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Article: State Farms Fare Better on Household-Run Basis In Heilongjiang
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 17, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Wang Jin used to work at a State-owned farm, eating from the same
"iron rice bowl" and never dreaming of earning more money than his
colleagues, but things began to take a turn for the better in 1985.
In that year, Wang contracted to farm 2,000 mu of land, and he
went from making 1,000 yuan a year to today's 20,000 yuan.
Wang is one of 200,000 farm workers who have built their own farms
with land rented from state-owned farms of the state Farm
Administration of Heilongjiang province in Northeast China.
Most of the 104 state farms under the administration have adopted
the family-farm system of management.
The reform is meant to separate land-ownership from management,
and to help sluggish ...