Changes in Rural Social Structure and Organizational Restructuring

Author: Zhu Xinshan
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China established "comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society" as the goal. However, the current main constraint on farmers achieving this goal is the inability to effectively accumulate rural production surpluses and transform them into capital for development. The root of the problem lies in the existing rural organizational mechanisms' weak ability to restrict excessive resource extraction from farmers and their failure to provide effective public services. Therefore, rural organizational issues are a key factor affecting farmers' pursuit of a moderately prosperous life. This book, based on institutional economic analysis methods, combines theoretical and empirical analysis to deeply examine the social force composition and interactions in China's rural areas at different time periods. It dynamically demonstrates the changes in rural social structures and organizational evolution, aiming to reveal the current dilemmas in rural organizational development and explore practical, China-specific paths to overcome these challenges.