Government Intervention on Cooperative Development in Poor Areas of Rural China: A Case Study of XM Beekeeping Cooperative in Sichuan

Shemei Zhang, Bin Wu, Rui Chen, Jingzhi Liang, Nawab Khan () and Ram L. Ray
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Shemei Zhang: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611100, China
Bin Wu: School of Business, Nottingham University, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
Rui Chen: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611100, China
Jingzhi Liang: Party School of Dujiangyan Municipal Committee of the CPC, Chengdu 611844, China
Nawab Khan: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611100, China
Ram L. Ray: College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: The relationship between government intervention and cooperative development has always been a source of controversy in the developing world. This paper aims to examine the rationale and successful conditions of government intervention to promote cooperative development in poor areas of rural China. In the context of the “targeted poverty alleviation” program (2015–2020), a government-led campaign covering all poverty-stricken villages in west China, cooperative development was listed by the central government as a criterion for evaluating successful intervention at the county government level. Accordingly, the central questions of this paper are: why is government intervention necessary to initiate a process of cooperative development in poor areas of China; and under what conditions can government intervention be successful, leading to sustainable cooperative development? Bearing in mind the complexity of government intervention with mixed results, both successful and failed, the above questions are addressed through a case study of XM Beekeeping Cooperative, representing one type of successful government intervention in poverty-stricken and ethnic-minority-dominated regions of China. Overall, government intervention is crucial in building cooperative ecosystems in poor regions of China. However, government intervention is not invariable because the approaches can be modified to accommodate the effect of the intervention.

Keywords: governmental intervention; cooperative development; successful intervention; poor areas of rural China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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