ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE, COOPERATIVE VILLAGE ECONOMY
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140325-4
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
R
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date:
August 9, 2011
Sequence Number:
325
Case Number:
Publication Date:
November 4, 1953
Content Type:
REPORT
File:
Attachment | Size |
---|---|
![]() | 108.33 KB |
Body:
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/13: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140325-4
CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTID
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR'
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD N0.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic -Agriculture,
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Peiping
DATE
PUBLISHED 11 dun 1953
LANGUAGE Chinese
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952 - 1953
cooperative village economy
0I i?[ Y+IT[D [ .l[., ? xl? lx[ ?[.?I+D 01 T I.[ I D1t 110?[ 1
?D 1+.. D x Y.t~ [DD[. .! .w [xD[D. .11 f..? .I I w ? +[vI'
u no. or m co?n?n to o..aurr .1 . . lxon uo ru+o? n
I+oxlune +. u.. rxuv.eeuen or DI n~T?.o. u!ta+~_o ~cn~
DATE DIST. !/A/O / 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0. ..
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SNANSI FARMER COMPLAINS
ABOUT FINANCIAL BURDEN IN COOPERATIVE VILLAGE
~omment: This report appeared as a "Letter to the Editor" in
the Peiping Jen-min Jih-pao of 11 .June 1953? It discusses excess
financial burden of peasants in a village of Shansi Province. The
letter gives examples of ill-planned efforts to mechanize at all
cost, including the drive to dig wells and buy water pumps, although
sometimes no use is found for the wells after they are dug. The
financial obligations of a model worker family leaves one third of
the annual income with the individual household, while the rest of
the money is spent on cooperative ventures and taxes.
Kao-Chia-Chuang Ts'un of the Fifth Ch'u, 1Gu-ch'eng Rsien, Shansi Province,
has 194 households. The total 1952 farm income amounted to 370,580,000 yuan.
Of this amount, 39,200,000 yuan went into taxes, while the annual expenditure
for well digging and the purchase of water pumps reached n high of 157,9E0,OO0
yuan, thus absorbing 41.8 percent of the farmers' income. This cunount is
equivalent to the sum needed to pay the grain tax for 4 years.
Investigation shows that the village funds for 1952 included 14 million
yuans' worth of fertilizer, 8 million yuans' worth of wells, 1; million yuans'
worth of grain seeds, 5 million yuans' worth of consLm~er cooperative shares,
1,100,000 yuans' worth of new model plows. 700,000 yuans' worth of books and
newspapers, and 5,970,000 yunn for entertainment. These funds were all raised
by the compulsory assessment of teams and households, and by acreage.
The income of a village water conservation model worker and his family of
seven amounted tc 5.2 million yuan for 152? Of this amount, 500,000 yuan went
for payment of the public grain tax, and 3,233,000 yuan went for assessments as
classified above, so that only 1,407,000 yusn were left from the total income.
The same kind of financial burden is carried by over 100 cf the 195 households
in the village.
STAT
STAT
CLASSIFICATION
NSRB ~~
- 1 -
RESTRICTED
DISTRIBUTION
?
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/13: CIA-RDP80-00809A00070014
25-4 i
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/13: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140325-4
A heavy burden was imposed on the farmers of Kao-Chia-Chuang Ta'un when the
hsien people's government aimlessly decided to select this village as the "key
village for the installation of water pumps, compelling the farmer to dig; a large
number of wells and to buy water pumps. Ho benefit whatever was derived by
the installation of water pampa. During June and July of 195?,
water pumps were purchased une ai'ter another at the cost of 2,300,000 yuan each,
despite the unwillingness of the people to buy them. Ma Lai-ch'eng, an official
of the Hsien Agriculture and Forestry Department, told the people: "One water
pump coats 2,300,000 yuan and is capable of watering 20 mou of land. Without
the water pump you can't do the fob." The people were still unwilling; they held
progressive mace meetings for 3 days and 9 evenings. As a result, those who were
comparatively well off were apportioned to buy one water pump each. Farmer Wu
San-ma only owned 5 mou of cultivated land, but was still assigned one water pump.
Under the point method of purchasing, four of the poorer households were assigned
the purchase of one water pump. Farmer Lul~pn-cheRO had to sell 9 mou of land to
meet his assessment. Investigation shows that the ~rster pumps were not used
extensively, that three water pumps were not used at all, and 57 water pumps used
only once. The people got to dislike the pumps so much that they called them
"black spiders" and "money grabbers."
The well digging conditions were also burdensome. Hsien and ch'u cadres
surveyed the people's land, a total of 4,390 mou of sandy land, and decreed that
for every area of 40 x 40 pu, ~iie pu equals 5 feet] one well hole had to be dug.
In same instances as many as ten wells were dug on 15 mou. The allocation for
well digging was set at 20,000 yuan for each of the 114 male members of the labor
force, and 10,000 yuan each for the 47 female members of the labor force. While
those who dug got paid for their work, others who did not want to do the digging
themselves had to pny to get it done.
STAT
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/13: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140325-4