📅 1 December 1981
By 1981 household responsibility arrangements spread from village experiments in Anhui and Sichuan. Families received use rights and production obligations, met state quotas, then retained or sold...
📅 1 Januari 1982
The central rural policy document recognized household responsibility contracts as a valid form of collective production. Rather than a single national switch, adoption spread through local trial...
📅 12 Oktober 1983
A central decision initiated the conversion of communes into township governments and village-level economic organizations. It separated administration from production and expanded household...
