local cadres

Land reform is largely complete across most of mainland China

📅 31 Desèmber 1952

By the end of 1952, land redistribution had been completed across most of the mainland, although implementation in some minority regions followed a different timetable. Hundreds of millions of rural...

Famine conditions spread as grain procurement exceeds rural availability

📅 31 Desèmber 1959

The Great Leap famine began amid collapsing harvests, labor dislocation, exaggerated reports and state procurement that left many rural communities without adequate food. Estimates of excess deaths...

Township and village enterprises expand rural industrial work

📅 1 Desèmber 1984

Rural industry grew rapidly under local collective and township arrangements, absorbing labor and using household savings and local state support. TVEs offered an alternative to migration into...