Study On The Evolution Of Farmer Professional Cooperatives In China

The development of China's agriculture has been a hot topic. China's agricultural development is designed to find ways to lead the huge agricultural population, a disadvantaged group, into the competitive market, enable them to develop their competitiveness in the market, and finally set China's agriculture on the track of sustainable development. To attain this goal, the only way out is to organize the farmers. This paper will deals with the evolution of farmers cooperatives in China, and attempt to find out some applicable rules of evolution.From the perspective of Marxism and humanistic ideas, the paper will study the evolution of farmers'professional cooperatives to explore the practice models of farmers'professional cooperatives which conform to the humanistic ideas of Marxism.In the first part, the paper lays the theoretic foundation for the inquiry, with briefly discussing the evolution of humanistic ideas of classic Marxist thinkers, and pointing out both Marxism and its integration of China's concrete practice have demonstrated humanistic ideas, and sums up different ideas of cooperative economy since 1949; and make the theoretic framework of humanistic development.Then, the paper analyzes the historic evolution of farmers'professional cooperatives in China, focusing on the historic experiences and lessons in the development of farmers'cooperatives since 1949 within the framework of humanistic development of farmers'cooperatives. In the part, the play of initiatives, the guarantee of components of human all-round development, the building of organization and system.In the following part, the paper explores ways for new type farmers'professional cooperatives. First, the problems arising in the development of farmers'cooperatives are identified. Secondly, based on Marxist humanistic ideas, the papers proposes that the business principles for farmers'cooperatives should adhere to the household contract responsibility system and Unified and Decentralized Management System, adhere to the principle of"cooperatives sponsored by the people, managed by the people, and benefiting the people", and proposes ways to improve the competitiveness of the cooperatives in the market, provide funds, strengthen internal management, and increase the cohesion of farmers.Finally the paper is concluded by pointing out as far as the development of farmers'professional cooperatives is concerned, the humanistic ideas of Marxism are the best theoretic framework.