100 Quick Reviews
Edited by Cai Xiaopeng.
In July 1978, the Chinese Agricultural Society was held in Taiyuan, and Yang Xiandong organized more than 700 representatives to visit and study in Dazhai. However, there is a major deviation between what is seen and heard and the propaganda report. As the first vice minister of agriculture and an agricultural expert in the People's Republic of China, Yang Xiandong felt a great responsibility, and he held a symposium in the name of the Agricultural Economics Society to discuss the problems existing in Dazhai. At the meeting, he insisted on lifting the lid on Dazhai, which was supported by many agricultural economists attending the meeting.
In the spring of 1979, Yang Xiandong spoke at the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and publicly criticized Yang Xiandong and pointed out that the Dazhai model led agriculture in the wrong direction. More seriously, it exacerbates the poverty of the peasants. ** has also received many reports from Shanxi cadres and masses involving Dazhai and ***.
In September 1980, the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress adopted the report on the resignation of Vice Premier; In 1983, he was transferred to Beijing Dongjiao Farm Consultant.
In the early 80s, after the implementation of the land and household production contract system, Dazhai gradually transformed into a new Dazhai with eco-tourism and agricultural product processing as the pillar industries, and the balanced development of collective economy and family economy.