The Slack And End: Research On The System Of State Monopoly For The Purchase And Marketing Of Grain (1978-1985)

Scholars have pay lot of attention to research the System of State Monopoly for the Purchase and Marketing of Grain which before 1978. Some of them start their research from the county. But the specially research of it that after the reform and opening are very rare. There is no case study on county. Therefore, this paper will use the county archives, historical materials of grain work, statistical yearbooks and People's Daily to research it from 1978 to 1985.It also contains 1950s and 1990s.I mainly discuss the plight of the System of State Monopoly for the Purchase and Marketing of Grain in county and its adjustment to the end. The state monopoly purchase of grain, the purchase and marketing on negotiation, the grain production and the grain financial subsidies are very important. In fact, the end of the system is the inevitable result of grain policy regulation after 1978. The plight of the system exists during all the adjustment process.The main part of the article is system of Liyang County in Jiangsu province from 1978 to 1985.I will emphatically analyze the adjustment and the end of the policy and its plight. The article has four main sections. The first part is the intuitive simple profile of the system between 1953 and 1978.The second:the background of the system adjustment (1978-1985). It mainly caused by the household contract responsibility system which emerge from the economic system restructuring and the development of the rural bazaar, the overview of the system adjustment at the national level. The third:the plight, adjustment and the end of the system operation in Liyang County. I will analyze these from the aspects such as the state monopoly purchase of grain, the purchase and marketing on negotiation, the circulation of grain, the grain financial subsidies, the grain sell difficulty, the award sale system and so on. Thus we can see the course of the adjustment and the end of the system. The fourth:a brief analysis of the benefit that farmers can obtain, the adjustment of rural industrial structure and the impact of food distribution.