From Privatization to Deindustrialization: Implications of Chinese Rural Industry and the Ownership Debate Revisited

Shaohua Zhan

World Development, 2015, vol. 74, issue C, 108-122

Abstract: This paper examines the evolution of Chinese rural industry since the rural reform in the late 1970s and revisits the debate on the role of ownership. Based on a case study of W county in southern Jiangsu province as well as drawing on national data, the author shows that the community-based market dynamic had been a key factor in the expansion of rural enterprises and that its weakening in recent years has led to the closing of village enterprises and deindustrialization of the countryside. Large-scale land expropriation, sponsored by local government, is the principal factor responsible for the change.

Keywords: Asia; China; rural enterprise; ownership; land expropriation; community-based market dynamic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.04.018

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