Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-m8qmq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T03:56:34.376Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

State Sector Reform and Agriculture in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2006

Scott Waldron ,
Colin Brown  and
John Longworth
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

China's state sector reform process is examined through the key sector of agriculture. A preview of aggregate statistics and broader reform measures indicate the declining role of the state. However, a systematic analysis of administrative, service and enterprise structures reveal the nuances of how the state has retained strong capacity to guide development of the agricultural sector. State and Party policy makers aim not only to support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of farmers, but also to pursue agricultural modernization in the context of rapid industrialization. These goals are unlikely to be achieved through a wholesale transfer of functions to the private sector, so the state has maintained or developed new mechanisms of influence, particularly in the areas of service provision and enterprise development.

Type
Articles
Information
The China Quarterly , Volume 186 , June 2006 , pp. 277 - 294
Copyright
© The China Quarterly, 2006

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

This article draws upon research for a series of projects for which the authors would like to thank the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and Meat and Livestock Australia for funding and the Research Centre for the Rural Economy, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture for collaboration. Special thanks are due to Lu Xiaoping and Zhao Yutian for comments and clarifications and to Stephanie Cash for research support.