This book provides a detailed review of the accumulated experience and lessons from China’s agricultural reform and … contribute to developing economic theories. The success of China’s reform and opening up creates benefits for farmers, and is … progressive reform can provide valuable guidance for those developing countries still lagging behind China …

China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its … agriculture into the world market. China's choice will have profound implications for the world trading system, as well as for its … own economy. At the same time, China needs to reform its land tenure and grain marketing systems. This book examines these …

gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the …