Shortly after the establishment of the Chayashan Satellite People's Commune in Henan Province, all parts of the country followed suit. The national rural commune has been realized in just one month, and the people's commune is good! Slogans such as "Long live the people's commune" also sounded around with the spread of the people, and in this way, the people's commune movement was quickly pushed to a climax. However, with the implementation of the system of 1978, the people's commune, once sought after by the masses, gradually withdrew from the historical stage from 1982.
But at present, Jinzhou City, Hebei Province, 50 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang City, still retains the "last people's commune", which is Zhoujiazhuang Township. It is the only township in China that retains the original people's commune system. Since 1952, this township has maintained a system of collective and unified management, which has a history of 68 years.
During these 68 years, Zhoujiazhuang Township has been operated collectively, and there is no village committee. It is the only township production team in the county and even the whole province. Local members still follow the original collective planned economic life, and recording work points, distributing rations, co-cultivation and unified distribution have become the main forms of labor in Zhoujiazhuang Township.
As for why Zhoujiazhuang Township can retain the people's commune system, we have to start with 1978. At that time, the national restructuring, land to households, Zhoujiazhuang township is also ready to respond to the call to distribute land to all members. However, when Zhoujiazhuang Township held a meeting to discuss whether to distribute farmland to households, except for one or two households, the rest were unwilling to distribute farmland to households. After learning the opinions of the masses, the superior leaders also nodded and promised to observe again. In this way, Zhoujiazhuang People's Commune has continued to this day.
Over the years, Zhoujiazhuang Township has vigorously developed its economy and entered a "well-off society in an all-round way". In 20 13 years, the per capita net income of Zhoujiazhuang Township was as high as 14 104 yuan, nearly 6,000 yuan higher than that of farmers nationwide! At the beginning of 2009, due to the unified accounting and distribution system of the people's commune, Zhoujiazhuang Township distributed nearly 70 million yuan in dividends to more than12,000 people in the following six natural villages, with a per capita dividend as high as 6,000 yuan!
Jinzhou City, Hebei Province, due to the Zhoujiazhuang people's commune system, counts Zhoujiazhuang Township separately every year, and its GDP does not participate in the ranking of towns and villages in the city. With the continuous economic development of Zhoujiazhuang Township, in order to better protect the interests of members, the township has also handled welfare undertakings such as pension subsidies, electricity subsidies and retirement subsidies for the masses 1 1. At the same time, with the help of the unique people's commune system and the advantages of tourism resources, the township has also developed and built a number of tourism projects to further build the brand of Zhoujiazhuang.