According to the article "In Memory of My Father Li Xianbai" written by Mr. Li Xiuqi, the son of Li Xianbai, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, in order to develop national industries, the reformists headed by Li Xianbai took the lead in promoting office studies and cotton textile mills in Huiguo Town, spreading advanced culture and scientific and technological knowledge. The preparation of the school has been strongly supported by local agriculture, industry and commerce. "The public is running around, telling each other, raising mud and moving bricks ... it's finished, women and children, old and young, proud of entering school, and the factory is crowded."
In this way, relying on schools and textile mills, various firms, inns, restaurants and handicraft workshops came into being in Huiguo Town, which was the beginning and embryonic form of modern private economy in China. Among them, the cigarette industry has developed most rapidly. In the1940s, there were 48 cigarette factories at most, some of which were mechanized.
A detail worthy of a great book is that cigarette machines at that time were all wooden handles and needed to be shaken back and forth. Smart Hui Guozhen people processed it into iron handles, and the production capacity soared, far ahead of the national market at that time.
Based on cigarette industry, textile industry, printing industry, grain industry, flower shop, pharmacy, grocery store, Beijing goods evaluation service, inn and so on. It has gradually developed, with one street and two lines, and a fairly prosperous industrial and commercial town has begun to take shape.
According to reports, Xinzheng Tobacco Group, the largest cigarette industrial enterprise in Henan Province and the largest tobacco group in Jiangbei, was born in Huiguo Town, formerly known as Huizhuo Town Xinzhong Cigarette Factory, and then moved to Xinzheng due to needs.
At the same time, Huiguo Town established iron works, explosive factories and other enterprises on the basis of old enterprises. Because of their large scale, mature technology and skilled workers, these factories have been transformed into state-owned enterprises because of the needs of the country.
By selling by sitting on the ground, in the late 1940s, the private economy in Huiguo Town flourished and developed into a well-known material distribution center. On Fridays and Wednesdays, the number of people listed is as high as 30,000 to 40,000, and businesses gather, so it is called "little shanghai".
What the old man likes to say most is that people in several neighboring counties, such as Dengfeng and Yanshi, say "going to the street", referring to the commercial street in Huiguo Town. Although some people have to walk more than 100 miles to get to the "street", they enjoy it. 1949 after the founding of new China, under the auspices of the state, the old enterprises in Huiguo Town began socialist transformation, and all of them were owned by "Shedui", and the title of "Shedui Enterprise" began to ring gradually.
At this time, back to Guo town, it has become famous to hide wealth from the people.
What people in Huiguo Town are still proud of is that there are no mineral resources underground in Huiguo Town, and it is impossible to develop industry without energy. To solve the energy problem, we must first solve the traffic problem. Therefore, in 1952, the local government purchased land by self-financing, built the Huiguo Town Railway Station in Huashan Township, Yanshi County at that time, and set up the first small power plant in China.
But at that time, the situation in the whole country was changeable, and "anti-rightist", "Great Leap Forward" and "three-year natural disasters" occurred one after another. That is, under this macro background, in the period of national economic recovery, in order to solve the problem of feeding the people all over the country, the central government decided that "commune management committees generally do not run enterprises."
But surprisingly, even during this suppressed creative period, a number of "five small enterprises" were secretly established in Huiguo Town. "The most famous is Wuqi Chemical Plant built in the remote Shagou River. It invested in that year and made a profit that year. " Yang Shulin said.
After the completion of the May 7th Chemical Plant, Li Zhen, Guo Hui, successively invested in chemical fertilizer plants, cotton mills, foundries, brick and tile factories, electrical appliances factories, the second chemical plant and other enterprises by snowballing and laying eggs.
In this way, in the months of 1974 and 10, there were 57 shedui enterprises in Huiguo town, and factories were everywhere in the town. Some farmers magically bought tractors at home, and rural irrigation and farming were basically mechanized. At that time, the gloom of the "Cultural Revolution" had not yet dispersed, and the noise of "cutting the tail of capitalism" was still echoing.
