The Household Responsibility System Of Yongjia In The Period Of Agriculture Collectivization

China’s reform started from the rural household responsibility system.Recalling the agricultural cooperation to the disintegration of people’s communes, wefound that the household responsibility system, created by farmers,was once repressedby ruler and rebuilt by farmers again and again. Household responsibility system, whywas once again brought to the court of ideology? Why farmers insisted to selecthousehold responsibility under the pressure of ideology? This paper presents theanalysis mode: ideology-production incentive interactives.Involved in the first national household responsibility system in1956, YongjiaCounty was the largest regions which had a profound impact at that time. While thehousehold responsibility system was criticized later, it was still existed to a certainextent instead of being banded in the next twenty years. This paper attempts to interpretthe practice of household responsibility system in Yongjia County, in which I combinehistorical materials and economic theory and create the "ideology-productionincentives interactive mode. I believe that the contradiction between the ideology andproduction incentives, conflicts and mutual compromise constitutes the main clue ofYongjia household responsibility system,which can well interpret this history.In this paper,Ideology is defined as follows: It is the concept and belief that wasenforced by governor in the selection of political and economic system through theirpowerful propaganda machine and violence machine. Its purpose is to mobilize peopleto participate in a particular social movement, in order to change or maintain somekinds of political, social and economic relationship. This definition emphasizes thealliance of concept and power.Due to the influence of ideology, the new senior regime have a stubborn preferencefor the agriculture collectivization which is characterized with its huge scale andcollective nature and the average socialist distribution system.In the era of the collective,however, forcibly implanted system design can not solve the common and serious "freerider" problem, it also can not effectively motivate farmers to go into production tochange the inefficient state of rural production organizations,as a result farmers can noteven get rid of the threat of hunger.Therefore, on the one hand, this ideology wasexpected to guide the production and distribution problems in reality, its basic principles, beliefs and norms must constantly face the reality of economic laws to solve productionincentives, so as to produce a compromise, so the farmers continued to adventure toengage in the household responsibility system.On the other hand,householdresponsibility which is used to solve production incentives was once again criticized bygovernment when confronted moral and ideology.Through the "Ideology-production incentives interactive mode,I do someresearch about the practice of the household responsibility system in Yongjia Countrycombined historical materials with economic theory. At the same time, this article alsoattempt to interpret the characteristics and their profound influence in economic life ofthe state power and the ideology in the Mao era. In a healthy society which runssmoothly, institution bind people’s behavior, people’s behavior is also shaping thesystem.It can form a benign interaction between the social system and human behavior.During the Mao era, however, because of Mao zedeng’s socialist ideology,socialsystem and humanity has been extremely nervous and could not make properadjustments. In fact, the conflict between Ideology and production incentives hadalways existed during Mao era, especially in the field of agriculture.It is crucial for aregime to use ideology reasonably and legally, because it significantly affects theeconomic performance and the welfare of its people. Unless we own democracy andlegal system, can the ideology be used properly and legally.