A Study Of Land Reform Of Huguan County(1945-1949)

During the time before and after the Liberation War in China ,Communist Party party led the majority of farmers in rural China to conduct a vigorous land reform movement to abolish the feudal land ownership, which had not only liberated the productive forces in rural areas, but also shattered the crude rule of Kuomintang and the political status of the peasants had been greatly improved. In this paper, Huguan County's reform of land in the Liberation War is taken as a case study discussing the impact of rural land reform movement.In those days ,people in Huguan county suffered deep oppression from imperialism, feudalism and bureaucracy and lived a poverty-stricken life so that they aspired to land.The founding of communist party threw a light of hope to Huguan people.The reform of land led by the communist party was not only simple a form of economy but also was associated with both achieving a victory of revolutionary war and founding a new politic power In a way , the reform of land was the inevitable process for communist party to achieve the victory of revolutionary war.In 1946,The communist party initiated the slogan"the peasants owning the land"based on the reality of the increasingly miserable situation, which began the epoch-making reform of land in the huge rural areas. The defining measure taken by the communist party not only defeated the power by GuoMingdang but promoted the progress of the society of China.After the liberation war, the county government began with the policy of the reduction of land rent and interests and then finished the land reform roughly in the February of 1947 and completely concluded in March of 1949 with a period of four years or so. During the course of the land reform , four stages were involved including the reduction of land rent and interests ,intensive land reform, investigation of land reform and its completion .The party took different ways of movement in different stages of land reform according to the requirements of times and improved the development of all kinds of work. Especially, the local party organization of HuGuan county was set up in the war and purified the carder organization after change and rectifying the system of election of lower level of party. Consequently, to some extent,"the thought of democracy"began to spread in the rural areas.In land reform, the party organizations of Huguan County organized activists and cadres at all levels to win recognition and support of farmers, in-depth rural areas to schools, winter school, the public literature and art as the main form of activity, conducting cultural and ideological propaganda and education campaign . It was to overthrow the feudal rule and an important guarantee for the establishment of the People's Republic. Through land reform , the campaign to make of traditional network of power, interests and tenderness of the farmers were broken, and it raised the political consciousness of farmers with unprecedented political passion and sense of participation to give the war of liberation to human material resources as well as the financial support.