Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to study the mechanism of economic growth and the socio-economic structure through a case study of advanced rural area in the suburbs of Shanghai, China.
We give a brief outlook on the area and make clear the significance of this study. We analyze the change of rural structure, especially paying attention on changing roles among the Communist Party of China (CPC), local governments, and economic units. Also, we discuss the mechanism of rural economic growth.
The main conclusions are as follows:
In advanced rural area in China, the rapid economic growth is mainly realized by the progress of the non-agricultural sector, which is composed from collective economic units. If we are allowed to ignore the effects of macroeconomic policy, we can conclude that the rural economic growth is essentially caused by the transform of socio-economic structure. More interestingly, the relationship among CPC, local governments, and economic units has changed from the chain of command to the coordinating system. Now a new relation the rural community-is being formed.
