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"Building a new socialist countryside" - only a political slogan?
"Aufbau einer neuen sozialistischen Landschaft": nur ein politischer Slogan?
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Abstract In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central government's intention to "build a new socialist countryside", a new policy initiative and approach to rural development. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two Chinese counties in 2008 and 2009, this article investi... view more
In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central government's intention to "build a new socialist countryside", a new policy initiative and approach to rural development. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two Chinese counties in 2008 and 2009, this article investigates how the new policy is being substantiated and implemented at the local level. It argues that by combining China's new fiscal system of transfer payments to poor local governments with administrative reforms, intensified internal project evaluation, and efforts to increase the rural income through a mixture of infrastructural investment, agricultural specialization, the expansion of social welfare, and accelerated urbanization, "building a new socialist countryside" constitutes more than a political slogan and has the potential to successfully overcome rural poverty and the rural-urban divide.... view less
Keywords
regional policy; reform policy; underdevelopment; combating poverty; agriculture; structural policy; investment; economic policy; rural area; rural development; agrarian reform; China
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Method
descriptive study
Free Keywords
political science; rural development; agricultural reforms; structural economic policy; contemporary
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 35-62
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 38 (2009) 4
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works