life in the sky

Mu Guoxing made a final decision and set a maximum limit for the issuance of national bonds in the future. Although it was just a verbal instruction, there must be no one who would dare not follow it. You must know that the instructions of the chief executive are sometimes more effective than the official documents of the central government. .

"The money raised by the first batch of national bonds must first solve the problem of universal medical insurance. According to the statistics of relevant departments, according to the insurance fee of 180 yuan per person per year, the central government will invest 700 billion yuan. It turns out that the reason why we This work has not been carried out, mainly because there is still a lot of money for national construction, and we can't take care of it for a while. Now we can solve this problem by issuing national bonds, and the proportion of this aspect is relatively small, so we are promoting this work The time is ripe."

"In addition, I will give you another 300 billion. This part of the money will be mainly used for the development of grassroots medical care. You will be given one year to implement five-level medical care in the city, districts, streets, communities, and every residential area in the city. Afterwards, the central government will send a working group to conduct a comprehensive inspection, and formulate a set of national medical policies suitable for our national conditions to promote across the country. This is a serious political task, and I hope the Dongfang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will take it seriously.”

Speaking of this, Mu Guoxing said to the Minister of Health Wang Hongxin: "Comrade Hongxin, the universal medical insurance is something that the common people have been looking forward to for many years. Although the Ministry of Health has done a lot of work over the years, it has not been implemented due to funding problems. , but can only take the method of treating headaches and feet, which cost a lot of money, but the effect is not great. I hope that the Ministry of Health will come up with a plan on the basis of the original within half a year. The 700 billion medical insurance should be well managed and used well.”

Only now did Wang Hongxin understand why Chief No. [-] came to Dongfang City to participate in the listing ceremony of the financial center, and brought him, the Minister of Health, who had nothing to do with economic work. It turned out that it was because of medical insurance.

"Please rest assured, the Ministry of Health has done a lot of research work before. After returning to Beijing, I will immediately convey your instructions. Based on the original research, I will formulate a feasible national medical insurance plan as soon as possible."

Mu Guoxing smiled in satisfaction, took a sip of tea and said: "The annual insurance cost of [-] billion is a big piece of cake. I am afraid that many insurance companies will start a battle around this aspect again. This is also a big piece of cake. This is a good thing, and there is no identification without comparison. Whoever has the most favorable conditions and is most in line with our national conditions will pay the insurance premiums. As for some comrades, they are worried that doctors and patients will collude and maliciously defraud the national medical insurance fees when they see a doctor. Things, I don’t think there is any need to worry about this. Insurance companies are smarter than anyone else in calculating premiums, and this is also checking for us.”

What Mu Guoxing said is very reasonable. The state pays the insurance premium to the insurance company, so the insurance company is obliged to be responsible for the medical treatment of the whole people. They will also formulate several countermeasures for these problems. There are strict regulations on what kind of disease should be treated by which level of hospital, and what kind of medicine can be used.In fact, the insurance company represents the country and negotiates with medical individuals and hospitals in the whole society.

It is absolutely impossible for hospitals to charge arbitrary fees or prescribe high-priced medicines.The insurance company will never disregard its own interests and let the hospital do whatever it takes. This actually limits the hospital's unhealthy practices from another aspect.

While everyone was pondering, Mu Guoxing said again: "We are calling for expanding domestic demand every day, which means to let the common people take out their savings for consumption, but if we can't solve the problems of medical care, pension and education, the common people will have The money will be saved, and it will be difficult to get them to spend it. Now that some departments see that they have issued 5000 billion national bonds, they may have to reach out to the central government again. I can clearly state my position here. No one wants to get a cent of the 5000 billion national debt. I will use the remaining 300 billion for education and the elderly care of the people. If these three tasks are done well, within two years, the domestic demand of the people will not be mobilized. It will expand."

At this time, Chen Yifan also had to admire Mu Guoxing's foresight. How many years have he called to stimulate consumption and expand domestic demand? Why hasn't it improved?The reason is that these three problems have not been fundamentally resolved. If it costs little or nothing to see a doctor, the state will take care of it when you get old, and your children don’t have to pay tuition fees when they go to school. Who would be so stupid? Put money in the bank, who wouldn't want to live a more comfortable life?

"Comrade Wei Qiangchen," Mu Guoxing startled Wei Qiangchen, who was taking notes. Through this period of work, and following Vice Premier Mu's visit abroad, Wei Qiangchen knows the work style of the No. [-] chief too well. Yes, although Wei Qiangchen thinks he has done nothing wrong, being called by Chief No. [-] is always a frightening thing.

