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RESOURCE FLOW BETWEEN AG AND INDUSTRY - The Chinese Experience*- SHIGERU ISHIKAWA The author has previously been engaged in a se studies on the role of the agricultural sector among t being in doubt about the validity of the generally r those countries much of the capital for industrializ from this sector. For the purpose of re-examining thi the author analyses the resource outflow-inflow posit sector in the Chinese economy and presents a grave q cultural sector provide sufiicient capital for indust veloping countri~s ? INTRODUCTION HE IDEA that in order that ' economic deve T countries should progress successfully it is nec sector should provide the funds for the non-agric for industrialization, would now appear to be ac matter of common-sense. In the background of lies the at first sight plausible reasoning that t tion for the emerging industrial sector can scarc agricultural sector, the sector which is of ov beginning of the develdpment period both in t of population. On the other hand, there is alsd ter, the belief that the arguments put forward b of Japan, which undertook a rapid industrializat of the Soviet Union, which trod a similar cours zation between 1920 , and 1930, have provided em of reasoning.l * I wish to exprese my appreciation to Profestor Si and criticisms on the original version of the estimates r ful to Mr. Yoshio Kawamurh of the Institute of Asian to use the revised edition of the book [28], which was the estimatcs of the net resource flow in this paper. I McEwan for the English translation of the manuscript. l For representativ~ views oi Japan's experience, see [ stated, for example, that in Japan during and since th the well-known reform of the Land Tax and the Japane

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RESOURCE FLOW BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY

- The Chinese Experience*-

SHIGERU ISHIKAWA

The author has previously been engaged in a series of comparative studies on the role of the agricultural sector among the developing countries,

being in doubt about the validity of the generally recognized vievy that in

those countries much of the capital for industrialization has been supplied

from this sector. For the purpose of re-examining this view, ip this article

the author analyses the resource outflow-inflow position of the agricultural

sector in the Chinese economy and presents a grave question : Can the agri-

cultural sector provide sufiicient capital for industrial development in de-

veloping countri~s ?

INTRODUCTION HE IDEA that in order that ' economic development in underdeveloped T countries should progress successfully it is necessary that the agricultural

sector should provide the funds for the non-agricultural sector, specifically,

for industrialization, would now appear to be accepted as being practically a

matter of common-sense. In the background of this way of thinking there lies the at first sight plausible reasoning that the primitive capital accumula-

tion for the emerging industrial sector can scarcely be looked for outside the

agricultural sector, the sector which is of overwhelming importance at the

beginning of the develdpment period both in terms of national income and of population. On the other hand, there is alsd ahother aspect to this mat-

ter, the belief that the arguments put forward by students of t~e experience

of Japan, which undertook a rapid industrialization in the 19th ce~~tury, and

of the Soviet Union, which trod a similar course of rapid heavy industriali-

zation between 1920 , and 1930, have provided empirical backing for this kind

of reasoning.l

* I wish to exprese my appreciation to Profestor Simon Kuznets for making comments and criticisms on the original version of the estimates regarding Table l. I am. also grate-

ful to Mr. Yoshio Kawamurh of the Institute of Asian Economic Affairs for allowing me

to use the revised edition of the book [28], which was most useful in making revisions of

the estimatcs of the net resource flow in this paper. I would like also to thank Dr. J. R.

McEwan for the English translation of the manuscript.

l For representativ~ views oi Japan's experience, see [4l] Part IV. In this. work it is

stated, for example, that in Japan during and since the Meiji period, with the help of

the well-known reform of the Land Tax and the Japanese landlord-tenant system " the

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For the purposes of elucidating the admissibility or otherwise of this way of thinking I have previously taken up material connected with a few Asian countries, including pre-war Japan, and carried out an elementary com-

parative study, and have further supplemented this with a theoretical study

based on a simple structural model.2 The conclusions of these studies are summarized as follows. ( l) With the statistics at present available we are not

yet in a position to make any definite judgement regarding the contention that accumulation in the farm sector, br a net outflow of resources from it, took place in Japan in the Meiji period. (2) W. e have reason to believe

that the prevailing situation in the developing countries of Asia at present is

characterized by an increasing net inflow of capital resources into the farm

sector or by a switch from a net outflow to a net iriflow, as an accompani-

ment to the advance of the development process. (3) The chief factors deter-

mining such outflow-inflow positions in the developing countries of Asia at

present are (a) a high rate of population growth an~ the precipitation of the

resulting surplus labour in the farm sector, (b) high incoine elasticities for

consumption ip the farm sector~ (c) a relatively high demand for producers'

goods from the non-agricultural sector considered necessary for raising per capita production in agriculture, speciflcally capital goods for basic investment

(flood-control, irrigation, etc.), and (d) a high rate of growth required in the

industrial sector, etc. The strength of these factors is rooted in the charac-

teristics of the initial conditions restricting the development of the backward

c6untries of Asia at pres6nt. (4) Consequently we would seem to be called

upon to be prepared to find that a net inflow of capital funds into the agricultural sector may be unavoidable if development is to be suctessful.

At the same time, however, we are called upon to recognize that there is a possibility to fepress the increase in net outflow of resources, dependirig on

choice of technology in basic investment prdjects and choice of organization

Government took away about one-third of the agricultural product on all land by ivay

of the land tax. On the tenant-cultivated land, which had expanded to almos~ half of

the total cultivated area, the landlords collected about half of the agricultural pro~u~t

by way of rent," and 'c the maJor part of the funds needed both for agncultural and

industfial development were suppli~d by agriculture." (p. 655)

As regards the Soviet experience, the controversies between the right and left factions

over Preobrazhenski's well-known thesis on 'tsocialist primitive apcumulation " Were in

fact coricerned with the direction to be taken by this switch in accumulatioh, bui pro-

fessor Erlich's view-that it wzis the theory set out in this work which w~s put into

effect through the Five-Year Plan by the main-stream faction actually in power=is fairly

widely accepted in the West at presen:t [14]. Arg'uments of the latter kind Were ex-

panded and applied in the forinula for iridustriali~ation adopted in China, a cotintfy

whose overtories are at once characterized a5 connotirig the socialist tystem held in conimon with the ~0viet IJnion, particularly as it exists in agriculture, zind thefe is a

very large number of writers who cbnsider, Iike Nove, that in Chiria, too, the cdllec-

tivization_of agriculture was the decisive instrument in 'c socialist aecumulatiori." ([40]

pp. 16*24.)

i2 This study is set ~ut in [25], ehaptet 4.

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in the farm sector.

Tbc 4bQve comparative stu~i~s incorporated part of t*he resul,ts of empir-

ical work which I had previously carried out on re~0u.rceS outflQw and inflow

in China between 1949 and 1959,8 but in the present article t.he subject is

narrowed dowl~ t.o China and 4n attelTrpt m,ade to improve arld exp.~nd tbc

work procedures employed. Thi.s will serve the aiim of deepe,nin~ Qur u~ider-

standing of points (2) and (3) in the conelusions Jisted abov.e. FQr these pur-

pQses, in the follpwing we Shall at first carry o ut (i) a stat.istica~ re-exaJ~l-

in~tipn of the resources out~ow and inflow between the' far~l and non-far'm sectors, using data which have newly become available, specifically statistical

data regarding the levying of agricultural taxes in kind, these taxes constitut-

ing an important part of the resources outflow from the farJTI sector (Sections

I and II) ; (ii) an empirical examination of behaviour patterns in food-con-

sumption in the farm household, which are understood as one of the principal

d~ter.mjnal~ts of outflow and inflpw of capital reS0urces, ~nd we shall see how

the results of this examinatiQn fit with the observation n~ade unde{ r (i) above.

(Section IJJ)

In the study which follows we have used the definitions Qf concepts and

tbc metbcdology for statistical estimation of resourc~s outflow and ipflow which we ~mp.10yed in the above-I~lent-iQl~ed colqcrp~rat.ive studies. ~art,ipuhr

attent.ipn T~mst bc draw:n to the fQllQwixlg four points. Tbc first is that " ag-

riculture " in the cQ~rte xt of " tbc transfer of capital fu;idS from agricult~lre "

ngust have the ~lean_i~lg of " tbc far~n sector " wheri used in the strict sense.

The baSic cQn~ stituent unit in this seQtQr is th: ~ farm h9usehold in which

produQtive activities-agriculture and sub~id.i~ry Qr p~rt-til~le. work, etc.-~re

brganica.1ly combirled with the cqnsw~ling activitie~ of the family unit and

we may say that even after tbcse units have been c0~ Ilectivized in the form

of Agricultural Produqers' QQ-Qperatives (APC) or Qf Pebple's CQmm.u~l~s nQ

co~lrplete sepa.r4tlpn of these activitieS has bcen ~een, apart fro~n shQrt,

exctptional periods. S~cQndly, we col~sider thd terJTI " capital funds " to refer

tp b.as.ic right.s o, f clajm tp cQ~nmpditi~S al~d servi~es, ~nd we den, ot~ them

by the ter~n " r~sQurces." Thirdly, the net sur~i of outflow is foun,d as the,

difference between real imports ~Lnd exports expressed i~l terms of certain base-year prices. Beside~ be, in~ subject to influence by tbc size of tbc di~fer-

ence between im~oirts apd ex~orts at the current priees (of the year in which these i~rport_s al;id expQrts take place), a differe~rce ne~cessit~ting fin;a,~ci~l

cleari~rg, th.e net sum of outgojngs is infiuel;rced by Qha.nges in thb terms of

trade. In the case of any import surplus in the current priceS thi,s reJat;io,1~:

is expre_ss~d ip tbc fol.lowing equ~tion.4

M E _ ~ + E /P. ~1) P~ P.~P~ P. ¥P_

8 This study was first published in Tables 6 and 7 in [23]. It was ne~ct published in

a revised version treating the partl;.cular items as given in [26].

4 This is transposed as follows for t*he case ~)f an export surplus in current price terms.

E .M _Mp E+ M P~_l . . P~ (P )

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The first item on the right of the equation is denoted " the sum of real financial resources inflow," and the second " the sum of resources inflow due

to the terms of trade effect." Fourthly, besides imports and exports in the

form of commercial transactions, we include in imports and exports govern-ment public investment in agriculture (regarded as a farm sector import) and payments of taxes in kind by the farm sector (regarded as a farm sector

export).

I. COMMODITY IMPORT-EXPORT ACCOUNT OF THE FARM SECTOR

According to our method, the first step in studying the flow of resources

in the farm sector consists in clarifying the sector's import-export accotint

for goods and services in relation to other sectors. In developing cotintries

where the greater part of the farm sector and the commodity transactions routes

appertaining thereto are in an as yet unorganized condition the performance of this task is wellnigh impossible unless we can carry out micrb-surv~ys of

peasant fainily budgets in such manner that they will subserve ouf aims. In

the case of China, however, statistics for pr~rchases of the products of agricul-

ture and subsidiaries and for rural retail corilmodities are compiled on the

basis of work reports by various organs in the commercial sector, which has

been widely socialized in advance of other sectors, albeit that sorFle questions

remain as regards the degree of accuracy of these statistics, and furthermore

these statistics ar~ published to a considerable degree. Along with these, statistical estimates for transactions on the non-organized market are Publish-

ed. Hence it is not impossible to estimate for the commodity import-export

account of the farm sector on a macro basis, provided that we give careful consideration to the concepts, definitions, and methods of calculation employed

in these statistical sburces and= apply necessary adjustments to them. The reSults of such an attempt in regard to the period 1950-1959, together with

details of the estimation procedures, are exhibited in Table 1.

Before treating of the findings obtained from this estimated account it

would seem to be nec6ssary to make a few comments on the nature of the exports and imports and on problems connected with the utiliz.ation of the published statistical material.

(1) The exports of the farm sector comprise the products of agriculture and farm subsidiaries.5 These exports can be classified into the following three

e The concept of subsidiary farm business differs according to whether the source material is the National Income Statistics, the Farm Economic Survey, or the internal

trade statistics. Here they are regardcd as including not.only products frorn fishing,

hunting, and collecting, but also the products of handicraft industry intended for

the market and consisting principally of the processing of raw materials produced by

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categories on the basis of the nature of the marked involved.

(~L) The payment of the Agricultural Tau in kind. When paid into the state

fiscal organs the greater part of this is at once handed over 'to the Trade

Ministries and its sale is undertaken by State Trading Companies.

(b) Sales in what may be called " the controlled market." This corresponds to

Purchase by State Trading Companies and Supply and Marketing Co-operatives.6 A part of the transactions in this market comprises ~Nhat is ofiicially known a~ " planned purchase," aipplied to food grains in November,

1953 and later extended to raw cotton and oilseeds. The amounts delivered

by the peasants and by Agricultural Producers' C0:operatives are determi-

ned by compulsory quotas laid down under state planning. As we show in the next Section, one of the characteristics of these quotas is that they

embrace the greater part of that part of the goods which is capable of being made intd marketable commodities (in the case of food grains the surplus food grains " after deduction of eatingigrains, seed, and animal ''

feed). The purchase prices are a controlled price the level of which was determined in line with market prices at the time of the institution of the

planned purchase system, but, as we shall see below, they have since been

kept practically unchanged. The remainder ~f the transactions on this market are those of what is known as " unified purchase." As regards the speci.fica'~tion of them it should have been the case that purchase contracts

~vere entered into with the producers for the purchase of a certain propor-

tion of total production in each region ~nd in respect to each designated

commodity, and that free disposal of the remainder should have been allowed. It is said, however, that since the proportions erred on the high

side and price contr61 was strictly enforced these purchases in fact differed

little from planned purchase, with the exception of the period of the relaxa'

tion of the free market from October, 1956 to August, 1957. Again, the items designated for unified purchase were enlarged from the principal products-pig, tea, hemp, and cocoons-to include a large number of minor

10cal products.7

(c) Sales in the so-called "free market." A part of the transactions in the

market represents the remainder of marketed products after the deduction of the deliveries of designated items subject to planned purchase and unified

purchase as above. But the volun~e of these tran~actions, as is clear from

the above, was limited, and in contrast to the Soviet collective farm niar-

ket, where trail~;actioyls in this Cate~ory were wholly free, there were strict

a~riculture. The value qf sales of the handiqraft products of the farms is given as 8

hundred million yuan in the Receipt and Expenditure Survey of Farm Household of 1954 (Cf. Table 3). Howbver, it is also teported from the side of production statistics

that the production under this head amounted to 2.81 thousand million yuan in that

year. ([27], p. 52n.)

8 For a geieral view of these erganizaiions; s~e [16], pp. 5-12. This paper is one of

the pioneering studies of this subject.

7 See [32], especiahy the stateul:ent o!i ~・ 89.

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~ The Peveloping E.conomies limitations governjng the pl~qes in which trans~ctions ;pight tak.e p_1.~Qe, t,he

pers.oyLs with wbcp? tran~actions might be undertaken, and the prices at which tr~ns~cti,or}s mjght take pl~ce.8 An.pther par.t of the transactipns

taking place i_n this mark.et represprited e)~changes ih tradi.tional fon~l bc-

tw. eep far~nqr a~id far,mer and betiveen farmer 4nd direct consumer in. phe

local in~rkets (the it~pas including, besideS " native prodl4qts " an. d veget~b~es,

dppa~~tic ~ning~ls a~ld dQrp~stic poultry), a~ld this category alone .was able

to ~laint~lin cp:;np~.rativ~ fr~edqm in t. r~nsactions from hrst to last.9 W. e

paay Supppse tha~t this has prac ~ically the Sange poverage ~s wh~t is ofiipi~lly

termed " far.m~rs' trade."lo

The rel~tiv~ e scale of these three ~narkets ca.n be known in comparative

detail o~ly in r.cs,pect tQ the two years 1953 a~id 1954, during which this system

W as eSt~blished in substance throughout the na.tion. We exhibit this in Table

2.1~ Since in tbc " porchases by State Trading Companies and Supply and M~rketi~rg C.o-operatives (p.lal:~ne,d and unified purchases) " in Table I are

i~Qluded the 2Lmounts i.n fact purchased by these organs in the free ~narket,

the origi,n* !a. I free market is somewhat bigger in scale than there shoWn. Over

~he wh; ole, however_, thiS market accounted for a proportion of total marketed

~gricultl4ral prQd ucts which was less than one-thirdj and it might be thought

clear that ljt had dee~ined with the passage of tir~le. Further, the items dealt

ip beQ~me m9r.e limited tQ Iocal, products with the passage of time. From

the ~bove we n)ay infer that from 1953 the determination of the m~rketable produce Qf the far~n Seqtor as exhibited in Table I w~~s carried ou.t princi,p.ally

ip ~;.cc.ord~nce with the planners? preference, or in other wor:ds, that peasant

b; eh~viour in ~L free ~)a.rket~ pf 2i kind which could be explained in terms of

peasapt income leve= Is a:nd pric~s for produte, may be considered to have

b~en subject tp marked limitations.

