On January 6, 1999, the National Economic Research Center of China was renamed the National Economic Research Institute of China, and its actual authority was further amplified. The powerful Yang Shaozong was specially approved by the central government to be given ministerial-level treatment.
After a series of considerations, Yang Shaozong and Yang Xiaokai jointly wrote an invitation letter to Professor James M. Buchanan, the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, formally inviting Professor Buchanan to the National Institute of Economic Research of China. Serves as economic advisor.
The reason why James M. Buchanan was invited instead of Krugman and others as expected in advance is that Krugman had not won the Nobel Prize in Economics at this time, and his status was not shocking enough. Even if he came, he would not Trusted by those at the top of the central government.
The special thing about James M. Buchanan is that he is one of the very few people in the Western economics community who simultaneously studies the mutual impact of public relations and economic development. His public choice theory is a Western political economy and also created a system through economic development. Develop channels to study political development.
Yang Xiaokai will personally go to the University of Virginia to invite James M. Buchanan and invite him to serve as a tenured professor at the International College of Qizhou University, while Yang Shaozong has another thing to do.
Yang Shaozong took two months' leave from the central government because he had too many invitations. Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines all invited him, and they were all very high-level invitations. The government also invited him and appointed an ambassador to China. Had a communication with the State Council.
This kind of invitation is not to ask questions at the official level, but an academic activity focusing on academic exchanges and public lectures, but there are also some political factors.
Facts have proved that not only the Chinese government believes in the Nobel Prize in Economics, but other governments in Asia also believe in it. Therefore, Milton Feldman, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, said that the Nobel Prize in Economics It is the last award that should be established. It makes people think that the economics profession has real authority. In fact, there is no real authority. No economist can correctly answer the problems of the human economic world, and there has never been a real correct person in this field.
Yes.
There are no real masters of economics at all. All economics researchers are just searching, thinking they have found a correct answer, but in fact it is not a correct answer. It is not like mathematics and physics. Most of them There are no correct answers to the questions.
Yang Shaozong went anyway.
The first stop is Waseda University in Tokyo.
After arriving in Tokyo on a special plane assigned by China United Airlines, Yang Shaozong first met and talked with several friends in the economics field, and then gave a public speech at Waseda University. The title of his speech was "Forget Panasonic, Return to Meiji."
Although they didn¡¯t say that they were asking you to give me advice, they just asked you to give a speech about international economics and your views on the economy. Let¡¯s talk about it, and then we will give you a sum of money, which is regarded as business expenses, and you will not be allowed to do so. An empty trip back and forth.
how much is it?
Let¡¯s take a trip, 300,000 US dollars, sponsored by Hong Kong Zhongqi and Panasonic International Enterprise Research Center. The reason why Hong Kong Zhongqi wants to sponsor is because Yang Shaozong¡¯s speech tour in Southeast Asia is of a commercial nature, and he also wants to participate in Hong Kong Zhongqi holds some business celebration activities in these countries.
The organizers actually hope that Yang Shaozong will say something useful for the economy. Yang Shaozong did say something very useful. He really prescribed a prescription for the economy - "Forget Panasonic and return to Meiji."
He believes that too much faith in the power of large companies, as the consortia are very large, has become a major obstacle to further economic growth. He suggested that young people should be brave enough to start their own businesses and not be proud of working in large consortiums. Society must also reshape the impact, courage, and open competition era of the Meiji period, encourage its younger generation to start their own businesses, focus on supporting small and medium-sized innovative enterprises, and cultivate new Mitsubishi, Sony, Panasonic and Toyota.
He suggested that the society should give up the glory, pride and baggage of the past, put down the baggage, and travel lightly. Don't always miss the past. The past is just a dream. The society should once again reshape the new generation of young people, reshape the new generation of industries, and give The new generation of young people have unlimited opportunities for development. Society must encourage them, and parents and teachers must also bravely encourage them.
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Yang Shaozong¡¯s public speech was held in the auditorium of Waseda University. Half of the people present were students and half were people from the political, economic and business circles.
During his English speech of less than half an hour, the audience stood up and applauded three times. When he finally finished speaking, the audience stood up and applauded again for ten minutes.
The next day, the "Asahi Shimbun" published the speech in full, and Fuji TV also broadcast the video publicly, which immediately caused a huge stir throughout the world.profit opportunities.
Hong Kong should use the mainland's platform to expand into industries such as telecommunications, energy, automobiles, aviation, chemicals, etc. It should no longer tie itself to the real estate and financial bubbles. It should pursue a broader stage and become China's window for financing to the world. , it is necessary to add a GEM.
Hong Kong should not care about the concept of the merger of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is meaningless. Hong Kong should pay more attention to the development of Guangdong as a whole, invest in education and industry in Guangzhou, and work hard for the economic integration of Guangdong and Hong Kong to create a common Cantonese-speaking economy and The cultural world, this is the future of Hong Kong.
At this point, the speech tour, which lasted for one and a half months and totaled six stops, ended, and Yang Shaozong returned to the mainland and went to Qizhou to attend the 9th China Economic Forum.
In this month and a half, Yang Shaozong really set off a storm of his own, a whirlwind of his own, sweeping across Southeast Asia. If not for time constraints, he would have continued to be invited to Vietnam and Malaysia to give public speeches.
Yang Shaozong's agent has been negotiating with Malaysia and Vietnam for a long time, and has even contacted Indonesia. It is not impossible for him to go, but for the organizers with government backgrounds in Malaysia and Indonesia, he bluntly said that if When I go, I will definitely talk about ethnic issues. If you cannot be fair to the Chinese and adopt fair ethnic policies, how can you develop the economy?
¡°If I don¡¯t say this publicly, do I still need to find you a key?
For you, the best key is to trust the Chinese and Chinese businessmen.
The Indonesian side does not agree with the topic of Yang Shaozong's public speech at all. Yang Shaozong is too lazy to continue negotiations. He is not cheap. Although his business speeches have obvious commercial interests and national interests, he is responsible for attracting the influx of foreign investment in Singapore, Hong Kong and China. There is a very obvious investment demand in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
The reason why he wanted to spare time to prepare to go to Vietnam was actually for investment needs and to do political, economic and social public relations for the entire Zhongqi Group project.
South Korea did have an invitation, but he did not accept it because the investment space in South Korea is very small. South Korea itself cannot take care of it now. Wherever there is money to invest in China, even if it is invested, it is not a high-quality industry.
Therefore, Yang Shaozong did not consider it. He just vaguely said that there was no overall in-depth study of the Korean economy for the time being, and he would think it over carefully later.
In any case, Yang Shaozong created a big whirlwind in Southeast Asia. The Asahi Shimbun even used the title "Physician of the Asian Economy" to describe him. He went to various Asian countries to give speeches and proposed new development ideas for these countries. , all proposals are very important.
Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" called Yang Shaozong the "Star of Asia", while Hong Kong called him the "Godfather of Asia's Economics."
Asia¡¯s economic godfather! ! !
What a crazy choice of words! !
When Yang Shaozong returns to China, this will be really extraordinary. During this period, the entire domestic media world has focused its attention on him. It seems that Yang Shaozong is the most popular and authoritative economist in Asia. Economic star, everyone is waiting for him to take a pulse and prescribe medicine. ro! .