"The Administration of Foreign Exchange also needs to make appropriate adjustments to its tasks in the future. In the future, our foreign exchange reserves will continue to grow for a long period of time. The increased foreign exchange should not only focus on buying foreign national debt, but only focus on the US dollar. and the euro must also participate in the domestic market. The central government has decided to allocate 2000 billion of the 2 trillion U.S. dollars in foreign exchange reserves to grain, oil and food import and export companies. The main daily necessities of the people's livelihood, strive to control the price increase within 8000%, and spend another [-] trillion to repurchase RMB through the financial center. In the future, our country's foreign exchange reserves will only be maintained at the level of [-] trillion US dollars. enough."

Hearing Mu Guoxing's words, Wei Qiangchen finally let go of his heart. Isn't he just taking out two trillion US dollars of foreign exchange reserves? Is the head of No. [-] still so serious?

The other senior cadres were thinking about another thing at this time. They knew exactly what it meant for Mu Guoxing to buy back renminbi with 8000 trillion US dollars. It seemed that the Chinese people were not far away from the time when they could really live a better life. .

Text Chapter 730 Don't take it seriously

While Mu Guoxing was devoting himself to the country's economic development and trying to find solutions to solve the problems of people's livelihood, something went wrong with the Petroleum Group, a test field for state-owned enterprise reform that he personally took care of.

According to the documents of the National Development and Reform Commission, since July, provinces and cities in Jiangnan, Guangdong, and the East have experienced varying degrees of tight supply of refined oil.And this tight supply situation seems to be intensifying and has a tendency to spread to other regions.

The oil group explained that the reason for this situation is related to the sudden increase in demand for fuel consumption in the south after summer.But the fundamental reason is that the international oil price continues to rise, which has a serious impact on the domestic fuel supply system.Due to the rise in international oil prices, the prices of crude oil and refined oil have inverted. According to calculations, the price difference is about 700 yuan per ton.This has put a lot of pressure on refiners to refrain from importing crude for processing.It has been reported that some local small refineries have shut down or semi-shutdown due to high processing costs.The report analyzed that the output of small local oil refineries is by no means the leading role in the entire market. In terms of refined oil supply sources, petroleum groups account for [-]% and small refined oil suppliers in society account for less than [-]%. Small refineries accounted for only half of the opened areas.In other words, the oil group occupies an absolute monopoly in refining and supplying refined oil.Therefore, the logical conclusion is that the largest state-owned enterprise, the oil group, should bear the main responsibility for the current oil shortage.It seems reasonable for companies to pursue profit maximization.However, the oil group is not an ordinary private enterprise, but a state-owned monopoly enterprise, which is invested and constructed by the government with public funds.

In order to ensure a favorable business environment for the oil group, the government has also given the oil group monopoly power that other companies cannot even imagine.Internally, they own almost all oil and gas resources, and externally, they monopolize the right to import oil.In the field of oil refining, after the three oil system reforms in the last century, the large and medium-sized state-owned oil refineries of more than 100 million tons in the country are basically placed under the control of oil groups.Even the CNOOC Group, which is also a central enterprise, is not allowed to get involved, let alone private enterprises.Regardless of the initial investment, the nature of the enterprise, or the current status, oil groups are responsible for undertaking a certain degree of public functions.That is, as the saying goes, share the country's worries and solve problems.When the international oil market fluctuates sharply, they should play a role in stabilizing the market.The government also intends to make the oil group a giant covering the entire petrochemical industry chain.Petroleum Group includes a complete industrial chain from oil exploration, oil trade, oil refining, and refined oil sales.Therefore, as long as the company is willing to undertake the public function of stabilizing the market, it should absorb the domestic impact of rising crude oil prices in the international market through internal resource allocation.

In fact, oil groups are fully capable of such affordability at present.Last year, the Petroleum Group made a profit of more than 3000 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, it made a profit of 1790.27 billion yuan, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total profits of all central enterprises.Therefore, it can fully take out part of the profits obtained from the oil exploration business to make up for the losses in the oil refining business.However, have they actually shouldered their responsibilities?

In the oil shortage, is the oil group trying its best to dispel the panic in the market?I'm afraid people are inclined to give a negative answer.Some people in the industry pointed out frankly that the oil shortage is actually a situation created by oil groups, trying to blackmail the government with social panic and force the government to substantially increase the sales price of refined oil.In some cities in Guangdong, under the notice of "gasoline has not arrived" at the gas station, the scene of hundreds of meters of cars waiting in long queues can be seen everywhere, and the traffic around the gas station is extremely congested.

