Commune- and Brigade-Run Industries in Rural China: Some Recent Observations

J. L. Enos

Chapter 7 in Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside, 1984, pp 223-252 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to report what was learned during a recent visit to China about industrial activities in the communes. Some two dozen enterprises were observed, chiefly in the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, and were found to be diverse in terms of the activities in which they were engaged and significant in terms of the output which they produced. The enterprises employed a substantial portion of the rural population and yielded an even more substantial portion of their income. In the communes in which the data for 1981 were gathered, over 40 per cent of the total collective distributed income was generated by industry. This percentage is rising rapidly; at a guess, the figure for 1982 will prove to have been one-third again as high, and the figures for subsequent years will be higher still.

Keywords: Industrial Enterprise; Cement Plant; State Enterprise; Production Team; Cement Kiln (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16662-6_7

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