Jiang Zemin Thought Study The Interests Of Farmers

China is a large agricultural country, and is also a country of peasants. Whether during theperiod of new-democratic revolution, or during the period of socialist reform and construction,the problem of peasants has always been China’s fundamental problem. The essence of theproblem is the interests of peasants. After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CentralCommittee of the Communist Party of China, in the process of China’s rural operation, thethird generation of collective leadership summarizing the experience and lesson of practice ofprotecting peasants’ economic interests, safeguarding peasants’ political interests and promotingthe peasants’ spiritual culture interests, forms a complete thought of the peasants’ interests.Learning and carrying out the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasant interests has important practicalsignificance for further solving the peasantry, promoting the construction of new countryside.The article is divided into three major parts:In the first part, the article reveals the formation of the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasantinterests. In theory, Marxist classical writers’ thought related lays a solid theoretical basis for theformation of the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasant interests. In practice, the highlight of theproblem of peasants’ interests in the late1980s and early1990s of20th century provides arealistic basis for the formation of the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasant interests.In the second part, the article elaborates the main content of the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasantinterests systematically. Firstly, the article defines the strategic position of peasants’ interestsscientifically. It is related to the realization of comprehensive well-off, related to theconsolidation of the Party’s ruling position, related to the stability of the State and society.Secondly, the article expounds how to protect peasants’ economic interests: protect the interestsof peasants by developing agriculture; transfer rural surplus labor force by developing townshipenterprises and small towns; increase peasants’ income by lightening the peasants ’ burdens;coordinates regional development by rural poverty alleviation and development. Thirdly, thearticle expounds how to safeguard peasants’ political interests: strengthen the construction ofrural grass-roots democratic politics by implementation of villager’s autonomy; protect theconstruction of rural democracy by rule of law; improve the Party’s leadership over rural work bypromoting the development of grass-roots party organizations. Fourthly, the article expoundshow to promote the peasants’ cultural interests：achieve coordinated development of society andeconomy by constructing the two kind of civilization; improve peasants’ ideological and moralqualities by strengthening ideological and moral construction; improve the scientific and culturalqualities of peasants by developing rural technological and cultural projects.In the third part, the article launches the elaboration from three aspects. Firstly, the article reveals the basic features of the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasant interests: strategic, demotic andpractical. Secondly，the article points out the historical status of the thought of Jiang Zemin ’speasant interests. It greatly enriches and develops the related ideas of Marxism, greatly changesthe existing situation of Chinese farmers in practice, and provides a theoretical and practicallearning for the new leadership to solve the problem of peasants. Thirdly, the article reveals thepractical enlightenment significance of the thought of Jiang Zemin’s peasant interests.