Since August, some gas stations have even hung "no oil" notices.Some gas stations give priority to specific customers. Although there is a notice that "No. 8 gasoline has not arrived", car owners with stored-value cards from oil companies can fill up the gas, causing dissatisfaction among other car owners.Some savvy people began to "pour oil" for profit.

At individual gas stations with oil, the queues of vehicles waiting for refueling are as long as 400 meters. Some people line up with plastic buckets to buy oil, and then resell it at a higher price to car owners who are waiting in line. Every liter of No. 97 gasoline is resold at a 30% price increase. .

The media directly pointed their finger at the oil companies, publicly criticizing: "This tense situation is because the domestic oil oligarchs have not been approved to raise oil prices again, artificially creating supply shortages, in order to coerce the country to agree to their price increases." Dongfang Market A media published an article saying that the oil shortage in South China was caused by "organization and planning".Oil oligarchs take users as "hostages", and the object of the game is the National Development and Reform Commission, the maker of oil prices.

Liu Xiangdong, the first deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, had two urgent interviews with the main leaders of the oil group. The first time he talked with Liu Guanglei of the oil group, Liu Xiangdong straightforwardly asked Liu Guanglei to solve the country's problems and assume the leading role of state-owned enterprises in stabilizing the market.

This conversation was very unpleasant. Liu Guanglei not only did not follow Liu Xiangdong's instructions, but also attributed the price increase to the fact that the international crude oil price was too high and the oil refining companies lost a lot of money. He defended the oil group in every possible way, and proposed to ensure the supply of refined oil , the Development and Reform Commission must agree to further increase fuel prices.

Of course, Liu Xiangdong categorically rejected Liu Guanglei's unreasonable request. He pointed out: According to the "Petroleum Price Management Measures (Trial)", "crude oil prices are independently determined by enterprises with reference to international market prices"; When the price changes by more than 22%, the price of domestic refined oil can be adjusted accordingly. The National Development and Reform Commission has strictly followed this policy and adjusted the price of domestic fuel oil. That is to say, the price of domestic oil products has basically "internationalized" now

In response to Liu Guanglei's request, Liu Xiangdong refuted Liu Guanglei's fallacy with a large number of facts. He pointed out: Anyone with a little common sense knows that at least half of the oil consumed in the Chinese market does not need to be purchased at the normal "international market" high price.Taking 2009 as an example, among the 40 tons of oil consumption in the country, the net import volume was 837.5 tons, and the dependence on oil imports was 21% (the net import dependence of crude oil was 888.5%).In other words, nearly half of the oil consumed in the Chinese market is produced domestically.

In addition, among the imported oil, there is still a considerable part of "loans for oil" among countries. Last year alone, the amount exceeded 800 billion U.S. dollars, and this part of crude oil was imported at a price lower than the normal price in the international market. to domestic.In other words, when some countries hit by the economic crisis ask Huaxia for loans, Huaxia will also ask these countries to use oil to repay the loans.And the price is often seven to ten percent lower than the normal price on the international market.

This method not only protects the financial security of Huaxia, but also creates a very favorable condition for the country's energy imports. It stands to reason that the refined raw material oil of the oil group should be lower than the international fuel price, but the fact is just the opposite. Taking the first half of this year as an example, the oil and gas group's overseas business alone achieved a net oil and gas production of 5 million barrels of oil equivalent, accounting for 520% of its total production, an increase of 8.9% year-on-year.Therefore, the petroleum group determines the price of oil products in the Huaxia market based on the "high" listed prices in international markets such as New York and London, which fundamentally and deliberately distorts the real situation of the Huaxia oil market.

This time Liu Xiangdong had an interview with Liu Guanglei. Although the two of them had a very unpleasant conversation, Liu Guanglei still maintained enough politeness, at least he didn't walk away halfway.Half a month later, the National Development and Reform Commission saw that there was still no movement from the oil group, so they interviewed Liu Guanglei again.Unexpectedly, Liu Guanglei refused the interview with the National Development and Reform Commission on the grounds that he was investigating the oil market overseas. However, at that time, someone saw that Liu Guanglei was having a banquet in a private club in Beijing.

The reason why Liu Guanglei dared to blatantly confront the Development and Reform Commission was that he believed that he was the boss of the largest state-owned enterprise, and that the central government had just adjusted the leadership team of the oil group. A ministerial-level cadre, and the Development and Reform Commission can't control his official status, naturally he will not take Liu Xiangdong seriously.

