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China's policies towards collective rural enterprises
01.03.1993
In the last decade China's rural enterprises, including those run collectively by villages or townships as well as those owned by individuals, have expanded at a remarkable rate. This article describes the government policies that have been designed to promote rural enterprises during the period 1978–91, as well as pointing to the discrimination that rural enterprises have often suffered compared to large-scale urban-based industries. The urgent need for employment outside agriculture for a huge rural population provides an overriding justification for rural enterprise and the most recent evidence is that government policy is increasingly turning towards the promotion of rural enterprise.