Cooperative Organizations And The Transformation Of Rural Society

Certain interactive relationship exists between the rural cooperation movement and the transition of modern rural society in contemporary countryside.In 1920s, China countryside mired into unprecedented depression because of the domestic natural calamity ,the tangled warlord warfare and the impact of western industrial civilization. The social order in the countryside was badly damaged. It endangered the security of the state and the nation which aroused people's vigilance. In that case, both government and society are seeking the means for rescuing rural crisis. With the trend of western cooperation thoughts spreading into China, people and government saw the hope for solving rural problems and utilize it into practice.When the western cooperation thoughts was localized in China, the movement led by national government aimed at rescue the countryside, by means of cooperation movement, was launched rapidly. The government firstly made use of its administrative authority resources to operate cooperation propagation and cooperation legislation and build a set of full cooperation administrative system and cooperation movement all over the countryside coercively. The quantity ' development and distribution of rural cooperation organizations reflected that government played a dominant role in society.With the extensive establishment of cooperative organization, the cooperation movement was developing in extensive rural area. On one hand, it become the political tool for government to control rural society to realize the democracy; on the other hand, it also profoundly influenced the traditional rural society. The cooperative organizations smashed the traditional leasehold situation of rural society dominated by usurers and promoted the rural society transfer traditional debit and credit relationship to modern type. At the same time, route duties of cooperation organizations also promote the improvement of traditional agriculture production. It infused the modern gene into traditional rural agriculture production. Foresee thefuture by reviewing the past, as the cooperative organization is a self-helping and mutual-helping organization, if the government can provide protection and guidance properly, it should be apt to change the countryside and promote the development of society.