Vegetable Production,Supply And Marketing In Wuhan(1949-1961)

At the beginning of PRC, Wuhan was the political and economic center of the five provinces in Central South China.The government changed Wuhan from a "consumer city" into a "production city". At this stiuation, the vegetable production of Wuhan suburb recovered and developed.The general idea of this article is:urban economy includes many parts, but academia paid little attention on the linkages between rural economy and urban economic in modern times up to now, only some results very fragmented and one-sided. At the beginning of PRC, the vegetable consumption demand of Wuhan urban growed continuously.Coupled with the requirements of the suburban socialist transformation of agriculture, government began to work for an organized plan production to meet the vegetable consumption needs of the city, through combined with the production and marketing. The suburbs development of vegetable production in1959on the one hand was achieved under the impetus of the "Great Leap Forward", but it is also the embodiment of the notion "planting vegetables prepare against natural disasters" which was summarized by C.P. from revolutionary periods. Accordingly, the government began the socialist transformation of the vegetable marketing system in the city, all the vegetables on market was underwrited by state-owned company, but the government soon discovered that it was difficult to unify vegetables within the planned distribution. In1956,free market opened; but the socialist transformation of the vegetable supply and marketing fields didn’t stopped there, but repeated with the ups and downs of the political movement. Nevertheless, the socialist transformation of urban vegetable industry and the daily supply played a great role in the social integration and everyday life of the city.The paper is divided into three parts:the first is the introduction, to introduce the relevant history of research. The second part is the body part, consists of three chapters: the first chapter pay main attention to vegetable growing, includes the government policy, organizational change and the general situation of suburban vegetable cultivation in1950s, and introduce the vegetable cultivation in the urban areas; the second chapter deals with the city’s vegetable supply, include a brief introduction of the supply of vegetables before PRC,and then the contract adopted by the founding of the initial supply of vegetables, vegetable transportation, supply network settings are discussed, and discusses the vegetables’import and export, storage and processing; the third chapter discusses the sales of the vegetable market, the changing of vegetable marketing forms are introduced at first, and then analyze the government’s administrative measures and price management policies, during the early days of PRC. The third part is the epilogue part.