Chapter Five Hundred and Twelve Economic Stimulus Package
In June 1920, the Chinese government launched an economic stimulus plan! 1
Of the economic stimulus package with a total value of 2.7 billion Chinese yuan, equivalent to 600 million U.S. dollars, 33% is used for tax cuts and the rest is government spending.
Among government expenditures, the largest item is infrastructure construction, which amounts to 800 million yuan. This is an investment for the whole society and is not classified by row.
Among the special expenditures, the largest is education, which is 350 million. Next is energy expenditure, which is 200 million. Other medical care, housing, environment, and national defense are also included in the package.
Among the 350 million yuan in special funds for education, the largest amount is used to increase national scholarships, namely the "Presidential Scholarship" with 150 million yuan. This scholarship is mainly targeted at low-income disadvantaged people.
The next 100 million yuan will be used to support low-income students in public primary and secondary schools, the third 50 billion yuan will be used to support students with disabilities, and the fourth 300 billion yuan will be used to support low-income students.
of children. The amount decreases further down the line.
Generally speaking, almost all of this money is used to help disadvantaged groups, such as part-time college students, children of homeless people, etc.
Who will manage the money? The most important candidate is Shen Qi, the newly appointed director of education by Wang Hengyue. Before this, he was the person in charge of a school. A leader who manages local primary and secondary schools not only suddenly became the director of education
, and because it has unprecedented funding.
For this reason, Shen Qi is known as the most powerful education director in history.
A clear message can be seen from such stimulating economic external planning: To revitalize the economy, education takes the lead!
Education funding is not just a subsidy, but also an investment. The Chinese government led by Wang Hengyue must now prepare qualified talents for the future.
Economic stimulus programs may also fail.
However, if this bill fails completely and does not meet the expectations of the [Chinese] government, what will be the consequences? Those infrastructures have already been built there, and no one can demolish or move them away. Even if the money does not meet the expectations,
, and also provided basic social services, which were not wasted, or even had to be spent.
The same is true for education. Even if the economic stimulus plan fails, talents have been cultivated. The intelligence of these people may be the driving force of the future economy.
The Chinese government led by Wang Hengyue attaches unprecedented importance to economy and education!
As soon as this economic plan was released, it immediately attracted a round of applause.
In particular, the tax reduction plan will have a huge stimulus to the economic sector!
After the tax reduction plan was announced, business delegations from Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Shanghai, and Beijing wrote letters requesting to be received by the President to further discuss the future economic development of China.
President Wang Hengyue accepted all these requests and promised to hold a national business joint seminar in Nanjing after he returned from his visit to the United States.
The president attaches great importance to education and the economy, which is great good news. The stock prices of various political exchanges have experienced a blowout.
But no one thought that this was just the first part of President Wang Hengyue's economic plan! In the future, more funds will be invested in economic development.
On June 2, Wang Hengyue inspected Nanjing Heavy Machinery Factory; on the same day, he inspected Nanjing Machinery Manufacturing Factory.
On June 3, Wang Yihengyue met with the local business delegation in Nanjing.
During this meeting, seven businessmen from Nanjing proposed to jointly invest in building the largest department store in the Far East in Xinjiekou, Nanjing. This proposal immediately aroused great interest in Wang Hengyue.
"You build the largest department store in the Far East, and I will give you the biggest discount!" After listening carefully to the department store construction plan, Wang Hengyue said enthusiastically: "You don't have to worry about taxes and government support. If you encounter difficulties in the early stage, you
You can go directly to my office of the President, and I will do whatever I can to help you. But one thing is, this department store must be affordable for ordinary people, and it cannot be opened only for the rich!"
"Yes!" Li Zizhen, the leader of the delegation, who owns three flour mills, three textile factories and is one of the investors in the department store, said: "In addition, we are also planning to invest in a film company."
"Movie company? That's great!"
Wang Hengyue was startled for a moment, then laughed and said: "A batch of [Chinese] films have been made, and a number of [Chinese] stars have become popular. [Chinese] films have been developing for fifteen years, but the progress is slow.
Not happy. I remember the first movie in China was 'Dingjun Mountain', right?"
Li Zizhen smiled and nodded: "It is a clip from 'Dingjun Mountain', created by Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio, shot by Ren Jingfeng, starring Tan Xinpei. The film company we established this time is named 'Dazhong"
"National Film Company" wanted to compete with the "Asia Film Company" invested and established by Americans. For this reason, we paid a large sum of money to break the contract and poached their ace screenwriter Zheng Zhengqiu and ace director from Asia Film Company.