(2) FE~rm sector imports comprise prod.ucers' goods and consumers' goods frotn m~nufacturihg industry, and agricultural pi-oducts. From the nat,ure of

e See the various provisions specified in Table 8. Note 6.

D. On the chronological changes in the market conttol for agricultural products and

the effects prod. uced On production, there is an exc.ellent account in [42], Chapters

lll ~Ld. IV.

10 " Farmers' tra,d~ " refers tp the various fprms of exqh~nge in the ~raditiona,1 free

mar~ets of rural Cb~n~, byt apaolrg the dj ~fi,~itio~s i~l the publishec Iiter~tl~re some

con~ide,r it to be limite4 tq s~;e~ of their ptpduct~ t.o the direc~ co~Isu.mers by the far-Iners ([ll], p. 81 ff. ~nd Cl9j, p. 22. In ~hese two publications it is said that farmers'

tra~~ thus defined aceo~l~t~ for lO'/o qf t,o.tal retajl tr~de ip t~e rur~~ mark,e,t.).. TQ the

coptr~ry? ot~eF ac,ov~t,s ~blc ;:hs;. i~ shou, [1.d ~l~p incl~de saies ot agnjcl;itu, r~l and

sl;bs~di~ry p.ro.duct~ alya,i,i~hlF for s~le whi~h ~re sold to co,nmerce, co*Qperativ,es, and

pt~e;r qrgan~ ([.P], p.p. 2~; 36).

n Table 2 is made up on the supposition that the material specified ip Notqs (c) aud

(d) are given i.n line with t~e (a) spries ljp. Ta,bls l. If they ~re in li:ne wit~ thd (b)

series the value of supply in Line 2 becomes ~uiva'~nt to t_hat h~ure min~ls t~e taxes

paid in kind in Line l. See also the nar. ra=tive in the te~t 14nder the sectiqn (3).

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the st~tistics from which they are derived liv:e may assume that expenditures

on consumer goods of a service character in the farm household's budget are not included in them.12 The imported articles can also be classi,fied ac-

cording to the nature of the market involved into controlled market articles

and free market articles. The " controlled market " is a general appellation

applying to purchases from State Trading Companies and Supply and Mar-keting Co-operatives. As an institution, control exists only in respect to the

fixed-quantity distribution system for food grain be: gun on a provisional basis

along with the introduction of the planned phrchase system in 1953 and in

respect to a number of other items;8 In regard to the other import items, however, we may say that their purchase was corltrQlled, in that the total amounts supplied and the breakdown by items were substantially determined

by conscious government decisions. The " free market " refefs to purchases frol;n joint public and privat~ commercial or~al}s, private commercial organs,

industrial ahd handicraft meinufactur~rs, and farmers, and tbc transa.ctions

coming under the last head are brought together under the " farmers' trade :'

which we have mentioned above. As regairds other transactions in tbc free market, it is not.ed that these are of a scale larg~r tha:} t.hose in the case of

fr~e market exp6rts. Hov~ever, from an early date the greater part of these

merchants and industrialists have been tinder the control of State Tra.ding Companies as regards supplies of ia~v materials ~nd commodities d~alt in.

Qopsequelitly, yV~ ~an take it that in the total ~mport I~larket, ip;Cludjng the

fr~e market, " consu~ler's sovereignty " is subject tp sev,ere limitations. We

laiay say that the fact that since 'the ~econd h~.If of 1953 there h~s been a

conti~ming shortage of goods on the C~inese ruial ngarketl4 refleQts this.

(3) The greatest problem in the utili~ation of the statistiqal materia.1 em-

ployed in makin~ u~ Table I is the difficulty of j~idgirlg whether or hot ~he

totals for purch~ses (ts'ai-kou) of agricultuir~l and ~ubsidi~ry products, th~

12 Expendiiures on co~sumption goods of a service char~cter may perhaps accouri~ for

the greater part of the " other expenditures " in Table 3. Viewed either iri ternts of

cash expe4dit_u~e~ or of cas.h ~nd nQn-cash exp.enditures, this occ.upies appiroximately

lOo/o of the total. This implies that Tabl. e I und. ef-estimates it~rports roughly by this

propoytion.

18 Return s.ales of food gr.aips in the farm sectpr w.ere ~~~rie~ out in respect to the farm householcs cesignatbd ~s " farm household~ suff~rin~ fropa foQ~ s.hortage " in the

Provisibn~1 Regulations for Confrolled Purc.has~ and Consum,ptiqn of Fooc Grains ip

Rural. Areas Qf 1955, and those in the aiea where agricultural pioduction is concen-

trated on the Economic Crops and Na!tutal Calamity Are~s. C56]

14 According to Wang P'ing, [67], the value of niariufactured goods so;d in the free

!parket, in the sens,e of direct retail trade by manufactures and handicraft manufactures,

was 7.05 thp~~~and million yuan in 1953, 5.0 iu 1954, 3.56 in 1955, and 4.02 in 1956.

The~~ ~re figures which include sales in the n,on-agricultural sectors. In the light of

t*hese ~t is clear th~Lt th.e free mar.ket im_por.ts given in Table I include purchases from

joipt publiq and priv~rte commer,c~ and fro.In private commerce.

15 E~l!toria~ in the People's Daily, Oct. 7, 1953, Nov. I l, 1953, Feb. 8, 1955, and Nov.

l.2, 195..5.

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~)'-*r~atest basis in the statistics within the export account, include the Agricul-

tural Tax paid in kind. In the text-book accounts " purchases of agricultural

products " are subdivided as follows :

Purchases of agricultural

products

Concentrated J, Collection of Agricultural Tax in kind IPlanned purchases

purchases Non-planned purchases

Non-concentrated purchases

As the reason for thus including taxes paid in kind along with purchases, the same text-book says, " although these are not originally a part of com-

mercial circulation, they are an important source from which the state con-

centrates agricultural products, and the agricultural products obtained from

the Agricultural Tax are sold through the commercial organs."I6 On occasion,

however, there are items in the published statistics which clearly do not include the Agricultural Tax, and arriving at a judgment in each case is altogether troublesome. The sources employed in this Table are a case re-quiring such a judgment. Table 2, as well as Tables 3 and 4) are of service

in checking this, but while Tables 2 and 4 suggest that the figures do not

include taxes in kind, Table 3 suggests tha~ they do,17 We believe that the check provided by Tables 2 and 4 is of gr~ater reliability, but for cautioh's

sake ~t may be suitable for us to exhibit. this as two substitutable series for

the case in which the estimated export~ do not include taxes paid in kind and the case in which they do. In Table I we have put the figures in the squrces for purchases of agricultural and subsidary prbducts by State Trading

Companies and Supply and Marketing Co-operatives unchanged in Serics 1-2, and in the Totals column we have shown an (a) series in which it is assumed

that taxes in kind are not included in them and a (b) series in which it is

' assutned that they are included.

(4) The second problem is the fact that there is a considerable d~rerence

between the figures published up to the middle of 1958 as statistics of pur-

chases and those published after that date. In practically all cases the latter

are smaller than the former. In the Table the former appear as A series and the latter as ~ series. Checking them with available material, it appears

that the B series repiresents the results of a correction of the A series on three

~oints.18 (i) As shown in Table 3, up to 1955 the state trading companies

18 See [20], pP・ 237-238, 121-122. 17 The checks by means of these Tables, apart from that relating to Table 2, are self-

evident. The. check by means of Table 2 is carried out by the following procedure.

The figures for food supplied in this Table plus sales in the free market are of the

~ame series as the figures in the 1-2 series in Table 1, but when converted into terms

of kind the figures are equivalent to columns (2)+(3) in the Table. As shown in Note

(f), the =figures for raw cotton and oilseeds, too, do not produce very irrational results.

le Corrections of the A series by the B series are particularly great in the period prior

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delegated the greater part of their purchases to the Supply and Marketing Co-operatives, 'and this might have produced double accounting in the purchase

statistics.19 (ii) The alteration which acconrpanied. the revision of definitions

and methods in " retail commodity statistics " as a result of the All China

Purchasing Power Conference held in June, 1957, under the auspices of the State Economic Council and the State Statistical Bureau.20 (iii) The value of

transations in the free market had been obtained by estimation, and the

procedure was revised. Thus we would expect it to be well for our study to rely wholly on the B series~ but the simultaneous use of the A series is

made necessary by the fact that many of the related figures are for 1958 and

the preceding years. We may expect the same problem to exist in the case of commodity imports, but here B serics figures are obtainable only for value

of producer goods purchased.21 Keeping the results of these consideration in mind, inspection of Table l

(and of the principal figures therein shown in Figure 1) provides the follow-

ing observations. Firstly, considerably different observations regarding the

commodity import-export bala'~ce in the farm sector are possible, depending on which of the two substitutable series is adopted, but taking the aA series,

which has the largest value for exports, or the aB series, which we find the

most plausible, it is about 1955 that the balance shifted decisively to an im-

port surplus. Further, we have reason for thinking that the trend was for the surplus to the enlarged with the passage of the years. Secondly, judging

by the series for the controlled market excluding free market transactions, the series which is weake~t in its statistical basis, imports and exports would

seem to have followed ~L boutse iri which they were comparatively near to a

to 1953. As result, the marketed ratio series given in Figure 4 show~ a much better

fit' with that for food grains in the case ef the B series.

19 The source suggesting this is [63], p. 24. Here we find the note, " cleared of redu-

plications as between state commerce and co-operatives " appended for the first time

to a mention of purchases of the products of industry and agriculture by state and

co-operative commerce in 1957,

ao In particular see [18]. As one df these reforms, the sales of production goods to

the farm sector in the retail statistics, which had formerly excluded production goods in subsidiary farm business, now came to include these. Under farmers' trade it had

been the practice to calculate the sales made by farmers' to residents in both town and

country, but now this calculation was made for sales to non-agricultural occupations

onlyl Assuming that this latter reform was carried out completely, from the st~nd-

point of Table I we would have to deduct the equivalent ~mouht from the import

account. 31 It is nevertheless true that it is still doubtful whether the purchases of production

goods given in series II-1~i)-(B) in Table I are comparable with the A figures in the same series. The A figures are estimated by selecting production goods from the manu-

factured goods, but the B figures are nrerely referred to in the original source as " :neans

for agricultural production." The " means for production " are ofiicially defined as in-

cludirrg " agricultural raw materials such as cotton." In this instance the sums in

question ate included in this series only because they appoximate to A.

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Figure 1. E~PQRTS AN.D IMPORTS OF COMMODITIES BETW, Eg~N THE AGRICULTUl~AL AND NON-AGRICULTUl~AL SECTORS (cuirent piices, thousand million y~tan)

30

20

lO

/ l' Commod. ity '

. Imiports . ~. j

ld / CommQdity

s aA/// Exports

~.'~a~Bfll 7' lll~"~___ _b~! I aB . b.~AJ/ /

/ .¥ // dlj/'~ ~A._...j

/ f ;" -/ I.l / / / .., / Exports. via l ~' ¥i /lh:iports via CQntrollid

hf ¥ / Controlled ~:~rket// l/aB ¥F' Marke. t

/ / Inports of Producers' ~oods I

and St~ie Capjtal Investment ,.~,_J ¥__.._///

._/d' ' ~"~t~

Notes :

Sou. rce :

1951 195S 1955 - 1957 aA, aB, bA, and bB indic~te the alternative series which are derived

Table I and explained in ths te~;t of Lines 1-1*1-~ or that of ri-1-(l

From Table l.

. Controued market stand・s for the II-2-(1), apd II-3.

from tot~1

balance, but even in this case the size of the export surplus prpgressively

decreased, and it is more or less clear that it changed tp an ijmport sl;rphys

in 1958. Thirdly, these statistiqs make it clear that related to one of the determining factors in this change ip the balanqe between import a~d export

sl;rpluses were the sudde~l increases in prod~lcers goods 2~nd governme nt ipvest-

ment in capital conStr.uction. Fourthly, this kind of change from an export surplus to an import surplus and the subsequeht enlargement of the irnport

surplus may be imagined to have been undesirable in the sight of the plann-

in'o authorities who from the frst had been projecting a rapid enlargement of the industrial sector, but the occurrence would appear to have taken place

under conditiol;s in which the pla~mers' pref~rences were in the ascendant in

the determination of the imports and exports of the farn) sectQr.

Among the above observations, to what degree (1) to (3) are relevant d, epends on the reli~ibility of the statistics used and the appropriate~ess of

the methods employed in thejr utiJizat,i.on, bpt in thp ~,ight pf th~ r~.su_Its of

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the investigatiori Of the soutce niaterial ~rhich we havb giveri abo~re vre ate disposed tp think that they are cdmparatively neat the t'uth. As independent

material for checking them we might think of estimating for the financial aspect of the inter-sebtor balance of payments (the current accbunt element,

services, current transfer, and capital account), but as y~t we have not suc-

qeeded in ptoducing over-all estitnates of these.22 On the other hand, we can use for the same purposes the result~ of the National Suivey of Farm Hou~e-

hold Receipts and Expenditures carried out for the frst time in 1955 in respect to a randotn sample of more thar~ 16.000 peasant households in 25 Prbvinces with 1954 as the refereriCe year. The available figure~ from this sutvey are ptesented in Table 4. We have already used this as a partial check on Table l, and if we compare it with Table I iri terms of the total frame of

iinports and e~tports it wduld seem to e~hibit a fairly good degree of fit.

In particular, the value of commodity exports in 1954 shown in it is 18 thou-

sand million yuan and that 6f commodity imports 23 thousdnd milliori yuan, giving an impdrt surplus of 5 thpusand million yuan. The value of impo,rts

is iri excess of th'at given in Table l, but the greater part of thi~ differehce

may be considered to be an error produced by the ~rarious asstimptionS made

in the ptocess of estimation etnployed in Table l.

ll・. THE DIRECTION AND SCALE OF NET FLOWS OF RESOURCES

As we said in th~ Introductory section, the method employed in Qur estiination of net flows of resources in the farin sector is that of finding the

differences between real imports and exports by revaluing in terms of the

prices of a c6rtain base year the values of importS and exports expressed in

currel~t prices. Wh~t we must pmphasize here, however, is that our calcula-tion of the difference between real ilTrports and exports by means of ~hese

base ye~r prices has been uhdertaken only as a convenient means fot the estimation of net flows of resources. From the frst, the idea that flows of

resdurees might have takeh phLce in directions and on a scale different from

th0Se indicated by the commodity export or import surplus expr~ssed in current prices is based oh the riotion that the current prices in theSe pases

are different from th, e " re~l prices " of the imPorted arid exported articles,

arid that for this reason there may perhaps be some additional flow of re-sources. By such " real prices " is meant production costs where the allocation of the factors of production among the various ptodticts is carried out with

mdst efficiency. Since it is extremely difficult to find for " real prices " in

this sense in respect to every year, the aim of this method is to take, as an

approximation, the price structure of a year in the past in which the Nation-

al Econpr~ry ~ras in a relatively normal condition (in the ,case of C~ipa the

22 The f・ragmtntary figures are given in [25]. Wage income and receipts of remittances may be supposed to have bulked large among the items serving to defray the import

surplus. This is the same as the restilts in Table 4.

