1, Agrarian Revolution (during the ten-year confrontation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party)

Policy: fight local tyrants, divide land, and abolish feudal exploitation and debt.

Route: Rely on poor farm labourers, unite with middle peasants, restrict rich peasants, protect small and medium-sized businesses and eliminate the landlord class (193 1).

Function: Farmers turn over economically and politically; Farmers actively joined the army to develop production.

2. Double reduction policy (War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period)

Policy: landlords reduce rents and interest rates, and farmers pay rents and interest rates.

Function: It is conducive to uniting farmers and landlords to resist Japan.

3. Land reform (the actual time of the war of liberation was1947-1948).

Policy: confiscate the land of landlords, abolish the land system of feudal exploitation, implement the land system of land to the tiller, and distribute land equally according to the rural population.

Route: Rely on the poor peasants and farm labourers, unite with the middle peasants, and gradually and separately eliminate the feudal land exploitation system.

Function: Farmers share land, actively join the army and support the front line, which is a reliable guarantee for the victory of the liberation war.

4. Land reform (in the transitional period, the actual time is1950-1952).

Policy: Abolish the land ownership system of feudal exploitation and implement the land ownership system of farmers. Different from the past: protect the rich peasant economy.

Function: completely abolished the feudal land exploitation system for thousands of years; Liberated rural productive forces and opened the way for agricultural development and national industrialization.

5. Agricultural cooperation (three transition periods,1953-1956)

Policy: the principle of active and steady development, the principle of voluntariness and mutual benefit, by mutual aid groups-primary cooperatives-senior cooperatives.

Function: Farmers' private ownership of land is transformed into public ownership of land.

6. People's socialization (ten-year construction period, the actual time is1958-1978).

Policy: small cooperatives merge with large cooperatives (one-sided pursuit of one or two big ones).

Impact: It has seriously damaged the interests of farmers.

7, household contract responsibility system (since the reform and opening up, 1978)

Policy: On the basis of public ownership of land, land is contracted to all families for use, and farmers only have the right to use land, but have no ownership. What farmers produce, "guarantee the country, leave enough for the collective, and the rest is their own."

Function: It mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production, liberated rural productive forces and promoted the development of agriculture.