Where do You Live?; Urbanisation  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 399 no. 8739 (Jun. 2011), page 11-13.
Topik: International; Agribusiness; Property Rights; Rural Areas; Urban Areas; Governmental Reform

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The slaughter of many thousands of landlords by officials and vengeful peasants shortly after the communist takeover resulted in profound changes in the system of rural land ownership. Peasants got the land Mao promised them, but only briefly. In the late 1950s the party took it back again and forced farmers into collectively owned people's communes. The legacy of that disastrous decision, which contributed to a famine that left tens of millions dead, still weighs heavily on rural China. The hukou system, as this one-time apartheid is commonly known, applied to urban as well as rural dwellers, but peasants got a worse deal because they received hardly any welfare benefits, and job prospects in the countryside were dismal. The system has been much eroded since the Mao era because of the need for cheap labour to fuel China's manufacturing boom. But its lingering impact, combined with the still collective ownership of rural land, will retard China's urbanisation in the years ahead just when the country is most in need of its consumption-boosting benefits.

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