The Transformation Of The Overseas Chinese Farms In Fujian

During the mid and late twentieth century, China's government established many farms for overseas Chinese refugee returnees who went back to homeland due to excluding Chinese tide in Southeast Asia and helped them settled down. Under the particular background, not only did the collectively resettling farm model ensure timely and effective arrangements for massive returnees, but also strongly responded the anti-China power in Southeast Asian countries, and expressed concerns of China's government on overseas Chinese returnees. Whereas, during the process of transformation from planned economy to socialist marketing economy, the collectively resetting model indirectly made overseas Chinese returnees fall out of local socialization development in the historic circumstances of China's open-up and reform. Meanwhile, the problems of farms themselves gradually emerged, the result of which was the slow development of farms and many overseas Chinese returnees were under undeveloped living conditions. The predicament of the farms restricted the development themselves, and the local development influenced as well. As a famous hometown of Overseas Chinese, Fujian was one of the places most Overseas Chinese returnee farms located. The same as most of the overseas Chinese farms in China, the overseas Chinese farms in Fujian faced various kinds of development predicament. Under the new historical conditions, how to put the farms'advantages into best use, speeding up the socialization transformation of the farms, solving the problems of overseas Chinese returnees and their spouse became the issues of the society and the intellectual circle. Therefore, from the aspects of history and sociology, studying overseas Chinese returnees resettlement under the collectively resetting model in farms, seeking the Overseas Chinese farm's socialization transformation meant positive practical significance.The article took Shuangyang Overseas Farm as an example, combining related files and documents with personal local survey, focused on the process of Shuangyang Overseas Farm's transformation, reflected on the problem brought by the model of collectively resetting in farms. We should provide overseas Chinese returnees with necessity, we also need to set up a set of system that enables them integrate with the locals. Maybe some thinking could provide useful reference for local development.There are five parts in the article as follows:Part I : IntroductionIt evaluates the achievements of the study on Overseas Chinese farm, and elucidates the necessity of the Overseas Chinese farm socialization transformation.Part II:This part reviews the historical background of the setting of overseas Chinese farms and China's policy on overseas Chinese as well, and how China's government paved the way for arranging overseas Chinese returnees.Part III:This part introduces the detailed course of overseas Chinese returnees acception and resettlement by the People's Republic of China and Fujian Province.Part IV:This part discusses the establishment of Shuangyang Overseas farm, the developing process and the problems before the transformation. And concerns on the overseas Chinese farm's social network, the connection with the locals.