ABSTRACT
As the preceding chapter has shown, the RTFR did not proceed as had been initially planned. Various problems surfaced during the implementation process, compelling the central government to abandon the initial policy in early 2004. The nature of these problems was laid out in detail, and it was indicated that the impact of the reform at the various stages of the implementation process was far from uniform across Anhui’s sixty-one counties, 1,455 townships and towns, 24,076 villages, and 13,461,300 households.