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14 The Peveloping Economies

fact of the market mechanism being in operation is at least a part of this condition) and was further~nore more stable, and thereby to. cause it to be

of use in intertemporal price comparisons. Hence the question dealt with ir}

this Section is that of arriving at approximate Yalues for the differencq be-

tween real imports and exports, having frst selected a base year which would

appear to be suitable from this point of view. As a practical question the selection, of a suitable base year is ~ difficult task, but for the purposes of

the present study we shall first calculate for 1952 and 1936-37 on common-sense grounds* and thereafter shall try to elicit the significance of the results.

The year 1952 is ofbcially considered to be the year in which the National

Economy recovered the highest levels of pre-war economic activity. The frst

Five-Year Plan began in the following year, 1953, and market strain accom-

panying rapid investment increases appeared from the second half of that

year) but 1952 was a year in which the supply and demand relations in respect to rcsources were relatively stable. As a result of the completion of

the Land Reform and of the movement for the destruction of the pre-existing social order and customary practices in commerce and industry known as the San-fan movement the organization of the economy was compar-atively modernized. Moves towards socialization, however, were as yet not conspicuous. For such reasons ,as these it is customary for students of China

to consider 1952 the most normal year in the period of the People's Republic

of China,2s and these same reasons provide the grounds for our choice of this year as one of the base years in our study.

The determination of real commodity imports and exports in terms of this ba~e year can be carried out with the estimated data for commodity impor~s and exports in current prices treated in the previous Section and with data regarding import and export prices which we shall now investigate.

The results are exhibited in Table 6.

1) The State Statistical Bureau compiled and published an A11 China Price Index for Purchases of Agricultural and Subsidiary Products and an

All China Rural Retail Price Index for lylanufactured Goods covering the

years 1950-1958.24 There remain some obscure points regarding the compila-

tion of these statistics,25 but if we bear in mind all errors which might

arise from these points it will be possible for us to use these statistics as the

principal data in arriving at our real values.

2) We have reason for supposing that the Price Index for Purchases of

23 For example, [13], pp. 8-11.

24 The most detailed explanation so far published regarding the purchase price index

is to be found in [58].

2e As one of these we may mention the fact that the calculation formula of the index

figures is not known. Ideally, the Paasche formula, and for realistic purposes the link

method based on the Laspire formula are desired as formulae for the determination of

Chinese price indices. (AS critical examinations of Chinese price indices the best to

date are [37]. It is supposed that these two indices may perhaps be of the Laspirc

formula or of the link type based on the Laspire formula.

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Resource Flow between Agriculture and Ind ustry 15

Agricultural and Subsidiary Products may have excluded agricultural products paid as taxes. If we assume that these statistics include these

agricultural products paid as taxes (and consequently reflect the changes

in the conversion prices employed in the fiscal administration of these products) we will be able to use them directly as comprehensive deflators

of the total exports of the B seri~s mentioned in the preceding Section. If,

however, we assume that this is not so, then we must reply to. the supple-

mentary question of how we are to evaluate in real terms the amount of exports in the A series accounted for by agricultural products paid in taxes.

First let us state the main points of the procedure for the monetary evalu-

ation of the Agricultural Tax, as far as we know them. (a) The sum levied in Agricultural Taxes is evaluated on a unified basis

in weight terms of hsi-liaug (fine grains)26 by the fscal organs. The most

detailed yearly series for the Agricultural Tax which are available to us

are also given in " hsi-liang " terms. By " hsi-liang " is meant the processed

forms of the principal food grains in each region (rice in south China,

millet in north China, kao-liang in the north-east, and wheat in the north-

west, the north-west being, exceptional in that the flgures are for food

grains before processing). The greater part of tax payments is made in

these standard principal grains, unprocessed.27 The quantities of these unprocessed grains are converted to those of ~rocessed grains and the

latter are set down unchanged as tax receipts in hsi-liang terms. In cases in which taxes are paid in differing qualities of the principal food grains, or are paid in other food grain~, the general rule is to deter-

mine the quantities payable by conversion at market prices from the tax-demand expressed in terms of the standard principal food grains. It

also sometimes happens that when the government wishcs to encourage the payment of taxes in a certain crop the conversion rate is made pro-

fitable for that crop. Regarding the conversion rates for payment in cash we have no information, except for the fact that in September, 1950, the regulations in the East China Region called for conversion at

market prices.28

2G [28] first edition, pp. 131, 327. Th~re had been a great deal of confusion in the

Western litera~ure regarding the interpretation of the term " hsi-liang." In the majority

of cases writers have regarded it as meaning rice, wheat, or processed food grains, as

opposed to " tsu-liang " (coarse grains) or unprocessed food grains.

27 [28], p. 310, 316-317.

28 _ The following provisions appear in the Supplementary Provisions to the Provisional

Regulation of the Agricultural Tax in the Newly Liberated Areas, issued by the Military

Administration Committee of East China in September. 1950. " In the regions in which

the cultivation of economic crops is comparatively numerous and in the regions in which

there is a shortage of food grains the People's Government in each Province (city or

region) may levy agricultural tax in cash as substitute for food grains. As regards the

prices for that conversion, where there are the state trading company listed prices

the levies will be made calculating in accordance with the listed prices .for middle-grade

food grains. In regions where. there are no listed prices the levies will be made at

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16 The D~veloping Economies

(b) Agricultutal prodtiCts delivefed as ta;~~es ~aid in kind are at once

handed 0~er by the government fina;ncial authorities to ~he cdtnntercial

authorities. After the coinrriercial atithorities have sold them on ~he mar-

ket through State Tradi,ng Companies they Pay in the proceeds to the siate financial authorities, This is kno: wn as " the ~um of converted public

food gtains," and is given as a receipt item in the bud~et along with

the pdrtion of t,a~~es paid in cash. The ptices at which the financial

authoritie~ hand over the products to the cdmmercial authorities are determined by Ptice Agreement Clauses ih cdritracts concluded in advance

between these two authorities. One would ~~pedt the unit price for hsi-liang to be specified by these Clatises, but we have no information rega;rding their content.29

As is clear from the abov6, " hsi-liang " is a real unit in which the

total of Agricultural Tax paid iri kind- is reckoned in terms of certain

price levels of the principal food grains, a kind of " food-grain e~uiva-

lent." But since the contents of the principal food grains differ from region

to region and the raising of coriversion rates from other fobd grainS into

the principal food grairis is 6ntployed as an incehtive, this food-grain eqlaivalent is only an apptdximatidn. A still riiore decisiv6 qbestion is

how this food-grai・n equivalent is converted into money terms. Following c;ut the above Procedure, we qan r6phrase this question as the ~uestion

of whether or rio~ there is a diffefential betweeh the evaluated prices

for agricultural products paid as t,axes in kind as shown in the budget (equivalent to th6 prices at which thb coinmetcial alithorities inake their

paytnents to the financial authorities) and the coinmercial authorities'

purchase priccs (since we may stppose that the~e agricultural products

paid as taxes in kind would be sold at the same prices as agricultural products subject to planried putchase), and, if there is, how the evaluated ptices used in budgeting are determined. Ithe inforination necessary for

investigating this questi6n is ptesentcd in Table 5 and Figure I . From these we learn first that the pric_es for hsi-1iang as used in budgeting were

practically constant over the years 1950-1957,30 and second that between

1953 and 1956 the lev~ls of these prices exhibited practically no differ-

ence from the annual median figures of the information regarding prices

in dispersed lota:1 mzirkets collected by Ronal'd Hsia fr6m new~Paper

reports. These two facts suggest that therb was seemirigly ptactically

~lo djfferential _ between the purphase prices and budgetary prices fof f004 ~rains, ~t least during the y6ars 195~ ~o lg5~.81 Thir~, for the period

niarkct piices." ('[43], Vol, 1, pp. 315-316.)

.9 [28], pp. 310i31.2; 314*315. See also [32], P. 6.

*b 1]he trehd seeins to be a little inclined to rise. This order of change, however; wduld

be better attributed to fluctuaiions in the compositiorr of the food gr~iris paid ~s taxe~.

3* The same was probably th~ cases in 1958. The budget price for 100 chin ()f hsi-liang

ixi the taxes levied in 1958, which can be calculated fr6in Li Hsien-nien's rtport on

the state accowits for 1959, is 8L7 yuan, the sam,~ as for 1957. On the other haiid,

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Figure 2. MONTHLY CHANGES IN THE WHOLESALE PRICES OF FOOD GRAINS (lOO catties) AND COTTON (ginned, 10 catties)

IN SHANGHAI AND TIENTSIN

;$

S

15

lO

6

15

lO

5

l : : : l l Wheit

ll l ll I

I i l S~~~~2~lhatighl ~ j I :

l : I I I :

l j Ricel l : IJ: : l

l

j t l I I l 4 , I' I l j I ICotto I I f l

f I I I I I l l 'e;Ii~~~~si'r : l : j ~ll illet I : I I t t /1 1 i l ll I : I I l J

, I } j ! : l I I l : l I I l I l I Il ~'Cl I r rn I Il ' l t t i t

t l l

l I t t ' l Ja,7L Jan. Jah. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957

Notes : ' For ,Shanghai, the prices of wheat and raw cotton from 1955 are the ' taking

in by purdhase ' prices, those of rice and raw cotton for lg50~52 are maiket

prices, and the price df rice from 1955 is the ' controlled consumption price.'

Source~ : For Shanghai : [1] ; For Tientsin : [38]

of 1953 and before, a fairly conspicuous rise in the ~urchase price index

is clear. Interpreting this at its face iralue, it implies that the budgetary

prices of 1950 were higher than aver~ge purchase prices, but this is clearly

contradictory to the fact that cash payment of taxes in the East-China Region empl6yed market prices in conversidn, as stated above. We have reasons for thinking that this apparent contradiction is connected with

the fact that the food prices for 1952, the base year of the purchase price

index, exhibited violent fluctuations over the whole year, as shown in Figure 2. It may be that these purchases are made in the second half of

each year (and consequently at values a good deal lower than annual average vaiues), and that this has fixated the base year prices at a low

level. On the otheir hand, it inay be that the hahd-over prices between

the fihancial and food Ministries are based on the higher market prices

according to [44], in the six years following the implementatio!1 of planned purchase

of foods in 1953, tha;t is, up to 1959, the rate of increase in the purchase price was no

more than 2.10/0'

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18 The Developing Economies

of an earlier period in the year, and that these have appeared as the budget prices.32 Again, we may iinagine that there may have been a fair

difference between the items and qualities of food grains covered in the

calculation of the purchase price index and those coveted by the budget

prices, and that the former, may have included item~ with a high rate of

price increase. The same is true of the period from 1953. The observa-

tions in regard to raw cotton are more or leS~ the same as this. The reason for the prices for raw cotton collected by Hsia being a good deal

lower than the budget prices may be that preferential rates had been applied as mentioned above.38 The conclusions from t. he above are as

follows. For the purposes of arriving at real figures for the amount of

taxes paid in kind within exports in the A series the use of time series

data for purchase prices by commodities may be considered suitable, although some questions remain as regards the period of 1953 and earlier.

But since we cannot obtain data of this kind di・rectly, as approximations

it may be permissible for us to suppose ,conStant budget prices, or to

adopt the purchase price index con~erted ~rith the proportion of taxes

paid in kind as weight. In the present study we shall adopt the former.

3) For the purposes of arriving at real figures for imports we have used

Rural Manufactured Products Retail Price Index for manufactured goods, and the Price Index for Purchase of Agricultural and Subsidiary Products for agricultural products,34

The signiflcance of our chobsin~ the 1936-37 prices as base year prices in

the calculation of real imports and exports is that this was the year of peace

immediately preceding the war and civil war which lasted from July, 1937, until immediately before the establishment of the People's Republic of China,

and it is also based on the supposition that there was a relatively free opera-

tion of the inarket mechanism, including the free pursuit of foreig~ trade.

A wholesale price index linking this year and 1952, together with group indi-

ces by stages of processin.g, has : been compiled and published by thd Institute

of Economic Research, Nank'ai University. Esseritial to this index are such questions as the fact that it is a wholesale

price index, that it is a simple geometrical average index; and that it is limited

to the Tientsin area, while there are also supplementary qu~stioris when we

come to link it at year 1952 with other indices elicited from the above inves-

tigations. In this study, however, we have avoided entering any further into

the matter of pre-war base prices, contenting ourselves with outlining the

32 The first provisions for the levying of the Agricultural Tax issued in writing by the

central govermpent were published on the 30th of May, 1950, as " Decisions Relating

to the Summer Levy. of ' Public Food Grain~ ' in the Newly Liberated Areas in 1 950."

38 On the whole the changes in the conversion rate between hsi-liang and raw cotton

between 1950 and 1954 run parallel to those iri the ratio between the prices of food

grains and raw cotton as published by. the government in, each year.

84 The figures for real state investment in capital construction are arrived at by means

of the construction costs index for state capital construction works.

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broad movements of real imports and exports in terms of pre-war prices with

the help of the import and export price indices derived elicited from them.

The results of the calculations are included in Table 6.

The firidings which can be got from Table 6 are ( l) that the real import-

export balance calculated in 1952 prices shows a switch from an export sur-plus to an import surplus from about 1953, at a time earlier than that for itnports and exports in current prices, either (a) or (b) series, and that this

import surplus increases in successive years and (2) that in the case of the

1936-37 prices an export surplus is more or less mairitained throughout, but

that the scale of this is later reduced. Compared with the commodity import

surplus condition represented in terms of current prices in Table I and Figure

l, this resultant has connexions with the fact that between 1952 and 1957 the

terms of trade between agriculture and industry were improved by approxi-mately lOo/o, but that nevertheless they were still markedly short of recover-

ing the approximately 300/0 deterioration in terms of trade up to 1952 when

considered in terms of pre-war prices. Table 7 is given as showing the opera-

tion of this terms of trade effect on the formation of a real commodity import

surplus.

In this way the terms of trade effect on real flows of resources differs

decisively as between the two series, but which of the two base periods, then, would it be more plausible to adopt ? Ultimately, the reply to this is

indeterminate, but I think that substantially there is little meaning in attempt-

ing to evaluate real transfers of capital resources in terms of pre-war base

prices, and that it is more meanihgful to do so in terms of 1952 prices. We

explain the reasons for this by means of Figure 3.

Fig"*・ 3. ILLUSTRATION OF DIFFERING EFFECTS IN TERMS OF TRADE BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY

> ~*.

::~

~

~sFV

~so

~

o

P6

A Pt ¥¥・ / Al

/ R I'i I,¥¥ / t~ ¥ /

E' : /A' 0$ Po lo ¥ //.

¥ rt / / ~l / Oa

/ /C~ /. ¥ / ¥ Io /// ¥

/// ' -- L ' l? Ot Oo PQ ' o

pAt

Industrial Products

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20 The Developing Eco~omies

In the Figure, O indicates the production possibility curve for the whole

country, I the society's indiffererice ctirves with respect to consuinption, and

P the relative price line. ' The suffix z~ro indicates the year 1952, and t

1957. The production Possibility curve Ot is drawn in the Figure in a fairly exaggerated form, but we may , expeqt that in comparison with Oo it should get lairger while inclining sdmewhat towards industrial products. As a

r~~ult of the introduction of socialization and planning the social indifference

curve tomes to be determined by the planners' preferences rather than by the consumers', _ and cdns~quently lo transfoirms to It (by I/t w'e have indicated

the ca~e in IArhich consumers' pteferente rema:ins dominant). Therefore, the

production structure is determined at,point C, and it is inclined more towards

industry than point B, irepresenting 1952 (and also more than point D iri the

case in which It is dominant). Real prices under these conditions will be shown by a price lin6 pt drawn so as to be a tang~nt to both these two curves

It and Ot ~at the point C. If actual prices corresponding to this price lin~

are dominant no real transfer df resources will arise as a result of the terms

of trade effect. Pt reptesents the actually dominant prices, but' we do not know whether it occupies this position in relation to pt Or not. What is

clear to us is that the position of Pt relative to P!o (~quivalent to Po) ipdi-

c~te~ in this way the improvement of the terms of trade of the farm sector.

