Fundamental aspects analysis of the People’s Republic of China agricultural policy

Pavlо Nesenenko
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, General Economic Theory and Economic Policy Department, Odessa National Economic University, Ukraine, e-mail: nppod@ukr.net, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6399-3511

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Nesenenko, P. (2021). Fundamental aspects analysis of the People’s Republic of China agricultural policy [Analiz fundamentalnykh aspektiv ahrarnoi polityky Kytaiskoi Narodnoi Respubliky], Socio-economic research bulletin, Vìsnik socìal’no-ekonomìčnih doslìdžen’ (ISSN 2313-4569), Odessa National Economic University, Odessa, No. 2 (77), pp. 9–23.

Abstract

The article considers the problems of Chinese agrarian policy development as a form of economic policy, as well as the peculiarities of rural areas reforms in time space through the prism of the emergence and deployment of the theory of Western modernization theory and then socialist modernization as a purely Chinese national phenomenon, which covered all aspects of Chinese society, including the economy and agriculture sphere. The mechanism of increasing the productive forces of labor in the countryside, its transformation, the current state and the problems are shown. It is demonstrated that the expansion of the national internal and external market occurs through the expansion of socialization processes in a form of a regulated market. Particular attention is paid to issues of both already resolved problems in the countryside, and new ones, as well as ways of their implementation. It is noted that the dynamic motion of China’s economy since 1978 preserves the best developments from the ideas of Sun Yatsen, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping before Xi Jinping. It is clearly demonstrated that a dynamic growth in agricultural production, followed by industrial production in the country over the past two decades, has transformed China into the world’s leading country. It is emphasized that China, occupying a leading position in the world in the production of many types of agricultural products, is currently focused on the need to increase domestic consumption to make the economy less dependent on exports in the future. The idea is substantiated that the modern development of the productive forces in the countryside increasingly requires the search for new ways to raise the social sphere, which should be incorporated into the new urbanization processes and the country’s development strategy.

Keywords

economic policy; agrarian policy; modernization; socialist modernization; stages of modernization; policy of four modernizations; urbanization; public administration; rural areas; socio-economic development.

JEL classification: Q180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33987/vsed.2(77).2021.9-23

UD classification: 338.43.02(510)

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