Chen Zhiwu reform dialogue is actually very simple matter

 Chen Zhiwu Dialogue: Reform is a very simple matter
Editor's Note: This year is the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up the 30-year reform and opening up, so that China has made remarkable achievements, but also should be noted that the deepening of reform, there have been more and more, more and more serious problems. So, in the end, and how will evaluate the 30 years of reform and opening up? our achievements in reform and opening up in the end what is the benefit? in the end how to solve the current appears many problems? reform in the end we should go? These are what we need to face and solve the current problem. To this end, and telecommunications networks Comment Channel special planned, series of interviews, experts invited to interview a hot topic of reform and opening up. Today we are invited to interview well-known economist Professor Chen Zhiwu, here are highlights of this interview.
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Cho-Chou Kuo: you and hearing friends, Hello, everybody. I was, and Cho-Chou Kuo Infonet reviews channel. Today we are very honored to the famous economist, Professor Chen Zhiwu, and information to users and the general exchange. Zhiwu Professor, Yale University School of Management is currently tenured professor of finance at Peking University Guanghua School of Management Professor. Professor Chen much time in China each year, so today is a rare opportunity. Chen, please say hello to friends and information.
Zhiwu: very excited about the opportunity and information with friends, usually with some understanding and friends have not seen such an opportunity to exchange.
Cho-Chou Kuo: This year is the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up, reform and opening up to today , I can say that a critical period of reform and opening people also had a great understanding of the differences, then how would you comment on the whole our 30 years of reform and opening up?
Zhiwu: Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, for me born in the early 60s that people basically have experienced from start to finish, see, on the situation before the reform and opening up about some understanding in 1978 when I happened to be graduating from high school, I learned from primary are in high school during the Cultural Revolution.
I think one of the biggest reform of the basic difference between before and after, is to give individuals more freedom, as a professor of China University of Political Science said, in fact, in retrospect, he said 30 years of reform is to want to do what each person is no longer tied hand and foot, to each person's work with greater freedom, so that everyone can do academics, engineers, government officials, entrepreneurs can be, for example 80 In rural areas, farmers produced what turned out to be strictly controlled,UGGs, to control. But from 78,79 began, farmers through the household responsibility system, what you can to produce their own rules. where to go after the production of a good sell? the beginning when the food should be sent to the granaries, pigs must be sold to a local meat processing factory, according to the official by the state to unify the price of buying in the past. But then they are let go, what you produce, how much to produce, where to sell to get according to what price to sell and so they have let go completely.
the professor means that reform is such a simple thing, that is, all aspects of the provisions of the previous one can not unlock the shackles of work, so that people seeking in accordance with the aspirations of a better life more natural way, should have been some return to the state. because we as human beings living in this world, are supposed to have some basic power, the most basic freedoms. during the Cultural Revolution before the reform and opening up a lot of freedom have been removed, except the freedom to find work, sales did not have the freedom in social life and not so much freedom, such as when to marry, the issue of housing. Now a lot of debate on the issue of real estate, Everyone says that prices are too high can not afford, in my opinion with 78,79 or 90 years, compared to China before the issue is still a good question, this can be a want a better house, better living conditions. But it turned out that we are all not imagine, you have to get their own house at that time, then only one way is to get married.
so 70's, 80's or 90's, many To sub-set of house barely a married person. Now think about that with the liberalization of the housing market after a house do not need to point casually with a marriage, there are many young people today just graduated college, recently graduated students to buy their own homes, with the house later to find a girlfriend or boyfriend.
this case with the original order to a little house (not their own kitchen, not have their own bathroom) casually With just with a world of difference between marriage, which for personal living space is to bring a fundamental change.
So I think there is one very interesting thing, if the last century began to do 70 so, that is, to people passing on the street to take some random pictures, look at his facial expressions reflected what kind of every month shots this photo, photographed by a time series has been this year. If there This photo, you will see decades of reform and opening up not only the house more, more highways, income growth, more cars, people's mental outlook is also much better, after all these developments were still around to development.
addition to addressing people's meals, lodging, food and clothing, the most important thing is, people are not eating anything to a live person, who have their own thinking, is through a variety of by way of their spiritual world and ideas of the world. So I think if you can reconstruct the history of the case will be very interesting.

Cho-Chou Kuo: On the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up, especially the decades of rapid economic growth, as the same as you just described, which makes everyone in the community, including the earth-shaking changes have taken place, so many people said to be a miracle. but it was also concluded that through horizontal comparison, several decades of development in China is not how great, how do you look at this issue?
Zhiwu: We are engaged in economic research, always like to use some data I know many domestic scholars, young or old scholars, amateurs, etc., that China was to GDP and GDP, I also agree with this view. But I also recognize that in order to determine more accurately the development of an economy, social change, we need a lot of indicators, GDP is just one indicator, this indicator with other indicators that we are more concerned about the relationship between some of the still very large.
why I stress, not to GDP and the GDP, but GDP itself from the point of view, according to the actual purchasing power of the operator, in 1980, when China's per capita GDP is about the equivalent of 450 dollars, there are now about 8,000 U.S. dollars, this is not in accordance with the official exchange rate,cheap UGG boots, but this really turned a lot of times .