Section 7 of Resolutions on the Further Strengthening of the Collective Economy of the People’s Communes and Expanding Agricultural Production, Adopted in September 1962

Abstract

7. The release by the Central Committee of its Draft Regulations Governing the Activities of Rural People’s Communes and its directive on taking the production team as the basic unit of accounting, have greatly promoted the enthusiasm of the peasants and have thus created favourable new conditions for consolidating the collective economy and for expanding agricultural production. The above policies relating to the support of agriculture, the direction of industrial development, the increase in agricultural investment, purchase, levy and prices, all have as their goal the stimulation of a positive spirit of production among the collective groups of peasants and the further consolidation of the collective economy of the people’s communes. These policies, which affect the relationship between the State and the collective economy of the people’s communes, are the ones which the party desires to implement on a long-term basis.

‘Section 7 of Resolutions on the Further Strengthening of the Collective Economy of the People’s Communes and Expanding Agricultural Production, Adopted in September 1962’, by the Tenth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Translated from an unpublished version of the Resolutions.