Chinese Farmers And The Modernization Of Research

The concept of "rural residents" means the identity of rural household registration , mostly including agricultural labor, non-agricultural labor, intellectuals of rural residents, rural governor etc.. the modernization of rural residents is basically the transferring process from traditional rural residents to modernized ones, mainly the process of the rural residents main body's emergence and enhancement of main body consciousness. It contains the modernization of rural residents' world view, philosophy and values, as well as thinking mode, behavior mode, living habits and even the ideas of politics, economy, law, morality, etc., which infiltrate the social consciousness. The modernization of rural residents is the most important meanwhile the most difficult part for the modernization of the people of a country. China is a developing agricultural country and the rural residents cover 70% of the population. Without the modernization of rural residents, there would be no modernization of Chinese people, let alone the national modernization.After the foundation of New China, the modernization of Chinese rural residents experienced the exploring, starting and developing stages. In succession, Chinese rural residents' social status, occupation, earning and living standard improve a lot as well as ideas and consciousness. hey positively participate in market competition, make a point of commercial manufacture and management, with elementary consciousness of risk and time; they have more participating intention and passion for politics and stepwise learn to find solutions to contradictions and conflicts with law; they ask for more independence, equality and democracy day by day; they gradually tear the chain of traditional consciousness and become more rational in living attitude and style. The alteration aforesaid is great achievement in the process of rural residents modernization. However, for series of subjective and external reasons, there are still many unmodernized elements about most rural residents, which reveal mainly in the following: psychological inferiority and crowd behaviors, along with mentalist; economically interested in a quick profit and equalitarianism; politically patriarchies; culturally moral descending and selfishness. Concretely speaking, restrictive elements preventing the improvement of rural residents modernization mainly include: firstly, from the external environment of Chinese modernization, rural residents modernization suits for national modernized standard, thus the low marketing, inadequate polarization of rural residents who are the main body of marketing and weak industrialization consequently affect the absorption; secondly, institutionally the current systems of Household Register, field, employment, social security and education tremendously limit the development of rural residents modernization; thirdly, idealistically, the rejection and discrimination from the city profit-obtained group as well as the exclusion and hesitation from city decision- makers block the way of agreement and combination between city and rural residents, influencing the cultivation of rural residents' citizen consciousness and public morality; fourthly, rural residents themselves deeply affected by traditional culture, forming stubborn customs and thinking modes that's hard to replace, furthermore, the limit of educational and scientific standard also bring numerous hardship forward to rural residents modernization.Accompanying with the process of our national modernization, the rural residents modernization will be and must be improved with the deepening and extension in degree and range. The improvement of the rural residents modernization at this stage is in need of the experience of developing country, based on the modernization facts in China, in pursuit of the rural residents modernization with Chinese characteristics. The fundamental methods are: developing socialist market economy and agricultural scientific technology and accelerate the country industrial configuration, in order to lay a economic foundation for rural residents modernization; eliminating the obstruction of systems to perfect the construction of grassroots democracy and legal system, protecting the rural residents' basic rights and interests and lay a political foundation for rural residents modernization; improving the moral construction, to houseclean the remaining feudal consciousness and lead the rural residents to new values for the laying of cultural foundation; breaking the close country society configuration to strengthen the communication and comprehension between rural residents and other classes for a favorable social foundation; advancing education, respecting their initiative, realizing the government policy support and system perfection, achieving the efficient interact between appealing and promotion of the rural residents modernization ability and realizing modernization through self-remoulding and self-consummating.