China's Rural Industrialization Policy Growing under Orders since 1949

This book is a comprehensive and positive study of China's industrialization and development pattern, covering all of the relevant main policies (more than one hundred) from 1949 to the twenty-first century. The study, based on original documents and the large amount of data available, systematically examines policy backgrounds, goals, controlling measures and effects on the industrialization to show how the policy was formed, and how it changed and evolved; how the state controlled hundreds of millions of peasants and the rural industry; and how the industrialization developed in both the highly-centralized and partially-liberalized systems. The book focuses on five principal conflicts in rural industrialization: those between rural and state-owned industry, rural industry and agriculture, rural collective and private industry, rural and urban population, and rural and urban economy. The work shows how the development pattern was formed, how it operated and evolved, and what its features are. It addresses basic issues in China's development such as what "the Chinese characteristics" are, why "China's miracle" occurred and why rural people in China are so poor. Book jacket.

SHI CHENG is Research Fellow in Economics at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan, and the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, China. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Japan, where he leads the JSPS project "Impact of WTO on Government Policies and Productivity of Township and Village Enterprises in China".

List of Tables * List of Figures * List of Abbreviations * Preface * Introduction: China's Rural Industrialization, Characteristics and Miracle * PART 1: RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION UNDER STATE MONOPOLY CONTROL * The Land Reform Campaign * The Cooperative Campaign * Great Leap Forward in the People's Communization Campaign * Great Leap Backward in the Panic Famine * Recovery in the Campaign to Accelerate the Mechanization of Agriculture * PART 2: RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE TRANSITION TO ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION * Rise Under the Household Responsibility System * Great Expansion in the Disintegration of the People's Commune System * Setbacks in the Emergency Braking for a Crisis * New Great Leap Forward after the Collapse of the Soviet Union * Slowing Down in the Privatization Wave * New Century in the Campaign to Increase Farmer Incomes * Appendix: Concluding Remarks * Notes * Bibliography List of Tables * List of Figures * List of Abbreviations * Preface * Introduction: China's Rural Industrialization, Characteristics and Miracle * PART 1: RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION UNDER STATE MONOPOLY CONTROL * The Land Reform Campaign * The Cooperative Campaign * Great Leap Forward in the People's Communization Campaign * Great Leap Backward in the Panic Famine * Recovery in the Campaign to Accelerate the Mechanization of Agriculture * PART 2: RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE TRANSITION TO ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION * Rise Under the Household Responsibility System * Great Expansion in the Disintegration of the People's Commune System * Setbacks in the Emergency Braking for a Crisis * New Great Leap Forward after the Collapse of the Soviet Union * Slowing Down in the Privatization Wave * New Century in the Campaign to Increase Farmer Incomes * Appendix: Concluding Remarks * Notes * Bibliography