The information fed back from local surveys and local investigations is very serious to conclude that a land-based local protectionism is also posed a different level of obstacle to the implementation of the market economy.

Local protectionism is a long-standing problem in the development of the market economy. Understanding local protectionism in a narrow sense means that local governments use their administrative power to implement differentiated economic treatment for local enterprises and foreign enterprises, protect the normal production behavior of local enterprises, or provide protection umbrellas for their illegal acts such as counterfeiting, selling counterfeits, or violations of environmental protection regulations such as pollutant discharge.

If understood in a broad sense, it should also include reorganization and merger between enterprises and administrative intervention to provide additional subsidies or discounts to enterprises within the administrative region.

There are many forms of local protectionism. For example, local governments issue local regulations, documents, or force local products to be sold, purchased, and used in disguise, or can only accept services provided by enterprises within the administrative region, prohibit or restrict the entry and sale of foreign products, or local governments require foreign products to go through strict approval procedures for their local products or adopt discriminatory policies for products entering locally, set up check cards, charge extra fees or implement different tax and fee standards. It may also be that in terms of technical and quality requirements, different standards are adopted for products outside the administrative region, repeated inspections and certifications, and another form is to give certain preferential and subsidies to enterprises within the administrative region, so that enterprises outside the administrative region and enterprises within the administrative region cannot conduct fair competition at the same level.

It can be said that the problem that Shen Ying encountered at the Kongfu banquet is very typical local protectionism. Local governments have issued local regulations and documents to force their administrative regions to restrict the entry and sale of foreign products, creating obstacles to the normal market sales behavior of foreign products.

Among the information obtained by Fan Wubing currently, there is a lot of information on this aspect.

He contacted CCTV and sent a focus interview and arranged a total of five film crews to conduct undercover investigations. The targets of the undercover investigations include the liquor industry, agricultural materials, building materials, detergents, medical supplies, etc.

Of course, there are still top leaders behind the scenes, otherwise CCTV would not dare to take such a big responsibility, and at the same time, it will target many local governments.

The reason for local protectionism is that local governments face conflicts between high political centralization and high economic decentralization.

The financial system of eating with food has formed economic decentralization, resulting in the basic interests of local governments, and now this interest is mainly reflected in indicators such as how many projects have been put into use, how many enterprises have been built, and how fast the economic growth rate has been achieved.

From the perspective of the basic interests, local governments must consider the local economic development issues. When the local market capacity is limited and foreign markets cannot be opened for the time being, local governments will inevitably ensure the maximization of local fiscal revenue by strengthening the local allocation of resources and protecting local markets. Moreover, due to administrative decentralization, local governments have a greater right to allocate resources, which also provides means and possibilities for maximizing local economic interests.

It can be seen from this that the existence of local governments' own interests and the continuous increase in administrative power of local governments is a hotbed of local protectionism.

Since the central government launched the tax-sharing system, the momentum of protectionism has become increasingly strong. The senior officials have also seen this issue very clearly. However, no targeted measures have been taken for the time being. After all, although this trend has risen, it has not yet seen too serious harm. It is not advisable to act blindly.

However, this time Fan Wubing attached great importance to this issue. After mobilizing other local resource channels to collect a large number of negative impacts and obstacles caused by local protectionism on the promotion of the market economy, the top leaders could no longer ignore it.

The reason is very simple. Fan Wubing will never do meaningless things. The things he solemnly raises must be very critical issues. Especially with his foresight in economics, no one can match it.

After five film crews in CCTV's focus interview column shouldered heavy responsibilities and conducted intensive undercover investigations across more than a dozen provinces, cities and districts across the country, they finally obtained first-hand information when they returned to the capital in mid-January and became more intuitive and convincing.

Although Fan Wubing did not make any hints to CCTV, CCTV directly raised the issue of local protectionism in the liquor industry to its most important position.

This is not to say that CCTV is pleasing Fan Wubing because of where Shen Ying's identity as the third-time bidder is placed. It is the image that CCTV should focus on maintaining that has brought down this sign, which has a great impact on CCTV's bidder auction. Another reason is that the Spring Festival is approaching, and the safety and sales of liquor are as safe as possible and the sales of liquor are

It is the most concerned issue for the people. Using this as a starting point, it is more capable of:

Because the program has been done a bit long, this time the focus interview program has been held for three more episodes, mainly starting from the local protection, fake wine and sales links of the liquor industry. A large number of detailed undercover lenses were used to illustrate the current problems in the entire liquor industry. The deep-seated comments brought about by this reveal the huge harm of local protectionism.

