探讨搞活大中型企业的途径,是一个关系到使我国经济走出困境,使社会主义优越性充分发挥的重大课题。“蜡烛效应”:大中型企业缺乏活力的原因在我国改革初期所形成的市场环境中,在新旧体制并存的条件下,国营大中型企业不如非国有小型企业有活力,是因为存在着“蜡烛效应”。蜡烛具有燃烧自己、照亮别人的特点。一方面,各种优惠政策给非国有企业带来生 Exploring ways to invigorate large and medium-sized enterprises is a major issue that concerns the country’s economy out of its predicament and gives full play to the superiority of socialism. “Candle effect”: the reason for the lack of vitality of large and medium-sized enterprises In the market environment formed in the early stage of China’s reform, under the condition that the old and new systems coexist, the state-owned large and medium-sized enterprises are not as dynamic as the non-state-owned small enterprises because of the “candle effect ”. Candles have the characteristics of burning themselves and illuminating others. On the one hand, various preferential policies bring to non-state-owned enterprises