The eight-character policy is the policy of restoring and developing the national economy put forward by China at the beginning of building socialism in an all-round way, that is, the policy of "adjusting, consolidating, enriching and improving"
The eight-character policy, that is, properly adjusting the proportional relationship in all aspects of the national economy, mainly means adjusting the proportional relationship between agriculture, light industry and heavy industry, increasing the development speed of agriculture and light industry as much as possible, appropriately controlling the development speed of heavy industry, especially steel industry, and reducing the scale of capital construction, so that national construction and people's lives can be arranged as a whole.
We must consolidate the achievements of national economic development and make it develop in depth. It is necessary to enrich the production capacity of some departments with a small amount of investment, so that they can be matched and play a greater economic effect. It is necessary to improve product quality, increase product varieties, and improve management level and labor productivity.
1. Adjust the production relations and relevant policies in rural areas, stipulate the three-level ownership of rural people's communes, take teams as units, return to private plots and open the free market.
2. Reduce urban population and streamline employees.
3. Reduce the scale of capital construction, shorten the front of heavy industry, enrich light industry and retain key projects.
4. Reduce financial expenditure.
5. Stabilize market prices and implement high-priced policies for some consumer goods.
6. Improve management, improve product quality and strengthen professional cooperation.
7. Formulate specific policies on education, science, literature and art that are suitable for the current situation.
From that proposal of "eight-character policy" to the establishment of "sixteen-character policy",
It is not only rich in connotation, but also a "fundamental change". Mainly: the nature of the United front and democratic parties has changed in the new period.
The United front has changed from a class alliance in the past to a "political alliance of all socialist workers, patriots who support socialism and patriots who support the reunification of the motherland", which is the patriotic United front.
The democratic parties have changed from the "national bourgeois party" before the reform and opening up to the "alliance of some socialist workers and patriots who support socialism".