The People's Commune originated in China and was founded on July 1, 1958 and ended on October 12, 1983.
The People's Commune stayed on China's historical stage for 25 whole years. The people's commune is not only a grassroots unit or an economic organization, but also a government agency, which is not only responsible for the production of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, but also manages the work of industry, agriculture, commerce, academia and the military.
People's commune, is our socialist social structure, industry, agriculture, commerce, academia and the military combined grass-roots units. It manages production and construction, food, trade, culture, education and health, public security, militia and mediation of civil disputes, and is the grass-roots unit of China's socialist economy in the countryside, as well as the grass-roots unit of political power in the countryside.
The People's Commune has also made great adjustments to the management of production, exchange of products, distribution of proceeds, the side business of members' families, and the organization and arrangement of members' lives. It has played a role in mobilizing members' enthusiasm for production. It has promoted the development of various forms and levels of joint economy in rural China.
The significance of the people's commune:
The implementation of the people's commune system in China is a historical process that the Chinese ****-producers determined must be gone through in order to establish a socialist country and take the road of socialism after the proletariat seized power, and the significance of the people's commune lies in the fact that it is one of the bases on which the new China is moving towards wealth and strength.
In the early days of its establishment, a single communal system of ownership of the means of production was practiced, a combination of the wage system and the supply system was applied to distribution, and self-reserved land was abolished, compressing members' family sideline businesses, frustrating the peasants' motivation for production and affecting the development of the rural productive forces.
It is a time in China after the founding of the country in the socialist construction of lessons learned. There were shortcomings such as overly centralized management, overly homogeneous business practices and egalitarianism in distribution.