Commune

Commune A) Describe a typical commune of the 1960s. In the 1950s the Communist government organized 800 million rural people into about 52,000 people's communes. The communes received production targets from the state and ensured that these targets were met. Each commune was divided into about 16 production brigades, which were further divided into about 7 production teams usually consisting of 100 to 250 people. Each level above the individual could hold land, tools, and other production materials under communal ownership, and each carried out a range of production activities. Under the commune system, it was possible to conduct large-scale experimentation with scientific farming, to plant crops in areas with the most favorable soil and other natural conditions, and to develop irrigation and drainage on an efficient scale. Although land was collectively owned, each rural household usually had access to a small private plot, which it was free to use as it pleased. Both production teams and production, household, each, system, targets, individual, free, communes, commune, agricultural, about, under, teams, scale, rural, people, organized, market, land, households, government, divided, crops, contracting, brigades, after, voluntary, unit, typical, tools, therefore, themselves, state, specified, soil, so-called, smaller, small, sell, sector, scientific, same, restructured, responsibility, relative, regional, refers, received, range, quota, products