From January 11 to February 7, 1962, a meeting of 7,000 people was held in the Great Hall of the People, and the total number of participants reached 7,118.
In this 7,000-person conference, from the first to the provinces and cities, and then to the local have carried out extensive criticism and self-criticism, which is not easy, of course, in order to let everyone put down the ideological baggage, the conference process implemented the three noes, that is, do not grab braids, do not hit sticks, and do not buckle hats, so that everyone can think in their hearts, completely say.
At the closing ceremony of the meeting, Zhou Gong made a concluding speech and put forward eight practical solutions for overcoming the current difficult economy.
These eight measures are mainly focused on further streamlining institutions, reducing the urban population, increasing agricultural output, and narrowing the gap between rural and urban areas. One of the most important purposes of this 7,000-person conference is to let the big guys clarify a direction to go in the future and the direction to work hard in the future.
Maybe some readers don't understand that in the 60s of the last century, because of some problems and deviations in the work, many staff at the grassroots level had great negative emotions, and they were confused about the future and did not know how to go.
At the beginning of the 7,000-person conference, their steps into the hall were heavy and their emotions were complicated, but at the end of the meeting, when they left the hall, their steps became lighter and their thoughts were gone.
After the end of the 7,000-person conference, in March of the same year, on the basis of the speech of the 7,000-person meeting of Comrade **, an extended discussion was held.
* Comrades believe that the pace of development of industrial production and capital construction should be slowed down, and the focus of work should be on agriculture and the market.
He believes that the agricultural issue and the market issue are a major issue that has a bearing on the livelihood of China's more than 500 million peasants and more than 100 million urban population, and if there is a deviation in this issue of people's livelihood, the consequences will be disastrous. He even proposed that solving the current problems of people's livelihood should be treated as an important national policy.
On some very detailed issues, he also gave instructions, for example, to take out some steel that would otherwise be used in industry, to make more sailboats or more fishing tools, and to apply them to the aquatic sector, so as to catch more aquatic products. If 150,000 tons of aquatic products can be increased a year, then, on average, it can ensure that more than 60 million people in large and medium-sized cities can have at least half a catty of fish to eat every month.
For another example, he also proposed the method of one or two beans per person per day to ensure the nutrition of plant protein for the masses.
In addition to incorporating aquatic product targets and measures into the annual plan for that year, Comrade ** also pointed out that by the end of next year, the more than 60 million people in large and medium-sized cities should also ensure that each of them will increase their pork consumption by half a catty on the existing basis every month. At the same time, on the basis of increasing the number of exports, it is necessary to compress the amount of exports, so that only the two items of fish and pork can be used by a family of five to have five catties per month.
In his view, the people's livelihood is a major national matter, and it took decades for the society and the country to embark on the road of stable development, and the current problem is how to consolidate this achievement, and the key to consolidating the fruits of victory lies in how to arrange the basic life of the 600 million people.
The leading group for financial and economic affairs, headed by Comrade **, emphatically put forward some practical solutions for overcoming difficulties, which indeed played a great role in promoting the recovery of the national economy and the improvement of the people's living standards at that time.