Both Zhang Shichuan."
"Oh?" Wang Hengyue suddenly became interested: "Are they here?"
"coming."
Following Li Zizhen's introduction, China's first-generation film screenwriter Zheng Zhengqiu and director Zhang Shichuan appeared in front of Wang Hengyue.
These two men made great contributions to Chinese films. In 1913, the American-run Asia Film Company produced China's first short film with a storyline, "Chinese" written by Zheng Zhengqiu and directed by Zhang Shichuan.
"A Difficult Husband, a Difficult Wife". After that, he filmed two of China's earliest feature films, "Yan Ruisheng" and "The Pink Skull".
"Okay, it would be great to make a movie." Wang Hengyue thought for a while: "I have a suggestion. How about I finance the first movie of the China Film Company?"
Everyone was a little surprised and didn't know what the president meant.
"The purpose of making a feature film is to describe our army." Wang Hengyue expressed his thoughts: "As for the subject matter, try not to choose civil war. It can be the [Chinese] army in the Russian civil war that is happening now, and you can highlight a
Character, create a hero, no, a superhero becomes”
"Superhero?" Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhang Shichuan asked in unison when they heard this title for the first time.
Wang Hengyue nodded: "You can exaggerate as much as possible. This hero is omnipotent in heaven and earth. He always saves the situation at the most critical and dangerous moments and becomes the winner in the end."
This design is really too big.
Most of the movies of this era were built indoors with a set and just a few actors. But in the President's vision, it should be a very grand and huge movie.
For Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhang Shichuan, who had never directed this film before, they seemed a little embarrassed.
"Think slowly, come up with ideas slowly." Wang Hengyue said with a smile; "It doesn't have to show the grandeur of the battlefield. Most of the scenes can be shot indoors. If necessary, I can ask the army to help you. Slowly.
Take your time, and don't be afraid of failure. You can make the movie you planned while formulating my proposal. If it doesn't work this year, then try again next year. If it still doesn't work next year, then we will use it for three or five years."
Zheng Zhengqiu and Zhang Shichuan became a little excited.
With the full support of the president, things will be much easier to handle.
Wang Hengyue held his chin and thought for a moment: "Don't underestimate movies. Movies can often provide cohesion and increase pride. Sometimes they can also play an unexpected role in the recruitment of the army. Of course, if movies want to achieve this
It will be very difficult to ask for it.”
Wang Hengyue talked a lot with them about the movie, and some of his "fantasies" that still seem very unrealistic. Wang Hengyue even predicted the advent of a thing called "television."
Everyone was stunned. Most of the President's words were something they had never heard of and couldn't believe. However, the President told them with certainty that these things would appear sooner or later. But the only thing is that they must
Consider whether these things were invented by Chinese people or foreigners.
“We must establish a patent office in China as soon as possible!”
Wang Hengyue suddenly changed the subject: "There are many invented things that can be applied for patents at the patent office. A trademark protection bureau must also be established. For example, your 'Great China Film Company' will become famous in the future, and people from all over the country will
Some people have come up with the term "Great [China] Film Company" to confuse the public. Who do you think this film company belongs to in the end?
Li Zizhen and others nodded frequently. The president thought much longer than they did.
"Although the government has launched an economic stimulus plan, it is difficult to say how the banquet will be carried out and what difficulties will be encountered during the implementation." Wang Hengyue said thoughtfully: "So your assistance and your help are needed on many things.
In terms of supervision, it is not terrible when problems arise, as long as they are corrected. What is terrible is that when problems are discovered, they are not taken seriously at all.
Another issue is whether officials are fulfilling their responsibilities during the implementation process. Our country is so big and has so many palace officials. There are good officials and corrupt officials. This is unavoidable in any country. Although we have established the Independent Commission Against Corruption,
It is absolutely impossible to cover everything. At this point, I still need you to help me supervise those officials!"
The businessmen were startled, supervising the palace officials?
Wang Hengyue's expression was very solemn: "Officials serve the society. It is unrealistic to expect the people above to come in private and solve a group of corrupt officials. The whole people monitor the palace officials and let the officials sit in that position.
Reflect on it every day and don’t dare to be careless. Although this is not the whole solution to the problem, I think it is also a way."
Li Zizhen breathed a sigh of relief, nodded his head and said sincerely: "President, there will definitely be problems, but the attitude of the president and the government gives us a sense of confidence. If we really encounter problems, we will not worry, let alone