Chapter 402 Nanyang’s income doubled (second update, please subscribe)
The holidays passed quickly.
After the three-day holiday, everyone needs to return to work.
Li Yi'an was no exception to this. He returned to his official residence in Chang'an just after the vacation. There were reports from various ministries in the desk basket. It would take half a day to simply read them. After finishing all matters, Li Yian pressed the intercom on the table and gave instructions to his secretary.
“Let the Lin family come over.”
Soon, Lin Jiachao entered the office with a document.
"Sir."
"How is the plan going?"
"Sir, we have drawn up the first draft of the "National Income Doubling Plan". After careful calculation , taking into account the comprehensive development of the three eastern districts this year, in the next ten years, through training talents, revitalizing science and technology, and increasing industrial investment, the average annual growth rate targets of gross national product and national income are 10.6% and 8.5% respectively. , after these indicators are achieved, it is still very realistic to double the national income."
Lin Jiachao said as he put the documents on the desk with both hands and continued to introduce.
"Last year our per capita disposable income was 196.45 yuan, of which the average income of employees was 238 yuan, and the income of non-employees was 119.5 yuan. The latter's lower income is deliberate - first, the new immigrants work in the reclamation area, and their income It is lower, usually 10-12 yuan. The second is Japanese trainees. Their basic salary is only 2 yuan. Including piece wages, bonuses, etc., it does not exceed 8 yuan..."
In While Lin Jiachao explained the salary structure in Nanyang one by one, Li Yian looked at the report. The low wages in the reclamation area were deliberately low. The wage gap will make people take the initiative to learn - complete literacy training and then undergo vocational training to become corporate employees. This can not only reduce labor costs, but also promote active learning.
It is under the promotion of this system that immigrants from Southeast Asia often go through the process from colonization workers to enterprise employees. The militarized management of the reclamation areas not only improved the immigrants' awareness of discipline and legal concepts, but the military camp-style life also subtly influenced and influenced their living habits.
This is also the fundamental reason why Nanyang brings different perceptions to outsiders - sense of discipline, legal awareness, hygiene and cleanliness are all habits they brought from military management.
Fifteen days to develop a habit, and one year... can make the habit engraved in your bones.
"Our income gap is the income of employees and non-employees. This will definitely be eliminated in the next ten years, and large-scale reclamation will also stop in the next two or three years. By then, all reclamation workers can be fully employed in industry And in the plantation, um..."
Actually, where are two or three years!
After this year, with the earth-shaking changes in Tangshan, it will also enter a period of large-scale construction. It is obviously impossible to attract people from there. Under the premise that cheap labor cannot be supplemented, manpower must be transferred to high value-added industries - industry!
Don’t look at the fact that there are 20 million people in Nanyang now, and more than 85% of them are working people, but in fact these people are scattered in all walks of life. They are not enough to see at all. They are only in the industrial and mining enterprises and the construction field. It absorbs half of the labor force, plus the corresponding social service systems such as government, education, medical care, transportation, services, and reclamation operations. The working population of 16 to 7 million can only barely maintain economic development.
How much labor does Nanyang need?
The simplest example - during the implementation of the "First Five-Year Plan" in Tangshan, the number of employees nationwide increased from 8 million at the time of liberation to 24.17 million in 1956, and by 1959, the number of employees increased to 51.94 million!
If nothing else, just looking at this human resources makes people jealous!
In comparison, even if another 10 million immigrants are introduced this year, Nanyang will only have a labor force of 26 to 7 million, and with the arrival of a large-scale baby boom, medical care and education will also A large amount of manpower is required, which will further squeeze out the industrial and agricultural labor force.
Just thinking about it makes me a little dizzy!
Therefore, in order to maintain high value-added industrial production, large-scale reclamation operations must be stopped.
Li Yian looked at the report, nodded slightly and said.
"Such an income gap can be narrowed to the greatest extent, and income growth can be maintained at about 6% every year. In ten years, the income can almost be doubled."
After a pause, Li Yian smiled.
"In other words, the per capita disposable income will be 400 yuan by then. 400 yuan... there is still a big gap compared to Europe. You must know that most of Europe has been bombed into rubble. "Europe is now getting out of the shadow of the war little by little. If it is just satisfied with this 400 yuan, Nanyang will definitely be left behind them in ten years."
