JPA331Y1 Lecture Notes - Nie Yuanzi, Hua Guofeng, Rational Function
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Urban residents were entitled to food using tickets etc rural people who could not afford such a high expense lifestyle was forced to return to countryside. Policies were meant to stop the flow of rural to urban: Dan wei (work unit) system: housing/work unit, sense of identity, socialization with fellow colleagues. Iron rice bowl work for state enterprise and it is lifetime employment covered with benefits: rural people could not join the dan wei system as it was only for urban people. How about migrant workers? (in coastal areas: during mao"s time, there was strict enforcement of hukou. Urban residents get a range of benefits. They worked for dan wei and had benefits whereas rural did not have the same benefits: nowadays, you can apply for temporary resident permit. (if you are rural to work). Chinese. (ironic b/c the ccp was created based off of the support of these rural members) De-stalinization policies by khrushchev: abandoning communism.