ABSTRACT
Institutional changes and a cohesive rural organization structure often play critical roles for agricultural development in a country, although such technological factors as use of chemical fertilizer and insecticides, better crop varieties and animal breeds, more efficient machinery, and improved irrigation and drainage systems usually receive greater emphasis. Historical experience tells us that, without an integrated governmental and rural organizational setup and appropriate rural institutional changes, reforms of agricultural policies and related economic development plans cannot be effectively implemented. This has been true also in both parts of China during the last 40 years.
