Chapter 244 The general trend

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Wang Deming was stunned and blurted out: "Why don't you go home?"

After these words were spoken, Cha Kuiyuan and Zhang Shouying looked at him helplessly.

Wang Deming slapped his forehead and remembered that he had to chat for an hour every night recently. After that, he and Alexei would accompany the people from the Soviet Embassy to smoke, drink, and play mahjong. They often came home very late, and sometimes they would just sleep here because they were too lazy to move.

"Let's go, it's just right for us to have lunch together. The world is big, but eating is the most important thing."

Although I eat here, I don’t always eat Tan’s cuisine. If I eat it every day, I’ll get tired of it, no matter how good the food is.

So for lunch, we have home-cooked meals, but mainly meat dishes.

As for the source of meat, how could there be no meat with Soviet comrades around? Let's learn about the two words "special supply".

After lunch and a pot of tea, Wang Deming asked the couple why they came, "Second sister, second brother-in-law, is there any change at the Chinese medicine factory?"

"Alas," Cha Kuiyuan and his wife looked at each other and sighed, "Deming, now we have no way to purchase directly from the origin of medicinal materials."

"Oh, is there a shortage of medicinal materials?"

"That's not the case. The medicinal materials we need now need to be allocated from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative."

"Supply and Marketing Cooperative?" Wang Deming had been in this era for a few years, and this was the first time he heard of this government unit, which although its name was familiar, he had never come into contact with it.

Zhang Shouying added, "Yes, it is the former All-China Cooperative Federation, now renamed the All-China Supply and Marketing Federation. I specifically asked around, and found out that this is the last year for the Anguo Medicine Market, Yingkou Medicine Market, and Bozhou Medicine Market."

"." How could this day come so soon? It's only 54 years now. I looked up at the date. It's not even August yet, and the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, such a huge entity, will officially set foot on Chinese soil and run for decades to come.

The cooperative was established only last year, and this year it was directly changed to a supply and marketing cooperative.

Things are changing so fast.
In the future, it will be more than just medicinal materials. Agricultural and sideline products, needles and thread, etc., will all go through the supply and marketing cooperatives. Otherwise, how can a salesperson be one of the eight major members? He has the authority to allocate certain resources.

Wang Deming looked at the inquiring eyes of Cha Kuiyuan and Zhang Shouying and his wife, put down his teacup, smiled and said, "Second sister, second brother-in-law, wasn't there a sign before? As long as the medicinal materials are not out of stock, the Chinese medicine factory can continue to make profits, and we can continue to receive dividends, what are we afraid of?"

"That would be great." Cha Kuiyuan said with a wry smile, "But the supply and marketing cooperatives can't set standards now. Many of the medicinal materials they distribute to us don't meet the purchasing standards of our pharmaceutical factory."

"If our medicine is not effective, or if it affects the beverage factory's exports, that would be a big deal. We can't afford the responsibility!"

"It doesn't meet the standards!" Wang Deming sat up straight with a serious expression. This was a huge problem. He immediately asked, "Have you reported it to your superiors? Is there no effect?"

In his opinion, the export of beverage factories is a small matter. After all, it is a beverage. It is not a big problem if the effect is weak. It will not kill people. But the Chinese patent medicine sold in large quantities by Chinese medicine factories is for curing diseases. Since ancient times, the biggest reason for Chinese families to go bankrupt is that they get sick with a disease that can be cured, but the medicine you sell has no effect and instead delays the disease to a serious one. This is a sin.
I remember watching a program at some point in my previous life, in which a white-haired pharmaceutical expert held up a medicine and gave an example: This was an anti-cancer drug produced by a famous pharmaceutical factory in Beijing. He asked him to test it, and the results showed that it had no effect at all, just like plain water, but it was sold for several thousand yuan a bottle. This was a life-saving drug.

Cha Kuiyuan's answer made Wang Deming feel depressed. "Deming, we have sent several formal documents to the supply and marketing cooperative, but the other party's response is too... How should I put it? They put the responsibility on our Chinese medicine factory."

"They said there was absolutely no problem with the herbs they collected, and asked us not to make a fuss or make harsh demands, which is the behavior of capitalists. We should protect the interests of the farmers who grow herbs."

Wang Deming frowned and muttered to himself: "To protect the growers, do we also have to protect the pharmaceutical companies? Then who will protect the interests of the patients?"

He shook his head slightly and said, "In that case, let's not communicate with the supply and marketing cooperative, but directly contact the real boss and report the problems of the Chinese medicine factory, the beverage factory, and the raw materials of the dietary supplements together."

"Also, print out a copy of our Chinese Medicine Association's medicinal material standards and provide it to the real boss."

There is no other solution for the time being, which is why Cha Kuiyuan and his wife came to find Wang Deming.

Hearing Wang Deming say this, Cha Kuiyuan and Zhang Shouying were obviously relieved, "Deming, let's report it through the pharmaceutical factory first. If that doesn't work, you have to come forward and find the real boss."

"Row!"

After the problem was solved, the three of them continued the topic of supply and marketing cooperatives and talked about public-private partnerships.

They all lamented in unison: before, only grain, cotton and oil were purchased and sold by the state. Now with the establishment of the new government unit, the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, private purchase, wholesale and retail will probably disappear passively.

Pharmaceutical companies will also face more serious challenges in their future operations.

Last year, Cha Kuiyuan proposed to Wang Deming that the Chinese medicine factory apply for public-private partnership. He was still a little reluctant in his heart, but this year he finally thought it through.
Currently, Chinese medicine factories are only facing the problem of purchasing medicinal materials. What if the sales of Chinese patent medicines also need to be planned and allocated in the future?

What to produce and how to produce are all subject to the deployment of superiors. They have to suppress profitable drugs and focus on producing unprofitable drugs. They also have to continue to maintain the high wages and benefits of the pharmaceutical factory. How many years can the traditional Chinese medicine factory last?

After this experience, Cha Kuiyuan is now determined to make the Chinese medicine factory a public-private partnership. He told Wang Deming that he would do his best to persuade the old and young people in the Chinese medicine factory to
Wang Deming rode his bike from Yongkang Hutong to continue working at the steel rolling mill. When he arrived at the factory gate, he did not go in immediately, but looked up at the sign of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill: The public-private joint venture Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.

There has always been no solution to the conspiracy.
How can capitalists willingly give up their interests just by giving verbal advice or issuing policies? No one who can do business to a certain extent is stupid.

The older generation of proletarian revolutionaries are truly admirable. They first conducted policy communications and calls for action, and then took a two-pronged approach to control the source of raw materials, leaving you with no choice but to take the initiative.

Just as Wang Deming expected, just half a month later, in the hot mid-August, Mr. Rong in Shanghai, Mr. Wang in Tianjin, and Mr. Le in Beijing all made high-profile speeches in newspapers and on the radio in positive response to the government's "public-private partnership."

Very few families with televisions can still watch Mr. Rong's interview: European-style garden houses, stylish furniture, neatly trimmed lawns; custom-made suits, spirited horse clothes, and dresses, all show that he is rich and noble.
In early September, the State Council formally passed the "Interim Regulations on State-Private Joint-Veneur Industrial Enterprises."

The curtain of public-private partnership has been raised.

(End of this chapter)