Although w=~ have omitted it here, it is possible for us to redraw the Figure

with 1936-37 as the ziero year. It will be clear that in such a case Pt will

be on the opposite side of P'o m comparispn with this Figure. We inay also

suppose that Po would not be determined in ~the mannef charact~ristic of a

closed econoiny, as in this Figure, but would be determined in a m~nner which strongly reflected interriational prices.85

Wha.t we have sought to show by me~ns of thiS Figure is the following. As we stated at the beginning of this Sectioh, the price line livhich we should

really follow up in this study is Pt, but since we have no effective means

for arriving at this we have sought an approximation to it by means of P'o.

This kind of attempt becomes significant only ur}der the qonditions where at least, firstly, the shapes of Oo and Ot are comparatively siniilar if not identical

(this means similarity in available technologies, and not only in resource

endowments), and secondly that tbc de~~rmination of Po Should be carried out in a manner which reflects the shape of Oo. We mziy ' suppose that in such cases pt and P/o wili be comparatiyely close. In 19~2 prices we repre-

sent such as P'o. In the case of 1936-37 prices, however, the result is that

85 Figure 3 utilizes the chart used in the methodological studies on the inter-temporal comparisons of national incomb initiated by Richa!rd Moorsteen and elaborated by

Abrum Bergson in [2], pp. 31-35. Their new discovery was th~t as methods for the

evaluation of natiQnal income at two productionj points B and G there are four sets :

OEIOB, OF/OB (OF!/OB), O.CIOH, and OC/OJ (OC/OJ/), and that there are differences

of appropriateness among them. This kind of index number problem of course exists

in our case too, but what we are doing in the present instance is to look for realistic

approxlmatlons to " real prices " as a qu~stion prior to the inde),; number problem.

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Resource Flow between Agriculture and Industry 21

because of the above two conditions' the suppositioh that pt and p,o are similar

is, in itself unrealistic, even assuming that there is a posSibility of Pt bcing closer

to P; than to 1952 prices. An evaluation i.n teirms of 1936-37 ~rices may be

considered tp p6ssess a significance similar to evaluations of one country's

national income or economic strllcture with the help of the price structure

of another, in that it ignorcs the cases represented by the curves Oo and Ot

(and by extension those represented by ~he curve, s IQ and It). Although it may be significant when looked at from another viewpoint; from the view-point of this study it ceases to. be meaningful.86

The conclusion~ of our studies in this Section are summarized as follows :

(1) Markedly difFerent results are obtained in the evalu4tion of the directions

and scale bf net transfers of real fesources, employing either the A or B ~eries,

according to whether one takes 1952 or 1936-37 prices as the base. If one takes the former, the net position of r.eal resource flows changes from an export surplus to an import surplus from around 1953, and the scale of t.his

increases in successive years. If one. takes. the latter, real resource flows show

an export surplus throughout, and only its scale is reduced. (2) Which of thes~ results is the more plausible is indeterminate, b, ut bea= ring in mind the

significance of the me.thod of evaluating real transfers. in terms of base year

prices, the ~valuaiiori ih terms of 1936-37 prices is seen to be mor6 deficient

in theoretic~l significance.

III. THE MARKETABLE RATIO OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND FARM HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR

Since the resultant of our statistical investigation, namely that tbc direc-

tion of net tiansfers of resources between agricultllre and industry in China

in the period 1950-1959 appears to have changed gr~dually froin an outflow frorrL agricultur.e to an inflow into agriculture (or, assuming that there = was

an outflow from agricult, ure throughout, that its scale was reduced in su. cces-

sive years), will be an observation which is contrary to people's. common-

sense, it will probably be particularly necessary for us to app~nd an exami-

nation of the question of what kind of factors led to the producti6n of these

resultants. Howeveir, regar.ding the fact.ors to which particular irriportance should be att~ched in the case of China in the light of a general : and theo-

retical examination. of the determining factors in net resource transfers. I have

already discussed this. matter in my previous studies mentidned at the beginnilrg of this' article, and I would ask the reader to. refer to them.

To bumpaarize them, the theoretical studies were pursued centring on the investigation: of the structural equations describing bQth the relations of

86 The cou. rse of sdeking to estimate the magnitude of li ~tCPt by me~ns of an evaluation

of the ~um of indirect taxes and subsidies will undotibtedly come'to, mind as one meth-

od fof evaluating net transfers of resource~. Howdter, whether indirect taxes and

subsidies in fact constitute an addition to real cos,ts or are a part of real co~ts is a

matter which can be judged only when we have determined the real price line Pt.

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22 The Developing Economies

supply and demand for the ' inarketed products of the farm sedtor and the relations of supply and demand for manufactured goods of the ndn-agricul-tural sector designed for consumption in the farm sector. As crucial deter-minants of net resource. flows, thty drew attehtion particularly to ( l) the

population growth rate, (2) the iate of rise in the produc~ivity of labour (measured by the hour) in agriculture, (3) the incom~ elasticities of farmers'

consumption, (4) incom6 distribution among the farmers, (5) the marginal fixed capital coefficient iri agriculture, and (6) the magnitude of the inducement

effect on local investment exercised by centralized investmeht. T~tken up in

these studies as providing explanations of the trends in flows of resources in China were the following. Firstly, the high values of ( l) and (5) and the

low value of (2) (this being under the influence of initial conditions common

to developing c6untries in Asia today) are in operation as the dominant factors

promoting an inflow of resources into the farm sector. Secondly, in spite of

the operation of certain factors peculiar to China impeding an inflow of resdurces, namely the tendency for the marginal fixed capital coeflicient to fall

as an ~ccompaniment to the diffusion of small-scale basic investment projects

in conriexion with (5) and the increase in inducetnent effect ~ccompanying the

collectivization of agriculture iri conne~don with (6), they did not succeed in

caricelling out the above-mentioned factors possessing counter-effects. The

question which we propose to raise here is that of (~), the ihcom~ elasticity

of farm consumption and the related marketable ratio of agricultural pro-ducts, a question which was not treated sufficiently in previous studies.

Since our way of raising this questioh i~ partial, Iet us first say something

about the position occupied by net flows of resources within toial determin-

ing factor~. Firstly, as need hardly be ~aid, the marketable ratib of a~ricul-

tutal prbducts refers to the proportion occupied by that part of the total produce of the farm sector which is market-sold. Grasping the scale 0=f the

commercialization of agricultural prdducts from this aspect means, in terms

of the most aggregate factor in net resource flows as previously mentioned,

raising the question of exports from the farm sector in terms of its supply

~spect. We would seem to be called upon to point dut ~s a further implica-

tion that in so far as this marketable ratio fails to rise there is a dangdr of

it becoming very difficult for the non-farm' sector to exceed the growth rate

of the farm sector. This is because at this stage in economic develo~ment the development of the non-fatm sector is conditioned by the incre~sd in labour-supply, which, in turn, is conditioned by the qu~ntities of food grains37

supplied In this way the directions and scale df net fldws of iresourc~s dome

to be determined by how necessary for the purpose of raising the marketable

ratio the products of the non.farm sector aie considered, and by what ways these are actually supplied.

Next, the determinants of the marketable ratio (expresse.d as Axt/At, where quantity of marketable agricultural ~roducts is Axt, alid total of agricultural

37 Strictly speaking, including food grains used for seed and for animal feeding grains

and food grains used for storage.

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Resource Flow between Agriculture and Industry 23

products At) are, in the most simplified case; the quantity consumed per capita in the farm sector (at) and prodtiction per capita (AtlNt, where farm

population is Nt)' This is expressed as

Axt/At= l-at/(At/Nt)' ' ' ' . . ' ' ' ' * .(1) Expressing farm consumption behaviour. in relation to agricultural pro-

ducts by the income elasticity (c) and using production per capita as an

approximation for per capita income we get

at=a (At/Nt)c . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' : .(2) (¥Arhere a denotes a constant) an4 if, we substitute this in equation ( 1) we get

Axt/At=1-a (At/Nt) c-1 . . . . . . . . . . .(3) One of the above deterininants, at, is analyzed ir~t6 c and ao (a certain min-

imum level of consumption). Sinc~ under the donditions of the situation prevail-

ing in China in the planning period i~l which the determination of consumption

of farm household is strongly sub,ofdinated to the preferences of the planners

it may perhaps be problematical whether or not a farm household's behav-iour represented by c will have sufB:cient significance for it to be taken into

consideration. However, it is not right to suppose that the farm household's

behaviour is to be completely ignored even in cases where the economy is subject to planners' preferences. We shall carry out the investigation of this

point later, and shall proceed with Qur argument on the basis of equation

(2). To these determihants we dan add ~ few niore. As is at once apparent,

equation (3) takes only income effect into consideration, and does not consider

price effect. But in the light of the results of our investigati:ons in Section

2, we may consider it permissible to omit this from our analysis of this period

in China. At/Nt may be analysed into pioduttivity pef labour-houir and the

degree of over-population in the farm household. These two factors were se-lected for special treatment in my previous studies, but here we shall continue

our investigation without analysing them in this way. Howeter, it may perhaps be well for us ~o add something regarding at least o. ne important

factor, namely the distribution of incomes in the farm sector, a fabtor which

exerts infiuence on farm household consumption per capita. In . this case,

equation (3) becomes Axt/At 2(!' [1 ai(Ait/Nit)ci-1].......... . . . . . .(4)

In the equation, a'i indicates the weights of the various strata of the farm

household measured in terms of total productioh. The analysis of the empirical data in line with these eqtiations must

nevertheless face difEiculties which are even greater than thos~ eonfronting our sttidies in the ' previous Section. this d~rives principaliy from the

fact that, as. the Chinese authorities also recognize, the official statistics for

total agricultural produdtiofl (At) are weakly based. Under the bonditions

obtaining at the present day, when practically all attempts to arrive at an

estimated series for At whic~ would take the = place of the o~cial statistics

can never be anything more than " intellectual guesswork,?' it may .perhaps

be more prudent to work from the basis provided by the official figures such

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  production血Table8。(7)Qluantity of凱arketed food gra三魚s in Table8÷quantity of tota1£ood grain

  product三〇n estImated by Liu and Ye致。

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  product1q耳estimatcd by Y鵬鳳一li Wu.、

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Notes=(i)Agricultural income in o{琉ial series・面A・(1)一A一(3)箆fers to income ex-

clusive of the inco狙e accruing from the・・handicr諭pr6duction done by the・£arm

households. 1なcontrast,3gricα1tural i摯come i琵Liu and Yeh series孟s五nclu毒ve of it・

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(ii) The yalues of agricu.Itural incorne in A are all evaluated in terms of the 1952

prices. The values of marketed products given in Table I are in terms of curfent

prices. However, fronl the discussion in the text related to Table 5, it is evident

t.hat the accounting prices of those products paid as the Agricultural Tax in kind are

in 'fact a consfant price. Therefore, for computing the l~rarketed ratio~ of farm pro-

ducts in Serie~ a, the amounts of purchases by State and Co-operative dommerce

plus sales in the free market are converted into 1952 prices terms by the use of

the oificial, onLthe-farm price index of marketed farm products given in [27], p. 55, as deflator. To ' the conterted amouhts are added the amounts ofA~ricultural

Tax paid in kind to derive the total values of marketed farm products in the 1952

prices. With regard to the values of marketed products in Series b, the total values

shown are defiated accor,ding to the above procedure. (iii) The 1958 values of total

marketed- products in Series A are derived by assu~ning that the rate of increase in

the values from 1957 to 1958 is equal to that in Series B.

as they are, and toi look into the question of the manner in which these figures are distorted by any biase~ which may be expected to lie concealed

in them. In the present study we shall follow this course.

First, in Figure 4 we give annual series for the marketed ratio ' with total

farm sector exports as estimated in Table I as dividend, and total net incomes

from agricultural produQtion in the ofiicial estimat~S as divisor.[Lines ( l), (2),

and (3)] In the Figure the marketable rate for food grains, which may be considered tQ have great, e.r reliability in the figures for the dividend, is also

exhibited. [Line (6)] The details of the estimation are given in Table 8. Again, w. e have produced other marketable ratio series in which the figures

of T. C. Liu-K. C. . Yeh and of Yuan-1i Wu, who have ptiblished estimates to ireplac~' the ofEcial figures, are substituted for the talues in the divisor alone

(the values in the dividend'remaining the sarne as above), and these are also

exhibited in Figure l. [Lines (7), and (8)~

What thd Table conveys to us is : (i) that the ofiicial series, with the

exception pf ( l), ~xhibit similar movements in the case bf both total exports and ~rain exports and t. hat after th~ b~ginning 0.f the Five-Year Plan they

reach a. peak in 1954 and thereafter prQgressively decline, and (ii) that ~he Liu-

Ye.h series. ~xhibit moverr~ents which are markedly different from the official

series as regards total exports, and in partic. ular the movements are in the

opposite direction in 1956-1957 and theireafter. As regards grains, the values

are lower than the official series for the period of 1957 and before, and in

particular for 1954; while from 1958 movement in the opposite directioh is exhibited.

Limiting the matt~r to the estimation of food grain prQduction (the Liu-

Yeh ind. ependent ~stin~ation of. incomes from ag.ricultural production is essen-tially the rev. isiqn of the. official estimation of agricultural inc. omes in res~ect only

to the statistics f,or food grain prod; uction) we find one of the causes produci~lg

this kirld of difference in the following fac. t. Both Liu-Yeh and Wu consider

that the ofiicial statistics of 1956-1957 and before are over-estimates of actual

output and have corrected them by carrying out a " backward projection " from: 1956-1957, of such an order'as to produce more or less constant figures

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26 The Developing Economies

fot per capita food grains consumption (p~r Chinese citizen) from 1952. We, too,

recognize that there were over-estimates in the early statistics, but we think

that these do not affect the peak reached by the marketed rate in 1954 and subsequent declining trend. Another cause is the deliberate reduction of the

official figures for 1958-1959 in the estimates published in both these studies.

Over-estimation j n these two years is a matter upon IA'hich majority opinion

is in agreement, but as regards the question of whether the marketable ratio

based on corrected figures for thes6 years would be greatly in excess of that

for 1954 or not, we are, if anything, of a negative opinion.

In the same way as the grounds for the revision of the statistics under-

taken by these authors are conjectural, the observations which we have made

above are based on our own conjectures,a8 but a more decisive explanation is to be found in the examinatiorL of farmers' cohsumption behaviour which

we shall presently undertake. We think that on the basis of it we shall be

able to show that after having reached its peak in the planning period in 1954 the marketable ratio declined gehtly, and that after having again in-

creased in 1959 (this, however, is outside the period dealt with here) it declined

once more.89

88 Our position as regards the oincial statistics of agricultural output is that while we

recognize that the reliability 'of Chinese agricultural statistics is reduced by biases due

to the deficiencies in survey methods and the individualistic interests of the reporters,

attempts to replace these staiistics by certain definit~ correcied figures must, ~t present,

be limited piincipally to correcting backwards in time when land unreported with intention to evade taxation is discovered. As an instance connected with such unreported

cultivated land, it is known that as a result of the " Investigation-of-fields and Deter-

mining-of-output Work " between 1951 and 1952, the only survey of cultivated area

and volume of production carried on a national scale, at least before the end of the

First Five-Year Plan period, the existence of a large area of " black lapd " was brought

to light. ([28] first edition, p. 286.) Thirty million mou of unreported cultivated land was

also discovered in the course of agricultural co'operativization, but for statistical pur-

poses this wzis couhted as reclaimed land ([17], p. 22). On the other hand, we can cite

the inadequacy of the crop reporting system as the reason for the lack of reliability in the sta~istics for agricultural production, particularly in the initial period, but there

exist no grounds sufEcient to sup~ort the judgement that this fact produced under-

reporting on an organized scale in the initial period. Albeit that this repdrtingi system

has been successively improved, in 1957 there were still many provinccs which were not

even totaning the reports from the outlying villages, and the gaps were bcing filled with

estimated figures. From 1958 randorrL sample surveys were put into effect over the

whole country in parallel with the regular reporting system, but the methods employcd

had many defects. A deficiency in calory levels in comparison with pre.war levels of

an order which is scarcely to be believed is cited as a reason for considering the statis-

tics of the initial period to be under-estimates, but vyhether this deficiency is in fact

scarcely to be believed or not is a matter which still requires a full-sdale ~tudy.

