China's Economy: Rural Reform and Agricultural Development: 1 (Series On Developing China - Translated Research From China) - Hardcover

Researchers and students who are interested in China's rural development and agricultural production, in particular, and China's reforms and growth, in general, will find the book insightful and inspirational, as it was the rural reforms that triggered the chain of reforms in other realms of Chinese life. The book contains many insights for policy makers in developing nations who want to speed up rural development and agricultural growth.
--The Journal of Asian Studies

Containing ten quality chapters on China's rural reforms and agricultural development, this first volume from the Series on Developing China: Translated Research from China emphasizes the importance of countryside, agriculture and the role of peasants in China's economy.While the Chinese revolution has traveled a path of "encircling the cities from the rural areas", Chinese reforms were likewise started in promoting the household contract responsibility system in the rural areas - the majority of its population living in the countryside makes it the focus of the reforms. Such structural issues that readjustment of interests entailed as urban-rural divide and poor-rich gap are closely related to the rural reform. For this, a rural study centered on the three rural issues (agriculture, rural areas and peasants), or peasantography, is actually an academic "gold mine", which contains the richest possibilities for Chinese social science to contribute to the world.The above mentioned chapters cover an extensive range of issues in rural reform and agricultural development in China, including property right, food trade structure, the Township and Village Enterprises, non-agricultural employment, the mobility of labor force, land distribution, taxation and saving behavior. The research approach ranges from a macro- to microeconomics level, while in terms of research methodology, property theory, game model and quantitative economics are used, in combination with historiography and empirical case studies.