ABSTRACT
Su Village is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province. In Su Village, most residents continue to hold their rural hukou, but the urban-rural gap has been greatly reduced due to rural industrialization. The Suzhou area has been the most well-developed farming area, which had "fed" the country and been subject to heavy agricultural extraction since the Song Dynasty. The land transfer between households used to be informal based on private negotiations, and some managerial farmers took over small pieces of family farms with little payments. The close connection between cadres and managers in the collective economy contributed to a unique pattern of industrialization process in Su Village. The efforts to build the new socialist countryside meant modernization of agriculture and other economic sectors. Although economic development in Su Village had been built on the persisting collective legacy, the patterns of resource distribution were still largely based on households.
