Around the Revolution of 1911 (19 1 1), the idea of cooperative economy began to be introduced into China, and cooperative practice began to appear.

19 18 In July, Peking University established the "Peking University Consumer Commune" with a capital of 10000 yuan, mainly engaged in books, stationery and daily necessities. It is a consumer cooperative and the first cooperative organization in China.

19 19, Shanghai Fudan university founded the "Shanghai National Cooperative Savings Bank", which is the earliest credit cooperative in China.

1920, Changsha established "Hunan Datong Cooperative", which was the earliest production cooperative in China. Mainly produces towels, socks, clothes and so on. Also grow vegetables and feed poultry.

1922, Anyuan Road Mine Workers' Consumer Cooperative was established under the leadership of * * * *, which was the earliest cooperative led by * * *.

1923 rural credit cooperatives were established in Hebei. From 1923 to 1927, the number of cooperatives increased from 8 to 56 1, the number of members increased from 256 to 13 190, and the share capital increased from 286 yuan to 20698 yuan.

Sun Yat-sen advocated the development of "agricultural cooperation" and "industrial cooperation" in 19 19.

Mao Zedong regarded the cooperative movement as one of the 14 major events in the peasant movement during the first revolutionary civil war in his Investigation Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan.

From 65438 to 0932, the Provisional Central Government of chinese soviet republic promulgated the Regulations on the Temporary Organization of Cooperatives.

1933, the Soviet National Economic People's Committee promulgated the Outline for the Development of Cooperatives.

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, anti-Japanese bases such as the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region mobilized farmers to set up cooperatives. Chairman Mao specially published articles and speeches, and 1943 "Organize" speech focused on cooperatives.

During the war of liberation, the cooperatives in the liberated areas developed rapidly.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao and the CPC Central Committee attached great importance to rural cooperatives as an effective organizational form for farmers to move towards socialism. Mutual aid groups, primary cooperatives and senior cooperatives soon entered the people's commune. The people's commune is characterized by one university and two universities, integrating industry, agriculture, military, learning and business. People's communes are both economic organizations and social organizations. It is both a production organization and a consumption organization. People's communes serve the planned economic system and cooperatives serve the market economic system. After the reform and opening up, China engaged in a socialist market economy and people's communes disintegrated.