Read Wang Zhongqiu's "China Needs Industrial Spirit"

More than 200 years ago, industrial civilization swept across Western Europe and North America. The advent of that stormy social change is inexcusable, and no negotiation can be tolerated, and all forms of winking or spitting are rejected, and people hardly have time to make any necessary judgments, evaluations, and choices about its fall from the sky.

Industrial civilization has changed the face of every corner where it goes, and it has also changed the destiny of human beings as its originator. The industrial civilization with machines as the main labor tool has increased material wealth for people in a geometric series. However, when we were spending our wealth freely and freely, it was as if the delicious food we had chewed in our mouths barely had time to swallow. Looking back, people found that the natural environment we live in has deteriorated. To make matters worse, the whole social and interpersonal "relationship" has also turned sour.

Violence, conflict, war, ruthlessness, emptiness, insomnia, boredom, indifference, hostility, suicide, mental illness, terrorism, money worship... These seemingly irrelevant terms are collectively encountered "accidentally" in Industrial society, interlocking with each other and stitching together many aspects of this social landscape. As the philosopher said, the times when great men are born are usually unfortunate times. In order to save all the crises we are witnessing, history gave birth to Marx, Engels, Marcuse, Sartre, as well as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Freud. They are all "doctors" who shoulder the responsibility of treating mental illnesses of the age. Although the "medical skills" are different, they invariably raised the cold and shining surgical steel knife on the "spirit of the times" of the disease. Yes, all social problems, serious or not serious enough, are in the final analysis a problem of people's spirit and belief. The ultimate solution to the social crisis lies in saving people's spirits.

A trap should not fall into two people walking in tandem, the stone of the other mountain can attack jade.

China is standing at the juncture of the history of industrialization. How to learn the lessons of the western industrialization process, take precautions first, and solve possible problems before they appear, is a top priority and cannot be delayed. Responding to the call of the times, Wang Zhongqiu, my old classmate, well-known expert in fine management, and author of "Details Determine Success or Failure", has recently made his masterpiece, "China Needs Industrial Spirit". From macro to micro, he has a broad idea of the Chinese society in the process of industrialization. The disclosure and thinking of spiritual problems, and thus put forward a problem-solving strategy with profound thoughts and unique insights.

When China announced that it "will not repeat the old path of industrial development of capitalist countries" and tried to find a new path of industrialization, a bigger and possibly more serious problem also appeared, that is, the serious lack of "industrial spirit" . With the process of industrialization and urbanization, the country has become richer, and the Chinese people have become rich. However, when I turned around, I was surprised to find that I was so poor that only money was left, and the city was so empty that only buildings were left!

Wealth and money are indisputably the spiritual backbone of this society. Rich people try to use money to buy everything, luxury houses, famous cars and luxury goods, and even try to use money to buy status and honor, love and marriage, knowledge and cultivation, self-confidence and dignity and so on. Western money worship, which was once sneered at by our ridicule and criticism, swept across the country like a hurricane. Spiritual civilization or the spirit of the times is reduced to a naked formula: money equals everything, and this so-called "everything" includes both material things and spiritual things. Violence, ostentation of wealth, corruption, corruption, bribery, drug trafficking, prostitution and other social evils are either breeding or escalating. Legal or illegal means of "four-wheel drive" for a common purpose: to make money!

Those spiritual beliefs that once allowed the Chinese people to settle down and build up their self-confidence, those spiritual pillars that once allowed the Chinese nation to persevere and improve themselves through trials and hardships, have suffered setbacks and scars under the fierce impact of the money-worshiping offensive. tired. Once the tenderness of the people and things, the national complex that once confided in each other, the philosophical strategy that once cultivated and read the family, the philosophical belief of the unity of man and the sky, the attitude of keeping the female and showing weakness, the gentleman's style of showing off the outside and the wisdom, the The profound connotation of introverted silence, the social ideals that once lived and worked in peace and contentment, etc., all of these may or may not be beautiful, but they are the most important elements used to build our common spiritual home, through which we identify and identify with each other. Breath and symbols, under the heavy damage of money worship and so on, are saying goodbye to us, and the back of the past is fading away...

There is no choice but to fall, and I can't stop thinking about it. More and more people find it frustratingly, that it is true that they have money, but at the same time the fact that we have lost more value that cannot be exchanged for money. Sighing, sighing, or sighing, it is inevitable.

What must be clearly faced is that, just like Western Europe and North America before, China's industrialization is, after all, an irresistible huge torrent of history. The Chinese who have been poor for thousands of years should become rich. Yes, the reason why money worship is rampant cannot be blamed on whether people are rich. Since, poor, you can not be cheap; then, rich, you can also not prostitute. Prosperity is not a sin. Therefore, the key to all the problems entangled in people's minds is that in the industrialized era, in addition to material and money, we also need ideals and spirits that adapt to the demands of the times!

Changes in the economic base will inevitably lead to changes in the superstructure, and changes in production methods will inevitably lead to changes in ideology. However, the "inevitability" here is the difference between "conscious" and "spontaneous". Spontaneous change, similar to a natural fermentation process, requires a relatively long historical evolution. Due to the lack of necessary catalysis and effective human control, people pay a heavy and huge price for this change. Conscious change requires people's awakening, people's forward-looking and effective prediction ability. Adapting to the times, advancing with the times, scientifically forward-looking, and effective control will minimize the cost of social transformation.

The sign of self-consciousness is that society can use a powerful and effective mechanism to allow people to truly establish a healthy spiritual belief, and to adjust and rebuild the positive spirit of the industrial age with the direction of social development as the goal. This book is a conscious product of this spirit. It delicately interprets this "spirit" as thought, belief and strength as the spirit of cooperation, the spirit of contract, the concept of efficiency, the awareness of quality, the concept of science, and the concept of sustainable development.

The Chinese culture based on agricultural civilization has played a huge historical role in the harmony and progress of Chinese society, the prosperity and stability of the Chinese nation, and the formation of the characters of the Chinese people. However, it is this kind of culture, due to its mature stereotypes and lack of flexibility, in the era of industrialization, it cannot regenerate autonomously, and it cannot truly integrate, adjust and reconcile with the new environment on the body. Therefore, the construction of industrial spirit is imminent and inevitable. Row.

If we look at China's new industrialization from the perspective of history and life, if we can compare this historical process to the growth process of a complete organism, then we will find that the material brought by industrialization in the short term The growth of wealth will form a huge spatial gap with the lag of spiritual development and growth. Most of the energy spent in walking is spent on balancing the difference between the long and short legs.

"China Needs Industrial Spirit" attempts to tell people that in order to achieve a harmonious balance between the two walking legs, the "leg" that is in short supply needs to develop and grow healthily. Spiritual Building. The cornerstone of this edifice is the spirit of cooperation; the framework of this edifice is the spirit of contract; the structure of this edifice is the concept of efficiency; the details of this edifice are the consciousness of quality; the whole of this edifice is the concept of science; The design principle or basis of this building is the concept of sustainable development... a building with a healthy industrial spirit!

These refined spirits, in reality, are actually a whole that cannot be dismembered and separated. In theory, the purpose of refining it is to allow people to truly see and grasp this whole from different sides and perspectives . The basic spirit and basic principles that run through this whole are to maximize people's desire and pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty in line with the industrial age.

No one can assert that the establishment of the industrial spirit can contain or eliminate all social conflicts and spiritual crises. However, it can be asserted that the absence of industrial spirit will eventually ruin everything that industrialization has brought us. results.

Yes, in addition to money, we need things that cannot be exchanged for money.