ALL DEVELOPMENTAL ROADS LEAD BACK

TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
 The most straightforward piece of the china development puzzle.
 GREAT LEAP FORWARD - Also knows as the AUTARKIC
DEVELOPMENT POLICY of 1958 – 1960.
 1980's - they manage to increase their agricultural output by more than one-third.
 focuses on GRAIN PRODUCTION

 COLLECTIVE PRODUCTION
 1978
 1984
 Restoration of household production was not the
Communist Part's Plan or Deng Xiaoping which
irose to to power in 1978

 Deng Xiaoping admitted in his turgid

autobiography:
 “It was the peasants who invented the household
contract responsibility system with remuniration
linked to output”
CHINA/S GRAIN PRODUCTION

 1990's - chinas grain output went on to exceed 500 million tonnes

AGRICULTURE

 Supported by North-east asian agronomic advice and training in the villages

 RICE AND WHEAT YIELDS

SUGAR CANE

 Most sugar is grown in Guanxi Province in the south east.

Soyabean

• WTO

Only one agricultural commodity as seen in a boom in imports.