1. The current plan of "limiting purchase" (ixian gou/i) contains insuperable defects. It is difficult to implement because of the many problems involved, and its stated goals will be hard to accomplish. First of all, it will drastically slow down the rate of increase in peasants' incomes. In...

China is currently at a stage when indirect consumption of grain is rapidly on the increase. Production still has a problem keeping pace with domestic demand.

In accordance with the spirit of Premier Zhao Ziyang's address to the central conference on rural work, the central document no. 1 of 1986 made the following decision in regard to improving the contract purchase system of grain: To reduce the amount of contract purchases (from 158 billion...

1. Since 1979, the pace of rural economic growth has speeded up greatly. From 1982 to 1984, in particular, after the breakthrough in reforming the rural system, farm products increased at an extraordinary rate. During the three years, grain output rose by 150 billion catties, an average yearly...

In June 1983, the Sichuan provincial party committee's work conference on the Pengzhou mountain region passed a resolution stating: "Peasants in grain-scarce production brigades in mountainous areas who wish to pay cash in lieu of selling the requisite quotas of grain to the state may do so,...