Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China - 9781138066168

Taylor & Francis

Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary ChinaNew Socialist Countryside\nAuthor(s): Anna Ahlers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138066168, 978-1138066168\nSynopsis\nAt the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods, underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were increasingly seen as posing a manifest threat to social harmony and economic and political stability. At that time the term \""three rural problems\"" (sannong wenti) was coined which defined the main issues of rural life that needed to be targeted by government action: agriculture (nongye), villages (nongcun) and farmers (nongmin). In turn, with the launch of the 11th Five-Year Plan in 2006, a pledge was made to shift the focus of developmental efforts to the long-neglected countryside, which is still home to half of the Chinese population.\n\nThis book presents an analysis of adaptive.