Rural Reform and Local Reformers

Among the problems confronting the developing countries, rural reform has received increasing attention from a variety of social scientists. There are several reasons for this new emphasis. In the pasts decade most of the struggles for independence have ended and the newly formed nations are beginning to focus on the complex issues of political integration and economic growth. Few areas reflect this change as dramatically as the Maghreb.

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Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979-1989.Daniel Kelliher

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/230708 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 101 (1) ◽

pp. 229-231

Author(s):

Dali L. Yang

Keyword(s):

Rural Reform

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Forty years of rural reform in China: retrospect and future prospects

China Agricultural Economic Review ◽

10.1108/caer-08-2018-0162 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 460-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Xiwen Chen

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Agricultural Policies ◽

Timely Manner ◽

Content Type ◽

Rural Reform ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

The Future ◽

The Government

Purpose Bottlenecked by rural underdevelopment, China’s overall development is bound to be inadequate and unbalanced. Through a brief retrospect of the reform directed against the “equalitarianism (egalitarianism)” in China’s rural areas, as well as the Chinese Government’s conceptual transformation and systemic construction and improvement thereof, the purpose of this paper is to clarify the panoramic significance of rural reform; the necessity, priority, and long-term nature of the current rural development; and the important role of public policy in doing so. It also looks ahead to consider the prospects for future rural reform. Design/methodology/approach This paper first reviews the rural reforms that were carried out in 1978. Second, it introduces the government’s conceptual change regarding rural reform and the establishment and improvement of the system that underlies it. Finally, the future of rural reform is envisaged. Findings The initial rural reforms brought extensive and profound changes to China’s rural areas. The experience of rural reform has been referred to and escalated by other fields of study. Hence, rural reforms have become something of global significance. Moreover, since the government can undertake reforms well beyond the reach of farmers, its views must be modified in a timely manner, and only then may it reasonably construct and improve the system pertaining to the “three rural issues (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers).” Originality/value This paper reviews the rural reforms carried out in 1978. It introduces the government’s change of concept with respect to rural reforms and the establishment and improvement of the system based on the “three rural issues,” thus looking forward to the future of rural reforms. The findings of this paper are of significance to the formulation of future agricultural policies.

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RESEARCH TRENDS IN JAPANESE ON CHINESE AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT (FOCUSING ON PERIOD AFTER RURAL REFORM IN 1978)

Journal of Asian Rural Studies ◽

10.20956/jars.v3i2.1907 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 171

Author(s):

Bai Suxiang

Keyword(s):

Farm Management ◽

Research Trend ◽

Mature Stage ◽

Chinese Family ◽

Family Farm ◽

Cooperative Movement ◽

Rural Reform ◽

Chinese Agriculture ◽

Micro Level ◽

Agriculture Management

The purpose of this research is to examine the characteristics of the Japanese research trend on Chinese family farm management published after the Chinese rural reform in 1978.The whole 152 articles were collected under the keyword of Chinese Agriculture Management through CiNii that is the most reliable academic information database in Japan. Based on article productivity the study extracted the four stage of research development: incubating stage, growing stage, peak stage, and stabilizing mature stage. Research subject categorization unveiled two general research frameworks: macro approach framework and micro approach framework. In the macro framework, farm management is structurally grasped under the relationship with external or environmental conditions surrounding farm management entities. In the micro framework farm management is grasped within internal structural relationship of family based on inputs (land and labor) and output (income). For solving the weakness of Chinese family farm holding a small land, the study extracted two strategic frameworks of integration in farm management: agricultural industrialization and farm cooperative movement. The former is a vertical integration and the latter is a horizontal integration of farm management. Those integrations of farm management require not only macro and micro level research but also mezzo(middle) approach which focuses on the relationships between community or village and farm family. Especially this mezzo approach is important to understand the reality of farm management under the on-going situation in which many farm families depend on both agriculture and non-agriculture jobs. The fact that the dates for publications in China are limited at the macro-level of nation, province and city has created the research tendency towards bipolar differentiation in macro and micro level research. Thus mezzo-level research on towns and villages has become more important.

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The Evolution of Agricultural Policy

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741000037887 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 116 ◽

pp. 529-555 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Robert F. Ash

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Policy ◽

Major Change ◽

The Core ◽

Rural Reform

The core of this article comprises three sections. The two outer sections are the more substantial and seek to describe and analyse the evolution of agricultural policy in what has come to be regarded as the first and second stages of China's rural reform. In between, briefer consideration is given to the transitional year of 1984, when a major change in agricultural policy began to be apparent.

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