A Study On The Land Reform In Guizhou Minority Regions

The land reform, arose in the minddle of the20th century,can be recognized as the greatest social and economical reform for China’s rural area. The occurance of the land reform had smashed the widely-existed ladlord serfs of the landownership and had made the most longing wish of the majority of farmers-cultivator has its filed-finally come true.Due to the late liberation and the lagged economic development, Guizhou province, one of the latest provinces that has accomplished land reform. Until1951, when the land reform had almost accomplished in the whole country, each area of Guizhou province started to carry on the land reform successively under the guidance of leaders in southward mobilization from Hebei, Shandong and Henan. The policy of Guizhou land reform was in accordance with "central area in advance, border area afterwards;the Han area in advance, the Minority area afterwards ". Land reform thus reached the Minority inhabit district.Taijiang county, in Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast of Guizhou Province has been long called "the back-land of Miao area". National hero Zhang Xiumei was born here and raised an army to fight in Xianfeng and Tongzhi’s years. It has long been the inhabit area for the Miao people in Guizhou. At the beginning of the liberation, the population of the Miao peoplr in the Taijiang takes up95%of the entire coounty. Till today, Taijiang is still the most assembled county of the Maio people in Guizhou Province. The population of the Miao takes up97%of the total population. Thus it is called "irst county of the Miao nationality". When land reform, the dramatic economic and social change was carried out in Taijiang County, the Taijiang CPC committee established detailed procedure and working methods according to the policy made by the Southwest Bureau and the Guizhou CPC committee. The workers of land reform adopted some special measures on the basis of the special local environment. Theses measures had influenced a lot on the land reform of Taijiang County in both positive and negative ways. This thesis, being based on the documentary material and associating with some verbal materials, sorted out the progress of land reform in Taijiang County, and analyzed its problems and relevant reasons of these problems. This paper tries to restore as truly as possible the land reform of Taijiang County. Thereby, this paper will see bigger information through small ones and explore one aspect of the land reform in Guizhou Minority area.