Land Reform in China, Version 2013
Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, China, November 2nd, 2013
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Below is the link to a very informative article regarding China’s current economic situation, mainly as it concerns their failed communist ideology. 

Cuba is no China, but in Cuba at least they were able to educate the vast majority of the rural and urban population (99.8%). Here in China that's not even a major government goal anymore. Currently, the main interest of the "Communist" Party is essentially to see how to move from an export-led economy to a domestic-consumption economy. 

But the obstacles to achieve that goal are legion. One of the largest is the issue of private property. Here in China the land belongs first to the state and, second, to the farming communities (in rural areas). This means the state can expropriate the land whenever it pleases. 

This also means farmers cannot sell or buy land at will, which creates a big problem in big cities, where 51% of the population now lives. If immigrant farmers cannot sell their land in the countryside, where can they get the money to move to or buy an apartment in the city? 

On top of that, there’s the problem that resident papers are extended only to the natives of the cities. This means that, first, immigrant farmers often aren’t legally entitled to eventually buy an apartment or a car and, second, that they lack certain social benefits that would alleviate much of the economic burdens of urban life. 

Now the government is experimenting with reforms to the property system in some small communities and in some provinces, reforms that allow the peasantry to mortgage their lands under severe restrictions or to basically swap them for land located in authorized urban development zones. 

But part of the problem is that these reforms are being implemented in an oblique manner, so that the government can remain cloaked under the guise of "communism", knowing very well that such ideology is seriously hindering further national development. 

The article in question is quite detailed and it clearly shows the crossroads where China finds itself right now, where the government's claim to cling to archaic ideological dogmas is increasingly a large obstacle for the implementation of reforms of the agrarian kind and others, reforms that would allow to create a domestic economic environment that the vast majority of its 1400 million people may eventually have the opportunity to benefit from. 

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588873-economic-issues-facing-novembers-plenum-chinese-communist-party-none-looms-larger 

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