although Wang Hongbin is not the actual controlling shareholder of the industry, his prestige and reputation are unparalleled.
Under his auspices, in the late 90s, Nanjie Village set off a wave of blind investment upsurge
In 1993, 50 million yuan was built on South Street School.
In 1995, 15 million yuan was used to build a kindergarten.
In 1998, 50 million yuan was used to build the city wall.
Nanjie Village Brewery, with a loss of hundreds of millions.
If the launch of these projects is just a "mistake in decision" and "out of time", then there are other projects that may be purely whimsical: perpetual motion machines, space seeds, foliar fertilizer "Fengzhilu", which claims to increase sweet potato yields by 100%, and so on.
Tossing and turning" for several years, Nanjie Village finally failed to pay wages in 2004, despite the support of "bailout" funds, but at this time Nanjie Village was already in debt and insolvent.
In the end, the state forgave most of Nanjie Village's debts, which is equivalent to paying for the whole people.
Feng Shizheng, an associate professor at Chinese People's University, pointed out after studying the loans provided by the bank to Nanjie Village: Nanjie Village's rapid economic growth does not depend on its own accumulation, but on bank loans.
The same story takes place in Huaxi Village, the first village in the world in Jiangsu, and Huaxi Village is currently in debt of more than 40 billion in 2023. With only 7 billion on paper, it is actually overwhelmed.
This reminds me of the story of Evergrande, in fact, the routine is the same. Using other people's money for construction, as for repaying the money, why should you repay what you borrowed with your ability?
Let's turn the lens to Beixiazhu in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, where there are no magnificent and beautiful buildings in Nanjie Village and Huaxi Village; There is no leadership concern and policy support; There are no sky-high loans. However, there is a group of young people with dreams.
This is known as the first village of Chinese Internet celebrities, and there are all the products you can think of and the products you can't think of here. 5,000 grassroots-born influencers gathered here, and their efforts were touching.
At 7 p.m., almost all stores were livestreamed. The streets are full of traffic, ** weaving, a thriving scene. According to statistics, the average daily turnover of Beixia Zhu exceeds 600,000 orders, and the annual turnover of Beixia Zhu in 2023 will exceed 20 billion yuan.
We came to the village history museum of Beixia Zhu, where it is recorded that Beixia Zhu wrote: "After the completion of the renovation of the old village in 2010, relying on the Beixia Zhu freight market, a large number of logistics industries were attracted to station; In 2013, the inventory industry coexisted with logistics; 2014 In 2015, some of the stalls and inventory operators entered the market, and began to form a business atmosphere; In 2016, represented by the business owner Zhong Yongping, the ...... of the Beixia Zhuwei Chamber of Commerce was prepared”
Everyone knows the later story, Beixia Zhu succeeded in one fell swoop and became the first village of China's e-commerce. In this, ** did not invest anything, and the bank did not have any loans. Basically, it relies on the strength of the market itself, from weak to strong, from small to large.
This is what the new socialist countryside should look like, not relying on policies or loans, but relying on one's own hands and flexible minds to swim in the tide of the market economy.
More than 40 years have passed since reform and opening up, and the dispute between the planned economy and the market economy is still lively. The routines of Nanjie Village and Huaxi Village are actually not fundamentally different from Evergrande. This model may be a temporary success, but it will not last long.
I hope that the local government can keep its duty and do a good job in logistics. Give the market to enterprises, talents, and the market economy system itself. After all, no industry can be supported. May the best return, the market will eventually return to the market.