Especially in response to the behavior of some local governments using administrative regulations to provide protection for the local liquor industry, the host of CCTV's focus interview column said that such behavior is incredible and unheard of. This is not only an unfair commercial competition, but also a crazy trampling on current laws and regulations.

Finally, the host changed the topic and introduced the topic to the counterfeiting and dealing with counterfeiting, which the people are most concerned about. "At this stage, counterfeit and shoddy goods are rampant in my country. From food, tobacco and alcohol, detergents, medical supplies, household appliances, agricultural materials, building materials, communication equipment, automobiles and their accessories, and large-scale machinery and equipment, none of which are spared. It can be said that counterfeit and shoddy goods are almost omnipresent. Why are counterfeit and shoddy goods so rampant? It is said that local protectionism is the social root of its proliferation."

"Local protectionism is a social phenomenon based on local interests. Local protectionism in our country has become a common phenomenon at this stage. It has developed from a single administrative means to using economic, administrative and even judicial means to safeguard local interests."

"The protectionism of local departments violates the laws and essence of the market economy. In areas where local protectionism is implemented, local governments build high protection barriers, making the laws of competition unable to fully play a role, and at the same time deny the principles of equal competition, free trade, and survival of the fittest. It makes the market's own operating rules succumb to administrative rules, cuts off normal market ties between regions, causes various commodities and production factors to fail to flow in an orderly manner, hinders the development and growth of the unified socialist market, and thus forms a state of local monopoly and separatism."

"This state provides a good soil for the nurturing and growth of counterfeit and shoddy traders, forming a situation where genuine products outside cannot be imported and fake goods inside are rampant, which forces residents to buy goods with low geology. This phenomenon may bring prosperity to local economic development in the short term, but this prosperity is only a false superficial phenomenon. It cannot inject real vitality into local economic development in essence. On the contrary, it will only hinder the development of local economy and even become a stumbling block to local economic development."

"Local protection departments act as protective umbrellas for counterfeit and shoddy goods. Some local leaders think that they are for the interests of the region and the department, and mistakenly regard huge profits from counterfeit and shoddy goods as a panacea to make a fortune and even drive the economic development of the region. They only see the fiscal revenue brought by counterfeiting and selling counterfeit goods, and ignore the harm and impact of counterfeit and shoddy goods on the entire national economy. They ignore the counterfeit and shoddy goods distribution centers, not only do not rectify or ban them, but also open the door to convenience. As long as the profit and tax is completed every year, it provides a space for survival for illegal acts of manufacturing counterfeit and shoddy goods."

"Some regions use fines instead of sentences. Compared with the huge profits obtained from counterfeiting and selling counterfeiting, the fines can only be said to be symbolic. This method not only does not deter the illegal elements at all, but instead makes them find reasonable reasons for existence, and they are more unscrupulous, making more and more aggressive manufacturing and selling counterfeit and shoddy goods."

"There are also some areas where counterfeiting and government leaders and social undermining forces colluded with each other, under the guise of developing the economy, exonerate the counterfeiters and sell counterfeiters and collude to form a layered protection network. It can be seen that under the protection of local organizations, counterfeiting and selling counterfeit goods will become more rampant, and the result of the proliferation of counterfeit and shoddy goods will make some places a distribution center for counterfeit goods. If the protectionism of the party is not completely broken, it will not be fundamentally eradicated."

After turning off the TV, Fan Wu received a call from Shen Ying.

"The things I prepared were useless. CCTV did this. If I had known it, I wouldn't have had such a hard time." Shen Ying said to Fan Wubing with complaint.

Fan Wubing laughed and didn't say anything else.

Although Shen Ying was a little complaining in her tone, she was very happy. After all, after CCTV did this, the local government had to restrain herself for a while. It was the peak season for liquor sales around the Spring Festival, and now the sales of Kongfu Banquet wine will rise sharply.

"By the way, I don't know what to do if there is something." Shen Ying said to Fan Wubing.

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