Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit - i.e. the provision of...

"San nong" problems and the challenges of the rural financial system in China -- Literature gap and research objectives -- Fieldwork villages, procedures and the RCCs pilot program in Jiangxi -- Households' indebtedness and borrowing behaviour in the natural village of Yao -- Households'...