people's commune

The barefoot doctor system was based in the people's communes.

With the disappearance of the people's communes, the barefoot doctor system lost its base and funding.

In the administrative hierarchy, the team was the lowest level, the next higher levels being the production brigade and people's commune.

In rural areas the country's "barefoot doctors" distributed information and contraceptives to people's commune members.

Giant cooperatives, otherwise known as people's communes, were formed.

At this time, they were not commercial enterprises similar to banks, but rather channeled credit between the state and the people's communes in rural areas.

People's communes were eliminated by 1984 - after more than 25 years - and the system of township-collective-household production was introduced to the agricultural sector.

Next, farm families were progressively organized into cooperatives, collectives, and finally people's communes.

Life in People's commune, backyard furnaces, and factories.

The collectivization of agriculture was essentially completed with the establishment of the people's communes in 1958.

Significance: The people's commune were proclaimed.

One point of the Great Leap was starting to set up People's Communes in the countryside.

This continued into the 1960s even during the people's commune period; at that time a tulou was often occupied by one commune production team.

There are ten townships, former People's communes:

During the Great Leap Forward, they set up People's commune and communal kitchens.

People's commune, collectivist living.

Deng responded by decollectivizing agriculture and emphasizing the Household-responsibility system, which divided the land of the People's communes into private plots.

Most of Pinghe's old People's communes, after spending the 80s and even 90s as Townships, have been upgraded to Towns.

Rural secondary education has undergone several transformations since 1980, when county-level administrative units closed some schools and took over certain schools run by the people's communes.

The structural mechanisms for implementing state objectives-the people's communes and their subordinate teams and brigades-have been either entirely eliminated or greatly diminished.

The three Banners were the General Line for socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward and the people's communes.

At the Politburo meetings in August 1958, it was decided that these people's communes would become the new form of economic and political organization throughout rural China.

The people's commune was the lowest level of government organization, with its administrative committee on a legal par with the local people's government in the urban areas.

Based on his fieldwork, Ralph A. Thaxton Jr. describes the people's communes as a form of "apartheid system" for Chinese farm households.

Under the people's commune system in force from 1958 to 1982, the income of a peasant family depended directly on the number of laborers it contributed to the collective fields.