The following diary entry was written by Deng Fuxue, an agrarian worker. Through his writings the reader experiences his respect and love for Mao and Mao's latest reform, the agrarian workers reform.
During the initial period of reconstruction and consolidation from 1949-1952, the communist party, led by Mao, made great strides toward bringing the country through three critical transitions: from economic prostration to economic growth, from political disintegration to political strength, and from military rule to civilian rule. The determination and capabilities demonstrated during these first years and the respectable showing (after a century of military humiliations) that Chinese troops made against UN forces on the Korean peninsula in 1950–53 provided the Chinese Communist Party with a reservoir of popular support that would be a major political resource for years.
The greatest step in this procedure, to me, was the Agrarian Reform Law. In 1950, Mao passed the Agrarian Reform Law. Party officials went around China to help with land reforms. Animals, machinery and land were given to us hard-working peasants and it was finally that landlords feared for their safety. I believe this was a very respectable and well-deserved reform made and executed by the Peoples Republic of China. Throughout this movement Mao gained much support that, like the law itself, was well deserved.
Immediately after the Communist Party came to power, landlords were rounded up to account for what they had done. The Communist Party encouraged the peasants to take over the land and to try "evil landowners." Many former landlords were guilty of many crimes against peasants on their former land and it is thought that as many as 1 million ex-landlords were executed between 1949 and 1953. Those not executed were sent to special camps to be re-educated. By 1951, the land revolution had ended. The largest section of society - peasants - had been rewarded for their support of the Communists while a potentially large threat – the landlords – had been eradicated.
As an agrarian member of China, I am ecstatic that the dear leader Mao Zedong has implemented the Agrarian reform law. What a great ruler Mao is, how selfless and aware he is to realize and take us Agrarians under his care. How great of him to not only recognize the struggle among the agrarian population of China, but also to react to such struggle and implement a reform to reduce the struggle.
Immediately after the Communist Party came to power, landlords were rounded up to account for what they had done. The Communist Party encouraged the peasants to take over the land and to try "evil landowners." Many former landlords were guilty of many crimes against peasants on their former land and it is thought that as many as 1 million ex-landlords were executed between 1949 and 1953. Those not executed were sent to special camps to be re-educated. By 1951, the land revolution had ended. The largest section of society - peasants - had been rewarded for their support of the Communists while a potentially large threat – the landlords – had been eradicated.
As an agrarian member of China, I am ecstatic that the dear leader Mao Zedong has implemented the Agrarian reform law. What a great ruler Mao is, how selfless and aware he is to realize and take us Agrarians under his care. How great of him to not only recognize the struggle among the agrarian population of China, but also to react to such struggle and implement a reform to reduce the struggle.
In the People's Republic of China, the agrarian reform law was enacted in 1950. The primary objective of the law in China was seemingly to distribute the landed properties of rural landlords to the landless rural peasants. Under the Agrarian Reform Law of 1950, the commercial property of rural landlords and traitors, "bureaucrat capitalists" were confiscated and redistributed to the agrarian workers. The main sources of land were from the big families of the Nationalist Party such as the K’ungs, Soongs and the Chiangs. I firmly believe that Mao executed such a law in the best interests of the society as a whole. It is true that the landlords are much too powerful and are in possession of too much land and wealth than is beneficial to society as whole. In the beginning, large landlords owned the major portions of agrarian areas in China and they used to manipulate most of the agrarian activities. In 1950, Mao Zedong laid down the Agrarian Reform law in China. The party officials of China's communist government apportioned land into the hands of peasants. Their prime target was to abolish the feudal agrarian system. The government of China seized the landed properties of rural landlords and ultimately did achieve their goal to demolish the overly powerful feudal class. They also fulfilled a promise to the peasants by smashing an evil, powerful feudal class.
Agrarian reform law is a set of rules that ensures the well-deserved social justice to the rural agricultural workers of a country, like myself. Agrarian reform law controls the agrarian reform activities like redistribution of land to us workers. It secures the rural peasants by helping them access land, irrigation facilities, credit facilities and more. The law makes all of us peasants stronger in acknowledging our right to land. The agrarian reform law helps us agrarian farmers and agricultural workers achieve a better standard of living.
It was after 1949, when the Communist revolution in China enabled the small cultivators to access their land. This resulted in the merging of peasant cooperatives into larger organizations and eventually the socialistic agriculture came into existence. The socialistic agriculture restricted the agricultural productivity of the country and ultimately in 1980, China returned back to market-oriented agriculture. For a long period of time, China was combating with various land-related problems. One of the major problems was inequitable apportionment of land. The Chinese Communist Party thought of a solution of redistributing land into the hands of peasants. As a consequence, the peasants acquired agricultural land.
Deng Fuxue, an Agrarian Worker
鄧府學 農業工作者
It was after 1949, when the Communist revolution in China enabled the small cultivators to access their land. This resulted in the merging of peasant cooperatives into larger organizations and eventually the socialistic agriculture came into existence. The socialistic agriculture restricted the agricultural productivity of the country and ultimately in 1980, China returned back to market-oriented agriculture. For a long period of time, China was combating with various land-related problems. One of the major problems was inequitable apportionment of land. The Chinese Communist Party thought of a solution of redistributing land into the hands of peasants. As a consequence, the peasants acquired agricultural land.
Deng Fuxue, an Agrarian Worker
鄧府學 農業工作者
