Since early 1998, in order to resolve the problems of the looming financial crisis and to expand [domestic] demand, the government [of China] undertook many projects and has achieved considerable success. Nevertheless, our national economy is always a tremendous and extremely complicated system....

Quite a few comrades often have this to say: "We must use the law of value to serve socialist economy." This argument is not only ambiguous in theory but also has brought about unfavorable consequences in reality. A clarification is thus called for.