Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Vogel Ezra F

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Vogel Ezra F

Author:Vogel, Ezra F. [Vogel, Ezra F.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-09-25T16:00:00+00:00


In early 1980, Wan Li, seeking Hu Yaobang's support, told Hu that it wouldn't work to have people at lower levels surreptitiously practicing contracting down to the household: instead they needed the full support of the top party leaders. Wan Li thus suggested to Hu Yaobang that they convene a meeting of provincial party secretaries to give clear public support for the policy.63

It was only at this time, before the meeting of provincial secretaries, that Deng gave permission to allow the decentralization of rural production down to the household. On May 31, 1980, Deng called in Hu Qiaomu and Deng Liqun to express his support for contracting down to the household and to tell them to publicize his views. Many local areas moved quickly to allow household production, but even then some local officials remained unaware of Deng's position. Deng's request to his two writers in effect marked the end of the collective agriculture that had been launched with Mao's famous speech of July 31, 1955. At that time, Mao had proclaimed: “Throughout the Chinese countryside a new upsurge in the socialist mass movement is in sight. But some of our comrades are tottering along like a woman with bound feet. . . . The tide of social reform in the countryside—in the shape of cooperation—has already been reached in some places. Soon it will sweep the whole country.”64



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