法新社 中国的资本家加入共产党

在毛泽东时期，像袁岳（音译，Yuan Yue）这样的商人会被指责为“阶级敌人”，小命都难保，更遑论加入共产党了。

　　但如今，零点调查公司（Horizon Research，中国最有历史最大的市场调研公司之一）的创立者袁岳受到中国政治家的拥抱。他们设法把国家经济中有影响力的人物带到羽翼之下。

　　袁岳表示，这都跟成功有关，一旦成功，人人都会上你的办公室，包括党。“那是一个很大的变化。以往，你要先成为党员才能获得机会。”专家表示，私营企业家一度被视为要与之保持距离的坏人，如今则在党内越来越突出，并影响政策。而在北京闪闪发光的商业大楼上一个以填充玩具作点缀的办公室里经营公司的袁岳就是最明显的例子之一。

　　以感知市场脉搏著称，光头的、通晓媒体的袁岳定期给中国媒体供稿，主持上海一个关于商业的清谈节目。他认为他的双重身份没有矛盾。“我仍然相信党是一个想办好事情的好组织。”

　　专家表示，党内的私营企业家数目自2003年以来猛增。位于香港的法国现代中国研究中心的主任余曦（Jean-Fran?ois Huchet）表示，这是一个重要的发展，而且是一个快速壮大的趋势。他认为这样的党员可能多达300万。

　　尽管和7300万的党员总数相比，这仍然只是一小部分。但企业主在展示他们的实力，近7.5万企业家正式出现在地方和国家的委员会和集会，包括全国人大。

　　专家们说他们的影响力助推一项保障私人财产的法律在今年通过。

Capitalists join China party

17 Oct 2007, 0016 hrs IST,AFP

BEIJING: In Mao Zedong's day, a businessman such as Yuan Yue would have been denounced as a "class enemy" and maybe even killed, much less allowed to join the Communist Party.

But today, Yuan, founder of a successful market research firm, is one of a growing number of capitalists embraced by Chinese politicians as they seek to bring the country's economic movers and shakers under its wing.

"It's all about success. Once you have that, everyone will come to your office, including the party," said Yuan, head of Horizon Research, one of China's oldest and biggest market researchers.

"That's the big change. Before, you had to first become a party member to get access to opportunity." Once viewed as a necessary evil to be kept at arms-length, private business owners are gaining growing prominence in the party and influence over policy, experts say. Yuan, who runs his company from a gleaming Beijing commercial tower in an office decorated with stuffed animals, is one of the most visible.

With a market-researcher's reputation for having his finger on the pulse, the bald-headed, media-savvy Yuan regularly writes for Chinese media and hosts a Shanghai talk show about business. He sees no contradiction between his twin identities. "I still believe the party is a good organisation that wants to do good things," Yuan said.

He first joined in 1985 at 17 and stayed even after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, a movement he says he supported. Information on member backgrounds is tightly controlled but experts say the number of private entrepreneurs in the party has jumped since they were formally allowed to join in 2003.

"It's an important development and rapidly growing trend," said Jean Francois Huchet, director of Hong Kong's French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, who says there could be as many as three million such members.

Although still a small part of the total 73 million cadres, business owners are flexing their muscles, with nearly 75,000 entrepreneurs officially on local and national committees and assemblies, including the national legislature.

Their influence helped kick-start approval this year of a law guaranteeing private property rights that had been thirteen torturous years in the making,

experts say.