Exploring the Path of Agricultural Development in the Process of Socialist Economic Revolution and Construction:A Perspective from Mao Ze-dong’s Comments and Talks on Reading Socialist Political Economics
(Yang Si-min)
Mao Ze-dong’s Comments and Talks on Reading Socialist Political Economics plays an important in comprehensively understanding Mao’s ideas of agricultural governance.His theoretical exploration of the path of agricultural development reflected on the Soviet experience and emphasized the need to start from China’s national situation.The main elements include:strengthening grass-roots organizations and mobilization capacity and gradually promoting the reform of the land-ownership system;improving the efficiency of agricultural production by promoting“scientific farming”and emphasizing“the integration of native and foreign methods”; increasing farmers’enthusiasm for production through political,ideological and cultural education; and meeting the growing needs of society by developing socialist agricultural commodity production.At the same time,under the strategic objectives of national development,Mao Ze-dong stressed that industrial and agricultural development should“walk on both legs”,and that China should follow the road of local industrialization and local urbanization.Today,Mao Ze-dong’s agricultural management thought still has fresh practical significance for implementing the strategy of rural revitalization .