Ant Financial and Didi Travel incidents, if they only look at the surface, will be attributed to the company's failure to fulfill its obligations to comply with laws and regulations. But the key point is the wild growth of the platform, which weakens the country's position as the dominant player in the national economy. This hidden worry is the real cause of the event.
1, examine the issue of national economic dominance from a historical dimension. economic foundation determines superstructure . Looking at the past and present, both China and abroad, the stability of the regime is all due to the state's control over the national economy. The late regime crisis of the Ming Dynasty was largely due to the lack of control of landlords and gentry by the court and the lack of tax revenue in the central government, which was very dangerous in agricultural society, and eventually led to the Qing army entering the Central Plains. The storm in the late Qing Dynasty was the lack of modern monetary policy, which led to the inability of central government finance and taxation to support national capital and the national treasury was empty. Even the military expenditure of Zuo Zongtang to pacify Xinjiang was solved by borrowing a total of 18.75 million taels of silver from foreign banks. These are all lessons from history.
Capitalist country on the surface is market economy , but in fact, the state system is bourgeois dictatorship . The state's regime itself is the tool of internal and external rule of its large consortium, so its country's control over the economy is no problem. You can show a high degree of awareness and consistency in action from the Huawei incident, technology decoupling, and sanctions against Russia. For example, after Putin took office, he took a series of nationalization measures to regain control of energy companies related to the foundation of Russia's economic foundation from many oligarchs. After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, he took back the ownership of the Sakhalin oil and gas field to further control the energy strategy. The current situation shows that Russia's series of nationalization measures are correct. Otherwise, if the current Russian oil and gas companies are still controlled by pro-Western oligarchs, I am afraid Putin's presidential throne will be difficult to guarantee, let alone compete with the West.
In the practice of building a socialist market economy, my country has always emphasized the dominant position of public ownership economy, and emphasized that the manifestation of the dominant position is the dominant role and support role of state-owned enterprises in the national economy. From the historical and realistic perspective of China and foreign countries, enhancing the country's dominance over the economy involves more national security issues, and nothing about the difference between ideology and and system. Therefore, specifically, my country firmly controls 20 industries related to the national economy, people's livelihood and regime security, including 20 industries including publishing houses, electricity, television stations, power grids, steel, buses, heating, broadcasting, aviation, chemical industry, finance, military industry, gas ( natural gas ), automobiles, oil, water affairs, railways, communications, tobacco, salt, etc.
2. The information age is approaching, and the platform economy has transformed into an industry related to national economy and people's livelihood and national security. On the eve of Ant Financial's listing, Jack Ma once said wildly that China's banking industry must reform. If banks do not reform, the online platform will change or even replace banks. One word awakens the world. In the era of industrialization, the above 20 industries are the foundation and pillar of the national economy and are related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The country is firmly in its hands. In the information age, everyone can personally feel that online platforms have affected every aspect of everyone's life and work, and their importance has even exceeded 20 major industries. If it is allowed to grow wildly, WeChat and Alipay will gradually replace banks and telecommunications, Taobao and JD will replace the past postal and supply and marketing systems, Meituan and Didi will replace the business system and transportation system, Douyin will replace the broadcast system, Toutiao will replace traditional media, and put national supervision in challenges. If this continues, when the international situation is slightly turbulent, will the national system advantage still exist? I am afraid that external troubles have not arrived, and internal order is already worrying. What is more noteworthy and vigilant is that these platform economies are controlled by non-publicly owned enterprises. Although these corporate management teams are still Chinese citizens, they are listed overseas without exception. Without exception, the controlling major shareholders are all Western capital. Under such a new state, the nationalization of the platform economy is even more urgent.
3, nationalization position should be upright and the methods should be followed by rules. first of all, it is necessary to conflict with the constraints of ideas.Some people are worried that the nationalization measures for the platform economy will re-take the old path of planned economy, and this concern is completely redundant. A little more state-owned economy or a little more non-public economy is not the difference between a planned economy and a market economy , nor is it the difference between socialism and capitalism . In fact, capitalist countries also often nationalizes key industries. The old capitalist country, Britain, also experienced two "nationalization" climaxes from 1945 to 1951 and 1974 to 1975. In addition to nationalizing the bank of England, it also nationalized many departments such as railways, coal mines, inland shipping, etc. that were on the verge of bankruptcy. Even in the 21st century, the West will not block the path of nationalization. Just as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict caused a sharp rise in electricity, oil and gas prices in European countries, many European countries are discussing and studying measures to nationalize power grids and oil and gas companies to curb energy prices. As the French Prime Minister announced on July 6 that France plans to fully nationalize French power company . The German Bundestag passed a revised new version of the draft energy security law in May, and according to regulations, the state can take over energy companies in a state of emergency. Therefore, if you understand the importance of nationalization to national security, you can eliminate left and right interference and put it into policies.
Secondly, do things according to the rules of the market economy. We must focus on the goal of state-owned holdings and obtain most of the equity through state-owned assets investment, agreement repurchase, targeted share issuance, donation, etc. In response to the situation, the company listed in the United States has started to return to delisting and return. Retain the founder's shares and retain the management team to achieve a state-owned private, sovereignty and sustainable development.
