A Brief History of Township and Village Enterprises in China

Author: Zhang Yi, Zhang Songsong
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: This book extensively uses historical materials to record the development process and lessons of China's township enterprises. It provides realistic evaluations of the historical background of each development stage. It will benefit people's understanding of the difficult and winding journey of township enterprises, as well as their status and role, and will contribute to the formulation of better development policies for township enterprises in the future. Township enterprises are a product of history and represent a challenging yet necessary choice in China's development process. Rural industrialization and the non-farm transformation of farmers mark a turning point for thousands of years of agricultural civilization, not driven by urban capital or state capital, but by the hands and accumulated efforts of farmers. It is not through the "cannon" of machinery to forcibly dismantle self-sufficiency, but through harmonious urban-rural division of labor and the development of market mechanisms. This is the miracle that township enterprises are creating and will continue to create. In the author's self-introduction in the "Preface," they state that one of the purposes of this book is to document the journey of how the "orphaned" township enterprises developed through self-esteem, self-motivation, self-learning, and self-strengthening, providing a record for future generations. Sincerely, the facts recorded and yet to be recorded in this book are destined to become a historically unprecedented and extraordinarily glorious process.