About 10 years, in the sixties and seventies, the phenomenon of' big pot rice' still existed.

Mess is an image metaphor of egalitarianism in distribution. The concept of chaos can be traced back to the emergence of 1958 people's commune, which is also closely related to the acceleration of industrial accumulation during the Great Leap Forward.

Pot rice includes two aspects: first, the unit eats the pot rice of the country, that is, regardless of the business quality, profit and loss, wages are paid as usual, and the total salary of the unit is out of touch with the business effect; Second, employees eat from the same big pot of the enterprise, that is, within the unit, no matter how much employees do, whether they do well or not, it will not affect the individual's salary distribution, which is a serious egalitarianism.

2065438+June 2008, villagers in Zhonghaoyu Village had a dining hall, and three meals a day were free, which caused quite a stir in the local area. It used to be a broken pot of rice, but now it's all for a good meal.

This system has seriously suppressed people's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, and made the originally vibrant economy lose its vitality to a great extent. After establishing various forms of economic responsibility system and conscientiously implementing the principle of distribution according to work, the slogan of "breaking the rice pot" was vigorous and people began to explore their tentacles in the sea.