Text 730 Chapter [-] Real loss and false profit

The report of the National Development and Reform Commission also wrote: As a listed company, the oil group's financial status is "basically transparent."In the financial report for the first half of the year released in mid-to-late August, the oil group's high profits and rapid wealth growth have reached the point of "sorry to say".

According to the semi-annual financial report released by the Petroleum Group, as of June 6, the Petroleum Group achieved a net profit of 30 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1653.3%.In particular, exploration and production achieved an operating profit of 29.4 billion yuan, an increase of 733.7% over the same period of the previous year;In the first half of the year, the operating income of the oil group's exploration and development business surged by 94.9%, reaching 299.7 billion yuan.

Although the oil refining business of the oil group has seen a decline in revenue, it is only a decline in revenue, and there has been no "loss".What's more, the amount of interest in the oil refining industry is mainly due to the adjustment of the interests of the upstream and downstream industrial chains within the oil group.By doing this, the oil group can not only take advantage of changes in listed oil prices in the international market to increase the price of imported oil products, including their overseas exploration and low oil prices negotiated between countries, but also want to further force the National Development and Reform Commission to agree to allocate half of the oil produced domestically. The prices of petroleum products produced are raised to the high prices listed on the international market.

In more than two years, the domestic price of refined oil per ton has increased by more than 1900 yuan, while the international market oil price has dropped by about US$50 during the same period.Based on half of the annual domestic consumption of refined oil products (more than 1.1 million tons), only raising the price of domestic self-produced oil products with "international prices" can create additional income of 2000 billion yuan for the oil group every year.Compared with the tens of billions of yuan in special income paid by oil groups every year, it is simply nothing.This is the main reason why the more oil prices rise, the more profits China's oil oligarchs will make.

According to statistics from the Guangdong Economic and Trade Commission, due to rising coal, crude oil and other energy prices, high petrochemical raw materials and steel prices, and abnormal power supply, the production costs of industrial enterprises in the province have increased and profit margins have decreased. In the first half of the year, industrial enterprises only The total profit was 600.9 billion yuan, an increase of 3.5%, and the growth rate dropped by 36.2 percentage points year-on-year.At the same time, the rise in the price of refined oil has increased the operating costs of companies whose main business is transportation, including civil aviation, shipping, road transportation, urban public transport, and taxi industries.

In addition, due to the rise in crude oil prices, the price of chemical fertilizers has also been rising all the way, and the prices of pesticides, plastic films, and seeds have also risen along with the trend. Agricultural production and farmers' lives have been greatly affected, and farmers' income increase will also be affected to a certain extent. Almost half of the subsidy was offset by the oil group's price hikes.

Seeing this, Mu Guoxing was furious. The central government allocates huge sums of money to support agriculture, rural areas and farmers every year, but the oil group alone took more than half of it, and finally the oil group reported it to the central government as a profit, so as to preserve their income. official hat.The country's strategy of exchanging loans for oil can create nearly 2000 billion economic benefits for the oil group every year, and the sum of these two items alone can reach more than 4000 billion.

It can be seen that the oil group's 1000 billion annual profit is not created by themselves, but by the state's policy support and the hard-earned money of the common people. After careful analysis, the oil group even loses more than [-] yuan a year [-] million.

Mu Guoxing commented in the document: In addition to the obligation to pay taxes and profits to the state, large state-owned enterprises also shoulder an important social security function.The facts listed in the document of the National Development and Reform Commission are very clear, and the theoretical basis is also very detailed. How does the oil group generate [-] billion yuan in profits every year? Please think about it seriously.What exactly is the leadership of the oil group trying to do?Please ask the National Development and Reform Commission to interview the main leaders of the oil group again urgently. Under the premise of ensuring the annual profit, they must ensure a sufficient supply of fuel oil within half a month and lower the price of fuel oil. Otherwise, they are asked to collectively resign from the central government.

Mu Guoxing is also very clear that this report by the National Development and Reform Commission is also very risky. Based on Mu Guoxing's understanding of Liu Xiangdong, they will not easily write this report to the central government if they do not encounter difficulties.Now the oil group dares to blatantly confront the leadership of the Development and Reform Commission. If the leadership of the oil group is not ruthless, it will be difficult for the reform of state-owned enterprises led by the Development and Reform Commission to continue.

On the second day after making this instruction, Chen Yifan, a member of the Standing Committee in charge of discipline inspection, called Mu Guoxing: "Comrade Guoxing, if I have time, I would like to exchange opinions with you."

