红星酒厂是一个只有300多人的县属国有小企业。70年代,企业主要从农村收购干红薯,烤酿成红薯酒,销售对象也主要是县城周边的农民。那时人民的生活水平普遍很低,有一碗红薯酒喝就相当不错了。80年代中后期,因人民生活水平普遍提高,红薯酒逐渐失去了市场。红星酒厂不得不又贷款100多万元搞技术改造,转为生产高梁酒,但这时农村经济已发生了翻天覆地的变化。到90年代,县城周围的个体、乡镇企业在党的富民政策感召下,如雨后春笋般地涌现出来了。一时间,县城周边竟冒出了大大小小的酿酒厂七八家。红星酒厂因设备老化,管理 Red Star Winery is a state-owned small enterprise with only 300 people. In the 1970s, companies mainly bought dry sweet potatoes from rural areas and roasted sweet potato wine. The sales target was mainly farmers around the county. At that time, people’s living standards were generally very low and a bowl of sweet potato wine was quite good. In the mid to late 1980s, due to the general improvement of people’s living standards, sweet potato wine gradually lost its market. The Red Star Distillery had to lend more than RMB 1 million to carry out technological transformation and turn into a production of sorghum wine. However, the rural economy has undergone enormous changes. By the 1990s, individual and township and village enterprises around the county town had sprung up after the party’s policy of enriching the people. For a time, seven or eight wineries, large and small, emerged around the county. Red Star Winery due to aging equipment, management