从20世纪70年代末开始,中国开始了以建立社会主义市场经济体制为目标的历史性改革,业已取得了巨大成就。改革使社会生产力得到解放和发展,改革使人民生活得到改善,改革使中国经济和世界经济相联结。总之,改革正在推动中国的和平崛起。但是,改革过程中也出现了一些社会矛盾,如贫富差别和地区差别扩大、道德危机和诚信危机显露、劳资矛盾突出,等等。正是在这个大背景下,山西黑砖窑事件被揭露出来了。这使我们不得不考虑:中国市场经济改革的成本底线问题。 Beginning in the late 1970s, China began the historic reform that aimed at establishing a socialist market economic system and achieved tremendous achievements. The reform has liberated and developed social productive forces, the reform has brought about improvements in the people’s livelihood, and the reform has brought the Chinese economy and the world economy together. In short, the reform is pushing for the peaceful rise of China. However, some social contradictions also emerged during the reform process, such as the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the differences in the region, the emergence of the moral crisis and the credit crisis, the prominent labor-management conflicts and so on. It is against this backdrop that the black brick kiln incident in Shanxi was uncovered. This makes us have to consider: the cost of the reform of China’s market economy, the bottom line issue.