39 the Peking correspondent of the Tokyo h4:aihichi reported a summary of M~o tse-

tung's speech at the Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee of~he Chinese Communist

P~rty (originally reported by a wall newspaper). The speech said in part that " we

haYe committed a humber of mistakes in 1959 and 1960. . . . One of the majof inistakes

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Next we shall look into the question of what were the factors producing

these movements of the marketable ratio, doing so along the lines of equations

(1) to (4) and confining our attention, as before, t6 food grains.

(1) The official data relating to change~ in the average ' at ' of total farm

households are given in Table 9. The question of the over-estimation of At

in the early period which we mentioned above applies to the estimates such

as this which set out from total production, but taking into consideration

the figures revealed by the receipt and expenditure surveys of farm house-holds and agricultural production co-operatives we think that it is unlikely for

farm household consumption to have beerl unchanged or to have declined. (2) It is extremely dif~icult to evaluate the absolute level of ' at ? with

reference to the scale of satisfaction of the farm household and an independ-

ent study is required for this matter, but in the light of a comparison with

the pr.e-war flgures estimated by J. L. Buck and shown in Table 9, the evalu-

ations made by the food administration authorities which. we shall discuss

below, and the accounts given in official publications regarding rural consumption levels,40 we think that it cannot be denied that the food consumption of the 1956-1957 Ievel still remained close to the minimum consumption level.

(3) Regarding At/Nt for average of total farm households, even assuming that the rate of increase of At is the same as that of total population, it must

be expected to show a net increase since the rate of increase of the farm pop-

ulation must be expected to have been lower than that of total population. (4) It is difficult to estimate values for c s~ long as reliable series for at

and At/Nt are unobtainable, but we surmise that at least between 1954 and 1957 the valtie of ip may well have been somewha:t greater than unity. For

the income elasticities of food grains to be greater than unity is extra-

ordipary in the light of the common-sense of international comparisQns,41

and the approximate values of the cross-section obtained from Table 10 by

an approximation methods are also less than unity (calculated from series

A-7 and A-4), but the decisive grQunds for such an estimation are to be found in our qualitative judgement regarding food policy from 1954 onward.

The latter also provides an answer to the question of the significance of

the behaviouristic equation accompanying ip to which we have referred above. As stated above, 1954 is the peak year of the marketable ratio but,

as the government itself recognized, the planned purchases in that year were clearly excessive, and the balance remaining after deducting from production the taxes paid in kind and planned purchases was not sufficient

to meet the minimum quantities required for holding by the peasantry. By the time the spring of 1955 was reached there were deficiencies in the re-

was regarding the government procurement of food gtains. . . . The quantities of the

procurement wer~ raised, byt there were in actuality not as many food grains in the

country side as would make possible such procurengent." (The Mainichi. March 9, 1967.)

40 On this subject [57] is the best source,

41 For India [39], particularly pp. 8.0-81.

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28 The Developing Economies

distribution of food grains to farm households suffering from food-shortage.

For this reason there were " Give Us Food " disturbances Over an extensive

area of China in April and May of that year, unrest in the minds of the

peasantry being a contributory factor.42 On the basis of this experience the government decided on the so-called Three Fix~ed Policy issued in the

order of August, ~1955. The points conta;ined in it which are of importance

in connexion with the matter in hand are as follows.43

a) The order fixed the amounts of normeL1-year production, purchases, and food redistribution in respect to all the far,m households in the coun-

try. The former two amounts were pegged for three years. However, provision was n)ade for the increasing of ptrchases by up to 400/0 in areas

~vith abundant harvests in case of the state being unable to maintain a balance in its receipts and disbursements of food grains as a result of the

occurrence of naturaf disasters. The zimounts of food to be redistributed

were to be fixed annually.

b) In general purchases were to be made in respect to 80-900/0 of・ surplus food grains in the possession of fariners having a surplus of food. " Sur-

plus food grains " were defined as meaning confrmed production in the

normal year minus domestic food requirements (food grains for domestic

consumption, feeding of animals, and seed) and taxes paid in kind. The quantities of food g.r~Lins alloc~ted to domestic consumption and feeding

of animals were to be =determined in accordance with the " general con-

sumption levels prevailing in each region.

Supplementary purchases in respect to the increase in productiQn ac-

cruing under these regulations were carried out with some severity at the

end of 1957, and as a result there was some increase in the volume of marketed food gtains but basically we xnay take, it that the 1955 decisions

ruled throughout.44 Further to this, the provisions laid down in April, 1958,

direct that during eadh・ of the years of the Second Five-Year Plan taxes paid. in kind and planned purchases should be stabilized at the levels of

the 1957 food year.45 It seems that these provisions were virtually abandon-

ed in 'l959, but it would appear to be clear that the spirit embodied in these various regulations consisted in a recognition of the fact that under

the conditions of the then levels of ~roduction and consumption in the farm sector it wats advantageous from th~ point of view of the National

Economy, and not merely from the point of view of the producers, to per-

mit the value of c to exceed uriity.

(5) While in the above we have been considering average values for

4z Editorials in the People's Daily, June 18, 1955 and Aug. 29, 1955. See also the Yang

Wei-Iin report in the People's Daily. June 26, 1955.

4~ [48], pp. 160-162.

44 State Council Supplementary Provisions for Controlled Purchases and Controlled Consumption of Food Grains of October 11, 1957. ([49], Vol. =6, pp. 351-354.)

45 Some Provisions of the State Council Regarding the Improvement of the Food Cdn-trol Systern of April ll, 1958. ([49], Vol. 7, pp. 281-283.)

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the farm sector. Table 10 gives the material relating to the determinants of

the marketable ratio in line with equation (4), which takes into considera-

tion changes ih inbome~ or the distribution of wealth within that class. The

basic data are derived from the Survey of Farm Households Receipts and Expenditures of 1954, but hypothetical calculations have been included fof the preceding period. The mafketable ratio declined markedly under the influence of the leyelling effect on the distribution of land exercised

by the Land Reform. Since that time changes in ' the distribution of land

have continued to occur, ~ilthough on a small scale. These changes have taken the form of a rise of peasants of the lower stratum into the middle

stratum on the one hand, and on the other hand a decline in the average area of cultivated land held by the members of each of these two strata.

We lhay suppose that the levelling of the distribution of land proceeded still further after the collectivization of 1955. This may be expected to have had the effect of lowering the marketable ratio.

As conclusions of the above examination we estimate that two factors which caused a decline in the marketable ratio on the supply side of mar-keted food grain, 'and which con~equently had a tendency to promote a net outflow of resources from the farm s~ctor, were constantly in o~eration. We

may say that the switch from a real export surplus to a real import surplus

during the period of the First-Five Year Plan, or alternatively the gradual

decline in the real export surplus, occurred with at least these two factors

included among the important factors involved.4e

IV. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Our conclusions from the above examination- may be summarized as fol-10ws.

( l) Our study is still weak from the point of view of the data employed,

but the results of our revisionary ~rork concerning net outflow and inflow

of real resources in the Chinese farm sector between 1949 and 1959 still show that the net position is that a change frorri an export surplus to an

import surplus seems to have taken place in response to the expansion of ebonomic development during the period of the First Five-Year Plan, and that it would s~~'m to be charaeterized ~)y the fact that this import surplus

grew over time.

(2) When we look into the mdvements of the marketed rate of agricultural products, particularly food grains, as one of the aggregate factors infiuencing

Suoh a net resource flow position, we find that if anything they a~peai to have

*,G Considered :in relation to future prospects, the principal factor, alongside the investi-

gation regarding consumption made in this Section, is the tendency to increased demand

fo, agricultural production godds originating in the non-agricultural sector and fequired

for the raising of agricultural productivity. The influence exerted on net transfers of

real resources can be found by inter-industry analysis. This study we shall publish at

andther opportuhity.

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30 The Developing Economies

been following a declining trend between 1954 and 1957. (3) We have carried out an examination of the farm household's behaviour

in respect to domestic consumption of agricultural products as one of the determinants of the marketed ratio of agricultural products. We have inferred

that the income elasticity of the average farm household is extremely high because the present levels of consumption of food grains in the farm household

are extremely low and because the distribution of income is being equalized.

Government cdntrol of commercialization of agricultural products during the

period was very far-reaching and powerful, but the gov~rnment was obliged

to give recognition to farm consumption behaviour in line with this income

elasticity. There was a danger that if the government repressed this to an excessive degree there would be a decline in the farmer's desire to increase agri-

cultural production and there ~vould eventually be social unrest. 1954, which

represented the peak attained by the marketed ratio, ~vas the year in which this kind of situation revealed itself. (It appears that the same situation also

arose in 1959 and 1960.) A comprehensive examination of determining factors

has not been carried out, but at the beginning of Section 111 a summary is

given of the broad conclusions reached in studics conducted as a preliminary

to the investigation of the importance in China of such factors as rate of population increase, rate of rise in the productivity of labour in agriculture,

its marginal fixed capital coeflicient, and the inducement effect of centralized

investm~nt on local investment. Considering these iTl association ~vith the

conclusion given under (3) above, it would appear that these are conformable

with the results of statistical examination of outflow and inflow of real capital

resources given under ( l).

What implications, then, do these conclusions have for the question of the mobilization of development funds for the developing countries in general,

and especially for the mobilization of funds for ilidustrialization ?

(a) One of the largest features of China in comparison with other countries

on the way to development is that in China the market mechanism is much more strongly subject to limitations and that the socialization of the economic

unit, including that of the farm household, is advancing mbre rapidly. Con-

sidering this in relation to the subject dealt with in this article, one aspect which is subject to direct influence from these features is the aspect

relating to the consumption behaviour of the farm household. Contrary to expectation, however, even under the conditions imposed by this institutional

background the government has been unable entirely to negate farmers' be-haviour in relation to food consumption, and it has been obliged to maintain

the psychological stability of the peasantry and to give recognitiorL to the

operation of peasant income elasticity in relation to food consumption within

the limits necessary for the maintenanct of incentives to increased production.

We must look for the basic causes producing such a situation in those initial

conditions characteristic of contemporary developing countrics, conditions

represented by a low level of agricultual production and a low level of peas-

ant consumption. Because bf tbcse, it is only with great di~iculty that the

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restrictions imposed on the marketihg of agricultural produdts can be over-

come, notwithstanding the advantages produced by institutional reforms. Conversely, again, it may happen that institutional reform (through its equal-

izing effect on the distribution of incomes) will strengthen these restrictions.

(b) Arnong the other principal factors influencing outflow and inflow of capital resources in the farm sector, too, there are included such factors as

will promote a net outflow of resourcesi rather than t~1e rdverse, under the conditions of institutional reform. Viewed as a whole, however, the

gre~Lter part of these promote a net inflow of capital resources under the

special initial conditions of economic development common to developing countries at the present day. When we evaluate the. resultants which have

emerged from the improved statistical studies of resources outflow and inflow

in China against the background of this kind of examination of determining

factors we are led to think that we should support all the more strongly the opinion that perhaps it may be very dif~cult to look to the farin sector

for the capital funds required for industrialization in the course of the development of the backward countries of the piesent day. (c) If we assume that it will be very dif~cult to depend on the farm sector

for the funds required in industrialization, we must answer the question of

whence the primitive accumulation funds in the development process in the developing countries at the present day are to be provided. I thirik that in

those developing countries of the present day ~rhich were either colonies or

semi-colonies in the past the legacy from the colonial period docs much to fulfll this function. This includes not only social overhead capital but also

ditectly productive investment (such as Japanese investment in manufacturing

and mining in Manchuria). There is. no doubt that the wealth of merchants and financiers made available out of the circulatory process also occupies a

considerable proportion. However, I wish to leave studies of these questions

to the future.

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Table1.AGRICULTURAL SECTOR EXPORTS IN RELATION TO

1950      1951      1952

1・Commodity Exports l,Payment of Agricu玉tural Taxes in Ki且d

 2. Sales of Agricultural and Farm Subs1diary    Industry Products to State Commercc3nd    Cbnsumers’Co・operat1ves

3. Sales on Free Market

呵二器脚IL Commod呈ty Imports

  l  Industria真Products Purchased

2。

3.

4.

(1)

(2)

From State Commerce頒d Co-operatives

From Fre6Market

2.20

{(A)

(B)

{(A)

(B)

{(A)

(B)10。20

{(A)

(B) 8。0

(A)

2.85

7.68

3.96

14。49

13.35

11.64

茎0.50

3.07

10.31

6.48

5.30

6。49

18.68

16.04

15.61

12。97

9。44     10.47

1.34      4、32

8.10     6.15

i)Pr・ducti・nG・・dsPurchased {留α731㊥ 141

超,、器鼎器、9鐙,講sed l盤   、認i) State Food Distribut互6n

ii)OthersState Investme血t in CaPital Construction                           O,60

Tota1、                                       15.30

Procedures: 1-1 For1950-1957:Figures are obtaiΩed by deducting taxes paid in cash

£rom total agricultural taxes and loca1 菖upPlementary taxes by fisca1(calendar)years as

shown in[28L pp.153,199。The Agr1cuItural Taxes paid hl cash are given in pp,114and・

168-1690f l281.The proportion to total Agricultural Tax is assumed to be applicゆ1βin

the case of thdocal supplementary taxes also.,For1958;[33】,p。2L The sum of the

Agricultural Tax and local supplementary taxes is published as being37thousand mi1Hon

粥伽,The figure in the Table has been calcu量ated by deduction at the rate of payment

in kind in,respect to Agricultural Tax in1957,85%。 For1959:[341、The sum Ievied as

Agricultural Tax w換s3。3thousand mill圭on2即η, This is the same as the6gure given

in the1959budget given in[341。 It is assumed that the local taxation budget of O,磁

thousand mi1Honフ吻~was similarly the same as in that budget。The且g皿e in the Table

is arrived at by multiplying the total of3。74thousand millionク撚πby the same coefHcent

of85%。As stated in the text,there is a distinction between budgetary and tax-revenue

years in the Agricultura夏Tax accounting,and it is clearly三ndicated that these ngures for

1959appertain to the former category,but since the level of taxation was stable we have

reason to suppose that these figures were the same as those for the tax・revemユe year.

