46 years ago today, on May 25, 1979 (April 30, 1979, the lunar calendar), eight enterprises were designated as reform pilot units. On May 25, 1979, Capital Iron and Steel Company, six units including the State Economic Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade issued the "Notice on Carrying out Enterprise Management Reform Pilot Projects in Eight Enterprises in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai" and forwarded the "Summary of the Symposium on Enterprise Management Reform Pilot Projects". The main contents of the "Summary" are: to carry out pilot enterprise management reform, we must adhere to the socialist direction, strengthen the party's leadership, carry forward the spirit of independence and self-reliance, and on the basis of summarizing our country's enterprise management experience, learn from foreign scientific management methods and means, so that foreign countries can be used for use; to reform enterprise management, we must expand the autonomy of enterprise management and change the enterprise fund system to a profit retention system; Enterprises have some powers in product production, sales, trial production and use of funds, personnel arrangements, employee rewards and punishments, etc.; establish an employee representative assembly system and expand employees 'democratic management power.