ORGANIZATION, MEMBERSHIP, AND OBJECTIVES OF CHINESE COMMUNIST FARMERS' ASSOCIATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A'ENCY REPORII
104FORMATMN REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Organization, Membership, and Objectives
of Chinese Communist Parmerst Associations
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1. Chinese Communist farmers' associations, with an estimated member-
ship of 87,000,000, have been organized on the hsiang (village)., the eh'u
(county), and the hsien (district) levels. City governments may establish
-=*an farmers' associations to direct these chtu and hsiang associations which
may be within the city's administrative area. Associations within several pro-
vinces may be combined to fit conditions peculiar to a givezarea,
2. Association membership for poor or middle-class farmers and for the civilian
and educated elements of a village follows approval by the hsiang association.
Wealthy farmers, following completion of the land reforms, may join an associ-
ation on the approval of a ggneral meeting of hsiang farmers or of their repre-
sentatives.
3. Objectives of the associations are the gradual achievement of social reforms
and the protection of the livelihood of the farmers through uniting the hired,
poor, middle-class, and feudalistic persons in farm villages; the organization
of production and the development of activities which are related to agriculture
for the improvement of the farmer's economic position; and the protection of the
farmer's political privileges through the function of the associations as vil-
lage judicial proseduting bodies within the land reform program.
East China Associations
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4. In the East China area approximately 32,000,000 persons belong to the associ-
ation In the South Kian su area the associations were developed
Within four months 24 hsien and a prczimately two-third
the sang in the area had established associations.
the first meeting of f ,armern' representatives was held at Hanchou 120-10,
30-17). T'AN Lung (qq. .~~ ), the Chinese Communist Party deputy secretary in
Chekiang, was named cfi i iI"an of a preparatory committee for organizing the associe
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end of the year Fukien associations claimed a membership of approximately
740,000.
Central and South China Associations
5, Approximately 11,000,000 farmers from Hunan, Hupei, a'ad Kiangsi provinces be-
longed to association Farmerst asooiation activity} in? Han 50X1-HUM
began with a convention under KWANG Kuo-hua ( t )t x ); it
was attended by 617 representatives. '77,137 006 rsorts in-
cluding 2,450,000 women, belonged to a onan associations. 62
hsien, 288 chtu, and 587 hsiang in Kwangtung had been organized into associations,
totaling 316,000 persons.
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6. In the southwest area, the first meeting of urban farmers' delegates was called
Southwest China Associations
at Wanhsien (108-24, 3049). Estimated membershib of
Kweichow associations, established in 68 hsien, was 8.000,000
Sikan2 representatives met
and sixty
Chinese, Tibetans, and representatives from the local I and Id tribes electdd
fifty-five to the Sikang association committee. Among the fifty-five were one
Tibetan and one representative of the I tribe.
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