1-2一(A)The figures in this series are derived fmm the6gures published by the State

Statistical Bureau up to 1958。(The same三s the case hcreinunder。〉The Representative

sources are=(a)[581,pp.4一フ,(b)[631an{1[641,pp.24ff.,(c)【671,pp.28-29.Among

these, (a)and (b)give the“total value of agrまcultural products taken by purc五ase by

Society。” Figures fbr “total value of agricultural products taken by purckase by State

Commerce and Co・operative Commerce,’can be elicited with the help of a sまmple assump一

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NON・AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND BREAKDOWN(iuthousandmil1玉onグ鋸4π)

1953     1954      !955     1956      1957     1953-57     1958     1959

                                   Total

2.80       3.04       3.00       2.68

8.19     12。10     12、96     13.32

8.85      5.96      5.92      6.58

19.84

18.12

17.0を

15,32

21.10

20.40

18.06

17.36

2L8920.80

18.89

17.80

22」23

21.〔B

19.55

18.40

2.93

15.62

14.92

6.28

5.36

24.83

23,21

21.90

20.28

14.45      3,15      3.18

62。19

58、20      18。8      24.10

33.25

30.96       3.96

109.89

103.61     25.91

95.44

89.16     22.76

12.99

7.37

5.62

2。65

1.92

10.34

4.70

2.73

1.97

0.77

18.46

14.76

8.4婆

6.32

3.00

2,50

11,76

4.84

3.10

1.74

0.42

20.02

15.14

9.15

5.99

3.10

2.82

12.04

8.90

3.27

5.63

0.62

24.66

17。19

10.12

7.07

4。52

3.70

12.67

9.20

3,70

5.50

1.19

27.18

16,82

12.43

4.39

3.96

3.26

12.86

9.70

3,90

5.80

1.19

27.71

76.90

47。51

29.39

17。23

14.20  6,68  8.1559。67

37.34

16.70

20.64

 4.19      2.63

118.03       34.20

tion if it is assumed that these transact玉ons take place at the same pr…ces as those of

other transactions on the free market。 This assumption is not realistic but it is an

assumpt呈on which is三mplied when as a pract玉cal question we apply the same taking.by.

purchase pr…ce index to the total value taken by purchase by Society・

1-2一(B)The figures in this series are derived from theβgures published by the State

Statistical Bureau since1959.(The same is the case hereinunder。)Representative sour¢es

are;(d)【551and(e)[51】, Tke且gures for 1958and before in this series are derived from

these sources、 The figures for l959 have been extrapolated with the rates of圭ncrease

over the previous year given in[81,P.32。

1-3 These figures representcd the difference between I-4一(b)and I-2・Among them,source

(c)u皿der I-2一(A)prov五des a ckeck for the1953-56最gures of thε1-3一(b)ser量es三皿重he恥rm

of五guires for value of agricultural pr、oducts sold in the f士ee market evaluated in terms of

retail prまces.These sums(together with purchase and retail price margins)are as follows:

In1953,9.97thousand million廻απ(12・7%),in1954,7・02thousand millionン即π(17・8%),

in1955,6。804thousand m玉11ion鐸αη(14.9%),and in1956,7。499thousandク鋸餓(里4。0).

14 (a)Series。Totals made on the assumption that the value of purchases・by State

Commerce and Co・operatives under I-2do not include taxes levied in klnd u血der the

Agricultural Tax,1-L(b)Series. Tot換ls made on the assumption that I-2represents

ρollected figures including tQtal of I-1・ Thi3mea皿s that the “total value of agricultural

products taken by purchase by Socicty”in source(a)and thc“total value of agr五cultur換1and

farm subsidiary,量ndustry products taken by purchase”in source(d)correspond to this total。

II4~II-2 The sources used in the estimation of these五gures are give夏aot、in terms of

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farm sector but in te㎜s of the rural(nung・ts‘un)sector,and至n order to make them

compamble with the figures in the items under I above,they have all been adjusted to

figures for the agricultural sector by using the proportion betΨeen agricultural produc-

tion and rural population・As regαrding the determining of this proportion,(1)annual

average rural population丘gures are given in [59],PP,24-25 αnd [66】,PP。6-9;(2)Ggures

for “£arm population,,in 1952 and 1956 are given in[361, PP.34-41; andく3) £rom

thcse two we have found the proportions in the two years1952and1957(94・9% and

93.2%)and have extrapo!ated by equal difference for the other years.

II-1一(1)既nd(2)These五gures are calculated from sQurces(a)and(b),They rest on the

same assumptions as I-2一(A).

II-1-i一(A),II-1-ii一(A),and IL2.Basic換11y these are derived from the五gures given in

accordance witk the preliminary accounts of the Head OHice of the Chinese Consumers,

Co嬬operatives as given in[101。 For the significauce of these figures,scc[271,PP. 175-180・

The points requ三ring commentary玉n this connexion are the50110wing l1)The general

framework of the series of丘gures given here is that of the“value of rural retail com・

modity trad血g”witLin the“total value of retail commodity trading in Society。,,As

stated in the textラit is clea』r that since 1957changes have been m批de in the content of

this concept regarding the・“farmers’ trade” and “production goods for rural areas”

and the series used hcre date from beforβthis time。 Consequently,we have speci且ed

these as the A series in accordance with the distinction between A and B series as in the

section I of the Table,but even so at Ieast one great ch&nge in the estimation of“rural

retai玉commodity trading”has been made in the period covered.This Oh‘u・Ghu series

dates from before this change,and as ser玉es dating from after the change,we have the

series derived from source(a)under I-2-A。Comparing these two sets of value for“ruraI

retail commodity trading”we get the following.(in thousand millionク襯η)

                            1953     1954     1955     1956     1957

   Statistical Research Series               21.61  24.56  24.81   Ch‘u-Chu Series              18.38    20,83    25.60    28.27

1n the Table the Ch‘u・Ghu series has been adopted because of its value in providセ}g a

breakdown of the value of retail trading、 2)As regards the“total valuc of rural retail

com魚odity trading1’£or other years obtained from the Ch‘u-Chu series,we have based

ourselves on the following.For1957the且gure has b㏄n arrived at by assum三ng that the

ratio be伽een the Statistical Research series and the Ch‘u-Chu series in1956as in the

preceding paragraph was applicable to1957.For1952we have followed the statementappearing in lllI,p・27that the rate Qf increase in value6f rural retail commodity trading

between1952and 1953was18・4%・Regarding1958it is stated in[30】,p・30that thevalue of rural retail commodity trading in I958had increased by more tぬan20%overI957。This is clearly a(B)series figure,but we have arrived at our丑gure on the assump●

tion,thattheratioisthesameasintheAseries.II-1-i一(B)The丘gures are derived from l551,p。150and[291,

II-2-i The五gures for“volume of foo(1grains supplied by the State to the rural areas’,

(ih terms of hsi4iang,not including beans)for the period from1953to1956(expected)are

given in[571.On the other hand,it is stated in l441that the margin between contr611ed

purchase and consumers’price for food in thc rural area between1953and1959remainedconstant at around8%,We regard the controUed purchase price as being the same astぬe conversion price used in fisca1a(1m1nistration、 From this we can fi且d the value of

total rural redistribution。This is adjusted to apply to the agricultural sector in accordance

甫tll procedure given abo》e, For other years we have est三mated on the basis of the

reported l76.4thousand mi11ion catties(threshed weight)sold to the mral areas over丘ve

years as mentioned in,final QHicial report o訟,the Firstマive-Year Plan by the State Statis騨

tical Bureau,and on the丘gures in t壱rms of food years given in the Table.

HI-2-ii [271,p.162,

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T8ble2。 BREAKDOWN O』F MARKETED PRODUCTS OF AGRICULTURE ANDFARM SUBSIDIARY INDUSTRY PRODUGTS(at Pmducers,Prices)                           (inthousandmillion鐸α”)

1953 1954

Actual             ActualF三gurepe「centagcFigurepe「centagc

L Value of Agricultural Tax Levied in Kind

   a. Food Gmins

   b.Raw Cotton   c.  Others

2.Value of Plan皿ed Purchase Goods Supplied

   a.Food Grains

   b. Raw Cotton

   c, Oil-bearing Crops

3.Value of Purchases of Goods under   U皿ified Purchase

塗.Value of Sales in Free Market

   a, Planned Purchase Goods

   ヒ:9欝d認haseG。。ds }

5.Tota1

2,80&

2.54b

O.20b

O.06b

5.30c

3.66e

1.15f

O.49f

2.89α

8.85&

1.16c

7.69d

19。84&・

14.!

12.8

1.0

0。3

26.7

18.4

5.8

2.5

14.6

44.6

5.8

38.8

100.0

3.04&

2.80b

O.16b

O.08b

7.3互c

5.246

1.44f

O.63f

4.78α

5.96乱

’0.36c

5.60d

21.10巳

14.4

13.3

0.8

0.4

34.6

24.8

6。2

3.0

22。7

28.2

1.7

26.5

100.0

Remarks3a.Fr6m Table1.b,Figures calculated from[281,pp.168-169,189.It has bcen assumed that the propor葡

tions occupied by each item in the Agricultural Tax and tbe local supplementary taxcs

are the same.As the unit price,we have used the accounting pr三ces used in budgeting

as shown in Table5.

c. Fまgures taken directly £rom [671.

α。Differences between figures marked“a”and6gures marked“c”.A3a result of a

check it has been made clear that the且gures given in【671and[581,have been arrived

at by tむe same est玉mat量on procedure.

e.Prod皿ct of food purchases by State and Co・operative Commerce shown in Table8

and the accounting prices used in budget三ng given in Table5、

f。 Arrived at by proportional div三s呈on of the balance remaining after deduction of mar-

keted value of food grains from value of pl&nned purchase goods supplied by the gross

output ratio for cotton and oil・bearing crops (0.7=03)given in respect to these 惚o

years in[351,p、397.This amount to assuming that the ratios between value suppHed

and value produced were the same in these two years,In I953 this ratio was50。0%

and in l954,69.4%,figures which are a good deal lower than those given i夏【651,p、13,

namely, 74,9%  in the 1952 cotton year,79。8%  量n the 1953 cotton year, and 73。7%  in

the195蛋cotton year,We may add that the marketed portions of these twoαops are

equal to the value supplied with the addition of the value sold in the£ree market圭E

series4-a。(Excluding value of food sold。Assum血g that the rat1o betwee夏va1腿e supp践ed

and value of sales in free market remained the same over these three years・)

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Tab!e・3.

TゐθD即θ」ρμπg Eooπ07雇θ5

STATE COMMERGE AND SUPPLY AND MARKETINGCOiOPERATIVES’PURCHASE OF FARM ANDSUBSIDIARY PRODUCTS

価血i皿重o血押η)

1952   1953   1954 1955  1956 (total)

A。Total Pμrchases by Supply and    Market量ng Co甲o裏》eratives

    L OnO加nAcOo題血t

    2。As St斧te Agents

B.Total Purchases by State Co魚merce

1. On Own Account

   2.Throhgh‘S賦pply and MarketiΩg        Co-operat量ves,

d. Total Purchase by CO・operatives and

    State Commcrce

3,882

 8132,887

重L a.

5,629

1,385

4,244

n.a.

nφag  n。a.

2,8874,244

7,937

1,826

6,111

{7,638

7,362

{1,5271,25互

6,111

a・a・n・島 {3;縄

nのa.

1,875

n.a。

ng a.

nのa.

血.a,

n.a。

4,594

3,037

1,557

訂.a,

nじaD

1,557

n.ap

Note;AsfortheHgureswfittednparallelintheseveralcolumnsBandC,since孝tiswritten in[15]“St飢e Agency Purchases of1954(value of purchases by state commerce)

amounted to more than80% of totai state taking in by purchase,”the ratiQs there of are

shown iゑto the two cases of80%and83%,

S6uf66s: 【151,[gl,a血d [50]ゴ£or6ach ye註r.

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T8ble4. CASH INCOME AND EXPENDITURE IN SURV耳y OFFARM INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

1954 1955

TgtaLI血Comc Cask hcome C箏h

IncO孤e

AveゴagβPer Avcrage Per AU働China・Hou霞ehold Household Hou蔑eholds

(壷απ)( (t響)

Average PerH:ousehold

(即π)

A.Income L Agr至cultural顛comc

   a・qrqp Husba旦dry

   b。 Ani恥al Husbandw

 2。Subsidi軍y In¢ustry hcome・

   a・ qo翼ect加g,Fisb㎞9,Hu箆ting

   b・ Pアclimiロary,CroP proc¢ssi畢9

       and・Handierafts

   c,旦hiゆ奨9,Tra亘5P・甑ti・n

       andCommerce

 3.Othe翠Ipcome(fromwages,!eases     andrqmittaロccs)

B。Expe臓ditqre・

   Expe旦d玩ur¢q無Prp¢翠ctio且Gqods

   Exp醇喚di亀urβgn M¢aロs for

     LivcHぬood

   Paymgnt of T4xe3

   0thers

1.

2。

3.

4.

692.9

420.6

172.8

99.5

667.7

156.2

454。0

35.4

22.1

263.1

138.4

96.8

41.6

33.4

 7.9

6.7

18.8

91.3

225.0

55,9

一M2.5

 5.5

 22.0

30.9

16,3

11.7

4.9

3.9

0.9

0.8

2。2

10,7

26.些

6.5

16.7

0,6

2,6

2些7.6

115.4

79.8

35.6

2些.5

 5.3

7.9

1,0.3

107.7

Notc;The oxpa聡sion to aμ・China hpuscholds has be㎝arr五vod at by mαltiplying t軸c

average五gU螂per housβhold byむhc number of farm熱ousψolds三n Chin&血出atyear,117。33、川i塒Qn。』Singe嘘he sμrv曼y was conducted byミan¢o界sam章1ing,it may憂e

considered皿ore represe臥tativc tha血 other a!トChina surveys・ 4breakdαwn of cash ex-

penditurc is、give臓o耳ly血・t車e ca鴫of the po耽至on sp㎝t on pur{毒h灸se of cqmmo(!ities,t尊柔s

comprisi具g27β%多or p喚p4聾c填on-gqods a且d72.2%£or皿e孕ns for Hveli虹ood. Und曳r

“oth¢rs”・β塾c incl騨d畦d wag弓葺to夏ired agricultural夏aboqr・P灸X寧{壌ts in re蔑pect to loa尊sρf

mc飢sf・τP竃ρducti。阜・dμties、卿蜘隅1sewices・圭ntcrest・.9ifts・貧pd・therexpenditures・ltis

琿sumedゆat aI1婁h馨c c茜p㎝4iturcs ar6i昇,cash,and,sin¢c wβgaIquIate the non・agriculturaI

portion of垣x payln¢靴s(p頃d二in casb)司t15哩5%in ac¢rd鱒ce with[28】,p,189,we皐鍵ve

included・thatp瞬ioロi蝕theacco鷲臓t・景scashexpe雌tu奪e・

sources3 16Pl,PP.3導 ¢.鱒¢1221,PP。9τ証・

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1950

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l-Ch

加a 

Agri

cult

ural

    Products Pu

rc}}as

es I豆

dex3

(or

igin

a1董nd

ex w匡

th!

952=

1QO

  

  

conv

erte

d 

to 

195

0==

100)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

                 100

 5.

Aver

age 

Gove

mme豆

t Purchase 

Prices 

according 

to Ronald Hsia4

 8.

50 

  

8。50

  

 8.

57 

  

8.57

  

 8.

52・ 

 8.

48 

  

8.60

100.

1  

100.

1  

 101.

0  

 !

Ol.

O  

 IOO.

4  

 99.9   101.3

:!7.

3   122.

7   131.

9

120.

7139.

7

8.46

  

 8。

67 

  

8.33

  

 8.

60

9.09

  

 9。

31 

  

8.94

  

 9.

24

8.46   8.

67   8.

33 

  8.60

10。

43 

  

10.

03 

  

9.06

  

 9.

37 

  

8.98

  

 9.

56 

  

9.55

 8,

87 

  

8.53

  

 8.

67 

  

8.03

  

 7.

65 

  

8.1!

  

 8.

21

101.

1  

 97

.2 

  

98,

8  

 91

.5 

  

87.

2  

 92.

5  

 93。

6

111.

6

6、24 

  

6.72 

  

6。46 

  

6.67

122.

5

§ 恥 b ミ ゆ ξ 養’

』 蜜 菖 §. 鴇

Notes 

and 

Sources:

L Ca

lcul

ated

£ro

m th

e ac

coun

ts of 

the 

Agricultα

ral 

T亀x・

in 

terms 

of 

hsi・

1五ang 

andク

熈η

currency 

given in l281,

pp.153,

!89,and丘

om the 

amount levieα

op raw 

cotton expressed’

in terms 

of cotton a馳

d of hs三4量

ang 

inl[

281,

pp.128,

177。

2。 3. 4. 5.

P80ρ

Z8,

5Dα

歪融

, Mar

c五 1,

 19

54、

[271,

p.55。

【17】

,p.

49.

Calc腿lated三

by 

A-1×

B-L

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T3ble6.REAL IMPORT-EXPOR.

