China's Marxist Communal Farming Makes Way for Agribusiness

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Michael Meyer, China's Marxist Communal Farming Makes Way for Agribusiness. Los Angeles Times, Mar , 2015 (io-ed)
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la ... 20150322-story.html

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"[one of the two summaries:] Collective farming shifts to corporate agribusiness in China

"China faces daunting farm statistics: One-fifth of the world's population feeds off one-twelfth of the planet's arable land. And that acreage is shrinking: In the last 30 years, an area the size of New York state has been paved over as China urbanized. An additional 8 million acres became so polluted that the government announced in late 2013 that they shouldn't be used for agriculture.

"China has now spent more years dismantling a Marxist society than building one. After Mao Tse-tung died in 1976, so did his diktat of communal farming. * * * Mandatory grain procurement ended in 2001, and all agricultural taxes were abolished in 2006.

Note:
(a) On Mar 12, I introduced the following to you:

Larry Rohter, 《在满洲》记录变革中的中国农村. 纽约时报中文网, Mar 12, 2015.

(b) "In rural Anhui province, the American company Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year."
(i) 新闻稿: 嘉吉安徽来安禽肉全产业链项目正式投产. Cargill 嘉吉, Sept 24, 2013.
www.cargill.com.cn/zh/news/NA3078451.jsp
(ii) 嘉吉动物蛋白（安徽）有限公司 Cargill Animal Protein, located at 安徽省滁洲市来安县来安经济开发区

(c) "In the country's northeast, China and Singapore are developing a joint Food Zone project on a planned 500 square miles — that is, a superfarm the size of Los Angeles."

吉林（中国—新加坡）食品区, in Jilin City, China
(d) "Auntie Yi pointed to the tallest structure between her house and the foothills: an Eastern Fortune billboard. It commands: BUILD THE NORTHEAST'S TOP VILLAGE 打造东北第一村."

吉林省吉林市孤店子镇大荒地村
大荒地村党支部书记、东福米业有限公司董事长刘延东
(e) "'The government expects companies to lead the "backward" peasants to change,' Auntie Yi fumed. Perhaps the old party official in her missed shouldering that responsibility?"

This "her" is an oblique, not possessive 所有格, case. The "missed" is a verb.