Deng Xiaoping was very familiar with China's rural areas, and reform and opening up also began in the countryside, in 1978, he said, "In some places, raising three ducks is socialism, and raising five ducks is capitalism. Farmers don't have any room for manoeuvre, so how can they do it? “。 At this moment, the rural areas of the whole country continue to learn Dazhai. To tell the truth, the banner of "Dazhai" was very tall in the hearts of the people at that time, equivalent to the "holy land" in the hearts of the peasants. From the end of the 50s to the beginning of the 1960s, in order to cope with the extremely difficult national economy at that time, the Dazhai people carried out the struggle of fighting against the world, governing the mountains and waters, and seizing a bumper grain harvest, and since then a banner has been flying high on the land of China - the spirit of Dazhai. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the walls of the countryside were still full of slogans and propaganda posters of "Dazhai of Agriculture", and the "Spirit of Dazhai" seemed to be an unshakable spiritual pillar. But Deng Xiaoping expressed a different view, saying, "To learn from Dazhai, we must seek truth from facts, and there are some things in Dazhai that cannot be learned and cannot be learned." The abolition of the bazaar cannot be learned, and the complete cancellation of the self-reserved land cannot be learned. Little freedom is completely gone, and it cannot be learned. A word stirred up thousands of waves, imprisoned thoughts, liberated by years of bondage.
So, who should farmers learn? In the winter of 1978, eighteen peasants in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, took great "political risks" to independently sign a life-and-death contract to contract production to households. "Contracting production to households" is not "dividing the fields and dividing the land", what should the people's communes do? The practice of the peasants in Xiaogang Village has caused a fierce ideological struggle between the provincial party committee, the county party committee, and the secretary of the commune party committee, and in the face of this new practice, everyone is arguing endlessly, and there is no consensus, for details, you can see the movie "Eighteen Handprints". On May 31, 1980, Deng Xiaoping stood up in a timely manner and affirmed the rural reform of Anhui in a conversation with the responsible staff of the Central Committee. He said: After the relaxation of the rural policy, some localities that are suitable for contracting production to households have been carried out, and the results have been very good and the changes have been great. Deng Xiaoping's pragmatic statement greatly promoted the historical process of rural reform and pointed out the correct development direction for the rural contract responsibility system. Since then, the number of professional households in rural areas has been increasing day by day, agricultural and sideline products have become increasingly abundant, and township and town enterprises have also sprung up and sprouted, and China's rural land is a thriving scene.
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