T BALANCE 

OF THE 

FARM SECTOR

1952    1953    1954    1955    1956    1957

A.Value 

of Re

al Im

por

ts-Ex

por

ts at

 l952Pr置

ces(

thousand 

millionク

襯π

  1。

 Exports=

 1。

Agricultural Tax(

呈n 

kind)

          2. Exports 

via 

the 

Mark

et:a.

.se

ries

(A)

     

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 b.

sef三

es(

A)

  

  

      3。

『ro

taL 

a,se

ries

(A)

     

  

  

  

  

  

 b。

Series(

A)

  

  

  

  

  

  

 (

Purchase 

Price 

Inde

x fo

r Pr

oduc

ts of

 Ag

r至cu

ltur

e

              an

d Sub

sidi

arie

s)

  IL  Imports:

 1.

 Manu£actured 

Good

s

     

  

  

  

  

(Reta圭

1Price 

Index 

for 

Rural 

Manufactured Goods)

  

  

  

  

  

2。Ag

ricu

ltur

al 

Pro

ducts

          3.

State 

Investment in

 Ca

pita

l Co

nstr

ucti

on

             (Go

nstr

ucti

on Cos

ts 

Index 

for 

St換

te騨

Operated 

Enterprises)

     

  

  

 4.

Tota

l

 II

I、Va

lue 

of 

Impo

rt 

Surp

lus:

a.se

ries

  

  

               b.

series

3.07

15.

61

12.54

18.

68

15.

61

(100。

0)

 10。47

(100.

0〉

 4.

23

 0.

60

(100。

0)

 15.30

-3.

38

-0.

31

2.80

15.48

12.

93

星8.

28

15.73

3。04

15.87

13。

20

18.

91

16。24

3。00

16.69

14.04

19.69

17.

04

2.68

16.77

14.47

19.45

17.15

2.93

17.

89

15.50

20.

82

18。

43

(110,

1)(113.

8)(113.

2)(116。

6)(122・

4)

 13.19   14。73 

  14.93   17.12   16.56

(98.

5)(

1002〉

(101.4)(100.4)(10L6)

 4.

26    4.

25  

  7.

86    7.

89    7.

92

 0。

81    0,

48  

  0.

75    1.

47    1.

荏9

(94

.6)

 (

87.

0) 

(83.

0) 

(8LO)

 (

80・

0)

 18.

26 

  

19.

45 

  23.54   26.48   25.97

-0.

02 

  

 0。

54 

   3、

85    7.

03    5,

15

 2.

53 

  

 3.

21 

   6。

50    9.

33    7.

54

B。

Real 

Impo

rts

・Ex

port

s三

簸ter

ms 

of19

36-37Prices(

thousand 

m三1賦

o皿劃

απ

  

1。 Exports=

a,series(A)

  

       b.

series(A)

    

  

  

  

  

(Exp

ort 

Pr三

ce 

Inde

x)

  

IL  

Imports

  

   (Impo耽Price 

Index)

 IIL 

Val

ue 

of Im

por

t Sur

plu

s:a,se

r三es(

A)

  

   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

b.ser

ies(

A)

 8.

17

 6.

83

(228。

6)

 4.

62

(331.

3)

_3.

55

_2.

21

 8.

00    8.28   

 8.

62 

  

 8.

54 

  

 9,

18

 6。

87    7.09   

 7.

4委 

  

 7.

51 

  

 8.

10

(247.

9)(254.

9)(253,

8)(260.

3)(270・

5)

 5.

48    5.84   

 7.

16 

  

 7.

88 

  

 7.

85

(33

6.6)

  (342,9) 

 (

344.

6) 

 (

344.

9) 

 (

353,

2)

一2.

52 

  

-2.

64 

  -1.

46   -0.

66   -1.

33

-1.

39 

  

-1.

25 

  -0.

28    0.

37   -0.

25

Note

s= Fo

r a 

gene

ral 

acco

unt 

of 

the 

proc

edur

es 

empl

oyed

 呈

職the compila

tion

 of 

thi

s Ta

ble,

see 

the

 te

xt(

pp,

14ff

.)

Inde

x£gures 

under 

A from[

27】

,PP。

55,

7LImport 

price in4ex under 

B calculated by

 th

e fo

llow

ing 

pro-

cedures:

 1)

 In

dex fi

gure

s ar

e g五

vea

 as be

low

 in 

出e 

annual 

price・

1nde

x fo

r wh

oles

ale 

comm

odit

ies 

in 

T三entsin(

classi盒

ed 

according

to de

gree

 of

 pr

oces

sing

)wi

th July,1936to 

June 

1937 

as 

base

peri

od co

mpil

ed by

 th

e In

stitute of 

Economics,

Nank‘

ai 

Uni-

versity,

 In 

fact 

these 

annual 

figure

s for 

1952 are 

averages of

the 

mont

hly 

inde

x丘gu

res 

for 

Janu

ary-

March,

buち

as 

shown 

inthe 

example 

in Figure2,

these 

mont

hly-prices are markedly

淘 魯 ミiii き 忌 無 竃 ミ 餌 頓 §

. ミ 鳶 貸 鳶 ミ 義 ぎ § 論 港 娼

Page 38: RESOURCE FLOW BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY

stab

lo 

a亡d 

so 

theゾ

are 

used 

to 

represent 

the 

wholeゾ

ear.

(1血

dex

βgures 

converted 

to Ne

w Pe

oplc

,s粥

απ)

  1.

 Ag

ric

ultur

al 

pfoducts 

  

  

        227、

88  2.

 Ot

灯er 

agr

icultu∬

盗l 

pτoducts 

  

  

  

  

  

  14

9.98

  3.

Anim創

products 

        22

4.25

  4.・F6rcstryIp

r6du

ctS 

        518も

07 

 5.

Manufactur王ng lndustry consumptio皿good

s494

.72

  

6.

 Man

acturing 

industry 

productionε

σods 

  33

8・76

 2)

 In 

order 

to m欲

ke up

 a 

Paasc

he ty

pe in

dex

 for 

fa㎜

crs’

reご

efvi

ng 

pric

es 

and£

armers,

paying 

prices 

with1952weights

usin

g th

es¢ βgur

e怠,

・蜘

e ha

ウe,

in 

the 

case 

of 

far

mers,

卸eceiving

pri66

忌,ap

倉1i

dd to 

the呂

bove 

commodity 

groups 

the 

weig

h£s 

O.80

to gr

oup 

1,0。

06to 

group

2,

0。12

to 

grou

p3,

and 

O。02to 

group

4。Th

ese 

weig

hts 

have 

been 

d6termined 

bearing 

i且m1nd the

comp

osit

ion 

we三

g五ts

 fo

ゴto

tal 

agr

icul

tura

l 

cons

umpt

ion 

in 

I27】

p.50

,wh

翌c 

i貸dudi喀

sdme 

conjectures、

The 

synth

esized1ndex

堤gu

re fb

r195

2com

es 

out 

at2

28。

56.

As 

rega

rds 

the量

ndex

 of

£armers,pay圭

ng P鍍

ccs,

 t賊

s ha

s be

en ca

lcul

ated

 ta

king

 in

toco

ns玉

dera

tion

 th

e co

mpos

itio

n by

 mo

nths

 of 

the

 value 

of 

im-

ports

 i且

.19

52a

s g董

ven 

in 

Tab19粟

, 

and 

apPlying to

 th

e ab

ove

co血mod

葺tソgr

oUps

ち11

e 

w4g

hts 

O.

57to 

glou

p5,

0。

15to 

group6,

and O.28 

to the

 price焦

(1e叢

 for 

agricultural 

prod

ucts

(4P

Prox

-im

atcd

 fr

om 

the

 ind

exσ

f£ar

m愈rs

’τ

ecei

vi豆

g pri

ces)

。The 

syn-

thesized index6gure

 co

mes 

out 

at33

1。30

。 

3)We have 

co面pil6d 

by th¢

following methbd言

indi

ces 

for

£ar

mers

’re

cei

vin

g an

d 

payin

g口

rices

『fo

r195

2-

57and 

have 

Hnked

them

 at

1952

with

 the漁

dicds血

the 

preceding 

para

graph.

Asrega

rds

垣rm

ers,

receiving 

prices,

we 

have 

synthesized the 

pur-

chas

e i血

dex 

£or

 ag

ricU

ltur

al 

and 

subs

孟di

ary 

pro

duc亡

s give且

unde

r A-

1-3 an

d th

e pr

i¢e 

in¢

ex 

fqで

agf

icul

tura

l 

products 

pa三

das

 Ag

ricul

tural

 Ta

x(priGe 

un益

ズed 

in 

accordan¢

e wi

th th

e su

p-

position i豆

tbe 

text)with t塾

e we三g翁

t O。

836=

0.164f

Gr 19

52。Tk

arm

ers’pay

ing

 price玉

ndex 

has 

been 

synthesized 

from

 th

e re

taiI

price

 i無

dex 

for 

rura1血

anufactured 

goods 

given 

under 

A-II

-1,

the con

str

uctio

皿co

sts 

index 

given 

under 

A-II-

3,a血

d th

e pu

r-

chase 

index 

for 

agri

cult

ural

 an

d s腿

bsid

iary pfod

雇ct

s given 

under

A-1-

3with 

the 

weig

hts 

Q.68

,0.

04,and

 O2

8for

1952

  

  

  

  

      19

52  19

53  195

4  19

55 

 1956 

 1957

 F含

r血ers

,r6

de玉vi

ng 

 pr

ice 

inde

x(P8

)  

  

100 

108・

4  

111・

5 111・

0 

 113

・9 

 118。

3

 Fa

童m6

rs,pay

ing

  

pr丑

ce互

ndex

(P恥

) 

  

 10

0  

101.

6  

103,

5  

104.

0  

104。

1 106』

6

Table7」

・TR

ANSF

ERS 

OF 

REAL

 F】

[寅

ANCIAL

RESOURCFES 

AND 

TERMS 

OF「

密RADE 

EFF豆

CT,

1957

           (in thoUsa塾d mi職on鐸αη)

 (

A)

Base Year

 1952

 (

B)

BaseY白

af 

1939-

37

L Va!ue of Rea1(】ommodity Imports=

   ハ4/

Pη塾一E/

P8 aseries

bseries

4.37(

5。15

6。94(

7.54

2.Va1鵬

of Transfゑrs of Real F三

nancial

   Re

sour

ces=

(M-

E)/P㎜

        a8eries 

            2.

43

        b 

series               4.

91

3.Va1α

e of 

Transfer 

of 

Resourcβ

s due

   to Terms 

of Trade 

Effect:

   (EIPθ

)(Pθ

/P初

一1)

  

  

  

  

aseries

bseries

2.30

2.03

一L33

一〇.25

0.82

1.64

一2.

15

一1.

90

Notes=

The£

ormula£

or 

calculation 

is 

given 

in Section1。The

calc

ulat

ion 

data

 ar

e fr

om Ta

bles

 l 

and6.

The6gures 

ill 

cqlu四n(

A)11ave 

been calculated 

o且the basis of

the 

inde

x且gu

res 

give

且in

 Ta

ble5

, no

te B一(3)・ Tも

e 

figures 

in

Section 

l of 

the 

Table 

show 

the 

results 

of 

calcul

ation 

given 

i皿

Table5.

 As 

regaで

ds 

the 

calculation 

of 

the 

va夏

ue of the 

feal

impo

rt su

rplu

s i取

Tabl

e 6,

 si

nce 

it is a synthesis 

of 

rea腫

zed

丘gures 

employing血

dex 

figures 

for 

each 

groロ

p in

 the 

composi、

tlon of五mports and 

exports,

it naturaIly 

produces some degree

of deザiation from th¢resu玉ts of calculation 

giveぬin this Table・

8 § 恥 b き 匙 愚 誌 尊 § § §’

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R650Z6名‘6EZO四6θ渉四6θノ~!i8ア∫‘%㌃%7θ4π41π4π5〃tソ 41

Tableε.MARKETED RATIO OF FOOD GRAINS

搬lu翻Agricultura1士axLevied SoldtoS臨器£o冒opc「ative

(1)

Absolute            Absolutc       (2)/(1)×100Figure

(2)    (3)

        (4)/(1)×100Figure(4)    (5)

1950

1951

1952

182.O

I97.7

226.6

24.2

29.6

32.1

13,3

15。0

14.2

10.1

20.1

30.2

5.5

10.2

13.3

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

229.2

240.3

259.5

27L5275.3

31.2

32。0

32。6

29.6

31.2

13,6

13.3

12.6

10.9

1L3

42.7

6!。2

55.0

44,0

56.8

18、6

25.5

21.2

16.2

20.6

!953-57 Total  I,275.8 156.6 12.3 259。7 20.4

1958

1959

371.0

400.8

37,6

38.0

10.1

9.5

66.5

79.4

17.9

19.8

Estimation Procedures;

 (1) In[281,PP・128,177,the value of total food productiou,including beans,is given

ill terms of hsi-liang。From this we have fQund the total food production,excludillg soybeans,

hl terms of hsi・1iang,by employing the conversion rate from weighed beans to hsi・Hang

given in l681,namely10L5%.The五gures for1958and!959.have been  calculated using the

conversion ratc from gross food gra血s(yUa夏四liang)to hsi-liang give紅in【281,namely72.4%・

 (2) In【28」,PP。114・ 168-169,五gures for the amount’of Agricultural Tax lcvied in food

grεしins(in hsi4iang『terms)are given for1950 to 、1957。 Since these do not includc Iocal

supp1㎝entary taxes we have used the data■egard血g total loc飢supplementary taxes

g圭ven in[281,pp。153,189,and have・expanded the.行gures、寵o include locaLsupplementary

taxes卜assuming that the proportion of these taxcsユevied in£ood gねins was the.same as in

tぬe case o鉦he Agr三cultural Tax.丁血e£gures foτ1958have been est圭mated on、the.basis

of the statement in{33】,p、21,that in1958the Agricultural Tax and local supplementary

taxes amounted to3。7thous鋤d millio瞼鋼απ. For the.purposes of estimation we have

assumed thaいthc proportion of、Agricultural Tax a職d supplemcntary taxes..levicd in

food grai且s was84・55%,the average for the period of』血e.First Fivc-year Plan,and that

’血e budgeted un呈t price pcr・100‘h言陀of hsi曽1iangT・was♪8.5壬2クμα諺ンthc ave聾age for the periQd

of the FirsレFive・Ycar Plan..The.6gure obtained737.6 thousand milliQn 6属π,represents

a血ipcrease・of20,5%over1957,and is agood deal more lth鍛expected4.5%meationed in

[31】,p..6、 For1959it is stated in[34しヱthat the・三ncome from tllc Agricultural Tax was

3.3thousa且d.mi田onク襯π,Thisξs tぬe same as the丘gure given.油1331.We assume that

thc budgcted local supplementary taxes were also the same,at O,4をthousand mi11ion J麗π、

Wc convert thc total of3.7益thousand m三IliQnクααη』i箕to t駐e q犠antity Qf food.grains lcviむd

in payment of taxes(in terms.of lhsi-Hang)by the5ame proccdure as above、

 (4)For1953マ1955εWc、ぬave sub繊c亡ed t五e痘gurcs重鷺co1ロmn2)from the、total value

of food gra玉ns levied as taxes or沈aken i皿≦by purchase by fhe State(73.9 thbusand miIlion

クμαπin1953,93.2.三n1954,and-87」6・in1955)in血si-Hang・terms.(excluding beans)as given

血[57】・ For1950-1952;ら[54L 夢。16Lαn通 回2】,{》・3L givc the 蜀dllowing 血dex 丘gures,

respβctively・㌧(The;methods=cmployed i夏fthc ca!β腿1ation of tkesc Gbod gra㎞s,arc not speci丘cd,

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42 Th6 Z:)θτノεJo汐ぎng E60πo”3∫65

AND BREAKDOWN(in bi皿ioll cattics of hsi騨1iεm9)

                 Total M:arketedSo1(l in Free Market                  Food Grains

0伍cia1FigureofMarketed  Ratio of Food Grains

鵠継e(6)/(1)×1・・A離e(8)/(1)×1・・HuiLingch‘uch‘ing TcκT

  (6)  (7)   (8)   (9)   (10)  ’(11)  (12)

32.5 17.9 66.8 36.7 18.7*

20.4*

18.1* 23.4

16,2

4,6

4.9

12。2

7.1

1.9

1.9

4。5

90,1

97.8

92,5

85.8

88.0

39.3

40.7

35.6

31.6

32.0

25.0*

26,0*

25.2

30.8

26.7

29.1*

31.0*

27,1*

25、1*

37.8 3.0 454.2 35,6

7.6 1,9

104.1

125.0

28.1

31.2

but it is assumed th飢they are the same as used in the Table.)

