Interpreting Rural Industrial Growth in the Post-Mao Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6007861 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Wong (0000-0003-3485-0022, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author), Christine P W Wong (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-30 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009770048801400101 |
| OpenAlex | W2068704172 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 1 |
Decollectivization of agriculture in the post-Mao period set off a chain of dizzying changes in the rural economy. Along with the transfer of agricultural production decisions to rural households, a host of restrictions were lifted on nonagricultural activities. With peasants freed to leave agriculture, many turned to handicrafts, peddling, transport, and other service trades. This outflow turned into a stampede when rural private enterprises were officially sanctioned in 1984. By the end of the year, some 100 million rural peasants were working in nonfarm activities, many in rural enterprises (Beijing Review, February 4, 1985: 4). These changes led to a phenomenal burst of activity in the rural enterprise sector. In 1984 alone, the number of enterprises more than quadrupled, jumping to 6.07 million, up from 1.35 million in 1983; in the following year, another 6.2 million enterprises were added. Employment in these enterprises rose from 32.4 million in 1983 to 52.1 million in 1984 and 69.8 million in 1985. Their gross value of output increased by 68% and 60% in the two years, respectively. In 1985, these enterprises produced goods and services worth 273 billion yuan, nearly three times their output value in 1983 (see Table 1). By 1986, the gross value of output
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Goods and services · Handicraft · Nonfarm payrolls · Tertiary sector of the economy · Value (mathematics
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From "Country Bumpkins" to "Tough Workers
Implications of the State Monopoly Over Industry and Its Relaxation
The peasant family in the transition from Maoist to Lewisian rural industrialisation
Barriers to Efficiency and the Privatisation of Township-Village Enterprises
Industry's Response to Market Liberalization in China
Off balance
Tigers are bound and monkeys are free
Bad Loans Versus Sluggish Rural Industrial Growth
Growth Disparity in China
The “Entrepreneurial State” in “Creative Industry Cluster” Development in Shanghai
How not to industrialize
On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises
The Decline of Township-and-Village Enterprises in China’s Economic Transition
From cadre managers to private entrepreneurs
Urbanisation from Below
From Village Commons to Public Goods
Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism in China
What Has Spilled Over from Chinese Cities into Rural Industry
Price Reform and Structural Change
Agricultural and Nonagricultural Growth and Intercounty Inequality in China, 1985-1991
International Links and the Socioeconomic Development of Rural China
Alternative Development Strategies for Women in Rural China
Socialist peddlers and princes in a Chinese market town
Accumulation by and without dispossession
From Local State Corporatism to Land Revenue Regime
Food Security, Urbanization and Social Stability in China
Opportunists, Predators and Rogues
The legacy of the mock dual economy
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2023 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |