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In 1934, the Chinese KMT government launched the first cooperative law in the history of China. In the same year the Constitution of China was also proclaimed and it included a special article emphasizing government support and reward for cooperative development, which was quite rare internationally in those days. When the Chinese Communist Party came into power and established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, it began drafting its own cooperative law, which was completed in 1950. However, as the Chinese Communist Party had chosen the road of constructing a socialist planned economy, the cooperative law was set aside and was not enacted.
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In China, according to the National Constitution, the agrarian land is a village collectively owned. Following the reform during the late 1970s’, the land is equally allocated to individual farmers through long-term contracts with the village committee. The farmers have got usage rights and inheritance rights of the land, which means the land has become farmers’ private property under the household contract system.
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Ren, D., Yuan, P. (2013). China. In: Cracogna, D., Fici, A., Henrÿ, H. (eds) International Handbook of Cooperative Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30129-2_14
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