The Agricultural Cooperative Movement In Zhejiang And Rural Social Transformation

The agricultural cooperative movement is another political movement following the movement of land reform under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.Basis on the reformation of property right system and organization form of the rural society,the movement transformed the rural individual economy into a socialist collective economy,and triggered a fundamental change in the rural politics,culture and society.In this sense,the movement of agricultural cooperation is a great social change.After the land reform,the scattered small farmers' economy did not change the poverty of the farmers,but created a new social differentiation.It took 6 years that Zhejiang province has completed the socialist transformation of Agriculture at the end of 1956 from the spring of 1951 when Zhejiang began a cooperation movement.There are the many disputes and withdraw from the cooperatives and downtown the cooperatives,many people involved in the cooperative movement of the storm in Zhejiang agricultural cooperation movement.In practice,the agricultural cooperative movement in Zhejiang is not fully carried out in accordance with the steps of the central planning even under the unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.These events of 1953 " Opposition to a Risk Policy" and 1955 "Cut Cooperative" and 1957 " Fix Farm Output Quotas for Each Household" essentially reflect a kind of interaction between the peasants and the state,leading to the central adjustment policy,making socialist transformation of agriculture back to the normal track,reducing the previous because of work requirements too fast,too rough,change too fast.The socialist transformation of agriculture has not only transformed the rural property right system and the organization form of agricultural production,but also transformed the rural society and the peasants.Agricultural production cooperatives have replaced many of the functions of traditional families,and parents' authority in the traditional family has been weakened,and the social structure of the countrysidehas changed and the young people's view on marriage has also changed.and farmers' income is more dependent on cooperatives,and more young people go out of their families and go to co-operatives,and the grass-roots organizations in rural areas have gained a high degree of recognition after the completion of the socialist transformation of agricultural socialism.Cooperatives have evolved from an economic organization to an administrative organization integrating the political,economic,culture and social services in the rural society.They have played an important role in the construction of the state's grass-roots political power and the rural social management.It plays a decisive role in the production and life of farmers and impacts on Farmers' income level,consumption structure,spiritual and cultural life,and even the whole rural social mentality with the general establishment of agricultural production cooperatives.The cooperative movement of agricultural production is an important part of the socialist transformation after the founding of People's Republic of China.It eliminated the private ownership and organized the peasants onto the collectivization road.It is a arduous and tortuous course of Zhejiang agricultural cooperation movement,successful exploration in the management of agricultural production cooperatives,also left a profound lesson in rural economic system management and governance of the country.