Publisher's Synopsis
This study is a detailed analysis of the process of rural industrialization in Jiangsu - one of China's most productive provinces. In the 1980s, non-agricultural rural enterprise became the most dynamic sector of the Chinese economy - the result of government policies designed to shift large parts of the rural population out of farming, but not into cities.;This comprehensive study of the growth of rural industry in Jiangsu is based on detailed original data, and set within a national context, illustrating some of the dramatic changes taking place in the Chinese economy.