To凱I volume of food graills purchased

 by the State

Total volume of food gra血s levied as

 taxes or purchased by the State

1950

100

1951

200

1952     1953

350。32    424.4

                               100  131.04 1,67.16

0f these the former makes it possible for us to arrive at the Hgures given玉n the Table

by us三ng the above-cited丘gures for1953。(ln[50】£or1953,the value of total purchases in1953

is giv㎝as29%over1952,w,hich d逓ers£rom the increase of21.44%at which we arrived

frQm the。above-cited series7but加.the prese且t case we adopt the lattcr figαre。)耳xtrapolating

by the latter series the五gure of 34r・3thousand mi1Eon6hεη1evied and purchased in 1950

0btained by adding column2)in the Table to the volume of food grains purchased in1952,

we get45,0thousand mil賎on6h動for1951and57。3for1952,respect量vely10。3%and8。0%

more than the total of columns2)and3)in the Table,旦amely49。6thousand milHon6伽

in1951and62・3in1952・For1956:We have adopted the statcme塾t in[50】,for l956,

“Since in 1956the State Hghtened the£乱rmers’duties in regard to the levying and taking

in by purchase of food gra1ロs,the volume of food gra三ps levied or take且in purchase

dec五ned by 16%from the previous ye&r。,’(The total value for that year thus becomes73・6

thousand mi1五〇n‘hiη、)For1957:We have found the difference between column2)and the

Hgure of88,0thousand・mi1五〇n‘伽given in the statement in the editorial in the P80μθ,5

Pα吻Qf the27th of September,1958;“The govemment血as already dccided that inspite of

the greatly increased productiQn of food ill this year it wi11maintain u旦changed the level

of88。O thousan(l mil且Qn‘h砒1evied or taken in by purchase duri臆g Iast year.” FQr 1958:

We can work out the丘gures directly because it is stated in[52],p.11,that the value of

food gra㎞s purchased by thc State and Co・operative Commerce、ま皿that year was17%、

over the previous year.FoL1959r We have ad6pted the statement.iu l21L p.28that

State purchases of food in that year werO l9。4%more than in the previous year,

 (6)For1950:We Lave adopted the五gure6f66。8thousand mi1Hon‘hゑπfor£ood le頭ed

or takeΩiロby purch4sc i鉱 1950.as given、,in [551,P.149,and.have arrived at our 丘gures

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by subtracting from it the.且gures columns2)and4)in the Table、This source colltains

no specific information as to the scope of food grains co》ered,the units employed,etc.,

but since the丘gure of105.92thousand m三1Hon ohεπfor 1958given in the same column is

similar to the sum of columns2)and4)in the Table,104・1thousand mi11ion‘h肋,we

have assumed th昂t the scope of food gr呂bs covered,units employed,etc,,are t}1e sε㎜e as

量n the Table,[441states that approximately half of the value of food graips taken in by

purchase in1950was undertaken by private-enterprise foQd merchantsεmd processing£actories. This sum is stated to have been two輪th1rds of thc value of national retail

trading and73.8% of tQtal pr1ced value Qf foods processed,and we m&y be justi丘ed in

assuming t血at it includes the value of food grains levied呈n taxes、 Making this assumption,

the volume of sales in t耳e free market as shown in・the Table occupies48。7%of the total

volume of commerciaHzed£ood grains,and more or Iess Htted with the丑gure血[44].

Figures for 1953and 1954 hεしve been calculated on the assumption that the proportion of

sales to the£ree market w三thin the value of food grains,raw cotton,and oil crops levied

as taxes and sold in these two years(18.0%for1953and47%for1954)can be applied

to food grains.Th6丘gures for1954and thereaf毛er are entirely estimates,arrived at

bearing in mind the foIlowing changes in the food control system as we11as the move・

me加血total sales of food gra短s in t血e free market shown in Table L

 a)In“Provisiona互Mcasures£or Food Market AdministratiQn of January,1953”【471

it is laid down thatl peas乱nts may dispose of the surplus of food grains remaining to

them after payment of taxes a皿d planned purchases by 1)using it freely,2)stQring it,

3)se1鮭ng it to State or Go・operative Commerce or put血g it on the St飢e food market,or

4)using it in the rural areas in sma11-quantity exchanges£or the purposes of equalizing

lQcal surpluses and scarcities。The Statc£ood markets are Qperated under State supervi・

s1Qn,and thQse who are allowed to buy in these markets are the inhabitants of towlls and

cities,and such of the hotels,restaurants and pτocessing五rms in the small towns and

cities as have been granted permission。The tmding coming under3)and4)in the above

is represented in the Table as the free market transactiQns in1954and1955。

 b) No changes in a)above are a(1ded iτ夏[481.

 c) The“Directive on the(~μestion of Relaxing the Admi馳istration of the Rural Market

of Ocεober, 1956” [451 0rigillaIly prescribed the freeiηg of tぬe markeε for material goods

other than those subject to“Planned taking血by purchase,, and “uni最ed tak玉ng in by

purchase,”but it is beHeved that in£act material goods apPertai且ing to“Planned tak血9

h by purchase”came into the free market。(See the preamble to the ProvisiQns in the

follow三ng item・) The degree to which・this took place is not known・but here it is taken

as being half of the marketed ratio on the frce market i且the years I953and1955.

 d) In“Provisions Disallow血g the Entry to the Free Market of Agricultural Products

and Other Material Goods Subject of State Planned Purchase and Uni丘ed Pu1℃hase of

August,1957”[461,the selling of£ood in the market was£orbidden,and it could be sold

only at the shops for taking in by purchase designated by the State・ In those regions

where the supply-and-demand s董tuation had eased State£ood markets m三ght be set up

u且der the Provincial administrations,but this was not geperaL

 e)Food transactions in the“markets”reopened under the Directive凹of the Central

Com疏丘ttee of tke Chinese Communist Partアand tke St&te Council may be regarded as

similar to these transactiQns in the fbrmer St&te£ood mαrkets.

 (8) Total of columps2),4),and6)。

  (10) [65]、The asterisk indicates that the figures are in terms of£ood years,

  (11) [111.

  (12)  [61】.

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丁昌ble

9.qUANTITI昇S 

IOF 

FOOD GRAINS AVAILABLE 

FOR 

PER 

CAPITへ

FARM

AND 

NON-

FAR

M 

POPULATION

State 

Statistical 

Bureau’

s Data1

」.

L。

BuckPs 

Study2

1953

-54

  

1954

-55

  

1955

-56

  

1956

-57

Aver

ageforthe

 Fo

ur Years

1949-

58  1929-33

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Prod

ucti

o駐(

unprocessed)

(MMT)

Reduction 

Factor 

for 

Processing(3)/(1)

?roduction(

かro

cesse

d)(MM

T)

TotalquantityAv

ail

able£

orF

6・αGr

alns

(MMT〉

Factor 

for 

Food

 Us

c(4)

/(1)

Qμan

tity

 Aマ

aila

ble 

for 

Rura

l Pq

pulati

o鷹

(珂

MT)

Num

be}

s of

 Rural 

POpulation(

fn旦

11ions)

’Qu

anti

ty 

Ava翠

able 

for 

Pe鷲

Gapita 

Rural 

Population(kg。)

9. 

「Qua

nti

ty 

Available 

for 

Per 

Capita 

Farm 

Popu

lati

on

10。 1L 12。

Qμan

tity

 A》

ailab1β

for 

Urban 

Populatio簸

(MM

T)

Nu卑ber

s of”

Urban 

Populadonて

皿i1Ko血

5)

166.

75、

 0.

855

142.

53

111.

60

 0.

669

93.

qg

499.

1

ユ86

.5

(260)

3

Qロan

tity

 Av

議ilable 

for 

Per 

Capita 

Ufba臓

Popula

tion

(kg

。) 24

3溢

i75.

78

 0.

827

145.

43

114.

12

 0.

6喋9

95.71

509。

1

1881

0

(26

6.5)

3

183.

86

 0.

861

158.

36

126。

80

 0.

690

107.

36

520.

7

206.

2

(279)

3

 (187)

4     (199)

4

       (193)

5

18.51   18。45    19.47

76.

1  

  

79』

9 1 

 81.

2

  

  

230,

9  

  

239.

7

192.

72

 0.

861

165.

89

138.

89

 0.

721

117.

58

527。

6

222。

9

(296.

5)3

  

 (

198)

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21』

27

87.5

243.

0

179.

78

 0.

851

153.

05

122.

35

 0.

681

103.

44

514.

13

201.

19

19.43

81.

18

239.

3

163.

2

 0.805

131.

3

1H.

2

 0.845

91.

6

些77.

4

192.0

181.

9

 0.

801

145.

1

124,0

 0.855

10蛋

.3

473.

6

220.

2

19.

6 

  

  

19.

7

119.

4  

  

118.

4

161.

9  

  

167.

8

§ 恥 b…

ii 無 尽 ミ・

磯 昏…

ii ロ ミ ミ’

Noteも

=塒

且gu

「es

und

e「3)

a「e。

nanu

np「

・ご

esseゆ

σdgfa面

sb郎

e・Besides飴

・d飴

「hu町

nc・

nsu血

pti・

皿・

includesseed吊nd蜘aI

feed。

We魍

may血

otO 

that

 th

e五gu

警es

 gi

ven 

foセ1952-

53包

re262kg。

and 

for1949approximately200kg.

S・urces=

L[6異

】,

P).2臼,31.

2.[31

,PP

.71

-72

,68

-70.

3.[

61,

P.10.

4。[

24】

,1601,

5。[

531.

6.【

62]

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Table10.

CHAN

GES 

IN MA

RKET

ED RA

TIO 

OF FO

OD GR

AINS DUE

  

    TO CHANGES 

IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION

Members 

of Poor Peasants, M丑

ddlc 

 Rick  Formcr Total 

orCo-oporatives   Labourcrs 

  Peasants 

Peasants Lan【llords Average

A.・

1954

g

 I.Proport三

〇n 

of 

Agricultural 

Popula

tion

(%)

 2,

 Av

erag

e Gu

ltiv

atcd

 La

Ed Pcr

 Ca

pita(

耀oμ

) 3・

 ProporもioR 

of Total 

Cultivated Ar

ea(%)

 4,

 Av

erag

e Fo

od Con

sump

tio夏

Per 

Capi

ta(

6み勉

) 5。

Food 

Marketed 

Ratio(

%)

B. c.

6。 Market6d 

Food 

Grains 

as 

Proporti

on of Total(

%)

7. 工.

2。 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3.

 (

Agricu!

tural 

Income 

Per 

Capita)

(鐸

αη)

OB 

Consumption 

of 

Land 

R.cform

 Proportion 

of 

Agricultural 

I》opulatiQn(

%)

 Ave

rage

 Cu

ltiv

ated

 Lεmd Per

 Ca

pita

(η

~oμ

 ProportiQn of Total 

Cultivated Area

 To

tal 

Mark

cted

 Ra

tio 

Assu

ming

 Rate

s fo

r 

 Each Stratum 

Were the 

Same as in

195生

(%)

 M:

arke

ted 

Food

 Gm

ins 

as Pr

opor

tion

 of

 To

ta1,

  on Same Assumption as Above(

%〉

Befbr

e Lan

d Re

fbrm

 Proportion of Total 

Cultivated 

Land

Totai 

Marketed 

Ratio,

on 

Sゑme 

Assumpt呈

on as B-

4(%)

Marketed 

Food 

Grains 

as 

Proportion of Total,

 on

 Sa

me As

sump

tion

 as

 Ab

ove(

%)

 4.

2

 3.

17

 4.

1

391 30.

0

 4.

2 

(4.

9)

(466。

4)

29.0

 2.

68

23.6

353

22。

1

 18.

2

(20.6)

(27

2.6)

57.6

2.97

52.

2[

46.6

17 10.6

62.2

 3.54

66.8

378

25。2

 2.1

 5.

03

 3.

2

413

43.1

 2.5

 3.

05

 2,

3

361 28.1

 67.2 

    

 8.2      2.0

(65。6)     

(5.

3)、

  

  

(2.

6)

(479,7)  「(860。

6) 

  

(286。

0)

35.

73.80

41,

1

3.6

4.05

4.4

2,6

2.88

2.3

100.

0

 3。

29

100。

0

373

25.

7(25.3)

100.

0

(420、

6)

100.

0

 3.

30

100.

0

24.

8

43.2 

     7.

7      2。

6      100

2518   40

100

(35。3)

17.

8  

  

  

22.

0  

  

  

49.

6  

  

  

 10

0

Notes

=The

 d1

vis呈

on三nto 

stねta

 in 

the 

Tabl

e is

 in

 te

rms 

of 

that

 cl

ass…

6cat

iQn 

whic

h is

 pe

cul圭

ar 

to 

Chi訟

a,and 

does 

not皿

ecessarily

cor

resp

ond 

to 

inc

omes

 or

 th

e di

stri

buti

o臓of

 We

alth

.As

 re

gard

s th

e Hg

ures

 in

 br

acke

ts 

give

n un

der 

A-6,

the 

prQp

Qrti

on 

of 

mark

eted

fbod

 gr

ains

 as

 ca

lcul

ated

£ro

m A-

2and

 A-

50n出

e as

s砥mp

tion

 th

at 

food

「pr

oduc

tion

 pe

r un

it 

of 

cult

ivat

ed 

area

 is

 co

nsta

nt,

and 

the

proportion of total£

ood 

grains markct in such a 

case,arc 

given 

undcr 

A-4,

For 

B-1a

pd B-

2・In

 th

e or

iginal

 so

urce“

others・

・is 

given 

under 

the 

strata 

classificat葦

on・

C-1is 

the 

same・This includes those who

let out

 sm

aII 

piec

es of Ian

d to

 te

nants,

£ar

mers

 wh

o al

so 

act 

as 

pett

y tr

ader

s an

d ha

ndic

raft

 ma

nu£

acturers,

and 

the 

Iike。

However,

F t

heir weight is marke41y smal1,

and 

they have been omitted 

from the 

calculation 

in order 

to preserve comparabi1三ty with1954.

For 

B-2・

In th

e or

igin

a正sourc

e these 

are 

given 

as 

per£

armer,

but 

we 

have 

arrived 

at 

our五

gures 

on the assumption that the

population per君

arm 

household 

at the 

time of the 

completio豆

the 

Land Rc最)rm was 

the 

samle 

as i塾

 1954・

For 

B一婆,and 

B-5・

Arrived 

at u血

der 

same assumptions 

as A-

6・Fo

r C-

L 

Ave

rage 

gcne

ral

丘gu

res£

or 

the 

Central 

South 

Rcgion 

and 

Sou山

West 

Regioロ

as 

given 

in 

l28】

(β

rst 

edition)

,pp。118-

120.

Cons

eque

ntly

 th

e cal

cula

tion

s bas

ed 

o且th

is 

and 

give

n un

der 

C-2 

and 

C-3a

re 

hypo

thet

ical

 va

1“es

・For 

C-2a

nd G-

3・Ar

rivc

d at

 un

der 

the 

same

 as

sump

tion

s as

 A-

6・So

urce

; 

[60

】ex

cept

 wh

ere 

spe

ciHe

d三n th

e no

tes。

肉 翁 ミ ミ き 忌 寓 弩 禽 爲 』 偽 、 い1■

ら 黛 黛 黛 鳶 § 匙 守 § 畏 壁 含

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