Reborn in 1976, teach him how to be an official

For Liu Hongyi, this question actually has an answer.

But he had no use for the answer.

The Chuzhou area couldn't make up its mind, and neither could Jingjiang Province.

"So what are the current regulations in Chuzhou?"

Obviously, Xu Qidi was also a bit embarrassed about this. Although he held a high position of power, he was currently mainly in charge of the construction of spiritual civilization and publicity, and he could not easily express his views on such a major matter.

Liu Hongyi said, "Chuzhou is currently trying out a temporary rule that limits individual businesses to employing no more than six people. This does not include the individual business owner themselves."

"In principle, small rural collective enterprises do not recruit external workers, and give priority to adults within the collective. If external workers are necessary for technical or sales management purposes, they must first report to the county for approval, and second, the total number of recruits must not exceed 20% of the total number of employees in the enterprise."

"Oh, that's one way..."

It will neither overly restrict the development of individual businesses and small collective enterprises, nor will it become "capitalist" all of a sudden.

Liu Hongyi shook his head and said, "We've already encountered a problem..."

"Oh, what's the problem?"

"Six people are far from enough for many self-employed workshops. In Xiaoliuxiang, Chuxin County, there's a noodle maker whose noodles are incredibly chewy and very popular. He hired six people, but they still couldn't keep up. He submitted requests several times for more apprentices, but the county didn't dare approve it..."

"Another example is a retired veteran from a military enterprise, a highly skilled eighth-grade worker. He returned home and started a small processing plant, specializing in producing a certain type of component for motorcycle manufacturers. His workshop had the highest pass rate, meeting motorcycle requirements. However, the six-person employee rule severely limited his production capacity, and the motorcycle factory was furious..."

"Hmm? Your motorcycle factory also outsources parts processing?"

Xu Qidi raised his eyebrows, obviously a little surprised.

"Yes, Secretary Xu, this is a development strategy that was decided long ago. Building factories is not only to solve the employment problem of unemployed young people in cities and increase local fiscal revenue, but it also has a greater purpose, which is to drive the development of the entire industry."

"Outsourcing some parts to individual processing plants can help keep the factories small. Right now, we're desperately short of high-end management talent for large enterprises."

"The management difficulty of a factory with a few hundred employees is completely different from that of a factory with a few thousand employees."

A very simple truth is: a qualified battalion commander is not necessarily a qualified division commander.

"If every factory engaged in the entire industrial chain, there would be at least a dozen large enterprises in Chuzhou, with at least 3,000 to 4,000 employees."

"But in Chuzhou, there aren't enough people who can manage large companies."

“It’s a process of growth.”

"After all, a few years ago, Chuzhou was still an agricultural region with an extremely weak industrial base. Basically, few people had experience in managing large enterprises, so they had to force the issue."

"So Comrade Ai Gaofeng and my father decided on this strategy: to outsource as many spare parts as possible to individual processing factories."

"While controlling the scale of the enterprise, it also drives the development of the entire industrial chain."

"These small workshops and processing plants that have sprung up everywhere have not only absorbed a large number of workers, but also greatly reduced the expansion of the staff establishment of enterprises and institutions."

"At the same time, each small workshop and processing plant is a small training base that can cultivate a large number of skilled workers for the industrial sector."

"Once they have mastered certain skills and accumulated a certain amount of management experience, they will set up their own businesses and open their own processing plants. If we recruit them all into state-owned and collective enterprises, they will at most be excellent technical workers, but they will never grow into entrepreneurs."