NEED FOR SUPPLY AND MARKETING COOPERATIVES IN CHINA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130082-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: August 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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NEED FOR SUPPLY AND MARKETING CCOPERAT-VES IN CHINA
Supply and Marketing Cooperatives are organized voluntarily by peasants
in the rural villages and other workers acting as proeacers and consumers.
Funds are raised by selling shares. Supply and marketing cooperatives are
generally set up in a comparatively large village or market place so as to
serve the neighboring villages. However, they may be set up in an adminis-
trative village or on the hsiang level. The goal of these cooperatives is to
expedite the sales of their surplus and supplementary agricultural products,
and, at the same time, buy necessities at a comparatively low price by avoid-
ing the middleman's profit.
This kind of cooperative is currently the most urgently needed type for
economic development and to prevent stagnation in the rural economy. In terms
of the individual members, this type of cooperative organization is equal'y
urgent, especially in rural villages following land reform where the techniques
of production have been improved, and where the peasant's production of agri-
cultural products have been increased. Local products-need to be sold or ex-
changed for needed items, but it we,;.'.d be very inconvenient for the peasants
to buy and sell on the market on an individual basis because of time, distance,
and price.
At present, there are ten times as many supply and marketing cooperatives
as there are consumers cooperatives in the urban areas. In the basically
better localities, such as Heilungkiang Province, the number of people who
have participated in supply and marketing cooperatives range from 80 percent
to over 90 percent. From this it may be seen clearly that this type of co-
operative is beneficial to the peasant, and should be organized by the peasants.
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