Sustainable Development of Rural Household Economy: Transition of Ten Villages in Zhejiang, China, 1986-2002

407 Pages·2020·11.565 MB·English

by  Qinghua Shi, Yan Gao

Qinghua Shi
Yan Gao
Sustainable
Development of
Rural Household
Economy
Transition of Ten Villages in
Zhejiang, China, 1986–2002
Sustainable Development of Rural Household
Economy
Qinghua Shi Yan Gao
(cid:129)
Sustainable Development
of Rural Household Economy
Transition of Ten Villages in Zhejiang, China,
–
1986 2002
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Qinghua Shi Yan Gao
AntaiCollege ofEconomics Schoolof Agriculture andBiology
andManagement ShanghaiJiao Tong University
ShanghaiJiao Tong University Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China
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This book is dedicated to
Mr. Runsheng Du (1913–2015)
Outstanding contributor to China’s reform
and opening up
Pioneer of the national rural fixed
observation sites
and
All of those who have been working with the
observed households and villages in the front
line of the rural fixed observation sites in
China
First author Dr. Qinghua Shi with Mr. Runsheng Du in 2007
The research is supported by the following funds:
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Labour mobility and village order in the era of rapid urbanisation (71773076)
China’s rural poverty component identification, decomposition and change
(71673186)
The research of peasants’ welfare issues in the background of urbanisation
(71473165)
A study on household economic development mechanism and government man-
agement behaviour in eastern and western China (70173016)
National Social Science Foundation of China
Investigation into rural tax & fee reform and rural household economic develop-
ment (03BJY061)
The publication of this book has been supported by the following publishing
funds:
Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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The Research has Won the Following Awards
University Science and Research Outstanding Achievement Award
(Humanities and Social Sciences)
Title: Sustainable Development of Rural Household Economy: Transition of Ten
Villages in Zhejiang, China Agriculture Press, May 2005
Main researcher: Qinghua Shi
Category: Monograph
Discipline: Economics
Grade: Second
Certificate (2009) No.151 Ministry of Education
People’s Republic of China
September 4, 2009
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Award Certificate
Mr. Qinghua Shi,
This is to certify that your book Sustainable Development of Rural Household
Economy: Transition of Ten Villages in Zhejiang (1986-2002) has won the 3rd
China Rural Development Research Award (Monograph Award).
Issuer: Runsheng Du
Rural Development Research Fund Management Committee
June 6, 2008
English Edition Publication Statement
Sustainable Development of Rural Household Economy is the first monograph I
publishedafterIleftZhejiangUniversityandwasofficiallyemployedbyShanghai
JiaoTongUniversity.Itisalsoanotherpieceofmyimportantworkconcerningthe
‘sutra’ of rural household poverty alleviation when I relocated to the southern
watery region at the turn of the new century, 36 years after I left my hometown—
the Loess Plateau. The book has received great attention and has been widely
praisedbypeoplefromallwalksoflifesinceitspublicationin2005.Notonlydidit
allow me to successfully stand on the highest podium of agricultural economics in
China, with the privilege to take the ‘Third China Rural Development Research
Monograph Award (2008)’ personally presented by Mr. Runsheng Du, who has
beenwell-knownasa‘reformpioneer’,butalsohelpedmetowinthe‘SecondPrize
of Outstanding Achievements in Humanities and Social Sciences (2009)’ by the
Ministry of Education, PRC. The monography is an important masterpiece of my
academic career, with the essence of my thought about the ‘three
rural-related issues’,or ‘sannong issues’(issuesconcerningagriculture, rural areas
and farmers).
Zhejiang is mountainous. Although Zhejiang is considered as ‘paradise on
Earth’,mostruralareas inZhejiangisnotmuchdifferent fromotherordinaryrural
areasinChina.Povertywasoncetheircommonsynonym,andsurvivalwasalsothe
primarygoal.However,after40yearsofreformandopeningup,theeconomyhere
has realised a huge growth. Zhejiang private economy is famous not only
domestically but also outside the country, outstanding in the world. Zhejiang
farmersnotonlyhaveremovedthespecificlabelof‘poverty’,butalsocreatedmany
oftheirown‘Zhejiangwonders’.Yiwu,aplacewith‘chickenfeatherforsugar’for
a hungry belly, has become a world-famous ‘small commodity city’. Haining, a
place with nothing to do with fur, has built a well-known ‘leather city’ throughout
the country. Wenzhou people whose language is even difficult to understand for
Zhejiang natives have been doing big businesses all over the world. They would
‘makealivingonland’,andChina’s‘beautifulcountrysideconstruction’originated
in Anji. They would also ‘make a living from the sea’ in that the ‘blue fishery
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