Income Generation and Access to Economic Opportunities in a Transitional Economy: A Comparative Analysis of Five Chinese Villages

This paper examines the mechanism of household income generation, and the determinants of access to economic opportunities after the economic reform, using household surveys in five administrative villages in China. It was found that in the process of marketization in rural China, both the "redistributive mechanism" and market coordination work in mixed ways. It is essential to examine the transitional processes in specific regional/historical contexts.