Land Use in China: The Impact of the Economic Revolution
October 31, 2004 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesRural grievances over tenancy insecurity are staples of news stories about China. This feature looks into the impact on peasantry rights as a result of economic change and the legal issues that arises out of Land Law in China.
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By Arjun Subrahmanyan
In Chinese history, the peasantry's role as agricultural providers for a vast country and growing population has always been one of the foundations on which any social or political movement has had to depend. In the early years of the PRC, the communist party fulfilled its promise to rebuild rural economies on the basis of equitable distributions of land and alleviation of the crushing tax and rent burdens that left most of rural China in poverty. Enfranchising rural China was a key platform of the party's vision for society and the major outcome of the revolution.