东北三省正在深化改革,扩大开放,以改革开放促进经济发展、促进结构调整、促进企业改组改造。这种“以存量换增量”、用增量来减轻改革痛苦的做法,实际上是一种不得已的扩张趋势,要依靠产业资本的扩张带动新增就业。但在这种急于填补资本空白的发展趋势中,如果措置失当,往往会带来更加严重的社会后果。“东北现象”和“新东北现象”产生了两大弱势群体:庞大的城市失业工人群体和庞大的收入菲薄的农民群体。与经济发达地区不同,这两大群体不是边缘人群,它们构成了东北地区的主要社会矛盾,成为摆在东北三省党政领导面前的一道难关。 The three northeastern provinces are deepening reform, expanding opening up, promoting economic development through reform and opening up, promoting structural adjustment, and promoting restructuring and transformation of enterprises. This kind of “stock-for-increment”, with incremental measures to alleviate the pain of reform, is actually an unavoidable trend of expansion. We must rely on the expansion of industrial capital to bring about new employment. However, in such a trend that is eager to fill the capital gap, improper handling often leads to more serious social consequences. The “Northeast Phenomenon” and “New Northeast Phenomenon” have resulted in two major disadvantaged groups: the huge urban unemployed workers’ groups and the huge poorly-paid peasant groups. Unlike the economically developed areas, these two large groups are not marginalized people. They constitute the major social contradictions in the northeast region and have become a front line obstacle to the party and government leaders in the three northeastern provinces.