ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1983 we returned to China for additional work in Beijing, Shaanxi province, the Chongqing municipality of Sichuan and Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Our research centred on three major issues: recent changes in agricultural production and rural incomes; the effects of economic reforms on income distribution in the rural areas; and the consequences of the new strategy for rural development on long-run rates of capital accumulation. We shall comment on each of these topics in turn, presenting our most important findings briefly and then relating these findings to those based on the data collected in 1982.
