ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problems and lessons in the process of villager-to-resident (VTR) reform in Shengfeng Community through an ethnographic study of the implementation process, the understanding and evaluation on the reform by different stakeholders, and the results and impact of the reform. Shengfeng Community is in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. Shengfeng is a community with average economic development level by the standards of Xiaolan Township. Before the end of 1970s, it was an agricultural village based on agriculture and aquaculture. The origin and impetus for the VTR policy came from two aspects: The first is the problem of governance of “village-in-the-city” and rural areas on the urban-rural fringe. The second impetus for VTR reform pertains to the huge nationwide demand for land for construction, urban and industrial development. In Shengfeng community, the shareholding system is mainly implemented in accordance with the Charter of the Economic Joint Society of Cooperative Shareholdings of Shengfeng Village, Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City.