Mu Guoxing understood that what should come will always come. Presumably those people from the oil group must have seen his instructions and must be moving around again. They can also think that if they go to No. [-] and No. [-], they must not What a good result, this is to move Chen Yifan out.

"Hehe, Comrade Yifan, I'm also looking for an exchange of ideas with you. You can decide the time and place."

Chen Yifan also lived in a small courtyard called Yixintang in Zhongnanhai. This place was similar to the place where No. [-] Gao Xu lived, and the area was even larger. When Mu Guoxing arrived, Chen Yifan was waiting in the corridor. Before the meeting, the two shook hands and entered Chen Yifan's reception room together.

This is Mu Guoxing's first visit to Chen Yifan's residence. Except that there are slightly more rooms, the other home decorations are as simple and unadorned as other central leaders.The two big brothers are naturally well aware of today's conversation, both of them sipping tea in silence, thinking about how to start this conversation.

"Comrade Guoxing," Chen Yifan said first, "Recently, our country's economic situation has developed very well, especially the establishment of the world financial center, which has given wings to our economic take-off. It is really gratifying and congratulatory. .Although there are still some different views on the operation mode of the financial center, the financial center is also crossing the river by feeling the stones, and it is necessary to explore which model to adopt. "

Mu Guoxing fully understood that when he went to Dongfang City to attend the opening ceremony of the financial center, Cheng Yifan, secretary of the municipal party committee, had reported to him that some economic experts suggested that the financial center should fully copy the Wall Street model, and said that this was approved by the head of the central government. Agreed, it seems that this sentence is definitely not groundless, the root lies in Chen Yifan.

"Hehe, Comrade Yifan is right. The establishment of the financial center is indeed a pair of wings for our country's economic take-off. However, everything has two sides. If we give up the supervision of finance and let those If the financiers continue to do so, there may be a second Lehman Brothers. The United States has provided us with a good negative example in this regard. The Standing Committee meeting has made a clear resolution on this aspect. My supervisor In economic work, I feel even more responsible, and I dare not take it lightly for a moment.”

What Mu Guoxing said is very clear. First, he told Chen Yifan that he must never give up on financial supervision. Second, he must avoid repeating the mistakes of Lehman Brothers. The most important thing was to remind Chen Yifan that I am in charge of the economy. Members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, please don't criticize this matter. If you have any opinions, you can express them at the meeting.

When it comes to senior cadres at their level, all of them are the best of the best. As soon as Mu Guoxing finished speaking, Chen Yifan understood what he meant, smiled and said: "Well, you are right, the financial It is also the first time for us to set up a center, so we really should be more on the safe side, as the saying goes, there is nothing wrong with being careful.”

Mu Guoxing nodded: "This is not a matter of carelessness, but a matter related to the future and destiny of the country and the nation. As for financial derivatives, some can still promote financial development. When I was investigating in Dongfang City I have also said that in the future, according to the operation of the financial center, after gaining experience in this area, it can only be released step by step after strict review by the central government. However, for the large multiple leverage used in financial derivatives , I am firmly opposed to it."

Chen Yifan smiled: "You are the one who understands the economy best among our Standing Committee members, and your leadership in the economic field is obvious to all. Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, and we must be cautious and cautious. We are on the road to a powerful country that has never been seen before. In some places, it is still necessary to listen to the advice of some experts."

VIP Two Thousand 730 Chapter Two Can't Be Tolerated

"Comrade Yifan," Mu Guoxing said sincerely: "Our principle is collective leadership and individual responsibility. Before formulating major policies and policies, we should listen to different opinions from all sides. This is also very important for our work. It is beneficial, but at the same time, we should also be wary of some unruly people who confuse right and wrong when making suggestions to the central government. It is undeniable that some experts have given the central government a lot of useful suggestions, but there are still some experts out of some unreasonable The purpose of prosecuting others has influenced some people’s thinking, in this regard we must be highly politically sensitive and treat the suggestions of these experts differently.”

Seeing Chen Yi's unsure look, Mu Guoxing said again: "Comrade Yifan, politics and economy are inseparable, and we must keep this in mind. Take the operating mode of the financial center as an example, some Some people suggest that we follow Wall Street’s rules in an all-round way, and that the government should not carry out strict supervision. Although they are pretending to learn advanced Western management concepts, what is the purpose of these people?”

Chen Yifan looked at Mu Guoxing calmly. He knew very well in his heart that when it comes to economic theory knowledge, not to mention him alone, even all members of the Politburo plus many economists may not be able to Comparable to Mu Guoxing.