Exploring the Grassroots Practice of Rural Revitalization

This book shows six cases of rural grassroots cadres and masses exploring the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. These cases show the problems encountered in the work of rural leaders and the ideas to solve contradictions (policy and reality, individual and collective), reveal the importance of organization, governance, and talent building in rural development, and emphasize that promoting rural revitalization must empower the village collective and require the active participation of all sectors of society. This work can be used as a reference book for grassroots cadres, rural revitalization workers, the public, professional researchers, and teachers and students of colleges and universities to deeply understand the grassroots practical exploration and theoretical thinking and research of rural revitalization.

Chapter 1 Foreword: Basic Practice of Promoting Rural Revitalization.- Chapter 2 Yantai Experience.- Chapter 3 The Road to Poverty Alleviation: Cooperation and Symbiosis to Revitalize Industry.- Chapter 4 Practice of Integration of lands and management of villages.- Chapter 5 Organization and service of township federation.- Chapter 6 Yilong Experience: Empower farmers' organizations.- Chapter 7  Wangjia Experience: New attempt at enterprise village cooperation.- Chapter 8 Postscript: Confessions of a Rural Romantic.

Yang Tuan is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, professor at the Graduate School, and consultant at the Center for Social Policy Research, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Founder of Beijing Consultation Center of Farmers’Association (CCFA) , leader of the research group leading group of the center. She has long been committed to the research of social policy, social security, rural collective economy, farmers' comprehensive cooperative organizations, charity and non-profit organizations,community public services and other fields, and has published more than 10 books. She is the chief editor of a series of books such as "Comprehensive Agricultural Association: A Breakthrough in China's Three rural Reform" and "China's Charity Development Report (Charity Blue Book)".

Jianjin Liu is one of the coordination chiefs of the research team in CCFA(Beijing Consulting Center of Farmers’ Association), a retired senior research fellow of the Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research fields include rural collective economic organizations developmet,rural poverty problem, rural labor mobility, rural micro-credit and community development fund, etc. He has written and compiled several Economic Green Paper—Annual Report on Rural Development in China, co-authored Reform and Development of Rural Finance in China, etc.

Zhihui Tong is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of Renmin University of China, director of the Rural Governance Research Center of Renmin University of China, and researcher of the National Development and Strategy Research Institute of Renmin University of China. His research fields include rural governance, collective economic organizations , farmer cooperation, and  China in 1950s. He is one of the coordination chiefs of the research group in CCFA(Beijing Consulting Center of Farmers’ Association). His representative work includes New Road to Farmers’ Cooperation: Constructing an Integrated System.