Looking at the per capita GDP of Nanyang listed in the report this year, Li Yian said.
“Our per capita GDP reached 1,358 yuan last year. This number is very impressive. Of course, this is due to our population structure-basically all laborers, not many elderly people and children, but from From this number, we can also see that there is a big gap between us, which also means that our progress is very big!”
In fact, Nanyang’s GDP is meaningless now, because this kind of per capita GDP is meaningless! GDP is based on a very small non-working population. With the "baby boom" that has already emerged - the number of newborn babies exceeded 2 million last year, this per capita GDP will be rapidly diluted in the future. In this case, counting GDP has no meaning at all. It is only used to calculate the level of national economic growth. In fact, if divided by three, the current per capita GDP of Nanyang is only 450 US dollars at most, which has not even reached German level – $494. And Germany is now in ruins!
Close the report, pick up a cigar and light it, Li Yian took a puff, leaned back in the chair and said.
“Less than US$27 billion! This was our GDP last year, but after this year’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, industrial production is bound to experience a blowout. According to estimates from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Exports to the United States alone will increase by more than 200% this year. Therefore, we must seize this favorable period to establish an export trade with large imports and exports, import raw materials, and export industrial finished products. At the same time, we must use the three eastern districts to implement large-scale construction Time, speed up the country's own construction, ten years... I think the per capita disposable income should be able to reach 600 US dollars. ”
After raising this number, Li Yian continued.
“This number should be adjusted appropriately to take into account the current national economic development trend and the fact that in the next ten years, our country will enter a period of rapid economic growth, but we must allow everyone to enjoy economic growth. At the end of last year, Li Nian asked the Secretariat to formulate a "National Income Doubling Plan", the core of which is to enable everyone to participate in the country's economy through official regulation. During the growth, income has increased accordingly.
In Li Yi'an's view, the next ten years are a very critical decade. If we seize this opportunity, Nanyang can stand on the same starting line as Germany and France and achieve national leaps in the 1960s. Like Japan, it entered the first echelon of the world economy in the mid-to-late 1960s.
But it is not enough to rely solely on the increase in industrial production. It also requires an increase in national income. Only when national income increases can the domestic consumption industry be stimulated, thereby achieving a balanced development of industry and consumption. If only industry Development, but after deducting inflation, people's income has almost no development, so what awaits Nanyang must be a South American-style middle-income trap. Why did the economies of South American countries develop rapidly from the 1960s to the 1980s, but then quickly became quiet after the 1990s?
In the final analysis, economic development cannot match people's income. Economic development without local consumption industry is destined to be rootless.
Moreover, this local consumer industry must not be a house! Because houses will only squeeze people’s consumption capacity for goods.
“Enjoying the dividends of rapid economic growth is related to national consumption, and their consumption is related to the long-term development of the country. Therefore, we must work hard to allow everyone to benefit from it. Only then can we It's us..."
Looking into the distance, Li Yian pondered.
“We should talk about doing things, instead of just focusing on economic growth, we should also focus on the growth of national income. Otherwise, after decades of glory, everything will eventually return to calm.”< br>
People in this era may not know about the "middle-income trap", but Li Yian is very aware of its dangers.
How can we avoid repeating the "mistakes" of South America and avoid the Latin Americanization of Nanyang?
To avoid all of this from happening, we don’t have to wait until the future to solve the problem. Instead, we should commit ourselves to allowing everyone to benefit from economic growth from the beginning. Only in this way can we Avoid the Latin Americanization of Southeast Asia.
"Sir, I understand, I will readjust the plan."
"It doesn't matter, adjust slowly. After all, it will not be made public until May..."
May will be the implementation of Nanyang's first four-year plan. At the same time, Li Nian will also give the people a promise - a promise that the future will get better and better. Thinking of the upcoming great development, while looking forward to the future, Li Yian said to the young man behind him,
"Okay, let's go do it."
After Lin Jiachao quit the office , Li Yian walked to the desk again, and then he picked up a mail bag that was delivered by someone. After tearing it open, he took out a document from the mail bag. On the cover of the document, there was The skull emblem of "Hydra".
This is a document sent by "Hydra". Looking through the document carefully, Li Yian raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and then said to himself.
“The South Asian subcontinent, this pool of spring water is going to be in chaos...”
(End of this chapter)