The richness and maverick of Huiguo Town are surprising. At the end of 1974, a leader who has just been transferred to the Henan Provincial Party Committee found that Henan has seen so many places, and only this place is full of vitality and prosperity. He immediately asked what this place was. Then he instructed Henan Daily to send reporters to investigate. On the front page of197465438+February 15, Henan Daily reported in detail the investigation report on the development of Huiguo Town Shedui enterprises with the title of "Bright and Brilliant Hope". Henan Daily reported that the newspaper that returned to Guozhen was transferred to Zhou Changgeng, an employee of a bank in Yongkang County, Zhejiang Province. The ordinary grass-roots cadre who has been engaged in rural economic investigation and research for a long time believes that the industrial potential of commune and brigade is huge. 1On September 5th, 975, Zhou Changgeng sent Chairman Mao a sample newspaper of Henan Daily and a letter of recommendation written by himself, suggesting that the Party and the government should strengthen the leadership of commune and brigade enterprises, help and support farmers to set up various enterprises, and increase their economic income, so as to further strengthen the agricultural foundation and prosper the urban and rural economy.
Later, this article attracted Mao Zedong's attention and instructions. 1975 65438+ 10/01,the front page of People's Daily published an investigation report entitled "Great Light and Great Hope", "Running Industry around Agriculture and Doing a Good Job in Developing Agriculture", and distributed a commentary signed by Guo Dajiang, "Enthusiastic Support for Shedui Enterprises". Wu Guixian, then deputy general manager of the State Council, personally returned to Guo. It is pointed out that "Huiguo Town has found a broad road for rural economic development in China".
Since then, the reputation of Huiguo Town has greatly increased. Li, who was in charge of the reception work in the government of Huiguo Town at that time, said that during the period of 1975- 1985, there were an endless stream of domestic and foreign groups visiting the social-run industry in Huiguo Town, with the number of receptions ranging from 300 to 400 people every day, with a maximum of 3,000 people every day. According to the client, at that time, people from all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China came here, except Tibet and Taiwan Province Province, and even international friends such as North Korea, Albania and Cuba came here to learn from them.
Huiguo Town, with an area of only 50 square kilometers, once deeply stimulated and inspired 9.6 million square kilometers of land in China. Old people said that the emergence of a large number of private enterprises in Huiguo Town was related to a flood in the early 1980s.
1In August, 982, the Luo Yi River rose, seven administrative villages in Huiguo Town were flooded, and nearly 4,000 houses collapsed. Many communes and team enterprises built in low-lying areas suffered heavy losses.
At the same time, with the introduction of the reform and opening-up strategy, China's economic system has quietly changed, and the smart people in Huiguo Town have seen the opportunity.
With the learned technology and accumulated funds, people who returned to Guo Town chose to start their own businesses-building simple factories on the ruins, buying machines, and starting a family-based economic development model. Some villagers set up joint-stock enterprises with share agreements. For a time, the private economy mushroomed in the whole town.
According to the records of Gongxian County (formerly known as Gongxian County in gongyi city), they changed from running industry around agriculture to running industry around the market, stepped out of the closed agricultural framework, and started to set up factories for wire and cable, household appliances, machinery, chemicals, chemical fibers, textiles, sponge equipment, steel plates, agricultural and sideline products processing, and established the 169 1 factory in a very short time.
"At present, the four most famous pillar enterprises in Huiguo Town-Mingtai, Shunyuan, Xintai and Wanda Company-all started at that time." Old Sun Man Zhiwei, former director of Guo Hui Town Office, said.
When the time comes to 1984, the total industrial and agricultural output value of Huiguo Town is the first in Henan Province to exceed 100 million. At that time, the Henan Military Region also called militia in Guo Hui Town to take the lead in getting rich on the spot, and then Governor He Zhukang and Commander Zhan of the provincial military region visited the scene to give guidance.
Taking advantage of the east wind of this conference, private enterprises in Huiguo Town entered a period of rapid development, showing a vigorous development situation of "every family set up a factory, every family rang, young and old went into battle together, and women and children broke into the market", and gradually formed a professional market for the sale of wire and cable raw materials such as glass yarn, cotton yarn, waste plastic, waste aluminum wire and waste copper. At that time, there were more than 65,438+0,000 individual wire and cable manufacturers, the largest in China.
According to statistics, the total industrial and agricultural output value of Huiguo Town 1992 exceeded 10 billion yuan. At this time, Comrade Deng Xiaoping has just delivered a speech on the southern tour, and many individual and private enterprises in southern cities have just started, and they are still in the primary stage of small barbershops and small restaurants.
Starting early and growing fast, returning to Guo Town became a well-deserved example for the whole country at that time, leading the national economic trend.
As a leader, the saying "two towns in China: Shenzhen and Huiguo Town" began to spread.